I think that Rob will be genuinely pleased for you... that he'll recognise that your achievement reflects positively on you and not negatively on anyone else... that the more we encourage each other, the happier and better the world is... It could happen, you don't know.
The Onimusha Warlords' water trap puzzle I thought was fun, but alot of people hate it. My brother throw me the controller to do it after a 30 minutes trying to get it and then I solve it in about five minutes. He hated me for the rest of the day. Memories of childhood.
I loved doing the Jindosh lock. The fact that you can't just look up the answer made it even sweeter because that trophy is proof you did it by solving it properly.
I _adore_ that type of puzzle! In grade 5, my teacher used to put one up at the back of the class each week and we could work on it after finishing our work. Each correct answer turned in was put in for a draw for a donut on Friday. I ate a lot of donuts in grade 5. 😆 Great memories. 😊
One of my most proud platinums are actually The Witness, especially bec of this trophy with the challenge!!!! It was craaaaaaazy, took me hours/days of trying again and again and again.... But that feeling when you manage to do everything in time is the best!
Evergrace and the level the underground shrine. This old From software game from the PS2 era was one I will always remember as a kid. I remember being stuck for days on what I should do to get through the door at the end of the level. When I found out that I had to combine two colors to make another with the mirrors, that I was so ecstatic that I worked out the solution.
That Witness set of puzzles was about a weeklong hellscape for me, but eventually got through it. And really glad to see Grim Fandango in a Friday Feature!!
It was a proud day when I earned The Witness platinum and put The Challenge behind me! 🥳 That music still gives me chills even now lol 😅 Another great video Rob and the team, Delsin made my day once again 😆 Looking forward to the next one! 👍
It's one of my favorite games, but the first time I played Catherine my poor young brain melted. '"So I push that block there, and climb it to get that block, then push that block on top of another block and climb backwards around to another block and I'm dead."🤯
The goat is coming back - Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged 9/19. The release date trailer dropped today. I think the goat heard you talking about it. Now for a new gen to get stuck by the goat but for not as long.
Discworld, Riven and Myst are could be on multiple lists for difficult puzzles.I've completed Myst VR but not without taking my headset off to jot down notes to get to the answer to puzzle because at the time there wasn't a notebook in the game. That tram puzzle especially, had to note the sounds each cross section of the tracks makes and it was maddening. I haven't played Riven VR yet.
The Challenge has cost me more stress than anything in my life. I've been coming back to it for 7 years. But solving those puzzles THAT quickly. I feel like it's impossible. :( But I want that Platinum.
@@Lynzilla0525 I feel your pain. That song has burned into my brain. I'm too slow at solving puzzles. I just can't do the time constraint. The most I've done is 6.
I felt like Einstein once i cracked the Jindosh lock. Spent hours trying to figure out how it works and genuenly enjoyed figuring it out, it was awesome
There’s a similar puzzle that’s colloquially referred to as Einstein’s Puzzle, even though he didn’t create it or have anything to do with it in any way. 🤷♀️ The challenge is to figure out which five people live in which houses, based on the color of the house, the nationality of the people, what type cigarettes they smoke, what their preferred beverages are, and the orientation of the houses along the street (right to left).
For me the best puzzle game is still Day of the Tentacle.. We played it with 7 or more people with an old pc and a tiny monitor and it was so much fun when we meet the next day and everybody had thought about possible solutions instead of sleeping 😁
The Witness. The Challenge = Reason I don't have the Platinum for that game. As for a game with lots of puzzley puzzles, which had me reaching for a guide after hearing "That doesn't work...." far too many times - Discworld. Some of the puzzles in that game were down right ridiculous. It's still one of my fave point and clickers, though.
Aaaahh! I’m with you on that one. It’s not the difficulty of the puzzle. It’s the fact that it’s time sensitive. Anything that is time sensitive is stressful in fact. It’s safe to say, a career as a bomb disposal expert is out of the question.
Love the Jindosh Riddle (Lock). It's actually a derivation of the Zebra Puzzle (or the Einstein Riddle if you like). Even though it's randomized in every playthrough you can solve it if you just know what Lady has what Heirloom. Someone put it online.
Probably my favorite type of puzzle ever! I actually have a couple different mobile games I use to kill time that are either strictly Einstein puzzles or variations thereof. One has up to 12 rows and 9 columns to figure out on "insane" difficulty! 😄
One of my proudest moments is being at a friends house, with a banging headache and somehow beating The Challenge in The Witness on my second attempt. I had done it on my own save before, which took many more than two attempts 😂
Stories I've heard about the Silent Hill 3 book puzzle might possibly be the hardest in the world. Of course ignoring the one in Wild ARMs with the bookshelves and chests, where I think the English version is actually broken due to bad translation or such. And according to Rob, I'm at least a genius to some extent, as I didn't need a guide for Onimusha puzzles until 3. Though in 3, I needed a guide for nearly ever treasure box puzzle in that game. Those puzzles did not click with me.
The Grim Fandango one can be figured out by playing around a bit. In the same game, however, there's a puzzle with a betting stub which soooort of makes sense when you know what to do, except you would NEVER think to do it, so...
Very Very proud to say I got a Platinum for The Witness. With the randomized final Challenge Puzzle, there is no possible guide for it. It changes every time you attempt it, so you MUST have a fundamental understanding of all puzzle types in order to successfully complete it. It's the Plat I'm most proud of. (Okay, so I wrote all that before I got to The Witness portion of this video, but jeez, hearing that music again stressed me out IMMEDIATELY)
Head-smacker is The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. At one point you have to figure out how to transfer a crest onto your map. You accomplish this by physically closing your DS.
The witness still haunts me. I tried for days and days. Years later I still haven't gotten the final challenge trophy and up until now, I'd learnt to forgot about it.
Lets not forget the secret ending to Payday 2. Nothing like having to have a full party of people who spent days translating achievements and completing them while also having a certain set of achievements already done so you have the right items in the safehouse
Dragon Warrior 3 holds that title for me. I still remember the riddles for the Magic Pyramid puzzle. Took me FOREVER as a kid to figure out. And then finding the Shoal in the middle of the sea to get the Dry Vase. Good times!
I've been sat on the 'Challenge' trophy for The Witness for literally 7 years now. Knowing I used a guide to cheese some of the other puzzles (please acknowledge: SOME), I just can't bring myself to even attempt it knowing I've no idea how some of the puzzles even work!
I mean, if we want to go the Lucas Arts route, let's mention one that has yet to be remastered: The Dig. Some of them are wack. Such as reconstructing the alien turtle skeleton.
I had an A4 sheet of paper with notes all over it for that one. Quite a unique puzzle in the Silent Hill games which usually just went with the "pick up an object and use it at the next opportunity" type of puzzle.
When I was a kid (turns to dust besides Rob) I used to love those Zebra Puzzles a-la Jindosh lock. When I ran into that one it was a breeze and I had a lot of fun with it. The others look hard though. I suggest several of the Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy. The one in the Foundry in Two Thrones comes to mind. I brute forced that one and to this day IDK how it works
I just started playing the remaster of Onimusha blindly, solved the water trap puzzle in my first go, then came back to this video and pondered: "why exactly is this puzzle considered hard again?"
One puzzle that stumped me for over a week was finding the second red jewel in resident evil 2. I had to go out and find a guide since the internet was still in it's relative infancy in the mid 1990's and scour through it (since rather than explaining one puzzle at a time it basically treats the entire game like one giant puzzle) Only to eventually learn I had to use the lighter on a fireplace which burned a hole in a painting with writing that said something like the flames of hades will reveal the prize or whatever.
Many puzzles i face are those i make myself. Like skipping through a quest givers dialog so i can go about exploring, when indeed they mention a key detail that would have explained what i was supposed to do. Instead i skip along cluelessly following the quest marker
There's an optional dungeon in FFX-2 in the Thunder Plains that I just couldn't get my head around, thankfully it didn't affect me getting the platinum trophy 🙃
Bloody loved the Witness, one of my favourite games ever, I did the challenge but I didn’t 100% it I seem to remember there was a corrupted multi coloured one in the tower that I never did
Growing up with old school adventure games, I’d like to think I’m quite good at puzzles, which is why I’ve stayed well clear of The Witness to keep that illusion alive.
Now I did beat The Witness challenge and I can say I was very VERY proud!! It took a lot of attempts but man was it satisfying to get. Glad to see Grim Fandango on this list too
A few I can think of are: 1. The piano from Silent Hill. 2. Small Space, big solutions from The Talos principle or any of the ones to get the stars so you can do the secret lvls. And 3. The lakebed temple from Zelda Twilight Princess
I've never played any of these games. The entire Myst series was puzzles only a genius could solve, so all of them had accompanying game guides. And the 11th Hour had puzzles so tough, there was an option to have the game AI solve it for you or play against Stauff.
Puzzles. I do have a love hate relationship with these. Its fun when you start and finish them. It's a pain when you have to really really have to use every worth of your brain power especially when the puzzle can be solved simply and you end up thinking a bit too hard.
So… I (and I’m sure many other people) managed to solve The Challenge without knowing that one of the early puzzles is actually an exact map of the maze chamber later on. The solution shows both the correct route through the maze and the positions of the two terminals you have to solve as you go. How I succeeded in the time limit without this is something I still don’t know to this day.
Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. I don't care if I was 20 and the daughter of an actual polymath, I spent more time on that buggery than most of the game I swear. And you kids with your easier DS version don't know real torture. Lucky we now have game guides and I can not have to think so much.
The first time I ever played Final Fantasy 8, I was intimidated when asked to find a number in the tomb of the unknown king. So I said to myself you know what, I'm just going to try and guess the code. No word of a lie, i tried 001 and it worked!!! Considering it is random, that was pretty damn amazing lol my most memortable gaming moment ever.
The Four Chinese Topmen in Return of the Obra Dinn. It's one of those headslapper ones, once you figure out the trick it's fairly straight forward, but before...
Hardest puzzle I ever had to do? The Knights Puzzle in The 7th Guest. When I first played that game, it was 1993. There just weren't the amount of online guides then...and I didn't have a book guide, so I did it all on my own. It's a good thing I love chess.
So this story keeps coming out on puzzle listicles because of how much this thing tormented my mother on Playstation 1, but the first Wild ARMs game had a temple dedicated to the Ocean Guardian, and to a lesser extent, the Three Guardian Lords. The problem and puzzle in this case being that there are 4 Guardian Lords, with one having been lost, stolen by the Demons. The puzzle room gives you text based clues scattered about, 4 statues, and 3 places to put them. Surely you are beginning to see the issue here, but in case you aren't, having a 4th statue not in its proper place prevents the door from opening. My mother went on a frantic hunt from book store to game store looking for a strategy guide to get the solution to this puzzle and when she finally found it, she was very upset that the missing step is to use the Bombs tool from the start of the game, infinite use always in your inventory, to blow up the 4th statue. Effectively losing it to the power of demons, gunpowder.
I can think of two. The Shakespear puzzle in Silent Hill 3 (Hard puzzle difficulty) And the power plant code for Riven. I still have to look those up if i ever do a replay of those games.
The silent hill 3 one came to mind for me as well. If I remember right, you actually had to know your Shakespeare to solve it. I'm not reading the entire output of an author just to solve one puzzle
I Managed to unlock the jindosh lock in dishonest 2, I figured out half of it and then brute force the rest by trying every combination. It worked in the end
Batman for the Genesis. Full of riddles that I could not comprehend. The game was also hard as nails. Even the lowest enemies had the same health bar size as you. It felt like a Souls game before that was a thing...
Man that Jindosh lock was so annoying. I adore logic puzzles. I spent so long working out that solution, I double-checked it, triple-checked it. Put in the solution. It didn't work.
I, for one, consider myself a genius for solving the Monkey Island 2 gambling club puzzle myself. It only took me three and a half years to figure it out.
@@captainvalencia just take your time on the pillar, triangle and color coordination puzzles. Once you have those down, it's not as hard as you might think.
I remember playing Phantasy Star Universe Ambitions of Alumni there was this part where you had to chase a child through a series of caverns with laser gate mechnisms you can lock and unlock, the goal was to catch the child and force him into a dead end. The requirements for getting S rank (the highest rank im sure you all know) was completing this puzzle within 6 *HOURS* . This had to be one of the hardest puzzles to beat that ive run across where S rank was 6 hrs and A rank was 12 and continues from there. The most frustrating part about this was that it wasn't even an optional part of the game it was *mandatory* .....fyi that game did not age well lol.
Commenting as my damn self because I did the Jindosh lock and this comment might annoy Rob
oh god oh god oh god its Nathan!!! 🥰😍🤗🤭
Must be your inNate puzzle skills
@@digitalanalogue5155 Downvoted this
"this comment might annoy Rob" - True friendship right there :P
I think that Rob will be genuinely pleased for you... that he'll recognise that your achievement reflects positively on you and not negatively on anyone else... that the more we encourage each other, the happier and better the world is...
It could happen, you don't know.
The Onimusha Warlords' water trap puzzle I thought was fun, but alot of people hate it. My brother throw me the controller to do it after a 30 minutes trying to get it and then I solve it in about five minutes. He hated me for the rest of the day. Memories of childhood.
Cracking the language in Tunic is probably one of the most rewarding puzzles in gaming history.
Special Mention: Tunic. The whole game. Especially figuring out the Golden Path. I mean you could make an entire video like this just on Tunic.
I loved doing the Jindosh lock. The fact that you can't just look up the answer made it even sweeter because that trophy is proof you did it by solving it properly.
I _adore_ that type of puzzle! In grade 5, my teacher used to put one up at the back of the class each week and we could work on it after finishing our work. Each correct answer turned in was put in for a draw for a donut on Friday. I ate a lot of donuts in grade 5. 😆 Great memories. 😊
One of my most proud platinums are actually The Witness, especially bec of this trophy with the challenge!!!! It was craaaaaaazy, took me hours/days of trying again and again and again.... But that feeling when you manage to do everything in time is the best!
That Sphinx puzzle did me in. I think I was 80+ hours into the game when I got that one, and was like... 'Uuuuuhhh, you want what now?!'
Evergrace and the level the underground shrine. This old From software game from the PS2 era was one I will always remember as a kid. I remember being stuck for days on what I should do to get through the door at the end of the level. When I found out that I had to combine two colors to make another with the mirrors, that I was so ecstatic that I worked out the solution.
I finished the original Final Fantasy 7 recently for the first time, I enjoyed playing it and had a good time.
That Witness set of puzzles was about a weeklong hellscape for me, but eventually got through it. And really glad to see Grim Fandango in a Friday Feature!!
It was a proud day when I earned The Witness platinum and put The Challenge behind me! 🥳 That music still gives me chills even now lol 😅
Another great video Rob and the team, Delsin made my day once again 😆 Looking forward to the next one! 👍
It's one of my favorite games, but the first time I played Catherine my poor young brain melted. '"So I push that block there, and climb it to get that block, then push that block on top of another block and climb backwards around to another block and I'm dead."🤯
1:49 Everyone would say "Crash Bandicoot" but an intelligent genius knows that's "Cash Banooca"
She *is* Caddy's sister after all.
YES
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY CASH BANOOCA
I thought cash banooca as well when I saw it small world
I’m really glad yall still making videos. I been watching this channel since I was a kid pretty much
Tunic has to make it into these types of lists eventually.
Great video as always!
I always knew Dave's well-spoken, pleasant disposition was an act, no one can be that nice! We've seen his true form here!
Thanks for the video Rob, great way to start my weekend!
The goat is coming back - Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged 9/19. The release date trailer dropped today. I think the goat heard you talking about it. Now for a new gen to get stuck by the goat but for not as long.
Discworld, Riven and Myst are could be on multiple lists for difficult puzzles.I've completed Myst VR but not without taking my headset off to jot down notes to get to the answer to puzzle because at the time there wasn't a notebook in the game. That tram puzzle especially, had to note the sounds each cross section of the tracks makes and it was maddening. I haven't played Riven VR yet.
Discworld. Get a moustache by framing a donkey for an accident you caused, but only after cleaning the numberplate of its cart. Obvious?
The Challenge has cost me more stress than anything in my life. I've been coming back to it for 7 years.
But solving those puzzles THAT quickly. I feel like it's impossible. :(
But I want that Platinum.
You are much more determined than me. I've acknowledged defeat years ago. It is just too hard. Hope you get it some day
just here to brag and say I got the platinum.
@@RedGoldEmerald Good for you.
I still break out in a cold sweat every time I hear that music. The platinum, alas, still eludes me.
@@Lynzilla0525 I feel your pain.
That song has burned into my brain.
I'm too slow at solving puzzles. I just can't do the time constraint. The most I've done is 6.
I completed MYST at age 13 with english being my second language. My best puzzle achievement ever.
A wild Genius appears 😮
I felt like Einstein once i cracked the Jindosh lock. Spent hours trying to figure out how it works and genuenly enjoyed figuring it out, it was awesome
There’s a similar puzzle that’s colloquially referred to as Einstein’s Puzzle, even though he didn’t create it or have anything to do with it in any way. 🤷♀️
The challenge is to figure out which five people live in which houses, based on the color of the house, the nationality of the people, what type cigarettes they smoke, what their preferred beverages are, and the orientation of the houses along the street (right to left).
Ah, so many happy memories from this video. Grim Fandango, Broken Sword, I need to replay them now, with my thinking cap at the ready!
I did the Grim Fandango puzzles all by myself.
I heard Fez has some mind breaking puzzles that got a whole community to work around them
For me the best puzzle game is still Day of the Tentacle..
We played it with 7 or more people with an old pc and a tiny monitor and it was so much fun when we meet the next day and everybody had thought about possible solutions instead of sleeping 😁
Agreed, one of the games i have a platinum for :)
The Witness. The Challenge = Reason I don't have the Platinum for that game.
As for a game with lots of puzzley puzzles, which had me reaching for a guide after hearing "That doesn't work...." far too many times - Discworld. Some of the puzzles in that game were down right ridiculous. It's still one of my fave point and clickers, though.
Aaaahh! I’m with you on that one. It’s not the difficulty of the puzzle. It’s the fact that it’s time sensitive. Anything that is time sensitive is stressful in fact. It’s safe to say, a career as a bomb disposal expert is out of the question.
I loved the golden age of lucasarts adventure games. Seing Grim Fandango after so long brought a smile on my face. Great selection Rob.
Love the Jindosh Riddle (Lock). It's actually a derivation of the Zebra Puzzle (or the Einstein Riddle if you like). Even though it's randomized in every playthrough you can solve it if you just know what Lady has what Heirloom. Someone put it online.
Probably my favorite type of puzzle ever! I actually have a couple different mobile games I use to kill time that are either strictly Einstein puzzles or variations thereof. One has up to 12 rows and 9 columns to figure out on "insane" difficulty! 😄
One of my proudest moments is being at a friends house, with a banging headache and somehow beating The Challenge in The Witness on my second attempt.
I had done it on my own save before, which took many more than two attempts 😂
Stories I've heard about the Silent Hill 3 book puzzle might possibly be the hardest in the world. Of course ignoring the one in Wild ARMs with the bookshelves and chests, where I think the English version is actually broken due to bad translation or such.
And according to Rob, I'm at least a genius to some extent, as I didn't need a guide for Onimusha puzzles until 3. Though in 3, I needed a guide for nearly ever treasure box puzzle in that game. Those puzzles did not click with me.
The goat puzzle in Broken Sword took me a week to figure out back in the days of no internet. 😊
I cracked a puzzle from Broken Sword 2 in my sleep, no lie. Dreamed up the solution
The Grim Fandango one can be figured out by playing around a bit. In the same game, however, there's a puzzle with a betting stub which soooort of makes sense
when you know what to do, except you would NEVER think to do it, so...
I was expecting a list of The Witness puzzles from the endgame.
Very Very proud to say I got a Platinum for The Witness. With the randomized final Challenge Puzzle, there is no possible guide for it. It changes every time you attempt it, so you MUST have a fundamental understanding of all puzzle types in order to successfully complete it. It's the Plat I'm most proud of.
(Okay, so I wrote all that before I got to The Witness portion of this video, but jeez, hearing that music again stressed me out IMMEDIATELY)
I got it too. The pillar puzzles were always the most stressful of the set for me.
Head-smacker is The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
At one point you have to figure out how to transfer a crest onto your map. You accomplish this by physically closing your DS.
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I love how Rob just OWNS it. Hah !
The witness still haunts me. I tried for days and days. Years later I still haven't gotten the final challenge trophy and up until now, I'd learnt to forgot about it.
I’ve been waiting so long for a Grim Fandango reference 🥹
Lets not forget the secret ending to Payday 2. Nothing like having to have a full party of people who spent days translating achievements and completing them while also having a certain set of achievements already done so you have the right items in the safehouse
Dragon Warrior 3 holds that title for me. I still remember the riddles for the Magic Pyramid puzzle. Took me FOREVER as a kid to figure out. And then finding the Shoal in the middle of the sea to get the Dry Vase. Good times!
I've been sat on the 'Challenge' trophy for The Witness for literally 7 years now. Knowing I used a guide to cheese some of the other puzzles (please acknowledge: SOME), I just can't bring myself to even attempt it knowing I've no idea how some of the puzzles even work!
I mean, if we want to go the Lucas Arts route, let's mention one that has yet to be remastered: The Dig. Some of them are wack.
Such as reconstructing the alien turtle skeleton.
And I had to call a helpnumber for the piano in Silent hill (PS1)
I had an A4 sheet of paper with notes all over it for that one. Quite a unique puzzle in the Silent Hill games which usually just went with the "pick up an object and use it at the next opportunity" type of puzzle.
I want Dishonored 3! 😩
When I was a kid (turns to dust besides Rob) I used to love those Zebra Puzzles a-la Jindosh lock. When I ran into that one it was a breeze and I had a lot of fun with it. The others look hard though. I suggest several of the Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy. The one in the Foundry in Two Thrones comes to mind. I brute forced that one and to this day IDK how it works
I just started playing the remaster of Onimusha blindly, solved the water trap puzzle in my first go, then came back to this video and pondered: "why exactly is this puzzle considered hard again?"
One puzzle that stumped me for over a week was finding the second red jewel in resident evil 2. I had to go out and find a guide since the internet was still in it's relative infancy in the mid 1990's and scour through it (since rather than explaining one puzzle at a time it basically treats the entire game like one giant puzzle) Only to eventually learn I had to use the lighter on a fireplace which burned a hole in a painting with writing that said something like the flames of hades will reveal the prize or whatever.
Many puzzles i face are those i make myself. Like skipping through a quest givers dialog so i can go about exploring, when indeed they mention a key detail that would have explained what i was supposed to do. Instead i skip along cluelessly following the quest marker
There's an optional dungeon in FFX-2 in the Thunder Plains that I just couldn't get my head around, thankfully it didn't affect me getting the platinum trophy 🙃
Math dungeon
I know what one you are talking about. Brings back memories
I absolutely slayed at Queens Blood apart from one of the challenges which made me rage 😂
Bloody loved the Witness, one of my favourite games ever, I did the challenge but I didn’t 100% it I seem to remember there was a corrupted multi coloured one in the tower that I never did
Talos principle deserves a mention in this list - especially that "Crisscross Conundrum" in C7... damn i was at that one for ages...
The jindosh lock was such a great piece of puzzling. Absolutely infuriating, but great.
Growing up with old school adventure games, I’d like to think I’m quite good at puzzles, which is why I’ve stayed well clear of The Witness to keep that illusion alive.
barry chuckle.....
laughing in such a way juice came out of my nose.....
2 blasts from the past in quick succession. Thank-you sir...
"and on that bombshell" haha love it Rob
I was expecting to see the Metal Gear tally around the 5:56-6:01 mark. Maybe next time.
Now I did beat The Witness challenge and I can say I was very VERY proud!! It took a lot of attempts but man was it satisfying to get.
Glad to see Grim Fandango on this list too
A few I can think of are: 1. The piano from Silent Hill. 2. Small Space, big solutions from The Talos principle or any of the ones to get the stars so you can do the secret lvls. And 3. The lakebed temple from Zelda Twilight Princess
I've never played any of these games. The entire Myst series was puzzles only a genius could solve, so all of them had accompanying game guides. And the 11th Hour had puzzles so tough, there was an option to have the game AI solve it for you or play against Stauff.
Puzzles. I do have a love hate relationship with these. Its fun when you start and finish them. It's a pain when you have to really really have to use every worth of your brain power especially when the puzzle can be solved simply and you end up thinking a bit too hard.
The water puzzle in Onimusha is legendary among my friend group from school. The biggest issue was figuring out how to actually move the pieces around
I spent so long getting the Jindosh unlocked and completing The Witness challenge. I wanted the trophies. Got the platinum eventually lol.
I now feel completely justified in looking up that tree puzzle when I got to it, thank you Rob.
I have conquered The Challenge in The Witness and it was one of the hardest things I've done in gaming
Thanks for giving me PTSD flasbacks to the Onimusha water puzzle.
So glad to see a bit of outer wilds love on the channel! Such a fantastic game which I feel like there hasn’t been much of on he channel
Pretty sure the "random" puzzles from the witness aren't actually random, and that you can memorize all of them, it's just a lot of variations
So… I (and I’m sure many other people) managed to solve The Challenge without knowing that one of the early puzzles is actually an exact map of the maze chamber later on. The solution shows both the correct route through the maze and the positions of the two terminals you have to solve as you go. How I succeeded in the time limit without this is something I still don’t know to this day.
…I’ve never really wanted to try the Dishonored games until this video.
Oh, you should - amazing games!
@@PlayStationAccess I might look into it. But in the meantime I’m trying to 100% World of Goo 2. Now those are some tricky puzzles.
I loved the Jindosh lock... That's my kind of puzzle. I didn't bother doing the legwork the first time through and just solved it.
I’m so bad at puzzles that I struggled finding the right direction in the Tomb of the unknown king in Final fantasy VIII…and I had the map 😅
Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. I don't care if I was 20 and the daughter of an actual polymath, I spent more time on that buggery than most of the game I swear. And you kids with your easier DS version don't know real torture. Lucky we now have game guides and I can not have to think so much.
The first time I ever played Final Fantasy 8, I was intimidated when asked to find a number in the tomb of the unknown king. So I said to myself you know what, I'm just going to try and guess the code. No word of a lie, i tried 001 and it worked!!! Considering it is random, that was pretty damn amazing lol my most memortable gaming moment ever.
The Four Chinese Topmen in Return of the Obra Dinn. It's one of those headslapper ones, once you figure out the trick it's fairly straight forward, but before...
The second maths side quest in stellar blade. Seeing it explained makes total sense to me but I’d never have worked it out on my own
Oh, we nearly included this one. Huge leap in difficulty after the first.
I was so happy getting my platinum completing the challenge in the witness, one of the best puzzle games out there too.
Was going to say that this was perfect with announcement of Broken Sword remake
I did the Witness. Lucked out massively with the last puzzle and just put in a potential solution that just happened to be right!
Hardest puzzle I ever had to do? The Knights Puzzle in The 7th Guest. When I first played that game, it was 1993. There just weren't the amount of online guides then...and I didn't have a book guide, so I did it all on my own. It's a good thing I love chess.
Rosie's password is Cash Banooca.
So this story keeps coming out on puzzle listicles because of how much this thing tormented my mother on Playstation 1, but the first Wild ARMs game had a temple dedicated to the Ocean Guardian, and to a lesser extent, the Three Guardian Lords. The problem and puzzle in this case being that there are 4 Guardian Lords, with one having been lost, stolen by the Demons.
The puzzle room gives you text based clues scattered about, 4 statues, and 3 places to put them. Surely you are beginning to see the issue here, but in case you aren't, having a 4th statue not in its proper place prevents the door from opening.
My mother went on a frantic hunt from book store to game store looking for a strategy guide to get the solution to this puzzle and when she finally found it, she was very upset that the missing step is to use the Bombs tool from the start of the game, infinite use always in your inventory, to blow up the 4th statue. Effectively losing it to the power of demons, gunpowder.
I recently did play the Witness, I both hated and loved The Challenge. It got me a shiny platinum.. so I loved it more than I hated it.
I’m a lover of puzzles…..especially logic puzzles such as the jindosh lock….
I can think of two.
The Shakespear puzzle in Silent Hill 3 (Hard puzzle difficulty)
And the power plant code for Riven.
I still have to look those up if i ever do a replay of those games.
The silent hill 3 one came to mind for me as well. If I remember right, you actually had to know your Shakespeare to solve it. I'm not reading the entire output of an author just to solve one puzzle
I remember using a guide for all of the puzzles in The Witness just to find out The Challenge trophy puzzles were randomized.😮
That Grim Fandgoo puzzle had me stumped for ages. I think i had to ring hint helpline on pc back in the day.
I can't believe you haven't mentioned The Talos Principle 2 😮
It's such a wonderful, fun and very challenging puzzle exploration game!
The platinum trophy on Catherine full body still alludes me, no matter how long I practiced those gold trophies never got to shine with me 😅
I Managed to unlock the jindosh lock in dishonest 2, I figured out half of it and then brute force the rest by trying every combination. It worked in the end
Batman for the Genesis. Full of riddles that I could not comprehend. The game was also hard as nails. Even the lowest enemies had the same health bar size as you. It felt like a Souls game before that was a thing...
We like playstation here only 😂
It took like 10 tries, but I got the final puzzle for The Witness and it remains one of my most proud platinums.
The underwater section in heart of darkness with the seeds 😭😭 gave me serious headaches
Man that Jindosh lock was so annoying. I adore logic puzzles. I spent so long working out that solution, I double-checked it, triple-checked it. Put in the solution. It didn't work.
I, for one, consider myself a genius for solving the Monkey Island 2 gambling club puzzle myself. It only took me three and a half years to figure it out.
Outstandingly well done by Mr Pearson.
If you haven't heard of or played Creaks (amanita design), there are quite a few puzzles that were tough to figure out.
To this day, beating the Challenge and getting the Platinum trophy for the Witness is one of my proudest gaming moments
One day I hope to be that smart
@@captainvalencia just take your time on the pillar, triangle and color coordination puzzles. Once you have those down, it's not as hard as you might think.
I remember playing Phantasy Star Universe Ambitions of Alumni there was this part where you had to chase a child through a series of caverns with laser gate mechnisms you can lock and unlock, the goal was to catch the child and force him into a dead end.
The requirements for getting S rank (the highest rank im sure you all know) was completing this puzzle within 6 *HOURS* . This had to be one of the hardest puzzles to beat that ive run across where S rank was 6 hrs and A rank was 12 and continues from there. The most frustrating part about this was that it wasn't even an optional part of the game it was *mandatory* .....fyi that game did not age well lol.
I guess pretty much all the point and click adventures my father played during the 90s. XD He was stuck so freaking often.