Uncharted 4: 20 Amazing Moments

18. The Bell Tower

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Easily the game's best puzzle is Chapter 11's (Hidden in Plain Sight) clock tower sequence in Madagascar. There are four locks on the ground with Zodiac symbols attached, and the player has to awkwardly scale up the clock tower's various pulleys and handholds to ring four bells in the right order corresponding to these symbols.

It's by no means a particularly difficult puzzle, but it does require the player to consider how Nate's weight is shifted as he jumps, and the sheer absurd scale of it, requiring Nate to climb up running gears and even leap across a clock face at one point, is a high-point for both the game and the franchise as a whole.

The puzzle concludes in typically bombastic fashion, as Nate manually rings a fifth bell at the top, which then snaps off and destroys a huge chunk of the tower, naturally.

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