

How long, after all, do you allow the agony to continue? If the game is bad enough, you just stop playing. You may find yourself cursing the designers for being cruel, unfair, unreasonable and just plain stupid. Games can require a tremendous amount of effort they can make ridiculous demands and create needless busywork. ''It's one thing to make you go through battle scenes over and over, but once you've solved a puzzle, why should you have to keep solving it over and over again before you can get to a ridiculously hard timed puzzle?'' My friends wearily agreed: yes, it's a bad thing, now quit talking about it. ''Does this make any sense to you?'' I asked my friends. The game had treated me badly and I was unable to forgive it. Then I went on the Internet and found a solution for the puzzle.Īfter going through all that, I stopped playing Onimusha. Then I guided them through the pulling of the levers, past the secret door, over the booby-trapped floor and into the watertight room, where, once again, Samanosuke drowned before I could figure out the tile puzzle.

But because Onimusha won't let you skip narrative scenes, I had to listen to Samanosuke and Kaede's conversation again. I went back to the place I had saved 20 minutes earlier. Time ran out and Samanosuke drowned.Īs with all Capcom adventure games, you can save only in certain locations. I could select a tile but couldn't get the hang of moving it.

Then, when Samanosuke is trapped in a room that is filling up with water, Kaede must solve a sliding-tile puzzle before he drowns. Samanosuke winds up in a room with a trick door, and after finding its secret, he and Kaede must walk across a booby-trapped floor. After chatting for a bit, they are suddenly trapped behind iron bars and together must pull a lot of levers to open a series of gates. A Samurai named Samanosuke sets out to rescue a kidnapped princess, wandering the countryside, killing monsters and sucking up their spiritual essence to fuel his magical weaponry.Īt one point, Samanosuke walks through a door and meets a young woman named Kaede. The current candidate is the Capcom adventure game Onimusha Warlords, which takes place in 16th-century Japan.
