skorch82 plays Brave Fencer Musashi - Part 12 of 70

I don't like this part.

No, seriously, I don't like this part.

To save Steamwood, you'll have to close the valves in numerical order. Stand in front of the valve and press Square to work with it. The pressure gauge will rise. Press the X button when it reaches the "OK" zone. If you're successful, the valve gauge will rise. Otherwise, it will decrease. Repeat until full. Turn off the next valve gauge before the timer reaches zero, or else all the valves will re-open and you'll have to start all over again.

The front door will be your test run. Thankfully, it's pretty slow. When you get into Steamwood, just go up to the first floor and head right. The first two are simple, but it starts getting faster on the third one. It gets mighty fast around the fifth. Keep heading to the right to get all of the valves and get to the elevator on the first as quickly as possible on the first floor. On the second floor, keep going to the left. On the top floor, go left to reach the seventh valve.

If steam blocks a direct path to the valve, you'll have to leap onto a pipe near the valve in order to get to the valve. Be careful when you do this, because it is very, very possible to land next to the valve and fall right back to the bottom of Steamwood. The steam will stop blocking the path to it when you close the valve in front of it.

When you close all eight valves, you'll meet Administrator Fores. He'll tell you that you can use a shortcut to Steamwood from his house so that you don't have to go through the forest to return there. He'll also say there's a rumor going around that a masked man with a cape sabotaged Steamwood and he's heading to Twinpeak Mountain. We know only one guy so far with a mask and a cape, and that's Rootrick.

Head to the right to go through the opening that Fores walks through. You'll be back at the Gondola area.