Befuddle Quest 5: ZttF - 07 - Time for Warping Space
2After getting stuck on the maze last time, I decided to work through that and the following crystals on ice puzzle off camera with the help of the walkthrough, then come back and try to do them without it.
There's a certain irony in that the thing I did around 7:20 actually works for the first part of the ice/crystal puzzle. And it even seems simpler than the official solution? I just needed to keep going with the side crystals like I did around 12:20.
I'm still fairly amazed at how much effort must have gone into this, both from a technical perspective and from a level design perspective, but there are times when it feels like it's too clever by half for its own good. Particularly for being part of a larger compilation!
Though, to be fair, part of the problem is that I feel kind of obligated to have a certain amount of visible progress, and only have so much time to work with. Maybe if I Felt like I could just keep going as long as needed it would have gone more smoothly?
Really, probably the worst part about the cramped maze is that it's difficult to tell that one box is just there to get in the way while the other is there to be used, and one pressure plate needs to be held down while the other just needs to be pressed once. Once you've figured that out, things fall into place a little better.
In this video:
Another Portal (Kazesui), part 3 (of 4)
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The Befuddle Quest series of collaborative puzzle/maze game community projects continues with a fifth entry, led by kentona and put together in RPG Maker 2003 as usual. This one is themed around time travel, with 14 puzzles (and three of them are by the same contributor).
See the game page for screenshots, downloads, and more information: https://rpgmaker.net/games/2516/
The story:
"Imagine this: So, Zack and Broomhilda are visiting the local fair, right? And there is a demonstration of a new teleportation device, okay? Zack tries it out at the insistence of Broomhilda, and it works great! So Broomhilda tries...and something goes awry and Broomhilda is zapped away! Now Zack must travel after Broomhilda THROUGH TIME to save her!
Original, no?"