Broken Sword 2 playthrough #25: Trial and Error and Death

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sckchui
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Game:
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (1997)
Category:
Let's Play
Duration: 16:51
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Here we have a pretty much perfect example of a bad puzzle. 1) The objective is not explained to the player. 2) The functioning of each puzzle piece is not explained to the player. 3) The only way to learn how the puzzle works, or even what your objective is, is repetitive trial and error. 4) If you try something and it's not what the game designer intended, you are punished with death. 5) When you die you have to do everything from the very beginning, but only after an annoyingly long unskippable animation. This puzzle literally does EVERYTHING wrong.



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At present, sckchui has 7,299 views spread across 29 videos for Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, with the game making up 7 hours of published video on his channel. This makes up less than 0.16% of the total overall content for Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror on sckchui's YouTube channel.