Kugane Castle Jump Puzzle Just KILLS me inside

Every time I tele into Kugane I'll always be reminded of what a failure I am. Four hours of jump puzzle and I can't reach the top because of that last jump. Hands and wrists are in so much pain, can't make short/long jumps anymore XD /playdead

you're not a failure. Jump control in this game is terrible and the only thing which makes it hard. the true ultimate savage.

I’ve tried that jump puzzle before and there was one jump I just couldn’t make. I tend to think it takes time and patience to reach the top, and a bit of practice.

It took me like 8 hours to do this the first time, and a friend got it in like 30 minutes. Took 2 for the 2nd one with the other jump involved... I still thought it was entertaining, if frustrating, if that makes sense.

I'm still not sure why they decided to design and leave it the way it is. I can get around the questionable jump controls, but what really makes this puzzle "hard" are all of the absurd invisible hitboxes. Platforming should be visually intuitive. If I'm having to intentionally land in mid air five feet away from where the platform visibly ends because aiming directly at the platform has me bounce off of an invisible wall (even if there should be space to fit my character), you've screwed up as a programmer.

People have done it before, there is no excuse you can't. Keep practicing.

Here is how to do it...
Step 1
Get married IG
Step 2
Climb
Step 3
Have partner use Wedding ring to teleport to you.
Step 4
Wait till Wedding ring is up again.
Step 5
Climb more
Step 6
Go to step 3 till unless at top.


IF you fall you teleport to your partner.

Just keep practicing until you get the Eternal Bonding ceremony rings. I kept practicing until I could safely and mostly get to the top of the tower where the wrap around porch part is, but every attempt that I had made to get towards the actual top of the tower is where I either positioned the camera wrong or I would over jump at the second to last beam.

Once I married my fiance in-game and we had the rings, I used his dead corpse of a character at like...2am, while he was sleeping (he tends to leave his computer and game running almost constantly) and teleported his body up to the wrap around porch as a bit of a "save" point. This way, if I fell off to my doom and landed at the very bottom or halfway on the tower again, I could just use the rings to get back towards where I started from initially and try again.

Keep in mind though the rings have a 30 minute cooldown, so you're going to have to occupy yourself with something else while you wait, lol.

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Finally! Someone who REALLY knows how to solve puzzles. I thought my wife was the only one who could.

I think she watched a lot of netflix that day.

If becomes a lot easier to get back up after you do it for the first time.

The hardest part is that the collision is jank as hell. There's a part where the roof extends half way out into a clear plank, for example, so you often have to aim to land actually off the edge.

I gave up because I kept on hitting invisible walls. Have to jump just right to avoid an unseen wall.

Learning which parts of the puzzle are total bullshit is the key. Once you know which areas let you stand on thin air, and which obviously accessible platforms aren't accessible at all, it becomes much more doable.

I was absolutely dreading climbing again after they added the lamppost jump, but managed my second trip up in no time flat, since I was already familiar with the stupid hitboxes.

Make sure to have a video available every time you're going to do a jump you haven't done before. Even if you think you can see what you're supposed to do, don't trust your eyes. Watch what the person in the video does, and do exactly like they do. The absolute worst part of this jumping puzzle is getting close to the end, then jumping and hitting an invisible wall you couldn't possibly have known is there.

It also stands to point out that once you make it to the top of the tower, and if you do have the Eternal Bond rings, keep your partner up there so you can practice on nailing the lamp post jump correctly.

Maybe they'll add poison potions like in XI so we can kill ourselves partway up the tower and get a Raise-warp.

I've gotten to the top on both of my mains, it just takes some getting use to(and for most of us, hours of practice). Keep at it, and you'll get it. :)

I find that the slight runspeed increase NIN has makes it easier to make jumps without causing you to potentially overshoot them like Peloton or Sprint can.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to be aiming for the very edge of each post due to the aforementioned invisible walls.

Yeah, it took between 8 and 10 hours practice before i could get up there(the last jump is still a hassle). I split that over 3 or 4 sessions, and now anytime im in the right mood i can fly right up(though i have to put on the same outfit i wore the first time - something about properly visualizing the jumps). Still havent nailed the "Leap of Faith" though.

Why would anyone bother? it's so flawed with the invisible walls and terrible jump controls, it's not just worth doing. Jump puzzles don't belong in the game if they cant do them right.

I've tried that jump puzzle many times. However, the problem is the closer I am to the top, the more shaky my hands get; my nerves is the main reason I keep failing. T^T
The fear of falling off which happens the moment I think about it..

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Why would anyone bother? it's so flawed with the invisible walls and terrible jump controls, it's not just worth doing. Jump puzzles don't belong in the game if they cant do them right.

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Because it's actually fun once you figured it out. I've been up there dozens of times and it took me only 5 tries to nail the leap of faith jump, but I didn't dread a thing getting back up, because I know how to get up there from practice.

I’ve done that jump puzzle so many times I sometimes go up there to AFK on the lamppost or at the very top. It’s annoying how some jumps work, but after a few times it’ll feel like a breeze.~

Yeah no thanks I'll stick with Savage and Ex primals on my neverending quest to get to ultimate content.

Wait...are we talking about the actual Kugane Castle, or are we actually talking about Shiokaze Hostelry? I've done -that- one, and the inn roof, but I've never heard of a jump puzzle for Kugane Castle, since it's..uh...inaccessible in the Kugane zone?

I am bonded in-game to my boyfriend, but he no longer plays. I'll admit I made him sub one month just so I could make him teleport to me once I was at the top, and then I used the ring over and over to try and get to the damned lamp post one. XD

I can clime the toward really quick, i clime it 5 time today but i have issues jumping to the lamp if i could get eternal bound of the solo purpose to get more chance to jump down ill do it.

It took me so. freaken. long. to get up on top. When I finally did I cried.
Then my husband just teleported to me all happy he made it to the top and I was like :l

Still can't get that mailbox though. /sob

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Why would anyone bother? it's so flawed with the invisible walls and terrible jump controls, it's not just worth doing. Jump puzzles don't belong in the game if they cant do them right.

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Why do anything? Because its there. Thats why. Also, i got some amazing screenshots of sunset over the harbor from the top of that building. Ok, admittedly it was already nighttime when i got up there the first time, and it rained over the following sunset. I waited it out.