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VintageGin 08/17/22 2:49:56 AM #1: |
Just finished it. Probably my game of the year unless something amazing comes out. I love the way that it pays tribute to old game manuals (particularly Zelda 1). I love the exploration, finding new pages and figuring things out. There were so many "Oh shit, I GET IT NOW" moments throughout. The game provided just enough hints that I basically never needed to look anything up with the exception of a few Figuring out I'm not always a fan of games that make me pull out pen and paper, but I think it was handled well in this game. I'm never gonna figure out how to translate that language though. --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MZero 08/17/22 2:57:11 AM #2: |
I was enjoying it until one of my biggest gaming pet peeves. Stopped playing shortly after --- MZero, to the extreme https://www.twitch.tv/kabazame ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SHINE_GET_64 08/17/22 3:11:16 AM #3: |
I'll try it out when it hits PSN later this year I feel like it's been even split of people that absolutely love it and absolutely do not love it --- https://imgtc.com/i/iJnhdkc.gif https://imgtc.com/i/j45EVGx.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 3:53:16 AM #4: |
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 3:54:20 AM #5: |
Also yeah I agree with the OP. Absolutely loved Tunic. I don't know if it'll quite be my game of the year but it's up there. I did struggle with the game a lot at first - I really hated the combat early on and complained about it quite a lot and nearly bounced off the game as a result, but I stuck with it and the result was REWARDING. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MZero 08/17/22 5:21:38 AM #6: |
Paratroopa1 posted... ...Do you realize that I mean I assumed so yeah. I didn't conciously decide to quit I just didn't feel like playing and started other stuff. I might go back someday --- MZero, to the extreme https://www.twitch.tv/kabazame ... Copied to Clipboard!
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andylt 08/17/22 5:42:14 AM #7: |
Yay Tunic! I went in knowing nothing about the game, expecting a cutesy Zelda clone, and instead got intense combat, free exploration, and puzzles that gave me the same sense of satisfaction Outer Wilds did when solving them. And the SHINE_GET_64 posted... I feel like it's been even split of people that absolutely love it and absolutely do not love itYeah I've noticed this too. I think some people thought it was gonna be a full puzzle game and were put off by the unforgiving combat? And maybe some were the other way around and didn't like how little the game tells you up front. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons people didn't like it, but it basically ticked all of my boxes. --- Very slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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StartTheMachine 08/17/22 5:57:28 AM #8: |
My number two game of the year behind Elden Ring. Definitely a lot of similar thoughts as others here. I'll just post my brief write-up from the "Post Each Time You Beat a Game" topic. StartTheMachine posted... Tunic --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/17/22 6:37:48 AM #9: |
I loved it until the nearly unsolvable puzzles became extreme,y frustrating. Felt like it ruined a great game --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 6:39:13 AM #10: |
The puzzles for me were what ELEVATED this game to greatness, it was just 'kinda ok' until then I never needed to use a guide, the game gives you everything you need to solve it ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/17/22 6:39:50 AM #11: |
You solved the golden path without a guide? --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 6:40:56 AM #12: |
Yup, hardest part was ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/17/22 6:47:21 AM #13: |
See, I thought stuff like the spell was fine as it was instant feedback of whether it was right or not. Stuff like the trophies and golden path I spent hours having no idea if I was anywhere close. I quite enjoy solving puzzles, I quite dont enjoy walking around for hours wondering what is a puzzle and tunic had too much of the latter for my taste --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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StartTheMachine 08/17/22 8:40:00 AM #14: |
solving The Golden Path without a guide is incredible. props to Para on that one --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VintageGin 08/17/22 10:20:56 AM #15: |
I got the golden path pretty much without a guide. Needed to quickly verify I was doing things correctly before I started writing things out, but that was it. Unless you're also counting the --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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changmas 08/17/22 11:11:34 AM #17: |
the one big pet peeve i had was that i really disliked that when you die you lose all the consumables you used and go back to your previous save point instead of just reloading the previous save automatically. you have to quit and reload the previous save manually to keep those items which is very annoying and i didn't even think to do for a long time. when i was trying to cheese some of the fights with the mana berries or bombs/dynamite i'm sure I lost a lot of them by not quitting out fully and resetting to my previous save, and I'm not the kind of gamer who really wants to grind coins to buy them in the shop again --- The Artist Formerly Known as Hannyabal ... Copied to Clipboard!
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JackMan 08/17/22 11:55:01 AM #18: |
Loved it a lot more than I thought I would. I actually had a pen and paper to write things down. I too did the golden path without a guide (I streamed it too, not the most exciting hour of gameplay), but I think I did check a few other things ( VintageGin posted... I'm never gonna figure out how to translate that language though.This was my only complaint. I felt the rest of the game gave you enough clues to figure everything out and wasted so much time on this thinking it was the same. When I finally looked it up and discovered that, --- Still the number one reason for the success of the Internet. I'm a Vtuber now! https://www.twitch.tv/thedandyvtuber ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Seanchan 08/17/22 12:13:46 PM #19: |
Fun, interesting game. --- "That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero) Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VintageGin 08/17/22 12:30:57 PM #20: |
That was patched from what I hear. --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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skullbone 08/17/22 1:21:16 PM #21: |
I was one of the people who did not like Tunic very much and dropped it. I signed up for Game Pass almost exclusively to play Tunic because I thought I'd like it a lot and it just didn't click with me. I had more fun with Death's Door. I got a little sick of running around the map trying to find the next place to go. I quit after There were also a few times where I did like the manual stuff but the combat was pretty uninspired and I wasn't having fun exploring the world anymore so I dropped it. I don't remember any challenging puzzles so maybe if those were about to start happening I would have been more interested! --- skull ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pezzicle 08/17/22 1:45:06 PM #22: |
MZero posted... I was enjoying it untilya this. i also stopped here as I --- stop victory lapping around your desk, your chair has rollers, it's not even really exercise Currently Playing: Subnautica Below Zero ... Copied to Clipboard!
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StartTheMachine 08/17/22 2:53:56 PM #23: |
For those that pieced together The Golden Path on their own, was the satisfaction worth it? The Witness definitely had Golden Path-esque intricate puzzles I DID dedicate myself to, pen and pad out, and felt super rewarded for it. So I kind of wonder if I should have braved The Golden Path and missed out. The That said, there was also stuff in The Witness I never bothered completing legitimately. Fuck that one ship puzzle. --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 5:10:15 PM #24: |
pezzicle posted... ya this. i also stopped here as Ithat isn't what you have to do. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 5:11:24 PM #25: |
StartTheMachine posted... For those that pieced together The Golden Path on their own, was the satisfaction worth it?Mostly, but ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TotallyNotMI 08/17/22 5:13:27 PM #26: |
Paratroopa1 posted... that isn't what you have to do.Isn't this exactly what you have to do? --- We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 8:02:10 PM #27: |
TotallyNotMI posted... Isn't this exactly what you have to do?Yeah but the way they implied it it was more like having to go back and recollect all the stuff? This is a new sidequest that you have to do because you have to figure out I just don't really understand why this would make anyone quit? it's no more challenging a part of the game than anything else before it ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MZero 08/17/22 9:07:57 PM #28: |
Paratroopa1 posted... Yeah but the way they implied it it was more like having to go back and recollect all the stuff? This is a new sidequest that you have to do because you have to figure out It's not about being challenging. Challenge is good! --- MZero, to the extreme https://www.twitch.tv/kabazame ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 9:28:29 PM #29: |
Huh. Yeah, I don't know, I only found that part of the game all the more motivating. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Leafeon13N 08/17/22 9:35:34 PM #30: |
StartTheMachine posted... For those that pieced together The Golden Path on their own, was the satisfaction worth it? The Witness definitely had Golden Path-esque intricate puzzles I DID dedicate myself to, pen and pad out, and felt super rewarded for it. So I kind of wonder if I should have braved The Golden Path and missed out. TheI knew the places i needed to go back to find the solution but at that point a lot of the directional tracking puzzles had grown tired on me so I looked it up. Really felt like the last third of the game the puzzles stopped feeling clever and started feeling like a chore. Enjoyed the first half of the game quite a bit. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/17/22 9:40:15 PM #31: |
It's so funny that everyone had the opposite experience as me where I found the first half of this game completely miserable but then in the second half of the game everything clicked for me and it became beautiful ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Epyo 08/18/22 12:00:18 AM #32: |
My guess as to why the game is polarizing: it has difficult combat, AND difficult cryptic puzzles. So you have to like both things, to like the game. You're not really allowed to skip either aspect... And I imagine it's probably pretty rare, for game players to like both of those things. You know, personality-wise, I'd think people only like hard action OR hard puzzles, not hard both. StartTheMachine posted... For those that pieced together The Golden Path on their own, was the satisfaction worth it? The Witness definitely had Golden Path-esque intricate puzzles I DID dedicate myself to, pen and pad out, and felt super rewarded for it. So I kind of wonder if I should have braved The Golden Path and missed out. I also figured out the golden path, and the satisfaction was raddd... ...BUT I don't think you should regret not spending more time on it, if you didn't figure it out. It's not exactly a fair puzzle--you kinda just need a eureka moment. And why wait around for a eureka moment, when you had no way to know if the answer was actually satisfying? 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." --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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foolm0r0n 08/18/22 12:38:03 AM #33: |
I tried it for an hour recently and hated every second. Controls and action is totally forgettable. Later I read it has these cool puzzles and I'm curious enough to try again, but I dunno. It's sounds like Fez, which I loved, but that was also like 10 years ago. There's gotta be something more than yet another secret language that's just an English substitution cipher. --- _foolmo_ he says listen to my story this maybe are last chance ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Aecioo 08/18/22 4:50:22 AM #34: |
I tthought it was mediocre at best, probably leaning bad game, but it's definitely one of the most polarizing games of the year. --- http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcb35gGx0t1qailr4o1_500.gif http://www.megavideo.com/?v=57N0YAEJ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/18/22 7:48:46 AM #35: |
foolm0r0n posted... I tried it for an hour recently and hated every second. Controls and action is totally forgettable. Later I read it has these cool puzzles and I'm curious enough to try again, but I dunno. It's sounds like Fez, which I loved, but that was also like 10 years ago. There's gotta be something more than yet another secret language that's just an English substitution cipher. Well, most of the puzzles don't require you to translate the language and are cool. But some do, and I found that frustrating. I really wish the game had the action elements of a better game like Death's Door and just stuck to puzzles like "Hey, we aren't going to tell you how to level up you have to figure that out" which were pretty awesome instead of "Hey, you need to wander the map looking for specific areas that might be relevant maybe" which were very not awesome --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/18/22 7:51:52 AM #36: |
Epyo posted... And I imagine it's probably pretty rare, for game players to like both of those things. You know, personality-wise, I'd think people only like hard action OR hard puzzles, not hard both. You know, I like both, but I think the problem was the game had tedious puzzles and I don't like those. Like the Talos principle was awesome. There were some puzzles in that game I spent an hour on, but once it clicked it was an instant success with instant feedback that I figured it out. The biggest problem with Tunic is it wasn't even clear at times what you were doing wrong, or even where the puzzle was. I guess what I am saying is Tunic had too many Perception checks to figure out if something even was a puzzle instead of straight puzzle games which are all Intelligence checks. --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_Blur_ 08/18/22 9:05:31 AM #37: |
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, I got a ton of joy and satisfaction from the fairy and secret treasure puzzles though. I looked up few of them as well Paratroopa1 posted... Mostly, butMan, this. I really thought the payoff would be --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pezzicle 08/18/22 9:07:39 AM #38: |
MZero posted... It's not about being challenging. Challenge is good!ya this. i knew I didn't have to recollect the stuff, but I had to wander back around most of the map and just....didn't have any desire to do that --- stop victory lapping around your desk, your chair has rollers, it's not even really exercise Currently Playing: Subnautica Below Zero ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_Blur_ 08/18/22 9:12:28 AM #39: |
One more aside, the way they handled the equippable buffs I thought was a horrible design choice. The effects of most are too minor to be noticeable - and I mean after like hours and hours of having them equipped, not just immediately. The names are also too cryptic to figure out what they do. So I just equipped ones with swords and shields because I figured they were offensive and defensive buffs that you couldn't go wrong with. And eventually I used a few I did figure out, like the lucky cup and scavenger's mask. It just felt like an entirely wasted aspect of the game I ignored since I didn't know what they did. I naturally assumed you would find a manual page that fully explained them all, but then --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_Blur_ 08/18/22 9:15:57 AM #40: |
pezzicle posted... ya this. i knew I didn't have to recollect the stuff, but I had to wander back around most of the map and just....didn't have any desire to do thatI'm a weirdo who loves stuff like this in games and I wonder how alone I am in that. Just really love learning a map and then having to explore a reworked version of it. They changed quite a bit so it's not like you're just doing the same areas again in an identical manner (which often I also don't mind). --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VintageGin 08/18/22 3:02:28 PM #41: |
StartTheMachine posted... Man, this. I really thought the payoff would be Yeah, I was actually hoping the same. --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VintageGin 08/18/22 3:08:30 PM #42: |
StartTheMachine posted... It just felt like an entirely wasted aspect of the game I ignored since I didn't know what they did. I naturally assumed you would find a manual page that fully explained them all, but If I recall correctly, there's --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/18/22 4:13:00 PM #43: |
Guys, literally none of the puzzles in the game require you to transcribe the language, lol. not a single one! I still have no idea how to read it and I did almost everything ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/18/22 4:15:41 PM #44: |
_Blur_ posted... One more aside, the way they handled the equippable buffs I thought was a horrible design choice. The effects of most are too minor to be noticeable - and I mean after like hours and hours of having them equipped, not just immediately. The names are also too cryptic to figure out what they do. So I just equipped ones with swords and shields because I figured they were offensive and defensive buffs that you couldn't go wrong with. And eventually I used a few I did figure out, like the lucky cup and scavenger's mask.Oh, this is a complaint I agree with really strongly, actually. I think the idea of having cards that give bonuses they don't clearly explain is fine, but they should be really powerful - especially in a game like Tunic where the combat is extremely hard, it would be very rewarding if there was a 'puzzly' way to solve combats by figuring out what the upgrades do and which ones would be best for each fight. But basically all of the cards are near worthless in power which really sucks. Getting more slots for cards doesn't even feel good because they're so irrelevant! I do think this was a huge misstep in the game's design. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/18/22 4:57:42 PM #45: |
Paratroopa1 posted... Guys, literally none of the puzzles in the game require you to transcribe the language, lol. not a single one! I still have no idea how to read it and I did almost everything I was told one of the trophies did --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/18/22 5:06:15 PM #46: |
masterplum posted... I was told one of the trophies didOh I don't know about the super secret things, but just completing the game and ... Copied to Clipboard!
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masterplum 08/18/22 5:48:03 PM #47: |
Paratroopa1 posted... Oh I don't know about the super secret things, but just completing the game and Yeah, given that there are steam achievements from all of them I dont know if I would call them any more super secret than the golden path. They were the height of my frustration because I was wandering around trying to find where they could possibly be --- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdWiElvIQAAQpBt.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Epyo 08/18/22 5:49:01 PM #48: |
Yeah, exactly ONE of the trophy things requires you to translate the language. It's pretty infuriating IMO, because the other trophy things are 100x more solvable than that one, so it makes you think you can solve this one too. masterplum posted... I guess what I am saying is Tunic had too many Perception checks to figure out if something even was a puzzle instead of straight puzzle games which are all Intelligence checks. Oh I LOVE this way of explaining it, too many perception checks. I agree. I'll have to remember that language for certain games with this problem. _Blur_ posted... Man, this. I really thought the payoff would be Strongly agree, that would have been awesome. Also agreed about the equippable buffs, those would have been fun if the hints about them were better. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VintageGin 08/18/22 5:55:17 PM #49: |
Paratroopa1 posted... Oh, this is a complaint I agree with really strongly, actually. I think the idea of having cards that give bonuses they don't clearly explain is fine, but they should be really powerful - especially in a game like Tunic where the combat is extremely hard, it would be very rewarding if there was a 'puzzly' way to solve combats by figuring out what the upgrades do and which ones would be best for each fight. But basically all of the cards are near worthless in power which really sucks. Getting more slots for cards doesn't even feel good because they're so irrelevant! I do think this was a huge misstep in the game's design. The peril rings are quite good, and I found the lucky cup to be pretty handy. But yeah, none of them are amazing. --- Ginhyun http://i.imgur.com/t7G7uoU.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 08/18/22 5:57:07 PM #50: |
The one that drops health drops is really good and yeah the potions to MP potions I made use of in the same way as you, probably the only time strategic usage of cards really felt like it paid off. but otherwise... yeah. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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_Blur_ 08/19/22 4:00:22 AM #51: |
Paratroopa1 posted... Guys, literally none of the puzzles in the game require you to transcribe the language, lol. not a single one! I still have no idea how to read it and I did almost everythingI was wondering what the heck this was about too. But a trophy huh? How does that even work? Some sort of a secret puzzle that you can only figure out by deciphering the language somehow? --- - Blur - Welcome to your Divinity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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