Wow so many secrets that's crazy

There isn't unlocking moves, you can do anything right off the start. That's how you get the amazing speedruns that exist. There is just a point where you miss something for so long the devs sometimes force you to "learn new tricks"

How many trees could a monster deforest if a monster could deforest trees

Another reason it is "easier" when watching is because we can just be trying to think of things that you are not doing, or looking in places you aren't looking, and then when you solve something we haven't even looked at we still take credit for it("I woulda figured that out"). Basically we only have to search a subset of options because you're handling the rest, so if you're going the wrong path it actually makes it MORE likely we will find the solution, and yet to us it feels like we did something so hard even you couldn't do it.... thats my theory anyway

13:39 "I can walk on this rock, that's huge because that will let me walk on this rock now" -Tyler 2020

17:15 that sounds like a long way of saying we're not as smart as we think we are and you're smarter than we think you are... And you'd be right

"Debatable whether humans made those..." **conspiracy theorist intensifies** (We need to get a version of the "Aliens" meme with Tyler... 😁)

I really like how the game is kinda designed like a Metroidvania.

4:50 "The more I think about it, the more I want to raft."

I wonder what would happen if you took a log from another island, put it onto a stump from the current island, and then reset the level. Would the logs clip inside eachother?

Want to see his reaction to watching a speedrun of this game.

The logs standing up reminds me of bloxors from coolmath games.

Now that you've explained the pattern of standing logs, it all makes sense!

I actually loved when he talked about different mindsets since that's something I constantly do with a short term memory problem so I don't have a premade idea based on a previous part since I can't remember that part and that's one reason I love games like this

the perspective thing is interesting. it's like you can't see the forest for the trees

Another thing about watching footage: you're brain isn't busy solving the puzzle, so it's free to observe and explore other things while someone else solves the problem. This may lead you to a similar solution, but it could also lead you to explore alternative moves.

17:13 There's also another reason for this to happen! Even when you're not counsciously thinking about something, your subconscious is constantly trying to thank about and solve stuff. Especially when you're asleep! Albert Einstein mentioned that he often found solutions to equations and stuff in the morning, after waking up; his mind did the work for him while he was asleep. Ain't the brain beautiful?

My theory for the playing versus watching problem is tunnel vision. Backseat Gaming is something that exists not only in puzzle games. Say, for example, that you play a shooter and enter a room with a pickup in one corner. You, the player, concentrate on killing all enemies in the room. The watcher however doesn't have this tunnel vision, as he is only watching another person doing something so he has to concentrate less on that and has time to look around more. Therefore it is more likely for the watcher to notice the pickup in the corner of the room (and write in the stream chat, that you missed something and how could you, it was so obvious that it was there)

10:25 really looks like you could raft from that island

me: tyler: talks at 17:21 for like a minute me after he stopped talking: wow this guy is talking in 5d chess

“Can I walk on this rock”? “I can walk on this rock”!

I don’t think Tyler got that very British cricket wicket joke lol.

Next is putting a log inside he Post Box to fast travel with the log.

If you really want to 100% unaided, some of the last puzzles require much greater vision than a single island. I suggest printing out screenshots of the expanded map to the scale of connected island chains, and then marking up the screenshots for places you can make rafts, the location of bigger trees, and where you can roll logs over bridges, by resetting each connected island in turn. You only have to do this basic legwork once that way, and the marked-up screenshots expand your vision for the more difficult puzzles. Later, you will have to do more work to find extra configurations of islands with perhaps just one log altered, and you can still exit over a bridge or raft and get to a teleport, and combine these for several connected islands to do some crazy secret stuff with unexpected rafting. Remember, rafts can be stopped by a log in the water, and pushed off at 90 degrees with another log -- and even more crazy options exist. It's going to be a lot easier to work out the more difficult puzzles with expanded vision, and you'll spend less time resetting islands you already know probably don't help you if you've done the legwork once.

5:55 Hold your breath as these fish bring death.

I'm pretty sure there should be only 1 solution for each island that takes care of all options even for special access areas. When you went to hug the snowman near the beginning of the game, it looked like you could have rafted over from the left side instead of resetting the islands. Take a look! ;)

bruh log speedrunners

16:04 thats what i call some good mesing around

17:40 Also, you can think of other strategies while Tyler checks the current one. Sort of like multitasking

16:36 , Mindset talk

How have you been man, I love you btd6 videos and your poly bridge. Keep up the good work man, much love

alternate title: bending time and space in order to hug a sentient snowman that can only show that it is sentient by the way of extending its arms, and more!

Whoa that's wild

Love this guy

I think also when you’re watching, you don’t need to think about almost anything, so all your brainpower can be focused on whatever the person playing is stuck on or missing

i wonder if he's going to figure out that you can make a fully functioning teleporter with nothing but logs

5:15 the classic dancing fish strategy!

Wow, I didn't expect this game to get so complicated.

Nice I love knowledge checkpoints

i think one big reason people think they're better at puzzle games when watching compared to playing is that when the person who's playing gets stuck, they will often come up with the solution first. But they don't consider the many times when the person playing found a solution much quicker than they would have.

Tyler becomes hella big brain when he starts to talk about mindsets around 17:15

Love your vids

I could set a clock with you upload schedule.

17:18 I think aliensrock is becoming one of those scientists or something

This game is so hype

10:30 I do believe letting your brain rest and process information is a good way to learn

That last island in this video there is a raftable position to the left where you could journey upwards.

I really like to watch these videos without sound for some reason

Alien's lesson of the day : dissociating makes you smarter

i do not understand this game but i enjoy watching it

Yessss it's back

You should check out the speed run.

Philosophical puzzling

1:36 You’re saying you knocked up a tree......... nice.

Nice

wow, cool, very cool

You were super overthinking a lot of the puzzles this episode.

One question, what happens if you have a log from another island on top of a stump, and then rewind the island with the stump

My mind and set 🤯

Haha log go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

4:10 Why cobble here 2: Electric boogaloo

God I love this game

15:00 Anyone else notice the Windows XP background?

the reverse mermaid is so incredibly cursed

Early monster gets the log

the missing "obvious" things is why I only like this game and don't love it, compared to can of wormholes, there's no tips , so when I got stuck I had to either spend way too much time, or look up a walkthrough, most of the time just seeing the end position got me what I wanted, like if I missed that I needed to make a raft or throw something in the water. also I spent quite a long time on unintended solutions that were way more complicated than the intended one.

BREAKING: Local Monster Causes Mass Deforestation

Tyler you are a raft: a raft of bad puns and good ideas

Perspective yo say 17:30 perspective is reality

Day 4 of thanking Tyler’s editor; thank you Ben!

Yay

Interesting

18:00 did he just backseat gaming himself?

nice

every time you kick a rock I say, why you kick rock?

It’s bop here

Hmm yes the tree here is... A LIE

5:53 HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEAAAATHHH OH PLEASE GOD WAKE MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

MINDSEPTION

While I'll admit I don't really like watching this game, it is still somehow infinitely meta.

alienssock

When you have finished this game, can you please react to the speedrun, like you did with the Witness

heyyy

Guys guess what the title for the next 5 monsters expedition videos will be

Im hard for these puzzles

BRUUUUUH

Yes, yes you could have

Yes, yes you could've

why do these videos make me taste oatmeal

*Woodhenge* Real name: cricket stumps. You have no idea what those are, do you Tyler?

aliensrock

How do you compare this game to the witness?

Can you try Campfire Cooking? It’s a mobile puzzle game that I enjoy, but I don’t know how mobile works with twitch.

hey if your into rpg games i recon a game you should play is skyrim it is my all time favorite game and i thing you would enjoy it

Does Tyler always stream at the same time?

I wonder if the programmers of this game added logging...

One of my recommended videos on KZfaqäs homepage was a 2 second video of a RL teacup chihuahua opening its mouth with a voice over of Wario going WAAAH. I said Not Interested, and one of the selectable reasons listed as to why I am not interested was that I am not interested in videos related to this one. ......Seriously KZfaq, HOW THE HOLY FUCK IS THIS VIDEO RELATED TO THAT STUPID 2 SECOND MEME CRAP?!?!?!?!

Puzzle games are way easier when someone else is playing them.

Hi

Just leaving a comment before I go to bed, some of you should probably too after this video. Don't forget please.