I-I-I... I don't know why I wanted to start this, but here we are.
Puzzles in adventure games that just doesn't make sense unless you exhaust your inventory. Or something. Illogical solutions.
Puzzles in adventure games that just doesn't make sense unless you exhaust your inventory. Or something. Illogical solutions.
The first one that comes to mind is Lost in Time, the puzzle where you're stranded on a rocky coast and are looking for a way to escape. The solution is to search a fishing shack and get the following: a bottle of nuoc mam (Vietnamese fish sauce), some bread, and a nail. Then do this:
Use the nail on a chandelier in the shack to unscrew it (why would a nail unscrew something?)
Pour the fish sauce on the bread
Go outside and throw the bread onto the roof of the shack
A seagull will swoop down to get the bread, knocking a buoy off the roof (which you didn't even know was up there)
Cut the rope off the buoy
Tie the rope to the chandelier to make a grappling hook
Throw the grappling hook up on top of the cliff and climb up
I solved it without a walkthrough only because there are just 2 screens (inside the shack and outside the shack) but it was so frustratingly stupid. To this day that puzzle pisses me off. Lost in Time was fun but it had a LOT of moon logic / guess the developer's mind / convoluted for the sake of making the game last longer puzzles.
Use the nail on a chandelier in the shack to unscrew it (why would a nail unscrew something?)
Pour the fish sauce on the bread
Go outside and throw the bread onto the roof of the shack
A seagull will swoop down to get the bread, knocking a buoy off the roof (which you didn't even know was up there)
Cut the rope off the buoy
Tie the rope to the chandelier to make a grappling hook
Throw the grappling hook up on top of the cliff and climb up
I solved it without a walkthrough only because there are just 2 screens (inside the shack and outside the shack) but it was so frustratingly stupid. To this day that puzzle pisses me off. Lost in Time was fun but it had a LOT of moon logic / guess the developer's mind / convoluted for the sake of making the game last longer puzzles.