The Witness: Despair Mod

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The Witness, open world giant puzzle game in 2016, has a Despair fan mod, featuring several amounts of new symbols that need to be discovered and figured out. It's a rule discovery puzzle game.
Mod download (make sure to NOT select "Despair" if you want to play this video's mode): github.com/chuukunn/witness-r...
The background music is various tracks from Great Marble Adventure, which is a really really good 3D platformer, there is so much content and capacity of pathfinding in it, and I feel like this was a fitting opportunity to use it and highlight it, because that game (and its music, which has great melodies I will remember forever) are deeply overlooked. This is not sponsored.
(check out the composer's channel: www.youtube.com/@sonata-xe7ho... )
Honestly I'd like to do a video on "puzzles in unexpected contexts" and one of them is definitely pathfinding in puzzle games for sure.
0:00 Intro to Despair Mod
0:29 New Symbol: Arrows
8:34 New Symbol: Hard Hats
17:12 New Symbol: Mushrooms
25:01 New Symbol (not solved): Down Arrows?
26:42 Cursed Pac-Man Ghosts???
29:30 New Symbol (not solved): Clock Hands?
31:25 New Symbol: Number Hell
41:38 Compassionate Game Designer
42:00 Number Hell + Doritos
45:20 Number Hell + Swampy Rotation
50:17 Number Hell + Everydot
54:57 Number Hell + Starry Night
58:01 Number Hell + Solid Shapes
Short games playlist: • ALL Short Games / One-...
Witness Despair mod playlist: • The Witness: Despair Mod
"secret" discord: / discord

Пікірлер: 73

@WordUser Жыл бұрын

The visual indication helps a lot with following along

@NotQuartz Жыл бұрын

Instead of editing the rule that was onscreen out, he decided to edit in text that pointed it out… His goals are beyond our understanding

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

walcome buck

@junyong0716 Жыл бұрын

@@IcelyPuzzles hi

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

@@junyong0716 HI

@pixelator5312 Жыл бұрын

Despair Advanced edit: my best bet for inverted triangles is that they only care about the edges of the board (that they're directly aligned with, anyway) edit 2: i was about to say the clock hands might require your line to bend in the same way that the symbols depict, then i saw the second gate and my brain shattered into a million pieces

@RomanQrr Жыл бұрын

You should color the squares themselves when dealing with the digit clues.

@CDCHexaku Жыл бұрын

Fun fact : The arrows is actually in the Witness Randomizer Expert Mode. Expert Randomizer shift Triangles into a "common" symbol and replaces all of those panels with the Arrows for the "secret" puzzles. so if you've already done Expert Randomizer, the starting area is actually not that bad

@ermlerml7925 10 ай бұрын

I've done expert randomizer before, and yes the 1st section looked easy in this vid

@bluji1250 Жыл бұрын

Right from the get-go, I'm struggling so much with the colours - the bright purple on the dark grey is just not very visible for me :( thanks for the visual indications, they help a lot!

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

youtube compression also doesn't seem to like that color pair, it's more blurry than I remember it when playing :( but thank you :D

@8thy Жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie my head doesn’t agree with the witness but just shows how good your videos are that I got all the way through a witness video hahaha. The drawing program trick you use is clever and super helpful also!

@everythinganderson2624 Жыл бұрын

The mushrooms act as omnidirectional arrows. They must see the line in every direction. What you said is a rephrase of the intended rule.

@TheAdhdGaming Жыл бұрын

34:02 minesweeper battle advanced 34:08 how dare u steal my thunder >:0

@24ayn5_ Жыл бұрын

now i need to speedrun this mod

@jacobduffy1114 10 ай бұрын

Knowing me who got to the challenge with walkthroughs and understanding basic knowledge of the puzzles, I somehow understood the mushrooms and hats. Nothing else but I still enjoyed this video. The number of hell things made no sense, neither did the arrows, downward triangles clock hands etc. but i was still interested and watched the whole thing. Keep it up!

@IcelyPuzzles 10 ай бұрын

thank you :D

@neutralflowerland Жыл бұрын

symbol puzzle advanced

@SylvesterAshcroft88 6 ай бұрын

The arrows remind me of one of the late game puzzles, which was somewhat like a maze, and was incredibly confusing, similar to the puzzles with the pillars before the elevator at the end of the game. I imagine they start off with that, as it's more or less a continuation of some of the most difficult puzzles from the base game.

@rasyidmystery6891 Жыл бұрын

I like how you experiment with the screenshot like you are playing Slither Link

@mpjp2587 Жыл бұрын

This game seems a lot like the looker

@user-innacessiblefinity-2026 7 ай бұрын

For the "Down Arrows", aka "Antitriangles", each triangle represents one corner. So 3 antitriangles needs to have 3 turns.

@hugochavezjunior2672 Жыл бұрын

Witness despair advanced

@daffa_fm4583 Жыл бұрын

if you think about it triangles are just orthogonal minesweeper (when theyre not in the edge)

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

thooonk

@TDS_Plush Жыл бұрын

is this the funny game with the funny ending (not modded) the p ending (update: wrong game. the one i was talking about was "the looker")

@diametheuslambda Жыл бұрын

It's not a true despair mod unless recordings are changed to sobbing babies, readings of the entire 1973 tax code, and German text-to-speech of the Open SSL source pre-megabug.

@nubert916 Жыл бұрын

That sounds more like _depression_ than despair.

@jacobduffy1114 3 ай бұрын

Back again. I play the witness on my tablet, so I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to do this, but I recently got interested in this game again. I now understand the arrows, thankfully, so that’s good. I hope you revisit this mod. How do I get the mod if I download it on steam?

@mynameusedtobelong Жыл бұрын

Normal The Witness is already a disespeair

@CHAZZRMAN Жыл бұрын

disespeair

@LeoninMinecraft 4 ай бұрын

I got the mod, and i randomized my puzzles with it, but my game doesnt look different? how do i get the color scheme your game has??

@Kitana___ Жыл бұрын

chess battle simplified

@CHAZZRMAN Жыл бұрын

dis pear🍐

@username_not_found6926 Жыл бұрын

Those numbers on those panels really dis a pear when they are so faint

@CHAZZRMAN Жыл бұрын

noooo not the pear :[

@TheAdhdGaming Жыл бұрын

amazing game tho, cant wait to make puzzles using aseprite 😺👍

@iamrepairmanman Жыл бұрын

Down arrows are probably non touching sides, since they're just inverted triangles

@pixelator5312 Жыл бұрын

then it would be impossible to touch all the dots, especially around the quadruple inverted triangle

@TheAdhdGaming Жыл бұрын

@@pixelator5312 but you can go around touching corners and not edges

@pixelator5312 Жыл бұрын

@@TheAdhdGaming not in the puzzle in the video, you can't

@TheAdhdGaming Жыл бұрын

@@pixelator5312 understandable, maybe you can just not do what the triangles say? >.>

@godlyvex5543 Жыл бұрын

I'm confused. I want to play the mod, but the mod you link says it's a random puzzle generator, not a new map. And in the description you specifically say not to choose despair... despite that being the mod? Could you clarify?

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

It's not a new map. when you load it, it gives you an option of two modes, but the "despair" mode is more in line with expert randomizer and doesn't really replace stuff with new symbols (at least, not that I saw). I named it Despair anyway because that's the cooler name.

@vitowidjojo7038 Жыл бұрын

3:18 How many times it has happened in your other video? Some footages you remove due to an epic failure.

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

sometimes - i usually try to keep evidence of failed attempts unless it's boring, and imo it's very bad for engagement to have a long failure in the intro

@vitowidjojo7038 Жыл бұрын

@@IcelyPuzzles so, unless it's a very epic fail, all fails are going to be deleted?

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

@@vitowidjojo7038 no

@vitowidjojo7038 Жыл бұрын

@@IcelyPuzzles Oh, alright... Thanks for the response.

@saltysalt844 Жыл бұрын

12:12 nooooo i never watch this game playthru before

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

._.

@saltysalt844 Жыл бұрын

@@IcelyPuzzles the fact that i don't know any of these vanila game mechanic, watching and finding out the rule in this video is like playing the game itself lmao

@sunbleachedangel Жыл бұрын

Good old piss water

@daffa_fm4583 Жыл бұрын

ah yes he plays the harder randomizer first

@BryanLu0 Жыл бұрын

wow, why are those numbers so faint

@tepig2828 Жыл бұрын

This is still not as despair inducing as The Witness Randomizer Expert Mode

@dylanedwards7548 Жыл бұрын

the "hard hat" symbols look like urotsuki from yume 2kki lol

@microdavid7098 Жыл бұрын

the music though. I think jon blow was kinda right on ommiting it

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

@KirbosPlanet Жыл бұрын

I hope you witness my love 😳

@youtubecomments2740 4 ай бұрын

7:00 They're not unique, I did that puzzle myself and got a somewhat different path.

@ywl2587 Жыл бұрын

41:50 now do the environmental puzzle on the ride

@IcelyPuzzles Жыл бұрын

lololol

@dikephobia Жыл бұрын

mod(e)

@penguincute3564 Жыл бұрын

A mod does not randomize stuff, it changes stuff in the code…

@CDCHexaku Жыл бұрын

No. Witness Randomizer does not affect the game files in ANY way, due to how the Witness stores panels data exclusively in RAM while running. it instead just taps into those data in RAM and changes those. You would have not made this mistake had you take one minute to read up how it works.