Sudoku Expert Plays The Witness Part 4

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Many of you have requested that we take a crack at a game called The Witness. Here Simon continues the journey!
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@Draffut2003 2 года назад

ANTICHAMBER? This guy can't go down stairs in this game without getting sick and you're gonna send him into antichamber?

@DurianFruit Год назад

something odd that i dont quite understand: I have played both Antichamber and The Witness, and The Witness made me feel a lot more nauseous. I can't explain why.

@scotty3739 Год назад

@@DurianFruit the fov is really weird, a low setting makes it easier to solve puzzles (because they're bigger on screen) but makes walking feel god awful, while a high setting makes it easier to walk but makes solving puzzles feel really jarring because they're so far away.

@Luna_Aberra 2 года назад

Simon, please accept that your streaming are neither boring nor slow. Your speed amaze most likely most of us. Have more faith in yourself

@peterpeladon 2 года назад

It probably takes some adjustment going from being a sudoku super genius to being just regular above average at other puzzles. :)

@Stephen-Fox 2 года назад

@@peterpeladon I'm not sure he's merely above average, thinking about the benchmarks I've seen for first plays of this game, in that he's pausing to read superchats, has done 8 beams, listened to a full audio log, watched a full video, and done optional area that doesn't give you diddly squat for doing, all in about 7 and a half hours (3 ~2-hour streams, and 1 ~90-minute stream). He's not looking like he's going to be 100%ing the game, but I'd say he's comfortably in the 'main + extras' category at the moment, and on a pace that could see him finishing the game in the 'rushed' camp for main story only.

@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. 2 года назад

@@peterpeladon if you think this is "just regular", you really must not be familiar with the average streamer/let's players. I've watched people just straight up give up with no lasers activated cause the game was "too unfair".

@peterpeladon 2 года назад

@@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. It came out awkward, but I actually called him "just regular above average" to contrast with how much of a genius he is at sudoku.

@user-jh9rq4zc7v 2 года назад

@@peterpeladon *Spoiler* First, he is not that experienced in video puzzle games, which results in less confidence. Second, sudoku is a game with clear rules, but in The Witness you have to guess the rules and fully understand them without any wrong mindsets. For example, Simon stuck on the gate beside the bridge, which is a simple black-white puzzle, because he thought that he couldn't separate the group of the same colour.

@NestorCustodio 2 года назад

I know there's already a deluge of similar comments, but I'll go ahead and add to the noise: nobody is running in to a playthrough of *this game* (or *any* video on this channel, for that matter) expecting nonstop pulse-pounding action. This is a difficult game and even something as simple as moving around the environment can be very slow and deliberate. Take your time. We're here because we trust that you'll get these *eventually*. Sometimes that means standing still and thinking about the puzzle/scenario for a few minutes. That's okay. Please don't feel pressured that some viewers might be bored -- nobody that's here for a genuine experience is expecting it to be easy or straightforward.

@columbus8myhw 2 года назад

Also, maybe a higher FOV would let you see more at once? Wouldn't be good with the motion sickness, but might help with the getting lost (and noticing secrets)

@Jablicek 2 года назад

Hear hear!

@nerothos 2 года назад

@@columbus8myhw Higher FOV is better against motion sickness.

@DeGuerre 2 года назад

Not gonna lie, it never occurred to me that grabbing the nearest musical instrument would help with The Witness. This is why Simon is a puzzle master and I am not.

@hunterlarrison 2 года назад

It’s so funny how different people’s brains work. There are certain things that hung me up forever that he intuits so quickly. And then there are things that were obvious to me, that he just seems to stare in the face. There’s probably some moral in there about how we’re all special and unique or whatever.

@luk4aaaa 5 месяцев назад

it's more that different people have different ways of thinking of concepts, like logically vs visually for example. Fantastic game that highlights this.

@PjebTV 2 года назад

I feel like I figured out what each puzzle wanted from me like 5x faster than Simon, but when he understands he solves them 20x faster than I did. How fast his brain works once he understands the rules is astonishing.

@DembaiVT 2 года назад

And to create new rules based on the inverse of the idea. Instead of "get each shape" he goes "squares left over" to check his theory. I almost want to bump up my yearly playthrough to try his new rulesets and improve my speed.

@DembaiVT 2 года назад

The speed at which you solve these boggles my mind and humbles the hell out of me. "I'm going so slow" no. You're doing these extremely fast with very minimal errors.

@rickwoods5274 2 года назад

"I understand! ... This is a nightmare." Welcome to The Witness :) You got the rotating bridge _so_ quickly, wow

@JGold523 2 года назад

It's interesting how some of the spatial puzzles are obvious to me but Simon doesn't see them, but he can blitz through logical puzzles in a way I can't keep up with.

@ados380 2 года назад

If there's something he isn't seeing, don't draw attention to it in the comments 😉 He'll figure it out. I do agree that he's moving so much faster than I could have hoped to be.

@sarelfeniel1388 2 года назад

It really illustrates to me how much having "video game knowledge" helps. I know Simon plays Starcraft, but I don't know how many other video games he plays. I found this to be so useful in this game since having this background knowledge just helps makes some things a lot easier in terms of what to look for and just how to solve the puzzles when I did my play through. It's really fascinating to watch at the beginning how he struggles so much environment puzzle because with video game knowledge, it's immediately obvious for me what to do because video games have a certain set of logic to them and it flows naturally. There is a really great video by Razbuten about making his wife , who doesn't play video games, play video games. It makes you really appreciate just how it can appear so baffling to some who just don't have that language built in.

@aloysiuskurnia7643 2 года назад

Edit: Massive spoiler One of the reasons is probably he thought that Environmental Puzzles needs to be physical objects Once you figured out that _empty spaces_ can be Envi puzzles, that will step up your detective play by *a lot.*

@sarelfeniel1388 2 года назад

@@aloysiuskurnia7643 Sadly I don't remember when / how I discovered these puzzles but I do wish I could remove that knowledge from the game and play again. I have some vague memory of finding it rather early but that may be because I just was clicking on everything just trying to figure stuff out and stumbled upon it by accident. But armed with that knowledge that it could be possible, the video game logic kicked in and then everything that looked even remotely odd stood out. It's like the puzzle atop the mountain. You can see exactly what it is trying to teach and if I saw that, I'd be thinking "what's the point of this? video games don't just put things here without reason. what's the reason." and then just know what things to look for. For Simon, who doesn't have this built in, it makes it a really fun watch. Moreso then solving the puzzles.

@aloysiuskurnia7643 2 года назад

@@sarelfeniel1388 to be fair i don't play this game, only watches :> But yeah, I agree that "meta-puzzles" feels so damn good to be found. Also finding it might heighten your out-of-the-box observing skills that might help even in other games.

@tomaskot9278 2 года назад

I really don't understand why people think that something like "noo you were almost there, don't give up now" is not a spoiler. In a game like this there is a huge difference between being close to the solution and being on a completely wrong track.

@FirenWithLime 2 года назад

But then, not having those removes 50% of the comments, and at that point you might as well stop streaming live.

@morot172 2 года назад

@@FirenWithLime I mean I don't think he streams live for the comments, he'd be more than happy with half or even none of them as long as he knew we'd be happy being able to watch him play

@goldenirie 2 года назад

@@FirenWithLime dumb take but okay

@danicatempleton6745 2 года назад

I know everyone tells you not to worry about being slow, but I'll elaborate: People who watch streams have a certain expectation/tolerance for "slow" parts. For example, I usually plan to study languages in another tab during the slow parts. It's quite rare for any stream to be as 100% engaging as a planned and edited RU-vid video, and viewers understand that.

@M0du5Pwn3n5 2 года назад

Seeing you apologize for being slow while absolutely blazing through at a record pace is quite funny. Also, reading the superchats in bunches made for a much more enjoyable watching experience than interrupting the flow every few seconds to read them out. And as a bonus, it meant they could be checked by mods for spoilers first, which was nice.

@emmanuelrenard3749 2 года назад

Agree, although for some reason he fear missing about donation. You shouldn't be Simon ! We watch you playing, not reading spoilers in donation (who does that ????)

@theirishviking9278 2 года назад

@@emmanuelrenard3749 monsters thats who

@LorisLaboratory 2 года назад

A favorite moment: "Is Mark still here?" - Simon "I'm still here, Doofus!" -Mark 😂 Wonderful stream, thank you! :D

@frimi8593 2 года назад

1:41:50 for those in need of context, Mark is in chat

@Stephen-Fox 2 года назад

...While not strictly a puzzle game, I'm definitely hoping they play Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes at some point due to interactions like that.

@CDCHexaku 2 года назад

@@Stephen-Fox Oh I could already hear all the Bobbins that will be flying around, though Mark will be great at the Morse module

@jaked4135 2 года назад

Simon and Mark should 100% stream more. Doesn't even need to be games, just live solves. I know I would watch those!

@elevown 2 года назад

I also love how it slowly teaches you new techniques, and sometimes you think you know a rule but a further puzzle alaberates on it a bit more and you realise your understanding was a bit off, or it starts adding varients with new twists- so smart.

@MisuVir 2 года назад

Good to note that when you're staring through sticks at a puzzle, you can hit space to solve the puzzle from a distance without moving.

@bioshockgamer 2 года назад

This is the only thing that frustrates me when watching, because I know he’s making it way harder on himself than it needs to be! There’s no way I could remember half of the paths to walk all the way down to the puzzle without the environmental clues being right in front of me and be able to solve it.

@generrosity 2 года назад

I love the goofy grin he gets when it hits BEAM 😆 And finding the "black magic" lines out there - there are many many people very happily watching - you are doing great! Mr "Soduku Expert using Guitar to solve The Witness" 😜💚 and so kind to your chat! You almost need an assistant to do your Donations announcments (or voice to speech!)

@joeschmoe2222 2 года назад

Excuse me that's "Sudoku SEX SYMBOL using guitar to solve The Witness".

@livejapan 2 года назад

As an option if avoiding comments is difficult Simon: Turn off or hide the comments from yourself and your Mods can just send you the stuff to read out.

@LennyKerznowski 2 года назад

I've gone through this game a good handful of times..... and I've never thought of the Swamp's mechanic as "The number of necessary blocks needed." It's only one part of that, but I've never thought of it that way and solely used spatial/visual planning. Once you said that, I started getting a couple of the ones I've always struggled seeing almost right away.

@skooore 2 года назад

Once again, an absolute pleasure to watch Simon pretend like he's bumbling and floundering himself into record pace puzzle solving. This still holds up as one of the best LPs I've ever watched of The Witness and it really might be the platonic ideal of a The Witness LP. My timestamps (obviously, with spoilers): 06:57 "You see, that looks a bit like a puzzle…" 07:17 "I've been playing this over in the mind in the last few days because this is just mental. I have a feeling I have completely missed the point of this whole game. Because if it's right that there are puzzles sort of built into the landscape, I have not been looking for those AT ALL." 11:12 "I don't know what I'm doing! Stupid game!" 11:23 "I think I might have to do something else because I think this going to annoy everybody." The only thing keeping Simon from going EVEN faster is his worry that he is being too slow for his audience when he is already blazing through this at a hundred miles an hour. 12:13 Abandons the puzzle. 14:13 "Uh close my eyes to go down the hill… Oh you ROTTEN thing." 14:37 "See… this is odd as well, this lazer beam isn't going where it should go…" It's precisely this "Kid in a Puzzle Candy Store" content that we're all here for. 20:33 Chirp Churp 21:01 Sound puzzles start. This is the beginning of a beautiful love-hate relationship. 21:13 "OK… Ah… Why is that right!? I don't know… why that's right." 21:33 GET'S IT 22:19 "I really hope I'm not going to have to remember notes here…" Oh Simon you'll do so much more than that. 22:43 "I have a horrible feeling about this. This is going to make a mockery of my musical ear, isn't it? … deet deet doot de… Haha! I understand! This is a night.mare.!" 23:44 "This could be a horrific amount of time I spend on this." Simon is both incredibly fast and incredibly inept at these. 24:16 "I put on my robe and my wizards guitar" This is now a guitar stream. 25:11 Let the sound trolling begin. 25:22 "There's a phone going off. … That's not…" *looks around for a phone* 26:01 "COME. ON. Can you all hear that!?" (still immediately gets what he has to listen for) 26:38 "uuhhhaaaEEEEuuuuuh Is that it!?" (hopelessly fiddles with the guitar as though it would help with ANYTHING) 26:59 "There were about SIX different bird noises there." And then, immediately: "Well, which one is it?"

@skooore 2 года назад

@@Nora-Can Then I hope that History also requires Simon to 100% every last bit out of this game because I'm having an absolute blast and I do not want this to stop. And I feel very sorry for the actual work that I'm supposed to be doing.

@jemovimm9020 2 года назад

First enjoyed all of these lines as Simon spoke them, then enjoyed them just as much written down with your comments. Thank you! (really wonder why swampyboots are called swampyboots now, though, all new to the game!)

@skooore 2 года назад

@@jemovimm9020 it's kind of an in-joke in the community. It has its own subreddit and everything because a lot of people are stumped by it. The name is derived from the one symbol that throws people - the one that kind of looks like the Minecraft recipe for boots. And it's in the swamp area, hence…

@columbus8myhw 2 года назад

Seems to me he [SPOILERS] . . . missed the purple area in the swamp?

@jemovimm9020 2 года назад

@@skooore ahhh so the boot part is a minecraft thing! That's the reference I was missing. Thanks!

@TheHippieRat 2 года назад

Something so amazing about seeing him pull out his guitar to help him solve a puzzle

@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. 2 года назад

Antichamber and Portal would probably be terrible for Simons motion sickness, which is a shame. I do think he would LOVE baba is you, tho

@vpr0 2 года назад

Baba is you would be great. Portal is not that bad in terms of motion sickness because it has the portal gun. It helps a lot. Also it's very easy.

@CRASHkennedy2000 2 года назад

I think he should keep doing first person puzzle games to work his way towards portal. Portal is a MUST but I don’t think he’s ready for it yet.

@morot172 2 года назад

Based on my limited experience of the game, I think he'd be frustrated with Baba is You because it's often very messy and unclear what you are supposed to do. Or that's how I found it at least, while I love games such as Myst and The Witness. I think a logical next step would be Return of the Obra Dinn if he's anything like me.

@nintendude794 2 года назад

Manifold Garden would be worst for motion sickness I reckon

@Ruminations09 2 года назад

@@vpr0 No, Portal would be infinitely worse in terms of motion sickness. Not only is suddenly coming out in a different place from where you just were inherently disorienting, but the game also has puzzles that require you to fling yourself through the air. Simon is struggling just from going up stairs in this game, I think it's quite ludicrous to think Portal would be any better for him. The developers of Portal have even talked about motion sickness specifically as one of the major problems playtesters experienced that they spent a lot of time trying to minimize.

@cavalierwiththetruth 2 года назад

19:53 "The problem is I keep getting distracte - AH HA! What's this?" 🤣🤣🤣 Focus Simon, focus!

@JakeRoeder 2 года назад

As a musician with a really good ear, these sound puzzles were so fun for me. I very much enjoyed Simon wrestling with these tones and completely understand how the chaos of the overlapping tones can mess with someone. My favorite thing is watching the mix of joy and frustration and accomplishment that comes with these solutions. I've said it before but Simon's rollercoaster of emotions is the reason we're here and watching. Keep it up :)

@mbenoni7397 2 года назад

@@humanbirdsong Supposedly, tone-deafness only affects around 5% of the population, but one certainly gets a different impression when watching how people react to these puzzles. I've always wondered what it's like to listen to music for someone who struggles to tell which of two pitches is higher.

@daltagnan230 2 года назад

Simon's genuine excitement when discovering a puzzle style's solution is one of the purest moments of joy anyone will ever see on RU-vid.

@Afterthoughtbtw 2 года назад

As someone who really struggles with the visual ones (maybe due to aphantasia) I found myself getting the audio ones very quickly. Interesting to see how differently people's brains work.

@serebix3685 2 года назад

I can't believe how many impatient, rude people are in the chat. Simon FLYS through the game faster then any of us did on his first try and there are still some that can't wait a minute without spoiling solutions or give hints. What the matter people? Mark and the mods do a great job and to be frank I would in their position ban alot more persons I think :D If you so in need to control someone, buy one of your close people the game and see how they react when you give such "helpful" advise. Don't be a "short form of richard[4]" and just enjoy a) the stream without typing or b) Watch the vod in 1,5 speed so you can satisfy your pent up emotions.

@juggernaut93 2 года назад

I think some people are just trolling. Someone even sent a superchat message with a (purposefully?) incorrect spoiler.

@nickjayyoung7662 2 года назад

"Short form of robert [4]" .... Bobb, Robb, Bert, berk?... Uh... Could you please give me another clue on what you're trying to get at there? Edit: Spelling correction.

@serebix3685 2 года назад

@@nickjayyoung7662 Had to edit too, because I was stupid myself. I meant Richard not Robert ;)

@nickjayyoung7662 2 года назад

@@serebix3685 So, did you mean "Don't be a Rick"? as in Rick and Morty? Ohhhh.... It's the other short form, the one starting with a D, right?

@serebix3685 2 года назад

@@nickjayyoung7662 Both could work, especially since Rick is sometimes also rude and don't consider other peoples enjoyment. But in this case I had the D-version in mind.

@TheGhatz 2 года назад

It's funny when he's close to getting something and chat doesn't go crazy, and you realise that most of chat don't recognise it, then you realise there's probably lots of those that you yourself don't know.

@r_bear 2 года назад

This is so much fun Simon. Please stop worrying about being too slow; you're playing literally about twice as fast as a "good speed" run! I can't believe how quickly you grasped Tetris, and you are not alone in getting very annoyed with the audio puzzles 😅

@KobeMangelschots 2 года назад

This game really show the type of logic somebody is most attuned to. Simon breezes through pure logic puzzles but really struggles when it comes to environment ones.

@zuphix1802 2 года назад

I have watched a LOT of people play this game and Simon has just SMASHED everyone on the sound-Jungle. That was incredible! That gets so many people including myself stuck for literal days.

@bacicinvatteneaca 2 года назад

Really? To me that part was extremely painful. I just can't fathom how one can take that long. The only one he got faster than me was the one that went "ooaoooo" instead of chirp chirp, because it took me a while to realise that I had the correct clue and the disturbance mixed up.

@mbenoni7397 2 года назад

@@bacicinvatteneaca I would normally expect someone with a working sense of pitch to breeze through these, and someone without one to be indefinitely stuck. The interesting thing about Simon is that he's somewhere in the middle. Clearly, he perceives pitch well enough to get the right answer, but what is going on in his brain in the five minutes or so it takes to get there is mysterious.

@zuphix1802 2 года назад

@@bacicinvatteneaca I had done a good chunk of the end-game before I went back to finish the jungle area, and everyone I've watched on Twitch has asked for hints/clues except one Swedish guy, but of course there must still be people who can do it faster, I just haven't seen any.

@dusaprukiyathan1613 2 года назад

"I'm not going to be rude about how I might draw on the woman" - Simon, 2021

@SellymeYT 2 года назад

The *instant* solution to the bird+wolf puzzle is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. Just shows how quickly this man thinks when he's not explaining everything to the audience.

@ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan 2 года назад

To this day I *still* don't understand the bird noise puzzles. But you blow through them. People spend months on this game and you are BLOWING through it. You are a puzzle master. Like, holy crap.

@GopherAtl 2 года назад

every new type of puzzle: "Oh man, I forgot these, these were hard." After 4 episodes of this, I'm starting to think all the puzzles were hard xD

@Stephen-Fox 2 года назад

Cheers for this. Very enjoyable watch. A beam an hour really is an excellent pace for a first play.

@guycomments 2 года назад

The birds section is the only rule that I had to look up to complete so far. Extremely frustrating to see Simon get it immediately! Especially the one at 26:30. It sounds like it goes from the bottom to the top in one note to me

@ngwoo 2 года назад

You understood the 'tetris' blocks faster than anyone else I've seen play this (and faster than myself), notably the ability to rearrange the blocks around anywhere within the shape that contains them. No need to apologize for being slow, this is one of the fastest playthroughs I've seen.

@Snaitf01 2 года назад

You know, seeing you hesitate on certain puzzles makes me feel better about my own run, which is currently about a month long. XD RIP Swamp yellow square puzzle maze, I definitely hated you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who stalled completely trying to solve these. You are a lot of fun to watch. Thank you for playing!

@KidarWolf 2 года назад

The more of you I watch, the more I want to see. I came to this channel for the sudoku, and stayed for your wonderful expressions, intelligence, and the sheer glee you show when you solve a puzzle.

@mojoface 2 года назад

been loving the playthru btw, look forward to the streams everytime they pop up !

@curiouscactus 2 года назад

I had fun watching this. Can’t wait for the next part.

@Kenshuku 2 года назад

Seeing how happy Mark gets at the beginning of the stream when people start flooding into chat makes me smile so much!

@blueberrypieology3088 2 года назад

Wishing I could like this video multiple times for the amount of joy! Thanks to Simon for playing and to all the mods for their hard work. Looking forward to the next episode

@linesthatinterlace 2 года назад

You're such a lovely, gentle content creator. I love your videos.

@nombregenerico3677 2 года назад

these are so relaxing to watch. thank u for the awesome content simon ❤️

@Gorfinhofin 2 года назад

Being a birder really helped me with the sound puzzles.

@stefansson86 2 года назад

Enjoying these streams a lot! The Witness is probably my favorite puzzle game ever :)

@HunterJE 2 года назад

So fun once again! Word of advice - if you do consider playing Antichamber I would recommend briefly watching some gameplay video first - not enough to spoil things considerably but enough to see if it'd be a good fit motion-wise. I have a feeling if The Witness is an issue motion-sickness wise Antichamber might be much worse.

@mattm5672 2 года назад

I just came here to say the same. Antichamber is a brilliant game but there is a lot of motion. It also has a bit of a different appeal in that it's more of a cerebral game where The Witness fits perfectly with Simon's analytical puzzle solving skills (not to mention working on a grid). This series has been an absolute pleasure to watch so far!

@peterpeladon 2 года назад

I like antichamber but it has a lot more trial and error in it. I would rather he play games like Baba is You, Stephen's Sausage Roll, maybe A Monster's Expedition, Understand, the Talos Principle, the Portal games, or the Myst games. I've seen all these recommended in other videos and I think I'd recommend them all over Antichamber, as much as Antichamber is a fun one too.

@supermysterious66 2 года назад

@@peterpeladon I think Portal is a terrible idea based on the motion sickness problem...

@peterpeladon 2 года назад

@@supermysterious66 You're probably right. The first three on the list are all delightfully 2D though. Wanted to list a lot of those first.

@Stephen-Fox 2 года назад

For me, the main game I'd suggest they play (either of them - I want to see Mark get in on the streaming game as well) is Baba Is You. I wouldn't be opposed to them branching out of just pencil puzzle style stuff (though Baba... Is more Sokoban which while related to pencil puzzle logic is distinct from something you could do with pencil puzzles), and would definitely be interested to see them do such. Can't think of any games that really feel like they need the same sort of thinking as cryptic crosswords do, sadly, though. Portal feels right out considering he's particularly struggling with vertical motion due to motion sickness - anything with lots of vertical motion feels like a bad idea for Simon, and Portal has a lot of vertical motion. After all, vertical motion is the main way you build up momentum. "Wheeeeeeeeeee."

@jessicatait1867 2 года назад

Spent my Sunday catching up on the witness streams, what a fabulous series. So joyful and entertaining, including the iterative problem solving and cries of frustration!

@oliolion 2 года назад

Great stream Simon. Reading all the superchats in bursts really improved the viewer experience. And I think it helped you blast through that last area. I had a suspicion you would do well in that zone.

@longwaytotipperary 2 года назад

Enjoy these soo much!!! 🤗

@NErDy-pr1jf 2 года назад

The sound puzzles where the bane of my existence. I eventually understood the concept but had a hard time discerning it and only ever listened to the bird sounds in order. I brute forced my way through the jungle and was very upset when on of the puzzles permanently blocked off a main path.

@mojoface 2 года назад

by far the best stream yet. i havent bitched about the dono distraction, because it was clear others have, but taking 5-10 to read out the donos instead of as they come in is so much better. love the streams. have loved the channel. love both smimon and klark. hope you continue making awesome content!

@Niobae 2 года назад

I love this, please just have fun, you are doing great!

@nickjayyoung7662 2 года назад

I can't catch you live, but I can watch you after the fact and I love the series so far. Enjoying the show.

@masterpeace8539 2 года назад

I completed The Witness myself and watched like dozen playthroughs, and you're the best of all to deal with those Tetris puzzles i've seen so far. Just great!

@kmw9031 2 года назад

Gladly adding my voice to the calming chorus here: I'm finding this wonderful playthrough neither slow nor boring - after all, we're here for the process of the solve and not the solution itself, and the process is a delight to watch!

@MNSC400 2 года назад

Hi Simon! I have very much enjoyed all your content for a few years now. I want to send an extra special thank you for this play through of The Witness. It is absolutely my favorite game of all time. This series this has been a very rare gift. You have given me the opportunity to experience it, as I did the first time, again. I have completed this game multiple times and always thoroughly enjoy it, yet there was something special about the first. Thank you for a second wondrous experience.

@Nightknight1992 2 года назад

argh, the beginning really was a so close yet so far moment :D

@djcassyabas5123 2 года назад

Apologising for things every streamer does 😂 can't wait for the next one. I hope you keep it up for more games!

@tokeballs3047 2 года назад

Please keep this up!!!

@kbsanders 2 года назад

The Run button is doing Simon a disservice. It can be hard to "witness" things when you are sprinting everywhere.

@MeelsOnWeels 2 года назад

Yeah, and i think it makes the motion trouble worse, especially on stairs and such. But his "just close your eyes and go!" seems to be working for now

@GopherAtl 2 года назад

honestly when playing I felt like the game needed a "walk slower" button, especially when trying to line up things like branches against puzzles, even without running it was painfully fiddly at times making tiny moves to adjust.

@columbus8myhw 2 года назад

@@MeelsOnWeels Especially since you can't fall off

@jboutiet 2 года назад

I’ve got so many flippin’ doodles… I’m loving every minute of this.

@Xelger 2 года назад

Very nice work with some of those puzzles. I probably would have gotten stuck on some of them. The audio puzzles were easy for me, but some of those in the last area you did were nasty. These streams are definitely a nice exposure to the game for me. Thank you.

@youcancontactme 2 года назад

Simon, your speed on the tetromino puzzles was astounding. How quickly you processed and understood each new rule demonstrated.

@limitedparity 2 года назад

Absolutely loving this series, The Witness is one of my favorite games - I know everyone is already commenting so, but trust me, your puzzle solving for this is immaculately better than the vast majority of people that ever touch this game, and its really fun to watch how quickly you are catching on to the logic of the game. I really really hope you continue to play some tough puzzling video games - I highly recommend Stephen's Sausage Roll and A Monster's Expedition. They are wonderful open exploration puzzlers, and being top down will probably be easier on your motion sickness. Keep rockin!

@gaspode8 2 года назад

Watching someone else play this game if you know „it“ is truly interesting. While remembering the things you oversaw yourself when you didn’t know „it“ yet.

@dragonspight 2 года назад

The tetris shapes are far and away my favorite puzzles in this gmae

@noisecrime 2 года назад

Really enjoying this play through, its always interesting to see how different people with different skill sets approach the problems. Wonder if you are going to play any other puzzle games? I for one would love to see you tackle some classics like Anti-Chamber or There is No Game, The Room, The Talos Principle, Myst.

@Garrixon_ 2 года назад

Good game Simon! Waiting for the next stream :b

@specialkalberta 2 года назад

43:19 "Did anyone else think that was ridiculous?" Yes.

@laykefindley6604 2 года назад

I just want to add that you deserve every bit of success you are achieving! Please !don't ever feel bad about your donations! You earned it!

@ethanheadrick7027 6 месяцев назад

Im so glad you figured out to change what background noise you were listening to...ugh. I about never figured that out and was still listening the the birds and brute forced my way through. Brutal.

@noeluk102 2 года назад

This was hilarious! Love the bird impressions

@AndyBestHP 2 года назад

The Witness streams are great, there's no issue with pace, and let me add that I loved the block puzzle sections and the water garden / bridges, such a clever and pleasing game to play

@alexboiiii 2 года назад

It's NOT frustrating to watch you stuck on the same puzzle, even for a long time. It's interesting to hear your thought process. Don't feel pressured to og at a certain pace

@Pigeon0fDoom 2 года назад

I struggled so much with some of these puzzles. It took me much longer than Simon, but because I solved then first, I feel smart 😁

@98.11Deet 2 года назад

2:05:24 "Now hang on, I'm just going to check..." The moment Simon really started playing The Witness. :D

@dennismagnusson2141 2 года назад

Stanley Parable, Superliminal and Manifold Garden are great chill puzzle games that dont have any stress elements to it..

@mkwilson1394 2 года назад

There is no need for an apology when you get tripped up. This kind of LP is why people watch LPs!

@EdRadley 2 года назад

If I've learned anything about this game, it's that you need to consider every angle and every permutation of the rules after you discover one to fully appreciate all the puzzles. Really hoping Mark discovers all the Easter eggs and finds his way successfully through the gauntlet. I would also really enjoy watching him attempt to play Braid after he finishes this game to see if he's able to find all the solutions in that game as well. Edit: Meant I hope Simon finds all the Easter eggs

@EzraBradford 2 года назад

Mark or Simon?

@EdRadley 2 года назад

@@EzraBradford I suppose I would enjoy watching either of them play Braid?

@EzraBradford 2 года назад

@@EdRadley I mean, you said you hoped Mark discovered all the Easter eggs, but it's Simon playing

@EdRadley 2 года назад

@@EzraBradford oh, my bad. Can't believe I didn't notice that 🤦‍♂️

@dashalpha 2 года назад

the most complex sound puzzle was very annoying, either took me forever to solve or I more than likely eventually gave in to reading hints online. There were a least a few puzzles in this game that just break you like that...

@willemkossen 2 года назад

Loved it

@victorsullivan9107 2 года назад

the best part about the block puzzles is that there's multiple solutions for a lot of them

@P1ranh4 2 года назад

These Tetris puzzles were my favorite ones in the early game.

@elevown 2 года назад

I had to get help with some of the audio ones when i played, my ear just isnt good enough for me to get lots of rapid pitch changes and remember them.

@RossDougherty 5 месяцев назад

As a musician the sound puzzles were cake. It was the color puzzles that gave me the most trouble.

@ados380 2 года назад

I wish I didn't stumble across this as it's happening because I'd binge the whole thing!

@MrKinglydude 2 года назад

The bird chirp puzzles were particularly cruel, I would say the hardest laser puzzle for me despite being a musician/dj. I was eventually able to plow my way through but the last couple I'm still not sure if I ever fully understood. Regardless, I'm proud I didn't look it up or use an audio tool even if feel like I bifurcated the end.

@JacobGorny 2 года назад

As a musician, today you get to learn division of attention with the sound puzzles - time to pick up the drums too! :-D

@SjorsHoukes 2 года назад

22:55 - "Hahaha! I understand! Right. This is a nightmare."

@ipercreeper3300 2 года назад

Never seen a person play this game so fast, you pick up on clues almost instantly

@jdogg5639 2 года назад

It's really bizarre how wildly different that people's musical ears can be from each other. I was able to do the jungle near instantly after hearing each chirp tunes once, and I didn't have any issue distinguishing the overlapping tunes. I was confused why such an easy section was in the game, and I only later learned how many people struggle with tone deaf-ness.

@hugobouma 2 года назад

Literal, diagnosable tone-deafness (amusia) is much rarer than most people think, and is often confused for a simple lack of ear training which does indeed affect a majority of the population.

@linforcer 2 года назад

Anything past the first 2 was hell for me. I can tell which of two notes is the higher, but when you introduce a third they need to be suuuuuper far from each other on the scale for me to consistently tell what's what.

@KeithGrant 2 года назад

I am by no means tone deaf, but when it started overlapping sounds, I got VERY frustrated trying figure out *which* sounds were relevant and which were just noise. That was my least favorite section of the game

@jdogg5639 2 года назад

@@KeithGrant Once you identify the overlapping tunes individually, it just becomes a logic puzzle. I.E. the grid has 4 notes but one tune has 5 so it can't be that one. Or the grid has a double length sustained note but one tune jumps pitches on each note so it can't be that one. Or the grid has 1 low pitch dot but one tune has 2 low pitches so it can't be that one. Etc. I like the twist with the final one where both tunes work with the dots available, but one path is logically impossible so it can't be that tune.

@KeithGrant 2 года назад

@@jdogg5639 "once you identify the overlapping tunes individually" is the problem entirely

@eXponentia 2 года назад

One thing that isn't a spoiler that I'd like Simon to do more often, because he has done it some times but forgets it's almost always possible, is you can do almost all puzzles from far away, weird angles, through things, etc. A lot of the time Simon will end up writing down or memorizing something that he learns at one angle so he can do it on the puzzle when he could have just done the puzzle from the angle/through glass/etc that he learned the solution at.

@AdamGaffney96 Год назад

1:30:00 I also really struggled with this one in particular, and I think the reason is because you're always looking at how you complete the "positive space" i.e. where the shapes go. However it's actually way harder to visualise drawing the "negative space" i.e. where the shapes are not. So you're instinctively trying to draw the shapes and not realising that you can't do it that way.

@ChaosTheSalamander 2 года назад

it's interesting how i came from a musical family, and I could pick up the note changes pretty much instantly, while Simon was really having trouble with the birds. then again, his puzzle solving figured out the actual pattern faster than I did. it was also quite fun to listen to this birds: *"high low high low middle~"* Simon: "d-dee doo dee doo deh??"

@DonGeritch 2 года назад

that graph paper better get its own channel

@nombregenerico3677 2 года назад

BEAM!

@necaton 2 года назад

LINE!

@Speireata4 2 года назад

I don't understand why he didn't understand that the sun made the "metal" coins in the sand reflect the sunlight. Has that to do with his color vision?

@jasonx7803 2 года назад

He seems to think that puzzles are just physical objects, the border is the puzzle, not the line. He did the same thing underwater, it didn't even occur to him that the color mattered, he just saw a circle and that was it. I wonder if it's vision or his monitor settings, though. If he has a low contrast monitor he might not actually be seeing the glares from the sun as much of anything.