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Description
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.
11 comments
onebelo
13 Jul 16#1
Time to pick this up! Can't wait to see what Mr. Blow has got in store after the awesome Braid.
mattlong37051
13 Jul 163#2
Heated as it's a nice drop but still not enough for me to bite, with the amount of games I have though there is no rush :laughing:
RebTheRebel to mattlong37051
13 Jul 163#4
This
Just picked up Soma, White Light, The Vanishing of Ethen Carter, Legend of Korra and The Escapist double game set. I'm cool for now :wink:
Hot from me though regardless!
Just to add, anyone who likes puzzle games like this and Portal, pick up The Talos Principle when you can. Easily the best story puzzle game I've played since Portal 2, and a contender for my GOTY. Loved it.
MinerWilly
13 Jul 16#3
Forgot about this game , everyone was playing this for a couple of weeks , I'm still waiting until it's about £10.
gloucestershopper
14 Jul 162#5
I bought it for £30 at release.
If I'm honest I still wouldn't be happy paying £21.00 after playing it.
There was a lot of hype for this, but the gameplay is minimal. Being 500 variations of the exact same puzzle.
The first hundred are essentially a tutorial as they increase in difficulty slowly, and the last two hundred are so obtuse the devs brag only 1% of gamers will ever finish the game.
Most people end up getting so frustrated they look up the solution on YouTube, and then you defeat the purpose of playing a puzzle game.
For a tenner I'd say it would be a fun few hours, the map is nice to walk around, and it has some clever variations of the puzzle that use visual cues in the surroundings, but there is no story, no dialogue, not much at all really.
Did not live up to the hype.
SuperSambo to gloucestershopper
15 Jul 161#9
Aren't the puzzles in the end game, and not that many, that the devs said no one would beat?
And in relation to people getting frustrated, how is that the games' fault? Do you want it to be an easy puzzle game? It is a game where a pen and paper become essential, and you get to feel like the smartest person in the world for 1 minute until you're stumped by the next one. It isn't a mainstream game, but it never pretended to be one.
moonkeh
14 Jul 16#6
I'd like to express the opposite. I paid £30 on release and got a solid 40 hours out of enjoyment out of it. It's not "500 variatons on the exact same puzzle", it's more "here's a hundered different ways to express a different puzzle using the same basic input device". It's crazy how broad and deep the mechanics go for such a simple premise. And there's a lot of thoughtful stuff to discover along the way. I spent a lot of my time cutting out tetris shapes from graph paper. If that sounds like fun to you, you'll love this. I certainly did.
absulute2012
14 Jul 16#7
This game... it's just puzzle after puzzle. Once you finish the puzzles you are rewarded with more puzzles.
It's not for everyone.
darkspace100
14 Jul 16#8
Boring game is boring. Its amazing how the hipsters love trash like this but hate on games like resident evil 6.
gloucestershopper
15 Jul 16#10
It is a mainstream game, that is why they are selling it on PSN.
That is also the game's main problem, they need to cater for every gamer. So the first few hours is overly simple as you have to get past the 'children's puzzles' and the puzzles become so abstract in the end that the logic just isn't there as they try to show how clever it is as a game.
Pretentiousness is fine, as long as it goes hand in hand with good gameplay, a good story. But this game lacks any form of dialogue, or any variation of gameplay over the simple input box every single puzzle uses.
Can you have fun with it? sure. It isn't a bad game.
But for me it was, and still is. overpriced.
SuperSambo
15 Jul 16#11
The guy worked on it for many years, and put all his Braid money in. It will take hours to complete - not overpriced at all.
The game starts simple as it teaches you mechanics that it builds upon. It is a slow ramp up, but without what you are being taught there would be no way to progress to the more complicated missions. There is logic there, you just can't do it.
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Description
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.
The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.
11 comments
Just picked up Soma, White Light, The Vanishing of Ethen Carter, Legend of Korra and The Escapist double game set. I'm cool for now :wink:
Hot from me though regardless!
Just to add, anyone who likes puzzle games like this and Portal, pick up The Talos Principle when you can. Easily the best story puzzle game I've played since Portal 2, and a contender for my GOTY. Loved it.
If I'm honest I still wouldn't be happy paying £21.00 after playing it.
There was a lot of hype for this, but the gameplay is minimal. Being 500 variations of the exact same puzzle.
The first hundred are essentially a tutorial as they increase in difficulty slowly, and the last two hundred are so obtuse the devs brag only 1% of gamers will ever finish the game.
Most people end up getting so frustrated they look up the solution on YouTube, and then you defeat the purpose of playing a puzzle game.
For a tenner I'd say it would be a fun few hours, the map is nice to walk around, and it has some clever variations of the puzzle that use visual cues in the surroundings, but there is no story, no dialogue, not much at all really.
Did not live up to the hype.
And in relation to people getting frustrated, how is that the games' fault? Do you want it to be an easy puzzle game? It is a game where a pen and paper become essential, and you get to feel like the smartest person in the world for 1 minute until you're stumped by the next one. It isn't a mainstream game, but it never pretended to be one.
It's not for everyone.
That is also the game's main problem, they need to cater for every gamer. So the first few hours is overly simple as you have to get past the 'children's puzzles' and the puzzles become so abstract in the end that the logic just isn't there as they try to show how clever it is as a game.
Pretentiousness is fine, as long as it goes hand in hand with good gameplay, a good story. But this game lacks any form of dialogue, or any variation of gameplay over the simple input box every single puzzle uses.
Can you have fun with it? sure. It isn't a bad game.
But for me it was, and still is. overpriced.
The game starts simple as it teaches you mechanics that it builds upon. It is a slow ramp up, but without what you are being taught there would be no way to progress to the more complicated missions. There is logic there, you just can't do it.
And I don't think you know what mainstream means.