Prev of 11 Next Prev of 11 NextĪ little like Gabriel Knight's moustache puzzle, this is a case where a dreadful puzzle is amplified by being in an otherwise serious game that's trying to be at least passingly realistic in this case, a Scotland Yard detective called Halligan learning about a group of evil druids with designs on world domination. It's hard to say it doesn't deserve that infamy. While depressingly not the genre's actual greatest low point, it easily stands as its most public case of head-smacking insanity, and the one that everybody always brings up when puzzles are discussed. It's worth pointing out that this puzzle wasn't actually from the designer, Jane Jensen, but bolted onto the game at the last minute by a producer after the puzzle that was intended to go there had to be replaced. The idea is presumably to distract the scooter guy into not noticing that the two look nothing alike, but only in adventure games could "Showing up like a madman with cat hair dripping from your lip" pass for a reason. To complete the disguise, Gabriel scrawls one onto his stolen passport with a marker pen. This is a thing that actually happens.Īnd here's the thing. Gabriel then sticks it onto his face with maple syrup. putting some masking tape on a hole and scaring a black cat past it so that some of its fur sticks onto it. His disguise consists of a fake moustache, which he makes by.
It turns out though that his long-suffering cop friend Mosely has rented a better one, so Gabriel schemes to get his hands on it by stealing Mosely's passport and passing himself off as his friend. so of course Knight decides to piss away most of a morning because he refuses to drive around on a slightly embarrassing looking scooter. The clock is ticking, dark plans are in motion, every second counts. The puzzle sees monster-hunter Gabriel Knight in the small village of Rennes-le-Chateau, desperately trying to rescue a baby stolen by vampires on his watch.
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The Gabriel Knight series deservedly rose to fame for its stories and characters, before hitting the heights of infamy with the third game when gaming site Old Man Murray credited this puzzle with not so much the death of adventure games but its suicide. We may as well get this one out of the way first, since everyone's expecting it anyway. All of these examples are games that people charged money for, and others devoted both time and mental energy to solving.
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We're also only looking at commercial games here, crazy as many free things like Escape the Room games are. There's a delightful subtlety to USE BRICK ON WINDOW that few adventures have ever grasped, preferring instead the kind of contraption and convoluted schemes that would make MacGyver go and have a lie down in his store closet.Īt the same time though, we're not going to be worrying too much about puzzles that are simply boring, but rather the ones that collapse or implode for other reasons - for trying too hard, for sudden bursts of crazy moon logic, for acts of game-breaking out of character thinking. They're moments where you just want to slap the designer or demand to know "What were you thinking?", especially in cases where any sane human being would solve the problem with £20 and a trip to the nearest hardware store.
They're not necessarily from bad games, though bad puzzles and bad games do tend to go hand in hand. Today, we 'celebrate' ten of the most jaw-dropping. Bad puzzles come in many forms, from the boring and time-consuming ones that make you question how anyone could ever have thought them fun, to shockingly out of character moments where an otherwise amiable blunderer suddenly becomes a sociopathic supergenius in the face of an obstacle or something they happen to desire. Ah, adventures! Since the 1980s, they've given us great stories, unforgettable characters, and a spectrum of puzzles that range from slices of sheer brilliance to nothing short of slack-jawed horror.
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