Recordkeeping: The Witness NOT COMPLETE

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Here's the thing about most games: As long as you are physically capable of pushing buttons, and mentally capable of continuing to push buttons, you will win.

That's it. That and tons of free time are the secret to how I finish so many games. Platformer? You'll hit the right timing sooner or later. RPG? You'll outgrind the power curve given time. Certain adventure games? Click everything on everything, win game. It's persistence and patience.

The Witness beat me the old-fashioned way: By being smarter than me, and outlasting me. I got to the "endgame" area and looked at what was asked and my mind just SCREAMED. I could sit down and study this like a college-level course, but I can't take it anymore. For the last several days I've lived and breathed and slept and ate puzzles, and I can't take it.

Right now.

The Witness is designed to be a very, very LASTING game in a way that most aren't. I have no trouble believing I'll go back to it again and again over the course of the year. I have 17 hours clocked and it's estimated to last much longer. It's a true masterwork, genuinely smart and sharp... and it's not like they're going to crap out The Witness 2: Line Harder in six months either.

Even though I couldn't finish this game, I respect it a lot. I look forward to a rematch. When I've recovered.

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[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

"Here's the thing about most games: As long as you are physically capable of pushing buttons, and mentally capable of continuing to push buttons, you will win.

That's it. That and tons of free time are the secret to how I finish so many games."

I refuse to believe you are not an adorable fuzzy Wonderkind!