| Shadowy Caves | |
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| Basic Info | |
| Japanese Name(s) |
虚騒 |
| Effects | None |
| Events | None |
| Notable NPCs | Puni, Koro |
| Other | |
| Connecting Areas | Dream Park ✨Stone World 🔐+🔑Abyss of Farewells ✨➡️Guardians' Realm ✨ |
| BGM | drm_loop_44RIMA-bgm-recorder-001 (Prize Room)風化 (Koro' shrine)903-suna001 (Rainbow Maze) |
| Map ID | 1068 |
| Author | maptsuki |
[[Category:maptsuki]] The Shadowy Caves is an area accessible from a few areas in the Dream Park, most notably the blue fabric south of the entrance to the wooden maze building.
Features
The Shadowy Caves is dark and noisy, filled with interesting variants on the main Chasers that are modeled in wireframe. Despite this fact, it is remarkably large and open. It is littered with dead Puni as well piles of the balls and sticks that make up your foes here. Although the path from the Dream Park is one-way, there are several ways to return, such as using the Bat effect to fly up out of the area when standing under one of the beams of light. There are two of these in the area, one leading to the northern section next to the giant tree, and one leading to the middle of the eastern section. Using this last one will unlock the connection from the eastern section of the Dream Park to the Shadowy Caves.
In the center of the area is a fenced-off hole next to two robot hands rising out of the ground. Access to the area is prevented by a rainbow-colored block that can be removed by doing specific actions in the Rainbow Maze.
Rainbow Maze
In addition to the major puzzle, there is one more door to be found, flanked by two wireframes disguised as cones. This will lead to an area reminiscent of the Static Maze of the original Yume Nikki, a winding maze where the player cannot see which areas can be walked on and which cannot, once again littered with dead Puni. However, the path through the maze can be found by using the Rainbow effect, causing small dots of light to appear and lead the path through. However, the dots wind around, and there are still dead ends, so it is no brainless task. The Rainbow Maze can only be accessed after visiting Stone World.
There are two paths of red-colored dots branching out from the main path that each lead to a small black building on the left and right side of the maze. The building on the right is empty apart from four pictures on the wall resembling numbers from the passcode device, and contains a door leading back to the entrance in the main part of Shadowy Caves. The building on the left contains two rainbow blocks with Puni circling them and a pipe-like structure with a white-colored opening. Interacting with the pipe with the Rainbow effect equipped will cause the screen to flash and de-equip the effect. The two rainbow blocks will turn into fence posts and the pipe's opening will now flash through various colors. After leaving through the back door and returning to the main part of Shadowy Caves, the rainbow block preventing access to the fenced-off hole will now be gone. Urotsuki can jump into the hole and fall down to the Abyss of Farewells.
Finally, at the end of the maze, the player is presented with seven doors, all accessible from different parts of the passage leading up to it, with arrow NPCs all standing above them. Six of the seven doors will trap the player in an inescapable area; the correct one is the third from the right, which will lead the player to Stone World if they have been there before.
Gallery
I'm lost!
Now I'm lost AGAIN.
Directions
Nexus → Marijuana Goddess World → Dark Room → Tribe_Settlement → Dream Park → Shadowy Caves
