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Square Soft riddles!

@musenji  - March 15, 2011, 4:06 a.m.

Riddles are really friggin fun. Verily!

The rules:

  1. One riddle at a time. Whoever correctly guesses the riddle (and has the answer confirmed by the riddler) gets to post the next one. They have 48 hours to do so, then the floor is open. (They can also decline to post, and leave the floor open, but c'mon guys, give it a shot.)

  2. The riddler gets to decide whether to give hints, and whether to answer questions. (i.e. It's not 20 questions folks.)

Something that has worked very well is for guessers to post the reasoning behind their guesses--which gives the riddler a chance to steer them along, in an organic fashion. And it keeps people from just randomly guessing.

  1. Riddles are to be made based on Square Soft games (pre-2003) that were released in America. (The reason for this is to limit the field and keep it relatively accessible to all.)

  2. If you are posting a riddle, pick one game to riddle about, and state it in your initial post.


So, the first riddle. It's from Final Fantasy VII:

I reside in darkness where evil’s enlightened Mostly contorted, but sometimes I’m heightened

If you look around, you can tell I’ve been preying Though when I appear, the guitarist keeps playing

@Frogma - April 14, 2011, 5 p.m.

Diamond Weapon! omg do I finally have one right?

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@TrangOul - April 14, 2011, 5:32 p.m.

Infinity Edge? Nevermind :p

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@musenji - April 14, 2011, 6:18 p.m.

Frogma's got it. :D

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@Frogma - April 15, 2011, 5:19 a.m.

Woo In order to get me, you'll need to use your claws. Though it may be tedious and akward, to finally make me yours. This small ordeal, could leave you seeing red, but don't pound your PSX with rage, instead go to bed! If you do smash your console, into a thousand million bits, At least salvage something, from the junk you made of it. Have fun :)

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@Frogma - April 15, 2011, 6:01 a.m.

Oh, and I'll add that it's ff7 and the "woo" and "have fun" bits aren't part of it :)

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@musenji - April 15, 2011, 7:36 p.m.

Knights of the Round? It's red, you have to use a chocobo to get it, they have claws, and it is hella tedious and awkward to get the Golden Chocobo. If that's right then the second half is just filler? But the last 4 lines sound important.

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@TrangOul - April 15, 2011, 10:56 p.m.

Don't chocobos have talons rather than claws? :S

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@Hakoria - April 15, 2011, 11:36 p.m.

^claws, talons, same difference D: In case musenji's guess is wrong, although it was the first thing that also came to mind, I'll give it a shot too. He only stated the Woo and Have Fun are not part of the riddle, so I'll say the 2nd half has to be considered to confirm whatever guess one wants to take >: Basically got 5~10 quick ideas due to how much there is to interpret and how differently you can do so, but this one seemed the least farfetched as it actually 'works' with the entire riddle. guess: Typoon, the summon materia in Ancient Forest. In order to get me, you'll need to use your claws. You need a special chocobo. Though it may be tedious and akward, to finally make me yours. You have to beat Ultimate Weapon. Afterwards, the process in the forest is tedious and awkward. God damn those plants. This small ordeal, could leave you seeing red, but don't pound your PSX with rage, instead go to bed! Typoon is 'red' (ok, he's more pink than red), and imo he sucks. So you basically do too much for such a summon, which could anger you and make you 'see red'. If you do smash your console, into a thousand million bits, At least salvage something, from the junk you made of it. Typoon's skill is kind of like, taking everything around the monster + the monsters then does trippy stuff (disassembles the ground, turning it into 'junk' as it's not filling it's purpose, but uses it to his advantage by flipping the world upside down). Basically he's making use of whatever he wants, just like how you can still use Typoon even if it's junk.

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@Frogma - April 16, 2011, 7:51 a.m.

Nice guesses and you're close but no. I'll give three tiny hints. Claws = hands, i just wanted it to rhyme. I love the way you thought of chocobo claws (lol talons?) but nah. The tedious and awkward bit relate to a single task you have to perform in the game (i.e. not a long process like raising a chocobo or navigating the secret garden). You may not have found it as frustrating as I did, and I don't think the squaresoft game developers intended it to be tricky. Just a minor glitch in the game. The last 4 lines are a bit cryptic and are a simile to something in the game.

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@TrangOul - April 16, 2011, 8:44 a.m.

Is it the big materia from Cid's rocket?

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@musenji - April 16, 2011, 1:03 p.m.

It must be the one for saving the train. The characters in the game use their hands to pull the levers. the "console" is a metaphor for the train. you even use joysticks! And if you fail, it smashes into a million bits. I don't know why I didn't remember that--I was trying to thing of things that smash in the game. :D Well, or maybe it is the one from the Rocket, in which case the rocket is the console. it does smash into a million bits, no matter what, and there's a huge graphics bit that shows the "injured" Meteor--with a lot of Red in the picture. And even though it smashes, you get the Materia anyway. Yeah...I kinda suspect Trang's got it. fwiw apparently the huge materia aren't associated with specific tasks--you get them in a specific order, regardless of what order you do the tasks.

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@TrangOul - April 16, 2011, 1:25 p.m.

Eh, if you mess up the code guessing game you won't be able to get the huge materia and Bahamut Zero, will you? D:

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@Frogma - April 17, 2011, 8:42 a.m.

Great guess, but unfortunately no. Epilogue to the riddle: The PSX was great in it's day, and I don't want to be mean, but you only get junky parts, from what is now a junky machine.

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@Hakoria - April 17, 2011, 12:19 p.m.

This is a mean riddle. I don't know which idea to post :| So I'll just try again with the most recent idea I got, although it's far from my favorite, but I got nostalgic remembering Bone Village so... yeah. Using claws and awkward/tedious process: excavation site at Bone Village, you have to use your hands to dig dig dig Guess: First you get the Key to Sector 5 to later get Premium Heart (tifa's ultimate weapon). The reason this instead of the Lunar Harp would be because of the 'junky machine'; The Wall Market vending machine was always broken, but now it's fixed and you get the weapon, just to see it break again.

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@jit - April 17, 2011, 2:20 p.m.

Damn I was gonna say the Apocalypse... But then I read your epilogue and immediately thought of Gongaga. Is it the Titan materia? I found that awkward was kind of out of place in the puzzle but I tried to make sense out of it. Before you get the Titan materia, you have to fight Reno and Rude. The awkwardness comes from them talking about who they would date. I went on youtube to make sure that what I recalled happened in chronological order and low and behold it did. Not only that Scarlet said almost exactly what you said in the epilogue. I guess the tedious part is looking for Dyne in the previous part because it did take me a long f-ing time to figure out how to find him the first time. Or maybe your talking about the chocobo race? Everything else kinda makes sense to me at least with Titan.

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