Jonathan Blow has taken time out to discuss his upcoming first person puzzler The Witness on the PS Blog as part of Sony’s “conversations” series. The game will be exclusive (timed, most likely) to the PlayStation 4 when it launches, and it certainly looks interesting.
The game finds you on a mysterious island packed full of puzzles to solve, at first they may seem impossible but Jonathon said that the game is based on “epiphanies”, events at which point the solution to the puzzle will become blindingly obvious.
“Every puzzle has an idea which is communicated in a non verbal way,” he explained.
GhostViper
I’m looking forward to this one.
ron_mcphatty
It’s looking great, like a more accessible and modern version of Myst.
kjkg
Oh man, Myst V was amazing but damn was I confused 99% of the time.
bunimomike
I like the idea behind it and some of the world is very eye catching but other levels look almost unfinished with art style. :-\
TSBonyman
Considering his statement that they could cast their net wide and do something that’s never been done before – it does look an awful lot like Myst. I do like the visuals but i’m failing to see the variety in what seems to be a lot of ‘trace-the-route’ type puzzles. Not sold on it yet but i’ll wait for more info.
ron_mcphatty
Yeah those tracing things hardly look challenging, hopefully there’s some deeper puzzle behind them.
Broonba
Don’t think this gonna be my cup of tea. Those tracing puzzles look tedious but as ron said “there’s some deeper puzzle behind them.”