From my perspective to be able to make it through this FM only by your own is to be an experienced player. On the one hand.
On the other – it's a mark of nerdview. The Chain Project is a really intense session of interrogations. Are you nerdish enough? Take a room full of robots and mechanists! How about searching for a switch in a pitch black room? 2 switches, maybe? And if you finally got it, then, well...There are 5 more rooms.
That said, I'm in love with the experiment that The Chain Project is. It caught the motive, some kind of all early FM invariant. Those immensely unfair tests are just a sincere laughing at avarage FM cliche. And those guys reproduced them masterfully here.