Console Top View
Console Front View
System Setup
Getting Started
Thank you for purchasing Creatures Raised In Space.
1. Before inserting the CD, make sure that your PlayStation® is switched off. The system may be damaged if the CD is inserted while your PlayStation® system is on. 2. Insert the Creatures CD into the PlayStation® CD tray. 3. Turn ON the PlayStation® POWER button. 4. The PlayStation® logo screen and licensing screen should appear, followed by the Creatures introduction screen. If you experience problems, please repeat steps 1 and 2. 5. Select "Start New Game" and begin the game!
Norn Star Collection
Although you can't make your Norns walk faster, you can help them find the stars and decide which star to take (the one which twinkles slower is always better). A very useful tip is to bring them food. This way, they won't lose time having to search for food. It will be necessary to have more than just two Norns collecting stars. Help the adult Norns to breed quickly. Once their offspring is old enough to work, you can teach them to collect stars and to bring them to the machine as well. Norn Breeding
All over the Norn Terrarium, you will find pulsing hearts. Once a male and a female have each absorbed ten of these hearts, they are ready to mate. You can help them to collect the hearts quicker by taking the hearts and dropping them over a Norn.
Status - What Does My Norn Need?
This screen shows various information about your activated Norn. The line "Fit for work" will indicate if your Norn is old enough to collect stars.
The line "Skilled" shows if a Norn already knows how to collect stars. If your Norn is fit for work, but is not trained, you should teach him or her how to collect stars and how to bring them to the machine.
The line "Copious" tells you if your Norn is ready to mate or how many hearts you need until he or she is able to breed.
Save & Load
Save your latest score or load it again.
Settings
This menu allows you to adjust various sound settings. Furthermore, you can switch the help messages and the warnings on or off.
A further useful function is to highlight the current Norn. It is given a halo which makes it easier to distinguish it from others.
The Game - How to Play Through the First Level
Make yourself familiar with the controls. Call your activated Norn (you will recognize it by the halo over its head) and watch it coming. Activate the other Norn and tell it to go somewhere else.
Learn how to command a Norn to take something and how to operate elevators. You can explore the terrarium and be sure that your Norns are at a pretty safe place. The first terrarium isn't that big. You will soon find a locked door on the ground floor with a blinking key symbol. On another part of the level, you will discover a key with a shape that matches the keyhole on the door.
First Exercise
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Tell the Norn to come to the key and take it.
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Let it follow you down using the elevator to the locked door.
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When the Norn reaches the door with the key in its hand, the door will automatically unlock.
Behind the door, you will find a machine. This machine is for collecting stars. Like you did with the key, now you have to tell both of your Norns to collect a star and bring it to the machine. After you have trained your Norns by guiding them to the machine while they have a star in their hand, they will begin to collect the stars on their own. But you should watch their needs. Hungry or ill Norns won't collect stars. While your Norns are doing their job, you can collect hearts to increase their fertility and make them ready to produce offspring. When the machine is completely filled up with stars, it will dispense a Norn-shaped key. Let one of your Norns bring it to the door at the end of the tunnel to complete the first level. Call Switch
This is a call switch for the elevator. If you or a Norn presses this button, the elevator will come.
Locked Doors
You will need a key to unlock a locked door.
Door
The door to the next level can only be unlocked with a key from the Machine. Like all keys, only Norns can carry them. Collecting Machine
This is the Collecting Machine. The place where your Norns should bring the stars. Once you have helped a Norn to collect and drop a star into the machine, it will do it on its own. When the Machine has been filled up with stars, it will produce a key for the door to the next level.
Frequently Asked Questions
The last time I looked at the machine, there were more stars inside than now. Why?
Stars only have a limited lifetime. They consist of pure energy. Once the energy is completely used up, they simply disappear.
My Norns are collecting stars all the time but the machine never gets filled up. Why?
It seems that the stars reach the