What do you think about... puzzles?

Woo! Puzzles! I like that idea! I really enjoyed the puzzle in Dawn of Sorrow that led to Paranoia! That will add some flavour and diversity around the castle for sure!
I would love random clues being littered around the castle like random numbers or words that form some sort of combination to a room/section of the castle where you fight a secret boss or get some powerful equipment/upgrade.

So long as the puzzles do not destroy the flow of the game I'm fine with them. If they're too cumbersome, perhaps a simpler puzzle could be used in its place.

Lords of Shadow 2 suffered from puzzles that tended to take away from the game, rather than add richness to them - I'd rather they avoid that pitfall if possible.

Good point! I have never played any of the LoS games, however, I had played some platformer with very complicated puzzles that made me want to give up.
Well, complicated puzzles are good, too, but only for easter eggs or for bonus "omake" content, it should not be an obstacle that you must get through to proceed to the next point of the game. It is one of my pet peeves in action games where I have to slow down in the middle to solve a puzzle to proceed, because in my mind, I just want to go, go, go. I always end up going to Lets Plays and GameFAQs whenever I encounter those overly complicated puzzles to proceed in the game. It is not because I don't like to use my brain, it's because I want to keep the energy flowing while I play the game.

I think there was something like this Lament of Innocence... that game had a few puzzles there.

I like puzzles but ones in videogames normally annoy me because they are often written in such a way that you can think of like 50 different solutions to the puzzle that aren't the pre-determined one you were SUPPOSED to choose. I can't think of any good examples off hand but one I'll just make up is a puzzle that might say something like 'only the blind can enter'.. so then you the player try entering while having a 'blind' debuff.. and it doesn't work, so then you try entering with all available light sources removed, and it doesn't work, so then you try entering wearing a certain helmet called 'blindfold' or something... and it doesn't work... all kinds of things that SOUND like they should work, and the player isn't any less creative or intelligent for choosing them as a solution to the puzzle, but no, it's some arbitrary solution amongst a ton... maybe there's an enemy you can tame like a squid and you have to make it shoot ink at the door and then it opens.. I HATE THAT @%#@#%@#%@%

I feel that puzzles are meant to enhance the gaming experience, not stifle it. However, I think it will be cool if the game difficulty would effect not only the difficulty of the enemy AI, but will increase difficulty to puzzles, with moderation, of course.

Oh gosh! I HATE those puzzles!! If Bloodstained was to have any riddles, they should be intuitive and not abstract. Puzzles like that usually send me straight to GameFAQs.

I myself love puzzles, that doesn't mean I like puzzles in every game I play. They have to be clever, non-repetitive and have some meaning to why they exist.

Certainly puzzles do come in mind when thinking about castles. So maybe they can have some hidden rooms that need puzzle solving.

But the game has to make it clear that you need to solve some kind of puzzle to progress or to open a secret passage, not have you running around like a fool thinking there is something hidden. For example in SotN there is a confession room, I don't know if there is any meaning to it, since I am still in my first playthrough, but I spent hours thinking it was a puzzle of some kind, I still think I was missing something, and every once in a while I went back to see if I can make anything in it.

I am going to be eaten alive I am criticising SotN. Just remember I have not played it before so I have no nostalgia for it.

I once tried to put together a 500 piece puzzle. It had a cat in the middle and a ridiculously detailed, grainy wall that covered the rest (about 70% of total puzzle).

Took me a while, but I managed to put everything together...

Wait.. you meant the other kind of puzzles. Yeah, sure, those are fun!

As long as they don't upset the game flow I'm fine with them. I generally like puzzles ^ω^

I don't care where they are or how they function. Or even what they hide. I want them to range from subtle to insane. The ones I remember from sotn that give you subtle clues like the clocktower gears or that place near the catacombs where the demon familiaropen up an area. Things like tthat come to mind. Also time based ones such as the clock were nice as we'll.

I haven't played enough other titles to be familiar with their puzzles but I will say I do not want puzzles that are overly complicated JUSt for the sake of such things. Climbing the east tower while wearing axe armor holding the sword of dawn and using the key familiar while summoning minions toward the west to unlock a platform or room where the magical bird of babahgunoosh asks you a question in a detected foreign language via smartdevice integration which gives you, upon completion and guessing correctly, a potion (a basic one) and a trophy "Damn you worked hard for nothing". With absolutely zero hinting that you can do something with any of the tools which are related that you pickup Is a textbook example of what NOT to do.

Mostly because the reward and integration... but some people really like those obscure puzzles.

I wouldn't be upset myself but a lot of other devs either gave up the ghost on intricate stuff or just don't have the time / budget.

Kinda long winded post

TL;DR puzzles yes, I like to keep them classy.