Block Puzzle: Difference between revisions

That's right. Blocks.

 

 

Sometimes you can pretty much push them wherever you want, in which case the puzzle is how to get the blocks to their goal without other blocks getting in the way. Other times, the floors are covered with [[Frictionless Ice]] or some other slippery substance and whenever you push the block, it keeps moving until it hits a wall. In those cases, you have to bounce the block in a convoluted path around the room, hitting various pillars set up in the middle to get the block to its goal. If they really want to be nasty with these, they'll have more than one block in the puzzle, only one of which actually needs to get to the end; the rest have to be pushed to create additional walls for other blocks to hit. There are also dark rumors of block puzzles so fiendish that they actually require ALL blocks to get to the end, ''while using each other as walls to get there'' and [[Bottomless Pits]] that eat the blocks and/or you, forcing you to start over.

* The ability to ''[[You Have Researched Breathing|pull]]'' blocks as well as push them.

 

 

 

 

Named after the infamous block puzzle mechanic in ''[[Vagrant Story]]''.

 

== [[Action Adventure]] ==

** And in the Tower of the Gods, you could control 3 of the blocks, just in case the point wasn't clear enough.

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' has sliding block puzzles and rolling block puzzles.

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' cuts down on these considerably, but they're still there in some form.

* ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' had a few: On Yoshi Island, in order to clear a boulder, you had to push blocks around to cover holes that sprayed water until the pressure under the rock was big enough to force it out of the way. Some places within Mt. Lavalava had you push blocks around to form bridges over [[Convection, Schmonvection|lava]]. One has you make a partial bridge, and then you have to be flown the rest of the way.

* Pretty much every dungeon in ''[[Golden Sun]]'' has at least one of these, though the game is less bad at this than in others. In fact, there's more than one spell in-game dedicated to aiding one in solving block puzzles.

* In the ''[[Wild Arms]]'' series, nearly every single dungeon in all of the games contains a number of block puzzles and other environmental puzzle tasks.

* ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'' employed what has to be [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|the most epic block puzzle in the history of the galaxy]]. [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and everything.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Mystic Quest]]'' has a few of these - which, since most ''Final Fantasy'' dungeons are [[No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom|straightforward get-to-the-end kill-the-boss areas]], was rather innovative for the series.

** At least in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' the four most egregious were optional, albeit rewarded with one of the most useful titles in the game.

* In ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'', the Dry Vase item needed to reach an underwater location is held in the basement of a castle in a room locked behind a rolling boulder puzzle. While the king informs you that "no one has ever solved it", the puzzle is remarkably easy, thus proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that everyone in that castle suffers from a terminal case of the Stupids.

* There are many levels in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' that require the proper placement of Geo Blocks, to be used as steps, and/or to manipulate the [[Geo Effects]] in a way that allows you to win the map. Some of them are also timed, and will either make the map unwinnable, or give you an instant [[Game Over]] if you don't get the blocks into position quickly enough.

 

 

== [[Alternate Reality Game]] ==