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there’s a dungeon in ff14 that has this mechanic and I laughed out loud when it happened

I see your sewer gates and raise you a moving two alternating platforms at a time with varrying switches.

What is a sewer if not just a modern day spooky cave

Ah, FF12?

"You guys are being super paranoid. This isn't a reskinned water dungeon alright? I know this because this tartar sauce dungeon doesn't have levers, it has bowls you dunk tasty fried shrimp into."

The hydrodisplacer in ratchet and clank 2002 was nice too

What game is this. I do that in oblivion. But they also do it in FF12. 😻

Important to attack Xiapi by flooding the castle

Same, but I have a sub interest is wandering around a teleporter maze.

I can't relate - as an indie horror fan, my turn-ons include always crouching (quiet) and NPCs with PS1 graphics giving me nonsense speeches (their voice sounds are just looped industrial scratches or maracas)

as a survival horror fan, i too love a good sluice

The ALBW water dungeon is maybe my favorite part of that game

Don’t forget killing God as well

Also doing 2 or 3 combs of a dungeon to make sure you didn't miss a chest.

you should be in jail

Reading this in Dale Gribble’s voice is mandatory

That's fucking evil and i'm gonna show it to my DM for ideas

this was the same campaign where i ponzi schemed them out of all their hard earned money with a zelda-style ‘trade chain’. best session of my life

RIP to the best cohost page, sluicewatch, documenting various sluice gates in video games

JRPG take on My Summer Car when??

Imagine my disappointment realizing, after years of doing sliding across ice floor puzzles, that actually sliding where ever you want on ice is not that hard and it's actually very easy to change directions without hitting a wall when I went curling for the first time

a smattering of screens from my growing sluice collection

I enjoy long and involved push-block puzzles that still are interruptable by random encounters

similarly, I like performing contextual actions near switches to hold sewer gates open so that I might go through them and scrounge for Treasure

how do you feel about raising and lowering portcullises (I would argue the sewer gate of the land)

Path of Exile 2 has a zone that is just you running through it and throwing switches to lower the water. it is one of the most tedious and boring zones in the game and that's even after they patched it to remove like six switches

You ever see that old anime Windaria? Sounds right up your alley.

UP FROM THE--castelia sewers--AND TO THE--castelia sewers--TO FIND A--castelia sewers--WE--castelia sewers

Huge fan of inexplicably good mini games occurring just past the emotional climax and points of tension.

My second favorite activity outside of managing weird esoteric door locks is managing a grid based inventory system.

survival horror as locksmith fantasy

As a diehard fan of Star Wars: Dark Forces, raising and lowering sewer gates and levels is the last thing I ever wanna do.

You know what they say: If it ain't got the sluice, it ain't got the juice.

How about pushing a cube onto a button then pulling a lever?

if your RPG dungeon does not have at least one sokoban puzzle are you really doing it properly?

And after doing all the water puzzling I pull my fishing rod and catch some fat jellyfish on the dam.

the children yearn for the sluices

I didn't say I was a detective. I said I was a master sleuce

I’m realizing this means JRPG fans and Zelda fans must be mortal enemies

Cries in Ocarina of Time Water Temple

I also have expertise into finding and catching any tipe of farm animal that is stading up a couple of steps away of their owner, who, due to high astigmatism levels, is somehow unable to grasp their presence.

who up garamsything they waterways

Who knows! You might find a castle down there!