Where Angels Cry
Game Details: Mystery, 2012
Links: Moby Games, Steam, Adventure Gamers
Walkthrough Updated: 4/1/2024
Suggested Listening: Wild Hearts Meet (Ash 25)
Prologue
Find the first angel (1/21) on top of the nightstand in the middle of the room Angel's prayer. Also collect your cross pendant and a key, and take your signet ring from the desk. Now examine the chest on the floor and use your key to open it, then examine the puzzle. You need to get adjacent colors to match. The easiest solution is to click the top-middle knob twice, then the middle-right knob twice. You will end up receiving a ring gemstone for completing this minigame (1/20) Minigame Player. Combine this with your signet ring. Move the green curtain on the right and take your robes.
Act 1
The Monastery
Go forward to the entrance and talk to Brother Guido, then find an angel (2/21) to the bottom right. Go through the archway. Pick up the bucket, then head through the door on the left to find the garden. Talk to Brother Boris here, then continue past him to the left. Pick up the shovel, hay, log and 2 flint stones. Continue forward into the tool shed, where you can find an empty basket, a sharpening stone and a hoe.
Walk back 5 times so that you are outside the monastery, then go left to the stables. Pick up the shears and axe here, then go back to Brother Boris in the gardens. Approach the tomatoes and use your shears to collect all 20 of them. Put them in your basket. Back out twice and go through the door on the right to find the kitchen. Grab an angel (3/21) from the top shelf on the right. Also collect some cabbage seeds, a brick and a glove.
Go to the garden again, then continue past Boris to the left again. Place your log on top of the stump. Use your sharpening stone on your axe, then use the sharpened axe on the log to create fire wood. Open the furnace on the right and put the hay and fire wood inside, then light it with your flint stones. Put your brick into the fire, then get it back again using your glove. Close the furnace door Fire awareness.
Back out once more. Use your hoe on the ground the right of Brother Boris, then plant the cabbage seeds and cover the seeds using your shovel. Go back once and look at the well on the right. Attach your bucket to the rope, then use your brick on the mechanism to melt the ice. Use the bucket and you will fill it with water. Return to the garden and pour water on the soil.
Go back and head through the right door to the kitchen. Talk to Brother Ezio, then give him the basket of tomatoes. Go back outside of the monastery and approach the large kneeling statue. Look at its face.
Act 2
The Investigation Begins
Find an angel (4/21) next to the wall on the bottom right. Enter the stables over to the left, and find another angel (5/21) at the bottom left. Also collect a cogwheel, a round decorated disc and a hammer. Back out, then go forward twice to enter the monastery. Grab the angel (6/21) in the top window on the left, then examine the boxes on the left. Number the boxes 1 (smallest) up to 5 (largest) and make the following moves:
- Move 1 to left
- Move 2 to middle, 1 to middle
- Move 3 to left, 1 to right, 2 to left, 1 to left
- Move 4 to middle, 1 to middle, 2 to right, 1 to right, 3 to middle, 1 to left, 2 to middle, 1 to middle
- Move 5 to left, 1 to right, 2 to left, 1 to left, 3 to right, 1 to middle, 2 to right, 1 to right, 4 to left, 1 to left, 2 to middle, 1 to middle, 3 to left, 1 to right, 2 to left, 1 to left
You will receive a red ruby for completing the minigame (2/20).
Go through the left door into the garden and find another angel (7/21) on the far left Guardian Angel. Also collect another cogwheel, a round decorated disc and a shovel. Go further forward on the left and you will go straight to the tool shed. Pick up the pincers, pliers, a bucket and another cogwheel. Go back twice, then right into the kitchen, where you can find the infirmary key, a spoon, a round decorated disc and a cogwheel.
Go back and use your bucket on the well, then click on the bucket to fill it with water. Use your infirmary key on the locked door here, then go through. Take the sharp metal rod from under the bed, then examine the table on the left. Use your hammer on the brick that is sticking out further than the others, then look at the puzzle that is revealed. Insert the 3 decorated round discs into the empty slots to activate the puzzle, then solve it by repeatedly pressing the buttons to rotate the discs and form a picture of a horse (start with the bottom left button, then bottom right, then top right, and finally top left). You will receive a second red ruby for completing the minigame (3/20).
Now examine the furnace on the right. Use your bucket of water to put out the fire, then use your pincers on the coals to get a third red ruby.
Go back out, then right into the kitchen again. Look at the floor to the left of the table, and use your pliers to remove the 4 nails from the floor. Next use your sharp metal rod to lift up the floor panel, and use your spoon to retrieve the fourth red ruby.
Go back 3 times and examine the base of the statue. Use your shovel to clear the snow, then examine the lock mechanism. Insert your 4 red rubies in the slots, and your 4 cogwheels on the poles next to them. You will now meet the ghost of Brother John. After your conversation, pick up the black pyramid from the floor on the left.
Act 3
Templars
Talk to Bertold in the stables, then collect the pliers and a nail before going back outside and walking forward towards the monastery. Pick up the bucket from left of the archway, then continue forward once more. Use the bucket on the well to the right and fill it like you did previously. Pick up the cloth from the stand on the left, then go through the middle door to the infirmary. Speak to brother Yuri in here, then pick up the salt from the floor behind him. Examine the furnace to the right and take the violet flower. Next examine the table on the left and pick up another violet flower, another nail, and a bag of rosemary.
Return back to the courtyard, then go through the left door to the garden and pick up the hammer. Continue further to the left and pick up the watercress, another nail, some hay, and 2 violet flowers. Now enter the tool shed and pick up another nail, another violet flower, some white wine, a brush and a bobby pin. Return back 3 times to the courtyard, then enter the kitchen on the right. Talk to brother Ezio here, then collect 3 more violet flowers, a bowl, some olive oil and some sugar. Examine the pot behind brother Ezio, and add all the soup ingredients on the recipe that appears:
- 8 violet flowers
- watercress
- white wine
- olive oil
- salt
- sugar
- rosemary
Now collect the soup in your bowl. Back out, and enter the infirmary again, then give the soup to Brother Yuri. After he leaves, look at the table again and examine the small box. Use your bobby pin on it to get a permission letter from inside. Go back 3 times, and then left to the stables again.
Enter the first stall on the right and pick up the new horseshoe. Pour the water from your bucket into the empty bucket, and place your hay in the box to the left. Use your cloth on the water bucket to make it wet. Use the wet cloth and then the brush on the horse. Look at the horse's foot and use your pliers on the 4 nails to remove them. Use your new horseshoe, then use your 4 nails on it, and hammer them in with your hammer. Now leave the stables and back out once more, then approach the church on the right.
Grab the angel (8/21) from the bottom left. Talk to the Templar at the door, then go inside. There is another angel (9/21) inside at the top right. Also click on the hidden number 4 on the pillar to the right. Continue forward and click on two more hidden numbers, 7 and 6, at the bases of pillars surrounded by candles. Turn to the right and take the fresh lit candle from the top of the stand, then go back and approach the altar. There is one more hidden number 9 on the left here. Examine the altar, then enter the code 4<6<7<9>2<3 to solve the minigame (4/20) Minigame Solver. Take the red marble. Go back 3 times and approach the confession booth on the left. Pull back the curtain and examine the cross, then insert your red marble. Use your candle on the dark recess, then take the sacristy key.
Go back, then head forward and turn right to where you took the candle earlier. Use your sacristy key on the locked door on the right and you will automatically go through. Collect the angel (10/21) from the bookshelf on the left. Also find 4 wolf coins and another black pyramid, then examine the wooden shelf ahead. Collect another wolf coin, then examine the lock mechanism. Insert your 5 wolf coins and press the head, then take the church key.
Act 4
The Church
Back out twice and go to the church on the right. Talk to Bertold, then use your church key on the door to get inside. Collect the weight, skull and green marble, then go forward and pick up the weight and rose. Go left and find another green marble, rose and skull. Back out and turn right, then find 2 more green marbles before entering the sacristy. In here you can find 2 more green marbles, a rose, a weight, a hammer and a skull. Now examine the table on the left. Move all the books and papers out of the way. Pick up the purple marble, then examine the puzzle. Insert your 3 skulls and 3 roses, then solve the puzzle by swapping the positions of the skulls and roses (positions numbered 1-7 from left to right):
- Move skull from 3 to 4
- Move rose from 5 to 3
- Move rose from 6 to 5
- Move skull from 4 to 6
- Move skull from 2 to 4
- Move skull from 1 to 2
- Move rose from 3 to 1
- Move rose from 5 to 3
- Move rose from 7 to 5
- Move skull from 6 to 7
- Move skull from 4 to 6
- Move skull from 2 to 4
- Move rose from 3 to 2
- Move rose from 5 to 3
- Move skull from 4 to 5
You will end up receiving an office key for completing the minigame (5/20). Examine the locked tower door to the right and take the purple marble. Back out of the sacristy and use your office key on the left door. Take an angel (11/21) from the chair on the left, and also collect 2 weights, a purple marble, a green marble and a rope. Look at the table and find a purple marble and a coin. Read the Book of Dark Rituals here, and click on the Latin text on the right to get a translation Latin Education. Now examine the large cabinet at the left of the back wall. Insert your 4 purple marbles into the 4 slots. Now you need to turn all the marbles green. The trick is that the middle green marble will turn green alone if all others are already green. The shortest solution is as follows::
- Large top right
- Large bottom left
- Small middle
You will end up receiving a green marble for completing the minigame (6/20). Back out twice and examine the dark tile in the floor to the left, then smash it with your hammer. Examine the new puzzle and insert your coin in the middle to activate it. Now you must solve this puzzle by turning off all the lights; the easiest way is just to click every light exactly once. You will receive another green marble for completing the minigame (7/20). Turn left to see the mausoleum door. Attach your rope to the hook at the top, then place all 5 of your weights on the pedestal to the left and head through the door.
Pick up a green marble, then go left and pick up an axe. Go back and then right, and collect a torch from the left. Light your torch using one of the torches on the wall. Go back and now approach the grate straight ahead. Use your axe to break the lock, then go forward. Place your lit torch in the sconce on the right so you can see. Now collect the angel (12/21) from the pot on the floor. Also pick up the letter, cross key and another green marble. Go back and right, then approach the skeleton. Look at the box under its arm, and open this with your cross key - you will get a drawing and the final green marble. Now go back twice and left. Read the letter in your inventory and note the symbols at the top right. Now step forward and set the bird symbols to match those from the letter. You will receive a small key for completing the minigame (8/20) Minigame Expert.
Back out 3 times to return to the central part of the church. Turn right, then look at the wall safe to the left of the office door. Use your small key on the padlock, then open the safe cover. Solve the puzzle by activating the appropriate boxes according to the numbers:
You will get the tower key for completing the minigame (9/20). Enter the office through the door on the left. Look at the board on the wall behind the desk and examine the 3 colored symbols. Back out of the office and go through the right door into the sacristy, then look at the door on the right and open it with your tower key.
Approach the left cross, insert 4 green marbles, then click on them to solve the minigame (10/20) by turning them all blue. Approach the middle cross, insert 4 green marbles, then click on them to solve the minigame (11/20) by turning them all red. Finally approach the right cross, insert 4 green marbles, then click on them to solve the minigame (12/20) by turning them all yellow.
Now examine the chest on the floor. Insert your 2 black pyramids on the corners, then examine the buttons. From their starting colors as shown below, press the buttons the number of times indicated by these numbers:
Once you complete this minigame (13/20), the chest will open. Take the spear from inside the chest. Back out 5 times to leave the church, then talk to Bertold.
Act 5
The Village
After talking to the Templar, pick up the cabbage before examining the well. Pick up the book and the shaft separator, then back out and go left to the garden. Find another book, another cabbage and a wooden shaft here, then talk to Brother Leonard. Go to the labyrinth entrance and collect another cabbage and book, then return to the village square and go towards the inn at the rear left. Find an angel (13/21) on the right here, then talk to the Innkeeper. Pick up the spatula, cart scheme and plank, then head up the stairs on the left. Collect another cabbage and a wooden wheel, then return to the village square.
Next go straight forward to a house. Try to enter the house repeatedly Trespasser. Pick up a cabbage and some scissors, then look at the tool stand and take another cabbage and a saw. Go back to the village square and turn right to see the broken cart. Pick up the book, then put your 6 cabbages into the crates. Fix the broken cart by using your shaft separator, wooden shaft, plank and wheel. Go to the inn again and talk to the Innkeeper, who will give you a bone. Return to the house and give the bone to the dog, then enter the house.
Take the angel (14/21) from the basket on the floor Messenger Angel. Talk to Agnes and take the coin from the back wall, then enter the room on the left and talk to Jarvis. Take the coin from the top left, then open the drawer and take the old key from inside.
Go back to the village square, then to the upstairs section of the inn. Use your old key to enter the storage room. Collect a coin, brush, book and pickaxe from here. Go back to the village square, then left to the garden. Talk to Brother Leonard again, who will now give you the labyrinth gates key. Go to the labyrinth entrance again, examine the gate, and use the labyrinth key to unlock the gate. Return to the village square and try to pick up the book from the ground next to the templar - you will automatically trade it for your 3 coins.
Go forward and into the house once more, then enter the back room. Talk to Jarvis until he gives you the map and leaves.
Act 6
The Dark Ritual
After receiving the sword from Bertold, go left to the labyrinth entrance. Enter the maze, then go left, forward twice, right, back and forward. Pick up the angel (15/21), then continue back, right and forward to reach the chapel. Go inside and talk to Brother Lucian Love and death. Collect the angel (16/21) from the right. Go back and you will automatically return to the village.
Go towards the inn and win a match-3 minigame (14/20) to defeat the Templar. There is an achievement for succeeding on your first attempt Match 3 Grandmaster!.
Go upstairs and enter the storage room to find another angel (17/21), as well as some rope and tar. Return to the village square and examine the well. Remove the well cover, then use the rope on it to climb down. Pick up the pliers, then climb back up and return to the inn storage room. Examine the barrel on the floor and remove the nails using your pliers. Take the lid off the barrel and pick up the crowbar from inside. Go back to the square and climb down the well again, then use your crowbar on the grate and continue forward. Examine the skull, then pick up the scheme parts. Look at the door ahead and use the scheme parts on the puzzle. Slide the colored chips around until they all match the color of the underlying holes. The door will open and you will go through once you complete the minigame (15/20).
Pick up a blue stone from the right, then take the first left path to find a mausoleum. Pick up another blue stone, 2 cogwheels, some cloth and a plank. Back out, then take the second left path to find an altar room. Take the angel (18/21) on the left, as well as another blue stone and cogwheel. Examine the puzzle on the far wall and solve it as follows:
You will get another cogwheel for completing the minigame (16/20). Go back again, and now examine the secret locker between the two left paths. Insert your 4 cogwheels, then solve the puzzle as follows:
- Move 2 reds to middle, then spin
- Move 1 red to right, then spin
- Move 1 red to middle, then spin
- Move 1 red to right, then spin
- Move 1 red to left, 2 yellows to middle, then spin
- Move 1 yellow to right, 1 red to middle, then spin
- Move 1 red to left, 1 yellow to middle, then spin
- Move 2 yellows to right, 1 red to middle, then spin
- Move 1 red to middle, then spin
- Move 1 red to right, then spin
- Move 1 red to middle, then spin
- Move 2 reds to right
You will here something unlock when you complete the minigame (17/20). Open the secret locker and take a blue stone from inside. Use your plank on the gap in the floor, then walk forward over it. Collect another blue stone from the left, then insert all 5 of them in the door and you will automatically go through.
Collect the oar and stone head, then continue to the right. Find another stone head, a plank, a hammer and an angel (19/21) here. Put the 2 heads on the 2 statues, then take the chest key that is revealed. Examine the organ and play a minigame (18/20) where you must play same notes that are first played for you (the longest sequence is 7 notes). There is an achievement for making 3 or less mistakes in this minigame Organ Player.
Go back 4 times, until you return to the room with the skull on the right wall. Use your chest key on the chest to the left, and take the lever from inside. Go forward 3 times to return to the lake. Combine the tar and cloth in your inventory. Now use the plank, nails, hammer and tarred cloth on the boat to repair it. Use the oar on the boat and you will head through the gate.
Grab the angel (20/21) from the right. Use your lever on the mechanism, then pull the lever. Solve the sliding block minigame (19/20) by gradually moving the blue block up and then left to the top corner. Now head upstairs to see the ghost of Brother John again. Examine the final minigame (20/20), then click on the numbers I to X following the rules provided Minigame Grandmaster.
Climb down the hatch and collect the final angel (21/21) from the left Archangel. Talk to the Angel in the middle of the room, then use your spear on her.
Final Achievements
There are several additional achievements depending on your settings and actions during the game:
- Finish the game on Casual mode or Adventure mode Angel Helper
- Finish the game with sparkles turned off Sparkless
- Finish the game on Challenge mode (hardest difficulty) Cardinal's agent
- Don't use any hints throughout the game Know it all!
- Don't skip any dialogs/cut-scenes throughout the game Story Follower
- Finish the game in under 3 hours Speed run