Can I get THE WITNESS (oh can I get a Witness)

Mr Fuzzbutt

Spoiler (ok to click if your puzzle count is +something)

It is so incredibly satisfying when these things click into place.

Though finding all of them on the way to 100% is probably going to be hard.

Speed Racer

i finally realized what this game reminds me of

Antichamber

not in like style or presentation or anything

but just the feeling of exploring this big space and fniding puzzles that you don't know how the fuck to solve but you just keep going and slowly poking and prodding at stuff until you get it to pop

No Great Name

Alright, waiting till my girlfriend gets home to be the chronicler then we're diving in.

Noggin

I'm having a lot of fun exploring this game and I'm glad it's really so much more than "just mazes".

I'm up to 78 I think but already found some mysteries to obsess over, like in that shoreline building with the pots

In the very back, when you complete the wall and it opens up to lay flat, revealing a rectangular panel that's blacked out with a wire running down into the water. Especially because the final panel could be completed two ways.

Or by the windmill

After solving a bunch of the apple tree panels, the last pink wire seems to just disappear into the brush by the steps.

I'll have to get a notebook, just to make sure I don't forget to check back on everything.

Peewi

Small tip: When you're at a series of screens right next to each other, you can swap between them with the right stick or the shoulder buttons.

Poorochondriac

Is there a way to see your solved count on Steam?

Cabezone

Go to the load game screen.

Beef Avenger

I dreamt about this game. It's going to be a long day of work waiting to get back to it

Balefuego

Noggin wrote: »

I'm having a lot of fun exploring this game and I'm glad it's really so much more than "just mazes".

I'm up to 78 I think but already found some mysteries to obsess over, like in that shoreline building with the pots

In the very back, when you complete the wall and it opens up to lay flat, revealing a rectangular panel that's blacked out with a wire running down into the water. Especially because the final panel could be completed two ways.

Or by the windmill

After solving a bunch of the apple tree panels, the last pink wire seems to just disappear into the brush by the steps.

I'll have to get a notebook, just to make sure I don't forget to check back on everything.

I know what that first thing is for and oh man it's so cool.

UnbreakableVow

Beef Avenger wrote: »

I dreamt about this game. It's going to be a long day of work waiting to get back to it

I didn't dream about but I've definitely been thinking of it all morning

As soon as I get home and finish up some work I'm getting right back to it

Speed Racer

God damn these color puzzles

One Thousand Cables

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

Yeah I went to bed mad last night because of that fucking flower house

Speed Racer

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

I've figured out that the colors are RGBCMYK, and since you can't isolate all the colors I'm assuming you have to group them based on what colors can be mixed to create what, i.e. you can group green, blue, and cyan

Where I'm mixed up is I'm not sure if you have to isolate black or if you can ignore the black spaces

Mr. G

See this hasn't become an obsession of mine yet

But I DO think it's really cool and wanna see more

I really don't think I'm smart enough for this game, though

AtomicTofu

I'm only a few hours in and already taking pictures of puzzles with my iPad and scribbling on them for solutions

Speed Racer

My mom is now playing the witness

Peewi

Speed Racer wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

I've figured out that the colors are RGBCMYK, and since you can't isolate all the colors I'm assuming you have to group them based on what colors can be mixed to create what, i.e. you can group green, blue, and cyan

Where I'm mixed up is I'm not sure if you have to isolate black or if you can ignore the black spaces

You at the elevator?

I solved that without really thinking about how colors work.

I wrote down what colors each tile was at each floor and used that to figure out which were actually the same.

Mr. G

Speed Racer wrote: »

My mom is now playing the witness

I actually do think this game has the exact same kind of mass appeal as Myst did

That iPad version should be huuuuuuuuge, provided it's not still $40

More than $5 for an iOS game is very hard to swallow for most people

Speed Racer

Peewi wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

I've figured out that the colors are RGBCMYK, and since you can't isolate all the colors I'm assuming you have to group them based on what colors can be mixed to create what, i.e. you can group green, blue, and cyan

Where I'm mixed up is I'm not sure if you have to isolate black or if you can ignore the black spaces

You at the elevator?

I solved that without really thinking about how colors work.

I wrote down what colors each tile was at each floor and used that to figure out which were actually the same.

I think I'm in a slightly different spot in the same area but maybe I should check te environment a bit OH GODDAMMIT JONATHAN BLOW

David_T

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I feel like I just don't know enough about how the game works

For example, this puzzle I'm stuck on, I don't even know how to label it for spoilers. Purple puzzle?

There's one of the "separate white and black tiles" puzzles that you have to walk on, but one of the glass panes is out. Is that glass pane something I'll be able to fix? Or am I supposed to be able to solve it without it? Because I don't see how it's possible to separate the black and white tiles on the right side without that pane being there

This game makes me super anxious

You don't need the glass pane to solve it. The trick is remembering that the blacks and whites just need to be separated from each other, they don't have to be connected to themselves, and that the middle of board looks like it's out because there's black paint on it but it actually works just fine.

Personally I'm stuck on the second panel on the second row of the Tetris piece tutorial.

It's two rows of three, you start in the bottom left corner and you have to make both a corner piece and a square and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do both without crossing the stream.

And it looks so simple!

UnbreakableVow

That's the same Tetris panel I'm stuck on

Or

I was

I couldn't figure that tutorial puzzle out but figured out the actual puzzle to cross the river so

Oops?

Peewi

David_T wrote: »

Personally I'm stuck on the second panel on the second row of the Tetris piece tutorial.

It's two rows of three, you start in the bottom left corner and you have to make both a corner piece and a square and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do both without crossing the stream.

And it looks so simple!

Hint:

You can combine pieces.

Qanamil

Man, between reading some of this and the giantbombcast I'm completely sold. I need more time in the day!

Evil Multifarious

Peewi wrote: »

David_T wrote: »

Personally I'm stuck on the second panel on the second row of the Tetris piece tutorial.

It's two rows of three, you start in the bottom left corner and you have to make both a corner piece and a square and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do both without crossing the stream.

And it looks so simple!

Hint:

You can combine pieces.

When I finally realized this i said "Oh shiiiit" out loud.

I love, love love the organic, carefully managed way the game prompts the player to expand or deepen their knowledge of the systems in play

Someone said it's like a metroidvania where instead of power ups you gain understanding. A perfect description.

Speed Racer

Where is the tutorial for the little flywheel shapes?

David_T

Sorry, third panel.

Edit: Oooh!

Balefuego

Speed Racer wrote: »

Where is the tutorial for the little flywheel shapes?

I don't know offhand which one you mean but if you look at the map of the island on the boat's navigation panel it shows what symbols are associated with that area on there.

Cabezone

I dunno why

that boat

isn't right at the beginning, it would save a lot of aimless wandering.

Mr. G

Cabezone wrote: »

I dunno why that boat isn't right at the beginning, it would save a lot of aimless wandering.

pretty sure the aimless wandering is the entire point

Balefuego

You guys should probably put that in spoilers

rhylith

Balefuego wrote: »

You guys should probably put that in spoilers

For sure

Finding the boat was a huge, pleasant surprise and I freaked out when it emerged.

Poorochondriac

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

Wait wait wait

Am I gonna get boned by my colorblindness here

rhylith

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

Wait wait wait

Am I gonna get boned by my colorblindness here

Maybe.

E: http://kotaku.com/colorblind-and-hearing-impaired-players-wont-be-able-to-1755459642

Beef Avenger

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

God damn these color puzzles

Wait wait wait

Am I gonna get boned by my colorblindness here

colorblind Jeff Gerstmann of GiantBomb mentioned having trouble with some color puzzles and needing to get external help for them. He completed enough to "beat" the game without those, so I'm not sure what portion of the puzzles could be an issue

rhylith

I love the quote at the bottom of that article.

They tried to put in a puzzle that only colorblind people could solve but there were too many types of colorblindness so

they must made the color-based puzzles skippable.

Speed Racer

There is something about the Tetris block puzzles that I am just straight up not getting

The entrance to the quarry looks completely impossible

Cabezone

Speed Racer wrote: »

There is something about the Tetris block puzzles that I am just straight up not getting

The entrance to the quarry looks completely impossible

Yeah I got stumped on the same spot.

Poorochondriac

Speed Racer wrote: »

There is something about the Tetris block puzzles that I am just straight up not getting

The entrance to the quarry looks completely impossible

Yeah!

There's another way in, so I haven't gotten too hung up on it

But it's still driving me bonkers

David_T

Every time I think I have the Tetris puzzles figured out, I come to another one where I either go "but that's impossible!" or "I'm doing it! I'm doing what you want! Why are you dinging me?".

I needed anime to post.

holy SHIT those are tiny audiologs

i am going to miss all of these