Starting with the obvious

who the fuck is supposed to know about tarot

as an ESL it was much harder than it needed to be

I never even played this game but I immediately realised it's a puzzle to put the books in order I, II, III, IV, V

>>715457413 (OP)
It's nice that modern developers realize that gamers are illiterate retards

>>715457413 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fR3ZrGPANg

You think that's bad, try solving the crematorium puzzle on Hard without a walkthrough.

>>715457613
PersonafaHAHA who am I kidding

>>715457794
I thought this was so easy when I first did it that I was stunned people got stuck on it. I replayed the game last year for halloween and got fucking stuck on it.

>>715457413 (OP)

>>715457413 (OP)
You didn't solve it on Hard by yourself, don't even pretend.

Not only did you need deep knowledge of each Shakespeare play in the pile, but you also needed to interpret his "Othello" play as if it were the board game "Othello" before you could even attempt to solve the puzzle.
IIRC, one book has to be completely tossed aside and forgotten about but I forget if it was Othello or not.

thank you gamefaqs

ayo dis shit is impossible

>>715457413 (OP)

>>715457413 (OP)
that one on the hardest difficulty was insane as a kid
the keypad puzzle was even more retarded and most likely the most difficult puzzle in a video game

>>715458423
Oh, and none of the other Hard puzzles come close to this Shakespeare puzzle literally 5 minutes from the game start. The rest are a decent challenge for a puzzle... the Shakespeare puzzle is infamous though, almost everyone got stumped.

>>715457794
C
D
F/G
G#
H
C
I don't get it.

>>715458536
That one was difficult because it leads you to thinking that you trace his bites or thumb, but really it's whenever he says blood landed on.

>>715457936
wait a minute....

it got me

>>715458737
...that card...

>>715457794
The natural reaction to hearing the broken keys is to go "oh i messed up!" when really you have to only press the broken keys to solve it.

>>715458774
A card???

>>715457413 (OP)

>>715458115
>game has one (1 (uno)) puzzles
how did they get away with it?

>>715457916
No, you neee a functional knowledge of Shakespeare to discern the order.

>>715458938
I've played Morrowind for 400+ hours but Bleak Falls Barrow filtered me hard... this puzzle is cryptic as fuck.

>>715458938
I spent much time looking at the carvings at the wall thinking it's related until I just tried all combination (there are few of them). I felt stupid but this is the only moment when turnig the item in the inventory is used.

>>715459012
It's clear that he didn't play on Hard puzzle difficulty.

>>715459127
I think this is fair, if you go in blind/maybe its your first time playing. I think we've all spent like 20 minutes staring at the walls like "the clue is around here somewhere, it just has to be." lmao

So did Jeremy Blaustein write these puzzles or were they written by the Japanese devs?

I know they scripted the games in English and had English actors act out their dialogue, but being so familiar with Shakespeare enough to make a cryptic puzzle about several of his works in a language that isn't yours or Shakespeare's native language is very impressive.

>>715458634
You're missing the poem/riddle that goes with it. There are white birds and black birds in the poem that pertain to the keys you need to press or some shit.

>>715458902
Snake, don't tell me you forgot the basics...

That card… it's not just a clue. It's a cipher. The bells aren’t decorative — they’re keyed to specific symbols. You see that scroll? That means one ring. The key? Two. And the sword? Two hits. It’s a sequencing device, a lock mechanism disguised as ceremony.

>>715458938
This was actually a did you watch the per-release footage filter

>>715457413 (OP)

>>715458419
I played SA1 a handful of times and I still don't remember this part or what was difficult about it.

>>715457413 (OP)
Never liked this shit

>>715457413 (OP)

Grim Fandango has a few retard filters

>>715462289

>>715462369

>>715462185
this section is pstd inducing
at least this is more or less the point where random encounters become easy, but if you're playing on hard and get ambushed there's a real chance you just die

The puzzle itself is pretty dumb anyway

>>715458115
6 orbs was diabolical

>>715458997
excuse me, it's got two puzzles and a scavenger hunt

>>715462289
for me it was the fucking lava rodents
>no you can't spray them and make them fall in the lava, you have to specifically do it from this separate nearby screen you probably didn't even know was there
WHY?

>>715462629
Having to do things through a set way was always the problem with point and clickers.

>>715462185
>>715462516
What am I looking at?

>>715462185
>>715462516
The fuck am i even looking at here

people always forget a basic mechanic that the tutorial dungeon shows you, because its literally not necessary/mandatory for the 6 dungeons in between.

>>715462889
>>715462860
Eridanus Dungeon in SMT: Strange Journey
it's a teleporter maze

>>715457413 (OP)
>>715457794
those were ez but theres one near the end of sh1 that fucked me
i think it was this one

>>715458115
i got this right but the real filter was not pushing the right button after kek fucking riven buttons and levers

>>715458806
This

>>715462185
Strange journey my beloved

>>715457794
Let me guess, the solution is D E A D?

>>715458634
>H
huh?

>>715462289
The entire game is a damn IQ test in disguise. If you didn’t spend 30 minutes trying to put the right item in the wrong place before realizing the solution required clicking on a barely-visible background element from 3 screens ago, you’re lying. Grim rewards the dumbest brute force but punishes lateral thinking unless it’s *exactly* the way they imagined it in 1998.

>>715463121

>>715457413 (OP)

>>715463247
In my country that key is called H, B is the black key next to it, which is strange because no other half-tone has unique name.

>>715457413 (OP)
Hard mode doesn't even have the fucking numbers. You have to read the books irl to know the order.

>>715462185
lol
now do a real map

>>715463707
this looks like it was generated in RPG maker and then just had a bunch of doors and puzzles thrown about

>>715457936
"Finally a smart game, for smart gamers."

https://youtu.be/l_u18_BKczg?si=u_w3L6W9trpXEG5Q

>>715463465
>he's never played Pipe Dream

>>715458461
game? not signalis

Should I play SH if I like puzzle games?

>>715463370
>clicking
lol, i heard they added point-and-click controls to the remaster...

the game is meant to be controlled with tank controls using the numpad

>>715463787
nah mary skelter dungeons are proper with a bunch of secrets and puzzles
however some of them are tedious and way too large

>>715464039
Becrowned demo.

Eileen shaving

>>715464040
if its the ones with puzzle difficulty selection then yeah, i actually dont know how many have it off the top of my head but I know SH2's hard puzzles are pretty notorious. the normal mode puzzles tend to feel straightforward and at worst just throw you for a loop around around the area in case you missed something

>>715464194
original* SH2, not sure about the remake

>>715459226
Or you could just fucking read the note the guy who stole the claw has

not a puzzle but it is a filter

>>715464139
>mary.... where the FUCK are you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LKCBoqDo0

>>715464086
Played the original and didn't mind the controls back then, but honestly the remaster feels like how it was always meant to be played

>>715464292
I think I beat that exactly once. Out of a dozen or so tries before I had to return it.

>>715463465
>path to outflow pipe completely obstructed by broken or alarm tiles
how do you even solve this?

>>715457413 (OP)
This filtered entire continents.

>>715463465
I forget, does the flow start immediately or can you work backwards from the end to the beginning before activating the starting tile?

>>715464465
There are a few unsolvable ones and some that require you to make a blind guess in a random direction in order to not trap yourself behind alarm tiles.

>>715463465
I honestly enjoyed the pipe dream hacking minigame in Bioshock more than the shitty QTE system in Bioshock 2. The only real issue I did have with it is was that it could sometimes be literally unsolvable without the right plasmids

>>715463398
>a tale of birds without a voice
you only need the title to be able to solve it.
>>715464528
brazilians got it right, but they didn't got the result they were expecting.

>>715460059
Yeah, they showcased this dungeon and really wanted to show off the "you can inspect and look at items for clues and other stuff!" and made it seem like you should be inspecting items like this often but in reality it wasn't used for much of anything aside from these claw keys.

>>715458430
>0451
Is this on low difficulty? I played it on hard and I don't remember this at all

>>715465572
Normal.

>>715457413 (OP)
>ITT: retard filters
This is only a retard filter if the controls and clues are shit, which means the game is shit, such a simple puzzle shouldn't filter people by any means.

>>715465572
oh it's the deus ex/imsim number

>>715465572
>>715465915
No fucking way, did they actually use a "451" code as a solution in the SH2 remake??
Jesus fucking Christ.... how embarrassing...

System Shock 1 had only 3 digits per code to input on numpads, so the first code was "451" due to it being the code to get into the dev's office building. Almost every game by the same developers or even semi-related to "immersive sims" has used a 451 code (0451 in Deus Ex, 45100 in SS2, 0451 in Bioshock , etc) so I have no fucking idea why Silent Hill uses it except to be an epic reference for the win!

>>715461258
>puzzle is just bruteforcing every combination

>>715466212
There's three levels of difficulty to the puzzle. The hard version goes like this:

"In here is a tragedy---
art thou player or audience?
Be as it may, the end doth remain:
all go on only toward death.

The first words at thy left hand:
a false lunacy, a madly dancing man.
Hearing unhearable words, drawn
to a beloved's grave---and there,
mayhap, true madness at last.

As did this one, playing at death,
find true death at the last.
Killing a nameless lover, she
pierced a heart rent by sorrow.

Doth lie invite truth?
Doth verity but wear the
mask of falsehood?
Ah, thou pitiful, thou
miserable ones!

Still amidst lies, though the end cometh not,
wherefore yearn for death?
Wilt thou attend to thy beloved?
Truth and lies, life and death:
a game of turning white to black
and black to white.

Is not a silence brimming with
love more precious than flattery?
A peaceful slumber preferred to
a throne besmirched with blood?

One vengeful man
spilled blood for two;
Two youths shed tears for three;
Three witches disappeared thusly;
And only the four keys remain.

Ah, but verily...
In here is a tragedy---
art thou player or audience?
There is nothing which cannot
become a puppet of fate or an
onlooker, peering into the cage."

----

The above memo, which describes the puzzle, is located by the locked door. Read it carefully and then examine all the anthology books in the inventory and note their anthology number. All of these Shakespeare books are tragedies, which is the theme of this puzzle.

Romeo and Juliet: Anthology 1
King Lear: Anthology 2
Macbeth: Anthology 3
Hamlet: Anthology 4
Othello: Anthology 5

The code has 4 digits.

Good luck anon.

>>715466671
>a game of turning white to black
and black to white.
>Three witches disappeared thusly;
Misunderstanding the meaning of these two lines made solving the puzzle impossible for me until I looked it up.

>>715466313
the answer is the remake devs are Polish

>>715464292
>Somehow got really good at this
>Made about 200 bucks from family/schoolmates who couldn't beat it

>>715466671
I like how they made a song out of this puzzle >>715458120