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I can't play more than a couple of hours before my brain starts turning to mush and I find myself running around blindly. Then I'll take a break, and wake up from the middle of sleep going "Oh!" and solve another puzzle.
No motion sickness on my end, but I can see this game being much more difficult for anyone with hearing difficulties or red-green colorblindness.
No motion sickness on my end, but I can see this game being much more difficult for anyone with hearing difficulties or red-green colorblindness.
.........and I found the part that will definitely be giving some people motion sickness. It involves manipulating an object that (for lack of a better explanation since it is really easy to ruin this game for people) is both stationary and moving at the same time.
The reason it's so easy to spoil this game for people is because part of the experience is learning about the rules of the game, which often change without any warning to the player- but are always fair to the player. By talking about one of the many types of mazes you come across, you rob anyone who might play it of that "a-ha!" moment that comes from discovering the rules for that maze, which is part of this game's cleverness.
Yup, I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm there at the moment. Or at least I think I am, either way I've been there before I'm certain. It's hard to describe where I am without spoiling a ton of stuff. That in itself might be a spoiler.
If you're where I think you are, it gets worse.
One nice thing about this game I'm discovering is it really teaches you which of your critical thinking skills are good, and which suck ass. I seem to do pretty well with any of the puzzles that involve observation or arithmetic, but my spacial reasoning skills are awful.
For M specifically because I know he's reached at least this point, don't click it if you have any thoughts about possibly ever buying this game ever in anytime:
Like Tetris. I thought I was good at Tetris, but those damn puzzles which require you to fit particular shapes are killing me compared to the others. And I positively waltzed through the jungle area, which I hear is absolutely murdering other people.
Oh I know it gets worse, in the time between the last post and this one I discovered something so much worse than that...
The critical thinking thing is spot on. I once spent half a day on no joke ONE puzzle. I knew the rules of it too and it still fucked me until I went and did pretty much a third of the game and waltzed right through on my second time there. There are some puzzles that I'll blitz without reasoning (they're spoileriffic so I'm not commenting on what type they are) and others of the same type will get me for a solid half hour it's ridiculous.
Rayne could you post a spoiler detailing where exactly you are/what you've done so far?
For Rayne, since he's wayyyyy past the point I'm spoiling, under the same conditions as his spoiler;
You know in the very beginning where there's a door with a black/white and hexagon dot puzzle, and how there's more than one of those doors? One of the... Things... you get from them isn't working for me, I must have forgotten it and I can't be bothered running to the place to get it. Have you ever run into something similar?
I just finished the game. I shall leave it there, although anyone who looks up puzzles to solve them really is spoiling this game for themselves.
I completed the treehouse, jungle, hedge maze, house *with* trees, the orange grove, the symmetry area, and something else I can't remember right now.
I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure some of the puzzles in the game are just red herrings- either that, or they get unlocked in ways I haven't discovered.
I confess I did spend a good hour trying to solve something that I don't think was actually a puzzle.
I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure some of the puzzles in the game are just red herrings- either that, or they get unlocked in ways I haven't discovered.
I confess I did spend a good hour trying to solve something that I don't think was actually a puzzle.
I had to look up two in the entire game, one was due to colourblindness and the other was me thinking I couldn't solve it because of colourblindness when in reality I had the puzzle type mixed up. Was an interesting feeling trying to look up the puzzles when there's not many people who've completed them all.
Ahh so there's some places you didn't go? I honestly didn't know you could beat it that way, since I avoided the mountain like the plague until I did everything I could find haha
I won't spoil what I'm referring to as being worse (than I'm gonna guess the pillar puzzles at the very very end?) because if you go back and find it it's freaking fantastic. I'll gladly give you the one hint you'll need to find it if you want
The thing I was talking about with the doors is the windmill thing which uses the things where I literally cannot find anything from anyone who's found all the things so I have to go through the entire game to find more doors (and therefore things since I've forgotten the one from the ship and there must be one I missed somewhere)
Please tell me what that puzzle was haha I have done very similar things
I won't spoil what I'm referring to as being worse (than I'm gonna guess the pillar puzzles at the very very end?) because if you go back and find it it's freaking fantastic. I'll gladly give you the one hint you'll need to find it if you want
The thing I was talking about with the doors is the windmill thing which uses the things where I literally cannot find anything from anyone who's found all the things so I have to go through the entire game to find more doors (and therefore things since I've forgotten the one from the ship and there must be one I missed somewhere)
Please tell me what that puzzle was haha I have done very similar things
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Yah, that same windmill puzzle dead-ended for me too. The 'puzzle' I was trying to figure out in vain was a water pump that looks very much like a puzzle near the logging/statue construction area. Maybe it is a puzzle, and I just didn't discover it yet.
I also think I discovered what you're referring to, if it involves the ending.
I also think I discovered what you're referring to, if it involves the ending.
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I'm missing the fourth thing for the thing that's under the windmill. EDIT: I found the dang drawing online. Huzzah. Now to complete hell.
Basically, there's another one of those end game pillar puzzles somewhere (god i hate having to dance around everything ahahha) and that leads to what is effectively hell. There's something else too that you may have thought I was referring to, and that's something I didn't find on my own, but is something that you'd find if you searched online incredibly easily.
Basically, there's another one of those end game pillar puzzles somewhere (god i hate having to dance around everything ahahha) and that leads to what is effectively hell. There's something else too that you may have thought I was referring to, and that's something I didn't find on my own, but is something that you'd find if you searched online incredibly easily.
I'm still at the point where I'm refusing to look online for things. Lord knows that the way Johnathan Blow designs things, there's going to be puzzles that need an online army to solve.
Although now having reached the ending, I've decided to take the hint and do something more relaxing, like work on my FFXIII-2 speed run.
Although now having reached the ending, I've decided to take the hint and do something more relaxing, like work on my FFXIII-2 speed run.
The Phantom Pain is probably the greatest videogame I've ever played. That said, no game has gone from making me feel like a tactical genius, choking dudes out and tossing them in my helicopter which is blasting out David Bowie, to a sweaty nerd in his pyjamas, introducing a female character who has a disease that means she can't wear clothes and whose breasts the camera loves to zoom in on, in such order. It's like, whoa, videogames have come so far as a medium-- wait, no, no, they haven't; false alarm.
One Punch Doug Crashin
I AM INVINSIBLE!
I absolutely despise Final Fantasy Explorers. Returning it to gamefly today. Terrible game.
I loved Enemy Unknown, but I'm definitely not going to pay full price for this one. I need a break from spending on games and it's not something i'll be missing out on if I don't buy right now
ÐаÑбоÑа
doesn't know REAL wrestling...
90% completion on Tropical Freeze so far. Some of the gold medal time trials will remain beyond me as I do not have the interest in putting in the time needed to get them.
Given that I am still 10% short and am in the last world, I have a feeling that there is a secret world somewhere.
Might get into Mass Effect by month's end.
Given that I am still 10% short and am in the last world, I have a feeling that there is a secret world somewhere.
Might get into Mass Effect by month's end.
Played through Undertale today while getting snowed in, then the snow stopped and I kept playing. This game will take your soul, wrench it out, and feed it to you on a bed of tears.
The obvious comparison would be Earthbound, but if you grew up hitting things with sticks that you pretended were swords, you'd like this. Plus, only $8.
The obvious comparison would be Earthbound, but if you grew up hitting things with sticks that you pretended were swords, you'd like this. Plus, only $8.
Hyorinmaru
Sit Upon The Frozen Heavens
I just signed up for Gamefly today.
I immediately put 30+ games in my queue. I am a happy person
I immediately put 30+ games in my queue. I am a happy person
DirtyJosé
Best angle of all: retirement
Hearthstone and Diablo 3 are my daily grinders in between work and classes. Picked up the Firaxis Humble Bundle a bit ago and haven't got around to doing more than installing XCOM, but I'll get to it soon.
Hyorinmaru
Sit Upon The Frozen Heavens
My wife is getting me Diablo III for Valentines Day.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Anyone considering picking up UFC 2 ?? I want it to be good, because I want to get it, but the lack of details and preview articles is deeply concerning.
If you are trotting out all these new great systems, why not let reveiwers have some stick time with them just to see how they work?
If you are trotting out all these new great systems, why not let reveiwers have some stick time with them just to see how they work?
Hyorinmaru
Sit Upon The Frozen Heavens
My first game from Gamefly is Arkham Asylum.
I was hoping for a game I've never played but this is good.
I was hoping for a game I've never played but this is good.
Lee
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's Supermod!
Yeah the hype for this one is nowhere near as the last.
