So this morning I'm playing through some Legend of Grimrock to pass the time before work when I come across a very strange room.
First of all, I have to take a little moment to explain what I was even doing in this room at all.
These big iron doors are found in every level of the Grimrock dungeon. You are not required to go through them in order to beat a floor, but behind them is usually some kind of item that will be extremely helpful later on, so it's a good idea to go out of your way to get them open. Every door has a different opening method, usually some kind of puzzle, but the solution to this particular door is not exactly what I would call conventional.
As soon as you step into the first tile of the room, the middle face statue shoots a magic bolt at you. The bolts do no damage to the player, so it's OK to get hit by them and if they hit the wall behind you, they activate teleporters that take you back to the entrance of the room. So the solution is pretty obvious, don't let the magic bolts hit the teleport switches, but holy shit, I didn't expect them to flow as fast as they did. It's times like this I really wish I was recording because the speed at which the bolts were coming down was like something straight out of a rhythm game. Luckily I'm pretty darn good at Rhythm games so I beat it pretty quickly. When you do beat it you get an achievement in Steam
So obviously this was a reference to the widely popular rhythm genre (even more obviously Guitar Hero). A fun little distraction and an unexpected little event in my dungeon crawler. Just felt like sharing.
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