Animal Properly gamers have been sharing an superior discovery that enables them to fully skip one of the crucial difficult sections of the sport, the Ostrich puzzle. Whereas it’s superb how the sport permits for this skip, its discovery additionally makes me surprise how a lot of my life I’ve wasted taking part in legitimately.

In Animal Properly, gamers are offered with puzzles that develop in complexity as they purchase new instruments for traversal and that assist them work together with the sport’s world. Nonetheless, you don’t want to make use of these instruments for his or her supposed goal, and the Ostrich skip that many gamers are utilizing now proves it. In reality, this skip could be the higher option to full the Ostrich puzzle as a result of it avoids a delicate lock.

Animal Properly’s Ostrich skip made me really feel extremely dumb for fixing all the puzzle

Person rw_3eters on the Animal Properly subreddit shared what they believed was the professional resolution to the primary Ostrich puzzle. This puzzle requires gamers to journey over and underneath fairly a big space, urgent buttons earlier than being chased by an Ostrich in a hamster wheel that may crush them. It culminates in a race to press a button to drop the Ostrich into the water and trigger it to press the buttons required to open a door.

This skip makes the puzzle, which equates to considered one of Animal Properly‘s boss encounters, totally pointless, although. All it is advisable to do is place the Slink on the left-hand aspect of the bridge, the primary character on the appropriate, after which use the Yo-Yo to drop the bridge, the Slink, and the character onto the buttons to open the door. It’s remarkably easy and makes the professional resolution’s stress really feel pointless.

Once I noticed this, I felt actually dumb for not even considering it. I didn’t attempt to open this bridge in any respect; as an alternative, I moved left to find the Ostrich and work out the puzzle’s resolution based mostly on that. What makes me really feel worse is how customers within the feedback to rw_3eters’ posts are saying they used this, too. I’ll even be the one participant who doesn’t use this resolution.

As soon as I acquired over the humiliation, I noticed what this says about Animal Properly. The truth that you may full a massively difficult puzzle with such a easy resolution reveals how open it’s to be approached in any means gamers see match. In reality, this resolution helps to keep away from delicate locking a chest additional into the Ostrich space, which you’ll be able to block when you hit a sure level whereas fixing it.

I can’t assist however surprise what number of extra easy options there are on the market to the sport’s puzzles that perhaps even the developer didn’t account for. This submit comes mere days after Animal Properly was launched, so I can’t even think about what its Any% speedruns will seem like on the subsequent GDQ.