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An inner layer would shift an outer layer, the outer layer would move the whole thing. The first couple are easy, but the further into the game I ventured the more convoluted the movements became. The aim is to rotate the layers and form a complete picture or carving.
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Lost Legacy features a number of puzzles that consist of layered dials to rotate. That’s rewarding too, because the combat in Uncharted can get surprisingly difficult, but if the characters I’m playing are all wise-cracking thieves with more history knowledge than a classics professor, I want to feel like I’m a part of that intellect. I felt like I’d accomplished something of more substance than just shooting hordes of nameless mercenaries.
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With a full belly and a clear head I figured it out, and felt like a real adventurer for the first time. The final set of statues beat me black and blue for so long I had to stop for a dinner break. Needless to say, I have not earned that trophy. There’s a trophy to be earned for explorers who can beat the challenges without getting hit. Easy peasy, right? The next puzzle had more statues, and the one after that had even more, all with varying areas of effect and different ranges and attack times. The statue would swing for me every three jumps, but only in an area marked out by symbols on the platforms. The next puzzle I struggled with involved a giant statue bashing me with axes as I jumped about platforms in the air. I’m sure if I hadn’t been so angry at my own ineptitude I would have felt like I’d earned the stunning vistas that were sealed away behind the puzzle door. It felt like a puzzle that could actually stop someone from breaking into an ancient city - it stopped me. My housemate was watching - judging me - and figured out you have to move the outer piece to the other side, then grab the middle piece, then move the outer piece back, th- look, it was hard, so I just passed them the controller. For the life of me I just couldn’t do it. I had to fix the inner ring first, then the middle, then the outer one - it was like a Tower of Hanoi, but dead hard. I could move one piece over to the opposite side at a time, but then the outer ring would block the inner ones. The first that bamboozled me was one that involved having to complete a set of three rings.
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Still, I wasn’t expecting to be stopped in my tracks for ten minutes plus by some of the more complicated puzzles on offer here. I’ll admit, I don’t have the best spatial awareness, which plays a big part of these challenges - I can’t tie knots and I’m awful at untangling cables or unspooling cling film. RELATED: Five Years After Launch, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Is Still The Series' Best If anything, the puzzles feel like minor time sinks that have been put in to make me feel like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. The problem is the puzzles are far too easy - I never felt I’d earned the brilliant scenery or the jaw dropping action. Explore, exposition, explosion, with puzzles and cover shooting mixed in. The Uncharted games are action-adventure puzzle-platformers - that’s quite the mouthful - that sprinkle in a hefty number of spectacular set pieces throughout gameplay.
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, initially planned as a standalone expansion to Uncharted 4, is the first game in the series that’s actually challenged me with its puzzles. Most of the puzzles in the first four main series games amounted to little more than matching symbols or turning dials. But that’s what the Uncharted games want me to believe. It’s hard to believe an ancient civilization could keep its treasures hidden for hundreds, even thousands of years, with little more than a match-3 puzzle to keep the vaults locked.