Resident Evil Requiem consists of quite a few Easter eggs and unlockable extras, however none seemingly as advanced as ‘The Closing Puzzle.’
Warning! Resident Evil Requiem puzzle spoilers observe:
As with different latest Resident Evil video games, Requiem features a record of challenges which add completion factors to your playthrough rating. On the backside of the record is the appropriately-named ‘The Closing Puzzle’ — which is proving to be one thing of a headscratcher.
IGN has a work-in-progress information to The Closing Puzzle the place vital progress has been made by the problem’s convoluted early phases, which really feel extra advanced than something seen in another Resident Evil sport to this point — and, seemingly, with nonetheless a way left to go.
Precisely what the ultimate consequence or reward for the problem could be stays unknown — however as the sport continues its launch around the globe, the hunt for solutions right here will undoubtedly change into a significant level of neighborhood focus.
The sport’s personal description for the problem affords solely the vaguest of hints, to “Let the candy pair hear the voice.” The mechanics of the puzzle, or a minimum of its first half, seem to depend on gamers selecting up or inspecting 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 conceal 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… effectively, it is right here the path has gone chilly, although probably 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 type of puzzle.
For a much more granular have a look at every step to-date, IGN’s work-in-progress information to The Closing 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 instances.
“Like the results of an experiment carried out 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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