Get quick and convenient access to just the hints you need for Sentinel: Descendants in Time, without staying on our website. Just download a free trial
version of our UHS Reader software and
a copy of these hints. You will get the
same gradual hints you see here -- unlike ordinary cheats or a
walkthrough that can spoil your game.
You can also buy the full version of the UHS Reader
for Windows or macOS. For just $14.95, you get full access to hints for
hundreds of games and 1 year of free updates. You can also search, decode, or print an entire
game's worth of hints at once.
Ask the Author
If you have questions about a puzzle that aren't answered
anywhere in these hints,
you may contact the author.
Sentinel: Descendants in Time Hints
How do I correlate the machinery towers to the light towers?
1 of 34: Begin by exploring all of the machinery towers, and all of the light towers.
2 of 34: Now try to find something in common between the machinery towers and the light towers.
3 of 34: Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
4 of 34: Try to "step back" a bit, and get "the bigger picture". Look at the towers in more of a "panorama" view, rather than close up.
5 of 34: There is a clue to be found elsewhere in Sanselard.
6 of 34: Have you crossed the upper bridge yet -- the one that spans the length of Sanselard, and ends at the large tower?
7 of 34: Did you notice anything odd along the way?
8 of 34: About midway along that path, there is a large circular structure, lying flat on the ground, at one end of the bridge.
9 of 34: Be sure and look closely at that structure.
10 of 34: It seems that there is some graffiti on top of the structure.
11 of 34: In fact, you can jump up on top of it (using the space bar while you are moving forward) for a closer look.
12 of 34: The graffiti actually appears to be a drawing of the two different towers in Sanselard -- a machinery tower, and a light tower.
13 of 34: And there are arrows drawn between the two -- as if to "relate" one to another.
14 of 34: What do you see in common between the machinery towers and the light towers?
15 of 34: They both have spinning wheels at the top.
16 of 34: Could that help define a relationship between them?
17 of 34: How many wheels are at the top of each?
18 of 34: Each machinery tower has four wheels spinning at the top -- three of them spinning vertically, and the second one from the top spinning horizontally.
19 of 34: While each light tower actually has five wheels spinning, the bottom two in each case are just two ends of the same axle and, for all intents and purposes, be considered one wheel.
20 of 34: But are the wheels all spinning identically?
21 of 34: Are they spinning in the same directions?
22 of 34: As a matter of fact, the wheels of the light towers are NOT spinning in the same direction, from tower to tower.
23 of 34: And neither are the wheels of the machinery towers.
24 of 34: Could there be some correlation here?
25 of 34: How many machinery towers are there?
26 of 34: There are eight machinery towers. And how many light towers are there?
27 of 34: There are four light towers. Is there any relationship between the direction of the spinning wheels, between the four light towers and the eight machinery towers?
28 of 34: Try making careful notes of the direction of spin of each of the four wheels, on each of the towers. You might want to use some form of "directional notation" to simplify the process.
29 of 34: For the sake of these hints, we will refer to any wheel that is spinning horizontally (i.e., level with the ground) as either spinning clockwise, or counter-clockwise, when viewed *from the bottom*. And for the wheels that are spinning vertically, we will refer to them as spinning either forward (that is, the top of the wheel is moving *toward* the front of the structure) or backward (the top of the wheel is moving *away from* the front of the structure). And to keep it consistent, we'll refer to the four wheels on any tower by starting from the top, and working down.
30 of 34: Thus, a tower might be defined as having a "Forward-Clockwise-Forward-Backward" configuration -- which would mean that the top wheel is spinning *toward* the front, the second wheel is spinning clockwise (when viewed from the bottom), the third wheel down is spinning front-to-back as well, and the bottom wheel is spinning in the reverse direction -- with its top moving *away from* the front viewing point.
31 of 34: In fact, to make this even easier, we'll refer to this as a "FCFB" wheel -- meaning "Forward-Clockwise-Forward-Backward". (And for counter-clockwise, we will use "X" -- thus, "BXFF" means "Backward-Counterclockwise-Forward-Forward".)
32 of 34: Using this notation, identify the wheel combinations of the 12 towers (the eight machinery towers, and the four light towers).
33 of 34: You should find that the eight machinery towers form four pairs of towers, with wheel configurations that exactly match the four light towers.
34 of 34: Now you have a correlation between the eight machinery towers, and the four light towers -- with each light tower being "linked up" with two machinery towers.
