【Tales of the Neon Sea Walkthrough and Guide】 Prologue：Chased by the Past

Maggots and Bones, Shadows and Shapes

You start the game as Rex, but don't get much time to learn the controls or get to know him before the Grim Reaper shows up and starts chasing you. To get up, you'll need to press screen repeatedly. Now quickly start running to the right by scrolling  the screen!

If you let the Grim Reaper catch you, you die. As you run, you'll pass two things you can interact with: first a lever, then a valve.

Activating both hotspots will slow down the Grim Reaper, but only momentarily. You can ignore these hotspots if you are far enough ahead of your pursuer, but he'll close the gap fast! Keep running to the right, and eventually Rex will throw himself down a waterfall/drain.

You'll wake up at the bottom, with a broken wrist and ankle. You'll need to get yourself fixed up, but first you get to solve a puzzle: a rat has taken your hat.

Scaring Your Hat

By walking to the right, you'll startle your hat away from you. Rex decides he wants it back, which means you need to interact with the levers and valves near you to get it. You can find the solution below:

[b]Step 1: Use Lever 2.

Step 2: Use Lever 1.

Step 3: Use Valve 3.

Step 4: Use Lever 4.

Step 5. Pick up your hat off the floor![/b]

With your hat back, head further to the right, and enter the door. Here, you'll find the Sewage Maintenance Room, with a broken robot to your right. Move past the robot to the pair of lockers next to it. Inside the first you'll find a Damaged Diary, and in the second you'll find a pair of Electrical Scissors. Take them both.

Next, move over to the left side of the room. Here, you'll be introduced to William the Cat. You'll like him, he's friendly.

Continuing left, you'll find a Repair Station, with four interactable parts. Interact with them all, and you'll update your Objective.

Once you've done that, head over to the pair of lockers on the left side of the room. The one on the right is empty, but the one on the left has a Multi-Function Screwdriver. Make sure to take this, as you'll need it.

With your new tools, head back over to the broken robot. Interact with the robot, then choose the Multi-Functional Screwdriver from the interface below to use it!

Press the screen repeatedly, and you'll get a Mechanical Ankle Component. You can use this later to fix your leg (Surprise! You're a cyborg!).

With that taken care of, leave the Sewage Maintenance Room.

Outside, William will kill a Cyborg-Rat. After you pick it up, Rex will realize that it has a Energy Storage Pouch inside (basically a power cell), which he can use to power the machine in the previous room.

Rex will remember seeing more Cyborg-Rats near where he fell earlier, so head back over there.

Along the way, you'll pass by another broken robot, which you may have noticed earlier. Disassemble it now, and you'll get a Mechanical Wrist Component. You can use this later to fix your arm.

If you don't collect the Mechanical Wrist Component now, you can come back and get it later, so don't worry if you miss it or forget about it.

When you find the rats, William scares them away, making Rex mad. William offers  to go collect them himself (because apparently, Rex can speak 'Cat'), and takes off after them.