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What makes a satisfying puzzle? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by zerakith@lemmy.ml to c/adventuregames@lemm.ee

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I've been playing some of the more recent adventure games and feel like the quality of the puzzles has gone down. It often seems a bit like use multitool on object to solve every puzzle. Equally, I can think many older games where the puzzle was so illogical it broke the gameplay and felt jarring to me.

So what makes a good puzzle? What are you most satisfying puzzles ever? What about your least favourite?

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I like how totk brought back actual puzzle dungeons like the classic Zelda games. I also liked the puzzles in the old tomb raider games.