Labyrinth

[Hඞkanai]

After failing this one 20 times due to timing of actions, I am forced to say that this isn't a puzzle game anymore. I didn't expect a genre bait and switch half way into the game, but here we are.

Eventually I enabled cheats just so that I could get past it. Please try to leave that sort of thing out of puzzle games in the future.

While cheats were enabled, I took the liberty of flying above to examine the layout. To my surprise, it didn't qualify as a labyrinth in the traditional sense. Typically, a labyrinth has its goal at the center, but in this case, it was located at the outer edge. Therefore, it did not meet the criteria of a labyrinth.

[MASTAN]

Then it's a maze. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Labyrinth_vs_Maze

Croteam is a Croatian company and their native language has only one word "labirint" for both "labyrinth" and "maze". Could be the reason why they chose this name

BTW this puzzle is not that hard timing-wise. There are advanced puzzles with mines which are notably harder.

[askew1]

While there are some puzzles that do require timing things (you're not going to enjoy the recorder mechanic), this one just has bombs that you have to avoid. That's pretty much all you've done with them since the start of the game and they aren't hard to avoid in this one compared to some others.

[Sputnik]

OK fair enough rage-quit if you want.

But this is not a hard level (those are in the DLC). So please don;t conflate your poor gaming skills with bad game design. We've had enough dumbing down of previously good and challenging game franchises already.

[Soko]

Originally posted by trejkaz:

Please try to leave that sort of thing out of puzzle games in the future.

They pretty much have in Talos Principle 2 and there was what could be considered an in-universe justification.

[YouDon'tKnowWho]

I'm going through my first playthough, but I had more trouble on "Higher Ground (B-2)" and "Whole Lotta Jammin (B-5)" than i had in "Labrynth (C-1)" I didn't sense any sort of shift in genre at all; those kinds of puzzles have been there the entire game. They are, however, some of the more annoying levels in the game as well.