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Worst Puzzles in History
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While the original Phantasy Star is my favorite game ever, it also has the worst puzzle I've ever seen in a game.
In the last dungeon on your way to Darkfalz (where at the time you're not even sure where you're going, just that there's something else to find), you come to a room that's a square (you fell down a trap into it). Only, there's no exits! You just keep going in circles, having no idea how to get out of this place.
Now remember, these dugeons are pseudo 3D, it's not overhead view, and the only time you turn left or right is when there's a corner that you can turn at. So what's the trick to this riddle?
On one of the walls in the in the middle of the hallway, you're just supposed to know to turn and you will see a hidden door. This door is not visable when looking forward like normal, nor is it ever alluded to in the game. There's also no other "secret" doors that had to be found in the game, so there's nothing to even remotely let you know that you need to find a door, or that hidden ones even exist!
Would have been fine if it was a secret room to find some secret non-essential thing, but it's the way to the last boss in the game! I swear I went in circles for hours and hours trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Grrrr...
In the last dungeon on your way to Darkfalz (where at the time you're not even sure where you're going, just that there's something else to find), you come to a room that's a square (you fell down a trap into it). Only, there's no exits! You just keep going in circles, having no idea how to get out of this place.
Now remember, these dugeons are pseudo 3D, it's not overhead view, and the only time you turn left or right is when there's a corner that you can turn at. So what's the trick to this riddle?
On one of the walls in the in the middle of the hallway, you're just supposed to know to turn and you will see a hidden door. This door is not visable when looking forward like normal, nor is it ever alluded to in the game. There's also no other "secret" doors that had to be found in the game, so there's nothing to even remotely let you know that you need to find a door, or that hidden ones even exist!
Would have been fine if it was a secret room to find some secret non-essential thing, but it's the way to the last boss in the game! I swear I went in circles for hours and hours trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Grrrr...
Father_Brain
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The forklift puzzle in Year 2 of Grim Fandango. Ugh.
Forgotten Ancient
Banned
Any sliding puzzle (Like the one in Castlevania: DoS).
I'm am terrible at them. Thank god you don't have to get it in a 1,2,3,4,... sequence or I never would've gotten through it.
I'm am terrible at them. Thank god you don't have to get it in a 1,2,3,4,... sequence or I never would've gotten through it.
So we are 3 pages in and no one has mentioned 7th Guest or the 11th Hour?
7th Guest had the indescribably wicked puzzles.
The Bishops, The Queens, The CANS! Oh god the cans, I didn't know what to do...
11th Hour continued it and made stauff ridiculous.
Lot of inbreeding in your family, stupid?
The Moving House Puzzle, and the Dice Puzzle, as well as the painting were incredihard.
7th Guest had the indescribably wicked puzzles.
The Bishops, The Queens, The CANS! Oh god the cans, I didn't know what to do...
11th Hour continued it and made stauff ridiculous.
Lot of inbreeding in your family, stupid?
The Moving House Puzzle, and the Dice Puzzle, as well as the painting were incredihard.
Big Takeover
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Squirrel Killer said:
By a large margin, the biggest "you have got to be f'ing kidding me" moments in gaming I have ever had. Too bad, as I was really enjoying the game up until that point. I didn't play it a second more after that puzzle.
I couldn't agree more with Old Man Murray:
"Who killed Adventure Games? I think it should be pretty clear at this point that Adventure Games committed suicide."
echoshifting
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Reilly said:
One sitting. Bingo.
Did anybody else ever get one of those Inviso-Ink Walkthrough books for the Sierra games? Damn, those things were cool.
The most stupid puzzle i've come across is from "Still Life". The one where you have to make cookies, using recipe that says "1 cup of hot luv, 2 spoonfuls of sunshine, 1 slice of hot lesbian porn" etc and you had to guess what ingredient is flour, eggs, milk an so on. I was watching the instructions, though WTF and quit. Well, used walkthrough later anyway, but still... stupid.
I've been playing more King's Quest. It is horrible.
There's one room with a rock. If you push the rock from the top of the screen it moves and you get a dagger. If you push the rock from the bottom of the screen it falls on you and you instantly die. Of course, there is no indication as to which is the correct way.
There's another room where you feed the hungry woodcutter who tells you to take his violin. As you walk there, you plummet to your death because it turns out the blobs on the ground that you thought was the floor are actually bottomless pits.
Ahhhh Roberta.
There's one room with a rock. If you push the rock from the top of the screen it moves and you get a dagger. If you push the rock from the bottom of the screen it falls on you and you instantly die. Of course, there is no indication as to which is the correct way.
There's another room where you feed the hungry woodcutter who tells you to take his violin. As you walk there, you plummet to your death because it turns out the blobs on the ground that you thought was the floor are actually bottomless pits.
Ahhhh Roberta.
El_Victor said:
FUCK.OFF
Oh, god... Oh good GOD!!!! I remember that game!!!! I was, what, 5!!!! The horror. It was the only game I had for the Nintendo for about a week because if I recall something happened to my master system, and I had only that to play. I remember it took me some hours to get past the first screen. I remember I had to touch some part of a fucking wall..... OMG, whats the name of that game please, and also the e-mail of the creator so I could curse him out for fucking with my mind at that age......
*just think wonder boy and alex the kid, just think wonder boy and alex the kid*
