Resident Evil Requiem's mystifying Final Puzzle is case-closed after its solution was discovered by accident

Flukey YouTubers 1, dataminers 0

The chillingly named 'Final Puzzle' successful Resident Evil Requiem filled overmuch of the action-horror game’s motorboat week with cheevo-hunting intrigue. What began arsenic a elemental search, a box-checking workout to implicit the past of Requiem’s optional challenges, has since shredded nerves (and driven astatine slightest 2 RPS guides writers into frazzled despair) arsenic the puzzle revealed itself an astir sadistically opaque crippled of Simon Says, wherever Simon doesn’t really accidental anything. He wants you to bash thing with that severed arm, though.

Earlier this week, however, the codification was cracked, seemingly aft a Pokemon paper YouTuber stumbled into the solution by accident. Gengar Collects, whose videos typically impact showing disconnected colourful insubstantial rectangles alternatively than borrowing creepy dolls from soma monsters, is present wide credited with 'discovering' the requisite steps done sheer luck, with the precise details confirmed hours aboriginal by dataminers. Here’s Jeremy and Callum’s Final Puzzle guide, if you privation to spot them for yourself.

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I confess that my journalistic instincts bristle astatine the conception that Gengar Collects fluked his mode done immoderate of these. Randomly flushing a toilet the close fig of times mightiness beryllium a tenable luck-out, but the likelihood of him conscionable happening to spell AFK astatine the exact point wherever you’re expected to intentionally basal inactive for 20 minutes, and get the toilet flushes close instantly after, is 'winning the lottery portion being attacked by a shark that’s being struck by lightning' territory. And yet, I judge him. Or I privation to believe, astatine the precise least. It’s surely existent that dataminers, who if thing were kinda cheating, didn’t fig it retired until hours aft this archetypal completion. Why unreal similar you chanced into if you were astute capable to lick the puzzle done deduction oregon method wiles? Good connected Gengar, I say.

Jeremy, connected the different hand, says: "Please accidental that the full happening revolves astir flushing a toilet, and the full puzzle should besides beryllium flushed down a damn toilet." Ah, you’ll get it adjacent time, Jezza. And for immoderate Resi Requiem players wanting a little time-intensive and/or khazi-focused puzzle, there's ever Barry's Scavenger Hunt.