Help! This game is too sick!

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You'd think so, but I've been trained by old adventure games to know that easy solutions don't exist. As such, some of the puzzles in Amnesia gave me a lot of trouble because they had easy solutions that I wouldn't think of.

Spoiler below!

I spent hours trying to figure out what item to use on the cogwheels near Agrippa, and I had to look up where I should get a fuse to set off the explosive in the storage.

Hence, my tip remains: Puzzle? Throw a rock at it.

No offense, but the solution to the storage explosive puzzle is spelled out quite clearly in a note found in one of the rooms. It goes something like this:

On their own, the chemicals are not explosive, but when combined even the slightest disturbance will cause them to explode.

Or something like that. And it's not their fault you have conditioned yourself to think of video game puzzles in a certain way, that's something you brought with you into the game.