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Paradiegetic Gameplay
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Paradiegetic (noun): From Greek πέρα para- meaning "Beyond" and diegetic meaning "The confines of the medium". Most games you can beat without having to get up from your chair, provided you don't need to use the bathroom. Sometimes, though, a puzzle's solution involves something that isn't in the game itself, and beating it will require you to do something that isn't just pressing buttons on your keyboard or controller. Maybe it involves a phone number you have to call, or you need to fiddle with the date and time in Windows settings, or press the "eject" button on your CD drive. This is where this trope comes in. These types of puzzles may lead to Guide Dang It! since most people often don't expect this sort of gameplay. It's also a risky idea if the puzzle involves something externally hosted, such as a website to visit or a phone number to call: once the website goes offline or the phone number stops working (and they will, eventually), the game may become hard or impossible to finish without looking up a guide. Sometimes these types of puzzles are done as a form of Copy Protection, having Feelies bundled with a physical copy of the game with an answer to a puzzle to prevent those who downloaded the game on the Internet to solve it and continue. Extrinsic Go-First Rule is a subtrope. See also Breaking the Fourth Wall and Logging onto the Fourth Wall, which is similar however is simply Played for Laughs or as an Easter Egg. A frequent element in Digital Horror. Also see Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay and Unexpected Gameplay Change. The Other Wiki calls it a pervasive game. Note that Metapuzzle is not a Sub-Trope, since puzzles under that category are only called "meta" in the sense that they have other, seemingly self-contained, puzzles tied to them. Puzzles that rely on paradiegetic methods (and thus are sometimes called colloquially "meta puzzles" by players who don't know about the other kind) go here instead. |
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Munchkin features the Munchkin resurrection cookie; eating it after your character dies can bring them back to life and undo any side effects of fighting a monster. Sadly, because you need to actually physically eat a cookie to use it, you can only use it once. Make that use count! | |
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The World Ends with You: The game features full usage of all the DS's capabilities, including its hardware. Some Reapers—the game's quest-givers—require the player to use only certain types of Pins to progress, such as defeating a noise with only Shout pins, which uses the DS's microphone. The trope comes into full effect when encountering a unique variant of the Pig Noise that sleeps at the beginning of the battle, requiring the player to close the DS and open it again in order to "wake" it up. | |
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The Stanley Parable: One of the achievements requires you to not play the game for five years (updated to ten years in Ultra Deluxe). Another requires you to leave the game on all day on a Tuesday. | |
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The Talos Principle: One puzzle presents you with a non-interactive QR code that can only be read by scanning it with an external device, like a smartphone or the like. This gives you an ASCII code sequence that you need to run through an external converter in order to make sense of, and then you can finally attempt to solve the puzzle proper. | |
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Imscared has a segment with you at an empty train station with a ticket machine, a timetable with three timestamps, and a clock displaying your system time. In order to progress, you have to alter your system time to one of the timestamps so that you can get a ticket from the ticket machine. | |
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In Another Code, you have to press two maps together, one on the top screen and one on the bottom screen. To do so, you have to close and open the DS. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit there's a 1-800 number that you could call for assistance from Jessica. There's no telephone in the game though, and you're supposed to actually call the number using a landline or cell to get a prerecorded message containing gameplay advice. The number, of course, now connects to something completely different. | |
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In Hotel Dusk: Room 215, you need to close and open the DS to flip over a completed puzzle for to see some important text written on the back of it. | |
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Monster Rancher: In the PlayStation games, Monsters are created from "saucer stones". In-game, these are artifacts from which the monsters are generated in a lab; out of game, the player has to put a different CD or game disc into the PlayStation, which generates the monster's stats from its subcode data. Later games in the line add different input methods, like the DS microphone and touchscreen. | |
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Metal Gear: The first Metal Gear Solid has you get a person's contact frequency from the back of the CD case. Additionally, Psycho Mantis hijacks your controller input and thus can read your actions, so you have to move the controller to a different port.note A backup solution exists and will eventually be explained if you call your team enough: Destroy the statues in the room. Or you could just power thru the fight with a massive disadvantage. In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can "kill" the End by saving the game and then waiting for one real-life week (or, more commonly, fiddling with your system's date). When you load your game, the End will be dead from old age. |
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WarioWare: Snapped!: Whereas most games in the series simply take advantage of their supporting systems' built-in special control schemes (like gyro, motion and touch controls, and more rarely speech or blowing via mic), this game is unique in that it requires the player themselves to directly use their image (specifically head and hands) to participate in the microgames, and after the play session ends the game runs a slideshow with photo shots of the players performing the actions done in real life. The game makes this possible with the system's built-in camera. | |
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Thimbleweed Park: To solve the last puzzle, the player is cryptically hinted at to go online and watch the kickstarter video for the game. | |
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Doom³: There are two "promotional storage cabinets" in the game (containing powerful weapons), from the fictional company Martian Buddy. To find the code to open these cabinets, you had to visit the actual website www.martianbuddy.com in your browser, which was hinted at by the in-game spam e-mails found in certain PDAs. Today the website is long offline. Resurrection of Evil contains another Martian Buddy locker, which likewise requires a code. This time, you need to complete an arcade machine mini-game, which will give you the URL to a martianbuddy.com subpage where the code can be found. |
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StarTropics: To obtain the secret code, you're supposed to make the invisible ink on one of the game's Feelies appear. Good luck if you rented the game or bought a used copy. In the Virtual Console release, which lacks physical packaging (due to it being a digital download), the effect is instead replicated by having the digital manual contain a page where the player can simulate the invisible ink puzzle. The code is 747, if you're wondering. | |
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OneShot: Several puzzles require the player to interact with either the game window or the files in the game's Document folder in order to progress. In the 2016 Re-Release, navigating the maze in the Tower requires opening a program placed into the Documents folder by the Author and correctly overlaying the notes it generates over the game window so that it points to where Niko needs to go next. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: In the Famicom Disk System version, the pol's voice enemy is killed by yelling in the microphone in the Famicom's second controller. Each Japanese rerelease changes it so pol's voice can be killed with a different method, such as pressing Select 4 times in the GBA version, or pressing L and R to virtually "switch" to the second controller and yell into the 3DS's microphone in the 3DS version. In all English releases, including the NES version, the enemy is instead weak to arrows, as the NES does not have a microphone. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: At one point you're required to transfer a seal on the top screen to its corresponding location on the map on your lower screen by closing your Nintendo DS and reopening it. Pol's voices return as enemies, and can be stunned by blowing in the DS' microphone. |
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Zork Zero consists half of Stock Puzzles and half of this as a form of Copy Protection. The solution to puzzle after puzzle was simply to pull a specific bit of trivia out of the game's Feelies and type it in. This was especially disappointing since many of the tasks that seemed to be clever puzzles, like finally getting to play Double Fanucci, had their only solutions printed in the documentation. | |
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In Famous Second Son has the Paper Trail series of missions, where you find clues in game that you then need to solve through a special website by linking your PlayStation Network ID to it. However, as of December 2018, the website has become defunct, but the developers rolled out an update that allowed players to finish the campaign without it. | |
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Karoshi: One level in Karoshi 2 involves putting a music CD into your CD tray so that an in-game radio would push the crate towards you. | |
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X-Men (1993) requires you to perform a soft reset on the console before you can enter the final level. | |
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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box: One of the puzzles you must solve to progress the story requires you to use a physical copy of a train ticket included in the game's instruction booklet. | |
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Save the Date (Paper Dino) will always result in a bad ending unless you edit one of the game files to make yourself a "hacker". | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: At one point you're required to transfer a seal on the top screen to its corresponding location on the map on your lower screen by closing your Nintendo DS and reopening it. Pol's voices return as enemies, and can be stunned by blowing in the DS' microphone. |
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One late game puzzle in Last Window involves retrieving a key from a music box. The DS essentially acts as the lid and the interior of the box, which turns off when the two halves are sufficiently closed. The trick is using this at just the right time in order to pop out a key when the internal mechanisms are aligned in such a way as to let it out, which is assigned to one of the shoulder buttons. | |
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Pokémon: Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: The infamous puzzle to get all three of the legendary titans has a lot of this. In addition to needing very specific Pokémon, which have to be in specific places in your party, you need to be able to read Braille to follow the clues in each of the chambers. Pokémon X and Y onwards: In order for Inkay to evolve into Malamar, the player needs to hold the game console upside down when it levels up. One sidequest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus revolves around "The Sea's Legend", a myth detailing a specific sequence of actions required to be allowed to meet a Manaphy. Thing is, the details are unclear as the book has been mostly lost to history and at the time, no one knows where to find a good copy. How do you get access to it? It's in a library in Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl, the game Legends is a Prequel to. |
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Fez: You have to use a smartphone with a QR code reader to solve certain puzzles. | |
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OFF: In Zone 3, the solution to the controller puzzle cannot be found anywhere within the game. You can give Zacharie the Music Box in exchange for a hint regarding the answer's whereabouts, to which he'll tell you to open the game's folder and look at the Read Me file carefully. The code is listed as a bunch of controller inputs with no context whatsoever. | |
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The first Metal Gear Solid has you get a person's contact frequency from the back of the CD case. Additionally, Psycho Mantis hijacks your controller input and thus can read your actions, so you have to move the controller to a different port.note A backup solution exists and will eventually be explained if you call your team enough: Destroy the statues in the room. Or you could just power thru the fight with a massive disadvantage. | |
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Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble had Waggle before waggle was a thing. Instead of controlling Kirby with the gamepad, you had to physically tilt the console to get him to roll in the correct direction (powered by a sensor in the cartridge itself). | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In the Famicom Disk System version, the pol's voice enemy is killed by yelling in the microphone in the Famicom's second controller. Each Japanese rerelease changes it so pol's voice can be killed with a different method, such as pressing Select 4 times in the GBA version, or pressing L and R to virtually "switch" to the second controller and yell into the 3DS's microphone in the 3DS version. In all English releases, including the NES version, the enemy is instead weak to arrows, as the NES does not have a microphone. | |
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The Secret World is so loaded with these that they gave you a working in-game web browser. You may have to look up the ISBNs of fictional books, type a handwritten note in Romanian into Google Translate (unless you already speak it), look up the sheet music to a medieval song, or consult a specific Bible verse. | |
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Simon the Sorcerer: At the end, you find a computer where you are supposed to insert a CD. However, within the game you cannot interact with the computer to open its CD drive. The solution is to open this on your own physical computer. Unfortunately, some computer setups do not send the signal the game looks for when opening the CD drive, thus making the game Unintentionally Unwinnable. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you can "kill" the End by saving the game and then waiting for one real-life week (or, more commonly, fiddling with your system's date). When you load your game, the End will be dead from old age. | |
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Escape Tales: Puzzle cards in the game require using a webapp to verify that they're solved. On success, the webapp directs you to a paragraph in the book. | |
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The manual for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis action game warns you that the roulette tables in Monte Carlo are rigged, and hints that you need to do something to "beat the system". The expected solution? See what number came up, then reload the game and bet on that number. | |
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Boktai: The cartridge has a special sensor on it that detects the amount of ambient light. In order to keep your vampire-killing weapons charged up with sunlight, you have to play in the sunlight sometimes but not all the time, as the designers didn't want players getting heatstroke. | |
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Duck Amuck: Closing the Nintendo DS while playing the Licensed Game would result in Daffy shouting at you about a monster. Opening it up would begin a minigame where you close the DS again and use the L and R buttons to help Daffy chase after the beast (who turns out to be Gossamer). Arbitrarily, you could only try this once per day; after that it would go into Sleep Mode as normal. | |
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One sidequest in Pokémon Legends: Arceus revolves around "The Sea's Legend", a myth detailing a specific sequence of actions required to be allowed to meet a Manaphy. Thing is, the details are unclear as the book has been mostly lost to history and at the time, no one knows where to find a good copy. How do you get access to it? It's in a library in Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl, the game Legends is a Prequel to. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: The game's climax — so you have been warned, it's a spoiler to more than just a puzzle... Monika has trapped you in a room with her indefinitely for nefarious purposes. The game interface isn't allowing you to say or do anything. She won't let you save, load, or start a new game either. You can quit the game, but it will only return to the same scene with Monika when restarted. The only thing you can do to get ahead? Delete Monika's character file from the game directory. The Updated Re-release only simulates Paradiegetic Gameplay here, because it's available on different platforms and thus has to have its own simulated file management system that kind of has an in-story explanation to let you do this. | |
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Achievement Unlocked: In Achievement Unlocked 2, one set of achievements require access to a special coffee-related area, only able to be reached by opening two windows of the game simultaneously, with the second one leading you to the coffee area. | |
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Short indie game Moirai has this as the entire premise. Partway through the game, on your way into the mine, you run into a strange man in bloodstained overalls with a knife. You can ask him questions and then choose whether to kill or spare him. At the end, on your way out of the mine, you run into the same guy — but with clean overalls - who asks you the same questions. As it turns out, the answers from the first guy you met were the answers the last player gave to those questions. The game then asks for your e-mail address to tell you whether the next player kills or spares you. | |
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System's Twilight: The final puzzle is to reboot the system, which is solved by quitting the game and then reopening it. | |
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Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: The infamous puzzle to get all three of the legendary titans has a lot of this. In addition to needing very specific Pokémon, which have to be in specific places in your party, you need to be able to read Braille to follow the clues in each of the chambers. | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: The Nintendo DS version has an upside-down Sudoku puzzle that requires you to turn your DS upside down. Throughout the game, the top screen represents Junpei's perspective and the bottom represents Akane, who is the actual protagonist. Turning the DS indicates that you are temporarily taking control of Junpei so that he can solve the puzzle. | |
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Pokémon X and Y onwards: In order for Inkay to evolve into Malamar, the player needs to hold the game console upside down when it levels up. | |
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Takeshi's Challenge involves singing Japanese karaoke three times, in addition to a treasure-map puzzle where the player is either supposed to let the game sit out for at least five minutes (but no more than ten) after soaking the map in water or leave the game sitting for an hour to let the map sit in the sun. | |
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This Is the Only Level: Several stages require going to the credits or refreshing the page in order to continue. | |
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