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colpet - 05 March 2017 08:13 AM

What is amazing about this game is the way it changes your perception as you work through the different sections. I went back to areas I had ‘completed’ and found details that I just would not have noticed before. I think this is what everyone who experiences the game talks about when they say the developer wants the game process to change you.

I agree one hundred percent. It’s all about changing your perception.

My gems:

The moment I discovered the second type of puzzle. Holy shit!
The kneeling man trying to reach the grail that his shadow can only touch because the man is kneeling. I found that very moving. (Someone at another forum pointed out that from a different angle the shadow looks like an athlete winning a cup.) 
The shock of suddenly noticing the all-knowing Buddha eyes looking at me through the window in the pottery.
The crown and angel wing shadows in the old church windows.
Most audio tapes, including their relation to the puzzles and the environment.

I hope you won’t take this the wrong way, Wilco, but that gate is a real spoiler.

EDIT: I take it back, the title has the word spoilers in it.

colpet - 05 March 2017 11:10 AM

Am am reading these at my peril because I have not yet finished the game. I am working through the Town now.
Just when I think I’ve put a dent in the puzzles, I checked my progress - only completed ~ 380. Part of me is glad there is so much more to do. I’m stuck right now, so will take a break until next weekend.

Colpet, how many different numbers do you see when you click Load Game? If there’s more than one number you should add them to get your total of completed puzzles.

colpet - 05 March 2017 12:25 PM

Just one set of numbers.

I envy you.

The Witness is a thrilling game, but also frustrating: I want to talk to people about it, share impressions on all the various type of puzzles, optional content, connections, allusions ...but I know there is a lot to discover (even though I “finished” the game once), and I want to discover it all alone, without getting spoiled.

Of course, finding my first “other” puzzle (almost randomly, too!) was a real jaw-hit-floor moment, as I imagine it must be for most players. Some of my other favourite “a-ha"s were:

* Realising how the Glasshouse works
* Seeing the whole Island together from the top of the Mountain
* Laughing at discovering my first non-human statues. [spoiler](Pigeons!) Immediately followed by the disturbing thought that maybe those aren’t really statues, then.[/spoiler]
* In the Town,
attributing each of the houses to one of the locations elsewhere on the island. (In my mind, they are homes of the Gardener, the Priest, the Archaelogist, etc., each of whom used to go to work to one particular Island’s location.)
* In the projection room,
recognizing Feynman and Burke in the movie clips
* Seeing how these two monuments I had been aware of for hours relate to each other:

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smulan - 07 March 2017 04:58 AM

If you forgive my impertinence one of those moments for me was discovering the boredom of the desert sun temple puzzle.
- oh this panel works the same way as the other… oh this panel too..oh this panel too…and the way to solve them means doing that boring procedure over again..once again…oh I think I get it now, thank you mr Blow…

This may come as a surprise after all the positive things I said about the game in several threads, but I agree with you. The sun temple was one of the first areas I tackled after the introductory puzzles and the pottery (I think I did the apple trees first) and it was the reason I stopped playing. It felt like one chore after another. But I went back to the Witness after a while and became addicted.

wilco - 07 March 2017 10:20 AM

It was however the place where I solved my first “other kind” of puzzle!

Me too. Near the temple, not inside. It was one reason I got addicted to the game.