It feels like I've done almost everything there is to do in this world, but I still have zero idea where to even start looking for the final hand. (The one you need to use in the room unlocked after solving the riddle.) Hate to ask for help outside of the game but also I've been wandering around for almost an hour now and still have no idea lol.

Also, misc bug report: I set up a sort of item staircase in the middle leftmost area of the Cherry Blossom Hills, to get to the door there. But upon rebooting the game all of the items there seem to have teleported to the same locations they already were in, but in the room below.
If i stacked them higher it might have made the driving license impossible to re-obtain. This is the only time this has happened though, and the only actual bug I've encountered for that matter. Pretty rock solid, lovely world. Thanks.

Either you are going to feel silly, or I am going feel silly (in case this is a bug of some kind) but the final hand is just sitting there in the tower! When you solve the riddle, it opens up a room on the left hand side of the tower. That room contains the final hand - it's not a place to use the hand, it's where you get it!

Of course, if you posted this topic because can't pick up the hand for some reason, then that is a serious bug that I need to look into.

Also, thanks for playing (almost) to the end and thanks for the bug report about the items! I'll see if I can replicate and fix that.

Do you have any more details about what you were doing around/before the item position bug happened? I have a theory it has something to do with the Legendary Tree, but I can't seem to replicate it. The other possibilities I can think of are that it has something to do with recently entering a Mushroom Zone or using a Memory Disk. If you remember what you were doing it might help narrow it down.

"When you solve the riddle, it opens up a room on the left hand side of the tower. That room contains the final hand"

Oh if you mean the room with the like dark purple spikey hand then yeah I got that one. But that hand opens a room on the other site of the tower and there's another grave that needs to be opened in that room, for which I cannot find the hand.

Honestly I wasn't really paying attention to when the item position bug happened which makes it not a very good bug report I guess. Maybe it has nothing to do with exiting the game. Having something to do with the legendary tree sounds plausible, I never used a memory disk so it's definitely not that.

Oh you mean that one! The quest for that involves the "treasure hunter" near the entrance to the canyon.

I think Hubol actually had trouble remembering how to get this hand in playtesting. I'll adjust the in-game hints to discuss it more explicitly, and try to think of other ways to make it less easy to miss (maybe Chestor's text can mention the hand for example).

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I kind of ignored that character a bit because the balls seemed a bit pricey and by the time I came back to check on them I already had the ability to fly. I also thought the chest was put there as a joke because the one solution I could think of (kicking with the heavy boots) did nothing. The ending is great thanks

(there is a bug with the ending though where when I went back into the world right after the credits, I couldn't open the bag or the pause menu. not sure why. Alt-F4 fixes it thou)

Yeah, someone else also found that ending bug - I have it on my list to fix for the next update. Thanks!

I wonder if I should add some special dialogue or effect for kicking the chest with the heavy boots - that's a funny idea!