Coordinator: Navigating Intricate Quests - An Insider's Handbook to Hidden Objectives and Alternative Tasks
2024-08-30

In my review of Arranger: The Intriguing Role-Puzzling Quest, I highly recommend that you give this delightful game a whirl before summer fades away. Install it effortlessly on your smartphone through Netflix with an active membership, or procure it by purchasing and downloading it on platforms such as the Nintendo Switch, PS5, or a personal computer. Either choice promises no regrets, as it offers an invigorating journey perfect for the warmer months, complete with heartfelt themes, engaging narratives, and distinctive challenges.
The conundrums may pose some difficulty, but the intent of this Arranger walkthrough isn't to spoon-feed your solutions. Rather, it celebrates the discovery process as you navigate Jemma across the grids and interact with the evolving game elements. For those times you hit a snag, the game presents a few tricks up its sleeve to simplify things, which you can access through the following sequence:
- Access the pause menu,
- Navigate to "Settings,"
- Select "Gameplay,"
- Opt for "Assists."
Within this section, you're free to opt for puzzle bypassing or employ a quest indicator for direction on the subsequent goal.
Now, Arranger: ARPA is adorned with cleverly concealed side missions, secrets, and whimsical resolutions, all of which will be elaborated in this complimentary guide brought to you by Furniture & Mattress' latest indie delicacy. Prepare for minor narrative revelations ahead.
Cracking the Mystery of the Bells
Among the game's best challenges is also one of the most straightforward, forgoing complex maneuvers for an intuitive, Zelda-esque environmental mastery. While the full revelation would dampen the brilliance, here's a hint: the game nudges you towards an alternate bell, in lieu of the deteriorated one. Have you discovered the method to harmonize all three simultaneously?
Achieving 100% in Arranger: The Intriguing Role-Puzzling Quest
Prior to your showdown with the final adversary and overtaking the Static in the Hold, there's an explicit hint urging you to scour the environment for unfinished tasks before progress becomes irreversible. It's advised at this juncture to save your progress and hold off from the celebratory elevator ride until you've tackled these optional diversions. But what exactly are these quests? Let's delve in...
Unveiling the Shrines
Shrines are scattered throughout the primary and optional objectives, revealing deeper insights into the lore of the Arrangers, along with Jemma and Mog's lineage. Completing them confronts you with a traditional 3x3 sliding puzzle, which upon completion, bestows upon you an ancient text shedding light on the Arranger history and mirroring our present reality.
Proceeding Without Pairing Animals
In our playthrough, and possibly yours, during the expedition to the jungle, you might encounter the Animalist, who assigns you the task of pairing trios of creatures. However, this coincides with the game's branching paths without a conventional map in Arranger, which might lead you to advance in the narrative. But fear not: right before elevator access, revisit the map, track back to the jungle via the creek road (refer to the included visual aid), and you'll soon locate the animal abodes.
Spotting the Trio of Secret Fireflies
This hidden shrine, unlike the animal pair zone, hints at a modified map layout, likely a late-game mission following the episode with the romantic couple and the chasm. You'll need to be creative, breaking boundaries and thinking out of the box to reach the three sizable, distinctively colored fireflies, apparently isolated. For the first two, attempt to traverse towards them directly; one will take you off the map, the other creates a hidden path tile by tile. To find the blue firefly, abandon direct crossing attempts and notice in the snapshot the trio of movable bushes. Align three in a row to clear the way.
And don't fuss over the elusive squirrel; its antics are diverting but not essential to uncovering the shrine.
Discovering the Secret Armchair Easter Egg
We'll save the details of this secret location for you to unearth, but there exists a hidden nook within the Arranger map leading to an oddly cozy and surprisingly tangible scene. Here's a clue: it appears just after a rescue involving a couple in love.
Have you stumbled upon the armchair as well and pondered its significance?