Nerd³ Tests... The Witness

A game about line mazes and false starts.
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[@EmilyStell]

I haven't played the game but I think he was missing something with the black and white door? Like I think you have to separate *all* the blacks from *all* the whites and he was just separating the small groups of them, leaving both black and white in the same section when you look at the whole picture. I think?

[@xRawrBawr]

+Emily Stell you're right. you have to completely separate all dots; effectively putting all white dots on the left of the drawn path and all black dots on the right, or visa-versa.

[@manic221]

+Emily Stell You're right :)

[@seanrooney933]

+Emily Stell You are correct. You have to separate the black and white pieces across the whole puzzle, not just their neighbors.

[@felkmane]

+Rawr Bawr Donald Trump could've solved that.

[@ethanbriley1010]

+Emily Stell Black and whites don't mix, you're correct.

[@arturaraujo73]

I suspect this video was recorded before the Cookie Clicker fiasco.

[@generico366]

What happened?

[@ethanhollen6538]

He said "It's 2016"

[@maxhill4370]

+Bas van de Kleut he went crazy playing cookie clicker for the 2 second

[@maxhill4370]

+Max Hill for the second time sorry

[@notlekrut]

+Artur Araújo Obviously. He doesn't have time to play anything but Cookie Clicker.

[@nuosna]

"Separating the Black and the White, that's what this puzzle is teaching us." Well shit, calm down Witness.

[@aceman0000099]

KKK

[@sokolgaming7597]

+aceman0000099 Donald Trump

[@anthonywebb4866]

+Cqcrtdoesgaming no

[@blarg2429]

+Cqcrtdoesgaming Haven't you heard? Trump has "a great relationship with the blacks," as he once put it. XP

[@blarg2429]

Cqcrtdoesgaming That wink sends altogether the wrong implication here. :P

[@mordymion]

When he actually tries, he's good at puzzles. When he gives up after 5 seconds, he misses the cool mechanics and real puzzling and incredible level design. Kind of sabotages all the things he would actually enjoy.

[@avypath]

Seriously. Him running away from that symmetry area BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS A FUCKING TUTORIAL was so infuriating. Like, do you think they have cables running all around it just for fun?!

[@abeta201]

+AvalancheofNeed Actually, yes.

[@Daniel-od3xm]

i know right, he walked away from every puzzle, it made me cringe so hard

[@simonw3858]

For a guy who calls himself nerd cubed, this video makes him come off as one dimensional. He went into this game with a closed mind and you can tell.

[@Matt-1906]

Didn't section off the black and whites correctly

[@AstroPsych_]

+Matt Clarke The perfect excuse of the 1950s

[@chazhinkley6602]

+DoctorWhoFanBadWolf omg haha

[@VermilionRua]

+DoctorWhoFanBadWolf Or the American Southeast.

[@brandonjslea1562]

+Matt Clarke Thats not Dans fault, he applied every thing he had been taught, and by those rules it was correct. Unless ur not talking about the puzzle and are in-fact just quoting racism.

[@AstroPsych_]

+Steam Powered Pixel It is Dan's fault, he didn't finish the Black/White tutorial. If he had, he would've learned that you can't just not have black and white touching, they have to be _completely sectioned off._

[@essemque]

The point of the "turn off the puzzle and make you go back and resolve the previous one" mechanic is to give you a push in the direction of "don't just guess, work it out, silly player." It's (almost) only used in areas where brute-force is an option.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

Damn, a whole year later and I finally think of a suitably silly mocking response. Ahem. "I skipped to the last chapter of portal 2 after I got stuck somewhere in portal 1 and I don't understand this puzzle. The game has lost me." Ha! Take that!

[@reveem7761]

Thats a perfect summary too. wow.

[@louiesalmon3932]

The idea with this game is to not go "Ugh, tutorial puzzles." None of them are tutorials, or rather, all of them are.

[@avypath]

Exactly. And the ones that are purely just there for tutorial purposes aren't connected to anything else. That's how you know there's no point to solving them.

[@unslept_em]

+Louie Salmon the difference between this game and other puzzle games is that these puzzles aren't usually posed as a one-time challenge, each puzzle is meant for learning. i feel like this is actually a good step for puzzle games because the designer can make more "difficult"; puzzles while also making them easier for the player to solve, all without changing the puzzle in question in the slightest dan's idea that the game should just *give* him the rules is entirely contrary to how this game works, in like, every way, and there wouldn't be such a range of puzzles if it had to make the rules clear each time I don't think better to trust that the player is smart and give them enough to clearly grasp the rules on their own. this is not fast, and it requires time and engagement, and I'm not sure dan will ever really be engaged since he wasn't quite sold on the concept to begin with I don't think...

[@unslept_em]

_shrugs_

[@DeusMachina_EXE]

+Louie Salmon like anti-chamber!

[@ch7639]

Emma What range of puzzles? There are maybe three variations of one puzzle in this game. There's a difference between being open ended and snobby. This seems to fall onto the snobby end.

[@jonaspoffyn]

Dan you so overcomplicated that door puzzle for yourself... You did know all the rules, you just didn't follow them...

[@sircaramelofcanadia4743]

The shadow of the character suprisingly looks like Dan, complete with foof

[@DiplomatOfDirt]

Not at all

[@sircaramelofcanadia4743]

+killerbean17ify :o

[@aceman0000099]

entirely wrong hair... this guy has long hair, dan har curly hair

[@Suileron]

How Dan solves a puzzle: gives it 2 tries, says he doesn't know, moves on to the next one.........well done sir

[@blowmyhorn]

What a stellar difference between this and Day9's videos. "trial and error", more like Nerd has the attention span of a goldfish

[@samisnotreal4360]

He really doesn't pretend that he's good at this kind of game. We mostly watch him because he's good at complaining and being a human being in general, honestly.

[@theonefreeman42]

Really I just watch Dan because he's funny

[@ordessasam]

Tbh, I stopped about halfway through. He DIDN'T complete the black and white tutorial, then doesn't understand why he can't do one of the puzzles. His complaints about the jump button and invisible walls are to me, invalid. Because a lot of the game is appreciation of the world (it does some fucking incredible work with imagery and perspective) and given a jump button, every player would skyrim there way up the wrong side of the mountain and ruin the imagery. Normally I am in agreement with Dan, but in this case it pisses me off so much that I had to watch DayNine play it to calm down.

[@ordessasam]

+ordessasam Side note, he was doing the puzzle wrong.

[@samisnotreal4360]

+ordessasam People wouldn't be able to Skyrim everything if they just made the terrain slippery. Loads of games have found good alternatives to invisible walls, and this game was unnecessarily excessive with them. I'll post an example with a timestamp in the next reply cause I'm on moblie so no edits.

[@carlosbaldellou]

All the puzzles are "Do a line" but it's impressive how many variatons there are of the same puzzle concept.

[@aceman0000099]

i did a few lines before watching this

[@1rian25]

I'm sure i'm not the only one that was screaming "step to the left" at the hexagonal puzzle

[@1rian25]

AvalancheofNeed I noticed it by accident. I just got to the area and the one that's half coverd reflected the sun and I saw the smudge. It seems like it's pretty hard not to notice. But I get stuck on the simplest parts sometimes so I get it

[@wedmunds]

+Said Garcia I agree that Blow should have made the intro to the hexagon area more obvious. For example, they can force the player to walk through a zigzag fence passway and they would notice the solar glare multiple times as they approach the puzzle, which would probably send them backwards to learn the mechanic fully.

[@coasternut3091]

Watching him try to solve a puzzle you already see the solution to is maddening

[@RainbowLizardOne]

"That's where the game loses me" When you're not very good at it?

[@aceman0000099]

pretty much

[@LanceThumping]

+Lizard_Buttock It's really bad when Jesse Cox outdoes you at a puzzle game.

[@ssbbgirl22]

Preach it 👍👍

[@LilAnonomus]

Antichamber seems pretty similar to this by being ambiguous; more-so even, and he liked that.

[@vitorsly]

+Little Anon Antichamber fucks with your mind every minute. This game has only variations on 1 puzzle

[@GingerDwarf]

Glad I'm not the only one who accidentally found the secret ending. An ending I like to dub, the "Artsy Ending"

[@avypath]

This video was so painful to watch... Tutorial sections aren't connected to anything, so you don't really need to do them. If it's connected to something, you NEED to solve it! Personally, I think the puzzles are super hard, but entirely fair. If it has things you've seen, then you should be able to solve it; if not, then there is absolutely an area that walks you through the rules.

[@avypath]

Also, there is no such thing as an impossible/unsolvable puzzle in this game. EVERY puzzle has a solution. Even the puzzles that he expects almost nobody to solve do have solutions; they're just really complicated.

[@cicerofryman97]

+AvalancheofNeed I wanted to cry because of his ignorants when watching this video. Dan didn't even give this game a chans! FFS!

[@Pyronaut_]

+AvalancheofNeed There are a couple I, or at least someone whose ability I trust more than mine, would consider a bit sketchy but it has to do with a certain group/aspect of puzzles.

[@EllipticGeometry]

+AvalancheofNeed I really like the narrative style of the game. It doesn't literally tell you anything. The puzzles speak for themselves. It's so nice to have just the things with no one imposing as much as a name on them.

[@bretbret8293]

The Witness is still my favorite game of the year. It's not for everyone, but I love it so much.

[@kyuaint]

Same here man. I've played it multiple times and it never ceases to amaze me every time I come back to it.

[@sirprintalot]

Me, watching this video: "Dan, keep going! Keep going Dan! KEEP GOING DAN. KEEEP GOINNGGGG! NO DON'T RUN AWAY FROM THE PUZZLE ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH-11!"

[@kuraikitsune4]

A real shame, I do wish you had more patience for this masterpiece. I've been riveted by it for well over a week now. Still not finished it all. Certainly very gratifying to find the solutions all by your self.

[@HomeMadeKrazy]

For someone who loves puzzle games, Dan's really bad at puzzle games

[@DDetare]

Ben Cooper spent most of this vid yelling at my screen

[@LanceThumping]

+OfficialNerdCubed You know you are doing bad when Jesse Cox does better than you at a puzzle game.

[@myhreeng2709]

nerdcubed is like the child at a daycare center trying to fit a square cube in a round hole you know he's trying but it just ain't going to work

[@narcolepticcetacean7385]

9:28 for those of you who didn't know that is a glass blowing studio, where I believe the glass puzzle panels are created.

[@TheInterogater]

Before I finish watching the video I need Dan to know that the changing the field of view could have quite the impact on the game, due to the massive amount of perspective puzzles.

[@tiltedtesseract8210]

For whatever reason, I laughed at the lines bumbling into themselves whenever Dan struggled with a puzzle. I'm easily entertained, I suppose...

[@katzen3314]

6:42 He didn't separate the white and black dots, like he had to do in all the other puzzles. That's not a game flaw if you skip ahead to a more difficult puzzle and get it wrong.

[@KanaalMTS]

"The black and white have to be seperated" - Dan 2k16

[@CJ-ic5iq]

Top 5 NerdCubed videos: 5. Plays Black & White 4. Plays Just Cause 3 3. Plays Overgrowth 2. Completes Portal 1. Plays Crashtastic

[@KiraPhusion]

Well this should be interesting. I actually rather liked The Witness, mostly for the visuals. Music was really nice too!

[@banjokitty]

actually beat this game, took around 48 hours without any walkthroughs one of the best puzzlers i've played in my life the message, comparatively, is very, very strange 7/10

[@anahte4003]

He did the iron door puzzle wrong... he didn't completely separate the circles correctly.

[@anthonysandalis9148]

MORE PLEASE, this was so cool!

[@EvisceratorMK2]

As someone who understand how every puzzle game ever works this is painful to watch.:-)

[@edmar100]

anyone else got reminded of flow?

[@aceman0000099]

yes totally

[@TheRandomhobo123]

I don't know why people aren't into arty games, l love them! Then again, my dad is an artist and kind of drilled his love of art into my head

[@guard13007]

30:30 The rage I felt like "IT'S RIGHT THERE THE ANSWER IS THERE STOP DOING IT WRONG AHHHHH"

[@reedpeterson1994]

Dan, if you like puzzle games, I always enjoyed Myst 3 Exile; I never found the other two in the series but, it's a big puzzle world.

[@elliottbarker1595]

I still maintain that this game is Dark Souls but more for crossword enthusiasts than LARPer wannabes. The way Dan was talking about how he felt no compulsion to keep solving puzzles is exactly how I felt playing Darl Souls, how none of the gameplay felt rewarding or meaningfully challenging.

[@CowfaicdRealm]

12:07 All together now! "Random documents and audio logs, we find them stuck to notice boards, we find them underdogs, we're gonna put them in a file and give them to review and we're bored of all the gaming but we've nothing else to do!"

[@isaacbrown7829]

+Cowfaic'd Realm lol, I remember that on zero punctuation XD

[@aceman0000099]

im trying to sing it but i don't know what tune to do... :(

[@Hevymin]

+aceman0000099 Watch the Zero Punctuation episode on The Talos Principle

[@dougiedoug1663]

13:30 he should play firewatch thats great art style of a game and an even better story

[@Slouworker]

+alex douglas Firewatch is a shitty walking simulator with an incredibly crappy ending

[@threeleggedshrew]

+Banana Warrior Have you played it? If you have, have you watched someone else play it? .. I initially thought it had a bad ending, not being able to meet Delilah but honestly, it might be a good thing

[@dougiedoug1663]

i thought the ending was bad but an overall great game

[@threeleggedshrew]

alex douglas What made the ending bad for you?

[@dougiedoug1663]

the fact you dont get to see or really meet Delilah

[@ZaphodHarkonnen]

My ah-hah! moment in this game so far was trying to figure out one of the puzzles about halfway through a set that had thrown in something new. And it wasn't until I just happened to try after a video I was playing had finished that I figured out the clue was sound based. Great game, still many hours from completing it.

[@Slimmeyy]

I can see a lot more puzzles the more videos I watch on this, even the giant ones o.O

[@Konigreich]

+OfficialNerdCubed You should do the Talos Principle, it's a very nice 3D puzzle game with a good storyline for it. And it's absolutely gorgeous.

[@KlLLERROBOT99]

This game is by far the most beautiful game to come out to date. Once I saw the trailer for this game I went and bought it. Still haven't completed even close to half of the puzzles and yet my brain hurts in a good way when I play it. 10/10

[@nealthompson9463]

This is like a new adaptation to a Myst game. And I want it in my belly right now.

[@R_got_a_name_change]

Dan is falling closer and closer to Totalbiscuit's level of puzzle game skill.

[@DougieBoy]

The Witness is one of most beautiful games. I would like to play it soon.

[@rednovember2205]

This game reminds me of a zoo that's currently closed so you hop the fence only to find that the animals are gone.

[@aceman0000099]

?

[@samisnotreal4360]

+aceman0000099 How can you not understand what he means? He's saying it feels dead and empty and like it shouldn't be either of those.

[@updated5709]

+SamIsNotReal What a privileged capitalist thing to say.

[@aceman0000099]

+SamIsNotReal oh, i thought he wad talking about the gameplay

[@samisnotreal4360]

+Pester, the Fox Do you prefer your zoos without animals?

[@gamercatkinggameing]

This game is just lovely nice scenery and some very relaxing puzzles this is a game what you play after a hard day and you want to relax and unwind

[@Kranitoko]

"Black and White need to be separated off" - Nerd3, 2016, Taken out of context.

[@v.6984]

Reminds me of The Talos Principle, with the audio logs, vaguely told story, and figuring out things on your own.

[@BaukeStelma]

"You are generically wrong in everything you've ever done." - Daniel Hardcastle, 2016

[@mehdude9999]

0:54 For the longest time I've thought something like that would be a really cool idea, although I'd always imagined it as just shooting out the sun and having it get dark or something. That's really cool though.

[@misteranderson8280]

You don't just separate the groups of white and blacks, you need to segregate all of them!

[@Blae000]

The different areas teach you different mechanics.. I think your impatience is getting to you, Dan >.

[@CharlieDBrown]

Skyrim and Battlefront and Crisis and Destiny and The Last of Us (and so many more) be damned. THIS is a magnificently gorgeous video game.

[@katzenware]

In one of the puzzles, click and hold on the side of the moon, to turn the moon, to seean aperture logo, and if you get a telescope, you will see WH- "SPACE! I KNOW WE'RE IN SPACE BLOODY ELL MATE!" "Space. Space. we're in space. space. ba ba ba. ba."

[@lauraboyd8666]

Dan, you forgot the comedic symbol sound after, "Any shapes? No? I do a good cube!"

[@zombiekiller515]

Isnt that little sound that Dan was saying is from uprising 2 also in spore? In the space stage when you're looking for something on a planet I think.

[@Hillofkill]

I can't even Dan, I can't even...

[@StansHangoutAccount]

I saw it when it was 1 second. I didn't waste 10 minutes doing that.

[@alexmcsandwichface2075]

13:45 Dan, they are called obelisks and they keep track of environmental puzzles for a secret i.e they have the outlines on them and they light up when you get them, like the construction one at 13:22

[@alexmcsandwichface2075]

There are variations to the puzzle. The wheel ones needed to be looked at in the light, and there are ones that use sound.

[@volegaming3603]

The last few killed me to watch. Need to play this game and complete it myself xD

[@barkbarkbunny]

I always wanted you to have a look at The Talos Principle and now that you found this, it's roughly, very roughly, the same thing. But maybe consider it if you already haven't, Dan.

[@SteamyWonder]

odd that brits seem to be notably affected by lower than expected fov. ive definitely experienced it but never gotten sick from it. although bad fps on the other hand is a totally different story for me, which i hear isnt an issue for many others.

[@lwaves]

+Steamy Wonder Is it more noticeable among Brits or is it just certain people? Maybe because of their particular eyesight or something. I've never had a problem with fov or any other screen setting. Same goes for bad fps. In fact, I don't personally know anyone IRL that does have a problem with it.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

+Steamy Wonder I'm actually pretty certain that it's a nocebo (opposite of a placebo) that has spread very far due to the internet. I'm sure some people do get motion sick from videogames, but I have a harder time believing that so many people have it due to low FOV. Don't misunderstand me though, just because it's a nocebo doesn't mean the effects aren't real; people do feel sick from nocebo effects just as much as someone who is medically sick.

[@lancescott7320]

The puzzle section in the pink forest dosent connect to anything visible. But it may connect to the windmill in the base but i don't know. The windmill is a World puzzle and is difficult af. Oh, pro tip go to and solve the swamp (beautiful area) and unlock a boat that goes to any of the locations. Its kinda like a fast travel.

[@robertburbank3202]

The Witness: The game that combines Myst, The Talos Principle, and Snake.

[@hitomi969]

"fine, you win that one, thing !... oh a puzzle !"

[@CherryNobody]

*Total Biscuit wall licking intensifies*

[@TurboSquirter]

"no arty games with stories" firewatch my friend.....firewatch

[@GameHoardGame]

8 years to make, disregarded by nerdcubed in 8 minutes.

[@xDartuzax]

You know video has quality commentary when half of it is inaudible mumbles.

[@Tommyisprettyok]

I heard about this game around the same time Firewatch came out. I didn't know which to get, so I chose Firewatch. It's a fantastic little game. I would recommend

[@thehomiesrule123]

Started watching JSE and he made a 1 hour video, cam here expecting 15 minute video to watch; gives me half an hour video that is fucking perfect to sleep on. God Damnit KZbinrs!

[@kdfljgfldghldfgshdfl]

Yeah the game can be confusing, but if you just experiment for more than 5 seconds you might actually figure stuff out.

[@PalkiaMaster18]

Got the XKCD word switcher, really enjoyed this game of "The this dude i know"

[@moonman57]

Great aesthetic, great puzzles, direction in the wrong places: the game.

[@ICUYesIDosGaming]

Watching you miss some of them answers really got to me, I don't know why!

[@DesmondSky]

I'm through more than half the game already and the puzzles are indeed really challenging. The game is meant to have almost no story or tutorial, the point being "are you smart enough to solve it?" And it kinda taught me that in games nowadays we are considered some dumb fucks that someone must tell at all times what to do.

[@5Andysalive]

A bit like Dream. Its starts nice and good looking and athmospheric to then become an endless collection of logic puzzles.

[@nathanbateman1738]

This game looks fucking amazing, I didn't even realise the video was playing at 360p. Then looking at 720p wow. It even looks good along with youtube compression.

[@RipScaper]

Blud really changed the fov in a game that requires u to do specific fov puzzles 😂😂😂

[@jacquelinesaunders4023]

Agreed, the door puzzle was wholly solvable.

[@FireMegaDragon]

Dan! on the one on the door, you didn't separated all of the black and the wait. Just because It's not adjacent doesn't mean it doesn't have to be separated.

[@user-ow6bo5me4t]

this game is like if someone made a incredibly beautiful planet but put the actual civilization on the inside of it

[@pale2457]

Shadow has curly hair, it's obviously you, Dan. You're IN the game.

[@Daniel-od3xm]

The fact that he walked away from so many puzzles he could have solved by just thinking for a second makes me cringe so hard

[@Martinsleep]

the "ping" sound is used in many games :) i also recognize it

[@channelfadge7438]

so its a mobile game with a pretty backdrop? wow, so arty and deep.

[@bizelzuze6659]

If this game didn't have a run button then it would be on Dan's hell/hates list.

[@LixTetraxOfficial]

Dan: Hello...? Me: Procrastina-...Oh, yeah...

[@aceman0000099]

me: commits suicide

[@PileOTaters]

+Nuclearbomber Im going to use that line now since he isnt anymore. >:D

[@harryweisner99x]

That sound was also from spaceship section on spore

[@MyloMyloMylo]

"The puzzles dont exited me in this game" "PUZZLES! Puzzles puzzles puzzles!" Oh

[@evelomygaming]

The desert puzzles were based on angle of observation. If looked at from the right angel the solution is shown on the screen.

[@terryflopycow2231]

That was the perfect Donald trump joke

[@anthonywebb4866]

+Terry flopycow no, considering it was untrue.

[@stuartbh8165]

+Anthony “Alpha92x” Webb Republican!

[@Nicistarful]

+Anthony „Alpha92x“ Webb We don't need your kind on this channel. Hpft.

[@anthonywebb4866]

Proud Republican. Im not one for taking away peoples rights, taxing outrageously, helping people who wont help themselves or pretending to care about people just for votes. Granted though a lot of republicans are pretty screwed up and have lost sight of whats important.

[@stuartbh8165]

you dont sound like a trump supporter, you sound mostly sane

[@QwertyCharlieFourate]

i just had to try it, wow that's a cool ending. now lets hope i can load my last save again, 300 / 400 puzzles in :p

[@parkeradelaide4579]

"do a good cube!" oh dear.