Spoilers: Endgame puzzles VERY poorly designed

[Muramoth]

I'm specifically talking about the utopia/dystopia puzzles. They have to bit problems:

1. You have to physically walk between utopia and dystopia. The mechanic of having two version of the environment is really promising, but unfortunately the need to actually run between them just makes it tedious. Such a pity, that it wastes so much potential.

2. This is the big one: There are no checkpoints in the puzzles at all. WHY? It makes no sense... On this note: The fact the game uses checkpoints instead of allowing manual saves that just save the state of the puzzles is nonsensical to begin with. This is a puzzle game and not a platformer or shooter where you could cheese difficult spots/bosses with manual saves. It is only acceptable, because the normal puzzles are really short. But having this (relatively) long section completely without checkpoints is pretty much just the devs' way of insulting the player. It adds nothing to the difficulty of the puzzles or to anything else. It is just there to annoy players and waste their time. The only thing that is even worse than this is the fact, that the game does not even warn you of that fact. So it might very well happen, that you are in the middle of the whole thing and think of taking a short break after half the puzzles (or ... you know ... going to bed because you have to work the next day) and then come back the next time having to start over. This is pretty much the worst decision they could make and just completely disrespects the players time. Please devs if you fix anything in future patches FIX THIS!

[Alcator]

Already discussed to death, please read the other threads.
A patch is incoming to address your point #2.

[Muramoth]

Oh. The only thread I found only had one answer by the devs, that did not mention any patches, but just stated, it was by design.

Well at least they will fix it. None the less I wonder why something like that got through internal playtests...

But anyway, if it already got discussed to death, then I won't push it further and just be happy about the patch.

[ShugoTheRipper]

All I know is I managed to die to water and it put me back at the start (0/4 ,0/4). Followed by me becoming salt and closing the game for the day. 😭

[Keton22]

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

All I know is I managed to die to water

Welcome to the club. I drowned, then had to abort almost at the end because real life called. Not sure If I will go back or just watch the ending on youtube.