May 27th, 2023, 01:47 AM
I just randomly remembered the "puzzle" I posted in the first post of the Nonsensical Situations in Games thread and decided why not make a thread to talk about puzzles in video games? Do you have any puzzles you love/hate, or maybe there's just a whole puzzle game you have something to say about?
I'd have to say the games with the hardest puzzles I've played is the original Tomb Raider games on PS1. There's a level in Tomb Raider 3 that I can't even beat using a guide because the puzzle is just so difficult for me, and it involves the entire level so trying to keep track of everything becomes a real nightmare. I feel like a lot of the puzzles in the original games would take someone an incredibly long time to wrap their head around without a guide in all honesty.
That said, I did really love the puzzles in Lara's Mansion in Tomb Raider 3 to figure out how to get into the trophy room and gain access to the dirt bike course.
Another puzzle I really liked was the roman numerals one in Uncharted 1. The whole puzzle involves knowing what numerals to follow that are marking different paths, and going the wrong way will lead you to a dead end or actual death. It's one of the few I also like doing on replays of the game because it doesn't slow you down at all once you know the solution as it just involves going the right way, whereas most other puzzles in the series actually make you stop to do the solution which gets annoying for me.
I'd have to say the games with the hardest puzzles I've played is the original Tomb Raider games on PS1. There's a level in Tomb Raider 3 that I can't even beat using a guide because the puzzle is just so difficult for me, and it involves the entire level so trying to keep track of everything becomes a real nightmare. I feel like a lot of the puzzles in the original games would take someone an incredibly long time to wrap their head around without a guide in all honesty.
That said, I did really love the puzzles in Lara's Mansion in Tomb Raider 3 to figure out how to get into the trophy room and gain access to the dirt bike course.
Another puzzle I really liked was the roman numerals one in Uncharted 1. The whole puzzle involves knowing what numerals to follow that are marking different paths, and going the wrong way will lead you to a dead end or actual death. It's one of the few I also like doing on replays of the game because it doesn't slow you down at all once you know the solution as it just involves going the right way, whereas most other puzzles in the series actually make you stop to do the solution which gets annoying for me.