![]() Even though I recognize puzzle games can be good exercise for my brain, I mostly want to play games to have fun and unwind, not mentally dickpunch myself for hours on end. So I'm not even going to bother downloading The Witness. Even though I loved Portal and Portal 2 - and didn't look up solutions for either of those - I only enjoyed, at best, the first half to third of Braid and Fez. I know that either I'm entirely too stupid for them or they just aren't my cup of tea. The second it's no longer fun I'm off to Google.Īll that said, I tend to avoid puzzle games these days. I always start out with the best intentions, telling myself that this time I'll play it honest and won't look up any answers, but I always reach that breaking point where I'm not having fun and I know that if I turn the game off without moving past the puzzle I'm stuck on, I'll never turn it back on. I just don't have the patience to bang my head against something that I can't figure out after 15 minutes or so. I'll absolutely look up puzzle solutions without reservations or guilt. If it was designed that way it’s fair game in my mind. I will use hints system profusely though. Normally I make progress when I get back to it. I get frustrated a lot, to the point where I’m thinking about looking solutions up, but at that point I have managed so far to just walk away from the game and doing something else. I still loved the game mind you, and managed to find out the secret ending by myself (a bit of luck was involved in the process) which felt great.Ĭurrently going through Baba is You. I didn’t like how the game sometimes was just trying to make puzzles harder by obfuscating your perception of them, which I think is not real difficulty and is cheap. On the other hand a game like the Witness there’s a few perception puzzles where I understood the theory of it, but couldn’t execute on them (the sound stuff mostly). It really depends on the game though, in this one I never felt like I missed something. I finished Snakebird without solution like a madman, it was both infuriating and extremely satisfying.
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