bards tale 3 starter dungeon

[Icedfate]

WTF with the riddle on floor 5?!


I don't get the logic of it.
how I was supposed to guess that word.

I had to google it to discover
the answer is sword

but WTF

the riddle is
"I have no lips, yet my kiss is deadly
I am not a razor
but those I caress need never shave again
your best friend
I will kill you"


huh?

how the ♥♥♥♥ am I supposed to deduce that this is a sword ?!


"I have no lips, yet my kiss is deadly" because a sword "kisses" you with its blade when it cuts you? who the ♥♥♥♥ ever descibed a sword cut as a "kiss"?!

"i am not a razor" I guess i'm supposed to assume that it's not a razor means that it is some "other" type of blade?

"but those I caress need never shave again" I dunno, because when the blade "caresses" your neck, it cuts your head clean off and now you don't need to shave your beard anymore because your ♥♥♥♥ing head is gone?

"i am your best friend" why? because it helps me fight monsters?
"I will kill you" why? because it's a sword and enemies might use it on me



seriously, what the ♥♥♥♥, how am I supposed to make those leaps of logic?!















and yes, I know i'm ranting and being salty about a riddle that was written over 30 years ago, by devs that probably are not even around anymore, but still.


this riddle is the most obtuse riddle I have seen in the entire series so far,..and this is just the tutorial dungeon!

I thought i read that BT3 was "supposed" to be less BS than BT2 with those stupid timed deth snares, (which I had to google the solution to the final one, I figured it out 95% on my own, how to get through the maze, but couldn't find the final word to answer at the end, but after googling it, I discovered that the answer was right there , it was just down another hallway I failed to notice)

this riddle has no hints to help ,.. at all, it's just "Bam, here's a riddle, answer it, if you can't ♥♥♥♥ you, you can't progress, answer it or game over.

the first 2 riddles , were easy, because they gave multiple clues to solve it, but this one, nothing.



edit


unless....after the poem , it says "speak my name, then ready me" was this the true clue?! like, yeah, answer the riddle then get ready to fight, what's a euphemism for getting ready to fight, why "ready your sword", of course!! but seriously? WTF

[stcrispin]

I never made it past BT2 and the silly teleport squares back when I had the original, so I never tried BT3. Back when there was no Google... or the internet for that matter.

[Icedfate]

nevermind,

understand, I'm not blaming INXile for bringing back these titles and maintaining the integrity of the original abstract puzzles. they even left in the bugs like the one where the bard can equip diamond plate even though they weren't supposed to be able to, which is good attention to detail

and I like that they fixed the "unfair room" in Oscon's castle in BT2, but yeah, this was a rant about the original developer. . .

[jozenone]

InExile IS the original developer, he lost the original company decades ago and has been working hard to reclaim his work

[Icedfate]

at least I finally played through all 3 titles after all these years.
the automapping is really all i ever wanted.


(I did do the graph paper thing for the first game, but then i quit halfway through the BT2 starter dungeon and never looked back, until now)