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The witness review
The witness review











the witness review

As soon as you become comfortable, a new level of complexity will be thrown in and you will be forced to rethink your approach. Impressively, despite the fact there is approximately six-hundred of them, the mechanics shift and combine in so many interesting ways that you’ll rarely feel you’re simply solving the same puzzle repeatedly. To put it plainly many of The Witness’ puzzles are simply… diabolical. As you make your way around the island it is inevitable that a few puzzles will stop you dead in your tracks and the solutions will elude you for substantial lengths of time. Whoever constructed them has an alarmingly keen eye and mind for their work. Make no mistake, The Witness has some of the toughest puzzles you are likely to have ever faced. Generally a region will begin with some introductory puzzles to ease you into an area’s specific puzzle mechanics, and then slowly but surely ramp up the complexity.

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You are never told explicitly how to solve each conundrum, however as any good puzzler does, you are given the tools to solve them by the game itself. Others demand that you pay attention to how the environment interacts with a puzzle panel to unlock its solution. Without spoiling anything, some puzzles panels might demand you obey a certain logic such as segregating shapes using the snake you draw. The island is split into several distinct regions each with its own flavour of puzzle. You will wander around solving the panels which will in turn do things like unlock another puzzle in the series, operate machinery or open up pathways. Your task throughout The Witness is very simple. In my honest opinion its visual style and execution is unmatched by any game. It feels like you are walking through an expertly crafted and constantly shifting painting. Everywhere you care to look you will find some intriguing tiny detail. Textures are bold and have a clean, cel-shaded quality to them. There is a joyful use of vivid colour and the effect is like a glorious sensory assault.

the witness review

What will most likely strike you as you take your first tentative steps on the idyllic island is just how staggeringly beautiful it all is.













The witness review