Resident Evil Requiem consists of quite a few Easter eggs and unlockable extras, however none seemingly as complicated as ‘The Remaining Puzzle.’
Warning! Resident Evil Requiem puzzle spoilers observe:
As with different latest Resident Evil video games, Requiem features a checklist of challenges which add completion factors to your playthrough rating. On the backside of the checklist is the appropriately-named ‘The Remaining Puzzle’ — which is proving to be one thing of a headscratcher.
IGN has a work-in-progress information to The Remaining Puzzle the place important progress has been made via the problem’s convoluted early levels, which really feel extra complicated than something seen in every other Resident Evil sport thus far — and, seemingly, with nonetheless a way left to go.
Precisely what the ultimate final result or reward for the problem may be stays unknown — however as the sport continues its launch around the globe, the hunt for solutions right here will undoubtedly turn out to be a serious level of group focus.
The sport’s personal description for the problem provides solely the vaguest of hints, to “Let the candy pair hear the voice.” The mechanics of the puzzle, or no less than its first half, seem to depend on gamers selecting up or analyzing a wide range of objects all through the sport to find out fragments of a code.
Requiem’s path of clues depends on gamers selecting up a selected severed hand which, if obtained, will also be scanned in a while to supply a hidden RNA code in a blood pattern evaluation machine. Different gadgets additionally cover their very own codes, offering (with a bit extra puzzling work) a model of that RNA sequence that may be plugged right into a protected that options buttons labelled with a Star, Solar and Moon.
After that… nicely, it is right here the path has gone chilly, although doubtless not for lengthy. We’ll be keeping track of additional progress made all through the subsequent few days, as gamers uncover additional steps. For now, nonetheless, it is simply enjoyable to see that the sport hides this sort of puzzle.
For a much more granular take a look at every step to-date, IGN’s work-in-progress information to The Remaining Puzzle is correct right here. We have additionally logged how lengthy Resident Evil Requiem takes to beat, and tracked Resident Evil Requiem’s world launch occasions.
“Like the results of an experiment performed in an underground Umbrella Company lab, Resident Evil Requiem efficiently splices two separate strains of survival horror collectively into the one extremely infectious new mutation,” IGN wrote in our full Resident Evil Requiem evaluate, which returned a 9/10 rating.
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