People are praising this method of solving the puzzle, but it's 1000 times more "difficult" and tedius.
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I mean, it's cool that the game's engine works like that, but the "normal" way to lower the gate is simpler than this by far. The orbs you'd normally grab to drop onto the pads are literally in each room beside the main one, up the elevator a bit...just chillin'. Not guarded, locked up, or anything.