Let’s Play Portal 2 #07: Puzzles be Puzzlin’
185This is a blind playthrough of the game. As such, please avoid posting puzzle solutions or plot spoilers, so as to not spoil the experience for me or other viewers who haven’t played the game.
We’ve been making some steady progress through the same so far, navigating the test rooms and obstacles within them at a decent pace. This fact surprised me quite a bit at first until I remembered that we’re still in the early stages of the game. We’re still being taught game mechanics, some of which were in the first game, the challenge ramping up slow enough that a new player who had never played the first game won’t be overwhelmed by exceptionally complicated and difficult puzzles.
That said, a puzzle is only simple if you can see all the pieces of the problem before you. With all the pieces to solve it before you but no knowledge of how to do it, experimentation and logical deduction steps in. Trial and error testing eliminates incorrect approaches, all working towards that moment when what the puzzle is asking of you clicks in your head and it all makes sense. The feeling of accomplishment which follows that is a great one, though it’s often accompanied by feeling a bit silly for not seeing right away what’s now very obvious to you in the first place. Try your best to ignore that second feeling, however; it only looks straightforward now because you spent all that time and effort figuring it out. Don’t feel bad about the process of solving a puzzle, for the answer to a question is not as important as knowing the method for reaching said answer.
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