This Secret Was Under My Nose The Entire Time! - Taiji

Taiji Part 4 - it's time to face the truth. I have two sections left, and one of them may inflict severe pain. The only reasonable thing to do then is to check out the other section, finally teaching me the mechanic I've been waiting to learn! This will open up the entire map.
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[@gorvinnethermore2900]

I love episodes like this because I go from yelling at my screen from seeing a puzzle that I think is obvious to not understanding how Tyler got the answer within a minute. It’s so fascinating that puzzles do that

[@bang_lihat]

Haha same I was screaming "YOU DID THIS ON THE VERY FIRST EPISODE TYLER!"

[@zarnox3071]

The best part is when both of these happen for the same puzzle.

[@blatantslander]

LMAO TRUE

[@CapnSlipp]

Lots of editing. He edits out most of the work solving most reasonably complex puzzles. You can usually see a cut- where subtle animations jump, the screen viewbox (based on the character’s position) jumps slightly, and Tyler’s footage jumps slightly. Looks like he also uses a 3-5 frame blend when he cuts the footage.

[@Tepalus]

He actually has longer for the puzzles and cuts it together. That's no critizism, it's just how he does it. I quiet like it though, because this way the vids don't have downtime.

[@grunglr]

I imagine all 8 years of development went into making sure nothing looked like a swastika

[@SeymourDisapproves]

Time well spent

[@WanderTheNomad]

Couldn't prevent segregation from happening though :(

[@petartsankov8655]

And then you have the puzzle at 33:40 💀

[@Patashu]

So true lmao

[@dakkenly]

Some solutions can still be that way lol

[@zacherykinney8841]

That moment of realizing he might not even be close to done when he found the underground area was amazing.

[@Schilani]

Yeah, I was totally waiting for that moment when I first discovered that area after he introduced me to Taiji. I would have just liked it if he had ran a little bit further to give the reaction of just how ridiculous that area is. But oh well, guess that's something for next time!

[@bubbledog12]

I love how you spend basically the entire episode procrastinating as much as possible

[@absobel]

This is way too relatable

[@rafidsiddique2010]

That is exactly what I did as well by watching this video

[@codesymphony]

tyler has a weird fascination with trying to do things in the "correct" order, mainly to keep to the videos well organized, but games like these can be completed in any order you prefer

[@pikminman13]

he's clearing the puzzles in the mines... you could say he's a... minesweeper

[@BunkeredGaming]

please no that’s so bad

[@pessskychaos4874]

amazing

[@Данилтычкрейзи]

the duality of man

[@SeymourDisapproves]

Yeah Tyler's in the mine got his pickaxe swinging from side to side, side-side to side

[@pessskychaos4874]

@@SeymourDisapproves this puzzle a grueling one, hoping to find a tutorial tonight

[@timdood3]

Was hoping tonight's video would be Taiji again! It doesn't matter that I'm too dumb to solve these puzzles on my own, I love this game and watching Tyler play it

[@pancakehead]

I’ve got some bad news… he is playing starbound instead of taiji tonight 😢

[@Jojoponz]

Got all the steam achievements, but seeing this videos really surprises me because there is always new things to find. Also love the fact that tyler evaded the gallery so hard that he found a secret area, good luck on the gallery, i also didnt like it at first when i saw it, but grew on me

[@mathmaniac3033]

My run of Taiji had me start in the refinery area (with the - and / rules), but the second area I explored was unfortunately the Gallery. Definitely threw me for a loop when I initially saw nothing that made sense, but a later visit allowed me to learn of all the rules that were hidden throughout the paintings!

[@LindenF]

The waterfall also makes a shape like a terrain puzzle from the witness

[@Jojoponz]

Really hoped that could be clicked and went full witness style

[@josephf9874]

Taiji is such a beautiful game I’m really exited for the rest of the series

[@har7555]

Yes it is

[@CantUseYellow]

There's still enough content left for atleast 2 episodes, most likely 3 though since he still has the hardest puzzles left to do

[@EmilyGamerGirl]

For the record, the Maps are "Fast-Travels". If at any map, you draw the pattern for a DIFFERENT map, you warp to that area. After warping TO an area once, its' pattern appears on the map for convenience. Very much hope you solve all the puzzles, the other channel that I saw play this skipped a fair few secrets. Also, you CAN open the door without completing all sections, but, you do not get the true ending for doing so.

[@godlyvex5543]

brother you are literally just spoiling a mechanic that the game intentionally doesn't tell you

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

also Tyler was 100% going to solve all the puzzles without you telling him

[@ywl2587]

also the “True ending” you referred to is not even the true ending

[@GaminGuy_]

kinda like how you only get the elevator if you only complete the minimum required amount

[@EmilyGamerGirl]

@@godlyvex5543 Really? Fast travel is a spoiler you're mad at? Screw me for wanting him not to spend extra time just walking around 🤷‍♀️

[@Ataraxia0]

its not a video game waterfall without a secret behind it! cant wait to see what challenges it holds

[@LB7_CAM]

The puzzle at 33:44 is uh a tiny bit suspicious

[@doctoralex_]

That's the normal swastika though, the hindu/buddhist (I forget which) symbol. It is backwards relative to the nazi swastika.

[@dontdoitdan7965]

I love that the mines are sort of the last section because you have to go to every other section to "complete" them

[@TrueRandomPlayer]

I love hearing you think puzzles out. Really shows how dumb I am, and yet it's so satisfying to hear the mechanical cogs known as your huge fuckin brain turning. 10/10, would sub again if I could.

[@itsgollem5585]

Dude I love how you think, watching you solving puzzles is so satisfying. I have spent hours to solve that 29:40 and you made it look sooooo easy. Keep it up man, u are awesome!!

[@Scuuurbs]

I mean, I’m sure it didn’t take him hours, but it wasn’t a few minutes, either. There are easily 10+ jump cuts during that solve. Kudos to his editor for cutting down his solves without losing any of the relevant spoken logic!

[@fulgentiuswilly5043]

Something u should expect from a Witness-inspired game, lovely!

[@mymee600]

3:03 ''Not to be too much of a size queen'' 💀 Tyler you crack me up

[@Patashu]

Ok, the diamonds being able to match with the flowers is such a big brain yet obvious idea and I love it

[@benjamincurran5799]

1:17 Isn't it funny how that angel statue looks oddly like our protagonist here... So does this mean that she's some kind of angel sent into the world of Taiji? Not to mention that the candelabra illuminating the statue looks oddly like the altar at the beginning of the game... I'm really excited to see how this game takes our character to the end of her sojourn, be it a happy or sad end! EDIT: The paintings hold the clues. That should help you a little bit.

[@seanshepherd1071]

Lol, your dud of the day was that 3rd puzzle on the second floor.... My dud of the entire playthrough was not realizing the elevator could go to floors besides 2. I just kept solving it at 2 over and over, completely ignoring the alternate solutions or the fact that the mine central platform had multiple solutions for different utility. I honestly thought the elevator was a trap, sticking you in that second floor area until you could open the doors.

[@michaelwatkins4155]

Just going to give you a warning, the very first puzzle in the game actually has 2 correct answers. You might wanna figure out the second one, because that is when you can start to run into the META puzzles. Pay very close attention to all the details on the path down there, assuming you don't want to accidentally brute force the secret secondary answer to the puzzle. Also, before you beat the Gallery, go ahead and do the finishing puzzle sequence from the pool. There is 3 endings, the partial black, perfect black, and white endings. If you do finish the gallery, you can't really backtrack to do partial black ending.

[@sangchoo1201]

that's a huge spoiler

[@michaelwatkins4155]

@@sangchoo1201 It may be a spoiler, but it's just too easy a component of the game to miss if you flat out aren't told. And the area is rather obvious about it being a meta puzzle once you actually get in there.

[@sangchoo1201]

@@michaelwatkins4155 so, you are afraid that he will miss the huge part of the game? well, I trust him, he has done many puzzle games.

[@michaelwatkins4155]

@@sangchoo1201 When said part of the game is hidden all the way back in the tutorial section of the game, EXPLICITLY behind a second answer to a puzzle? Aliensrock is good. But the only thing pointing for you to backtrack is a very small tear on the map that is very easy to miss or just feel it as "This is style design to help the "old worn scroll" look, especially considering how this late in the game he hasn't even realized the teleport mechanic exists? Yes, I think he could miss it. Especially if he ends up taking a few weeks to think of backtracking as he plays other games to stream for content, I think he could miss it. And I don't want him to. So, I'm pointing it out.

[@sangchoo1201]

@@michaelwatkins4155 hmm but you should have taken the other way. not only he couldn't look carefully for all the comments, but also a few other people might get spoilered (well, most people avoid this video until they get 100%) I don't wanted to say "don't do that", I just saying "this is too straightforward spoiler"

[@Ronin11111111]

I'm pretty sure the mansion puzzles want you to draw the black with negative space. It's funny that 99% of puzzles I can barely follow, but the ones that stump Tyler I figure out immediately.

[@belian5928]

Unfortunately, the black/white puzzles have a different rule. The initial tutorial area doesn’t teach it and most people (including me) end up brute forcing them. The good news is that they are not required for anything else in the game

[@Ronin11111111]

@@belian5928 Oh? Then what IS the rule?

[@belian5928]

@@Ronin11111111 Didn't want to respond due to spoiling for others, but been a few days so... Spoilers ahead: There is a puzzle that partially looks like this: B ? B B ? W The bottom row is unsolvable based on an easy "outline" rule. Actual rule is "fill with the color opposite the most adjacent colors." So you have to fill the top with a W before you can know the bottom is B. There are 2 problems with these Black-White puzzles: Starting area teaches you to look at environment for solutions (confusing you latter on) and it is EXTREEMLY easy to brute-force the results without knowing the rule. The benefit is that you don't HAVE to solve any of them (outside the starting area) for any achievements.

[@Ronin11111111]

@@belian5928 I'm... not sure I understand. So... you first draw the shape suggested by the clue and then the rest you fill depending on what's adjacent?

[@belian5928]

Yep.

[@herohalv4543]

18:44 i really want to know how long it took for him to remember this

[@Bogdan100pink]

What I realized while watching Tyler solve these puzzles is that I always think of his solution but opposite, If it can be flipped it will be flipped, I select spaces 1,2,3 and 4, he leaves spaces 1,2,3 and 4 unlit, I just find it so weird how we can come up with the same solution but different at the same time 20:13 is one of the puzzles I am referring towards, I am enjoying the play-through so far and thank you for brightening my day

[@TheDudeWithATude]

I can't believe he still hasn't seen the witness puzzle Easter eggs. Ex: to the right of the face in the mountain there is a the witness puzzle shaped pool.

[@Kappi__]

You explain the solutions so good each puzzle I always understand why this was the right choice. That's so awesome!

[@diface7389]

Wait till Tyler finds out what those "map markers" do

[@Jojoponz]

I found that after finishing the game first time so its really likely he just doesnt figures that

[@Falco007ita]

What do they do?

[@hexplosion8205]

What do the do?

[@Jojoponz]

they are teleporters, if you put the pattern of any zone in them it will take you to the teleport of that zone

[@lexthechampion5361]

They do WHAT?!?

[@brendandangelo715]

Welp, he found the Waterfall area! All he has left is Gallery for the main areas so I hope we get some of that soon too.

[@Glitch-sp3qx]

I saw your first playthrough and I got immediately hooked and got the game and played it all, even to the second ending, yet watching you I am amazed on how many secrets I have missed

[@WanderTheNomad]

The cascading logic makes things easy, but is very satisfying to watch.

[@nome3795]

got "filled in, not filled in" repeating in my head after this episode

[@codesymphony]

minesweeper-esque

[@Omar96149]

35:46 it does show its the glowing orange square there actuslly a lot of them now that this has been discovered

[@alexendre2019]

I had a panic atack because of 33:39

[@subtopewdipie4159]

That big puzzle was so satisfying for me to complete, I couldn’t wait to see you do it!

[@CMP7778]

I love this series! Keep up the amazing content!

[@AceFuzzLord]

9:40 Us "z" instead of "zed" sayers are the true heathens

[@Scuuurbs]

I had such a love/hate relationship with the gallery section. Each solution is so elegant, but many of the puzzles require enough abstract deduction to be frustrating - some even _after_ you identify which rule(s) to use. To clarify, the only thing I hated about it was the ego-bruising I took as my brain struggled to understand in a timely fashion. More please!

[@Peter-xw2py]

Just wondering could you make a playlist of your most favorite games or a video kinda like a recommended list?

[@Unavailable-0]

Loving this series Ty

[@lior_haddad]

real minesweeper vibes from this, very excited to see the rest!

[@thonk7611]

remember, that 2x3 square that lines up does actually line up

[@thekingofchaos2552]

This is like open world Understand and it's great

[@jamiesnow8190]

Thanks for the content! I enjoy this game's aesthetic quite a bit!

[@crazycanadian_]

starbound be hittin different

[@JamesTDG]

21:09 completely got it inverted here lol

[@LostLargeCats]

I'm living this series

[@brendanmarshall8721]

In the final map a yellow square was added to fill in one of the blank squares on the map. Looks like there are 9 more of them unfilled spread about.

[@SamLabbato]

could be with the picture section you just reverse blocks next to it, like if you had a filled in square, you'd need to encase it with unfilled in, and vice versa for an unfilled spot. it's kind of like inverting colors

[@walkingcats]

Love this game! Looking forward for the last main gallery/castle section and secret areas!

[@RoderickEtheria]

I understood the rule at the start from the beginning, anything bordering a shape must be different than the shape or the shape would be different.

[@Flammenloewe]

33:49 what a shape

[@matthewvest5191]

(As someone who hasn't played the game) my theory is that when it is the black and white squares, if it is black shown then the white is the absence but where white is shown, black is the absence

[@kjeldscheurwater5148]

As a Dutch raver i can confirm that the secret is under your nose most of the time...

[@largbunny5512]

oh just wait for the gallery, half of my play time was spent on that one section

[@williamn1055]

I'm so glad you're finally playing Starbound :)

[@TCG31456]

There are a lot more puzzles in this game than you'd realize. Also, SPOILER but SUUUUUPER Helpful!! . . . . . . . . . . . Those map pillars aren't used for just filling in the map, they have a function. And it is a very useful one.

[@tokabe3826]

I find it hilarious that after having us stumped for so long as a roadblock, the mine puzzles ended up being simple at least conceptually.

[@FoxDog1080]

35:43 I think you're in the bright glowing pulsating yellow square dot

[@renniarn3057]

Omg finally new taiji video. I love this video that i didn't sleep for 2 days ( i take short nap)

[@ethanwilson5205]

@aliensrock I love this series but on a side note... Rate every snowman in a monsters expedition 🤣

[@kaseypaccagnan514]

Letting anyone who sees this know you can fast travel to/from the map markers by drawing a different markers pattern in the 3×3 grid

[@pancakehead]

Glad Tyler is playing starbound it is such a good game

[@thatonedudegrimm1123]

We just gonna ignore the shape of the puzzle at 33:17

[@upsidedown-pug1974]

Aliensrock finding anyway possible to avoid the gallery for 35 minutes straight

[@etherkye2]

Can't wait for the next part!

[@oinkymomo]

the blocks have a rule for figuring out how the missing squares are filled, but it is simultaneously overly complicated and only as complicated as it needs to be

[@JL1ha]

33:44 I was going to say something about this puzzle but I forgor 💀

[@lilithsuccubus268]

the last map did show up on the map. one of the squares turned orange/yellow

[@StilvurBee]

yep, this is definitely starbound!

[@emnersonn]

29:40 my brain was not ready for this edit: well that wasn’t that bad at all

[@Jack_Wolfe]

4:40 you sure you arent meant to mark the black blocks like you did for the first one?

[@artushavret5421]

The map is not complete. There is a section missing at the bottom, that of the tutorial.

[@Yipper64]

35:50 SECRET TUNNEL!

[@Akawump]

This kind of content is a yes ♥️

[@GarrettHoward22]

Day 710 of telling Tyler that he never finished his minecraft series and that he should finish it.

[@christianhohn5406]

Yes good man

[@zinny7799]

I shall join you in your quest to get him to play minecraft again

[@thonk7611]

so glad to see you again

[@har7555]

You have done this for nearly 2 years!?

[@aidenmullineux9564]

Do it

[@bezmik_raw]

33:16 Tyler desperately trying not to get banned for youtube

[@thewon9633]

33:48 looking a tad sus

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

I tapped so quick that KZbin didn't even have time to load the comments. But damn, I can tell this is only the beginning... Would it be worth picking the game up myself before I kept watching?

[@smeskii1754]

tyler expertly dodging the swastika joke near the end there

[@fullmoonshadow6967]

"Zed heathens"? Bro. "Zed" came first.

[@genericname2988]

Ah yes, those were definitely the last pieces of the map 7:00

[@har7555]

I like how in the description it thinks he’s playing Starbound

[@ewoly5]

challenge: take a shot every time he says 'mine' or 'filled in'

[@livek1238]

I love youtube thinks this is starbound

[@worldtrademark_]

I totally understand this game

[@randomtrashbag708]

Welcome to the waterfall, buddy!

[@bunkerbrock7716]

around 30:50 i got really scared what that shape was gonna be

[@aliendude99]

Then you get to 33:15

[@WanderTheNomad]

Heated puzzle gamer moment

[@APerson-14]

Epic

[@difabblo1203]

dangit!

[@zinny7799]

You my friend are first

[@APerson-14]

@@zinny7799 yep

[@konstantinosadamopoulos9918]

It would be interesting to try to go to floor 5 or 6 on the elevator

[@lajawi.]

The game in the description is wrong, it says Starbound.

[@switchlode9756]

love the daily videos

[@CreativeYetCrazy]

Who is Phil Din and why does Tyler want to find him so bad

[@TheAdhdGaming]

the water pool besideright the mountain face looks like the witness

[@nyuh]

Tailer plays Taiji !!

[@gusisonthebus]

why are the witness bridges slow?

[@dadutchboy2]

youtube: "this is starbound"

[@bobothehobo2477]

Secret area, more like a secret tunnel

[@cyber_dragon_123]

god even watching the game for 30 minutes fries my brain

[@TheGravy5]

I appreciate that youtube thinks this is Starbound

[@DynamicDownie]

33:19 yikes that puzzle

[@B1TBR0]

Yeah, right? preeetty sus lol

[@B1TBR0]

Toook me a while to find someone mentioning it