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1) Synopsis

Set Difficulty 2
Approximate time to master 30 minutes
Minimum numbers of playthroughs needed 1 successful run and 4 deaths in specific places
Number of missable achievements 0
Does difficulty affect achievements? No
Hardest achievement of the set Adventurer of Koh-Lanta

2) Introduction

Hey all, it's Mindez here! This is my second RA Guide, this time of a French text adventure game. I decided to make this guide mainly because it's a foreign language game with very limited resources about it - there's a walkthrough on another site, but it's also in French and doesn't cover any of the deaths which took me a good few minutes to figure out. I also had to make a map of the island for the sake of Adventurer of Koh-Lanta and I figured those efforts shouldn't go to waste, so I converted it from a scribble in my notebook to a much nicer looking guide.

As far as text adventures go, this is pretty much as straightforward as it gets honestly. You've crashed, presumably on an island near Bermuda, you have to fix your boat's hull and sail using things that are just lying around on the island, then you get a short minigame and you win. There's not even a storm, that's all backstory. The island has a lot of poisonous things, but as long as you don't dawdle you won't have to deal with any of that.

Full disclaimer, I do not speak French. So another shoutout to FredB74 for writing the original guide that appears to be the only walkthrough of this game online, until now!

3) Map

This map shows all 29 screens of the island and their connections. Straight arrows are navigated using the directions (N, S, E, O) - Note that in French, west is Ouest and so does not use W. Curved arrows shows the commands that allow you to travel. For example, to get from the boat screen onto the boat you must type MONTER.

Map of the Island

4) Walkthrough

Step 1: Starting the Game

First thing's first, how to actually launch the game. You should have Disk 1 Side A and Disk 1 Side B.

  • Insert Disk 1 Side A. You should get a title screen with a fish and the word "Michael" scrolling across the screen.
  • Press Space and wait for an obnoxious blaring sound.
  • Silence the obnoxious blaring sound by pressing Space. It should now say Face B S.V.P Oui at the bottom of the screen. If it says Face B S.V.P Non, press Space again.
  • Insert Disk 1 Side B
  • Press Enter and you should see a beach screen. Congratulations, you've just started the game.

Step 2: Full Runthrough

This is a text adventure. I won't go into detail about what's going on - for the most part it's pretty obvious - just enter the capitalised text exactly as it appears and enjoy your island adventure. This first runthrough will get you all the progression achievements as well as Plant Protection and Adventurer of Koh-Lanta. If you're just interested in the beat rather than the mastery, I've pointed out which steps are optional.

  • ARRETER ANIMATION (Optional but recommended - stops the UI animation and annoying sound effect)
  • PRENDRE SERINGUE
  • E
  • E
  • S
  • O
  • PLONGER
  • NAGER
  • MONTER
  • SOULEVER SIEGE
  • PRENDRE FIL
  • ENTRER
  • SOULEVER PAPIER
  • OUVRIR BOITE
  • PRENDRE AIGUILLE
  • PRENDRE COLLE
  • MONTER
  • PLONGER
  • PLONGER
  • PRENDRE SERUM
  • PRENDRE GRAPPIN
  • COLMATER FISSURE
Fix It Felix (5)
Fix the hull
  • REMONTER
  • NAGER
  • N
  • N
  • E
  • N
  • O
  • E
  • N
  • E
  • S
  • E
  • ARRACHER LIANE
  • PRENDRE LIANE
  • N
  • NOUER LIANE
  • LANCER GRAPPIN (You have to KEEP DOING THIS until it says something with 'cowboy', NOT 'COURAGE')
  • TRAVERSER PRECIPICE
OH-IIH-OH-IIH-OOOOOH-IIH-OH-IIH-OOOOOOOH (5)
Get to the other side of the cliff
  • RECUPERER GRAPPIN
  • S
  • S
  • PRENDRE BOTTES
  • METTRE BOTTES
Plant Protection (5)
Equip the boots
  • S
  • GRAVIR PAROI
  • ESCALADER ROCHER
  • PRENDRE VOILE
  • DESCENDRE
  • O
  • N
  • S
  • S
  • O
  • N
Adventurer of Koh-Lanta (10)
Visit all the places in the game without getting a game over
  • S
  • O
  • O
  • PLONGER
  • NAGER
  • MONTER
  • REPARER VOILE (The escape menu will pop up at this point and the time will start counting down very quickly for a while. Just wait for it to stop. Press Escape if it doesn't take you back to the map.)
The End ? (10)
Repair your sail
  • FIXER VOILE
  • ENTRER

At this point you have all the progression achievements other than one, so while you could type PARTIR to progress the game, if you want to be efficient I recommend typing DORMIR to sleep and cause a game over for an achievement. This is covered later on in the guide, but if you do this you can simply launch the game from side B and you'll be taken straight to the minigame.

In the minigame, you have to get a score of 2000 points. The rocks aren't that hard to dodge. If you're struggling though, I have found a very easy solution as the rocks are always in the same pattern every time.

  • Press K twice to move slightly to the right and watch your score.
  • At 310 points, hold K to move to the far right and keep holding K. Your score increases faster while you're pressing a direction, so you should easily rack up 2000 points for the final progression achievement.
Winner (5)
Reach 2.000 points on the race

Congratulations! If you went through the whole game and beat the minigame, just dodge some more rocks and you'll get a victory screen. If you launched the minigame directly from side B, it'll just restart the minigame but you'll have all the achievements anyway. Congratulations, I hope you enjoyed your island adventure!


Step 3: Bad Endings

We've beat the game, time to tackle the bad endings. There are four achievements for game overs on certain screens. Simply follow these instructions for the fastest ways I've found to get them. These all require you to start the game from the beginning.

Firstly, dying on the first screen of the game. You can get immediately poisoned by simply typing...

  • OUVRIR BOITE
That Was Short (1)
Get a game over without leaving the first screen

Next, dying near the ship. Specifically under the ship. Let's go for a swim.

  • E
  • S
  • PLONGER
  • NAGER
  • PLONGER
  • Wait about 30 seconds without doing anything, then hit Enter. You should get a Game Over screen. If not, wait longer. You can hit escape for a timer.
Bloup... (1)
Get a game over near your ship

The next one I already covered in the walkthrough but I'll go over again in case you missed it. This one is for going to sleep in your ship's cabin.

  • E
  • S
  • PLONGER
  • NAGER
  • MONTER
  • ENTRER
  • DORMIR
Forgot My Alarm (1)
Get a game over inside your ship

And finally, this one is for dying near some plants. I'm not sure if there's a faster way to get this one, but as long as you die on the screen with the plants in the achievement image, you'll get the achievement, so I just unthrottle my machine and let the time count down. If anybody knows a faster way to get this one let me know!

  • E
  • N
  • E
  • N
  • Hit escape and wait for the timer to tick down about an hour. This can be hugely sped up by unthrottling your machine, or by doing actions. Once an hour has passed, hit enter and you'll get a Game Over along with the final achievement.
So Many Ways to Fail (5)
Get a game over by the plants

5) Bonus

And that's it! For the sake of completeness I thought I'd include the original version of the map - this is what I made in my notes while going for the all screens achievement, and is what led to this guide existing in the first place.

Original Notes

Thanks for reading, enjoy your mastery, hope you had a great island adventure!

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