Line puzzles, and lots of it!
Puzzle is my favorite genre in games, and The Witness really satisfied my craving for it!
The goal of the game is you must activate 8 of the 11 lasers from each areas of the island that opens up the door at the top of the mountain at the center of it. Inside it will be more harder puzzles that incorporates all of the rules you've learned so far and see the ending sequence if you get to the final part (if you get all 11 lasers to work, you'll access something secret!).
There's no real story in this game, really. At best, the narration is a bit 'meh'. There are too many pretentious stuff scattered around the island in a form of voice-recorded messages. They offer nothing to the player.
But how does it play?
Well, you start the game inside a long cylindrical room, and at the end of it is a closed door with a panel that has a line on it, staring at you like it asks you to do something. So you interacted with it and connected the line, the door opens. You then enter through the door into what seems to be a dark cellar, and at the other wall is another door with the same panel, only this time the shape of the line is different. You connected the line again and the door opens.
Now you know the basic rules of the game.
You'll find panels like these all over the island in different shapes and sizes, beckoning you to solve them. The way it works is that you draw a line on the panels, guiding it around the maze from start to finish to activate the next panels if you succeed.
Seems simple enough, but each areas around the island introduces a new rule you must follow in order to solve these maze puzzles. If you don't satisfy these rules the puzzle will reject your attempt and you must try again. Some puzzles require out-of-the-box thinking, and some have multiple solutions. If you activated all the panels in the area it'll lead you to its laser, which you must activate to get to your goal.
There are also line puzzles you will find hidden around the environment in a shape of a circle connected by a long line. You must trace this line if you stand in the right spot. These are all optional and only affects the counter of puzzles you've solved in your save file.
That's everything, I guess! If anything, I think the point of this whole adventure is that there's no real reason to solve these puzzles, but it's our desire to solve them out of curiosity.
It sure tickled my curiosity! I enjoyed the whole journey of it from the beginning to the end. It's a 5/5 for me! The narration still sucks.
Puzzle is my favorite genre in games, and The Witness really satisfied my craving for it!
The goal of the game is you must activate 8 of the 11 lasers from each areas of the island that opens up the door at the top of the mountain at the center of it. Inside it will be more harder puzzles that incorporates all of the rules you've learned so far and see the ending sequence if you get to the final part (if you get all 11 lasers to work, you'll access something secret!).
There's no real story in this game, really. At best, the narration is a bit 'meh'. There are too many pretentious stuff scattered around the island in a form of voice-recorded messages. They offer nothing to the player.
But how does it play?
Well, you start the game inside a long cylindrical room, and at the end of it is a closed door with a panel that has a line on it, staring at you like it asks you to do something. So you interacted with it and connected the line, the door opens. You then enter through the door into what seems to be a dark cellar, and at the other wall is another door with the same panel, only this time the shape of the line is different. You connected the line again and the door opens.
Now you know the basic rules of the game.
You'll find panels like these all over the island in different shapes and sizes, beckoning you to solve them. The way it works is that you draw a line on the panels, guiding it around the maze from start to finish to activate the next panels if you succeed.
Seems simple enough, but each areas around the island introduces a new rule you must follow in order to solve these maze puzzles. If you don't satisfy these rules the puzzle will reject your attempt and you must try again. Some puzzles require out-of-the-box thinking, and some have multiple solutions. If you activated all the panels in the area it'll lead you to its laser, which you must activate to get to your goal.
There are also line puzzles you will find hidden around the environment in a shape of a circle connected by a long line. You must trace this line if you stand in the right spot. These are all optional and only affects the counter of puzzles you've solved in your save file.
That's everything, I guess! If anything, I think the point of this whole adventure is that there's no real reason to solve these puzzles, but it's our desire to solve them out of curiosity.
It sure tickled my curiosity! I enjoyed the whole journey of it from the beginning to the end. It's a 5/5 for me! The narration still sucks.