The Witness

No tutorial, and you have to figure out how each type of puzzle works by either observing your surroundings, or understanding the mechanic at each puzzle. 100% dopamine each time you start understanding each puzzle.

Я обожаю эту игру. Небольшие советы: Все головоломки проходимы Каждая деталь, каждая головоломка, каждый уступ для чего-то нужны Лучше не открывать гайд впринципе, правда. Лучше дропнуть игру, чем разочароваться тем что не заметил очевидную деталь и из-за этого не смог пройти игру сам

If you draw a plot of where the Myst games were going after Myst III, this is, by extrapolation, roughly, Myst 126. The puzzles are no longer even trying to motivate you through anything other than their mechanics, they are literally just lines on a bunch of panels, and instead all attempts at a story/theme are relegated to densely pretentious but thankfully ignorable audio logs on corners. Some of the puzzles are neat and clever, especially the ones that make you draw lines on not-panels, and some of the panel sequences are not super bad (props to their logical and didactic ordering, which usually made sense); little of it feels unfair or random. Still, some of it does, and you'll inevitably run into it if you want to get to the end; too frequent to truly avoid by going elsewhere, and there's no way to bypass them if you get stuck. Sometimes it is claimed that the problem with The Witness is the difficulty lies in 'figuring out what the rules are', but this is almost always completely false. That's the challenge for the first 3 or so panels of each sequence, sure. But, then, the subsequent puzzles ask you to combine all the logical rules, and that's where the real drudgery begins, because they're rarely interesting enough to survive exploring to that extent. By the 15th light puzzle related to finding the right angle to bounce a reflection off, you've already figured out the rules. There's nothing left to think about, only some rigmarole to perform. Near the end they start combining the rules of the sequences, and in those it really becomes apparent that drawing the right solution from combining 5 unrelated logical rules is a task for computers and computer scientists, not something interesting or enjoyable to actually perform. To illustrate: my least favourite puzzle is from near the end, in which you're asked to draw some bridges for you to get from place to place. There's absolutely nothing to figure out, here. You just have to draw the right lines that pass from one place to another, possibly in sequence, such that you have to draw a line from A->B->C, say. There is absolutely nothing interesting about this; this is a variant of a children's puzzle about farmers moving sheep and cabbage and wolves across a river with only so many boats. Lots of the 'complications' in the puzzles are like the complications in those kinds of riddles, in which you just keep adding more animals and conditions on which combinations you can carry; this is about as puerile as puzzles get. Some people enjoy this level of 'purity' in puzzles. I don't. There are better pure logic puzzles out there that get rid of the pretentious, though sometimes pretty, chaff (nothing about the 'pure' puzzles wouldn't work as a phone game with just the panels in a sequence). If it made fewer gestures at grandness and meaning and settled down with cutting all but the modest few things it did well enough to remember, it'd be more forgivable, but as it stands it makes you go "ooh, neat" about as often as it makes you eye-roll. By god, did they roll.

Easily the most engaging puzzle game I've ever played. Annoyingly intelligent puzzles force you to think outside the box, but whenever you're stuck on something you can explore the open world to find more puzzles to work on. Immensely satisfying to finish sections in this game. Highly recommend to any seasoned puzzle gamer. Very very good

Je ne peux, en bonne conscience, recommander ce jeu, le problème principal n’est même pas le jeu. Pour tout de même le présenter, The Witness est un jeu de puzzle très correct qui, quoi qu’un peu long et un peu cher, présente plein de mécaniques simples seules mais qui une fois combinées rendent certains puzzles particulièrement retors. Le jeu dissémine des enregistrements audios dont le contenu est parfois plus que discutable. Au mieux, ce sont des citations de Feynman discutant de métaphysique et au pire, des sermons au ton religieux durant une éternité. Le réalisateur du jeu semble chercher à prouver qu’il a énormément de connaissance, qu’il est raffiné et cultivé et c’est justement ce dernier qui fait que je ne peux recommander ce jeu. Au cours des dix dernières années, Jonathan Blow, le réalisateur du jeu, n’a cessé de rappeler à quel point il ne mérite le respect de personne. Anti-Vax convaincu, misogyne, fan de Crypto monnaie et NFT ainsi que Pro-Trump, ce type à tout pour plaire. Sans cette ordure, j’aurai peut-être timidement recommandé le jeu et vous aurais encouragé à l’acheter en solde.

This game started as boring at best, and a waste of time at worst. The final area is an absolute accessibility nightmare. Do not play this game if you have any kind of photosensitivity.

This is a very well designed game The puzzles are clever, and the main mechanic is exploited to 100% Problem ; it's not fun The idea is great on paper, but falls flat very quickly. An exemple of that is the moment you realize you can "interact" everywhere, not only the screens. Great moment, but then you start to "interact" with everything that looks like a dot and a straight line and it's... not an enjoyable anymore. You start to fight the game engine just "to get through" some puzzles (the underwater archeology caverns, or the boat / landscape ones). This theme of "great at first, tedious after" could resume the entire game. The audio puzzles (chippin birds) in the forest for example ; At the beginning, you're left wondering what's the goal of that specific screen. You see the speaker. You hear the birds. Then you realize. That was really awesome. And then you realize that you will repeat that neat mechanic for the next few screens, with an non-interesting increasing difficulty (the phone ringing ? Come on man, that's so cheap). Through the use of that simple mechanic (draw a line on a screen), the game feels sooooooo grindy and repetitive. Do puzzle => Open door => Do puzzle => Open door. With no variations. The whole game is like that. And the cherry on top ; the puzzles, despite being litteraly parts of the environment, are not narratively intersting. What do I mean by that ? Well, maybe I'm dumb (in that case, my bad for being piss-finished), but I just can't see where the game is going. There's this whole "being witness of something", realizing slowly how the island works through epiphanies that are more frustrating than fullfilling (I get way more "f*ck I'm glad that's over" than "Oooh sheesh I get it now that's neat"), and gibberish about the sense of things (sorry me no smart). But why screens with lines to trace ? What's the point of THAT mechanic in particular ? I don't get it. Jokes aside, the game seems to sound way more clever then it really is. Be humble man, no need to quote a random philosopher to get some street cred. Start by making good puzzles in your puzzle game. Pros ; [list] [*]The art style is really beautiful, I love it [*]The way the player character moves, it's smooth af. Looks like it is navmesh-based, with how you move on rocks and all ? [*] That's it [/list]

I refuse to play a game without sensitivity controls