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Smart enough to beat the whole game? No. Smart enough to do most of it? Sure
Filtered hard
to the extent that if someone said they beat it without help I'd have to assume theyre full of shit
I didn’t get help on any of the names stages but I had to look up how to progress some of the overworld puzzles (like when you have to start “winning” the overworld)
I 100% without a guide, but it did take nearly a year.
Anybody's got the chart with recommendation for similar games?
Holy shit please
Some games I think that scratch a similar itch to Baba is You are
>Void Stranger
>Paquerette Down the Bunburrow
Both make my autism furiously angry.
Does Bunburrows have the late-game metapuzzling that Baba has? That’s one thing that’s really special about it. I know VS gets really meta later on but the repeated runs through the same puzzles turned me off.
>Does Bunburrows have the late-game metapuzzling that Baba has
It does. Namely, it comes in the form of tard-wrangling rabbits into massive towers of bunnies so they can shit out more baby rabbits, so there's a lot of inter-level bullshittery going on after you've unlocked most of the burrows. MC is a cute e-girl, which is also a bonus.
Found it
outer wilds is ridiculously overrated, tbh
it's probably better in vr, but it's just kind of boring to me personally
I agree, the graphics would be good if not for the fact its creator threw everything in there
Outer Wilds is the only game I know that does what it does. If you’re not into its main conceit that’s more a matter of taste. I don’t think it’s really possible to overrate a game like outer wilds which is totally unique (to my knowledge)
elaborate on what you think only it does
thanks now i know what games to avoid
Play some custom level packs
"Synthetic genesis" is by far the best one. Even better than the base game in some parts.
"Badbad is you" is also pretty good but some of the puzzles are kind of obtuse.
needed assistance on meta shit, but beat the rest of the game on my own
No, unless you count getting the early ending as beating it.
I got to the end, of course that’s only half way through the game but still
This and Outer Wilds really blew me away at how inventive they were
Idky but I was SO hyped for this game before playing it and then...when I played it I just got bored eventually, even before the super hard stuff people allude to.
not sure why lmao, this has been happening with puzzle games lately for me too. the only one that kept me invested was outer wilds, and arguably it isn't even a puzzle game, it's actually barely a "game". But I think that's exactly what makes it so compelling. It naturally keeps you in its world, never interferes with that in a jarring and abstract way. when you learn how to "solve" a puzzle, you're learning and understanding more about a world that feels authentic.
I like to call it "natural puzzling" there are some games that emulate little stuff like this on a small scale, most typically "imsims" (fake genre) but Outer Wilds does it in a way that also makes you think "wow, that was clever" even IF the game is literally basically telling you how to solve the puzzle, or atleast giving you the tools clearly.
Very interesting game, but only in the context of puzzle games and some other games I've had thoughts on.
On its own? I don't have much to say about Outer Wilds. It's simply good. My second favourite game of all time.
Imo when Baba is You gets to the late game metapuzzles it feels more like “natural puzzling” that you’re describing. The game has a genius way to turning the classic “This is a video game. Video games have levels. You beat levels.” on its head and introducing an overarching world building and logic to the game.
It was hardest around mid game then slightly easier towards the end
The secret levels were too much for me
Imo Baba doesn’t have “secret levels,” those are just the second half of the game
There's a couple secret levels hidden in the meta levels. Namely, the alphabet levels in the star world and a couple unnecessary for progress in Meta.
I am smart enough for it but some levels can take quite a bit of time, which I simply do not want to commit to the game.
Filtered
Sure, that's fair. Wouldn't have it any other way though.
made it pretty far but got stumped and stopped.
Nothing to do with intelligence, but willpower. I beat the entire main campaign with no hints whatsoever, all levels, and I'm not smart. Just took me 115+ hours
Who told you you aren’t smart anon? Don’t give in to the negative self talk. Plenty of people couldn’t beat this game in that time
>plenty of people couldn't beat this game in that time
Well that's because they gave up, not that they took longer. almost everybody I've seen that fully beat the game without hints is less than 100 hours, including online and irl (I rec'd baba to some friends, and one of the smartest I know blitzed through it in 45 hours). They very clearly have a different aptitude to these puzzles, which I don't. While it might not be intelligence, I am lacking something, and make up for it in perserverence, wouldn't really call that negative self talk.
Filtered hard, I think some of it is objectively poorly designed because it doesn't teach you mechanics properly
First couple of areas are a lot of fun but then it keeps getting more obtuse with asspull mechanics
Had to start using the "subtle hints" guide and even after getting spoonfed some hints I still couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do because I didn't know I could do some things
Also annoying is how little creative freedom it allows you, oftentimes I would try to think of a clever solution but that would just stonewall me, if you don't "see" the single one solution the dev intended and approach with a different idea then you're just smashing your head into a wall
Also if you put the game down and come back to it later it's just brutal because you have to remember every little rule you can do, if you forget one thing you're fricked, and a lot of screens are just variations on previous screens that require you to remember the previous solution
Finally solving a puzzle after one hour of being stuck still makes me feel like a moron randomly trying whatever, instead of making me feel smart with eureka moments
It's undeniably a brilliant and clever game but man I just wish it was less obtuse with how it introduces/expect you to understand and use new mechanics
>Also annoying is how little creative freedom it allows you
I do think it was kind of marketed as this “you can break the rules and come up with your own cuhrazy solutions” which is not what the game is at all. The malleable rules end up giving the dev the ability to make infinite “genres” of puzzles but don’t really give the player much freedom at all.
>doesn't teach you mechanics properly
Because they are part of the puzzle! If it fully explained what each new word does, as well as general interactions, there'll be no puzzle left, as you'd just be repeating what was told to you.
>put the game down and come back to it later it's just brutal
I've done that multiple times, and it was the most helpful thing I could've done, since it gave me a new perspective on the puzzle. "forgot all the rules" doesn't matter when one puzzle made you stuck, and you can gleam what it's about in the first 5 minutes.
>finally solving a puzzle after one hour of being stuck still makes me feel like a moron randomly trying whatever
You mustn't have gotten far then, later puzzles are truly impossible to just randomly bruteforce like that. I guess reading all the hints pushed you in a certain direction, and then you just had a couple of options, which you bruteforced those, which in that case it's obvious why you weren't having fun.
Got filtered when you reached the inner flower world. It was too much for my brain.
I have to start a fresh file sometime
where's the 500 hours long meta sokoban, jon
>Are you smart enough (to avoid dogshit """indie""" games?)
indeed I am
It's a fun game but so many times, I got completely stuck, had to look up the solution, and then said "wait, what, I can do that???"
There's just so many mechanics that the game doesn't teach you at all, and in the "meta" worlds it's even worse.