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Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play

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Re: Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play

#12

Reminds me of those 80s adventure games that always had one hard puzzle and when you finally found out the answer was really annoyed by how random and insignificant it was.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time banging my head against the wall of Zork, and in the end felt it was a "guess what I'm thinking" pastime that was not worth my time.

Re: Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play

#14
First few were easy here's the solution. Haven't got time for this so here's a dump of what I have so far. (SPOILER ALERT)

  1: Update URL to be whiterabbit
  2: "TMA-2", name of monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey
  3: "palladium", convert decimals in picture to ASCII
  4: change URL to /right/brain
  5: Something to do with "The Usual Suspects" probably

Re: Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play

#16

Reminds me of those 80s adventure games that always had one hard puzzle and when you finally found out the answer was really annoyed by how random and insignificant it was.

A good adventure game is hard to make difficult and satisfying I think. I remember having a lot of trouble with monkey island puzzles until I figured out the game “logic”. But once you do, all the clues are there and it’s great.

If I need to know about random facts or topics or whatever, that’s not hard. That’s just annoying or the author is trying to prove how much smarter they are than you.

Re: Hakari – the hardest puzzle game you'll ever play

#20
Made it through the first 9 levels with only a little stumbling (as the author has indicated, there are plenty of little hints).

Level 10 has got me quite stuck though! I think I have an idea what needs to be done, but I'm stuck on trial and error with the exact details.

That said, there's something deliberate that I know is a hint and doesn't figure into my thinking... I don't yet know what it means.

Frustrating, but fun :).

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