https://www.thegamer.com/baba-is-you-review-breaking-rules/
5/5
"Baba Is You is quirky, interesting, and incredibly engaging"
5/5
"Baba Is You is quirky, interesting, and incredibly engaging"
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Baba is You (Puzzle game on PC/Switch) - Reviews
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https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2019/03/20/review-baba-is-you/326982/
4.5/5
Yeah I know, I post a lot in this thread, but this game needs all the recognition it deserves. Successfully implementing originality is so rare to achieve.
I'm compensating for IGN and Gamespot's lack of coverage lol.
PS: Giant Bomb just did a Quick Look, so the other main american sites should follow soon.
4.5/5
Yeah I know, I post a lot in this thread, but this game needs all the recognition it deserves. Successfully implementing originality is so rare to achieve.
I'm compensating for IGN and Gamespot's lack of coverage lol.
PS: Giant Bomb just did a Quick Look, so the other main american sites should follow soon.
7/10 from Gamespot
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/baba-is-you-review-game-changer/1900-6417109/
Finally, the big sites are covering it (and it's one of the lowest reviews lol)
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/baba-is-you-review-game-changer/1900-6417109/
Finally, the big sites are covering it (and it's one of the lowest reviews lol)
I understand the grade. This game can be a bit TOO hard at times, a vague hint system would help.
7/10 from Gameinformer
https://www.gameinformer.com/review/baba-is-you/clever-puzzles-with-too-many-variables
"Baba is You makes you feel brilliant as you transform the properties of each puzzle to get the win in the early game – but then things get complicated."
https://www.gameinformer.com/review/baba-is-you/clever-puzzles-with-too-many-variables
"Baba is You makes you feel brilliant as you transform the properties of each puzzle to get the win in the early game – but then things get complicated."
I think there are some levels that are perhaps a little overly fiddly, but I wouldn't suggest it's a majority of the late game, and many of the more complex puzzles can be viewed as a smaller number of sub-puzzles that can be thought as discrete problems. Heck, if anything I'd say that the puzzles I solved last night to finish off the game were - for the most part - pretty simple, they just required the initial mental leap to get things going.
Without giving too much away, one of the very last puzzles revisits one from much earlier in the game which was hard at the time, but is easy in light of what you've learned by this point - however there's now one new wrinkle which you need to take into account. Compensating for that wrinkle is a very easy action, but realising what you need to do - and what it means in a real sense - only comes from the learning you've taken throughout the game.
I think that's broadly true of much of the endgame; it's about inspiration, not busywork.
One thing that I often latch onto with puzzle games is that many of them are just too easy for an experienced puzzle-solver. That's not necessarily a bad thing if the puzzles remain interesting and satisfying - I love Monument Valley, but it's a trivial solve - but it's refreshing to genuinely be challenged in this (and a couple of years ago by The Witness); both stand-out titles that stuck in my head long after the credits rolled. Reading a review like this puts me in mind of someone suggesting that a Souls game is too hard; it's not an unreasonable assessment, but there's an audience who are craving exactly that - I do note that the same author has comments on Sekiro saying that he's enjoying it but not looking forward to the difficulty curve kicking in!
(Although one aside: At least you could lessen the challenge of a Soulslike with some number tweaking. You can't really do that with a puzzle game while preserving the intent of the puzzles themselves)
Which isn't to say that there's anything wrong with this assessment as such, but it means this review isn't reflective of my desires as a player of puzzle games. I'm rather curious how the author did and where they got to - and if they at least got the credits to roll. If the author wasn't capable of that, it puts things in a bit of a different light.
I have, but haven't got around to it. I've played some other Increpare stuff, and I'd quite like to finish off English Country Tune before I play with the sausages, but that's sort-of fallen by the wayside.
As an aside, the list of playtesters in the credits is quite the who's who of quality puzzle designers. Alan Hazelden (who also contributed a level)! Stephen Lavelle! Jonathan Blow! Probably more but I don't have the list readily to hand!
