I really dont know how I feel about antichamber
I like some of it. I like the a-ha moment of figuring out the puzzles, but man, it falls apart in other areas.
I enjoy how they explain nothing to you in any moment, but at the same time the game expects you to do certain things that are so far fetched that I couldnt believe I figured it out
sometimes I even brute-forced my way through some of the puzzles because the game allowed me to and I couldnt tell if that's what I was supposed to do or not
I ended up in areas that apparently I wasnt ready to visit yet, but I never knew that because the game never gave any hint of it being linear, or having to follow a certain path for upgrades and whatnot, but suddenly it is.
so yeah, bashed my head against the wall until I realized there's a "path" and im kinda on it now. Except that many times you try to solve some puzzles for hours only to find out that this particular room wasnt actually to progres the game, but it was a "secret room" with concept art and some other making-of stuff.
not only that: but I easily spent like 2 hours trying to get into a room, convinced that it was the correct way to advance, only to find myself trapped in a room (mind you, this is after solving something like 6 puzzles to get there, hard ones)
I gave up and did a google search: turns out that room is just nothing. Someone linked to a tweet by the dev saying he's planning to "put something there"
it just doesnt do that great of a job of making you feel like you accomplished something. Certainly not to the extent of something like Portal. Feeling like you're making proper progress only to find out that you discovered fucking concept art is.. uh yeah
not to mention that there's no way of backing up from that room, you gotta press ESC and get to the antechamber and select wich room you wanna go to; without any indication of what's the one you should go now. You just hop in on each and hope for the best.
Im still liking it enough, but it's just weird. It's too much. I hate hand-holding but this game has some flaws on what's attempting to do by not showing you anything. If you want me to find my way through the game dont let me brute-force through puzzles and "break" the game, mistakenly make me feel as if im on the right path for hours.
It's also not a OMG HARD game really, it's just kind of exhausting
so yeah, fuck this game, but also dont; because it's good
if that makes any sense.
I already got all the "upgrades" and it seems like im near the end at 7 hours, but I have no idea where im supposed to go and my brain is completely toasted for today