The Final Boss of The Witness - The Challenge

[@Aliensrock]

The Witness is drawing to a close! There should be one more episode after this one, then the series is concluded! Thanks everyone for watching this far, and I hope this episode provides decent payoff for the long tedious puzzle grind that the previous episodes had.

[@Malloumario]

Thank you aliensrock for entertaining us 😍 If i can suggest the next puzzle game, can you play return of the obra dinn?

[@joshualees7285]

This was just a good time to watch, keep making great content you're awsome

[@lightspeed5150]

How far off does 100% seem ??

[@magmahotdesigns]

Ladies and gentlemen, it just keeps going!

[@nickdoo4910]

I’m kind of annoyed how easily you did this

[@magician531]

That "off brand Hall of the Mountain King" is just the piece that comes literally right before it. It's not off brand. Just another piece that was written for the same story and comes right before. That's why it is similar.

[@jeim376]

Ariel White didn’t Greig hate Anitra’s Dance?

[@jacksonroy8720]

Im sure a lot of people doing these puzzles really wouldnt mind the entire pier grieg suite playing to finish them lmao

[@acblook]

@@jeim376 yah he wrote Hall of the Mountain King as a joke and was mad when everyone gave it a standing ovation

[@OliviaSNava]

Yeah it’s part of Grieg’s suite.

[@christopheroram4318]

I was low-key hella impressed that he instantly related it to HotMK!

[@larsy567M]

„This is one of the easiest so far“ - Tyler, trying to solve an impossible puzzle

[@voxelrifts]

German, Huh?

[@Thestin]

@@voxelrifts ?

[@voxelrifts]

@@Thestin The quotes. Germans use „Sentence“ instead of "Sentence"

[@mrluksas5686]

@@voxelrifts not only germans

[@voxelrifts]

@@mrluksas5686 who else?

[@JackTheDripperr]

The Witness Devs have chosen the 100% CORRECT song to play when chaotically solving puzzles and running around finding more to do. Awesome brain on Tyler to keep up with most things, I'm still at the record player puzzle ://

[@pittagiiya]

I mean, it's the correct song to increase anxiety

[@mambodog5322]

@@pittagiiya And it's the correct song for the puns. in the hall of the _mountain_ king

[@thesupremepotato7850]

Mambodog 532 omg

[@ze_rubenator]

Funny you should say "100% correct" when this isn't actually 100% of In The Hall Of The Mountain King. This is the annoying royalty free version that everyone uses that's slightly altered from the original.

[@scotty3739]

@@ze_rubenator it's still the same song, just with a different group playing. with this train of thought, the original was 125+ years ago :p. also, i don't think it is the same version. the anitra's dance is from a random recording, i found the arrangement before but i don't remember where i found it.

[@beepboop5301]

Tyler at beginning of game: “How could mazes become difficult”

[@nobodythegamer2557]

"just maze games, how hard can it be"

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

tyler now: "And that concludes our lesson on advanced double segregation with blacks, whites, and tetris"

[@princelonestarr2330]

I'm so sad to see the series coming to and end. This has been by far one of my favorite serious of yours.

[@nubert916]

my facourie serious to.

[@thelifeofnothing6636]

I would say it lasted too long I wanted more turmoil

[@princelonestarr2330]

@@thelifeofnothing6636 everyone has their own opinions. Luckily for you. Turmoil isn't finished yet

[@nubert916]

Splish Splash your opinion is trash

[@vlogginggabes3864]

There is one last episode after this

[@pyk_]

I'm not surprised that Tyler accomplished the challenge so quickly, but it's humbling to see how badly the pressure affects even his solving skills.

[@boshtillings9254]

Ong this is the first time I've been sitting here solving them before him

[@codesymphony]

@@boshtillings9254 oh yeah? you beat it on 3rd try too?

[@OliviaSNava]

The first time you went into the room and got panicked while the Hall of the Mountain King was playing in the background was honestly THE BEST moment I’ve ever seen out of your channel! With all the walls being built around you, the pure manic energy was just amazing. So good!!

[@IrishSpec]

Eating Doritos and watching a man lose his sanity to dorito puzzles, ah what a day off.

[@quinng6003]

this is over a year later so nobody's gonna see this but MAN, as someone who usually uses tyler's videos to fall asleep, this had the EXACT opposite effect lmao

[@timxg]

yes. Also you’re lucky I’m just scrolling through the comments while watching, take the like.

[@TheMeGuyYes]

Take my like too

[@Frodo_Sagbag]

"Off brand In The Hall of The Mountain King" is actually called "Anitra's Dance" and it is from the same play.

[@bengoodwin2141]

So THIS is the “boss fight” people were talking about Or maybe not? Also very fitting that it plays “in the hall of the mountain king” in hallways-like caves under the mountain

[@TheVercci]

This is the boss fight, haven't watched the video yet but watching the stream he absolutely smashed it.

[@brennanruiz1803]

This is it, yeah. And he fucking beat it on his *third try*.

[@legofan3k55]

no, the final boss is four words;1-hour long EP

[@ICountFrom0]

no, that's the optional super boss.... you can even get the second ending without it...

[@legofan3k55]

Nightwind292 but you need it for 100% completion

[@aleksacarapic2750]

16:56 enviormental puzzle on the left

[@whoisthatthingwhat]

nice

[@TheVercci]

The only one in the challenge despite what people have been saying.

[@dylanmasi4696]

He will find that one later :)

[@dylanmasi4696]

He will find that one later :)

[@deltaphant_]

Hall of the Mountain King has the power to make just about anything stressful

[@Lilithlily5]

I have heard this song so many times, I occasionally hear it in my sleep from the amount of times I’ve tried and failed to beat this section

[@tylern6420]

I also hear it in The blockheads, It's probably taking over my life!

[@vlogginggabes3864]

@@tylern6420 same... That game brings back memories

[@siraxolotl2634]

Tyler N I love blockheads. I just wish there would be another content update. Been a long time since we got anything new. :(

[@cosmocorner]

I don't know if you've seen this game, but there's a super cool puzzle game that I don't see a lot of people covering. It's called Lightmatter, and it's super fun. I won't spoil anything, but it's a lot like Portal. It would be super cool to see you check it out.

[@markdvs6112]

+1 Lightmatter is really nice, played it as well and loved it^^

[@kontodonabijaniastatystykt5725]

+1

[@Anaklusmos42]

I didn't play it, but seeing those other comments, I'm interested in seeing it. So have my upvote

[@buld0z0r50]

Lightmatter reminds me more of The Talos Principle but its simmilar to portal as well

[@vlogginggabes3864]

@@Anaklusmos42 uhh *upvote*

[@AsmathDanshi]

The mad panic of the first runs labyrinth, the intensity of the music, the joy of beating the challenge. This my good sir was a very enjoyable video!

[@codesymphony]

pure chaos

[@revnl17]

I seriously enjoy watching you frantically run around during Hall of the Mountain King trying to solve puzzles just to come to a new problem at the climax of the song.

[@pyk_]

I wonder where the true ending is, he says while looking at the puzzle that enables the true ending.

[@tzisorey]

This is the speedrun killer.

[@brennanruiz1803]

Nah, the eclipse puzzle is.

[@orchidscion]

the eclipse puzzle is accounted for in speedruns

[@tzisorey]

@@brennanruiz1803 The eclipse puzzle is pretty much constant-time. And a good opportunity to get McDonalds

[@brennanruiz1803]

It was a joke. Honestly, the real time-killer is messing up the cycle on the clouds or buoy.

[@orchidscion]

true

[@columbus8myhw]

Tyler: "It's a different puzzle… I like that it's randomized, as far as I can tell." Me: Do you really like that?

[@DarkIron26]

all this playtrough i sat there wondered how tyler solved these puzzels with ease. but this episode had me screaming at the screen because under pressure he started to miss the obvious stuff. man what a ride

[@frostflamegames673]

Every time I hear Hall of the Mountain King start playing from now on, my brain just explodes from A n x i e t y

[@lastchance1829]

Hall of the mountain king is perfect for this, since its just chaos trying to solve the puzzles and get around, amazing how well it fits

[@aaronvick2501]

The first song for the challenge is Peer Gynt's Suite No. 1, Op. 46, Anitra's Dance. In the Hall of the Mountain King is part of the same suite, which is probably why they sound similar.

[@vanderkarl3927]

"I'm not doing this hour-long bullshit. (laugh) It's just not happening. It's not worth my time." That should be the tagline for The Witness, lmfao

[@markmckenzie5343]

Opened KZbin hoping for a witness post since I just finished the playlist last night. Prayers answered.

[@huntmcdede1238]

Wow, this was the best final boss I’ve seen in a while. Your puzzle-solving skills are absolutely insane!

[@muffininacup4060]

Huh, he missed the incomplete puzzles being unlocked after he completed the challenge, wonder if he finds them later

[@UnstoppablePhoenix]

The puzzles up above actually serve as an abstract timer

[@muffininacup4060]

@@UnstoppablePhoenix what do you mean? Dont you still have to solve them after they are unlocked?

[@Variecs]

@@muffininacup4060 no.

[@UnstoppablePhoenix]

@@muffininacup4060 you can see at 23:08 that they solve themselves

[@thedansusart]

Amazing job, man. I'll be sad to see this series end but you've deserved the triumph of completion. Can't wait to see what puzzles are next

[@jonathanrobertson7059]

its so stressful to watch the "doritos" when you see a solution before him

[@m4rt_]

17:53 I'm sitting here jumping in my seat over you not seeing the dorito puzzle solutions that you solved 90% but fail to see the ending of

[@niklp6116]

Wow the music is really making me stressed in this challenge, despite the fact that i am only watching the video

[@Keokithederp]

Aw you ain't gonna try the hour long one? That's fair

[@WaterDroplet02]

he didnt like the windmill one, of course the 1 hour one is a no-go

[@pittagiiya]

True end's underwhelming too

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

@@pittagiiya I dunno, I felt like it was worth it. Definitely reflected my feelings after finishing the game!

[@zvimur]

The odd (not hexagon shaped) solution you found in a box, find an old puzzle with similar shape. Advise to do it after "Normal" completion of game.

[@TheVercci]

He has finished the "true" ending already.

[@zvimur]

@@TheVercci link to video?

[@EggSlashEther]

@@zvimur ...the one coming AFTER this one, perhaps? He's done it on stream but hasn't uploaded the stream archive to the KZbins yet.

[@zvimur]

@@EggSlashEther time will tell.

[@TheVercci]

@@zvimur www.twitch.tv/videos/553131545 He got the challenge done rather quickly in the first 50 minutes, then spent 4 hours looking around for EP's, getting all the regular puzzles done and finding the "true" ending near the end. This is the last stream of the witness unless he decides to do a CBT stream with all of the dick move EP's.

[@cheesegud7863]

Those music cues were on point with his reactions. 😂

[@yukarithegapyoukai8191]

These Vids come out at like 4 to 6 in the morning which is about when I get out of work. Thanks for the relaxation after work.

[@johanngeidies1127]

Wow respect man, took me two days and nearly a rage quit to get this achievement done. Was looking forward to you tackling this challenge the whole playthrough! Great stuff.

[@geogeo8264]

Omg ive been waiting for this for so long im so excited

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

Woohoo! Beat the Mountain King! And in way fewer tries than it took me. Always a pleasure. Making sure to plug your content around, so other folks can enjoy your content!

[@wandersavewoy6260]

I actually loved this series! That ending also was so intense!

[@maxdalkin7493]

Wow, the whole video was really great!

[@Aliensrock]

lol go back to watching the video scumbag

[@zealiskander]

@@Aliensrock who knows, maybe he's just that fast

[@firewolfprince604]

Just watching the video at 2x speed lmao

[@jahandahan7490]

@@Aliensrock lad wanted to get the extra $1000 bonus from leaving before the last month

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

Panic Attack: The KZbin Video

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

I can't tell if Tyler is more stressed or I am

[@normanho5631]

Im getting anxiety from _watching_ him

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

@@normanho5631 For real!!!

[@ilikecats310]

1:48 the amount of times he has just walked past this hurts me

[@AdorablePrince2011]

Man, I want to congratulate you. On the 1st try, I was very scared and amazed, cause you actually tackled the puzzles very fast, but thanks to you, I know about Doritos puzzle. Also the 1st try messed you up about doing the previous puzzle, if you make a mistake on the current puzzle. 2nd try, I thought, you actually gonna make it, cause you got familiar, with the situation, but you got messed up again, cause it gave you totally different puzzles and you had so little time on those 2 pillars at the end, but man 3rd times the charm, you actually done it. Not only you are those 4% of people who completed that challenge (maybe more than 4% now), but I am subbing to you (because it was an interesting journey with you in this Island. I actually even have the confidence of going to my ps4 and try to do the challenge once more. Again congratulations and I'll see you in your other upcoming videos.

[@m4rt_]

2:34 Edvard Grieg would probably have been offended by that.

[@pyragen]

8:10 this is where Tyler is at a state of pure panic

[@imafireIsFroent]

So was I. When solving puzzles under a timer is stressful, but just hearing a tic toc is more annoying while reminding you of a timer. THIS however is different. There is the constant stress of a timer and the music induces a state of panic, reminding you of the timer and speeds up to add to that panic. This song is here to MAKE you panic and lose. Ingenius.

[@fathom963]

I love how the music make it so much more intense, I play muted sometimes and get no where near the same amount of panic as I do with it on

[@marte010exe]

In the challenge there are different stages: Three initial puzzles Labyrinth solution (memorized path and the dots represent puzzle locations) Find the next one puzzles Two odds, one true Labyrinth Pillar puzzles (The unsolvable puzzles at your top is an abstract representation of the song beats and the time you have!)

[@princecuddle]

Gotta love how much he panics when the music speeds up xD

[@guywhoexist5066]

Heres a nice game suggestion that needs to be knowed more Creeper world 3

[@michaelkochalka3251]

creeper world 4 would be awesome too but it is being developed still, if he does eventually play it I would watch every single video

[@alexpanagakos5619]

dude youve absolutely kicked my ass in figuring out all these puzzles through this playthrough, but this episode was the first one where i got super frustrated when i actually saw a solution before you and you were close to figuring it out and bailed on it lmao. love the content bro

[@user-ml3ei6zy6n]

I love the non bloons games you have been playing recently

[@lemeeadams4455]

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSS! Let’s finish this thing off! Been waiting for a while

[@wizzolo]

you breezed through the timed challenge, it took me so many attempts!

[@baldeagle713]

Local citizen go's insain. Reports saying he was a youtuber and after playing the witness he's became so violent we can't let him leave his room. (Love what you do. Keep it up!)

[@potentiallyincompetentaaaa]

Even though I'm only watching, my heart gets pumping

[@proffeserian219]

I love watching these because I don't have a big enough brain to remember the answers so it's not cheating

[@drcgaming4195]

you figured out how to do these so fast... i was stumped on the maze for ages and didnt even know the dorito puzzles existed for a while

[@Drecon84]

"This resembles what we just walked through" I have no idea how you instantly saw that. Took me ages.

[@Connikus]

watching this after doing this puzzle for 2 weeks is giving me flashbacks

[@masonengel1928]

Really enjoying the content lately, these games seem much more suited for your style than bloons

[@ricrubrom]

If you start a new game, right before you open the first big gate there's an EP which unlocks a new zone

[@Syz_gy]

Two puzzles games I really enjoyed playing that you might as well are Antichamber and Turing Test.

[@ICountFrom0]

(8:45) Dorito madness strikes! ... one ending, a slew of EP, a few more EP attached to the theater, and one useless EP from hell to skip left... hopefully he didn't give up on the game without at least getting the other ending.

[@3StarsRounding]

Damn, i remember when i did this puzzle! took me about two hours and a bunch of photos of the maze part in my phone. Congratulations on doing it so quickly! I think that in order to complete the game and feel complete as a player you should try the drowned boat pannel, that thing was extremely hard for me but i bet you can do it easily

[@dragonfan1990]

If you haven't already figured it out and done it. The real final ending of the game is not only at the very beginning of the game and cool to set up, but can also be done with even leaving the starting area.

[@ieatcarsyum8248]

I can’t believe you did it on your third try it took me hours

[@ghornisbae1653]

Not knowing what the mechanics of these puzzles are is fun.... it totally didn’t drive me more insane than Tyler.

[@gametheory3458]

There’s no way that’s the end of the game. Mainly because I want this series to go on for longer.

[@BigPapaDoss]

I was yelling so much at 14:30 like he could hear me

[@willgraves211]

When you're so early you haven't received a notification

[@boisq97]

as soon as i saw the thumbnail the song started playing in my head KEKW

[@faland0069]

"Listening to this guy monolouging for an hour straight? Yeah im not doing that" Aliensrock on Cracking the Cryptic's comment section: "Hey that talk vas very good, you should listen to it"

[@pyk_]

The one part I don't like about the challenge is the unsolvable puzzles. They're usually not hard to detect, it's just that the game never trains you anywhere else to try to detect if a puzzle is unsolvable.

[@vectoor91]

There are some hints in that area. Like the unsolvable panels in the ceiling.

[@theaquaforcegal1067]

I had very little problem with the unsolvable ones. Once you realise that only one is needed and that some are just impossible, like having a 2x2 white black alternating in a corner, then it comes together pretty nicely

[@pyk_]

@@theaquaforcegal1067 I don't think many people have difficulty with them. What's your point?

[@pyk_]

@@vectoor91 Wait... you mean the timer?

[@theaquaforcegal1067]

@@pyk_ I misread your comment. I rather liked them. Besides the maze, they took up the most time even though I knew only one was solvable from the first run.

[@magmahotdesigns]

My friends, it just keeps going!

[@vickiewaller8682]

After this I won't be able to think about doritos without "in the hall of the mountain king" getting stuck in my head lol

[@charlottewynroe5779]

Nearly 300K... Congratulations!!!

[@BandanaDrummer95]

Coming back to this a year later after having worked on speedruns of this game is just...

[@Kispalkovich]

Grats man! I was sure you won't make it in 23 mins. After many hours of trying, I decided to spend an extra day to write a program which solves the pillar puzzles based off screenshots. I guess i'm just a dumb-dumb

[@columbus8myhw]

_hears something from_ Peer Grynt "Oh it's an off-brand _Hall of the Mountain King"_

[@ngwoo]

Congrats on conquering Jonathan Blow's puzzle hell

[@m4rt_]

23:50 there is someone who made a bot do the challenge, and uploaded 40 minutes of the bot solving it

[@jakeread9668]

Have you considered The Talos Principle as a possible game for the future? It's a great puzzle game.

[@minetech4898]

I started this video thinking "how could this game have a 'final boss".. I understand now.

[@thecaptain9496]

The paper dorito puzzle is a special way to do the energy door puzzle way back in the castle

[@pinguin4898]

tfw you know where the ending is but damn you wanna see the man go through all the EPs

[@brennanruiz1803]

tfw you were watching this stream and he walked past the control panel at least twenty times in a row, and even saw the shadow of the start and said “this looks like it could be a puzzle”

[@nekrowga]

Total freakout a pressure destroyed some of the easier puzzles where you literally had it thirty times. Started freakin me out oof

[@crowofwisdom4819]

Pro tip add hall of the mountain king to make anything 1000% more stressful

[@polishedcarrot6191]

i've never seen a bigger descent into madness

[@Blaze57]

Literally Impossible puzzle: "Why am I struggling this is an easy one" Literally one of the easiest puzzles in the game: "This is looking harder and harder by the second"

[@plushloler]

At last, the final boss: THE WITNESS

[@m4rt_]

I wonder if the developers premade possible and impossible puzzles, or if it generates them on the fly, and just uses the power of computers to generate possible and impossible puzzles...

[@kongolandwalker]

7:40 it is the best comedy video on YT. Music so epic, tension!

[@sammycat203]

Oh geese. I never knew that one puzzle was a map for the maze. I just brute forced the thing

[@_axolotyl]

Lol i even panicked at the songs ends 😂

[@ChrisMMaster0]

0:29 also, if you look at the puzzles they are ACTUALLY un-solveble, even if you could draw on them you could not solve them.

[@Cobb]

In the middle isn't it like the sakara trees where when you fail you have to resolve the one before to open the current puzzle again?

[@DarkOwl890]

4:16 So Big Kreygasm

[@AdeonWriter]

Btw none of the EP's require waiting things (except the windmilll... that's the slowest)

[@subject_changed4690]

It took me several tries (my guess would be around 6) but hot damn you did it in great pace!