The puzzles in this game suck and always have

[Sarah]

There, I said it. It isn't necessarily that they are hard, but the way they are integrated makes them unreasonably so. The music chair puzzle only gives you a limited amount of time to move finicky sliders into the right position while fighting input lag, generic sorting puzzles making multiple appearances, oh and the extreme precision and speed with which you must sound horns to play monkey chess (which is essentially another sorting puzzle).

It was never satisfying completing those tedious puzzles because of how much the controls fight you. Compare that to any other Myst game (well except maybe the awful tablet system in 5), and you're left with a quintessential Ubisoft game: Tedious, unrewarding, uninspired writing and acting, but at least there aren't microtransactions I guess. Though if there were, I would put money on zip mode being a paid DLC.

Thoughts?

[Leko]

100% agree. Finally getting around to playing Revelation for the first time, and as soon as I realized the first big puzzle (for me, anyway, going to Haven first) was basically just tedious backtracking to match symbols to animals, I completely checked out and just started following a walkthrough.

And HOLY HELL I am glad I did. Monkey chess would have been INFURIATING, and even knowing the exact settings for the musical chair didn't make setting the finicky little sliders under a time limit any less aggravating.

But what finally broke me was the spirit coloring puzzle. Not because it's especially difficult, but because my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mouse keeps freaking out and jerking in random directions, which is kind of a huge problem because you interact with the puzzle by just SCROLLING OVER THE PIECES.

What could have easily been a 5 minute mini-game took me over an hour. All the spirits I could see were white, but nothing was happening. There must be a small group or something I missed. But to scroll around and find it, I need to move in a precise pattern so the spirits I've already got stay set.

Just need to slowly and carefully move in groups of 3, find the ones I missed, and...

Mouse: "HEY WHAT'S THIS OVER HERE!?" *Streaks through 3 white spirits, turning them all red, then jerks back over one of them causing all the surrounding spirits to be scrambled*

I hit my rage limit and flipped back to being perfectly calm. I placed a finger on ALT, and one on F4, then went to vent about it. Which I have now done.

Should've just left off at Exile, but I just HAD to know the rest of the story.

[Panda]

Originally posted by Leko:

100% agree. Finally getting around to playing Revelation for the first time, and as soon as I realized the first big puzzle (for me, anyway, going to Haven first) was basically just tedious backtracking to match symbols to animals, I completely checked out and just started following a walkthrough.

And HOLY HELL I am glad I did. Monkey chess would have been INFURIATING, and even knowing the exact settings for the musical chair didn't make setting the finicky little sliders under a time limit any less aggravating.

But what finally broke me was the spirit coloring puzzle. Not because it's especially difficult, but because my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mouse keeps freaking out and jerking in random directions, which is kind of a huge problem because you interact with the puzzle by just SCROLLING OVER THE PIECES.

What could have easily been a 5 minute mini-game took me over an hour. All the spirits I could see were white, but nothing was happening. There must be a small group or something I missed. But to scroll around and find it, I need to move in a precise pattern so the spirits I've already got stay set.

Just need to slowly and carefully move in groups of 3, find the ones I missed, and...

Mouse: "HEY WHAT'S THIS OVER HERE!?" *Streaks through 3 white spirits, turning them all red, then jerks back over one of them causing all the surrounding spirits to be scrambled*

I hit my rage limit and flipped back to being perfectly calm. I placed a finger on ALT, and one on F4, then went to vent about it. Which I have now done.

Should've just left off at Exile, but I just HAD to know the rest of the story.

1 month later but im at this now, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ its terrible...

Everything you mentioned + being colorblind. There is apparently a light blue AND a white color. These are completely identical to me, I had to look up the color order, and go by what color came before white to get through it.

[Ghidrah1]

Agree some of the puzzles are convoluted but that's the purpose ain't it, The more obscure a clue is the more difficult the solve is.

[Ghidrah1]

I was able to do it a lot faster, 1st I made a grid of the nests all their connections and the pit, then I located where all the monkeys were and what their call sign was. then I located the thrower. From there it was easy to brain out which monkeys to move to put Schecky in line with the pit.

[Ghidrah1]

Frankly, now that you mention it, getting the sounds tone was more difficult than its duration, I have massive tinnitus in both ears, very loud and their pitch is slightly off

[Ghidrah1]

I counting secs for med and long tones that worked consistent then jotted them down under each chimps name

[Ghidrah1]

It's been a while since I last played, I don't recall a cloud puzzle