[STEAM] Resident Evil Requiem's mystifying Final Puzzle is case-closed after its solution was discovered by accident

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The chillingly named 'Final Puzzle' in

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filled much of the action-horror game’s launch week with cheevo-hunting intrigue. What began as a simple search, a box-checking exercise to complete the last of Requiem’s optional challenges, has since shredded nerves (and driven at least two RPS guides writers into frazzled despair) as the puzzle revealed itself an almost sadistically opaque game of Simon Says, where Simon doesn’t actually say anything. He wants you to do something with that severed arm, though.

Earlier this week, however, the code was cracked, seemingly after a Pokemon card YouTuber stumbled into the solution by accident.

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, whose videos typically involve showing off colourful paper rectangles rather than borrowing creepy dolls from flesh monsters, is now widely credited with 'discovering' the requisite steps through sheer luck, with the precise details

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by dataminers. Here’s Jeremy and Callum’s

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