We Were Here Forever's Weirdest Puzzle Deserves An Award
Game of the Year 2022 belongs to Elden Ring. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it. That entire discussion is now pointless. There have been other good games, and there will be more good games, but there can only be one Game of the Year, and Elden Ring is it. This doesn’t mean the rest of the games don’t matter, it just means we need to change the conversation. If Best Game is locked down, then let’s talk about some other Bests. What was the Best sound you heard? Which game had the best dialogue? We can still give credit where it’s due, and I have a nomination of my own. I think there should be an award for Best Puzzle, and We Were Here Forever’s Guardian Puzzle should win it.
The Guardian appears at the end of the game’s lengthiest chapter. After navigating through Rockbury’s sunken mines and refueling the Nautilus - a giant glass bathysphere that takes the explorers down to the depths of the flooded caves - you encounter a tentacled monstrosity called The Guardian who wraps itself around the Nautilus and doesn’t let go.
To escape, one player enters a small escape pod and drives right up to the creature’s maw - a mess of sharp teeth with a parascoping eye that protrudes from the center of it - where it can listen to it speak. Meanwhile, the other player stays behind in the Nautilus where they can access recordings of the creature talking that have been translated into a series of symbols. The player on the escape pod can hear the Guardian speak and reply to it by pressing buttons labeled with the corresponding symbols. The only problem is that the listener can’t translate the words, and the translator can’t hear the messages.
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