I ain't gonna lie, despite being fairly hyped for this and all I had real reservations it was going to turn into something I personally enjoyed. After all, Braid was highly reviewed and beloved by fans but just wasn't my cup of tea. But there's something perfect about the way he designed progression in this game The Witness that makes it quite easy to just do something else as you think of a solution and come back without ever getting stressed or genuinely frustrated. That's often a bottleneck of this sort of genre of game... there's a puzzle or two that is daunting and brutal, perhaps even way out of sync with the difficulty curve of the game. Then people get annoyed, and either look it up online or quit.
I think this has found that rare happy medium where I never feel compelled to do that, and even the ones that really stump me don't annoy me because I just do something else after a set amount of minutes.
This is something really cool so far. And there's like an infinity puzzles or something so my god, please turn this into a retail release Blow and $60 would seem more than fair. It's easily more polished and content-filled than most big $60 releases these days, and it's a gorgeous game at times with its art style. Would buy again.
