The puzzles for this room, and the ways in which they were broken, are as follows: Well, it turned out that the problem-which ended up happening both times we loaded into the game and so wasn't fixed by a restart-was that my room was what could only be described as 'broken as fuck'.

Eventually, this took long enough that we decided to look up some hints. The problem was that the things she was changing, like the sound of the clocks ticking and cuckoo, didn't seem to relate to anything on my end. I couldn't tell what to do with the objects she'd picked up, or what the paintings she was describing meant, but eventually I found the markings on the side of the clock, and she started trying to adjust things on her end. Eventually the chest opened again for me without any indication as to why, and we kept working at figuring things out. Today, we started again at the same section and had a lot of the same confusion. When we started trying to work together we decided to start with the flower tiles, but miraculously they all matched up already, so I assumed this was what opened my chest.

After a bit, the chest upstairs popped open on my end to give me a book. She talked a bit about the paintings and knick-knacks, but I couldn't figure out what she meant so just kept looking around and dicking with crystals. Now, it was late when we started and we were both tired, so I attributed the confusion to it being kind of late, but we each fiddled around a bit to see what we could do, with her rotating the flower tiles and me mashing buttons on the crystals. Last night, shortly before bed, my girlfriend and I were playing Chapter 8 of 'Together', where you're each in nearly identical rooms and have to solve the various puzzle by matching things up to unlock books and then placing them properly on the shelf. Just thought I'd post this here in case anybody else has the same issue, and to draw attention to the problem.

We were here together puzzles