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Waiting Puzzle
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The waiting puzzle is a Stock Videogame Puzzle which the player solves by simply remaining in a certain area for probably at least 15 seconds. This often turns into a serious Guide Dang It! if no hints are given that waiting will change anything, or if it's an Absurdly Long Wait. Some versions of this puzzle involve an NPC inching slowly across the screen, whose actions will set the Event Flag, while the player stands by. Closely related is the balancing act puzzle, in which the player must remain within a demarcated but unstable area for a certain time period while struggling to counteract gravity or other forces. The inverse of Timed Mission, and a form of Fake Longevity. Sheathe Your Sword is related, as it's essentially a Waiting Puzzle translated into a Boss Battle format. If waiting is your primary means of collecting resources and making progress, then you most likely have an Idle Game. A form of Rewarding Inactivity. See also We Wait and You Were Trying Too Hard. Can compare with Patience Plot. Examples |
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Supermarket Sweep: The Lifetime/PAX versions would give a $100 bonus (later $200) to any contestant who had the patience to idle and allow a 1 oz. bag of coffee to be ground for them during the Big Sweep. To prevent people from running off to collect other groceries while the grinding happened, they had to hold the button down the whole time. It only took ten seconds, but in a game show setting with an average of only two minutes to maximize your score, it was a hefty time sink. Contestants were allowed to keep one hand on the grinder while using the other hand to grab nearby items and throw them in the cart. On the 2020 revival, a contestant can take a time penalty by visiting a florist or a barista and waiting for an order to be filled for a cash bonus. This takes the form of the actor/actress fumbling around deliberately until the time penalty has elapsed before giving the contestant the item. |
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One of the secrets in Hydorah requires you to randomly wait in a particular boss room for a while after you defeat the boss. | |
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Zero Time Dilemma: At the end of the Healing Room escape sequence, D-Team is presented with a Big Blue Button warning them to not press it and a timer counting down. Pressing the button leads to a sudden "Everybody Dies" Ending, while letting the timer expire opens the exit. | |
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In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony the characters find out that they are part of an endless series of killing games that exist only because people like us want this as entertainment. The Mastermind insists the protagonist choose between Despair and Hope (the Central Theme of the series), but the protagonist urges everyone not to vote. Thus, the solution is to choose neither option but instead to let the timer run out. | |
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The final stage in Depict1 puts the player back at the start of the game. Entering the level goal nets you a Bad Ending, but if you wait near it for a short while, it will disappear and you will be able to proceed to the game's real finale. | |
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A variation occurs in Kingdom Hearts II, during the Duel Boss fight against Xemnas. The battle begins with Sora and Xemnas running up/down a building towards each other, mirroring how Roxas and Riku did the same in the "Another Side, Another Story" secret movie. A Reaction Command "Clash" will pop up, which will do no damage to Xemnas when used. Wait a second, though, and the command will change to "Break Through", which deals a little damage. Wait another second and it changes to "Finish", which causes Sora to slam Xemnas into the side of the building and do quite a bit of damage. Since most players will hammer Triangle as soon as they see the prompt, this counts as this and a bit of a Guide Dang It! as well. | |
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One of the branching pathways in Wario Land II is unlocked when the player, rather than hitting a button to wake up in the first level, stays asleep for 10 seconds and having the villains carry Wario out of his house. | |
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WarioWare: Smooth Moves has eight different microgames focused on putting the Wii Remote on a flat surface face-down, and waiting for the cue to pick it up. Because of the fast-paced nature of these microgames, for all but one of these, the time needed to wait is a few seconds at most. | |
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The Japanese version of Final Fantasy Record Keeper had a special holiday "fight" against Gilgamesh once in which he had massive amounts of HP and all attacks did only 1 damage. The only way to win was to "skip the fight" by hitting the skip button to cycle through your active character about 7 times. | |
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One of the endings of The Witch's House involves this. To get it, after the game starts, simply wait where you are for one hour. The roses will wither and die, and you can leave. | |
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In Anachronox, to get PAL-18's best weapon, you have to let him play in the Moon Burger ball pit for FOUR HOURS. And even longer (seven hours total) for the Shadow Bracers. And since you can't leave the area while he's playing... | |
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Legend of Grimrock has several waiting puzzles where you must "rest" in the correct tile for a door to open. Although woe if you decided to rest for the first one (you could have just waited 15 seconds) as right behind the door is a pack of fairly strong enemies. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion contains a few. One mission requires you to wait and do nothing while a huge bear is attacking you. Also, a master of Alteration magic requires that you wait underwater near him for three in-game hours (six minutes of real time) before he will offer training. Although if the player is an Argonian he will give the training for free since Argonians can breathe underwater without needing to use magic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim also has a few. One of the Thieves Guild missions involves taking the Skeleton Key back to Nocturnal. After getting to her inner sanctum you have to fall into a death trap hole and wait for two or more minutes until finally the game pulls out the key and unlock the floor. |
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In The Tower of Druaga, revealing the item on Floor 21 requires standing still for several seconds. | |
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Several of the hunts in Final Fantasy XII require you to stay in one area for a set amount of time before the marks appear— generally long after you've had enough time to clear the area of enemies several times over and leave. | |
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Similarly, in Journey, you get a trophy if you and your companion sit down facing each other and meditate for 20 seconds at any point in the game. | |
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EarthBound (1994): You are told the password to Belch's base is "wait 3 minutes." Which turns out to be having to stand at the waterfall and do nothing for three minutes in real time. Later on, the only way to complete Poo's Mu training is to sit in one spot and ignore all the NPCs distracting you with requests to get down, and then ignore the image of your ancestor as he horribly maims you. Fitting, as "Mu" means "Nothingness". |
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In Homestuck, all the kids who play SBURB must overcome a challenge or solve a puzzle in order to "enter" the game. For Dave Strider, the puzzle takes the shape of an egg in a nest - all he has to do is wait for it to hatch. However, SBURB gives each player a challenge suited to their character strengths and weaknesses. For Dave, the Knight of Time, patience and inactivity do not come naturally. He tries and fails to reach the egg before it hatches on its own. | |
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In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "The Gathering", a group of six younglings are each faced with a Secret Test of Character in order to obtain a kyber crystal for their lightsabers. One of them finds his crystal on the other side of an ice-cold lake, and all he has to do to retrieve it is wait until nightfall for the lake to freeze over so he can safely walk across. This wouldn't be so bad if the youngling in question wasn't a Hot-Blooded Wookiee who can't stand waiting at the best of times. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim also has a few. One of the Thieves Guild missions involves taking the Skeleton Key back to Nocturnal. After getting to her inner sanctum you have to fall into a death trap hole and wait for two or more minutes until finally the game pulls out the key and unlock the floor. | |
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Almost any time you're captured and imprisoned in a Metal Gear game, one of the options for escaping is to wait for someone to bust you out. | |
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Undertale has one in the form of the Final Boss of the Genocide run, Sans. His "special attack" involves doing absolutely nothing, trapping you in his turn forever, without letting you have yours, since he knows that on one of your turns you'll kill him. The solution is to simply wait until he falls asleep, then push the box over to the FIGHT command so you can finally kill him. If you try to move the box before he falls asleep, he just resets your position. At the beginning of the game, right after Toriel gives you the Cell Phone and leaves, she tells you to wait in this room. To progress the game, you need to leave and explore the rest of the dungeon yourself, but if you stay in the room for five minutes, you'll get a rather amusing call from her. If you keep waiting, you'll get a call every five minutes. It's not required, but it is an entertaining Easter Egg. Another waiting-related Easter Egg happens in the date/hangout with Papyrus. If you simply wait when he prompts you to press C to bring up the dating/friendship meter, without pressing any buttons, eventually he'll decide to simply move on without it. Waiting during Mettaton EX's essay question without typing anything will cause Mettaton to remark that you must be speechless. An alternate way to disable the final forcefield in the CORE if you can't complete the Gauntlet area or solve the shooter puzzle is to go to the forcefield in question and wait for it to go away. |
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There's a quest in The Lord of the Rings Online where a character asks you to look for boars in a certain area. A 30 minute timer starts ticking down when you accept the quest. Usually, if you don't complete a timed quest in the allotted time you fail and can't try again for a while, so you might be worried if you haven't found any boars when time is about to run out. However, there are no boars, and you're not supposed to find any; you just have to spend 30 minutes in the area to convince him you tried. | |
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At the end of Spirit Hunter: NG, Kakuya has Akira in her grasp and is forcing him to say everything she wants him to say. The way to get around this is letting the Crisis Choice timer run out, rather than picking any of the dialogue options. | |
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Appears near the end of Breath of Fire III with a dragon statue asking Ryu to "Bow down before me and pray...", a Continuity Nod to save-points of the previous games, but with no other hints or animations of Ryu's sprite as indication of anything happening. | |
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In OneShot, you need a five-digit code to activate an elevator. Instead of solving the puzzle for the code, you can ask an NPC to guess numbers sequentially. He'll get it right after an Absurdly Long Wait of thirty-five hours. | |
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And in Batman: Arkham City you get an achievement for waiting a minute while paying your respects at the site of his parents' death. | |
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In the original Resident Evil, Barry will accidentally drop the rope he was using to hoist up Jill and leave to find another. If you played through Chris' game first, you might be tempted to just move the tombstone and head into the basement, but that guarantees Barry will not survive the game. If you want him to live, you must wait; he'll come back. | |
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In Goemon's Great Adventure, one entry pass is collected via standing under a waterfall in a certain town for a certain period of time. Just do that, and it appears. | |
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In the beginning of Far Cry 4, Ajay is told by Big Bad Pagan Min to sit at the dinner table and wait a while as he goes off to interrogate a prisoner. If the player actually waits long enough (15 minutes), this triggers a secret ending in which Pagan returns and takes Ajay via helicopter to fulfil his objective of putting his mother's ashes to rest in a specific graveyard way across the game map, all without getting involved in the civil war which would otherwise be the plot for a normal playthrough, while Pagan casually reveals several major plot points and twists during the trip. This Easter egg was repeated in Far Cry 5. There, the Deputy decides that attempting to arrest Joseph will not end well for anyone and decides to simply call off the arrest. | |
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Mass Effect 3 gets an optional one in the Citadel DLC when James Vega challenges Shepard to break his record of 182 pull-ups; the player is totally welcome to do this with an interrupt for each one. The reward is a short cutscene, and that's it. | |
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RuneScape: The quest Recruitment Drive has one of these. But rather than simply waiting in the one room, you need to wait without moving at all. And there's an hourglass on the nearby table just begging to be picked up. | |
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A "test of patience" in Summer Rose Court, a fan game for RWBY, requires the player to wait for a little while instead of picking a choice. You get a few chances before failing; Nora briefly breaks the fourth wall to help if you don't figure it out the first time. | |
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Final Fantasy VI has a moment where you can leave the Floating Continent as soon as you reach the airship... and you'll leave Shadow behind on the falling island. He arrives at the airship with 5 seconds remaining in the clock. | |
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Getting 100% completion in Final Fantasy X-2 requires you to allow Mr. Exposition to finish telling a very long, not especially relevant story. If he senses you're losing interest — for instance, if you press the button to hurry his dialogue — he stops. You have to put down the controller and wait him out. | |
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One level of Karoshi traps you in a pit you can't escape from; you must wait one minute before a block falls and crushes you. It's fine in the original game, but its sequel has a 'speed run' in which you complete the first game's levels as quickly as possible, which turns this level from 'filler level' to 'absolutely maddening'. | |
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Jack Keane has a part where you have to pass a trail of "Time and space". You can either wait it out or just hit the space key. | |
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King's Quest V: To get Mordack's wand, you must wait in the library adjacent to Mordack's bedroom (out of the line of sight of the door) until you see him get in bed and go to sleep, at which point you can return to his bedroom and steal it off his end table. Just after that is the puzzle to recharge Crispin's wand, which requires placing it at one end of a strange machine, placing Mordack's wand at the other, inserting a wedge of cheese into the machine, and waiting for about one real-time minute. In a spectacularly cheap move, Mordack can still appear and kill you while this is happening. |
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While it isn't required to complete the game, you can get an achievement in Prince of Persia (2008) if you wait for a minute without moving or pressing any buttons while holding Elika's dead body. Same thing in Portal 2—you get an achievement for waiting in Wheatley's first puzzle room and refusing to solve it. And in Batman: Arkham City you get an achievement for waiting a minute while paying your respects at the site of his parents' death. Similarly, in Journey, you get a trophy if you and your companion sit down facing each other and meditate for 20 seconds at any point in the game. |
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One of the secrets in Anodyne requires you to wait until a rabbit inches across the screen in order to unlock a gate. If you move at all, the rabbit runs in the other direction, so you have to stand perfectly still...for nearly two hours. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl: One of the microgames in the WarioWare Inc. stage requires you to stand completely still for a few seconds, in the middle of a fight, to receive a bonus. It is a re-creation of a genuine microgame from the series proper. | |
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Portal Reloaded: The first "puzzle" is this, and the wait is said to take twenty years. Which is deliberately designed to be bypassed by a Portal to the Past, well, Future, that can be used to go to the past, introducing the Time Travel mechanic, and avoiding The Slow Path, which would kill the player character. | |
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Fez has a clock with four hands, which take one minute, one hour, one day, and one week, respectively, to complete a revolution. Each hand nets you a prize when it hits "12:00". Good luck with that. | |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (the game): In the Japanese Rock Garden, you have to not do anything, not even move the cursor, for like a minute. Then a hand appears from the sand to give you an item. You must not take it. The hand goes away. You have to continue to be idle for another minute, then the hand reappears and you can then take the item. If you continue to do nothing after that, the game will complain at you for not doing anything. | |
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At one point in Chrono Cross, while you are infiltrating Viper Manor, a guard asks for a password and a dialog box pops up with a few plausible-sounding choices. The correct, choice, however, is to not pick any of the options and just wait a few seconds instead, as the correct password is silence. | |
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There's a level in Monster Party where one of the bosses consists of two dancing zombies that don't attack and can't be killed. If you wait long enough, they'll disappear, and then you can move on. | |
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La-Mulana has a bunch of these: Unlocking Baphomet's ankh requires waiting around in the Twin Labyrinths room diametrically opposite (and not directly connected) to the Boss Room. The most annoying part of a multi-part puzzle in the Confusion Gate requires waiting for a Mook to random-walk into a conspicuous piece of scenery. Getting the Ocarina requires pausing the game in a certain spot while holding the pregnant statue and waiting for Lemeza to go to sleep. Near the end of Brutal Bonus Level, one must wait about a minute to get a colored block to appear. It must be done 3 times. This is how the ankh jewel in the Temple of the Sun is obtained. The player idles underneath the eye of Udjat. |
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Metal Gear Solid has a set of VR missions including mystery investigations where you have to pick out a murder suspect out of a lineup based on evidence in the room. The last mission only has the victim's corpse and no suspects. Wait for ten minutes and the victim will just stand up, showing that there's no mystery to be solved. | |
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Same thing in Portal 2—you get an achievement for waiting in Wheatley's first puzzle room and refusing to solve it. | |
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The Witness: A few optional puzzles require you to wait on a moving platform of some sort while other elements of the puzzle move in and out of view. One requires you to sit through a fifty-minute video of an eclipse, and you can't do anything else in the meantime. | |
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Twelve Minutes: If the player does not take any action in their initial playthrough, none of the conflict in the game happens. A happy ending is achieved in five minutes. | |
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One of the three penultimate bosses in Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide is invincible unless you wait for its magical defenses to go down. If you walk too close to it before that happens it starts spawning zombies and is still invincible. | |
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In Spiritual Warfare, there's an old woman on the casino strip who quotes a Bible verse about how you should wait patiently if you want what you don't yet have. If you take her advice and stay put for about 15 seconds, a car will pull out and drive off, revealing a hidden shop where you can get more Mighty Grapes. | |
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In Alundra 2, this puzzle exists in a cave about halfway through the game. After reading the hint sign for progression, the player must jump in the air and float in place for a while (with the help of a relic) so that the door to the next room opens. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: You can defeat one boss just by waiting out the battle due to the boss being so damn old. Alternatively, just save, change your PS2's internal clock to a week in the future, load your save, and pat yourself on the back. Also you can "defeat" a later boss by just waiting while underwater, thus drowning yourself. It's a Mind Screw boss, but it's expected given the series title. | |
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A variant in Saw IV. Rigg is instructed by a tape that he has a timer of 90 minutes to get to the room where his colleague Eric could potentially die in. When he gets to the entrance and goes through it despite Eric's plea for him not to do so, Rigg finds out that the timer referred to the time he had to wait in order to enter without worrying about Eric getting killed. This was meant to teach him about giving up his supposed Chronic Hero Syndrome that he's being tested for. | |
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The DOS-version of Prince of Persia has an odd waiting puzzle, and considering the whole game is a Timed Mission you generally don't want to spend time loafing around. At the end of the twelfth level, you first have to Sheathe Your Sword to defeat your own shadow, by some considered a Guide Dang It!. Directly afterwards, you have to walk or jump straight into thin air, which appears to be sure death, if not for ground materializing beneath you. How is this a waiting puzzle? If you make this jump before the melding is complete, you will instead simply fall to your death. Of course, you'll have to trial and error this at the end of a fairly long level. Another level has a more straightforward waiting puzzle, where you have to wait for the princess' pet mouse to open a door for you. At this point, there isn't much else to do, though, except start exploring and possibly dying in the process. The timing is really tight, such that it's actually possible to get out without any help if you don't waste time, and you might figure you are supposed to restart the level and do it quicker. At least, the mouse's intervention is foreshadowed in a cutscene which you might or might not have skipped and the wait isn't terribly long. |
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In Chrono Trigger, Crono gets arrested fairly early in the game. You can either wait three (in-game) days until your execution or you can attempt to escape by ticking off the guards. It is considerably easier to wait three days due to some well-timed intervention. An earlier example: While Marle is getting candy at the Millennial Fair, don't move. Specifically, don't move away from her, but it's way easier just to wait 15 seconds. |
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Final Fantasy: The Puzzle Boss fight against Gogo in Final Fantasy V. He is a mimic — if you attack him physically, he'll counter with an overwhelming physical attack. If you attack with magic, he'll counter with an overwhelming magical attack. The only way to beat him is to do absolutely nothing for nearly a minute before he gives up, which may be irritating since you're, at the time, racing against a clock to not drown as the battle is in a tower underwater. Final Fantasy VI has a moment where you can leave the Floating Continent as soon as you reach the airship... and you'll leave Shadow behind on the falling island. He arrives at the airship with 5 seconds remaining in the clock. Getting 100% completion in Final Fantasy X-2 requires you to allow Mr. Exposition to finish telling a very long, not especially relevant story. If he senses you're losing interest — for instance, if you press the button to hurry his dialogue — he stops. You have to put down the controller and wait him out. Several of the hunts in Final Fantasy XII require you to stay in one area for a set amount of time before the marks appear— generally long after you've had enough time to clear the area of enemies several times over and leave. The Japanese version of Final Fantasy Record Keeper had a special holiday "fight" against Gilgamesh once in which he had massive amounts of HP and all attacks did only 1 damage. The only way to win was to "skip the fight" by hitting the skip button to cycle through your active character about 7 times. |
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In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne there is a variant of this in the Fourth Kalpa of the Labyrinth of Amala. There is an old man inside a maze, and he asks if you want to hang out for a few minutes and slow down for a bit and wait. Answering either 'Yes' or 'No' will make him kick you out of that section of the Kalpa. Waiting three minutes, then answering 'Yes' will make him thank you, and let you through to get a very nice item. | |
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In The Guardian Legend, one of the corridors is unsealed this way. | |
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In Professor Layton and the Last Specter, Luke warns you that you can't do anything to solve his puzzle. The trick is he means it literally; don't do anything. | |
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You get thirteen achievements in Achievement Unlocked for not doing anything after starting the game. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, there is a minor waiting puzzle in one of the later dungeons. There is an Armos Knight blocking the way forward, but as a nearby Owl Statue advises, if you just sit there for a bit he'll move. | |
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Braid has a hidden secret that involves a cloud platform that takes two hours to reach its destination. | |
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The Impossible Quiz series has at least two: In level 35 of the original game, the player must wait five seconds for the game-over button to change. In level 94 of the original game, the player must allow the timer on the bomb to expire. It turns out to be a dud. |
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In the Henry Stickmin Series, you sometimes get timed choices. 99% of the time, letting the timer run out results in failure, but to get Fleeing the Complex's Presumed Dead ending you need to let the slowly-depleting timer run out at the final choice without picking any of the options that appear. Additionally, in the "Stickmin Space Resort" route of Completing the Mission, the second correct choice is to, again, let the timer run out while dealing with two Toppat guards. Henry plows right through one of them and continues up the ramp to the rocket. | |
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In Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, getting one of the notes requires you to remain still for five minutes of real time. | |
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In the video game based on The Darkness, there's an achievement for sitting on the sofa with your girlfriend until she falls asleep, and another for watching the entire movie on the TV. | |
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This is half of a puzzle early in Illusion of Gaia. One room in the Larai Cliffs has a floor of gold tiles, and when Will plays his flute, one tile glows. Will must then stand on that tile for several seconds before a door opens in the southern wall. | |
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The fanfic Hitman Miami, written as a walkthrough for a fictional game, parodies this by having the player wait at a bus stop "for thirty-five real-time minutes". Later on, this is parodied again: | |
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A waiting puzzle is one part of getting the secret ending of Cyberpunk 2077 (the other is striking a true friendship with your Virtual Sidekick Johnny Silverhandnote itself a daunting prospect involving a convoluted sequence of dialogue choices): shortly after the Point of No Return, Johnny presents to you your options for the Multiple Endings, and not saying anything for ca. 5 minutes of real time will prompt him to add another one to the list: storming the Arasaka Tower on your own, no plans, no backup — most likely, you die, but if you reach your goal, you'll finally become a living legend of the Night City, just like you wanted all along. | |
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In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, in order to get to Regice, you examine a wall that has a message in Braille, and then wait for two minutes. If you don't happen to be fluent in Braille, it might just open while you're trying to decode it. | |
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BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has a mild one in its last dungeon, Arianna’s World. There’s also the laundry sidequest, which involves sitting in front of a washing machine for nearly six minutes while a load of underwear finishes its rinse cycle. | |
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Kuukiyomi: Some levels require you to act correctly, wait until the screen fades into white and proceed to the next level. Otherwise you'll get lower total score. Some levels require you to not act quickly, because the hint is shown several seconds later, especially the show quiz situation. Don't answer the question too fast (but instead don't answer or answer it wrong) because the show staff slowly sneaks onto the screen and shows a placard that says "No Budget", implying they don't have a reward to provide. Another variant is the dentist situation. The most considerate thing you can do is to do nothing at all. Don't touch any buttons (except the button that controls your left arm, as the dentist tells the player character to raise your hand when you feel pain) when the dentist drills the player character's teeth, especially a button that controls the player character's right arm. |
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In Takeshi's Challenge, the Treasure Map could only be read without ruining it either by exposing it to sunlight and not touch the controllers for an hour, or by dipping it in water and shouting into the microphone no less than five and no more than ten minutes later. | |
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Choices: Stories You Play often has timed choices. 99 percent of the time, letting the timer run out results in a bad outcome and sometimes even a Game Over. Very rarely, though, the correct choice is to let the timer run out. In Bloodbound, one of the stories where this happens, the game gives you a hint by telling you that if none of the given choices work, then "perhaps there is something else you can do, or not do". | |
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