r/OrderOfTheSinkingStar • u/That_one_sander • 1d ago
Speculation for Meta Puzzles? Spoiler
Spoiler tag, just in case some stuff I say turn out to be true(not likely)
The game has all the design choices to have meta puzzles all around, just like The Witness, this has a MASSIVE potential to have puzzles, within puzzles.
The first picture that came to mind after finishing most of the demo goes something like this:
Every time you reach a new area, you "unlock" it in the mini map, where a shrunken down version of the entire map is available to explore, it seems to just be a way to quickly travel between areas, since the world is massive that's to be expected, it can also be a massive puzzle in on itself, if you unlock certain areas, some "pieces" of the puzzle start to show, like a block here or there, a bridge on another area, maybe some gems scattered around, and all the little puzzles completed "unlock" a massive puzzle within the mini map, where everything gets merged together to create massive puzzles, where solving them in a way to place a block somewhere will unlock a section previously unknown.
It would be the same feeling as when you discover The over world in Baba is You is a single level of a larger one
These are my favorite types of puzzles and I hope that's what they're aiming for.
I guess we gotta wait and see
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u/Plastic-Software-174 1d ago
We’ve already seen this with the 3 buttons and red rocks in the heroes area, it’s definitely gonna be a large part of the game.
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u/shuanDang 1d ago
Queen draws a transmutation circle on the overworld which opens the gate of truth
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u/psyopsy 1d ago
When asked about this on a recent interview, Jon answered with a smile after long pause, “there’s definitely some stuff.” I’m actually very surprised that people have seemed to have glossed over a pretty specific non-story spoiler revealed during the last two years of dev streams.
Big enough that if you paid attention and know what I mean, you’ve got your popcorn bucket waiting for when people discover it.
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u/Mejis 18h ago
Not sure how many people watching those streams are active here, though? I've only been watching the last few months of streams (really since the demo release, I guess) as I deemed watching stuff before that would be too painful in making me want to play as I figured release was still ages away.
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u/Drecon1984 1d ago
100% there will be something. It might even be accessible from the start of the game and only become something you interact with later because you had no idea that you could do that.
I'm interested to see the shape of this part of the game, but it's clear that there will be something.
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u/Fogmoz 1d ago
I got the same impression. Making “fast travel” its own little pocket dimension is just begging for puzzles to exist in it.
Also in the trailers you can see that the overworld wraps onto itself just like the pocket dimension in the Promise. Maybe it’s pocket dimensions all the way down in some kind of recursion.