Guild Wars 2

Today I completed the Obsidian Sanctum jumping puzzle, and I’m truly amazed at how well it is put together, and how it made me truly feel like the adventurer I always envisoned my character being. While it is a bit long, it brings new challenges constantly, and made me truly feel like an explorer, finding my way through the dark, and sometimes having to prove my worth over other explorers to find my way to the treasure at the end.

This explorer persona is something I haven’t experienced since I was a 4-year old that liked to run through my relatives’ giant house and look in every room. It was a side of me I thought I had lost forever, and I never thought for a second that I would see it again at this age, much less in a video game.

Now I’m determined to find every single jumping puzzle that I can without searching the wiki, and I’m excited for the journey, and not the destination. The one’s that I’ve seen so far are fiendishly difficult to find, and I welcome the challenge to find them all.

Thank you Arenanet, for the massive (though probably unintended) nostalgia trip, and for helping me find the explorer in me.

Hey, I also went to explore every room in my house when I was little.

Jumping puzzles for life.

My fave are still Weyandt’s Revenge & Fawcett’s Bounty, a chance to live my childhood fantasy of how it’s like to be one of pirate treasures hunting kids in ‘The Goonies’ ^^