Animal statue puzzle explanation?

[SCIM]

So I'm trying to figure out this stupid animal statue puzzle in the basement and I just don't get it. Based on things in the room I figure I am supposed to light the statues from strongest to weakest, or perhaps weakest to strongest. Also based on the descriptions there seems to be an order to them to a degree but there seems to be something missing.

The bird kills the legless snake which kills the jungle cat that is king. Also the wolf kills the horned deer. The words "legless", "king" and "horned" are the links between these animals. The horse's description however has no linking to any other animal as far as I can tell. Did I miss a file that explains more about the animals? Did the descriptions get translated from Japanese to English and something severly important got lost in translation?

I don't want to be told the solution, I just want to be told what I am missing here because this is driving me crazy.

[SCIM]

Also I think the jungle cat kills the wolf because he kills what he "surveys" which means what you see and he is looing at the wolf. That still leaves me with no idea what to do with the horse. This really makes no sense with two herbivores. They can't both be at the bottom. Is the deer going to kill the horse for food or something? If it wasn't for the door mentioning that there needs to be six lit I'd think the horse statue has to be destroyed as it really seems like the odd one out.

[lilwing]

The horse escapes the wolf but gets killed by lion.

[SCIM]

I gave up and looked up the answer and that is true but it still makes no sense with what we are given. There is no connection between the lion and the horse or the horse and the wolf from the descriptions. The horse isn't preying on the wolf and the lion sounds like it can go after anying. Every other connection directly repeats words and involves killing, why is the horse so damn speicial that it gets a very vauge connection where it just runs away?

I guess what I am really asking is am I stupid or is this puzzle stupid?

[lilwing]

I don't remember details, but sure there was some hint about the wolf in horse's description. And since it's an old RE game, running away is a valid strategy. Survival horror, that is.

[Lanzagranadas]

Originally posted by Chosen "SCiM" 41:

I guess what I am really asking is am I stupid or is this puzzle stupid?

Neither. The puzzle makes sense but, unlike other puzzles in the series, the answer is not given on a silver plate. Some of the descriptions are a little ambiguos so you have to deduce what's missing and that might take several tries. Maybe they did it on purpose, to not make it too obvious, or maybe it's just a bad translation thing.

[talgaby]

It is easier if you write down the pairs, then start to link them up, until you find one which does not beat anything and one that is not beaten by anything. I did that first time playing RE0 and figured it out on pen&paper in 2 minutes. The English translation is fine in this regard.

[Your Shifu]

if you think about it Horse should be in the strongest , its said it can outrun even the fastest predator

[grayfox]

Originally posted by SCIM:

I guess what I am really asking is am I stupid or is this puzzle stupid?

I think the wording of the puzzle is poor.

It specifically says "Six souls, imprisoned within the chains of death. Rekindle the flames of life from the spirts of the weak!".

This indicates that only some, the weak, spirits need to be rekindled, You'd think based on this that not all candles would need to be lit and that the order that they are lit would not matter as long as you correctly separate weak from strong.

[Something]

I thought the puzzle was straight forward no? you just match the animals which hunt each other? the wolf kills deer, birdy kills snake, and tiger kills horse no?

[Credne]

Yeah this puzzle is pretty straightfoward. Had no issue guessing the right order on first try.

[vydra]

Originally posted by grayfox:

Originally posted by SCIM:

I guess what I am really asking is am I stupid or is this puzzle stupid?

I think the wording of the puzzle is poor.

It specifically says "Six souls, imprisoned within the chains of death. Rekindle the flames of life from the spirts of the weak!".

This indicates that only some, the weak, spirits need to be rekindled, You'd think based on this that not all candles would need to be lit and that the order that they are lit would not matter as long as you correctly separate weak from strong.

This, I tried several times and also tried to connect mentioned "Discipline,Obedience,Unity". No good.

I gave up and looked for tips, when I was informed that it is supposed to be in order, it suddenly made a lot more sense. I guess it is either poorly written or it was lost in translation. I guess there should have been "weakest" instead of "weak" on description at the door.