Epyo posted... Unless you mean, you just didn't bother to do the effort part of it. That was totally worth it, very fun. The sort of thing where you keep saying "ohhh those sneaky jerks."
Yeah, this. Once I realized what I had to do,
pen and paper an entire colossal line puzzle together, I immediately "noped" out of it and didn't even bother. As Para's saying though, it seems to be a lot easier and less intimidating than it seems at first, so I kind of regret my rash instinctual decision.
I got a ton of joy and satisfaction from the fairy and secret treasure puzzles though. I looked up few of them as well
(the line puzzle with the reflections off the tower I felt like I was doing correctly but never got to work), but the majority I did on my own and loved them. Plenty of eureka moments and pure satisfaction.
Paratroopa1 posted... Mostly, but I found the payoff to be a bit disappointing, so it was mostly just the satisfaction of having solved the puzzle on my own
Man, this. I really thought the payoff would be
collecting the final page of the manual would translate the entire thing to English. There's a lot of fascinating lore in there if you look up the translations online, and just being able to fully read all the story stuff in the first few pages would have been dope.