Well, in-game it was a work of a literal madman, after all.

"We seek the ultimate experience." is such an amazing ending to this rollercoaster

I remember seeing a dev commentary about the last section of the puzzle here, where they say that they intentionally have those last few rotatable blocks arranged in the correct position by default, because they thought it would be sad if someone got all the way to the last part but forgot to rotate the blocks. Apparently it did the exact opposite cause nobody just assume the initial setup is correct.

One of the best top-down RPG games ever created, period. Puzzles are awesome.

I loved these, this one is especially great. The satisfaction from completing these is palpable

i'm surprised you didn't include Sergey's text where he's like, "Gautham, you've got to be kidding me..." So you know even in-game the characters know this is an over-the-top puzzle. But, it makes sense, since Gautham wanted "The Ultimate Experience". He wanted to push Lea to her absolute limits, both "physically" and mentally.

Everything about this game, both the pleasant and painful aspects of it, add up to it literally being my favorite game of all time. I can’t wait to come back to it again in several years and fall in love with it all over again. Wonderfully perfect execution, btw! It took me several tries even once I knew what I was doing.

Too be fair, this is the very last puzzle in the game. It should be hard.

It's definitely overwhelming when you first see any of these and it can take a while to put together, but so satisfying once the solution clicks and you pull it off. :D I actually found a few of the smaller puzzles in this dungeon and Gaia's Garden much more difficult to figure out (and actually had to look them up), these large ones take time, but are fairly straightforward.

If anyone hasn't noticed yet, the elements needed for each side of the puzzle room corresponds to the location of the element on the wheel in the top-right corner

4:55 As someone who completed the whole game without ever using assist mode or a guide on my first run, I gotta admit this was my exact same reaction after figuring out and solving that puzzle

Honestly the huge spike in puzzle difficulty starting in Gaia's Gardens wave/shock temple's last rooms had me groaning everytime one of these showed up. And oh god don't get me started on the DLC temple's puzzles.

What a gigantic piece of horrid and ultimately fantastic experience of a puzzle. I remember seeing it for the first time and being all "NOPE NOPE I QUIT I WONT DO THIS I WONT SUBJECT MYSELF TO THIS LEVEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE", then actually solving it and screaming just like you. 10/10 game Can't reccomend it enough

For me, this last puzzle room is the best, it's really show most of the mechanic that you already learn in this game. Idk if i'm doing it wrong, but there's other puzzle room that require very precise shoot that makes me question "did the devs really want me to shoot at this precise position lol" that even after searching youtube for the guide, it's still a very hard thing to do, atleast this last puzzle room is straight forward telling you that you're gonna have a very long rally and if you succeded, you're gonna feels so satisfied

This part legit took me half an hour to complete. Ultimate experience my ass

this sounds cringe, but when i was doing this section of the game i found a bug where you can use the decoy ability of the wave to just skip half the puzzles as the barrier only is up if you are close to it, so you could make a clone far away, run past the barrier and legit just skip the puzzle. The sense of self genius was so high for me discovering that i honestly believe they left that in game just for people to stumble across it

I felt my brain cooking more than once playing this game, but goddamn it was worth it.

I get why people hate these puzzles but it feels so damn good when you finally beat them.

Oh I love this puzzle in crosscode. Its way more fun to have such a hard puzzle instead of one that treats you like a toddler.

I love this game so much. I'd missed games that required me to actually use my brain

One of the things that make these puzzles slightly easier is that the floor will often have a pattern that traces out the correct route for ricocheting the ball, so you know if you're on the right track

Oh yeah, this one. Sergey reacted much like myself. I still managed to beat it without the assist mode menu, but man I really enjoyed beating the boss after this.

God I remember being completely fine with this when I first played it, but now when I'm watching this I'm having full-scale PTSD flashbacks.

At least the dev had some mercy by adding a puzzle speed slider in the game settings. Only half’s speed though

It's funny, because a good 90% puzzles are way better than this, but it's always the _last_ puzzle of every dungeon that goes nuts.

great video, accurate demonstration of me trying to figure out how the puzzles work except fast forwarded thumbs up!

lowkey this puzzle was easier than the ones in the shock/wave temples and kryskajo

DLC puzzle becomes even worse… pls help

i adore this game, its gameplay, and its story, but GOD DAMN the puzzles make me want to re evaluate every single one of my life choices i have no idea if you figured this out through trial and error or if u looked up a walkthrough but god speed to you eitherway (im really hoping the puzzles don't get worst in the dlc dungeon)

Yeah. this puzzle was pretty tough... but I remember thinking that it seemed more difficult at first and wasn't so bad after I started working it out. Believe it or not, a couple of the other puzzles earlier in the game gave me more problems than this one. That said, this one definitely seemed more daunting at first. I think the hardest part of this puzzle was getting everything done in the proper timing for the slow moving ball (which is typical for the slow moving ball challenges). One of the things that I thought was a nice touch for this puzzle is how they laid out the area. It matches the layout of the element icons... ice on top, lightning on the right, fire on the bottom, and wave on the left. You can see the floor is colored the same way. You will also be using only that particular element when you are in that area of the puzzle. Very cool design.

This puzzle took me a while but god damn it took a while. I love that the puzzles in this game are actually somewhat challenging while being reasonable. The one sliding block puzzle in the desert temple was BS though

This game makes my autism brain super happy and then makes game design decisions that make me really mad.

my favourite puzzle

That "damn, I'm good" feeling when you did all correctly is the reason we play this game.

I cant' believe I actually beat this. Watching this years later make it seems impossible.

This puzzle took me some time to beat, but man was it satisfying.

That was a great victory laugh, that made even me satisfied lol

Crosscode is my favourite game of all time 💖💖💖

Best thing to do is keep on doing it until you understand what you have to do. I know some people might find it tedious but personally I found it fun trial and erroring until I got the hang of doing everything correctly until I found it easy.

i had no idea people hated the puzzles so much. i thought they were by far the best part of the game. if i got stuck, i would just turn the game off and come back the next day and usually i’d solve it pretty quick.

The laughter in the end is perfect.

honestly despite sergey's reaction to the puzzle, i feel like prior puzzles were harder/more convoluted. compared to those, this was still convoluted, its just one of the most fucking tedious

I just recently completed this game on a blin playthrough. There were some tough puzzles but in my opinion there was nothing that was over the top difficult. Only in the DLC was one or two puzzles that I took me a while to solve. And puzzles like in the video are typically quite easy to solve with some backwards engineering. What I mean with that is you start at the end and work yourself backwards to the beginning. The rest is just getting the timing right, which is most of the time not very difficult either.

This puzzle was actually quite straight forward and fun tbh, the only hard part was the execution which took me like 10min. I hated the earth and shock temple so much as they didn't explain some mechanics well enough

One of the best puzzles in the base game IMO.

At least the bullet your following is moving at a snails pace if that thing was moving fast this would be borderline impossible definitely doable as long as you figure it out

came back to the game lately to dinish it, I swear some puzzles and quests cross the line into frustrating more than fun challenge 😅

I'll be honest, i think this is actually one of the easier ridiculous dungeon puzzles in the game, its very clearly split between which mode you need to be in for each quarter of the map, first you use cold, then shock, then heat, then wave, the same order as the selection wheel. I much prefer it to some of the other ones

"Does anybody have any fucking question?" I have, sir. How are you so funny, I am losing my breath from laughter. Grats on completing the puzzle and on actually getting there to begin with. I hope you've had fun with the game.

good video, you explained it very well

This puzzle was complete hell and the only time I ever made puzzle timers go below 70% time

watching this at 2x speed is perfect

I can tell he enjoyed it alot. 😂

That sounded like it took a hundred attempts. 🤣😂

To be fair, this is the final puzzle in the (base) game.

This is what i imagine manlea sounds like

I had to futz with puzzle timing in the settings for this one specific challenge. I think I wound up only putting it a single point in my favor, but I was quite frustrated by then, havaing messed the timing up just enough to fail multiple times. Still, a good game.

I had to study how each part works and do some backtracking. it was obvious eventually as I made multiple test runs. to be fair my first try was a failure but a guide solved everything.

This is one hell of a skill check

This one was really fun. One of the few somewhat more difficult puzzles. I wish the DLC had some more like it.

As someone who enjoys a good puzzle even I felt that the dungeons at the end of this game were exhausting. The final dungeons were just a Rube Goldberg puzzle room, then a battle room, then another Rube Goldberg, another fight, repeat the pattern until the boss. Everything else about the game is fantastic, and you can slow down the puzzles to make them easier in the settings menu.

u n d e r r a t e d g a m e

Every time I see one of these massive ass bouncing ball puzzles I groan. Granted this last one got me jaded enough to finish it in like 3 real attempts

I am not ashamed of the fact that I just did the puzzle set to 50% speed. (Although in hindsight I probably could’ve done 60%.) Jesus fucking Christ. Everything else in this game is amazing but someone had a masochistic puzzle fetish on the dev team.

Doesn't look too bad. You know what to do and the main issues is the timing.

Yea I needed to rest halfway through gaias garden because my brain felt fried from the puzzles

Kind of funny how I hate puzzles and thats like 99% of dungeons but the rest of the game was so fun that I ended up doing them anyways

Had to hold the shift key to pause the game while doing puzzle because i don't have a reaction time doing the puzzle

Not gonna lie this was actually one of the easier puzzles in the game for me

So I just started the dlc recently and from what's said the longest dungeon in the game is in it. F U N (still love the game though but my screw-brain needed a guide for most of the puzzles and slowed down the puzzle speed to the lowest.)

_Cross Code_ is secretly the sequel to the _Mousetrap_ boardgame.

I literally just stopped right at this puzlle!

Tell me about it man lmao. I was going to finish the game, but got stuck on a dungeon puzzle. One thing led to another and I found myself busy with school so it’s been months since I played the game. But yea I’ve never seen this dungeon yet, but already am not looking forward to it when I pick the game back up lmao

this IS the last puzzle in the game so that explains why its is so long

Someone give whatever gautham was smoking to every game designer in existence right now.

These puzzles are probably my favorite part of the game. I might be in the minority tho

I have no recollection of completing this puzzle despite having beaten the game 🤔 I actually can’t believe that I beat this looking back…I must have been so traumatised I deleted it from my memory

at first i though sergey(am i spelling that right?) would havl something, but after a few attempts and no word, i gave myself up to reality

Me too man, me too

Omg I remember doing that bullshit. The first realization of what absolute torture the game was about to put me through, to my victory cry and relief of beating it. I love crosscode so much, but FUCK this puzzle, holy shit.

Honnestly I didnt find it very hard. Yes there are a lot of steps but each section is pretty straightforward

still havent gotten the dlc yet

I won’t lie I slowed the puzzle down to a crawl, I ain’t doing 30 attempts on this goliath of a puzzle. I loved the game but I hated these marathon type puzzles.

I'm pretty terrible at puzzles so this game is making me suffer lol

As much as I love crosscode. Probably best top down action game I played, I don't know if I ever want to replay it because of the puzzles :/ Even first time, I was just using guide to get through them and get to the fun parts.

Lol! 😂😂😂

I am exactly at this puzzle now but haven't tried it yet i just saved and quit for a while. Edit beaten it in 3 tries.

this guys must've been FUMIN if he played the post game DLC unpopular opinion but i loved the long dungeons and i absolutely loved the ball puzzles

Awww damn… I just bought this game and haven’t started it yet. These are totally going to give me an anxiety attack. Can’t see myself finishing anything remotely like this.

You can tell he's confused while explaining this 💀💀

Honrstly it's a little weird seeing people complaining about it. It took me the least tries compared to similar puzzle and was so satisfing when everything clicked

Ghost man. Lol

I literally spent 3 days trying to solve this puzzle, when I completed it and got to the boss I spent 1 week... (I forgot to buy sandwiches before the fight)

I both love yet hate this game too. XD Some of these puzzles and battles man... some of them... :p That Desert gave me a nightmare before making my dreams. XD (And emotional nightmares instead, LOL. :p). The Raid, Vermillion Wasteland, Gaia's Garden and that City (Baskin Keep?) more than made up for it. :p Freaking Bubbles and Laser Moths.... Freaking... Puzzles and Moths... Ugh, I was afraid I might get stuck there forever. XD

I especially hated these kind of timed puzzles, so you could see my surprise when i had to go through this hellscape I swear i would have killed [REDACTED DUE TO SPOILERS] if [REDACTED DUE TO SPOILERS] already Ultimate experience my ass

I played some of CrossCode years ago and... well... I feel very conflicted about the game. On one hand, I love its combat, the visual style, the music, even the story was interesting. Some of the puzzles are fun, but then..... some of them very much are not fun whatsoever. The multiple time-limited and timing-based puzzles are always a thorn in my side, a puzzle should be about knowing WHAT to do, but that's not enough in this game, you have to also meet insane margins of error on some puzzles, I think I stopped playing in like the desert dungeon because of how ridiculous it was getting. Outside of dungeons, the art is awesome, but visual clutter at least in the desert and somewhat the mountain before it, was also making it hard to tell where you can and can't go, equipment is locked behind trading rare items that can only be gotten either through RNG grind or finding out how the frick to get something 5 feet away from you that involves going through 10 screens of perfect jumps and if you fall you gotta do it all over again yadda yadda... it was all a bit too much and I wound up quit playing. Every now and then I'll boot it up and play up through the ice dungeon and then stop there because I lose interest yet again when all the timing puzzles and stuff start happening. I really want to someday fully experience the game but that'll probably never happen and its tragic and sad.

Bro... it's not even difficult from the perspective of a puzzle, it just requires really good execution.

Omg this is to much and I bought the game. But now seeing this I don't know if I should unbox the game

I love this game but god damn do some of those dungeon go on for TOOOO LONG. I just started another playthrough of it and at the end of the dungeon in bergin village I was just thinking "is it over already." They could of cut out one of the floors for it completely and it wouldve been fine imo

For how long and stressful the late game puzzles are, they're still better designed than the introductory ones for shock and wave. By this point you know exactly what you need to do, you're just like "how the fuck am I actually going to do this?" Instead of trying to figure out how the hell the orbs actually work and shit.