Sentimental Death Loop Game Walkthrough: Simple Text Only

writ­ten 8/18/2024, updat­ed 8/19/2024

For a detailed walk­through with puz­zle solu­tions, spoil­ers, and CG images: CLICK HERE

For Side Sto­ry and some extra dia­logue: CLICK HERE

Foreword

This is a sim­ple text, no spoil­ers guide for the game. It is the fastest way through the game, the way it was meant to be played (some puz­zles can be solved before they’re sup­posed to be as long as you have the answers, but I’m not going to do that), though I will add the 100% Side Sto­ry inves­ti­ga­tion require­ments at the end of each sec­tion that has them. Please see the full detailed guide and the side sto­ry game dia­logue if you’re inter­est­ed (links above).

1st Run: 3 hours, 40 min

Sto­ry Run: 1.5 hours

(No Side Sto­ries, No Chase Events!)

Introduction

  • CG #1 obtained
  • CG #2 obtained
  • Inspect the Desk (CG #3 obtained)
  • Inspect the Desk
  • Inspect the Desk (CG #10 obtained)

Memo 1 — Tutorial Section

No! I’ll be killed by Nemu-chan again if I stay here!

  • Inves­ti­gate all 6 avail­able items
  • Leave Nemu’s Room
  • Solve Dial Box Puz­zle (Refer to Puz­zle Solu­tions sec­tion in Detailed Guide for puz­zle answers and break­downs)
  • Check Nemu’s phone on the cof­fee table
  • Get Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope
  • Get Kitchen Knife
  • Set up the Plas­tic Pack­ing Rope at the din­ner table
  • Inspect items ~8 times (CG #15 obtained)
  • Inspect 15 items (You can start sav­ing the game now)
  • Go to the liv­ing room
  • Con­vince Akane (1st: Inspect BOOK; 2nd: Inspect TREE)
  • CG #4 obtained

Memo 2 — Enter Akane

Nemu for sure isn’t her­self right now. We prob­a­bly can’t get through to her so let’s make our way out of here

NOTE: Chase Events start here every 25–30ish inves­ti­ga­tions. Famil­iar­ize your­self with them along with trap items and the ways to work the traps if you’re aim­ing for 100% com­ple­tion

  • Lead Akane through the liv­ing room through the entry­way (CG #13 obtained)
  • Con­vince Akane
  • Go back to the entry­way

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 5, 15, 30, 65, & 100 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Memo 3 — Into the Depths of Hell

Let’s find a way out, alive. It’ll be fine. We’ll def­i­nite­ly find a way.

  • Save, if desired
  • Inspect Nemu’s phone on cof­fee table
  • Go to Nemu’s Room
  • Get Sheet of Paper in trash­can
  • Inspect lap­top
  • Solve Lap­top Pass­word Puz­zle
  • Get Fruit Knife from kitchen
  • Go down hatch in kitchen to the base­ment (CG #11 obtained)

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 5, 15, 30, & 120 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Memo 4 — Exit Akane

…Any­way, let’s focus on get­ting out of this house for now

  • Get Can­dle
  • Get Front Door Trap Key (need Can­dle and Fruit Knife)
  • Go to entry­way
  • Use Front Door Trap Key (CG #16 obtained)

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 10 & 35 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Memo 5 — Enter Suzuka

There’s some­thing here that can dis­arm the trap at the entrance. Fol­low me.

  • Go to liv­ing room
  • Con­vince Suzu­ka (same as Akane)
  • Go to Nemu’s Room
  • Take Stand­ing Pho­to Frame from desk
  • Inspect the clear table
  • Go back to Par­en­t’s Bed­room
  • Take Sheet of Paper from night­stand in the cor­ner
  • Take Stand­ing Pho­to Frame from wall shelf
  • Go to liv­ing room
  • Check Nemu’s phone on cof­fee table
  • Check small­er sofa
  • Get Paper with Man­u­fac­tur­ing Date
  • Return to Par­en­t’s Bed­room
  • Solve Bed­room Dial Safe Puz­zle
  • Get Japan­ese Room Key
  • Go to room across from Par­en­t’s Bed­room
  • Move cush­ions
  • Solve Puz­zle Box
  • Get Study Key
  • Get Fruit Knife + Can­dle for the Front Door Trap Key
  • Go to entry­way with Suzu­ka (CG #6 obtained)

Note: Tech­ni­cal­ly, you don’t need to get the Study Key yet. You just need Suzu­ka to help get clues for the Dial Safe Puz­zle. Solv­ing the puz­zles ahead saves time for the next loops as you won’t have to do them again.

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 10, 35, 70, & 100 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Memo 6

Let’s talk about this again… when we get out of here.

This is unlocked after the first Chase Event with Suzu­ka in tow, but if you’re just going through with­out car­ing for 100% Side Sto­ry, there has not been a Chase Event just yet

Memo 7 — Lights Out

(Suzu­ka has been act­ing strange since the start… But I did­n’t expect for her to do this.)

  • Go to Study
  • Inspect book­shelf (CG #7 obtained)
  • Get Sheet of Paper on table
  • Get Sheet of Paper from desk
  • Get Book from desk
  • Leave Study
  • Go back into Study
  • Lap­top should be open (must have watched book­shelf cutscene)
  • Solve Study Lap­top Pass­word Puz­zle
  • Go to Bath­room
  • Solve Bath­room Pad­lock Puz­zle
  • Get Break­er Key
  • Go into entry­way
  • Use Break­er Key
  • Inspect break­er box

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 5 & 35 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Memo 8

This diary has mag­ic pow­ers, so there might be some­thing in the base­ment

  • Go to the Base­ment (CGs #14 & 12 obtained)
  • Go to the liv­ing room
  • Con­vince Suzu­ka
  • Get Fruit Knife + Can­dle for the Front Door Trap Key
  • Dis­arm Front Door trap

Memo 9 — Akane Redux

All right. Hon­est­ly, I can’t wrap my head around what you’re say­ing, but how can I say no when you help, Noa?

  • Get Break­er Key and turn on lights if desired
  • Get Japan­ese Room Key from Par­en­t’s Bed­room
  • Get Study Key from Japan­ese Room
  • Check lap­top in Study
  • Get Stand­ing Pho­to Frame in Study
  • Go to Par­en­t’s Bed­room
  • Get Book­mark from Book on night­stand
  • Get Stand­ing Pho­to Frame from right side of wall shelf
  • Go to Japan­ese Room
  • Get Sheet of Paper from book on dress­er draw­ers
  • Solve Study Book­shelf Puz­zle (CG #8 obtained)

Side Sto­ry Require­ments (num­bers approx­i­mate): 35, 70, & 215 Inves­ti­ga­tions

CG #11 obtained if you just go with Akane into the base­ment before solv­ing the Book­shelf puz­zle (just make sure you save before doing it)

Memo 10 — ENDING

Yeah, Suzu­ka-chan’s my friend too. That has­n’t changed, even now.

  • Inspect paint­ing of dog on ground
  • Get Small Wood­en Block
  • Go to Japan­ese Room
  • Use Small Wood­en Block on Puz­zle Box
  • Get News­pa­per Scrap
  • Go to Liv­ing Room
  • Save
  • Head to Base­ment hatch
  • Bad End­ing: Choose “Acts with Akane and Suzu­ka” (CGs #9, 17, & 18 obtained)
  • Reload Save
  • Head to Base­ment hatch
  • Good End­ing: Choose “Acts sep­a­rate­ly from Akane and Suzu­ka” (CG #19 obtained)

GAME COMPLETE

CG #20 obtained if 100% side sto­ries com­plet­ed. Epi­logue launch­es after cred­its roll

DIY: Toilet Fill Valve Seal Repair

updat­ed 8/7/2022

What: Kohler High­line Clas­sic K‑11499–0 (bought and installed May 2017) toi­let fill valve (Flu­id­mas­ter Uni­ver­sal 400A OE part — came with toi­let) issues

Prob­lem: Months of slow-fill­ing toi­let along with a loud squeal noise when float rais­es with water lev­el. It final­ly quit fill­ing alto­geth­er.

When: August 2022

Sup­plies: 242 Toi­let Replace­ment Seal, a cup

Cost: Around $4 and gas

Time: 10 min­utes

Dif­fi­cul­ty: Easy

Process

1. Turn off the water sup­ply (bath­room got a nice clean­ing after this)

2. Grab the fill valve cap and twist left to unseat it (you might have to grab the stem of the whole valve to pre­vent the entire valve from spin­ning. Here’s a video)

3. Now to unhook the cap from the float. Give it a nice, care­ful tug, being aware that it is plas­tic.

4. Exam­ine the fill valve seal for debris. Remove it care­ful­ly and inspect under­neath for debris. Clean it out. In my case, there was debris under­neath that was caus­ing a block­age and there­fore no water. It must have been there for a while and then final­ly occlud­ed the open­ing.

5. Sim­i­lar­ly, inspect the cap-less top of the fill valve for debris.

Looks clear to me! But just in case…

6. Now that every­thing is off, let’s go ahead and flush the fill valve itself. Appar­ent­ly, over the years pieces of Teflon tape, or min­er­als or oth­er debris can accu­mu­late in the valve. Flu­id­mas­ter sets the lifes­pan of a fill valve at around 7 years (mine is about 5 years old). SO, grab a cup and place it upside-down over the fill valve.

7. Turn on the water sup­ply and flush for about 10–15 sec­onds (accord­ing to Flu­id­mas­ter)

8. At this point, you would replace every­thing and test it out. It was no longer fill­ing slow­ly after the debris was removed, so BOOM, solved. BUT…the float mech­a­nism no longer worked…as in, the fill valve kept fill­ing with­out stop­ping. Oh, great. I bust­ed it some­how. Removed every­thing again and found that the orig­i­nal seal looked kind of chewed up around the float pin.

9. Turned the water sup­ply back off, and ran out to the store to grab a 242 Toi­let Fill Valve Seal (and oth­er stuff just in case, so I would­n’t have to run out again, but did­n’t need them in the end)

10. Had remove it all again and here is an image of the old seal. If you look at the cen­ter, you can see how rough it looks where I tried to push it in with my fin­ger­nails and prob­a­bly from gen­er­al wear and tear

11. Here’s a side by side of the old seal and the new one

12. Slide the seal onto the cap

13. Now to reassem­ble it all. Line up the cap assem­bly with the float assem­bly stem groove and snap it in

*snap*

14. Place the now-attached cap back on the valve. Remem­ber that you have to turn right to replace it, so place the cap accord­ing­ly so that none of the parts inter­fere with each oth­er

*Let’s twist again! Like we did last sum­mer!*

15. Twist it to the right and, YAY, it’s back on!

Reassem­bled!

16. MOMENT OF TRUTH. Turn on the water sup­ply. You should imme­di­ate­ly hear the water fill­ing up. Now lift up on the float mech­a­nism. If the tank quits fill­ing, you are DONE, and it is REPAIRED! GREAT JOB!

Lift up on the float and BOOM! Hal­lelu­jah!