Has The Witness Returned? Let's Play TAIJI

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Simon attempts a new game which has been recommended to us as similar to The Witness. It's called Taiji and it's available here:
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@krtwood Год назад

Simon's ability to tackle difficult puzzles but also be completely unable to tell when he's not meant to be able to solve something yet even though that's immediately obvious to anyone else is what makes watching him play these games so fascinating. Of course at least half the time he still manages to solve it anyway which only encourages the behavior.

@Vendavalez Год назад

Did you watch the one where someone missed putting in a clue when translating a puzzle into their software and Simon solved the puzzle anyway?

@columbus8myhw Год назад

Here's a new perspective: the teaching puzzles are just a crutch to help those without Simon's fantastic skills of rule-guessery!

@GopherAtl Год назад

simon's skills were honed in a context where the puzzle was never trying to teach you anything, and by now he's quite used to spending 30 minutes before making the first bit of real progress

@GopherAtl Год назад

what actually kills me (in a humorous way) is watching him take several minutes to think through all the possibilities before just points his glowing cursor at the one actively pulsating button, where someone trained on video game puzzles would've done that instantly and with barely a thought xD

@pckables Месяц назад

1:08:00 I can't believe he actually figured out the rules of the puzzle the way the dev intended, and without doing the tutorial. So many people, me included, ended up with different arbitrary rules for this series of puzzles, and is probably considered the most obscure section of the game.

@RickyRatte Год назад

"There are 15 dots, 6 plus 4 plus 2!" - Simon, one of the smartest people on RU-vid

@GuilhermeCarvalhoComposer Год назад

The way Mark got more and more invested in the puzzles as Simon went on is a testament to the quality of this game. This was very cool to watch.

@omyyer Год назад

Watching Simon and Mark pretty much solve the folding screens towards the end by only using the last ones in sequence was incredible

@Varksterable Год назад

I missed the live stream, and I've not even started watching the game yet, but just watching you two set everything up is SO entertaining and refreshing. This stuff is either cut out or just polished by experience on so many streams these days. Here, it's a refreshing glimpse into reality to watch you two banter in high spirits about it all. Just like CtC, really. No tricks; just record and go. I love this so much.

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Very well said! 😃

@SilverEchoes Год назад

This was so much fun to watch! I especially liked the dynamic of Simon and Mark solving the puzzles together - it differentiates this playthrough from Simon's playthrough of The Witness, even though many of the puzzle mechanics are similar. Please do stream more of Taiji.

@Stephen-Fox Год назад

While it probably doesn't feel it, I think you did some great progress - Two areas with only a couple of puzzles remaining, one where you don't know the rules to the puzzles you're missing yet, the other you're in the process of navigating to where to get to those puzzles. In Witness terms, the game has 9 beams total and you're about 90% towards two of them.

@esotericVideos Год назад

Please do all of these, I loved the Witness and Obra-Dinn streams and this seems like a chill follow-up.

@davidrattner9 Год назад

Thank you so much tonight for this Simon and Mark. As plethora of others have said, both here and wrapping up the stream live, please continue with this. It is great to see you 2 work marvelously together in noticing things and solving puzzles!!

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Yes! (Plethora = great word!) 😄

@paulmorenkov Год назад

1:29:33 was the perfect sound to my brain breaking after ‘folding up the walls”

@AcidDotCom Год назад

It's a great game! Hope for a complete playthrough, so I can keep re-watching it, like The Witness :D

@Varksterable Год назад

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Really enjoyed this! The graphics and soundtrack are wonderful! Interacting with the CTC community! Watching Simon (with Mark’s assistance) figure out the logic! Please do more of this!

@davidrattner9 Год назад

As usual wonderfully written!! Watched the time I missed and was enthralled!! Did you listen to it again with the peaceful music to help you relax/fall asleep? 😃

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

@@davidrattner9 yes! Listening now. This is my favorite live stream so far!

@davidrattner9 Год назад

@longwaytotipperary awesome it helped you sleep tonight and more awesomeness that it has become your favorite stream 😀

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

@@davidrattner9 😴

@bethelliot7140 Год назад

Please keep playing and streaming this

@cyrille6483 Год назад

That cellar was lightning quick ! And the backwards shading puzzle ... oomph, you guys are insane :D Can't wait to see the next episode !

@emdash8944 Год назад

What an incredibly entertaining stream!

@dirk9787 Год назад

I loved watching the stream! I hope you will complete the game 🙂

@HalcyonAcorn Год назад

1/8th of the way through? So another 7 live streams?! I’m definitely down for that! More, please!

@THVEssays Год назад

If you're thinking of playing Elden Ring, I would much recommend Tunic as a good starting point into that type of game. It's a little less difficult in the combat side of things, and a lot more heavy in the puzzle side of things. The story is extremely enjoyable as well.

@Stormorbiter Год назад

yes, please keep playing on live streams :)

@zmaj12321 Год назад

There are some puzzles in the future I think Simon will REALLY enjoy, so I hope he gets to one of those soon.

@kimh6979 Год назад

Thank you so much for streaming this game. I had a tough day at work but I was really looking forward to coming home to watch the video. You guys are such a blessing 😊

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Sorry for the tough day!

@fredkolouch Год назад

Love these puzzle game streams. Has anyone recommended Stephen’s Sausage Roll to you? The creator of The Witness gave high praise for the game. Very tricky puzzles.

@Pestilence86 Год назад

"Is there more puzzles in here, there are." - Simon, 2023

@mmfvdw Год назад

Love this, didn't know the game but it already feels like a worthy successor to the Witness streams

@leefisher6366 Год назад

1:03 - Reporter: Of course, since you're deep into space, there's a five second delay between me asking you a question, and you hearing it... and vice versa. (five seconds later) Astronaut: Yes, that's right. (five seconds later) Reporter: So, what would you say is the worst aspect of being in space? Astronaut: That five second time delay!

@equal_to_one Год назад

Really enjoyed this, looking forward to more streams if you do them!

@Stormorbiter Год назад

and that's why Simon calls renban lines purple instead of magenta ;)

@baukewijnsma Год назад

I would definitely want to see you play more of this!

@mackthisarrowhearth295 Год назад

Seeing the list ne graph puzzle, I can still hear the birds from the witness.

@b3nduncan1 Год назад

Great sound track the music is great 👍

@drstkova Год назад

I managed 30 minutes but by then had had absolutely no idea what Simon was doing for some time. By that point the video may as well have been a loop of Simon saying “I need to join these up” with no explanation why followed by the success noise, ad infinitum. I must have missed something extremely important.

@artgraveyard Год назад

i hope you guys continue

@mackthisarrowhearth295 Год назад

You do not have to that shade puzzle from the left and right again, because it has the same solution :)

@Pestilence86 Год назад

Haha that mansion was the same experience for me. I tried to think way too much in terms of the puzzle types i have learned so far.

@BleachWizz Год назад

52:30 - and at this moment I realized... this dev has made multiple puzzles for the same solution... and we keep trying to make an unique solutions to our puzzles. This is in some level above, it might not even be the next.

@dashalpha Год назад

I completely failed to learn the flower puzzle rule precisely for this reason, the tutorial puzzles allow so many solutions it is easy to think the only one you tried is the only solution and thus learn nothing about the actual rule it is attempting to teach you.

@VanshikaGulati Год назад

Some of these would be much easier if you revisited Witness rules. Like the hollow dots follow the logic of subtraction tetris puzzles in Witness...

@Nightknight1992 Год назад

really feels very witness inspired puzzle wise, plus it doesnt have any motion sickness for poor simon. very entertaining stuff

@sirlight4954 Год назад

The game's big, but it is not huge. Given you've finished Gorogoa in a single stream, I'd reckon there are 3-4 more streams of material if you wish to complete the game

@stevieinselby Год назад

I understand the rules of Mornington Crescent better than I understand what you are doing in this game...

@TheSplunger Год назад

Rather impressed seeing the way he tackled things, in a very Simon sort of way. Very minor spoilers: Impressed with him going to the mansion pretty early, and picking up on not only "hidden clues", but also solving things. He hasn't seemed to pick up on the "you haven't learned this yet" style of gameplay, where you generally start with easier versions of rules in their dedicated area, and use/combine rules later in harder puzzles. Witness had a lot of this, for example. AKA Simon gameplay: Ignore things that may feel obvious, but also cruise through much harder things. And yeah, black/white are kinda annoying. Even after I 100%, those I still had some guessing on.

@abramsaustin Год назад

I heard someone on Twitter say that the black and white puzzles were mostly solved based on vibes, which was pretty much true for me 😂

@TheSplunger Год назад

@@abramsaustin That's about right for me. "Extra" rule kinda comes down to "this feels right" for how to finish it up.

@listey Год назад

Have to be honest, I probably watched less than 20% of this, but it has certainly been very pleasant background noise while I worked away. How do we get you both audio book reading deals?!

@longwaytotipperary Год назад

Yes! They both have very “listen friendly” voices!

@reaperofthegrey7294 Год назад

i love how people are asking if simon will play elden ring.... like i swear it would give him motion sickness lol. progressively ask him to play less puzzle oriented games and more fast paced ones. hey simon when will you play doom eternal.... i do really love that this channel focuses on all things puzzles though there are some brilliant puzzle games. and CTC is the Perfect channel to solve them

@leefisher6366 Год назад

Beam?!

@frederf3227 Год назад

I feel the accordion screens is easiest as columns, not rows.

@KSweatshack Год назад

Mark: I still don't understand this game after watching you play it for an hour Me: .... has it been an hour already? Simon: Has it been an hour already?

@DannySpud1 Год назад

Spoiler free rules explanation (covers only the rules Simon and Mark discovered during this session, doesn't spoil any future rules): Environment: You have to stand on the starting square of the puzzle to activate it Some puzzles affect the environment Some puzzles you need to walk across, you can only step orthogonally and can't backtrack. Black and white blocks: Match the block pattern so that white blocks are white and black blocks are black. For missing blocks, if the majority of adjacent blocks are white shade it black, if the majority of adjacent blocks are black shade it white. Dots: If a square has dots it must be enclosed in a group with that number of squares A group can be shaded or unshaded Multiple dotted squares can link up as long as the total number of dots is equal to the total number of squares in the group. Hollow dots deduct from the total Dots of different colours must be separated

@bothieGMX Год назад

I have an idea on how diamonds can work. Spoiler Diamonds of different colors need to be matched up. i.e. in the yellow-blue diamond puzzle, one blue + one yellow or two blue + two yellow.

@bothieGMX Год назад

Solution to the 3 of diamonds card would then be: Spoiler... Make two 3x2 areas separated by a 3x1 unmarked area. This separates all same-color diamonds from each other and connects two threes each making a 6 area.

@bothieGMX Год назад

The blue-yellow puzzle (43:36) could have either solution: Spoiler a) Checkerboard b) **x* x*** ***x *x**

@dommaster661 Год назад

@@bothieGMX you should do spoiler on line above so you open it before you read spoiler

@bothieGMX Год назад

@@dommaster661 like so?

@specialkalberta Год назад

I'm having a lot of trouble with this game. It seems the witness did a better job in explaining what the rules were for a new puzzle type even though it only did so by example.

@dashalpha Год назад

I don't like that some puzzles have multiple solutions (in ways that don't really matter or relate to the rule). It'd have been cleaner if for example cells in some solutions that can always be on or off no matter the solution you otherwise come up with are just removed as being part of the puzzle altogether. That just introduces yet another "rule" (or rather an exception to the rule) that you have to mentally keep track of when solving. Just started playing the other day and finished 3 worlds so far, it's ok. Sometimes solving them feels good, but often it isn't satisfying because it just doesn't seem as clean as I recall The Witness being. I'll muddle through some puzzles and only partly understand what the rule might be and nothing in the prior puzzles that guides you to a complete understanding of the rule as far as I can tell. IDK, maybe I'm just missing something. Early on, I mean at the very start when the game first opens up, way too many options and places to go w/ mostly non-tutorial puzzles visible and hard to tell which are tutorial ones that you just need to mess with til you solve and "then" reverse engineer the rule vs. ones that actually "teach" you a rule over a few puzzles.

@vpr0 Год назад

This looks way harder than The Witness, which means I'll get to watch without having to play ahead as I did with Witness

@BenRHarsh Год назад

1:08:00 It's much simpler than he's making it out to be. Divide the grid into 2x3 quadrants where each tetromino is placed and color the squares either white/black if the blocks are there or interred if they are not there. The middle should be able to be on or off.

@ethanharr4795 Год назад

I don’t know if this is possible with your setup, but it’d be super nice to see the chat overlayed on the screen or something so us VOD enjoyers can follow the interaction a bit better.

@artgraveyard Год назад

they're streaming on youtube just look at the live chat replay under the video

@andrewgrant6516 Год назад

I've watched this video three times and I still can't understand what Simon is doing or why.

@columbus8myhw Год назад

Why does the game even have teaching puzzles, lol! The teaching puzzles are just a crutch to help those without Simon's fantastic skills of rule-guessery! EDIT: which suggests maybe you should play _Understand..._