Poseidon's Lair
Created by Mander

Recommended Players: 1
Required Gametype: The First Piece

Salutems my mere mortals, it is your self-professed demigod Buddha Craniatus. I've paraglided down from Mt. Olympus to present the latest Forge Hub featured map (Yes, we gods and demigods have nothing better to do; what with the economy in Greece the way it is right now!). So prepare, peons, to purposefully perpetuate perceptive perspicacity, on a practically precognitive plane, in Posedion's Lair!

Mander's first forge foray in Reach is a water-themed puzzle map - a series of challenges meant to test your cunning and skill using Halo's elaborate mechanics. Many puzzle maps from Halo 3 relied on glitches and tricks in the Halo game engine to supply challenge ideas; this sometimes alienated the casual puzzle player, who would not always be clued in on such complexities within the game. Poseidon's Lair, however, distances itself from that style of puzzle, and instead focuses on challenges that rely on logic and problem solving. Thankfully this means you won't have to worry about whether some strange obscure trick or glitch has been discovered to solve a puzzle. This doesn't mean that progress will be easy though! What it does mean is that if ever there was a time to get into puzzle maps, and see what all the fuss is about, then this is your chance.

Poseidon's Lair is brimming with puzzles, over 20 in fact, so you'll be glad to know there's a checkpoint system in place to ensure that any mishaps or deaths won't result in having to start all over again! Mander devised a whole new mechanic for creating checkpoints in this puzzle map, called "Prioritised Spawning". Each time a plasma battery is destroyed, a new checkpoint is unlocked - Nifty eh? What's also handy is that most of the challenges are pretty easy to do once you've worked them out; so if you find yourself having to leave the game and start it up again later then it won't take you long to get back to where you left off.

To conclude, you will want to summon the speed of Hermes, muster the might of Zeus, conjure the craftiness of Hades, and invoke the intelligence of Athena if you wish to find your way to the end of Poseidon's Lair! Oh, and don't forget to use your most important muscle ... no not that one ... your brain, silly!

YouTube - Poseidon's Lair- A Halo: Reach Puzzle

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