Hehe, once you find the solution to that one you’ll facepalm hard, I think.
I wasn’t really stuck in the first game for more than an hour or so. But yesterday I spent three hours at the end of part 3 of Gateway 2. In the end I had Tijn read the hintbook questions to me, looking for one that might help me get unstuck. But then the question itself gave me an epiphany. So I don’t know if that counts as a hint or what.
FireFyte just tears through those games like it was nothing. It’s disheartening, really.