User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/Stuff Sunshine Likes, Issue V/@comment-2186558-20120908010204/@comment-1194745-20120908015243

I don't think I included any info besides what you'd have encountered by the beginning of the game, so it should be fine if you want to read it now (though of course I understand your hesitation - spoilers are pleh D:) To give you even further hope for the future, the refinements in successive games make Luke a little less grating in every game (by Unwound Future, and particularly Last Specter, he's actually a bit more muted and mature-ish). And OH GOODNESS I HATED THAT CLOCK PUZZLE GOSH DARNIT. I think both times around it was among the last puzzles I solved, and I needed all the hints to do it (and probably the internet too, I don't completely recall). From my recollection the Curious Village puzzles don't get too painfully difficult, except for a select few that I'm pretty sure aren't mandatory.