Puzzle Difficulty

[Hearts Of Iron]

How is the game in terms of the puzzles ? Is it similar to Infernal Machine , Emperors Tomb? Or is more assisted ? Telling and highlighting what to do?

I do not care for the negative comments about it being a stealth game, that is fine with me. I just want to know if it is actually a challenge to solve some puzzles or is it made to be too easy

[Thunder Bagel]

It doesn’t highlight what to do but they still aren’t particularly difficult. Takes a little tinkering to figure it out. Satisfying but quick to solve. Don’t expect any brain busters

[HeideKnight]

I did not play Infernal Machine, and in Emperor's Tomb there are very few puzzles. That IJ game was more an action game with platforming and combat. So if you thought the puzzles were good in that game, you won't be disappointed here, because there are more puzzles in this game, and they are medium level, I would say,

Als, there is no external help for puzzles when the setting is on the highest level. Which is medium, actually, so there is no harcore level in this category. But I still had fun with most of the puzzles, also because there is a good variety in different kinds of them in this game. That is, only few repetitions, so that one had to think of the proper way to solve them every time anew.

[halfmonkey]

I think I agree that these are acceptable puzzles with some very clever logic...sometimes.
Once you gain your companion however, she tends to spoil nearly every one by blurting out "suggestions" long before you've even scoped out the puzzle environment.

When you are on your own, it has satisfying gameplay.

[glib]

They're not difficult, they end up being tedious.

[HeideKnight]

Originally posted by halfmonkey:

I think I agree that these are acceptable puzzles with some very clever logic...sometimes.
Once you gain your companion however, she tends to spoil nearly every one by blurting out "suggestions" long before you've even scoped out the puzzle environment.

When you are on your own, it has satisfying gameplay.

This is not true, Gina did not help with any of the puzzles. Or maybe you confuse what actually can be considered to be a puzzle. In the one case where she makes the suggestion to use the amulet to open a door: this is not a puzzle, because once Indy gets close to that door there is only one possible action: press X and then he inserts the amulet. So this and other similar cases where Gina might give some hints of where to go next are not real puzzles.

[Blackened Halo]

very easy, handholding

[Waldo]

It's like baby's first puzzle game. Very very easy puzzles

[alien_tickler]

keep taking pictures with the camera and it will tell you how to do the whole puzzle

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by HeideKnight:

Originally posted by halfmonkey:

I think I agree that these are acceptable puzzles with some very clever logic...sometimes.
Once you gain your companion however, she tends to spoil nearly every one by blurting out "suggestions" long before you've even scoped out the puzzle environment.

When you are on your own, it has satisfying gameplay.

This is not true, Gina did not help with any of the puzzles. Or maybe you confuse what actually can be considered to be a puzzle. In the one case where she makes the suggestion to use the amulet to open a door: this is not a puzzle, because once Indy gets close to that door there is only one possible action: press X and then he inserts the amulet. So this and other similar cases where Gina might give some hints of where to go next are not real puzzles.

Wow, this game sounds like the devs think the player base are idiots.