So today I tried to complete the “Not so secret” jumping puzzle, and the best way to sum up my experience is, it was not fun in at all.
I’m not sure if it’s because my character is a Charr, but none of the other jumping puzzles I completed are like this one, and I had fun with the other puzzles, most of them have a beautiful view as well, and it gives a rewarding feel after being completed.
But then comes this jumping mess, inside a dark cave, where I’m expected to jump on beams smaller than my character’s feet, as well as have to land on the empty space betwen the character’s feet, its ridiculous!
I’ve almost made it to the top once, but made a stupid mistake and fell…all the way down.
It’s amazing because, this puzzle managed to kitten me off, and I got to the point where I was just trying and trying to make it up, while being angry, stopped having fun, but eventually quit it, because it is insane.
It wouldn’t be so hard, if not for the early jumps the character has to make, that part being, having to hop across some very small platforms below the ship, the annoying part here are 2 npc’s that spawn down on the ground, and they will hit you, which will make you enter combat, then you can very easily screw your next jumps if you are not very careful, best solution is to kill those npcs via ranged means, even so they regenerate health, so you have to burst them down, and it’s ridiculous, why the hell would they even bother you, if they can’t stay in combat, but YOU DO STAY STUCK in combat it makes NO sense! you can choose to ignore them, but at the end of the hoping platform, you must make a LONG jump which is extremly hard to do if you are in combat, after you make that jump, the next jump is the most ridiculous jumps of all, you need to get from this small beam, on an even smaller beam, which is at AN ANGLE, and that jump, is very easy to screw up, and if you fail it, there’s also a good chance you’re going to end up on the bottom of the pit, conveniently placed , and before you can start jumping again, you will have to get out of the pit first, its a FREKING MESS, I can’t understand what the devs were thinking when they designed this, it’s just torture, and the player pushes himself to finish it, it’s no fun at all.
I’m only writing this in hopes that, someone would see this and think “You know, maybe it’s a good idea to bring down a couple notches the ridiculous factor in this puzzle”.
Aside than that, the camera angles won’t help you much, it’s not that hard, but it’s something you will have to get used to, you have to be really careful with how you position your camera so as not to fail, the early jump as well (the one where you have to walk on a huge pipe, get up on a rock, and then jump on a series of little beams), yeah that one is annoying too, but you will get used to it after a couple of tries, the hardest parts are farther, and are also the most annoying, because you don’t get a 2nd chance to immidately have another try at them, nooo, first you have to re-do all the kitten jumps, and it is just not fun.
(edited by Marius.9864)