Not being a master at Shakespeare, I have no idea how an average person is supposed to figure it out. I can't imagine trying to figure it out without the internet.
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Silent Hill 3's Shakespeare puzzle is ridiculous
- Thread starter jukeboxhero2396
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I think it's only absurd on Hard puzzle difficulty. But yeah it's silly as hell. On Normal I recall it being sensible.
Silent Hill 3 on Hard Puzzle difficulty does ask for outside knowledge from the game.
Some will hate that, but I have a very good memory of this specific puzzle holding a stream a few years ago, forgetting the solution but asking an audience of only about 50-60 people not to spoil or look up the solution if they don't know it, and then spending 45 minutes sitting there debating Shakespeare with Twitch chat.
It's a good memory for me.
Some will hate that, but I have a very good memory of this specific puzzle holding a stream a few years ago, forgetting the solution but asking an audience of only about 50-60 people not to spoil or look up the solution if they don't know it, and then spending 45 minutes sitting there debating Shakespeare with Twitch chat.
It's a good memory for me.
Every time I hear about that puzzle all I think of is this amazing scene from Blackadder Back and Forth
Shakespeare has tortured us all.
Shakespeare has tortured us all.
Yes that's Colin Firth playing Shakespeare
Ehh never found it that hard tbh. Even a child could recognise what books those verses refers to.
Can't imagine people not having read Macbeth or King Lear.
Can't imagine people not having read Macbeth or King Lear.
Not when the puzzle requires information not found within the game. The description of the books barely give the player what it needs to decipher the puzzle on Hard and Extra.
yeah it sucks her SH3 LP with Bobvids has been delayed for so long 😭
Very. It's been quite good except for her frustrating lack of reading comprehension on the hospital keypad. LOL
My college roommate and I staying up late trying to figure out the puzzles on Hard Mode is one of my favorite memories. So good.
The keypad puzzle is amazing too
The keypad puzzle is amazing too
where the keys correspond to the parts of the face the person in the story is eating
It's hard but then it's also hard puzzle difficulty so yeah. Not even fussed that the specific information isn't in game - Shakespeare isn't exactly obscure and even if you didn't know the specific details of the it for each, you can find synopses for these very easily that would help solve them.
Silent Hill did a great job in having multiple difficulty settings for the puzzles. I wish more games took this approach.
Silent Hill did a great job in having multiple difficulty settings for the puzzles. I wish more games took this approach.
Holy shit lmao. Honestly appreciate how SH3 had a difficulty option for puzzles.
This is a great puzzle, especially on hard.
The way you are supposed to solve it? Do research. While there could be some more stuff in-game that would give more context, I think it's fine if the game is referencing real world content that can be easily searched on the internet or at a library.
The way you are supposed to solve it? Do research. While there could be some more stuff in-game that would give more context, I think it's fine if the game is referencing real world content that can be easily searched on the internet or at a library.
First time I played this game was with a couple of friends. We played on hard puzzle difficulty and this specific puzzle has remained a running joke till this day. Always happy to see other people joke about it.
Ah yes i remember that fucking thing, me and a friend struggled for half a night to solve it on hard while drunk on red wine and high as kites, we where in a cabin in the middle of the woods with no internet access so we couldn't cheat, good times.
The Shakespeare part seems like the easiest part of it, though that might be the result of certain cultural biases on my part. Those last few manipulations in that spoilered answer there however would definitely have kept me confounded for a long time, and I probably would have been a little annoyed when I finally figured it out. Maybe in a good way? But a similar puzzle that was instead about, I don't know, The Beatles albums or Star Wars movies would seem completely intolerable to me, so I guess I relate to the original complaint.
Ah c'mon now, is Shakespeare really that obscure? It requires some outside information but hard is a bit of a stretch.
I feel like the Shakespeare puzzle was the one that took me the longest.
The hanged man puzzle in SH2 on hardest difficulty is probably my favorite puzzle from the series.
The hanged man puzzle in SH2 on hardest difficulty is probably my favorite puzzle from the series.
please don't play a video game until you have read the complete works of shakespeare you uneducated heathens 🧐🍷
"Everyone should have read these"
I feel like the original Japanese audience probably hasn't read Shakespeare
I feel like the original Japanese audience probably hasn't read Shakespeare
I could not have pieced together the fucking monster-eating-a-woman's-face poem was the code to the number keypad.
You don't need to have read the plays to know the stories—they're pretty ingrained into culture. I mean I'm pretty sure I knew the plot of Hamlet from Sesame Street before anything else. If you somehow don't know them, it's really not that hard to look them up.
But again these stories are well permeated into culture. Kurosawa even turned three of them into films.
But again these stories are well permeated into culture. Kurosawa even turned three of them into films.
