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PointCrow Playthroughs finds puzzles beyond the panels in The Witness

His first visit to the island brings symmetry, sunlight and a familiar connection to its parody, The Looker.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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0:20PointCrow begins inside a tunnel and solves door panels to reach the courtyard.
3:01A bunker door introduces black-and-white markers whose rule he has yet to understand.
8:44The dockside glass workshop introduces puzzles with mirrored lines.
12:30At the desert ruins, reflections and sunlight help reveal paths on panels.
18:04He discovers line puzzles embedded in the landscape itself.

A line-drawing puzzle seems simple enough, until PointCrow has to work out what the line is supposed to separate. At a bunker door in "The Witness, a Complete Playthrough," he tries several paths, leaves, revisits the introductory panels and finally understands the black-and-white markers. The solution is to put them in separate zones.

"This game simultaneously makes me feel so smart, but then also really dumb," he says. That push and pull gives the week's only upload its character: rules learned through experiments, mirrored lines at a glass workshop, then sunlight revealing paths across desert panels. Eventually, the scenery itself becomes a puzzle surface.

The playthrough has reached about 52,000 views and is the channel's busiest video right now. Viewers are talking about his vocal reactions to environmental discoveries, asking about the post-game and suggesting another visit to The Looker. Having played the parody first, he now has the original game's context to bring to its jokes. One commenter remembers The Witness following them into their dreams, complete with imaginary line puzzles.

Across PointCrow Playthroughs, subscribers held steady, while today's viewing pace is below its usual level. Among nearby variety-gaming channels, Yvonne Ng had a much larger week for views; Hekya had a quieter one.

Older adventures are contributing too. "Zelda: Majora's Mask, a Complete Playthrough," drawn from a stream originally broadcast in 2020, remains the next-busiest upload. "Chants of Sennaar, a Complete Playthrough" also keeps drawing viewers, offering another kind of deduction: learning unfamiliar languages to find a way up its tower.

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What viewers say

You should play The Looker again. I also played it before playing The Witness and it was so much funnier a second time with knowledge of the material it’s parodying.
@lyoukeefen7199See it on YouTube
I love how every time he finds an environmental puzzle he just screams
@donkulatorSee it on YouTube
I remember playing this years ago. Took me a couple of days to beat, and one night I started dreaming about the puzzles and woke up half asleep drawing lines on my leg as if there was a puzzle there. Tetris effect goes crazy with this game.
@DemonSpawn678See it on YouTube

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I have witnessed someone witnessing the witness
@The_reaI_knightSee it on YouTube
So whens the 100% run being posted?
@kellyedwards421See it on YouTube
Of all the game play-through channels I watch, this is by far my favorite the editing is perfect and is so cool to watch first time plays of great games.
@CaveyJohnsonSee it on YouTube
Cant wait until he comes back and plays the post-game stuff
@DevWolf59See it on YouTube