No hard puzzles will ever halt your progress.
Most activities in the game are entirely optional and voluntary. The Path is a game about growing, about changing, about making choices, about accepting the consequences of these choices. Can they prevent the ancient tale from being retold? A game about playing, and failing, about embracing life, perhaps by accepting death. The teenagers are instructed to go to grandmother's house deep in the forest and, by all means, to stay on the path! But young women are not exactly known for their obedience, are they? And it needs to be broken.