Game:

The Witness (2016)

Duration: 1:02:51

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The castle has been pretty fun so far, what with the hedge mazes and such. However the fun stops when we have to solve a puzzle involving all four of the hedge mazes at once. While heading back down to try to re-solve and memorize them all, we are struck with a moment of inspiration. Instead of trying to remember all four solutions long enough to solve the puzzle, why not take pictures of the solutions we already have. This works brilliantly (for the most part) and we now have the solution to our larger puzzle. In fact, it activates the laser. I was expecting maybe a half activation or something, since there are two puzzles up there. But it turns out that we don't even need to do the other half of the puzzles. We are going to do it anyway, because why would we skip them?
That brings us to the glass floor puzzles as I will call them. While starting off fairly simple, they escalate a bit. We do have certain rules that we need to follow, and the first one just has us hitting a couple dots that we can't really see while walking the glass floor. Still not too hard. However, that isn't all. When we first saw these, our minds thought that they were an environmental puzzle. In fact, they are. But it requires solving the puzzle a different way. We still have to follow the rules, but we have to avoid line-of-sight blockers in the world. This adds a new dynamic to these puzzles that makes it much more difficult to do.
There are four of these glass floor puzzles, similar to the four hedge maze puzzles we faced earlier. They also all have a different rule-set to follow. The second maze has us splitting up the white dots from the black dots. Sounds simple enough, however we now have complications within the glass floor itself. A broken tile, a spilling of charcoal, some construction materials. All of these things make passage through the puzzle tougher. We manage, but then comes the environmental part of the puzzle.
After racking our brains for awhile, we come to the conclusion that we can't solve it... yet. We come up with a plan, but it involves solving it from multiple angles. First we go as far as we can in the beginning of the maze, but the rest involves us solving it backwards from the exit of the maze. The only problem, we can't get there yet. In fact, we have to solve the remaining two glass floor puzzles, and then travel backwards through them in order to get this to work.
There is a problem however, the remaining two glass floor puzzles feature a mechanic we have seen, but haven't quite figured out yet. The Tetris block puzzles. We decide to give it a try and it works out for solving them originally, which allows us to backtrack to the second glass floor puzzle and solve it in a way to make the environmental puzzle. But we face a problem when trying to solve the environmental side of puzzles three and four. We don't understand the rule enough to make the environmental side work. So we have to skip it for now.
We did however unlock access to the wreckage of a ship. While exploring the ship, we wonder if there is even a purpose. No puzzles that we can find, and treacherous passage throughout. We manage to stumble across a few environmental puzzles that aren't too bad, but there are a few of those that leave us baffled. There is however, a door with a strange puzzle on it. It has multiple colored dots that we would ordinarily pass through, but they are also of varying size. There has to be something to this, and we have no clue, so we don't even try. But the ship seems to have nothing else, so we move on.
From the ship, we see a tree house section, but can't figure out how to get there. We even manage to get below it, but there isn't anything there. We do notice that a section of it is removed from the rest, and it looks like there is a bridge that can cross it, but we are unsure how to get to that little island section. We think there may be a boat landing there, but that will also have to wait for a different time. Pressing onwards we discover the area that may teach us about the Tetris puzzles finally. This should unlock a whole bunch more puzzles for us to go back to.

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