Resident Evil Requiem consists of quite a few Easter eggs and unlockable extras, however none seemingly as complicated as ‘The Last Puzzle.’
Warning! Resident Evil Requiem puzzle spoilers comply with:
As with different current 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 Last Puzzle’ — which is proving to be one thing of a headscratcher.
IGN has a work-in-progress information to The Last Puzzle the place vital progress has been made via the problem’s convoluted early levels, which really feel extra complicated than something seen in some other Resident Evil recreation to this point — and, seemingly, with nonetheless a way left to go.
Precisely what the ultimate end result or reward for the problem could be stays unknown — however as the sport continues its launch all over the world, the hunt for solutions right here will undoubtedly turn into a serious level of neighborhood focus.
The sport’s personal description for the problem gives 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 choosing 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 choosing up a particular severed hand which, if obtained, may also be scanned afterward to offer a hidden RNA code in a blood pattern evaluation machine. Different objects additionally disguise their very own codes, offering (with a bit extra puzzling work) a model of that RNA sequence that may be plugged right into a secure 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 maintaining a tally of additional progress made all through the following few days, as gamers uncover additional steps. For now, nevertheless, it is simply enjoyable to see that the sport hides this type of puzzle.
For a much more granular take a look at every step to-date, IGN’s work-in-progress information to The Last Puzzle is correct right here. We have additionally logged how lengthy Resident Evil Requiem takes to beat, and tracked Resident Evil Requiem’s international 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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