May 6, 2023

Baba is Good

Check out my review of Baba is You, a real mind-bending puzzle game
where you change the rules!

I have heard about this game for about two years, but puzzle games aren't normally my go-to to relax instead I tend to play rogue-like deck builders like Slay the Spire or management games like Rimworld.

However, this year was the year I broke. A long-term bud of mine posted on my Steam Channel to give it a shot, and considering it was only $14.99 I figured the price point would be low enough that I could get a good $/Time ratio. So I downloaded it a few weeks ago and WOW. I was wrong to wait so long for this game.

It took me about 4hr to beat the main "story" though I find that kind of laughable. The story is just a line of puzzles that as far as I can tell had no plot. However, the puzzles in them are a great tutorial for all the side content and that is the meat of the game.

A lot of zones to play through and if you get stuck you can move around easily. This is from my early gameplay for youtube

The puzzles aren't something like Talos Principle or Soma with the 3D aspect this game is supposed to be a pure 2D puzzle, but this game allows you to mess with the physics with logical sentences. Like Baba is you is what determines your control, but what if you make it Wall is You?

This is what happens

This game catches you off guard in many ways. You will keep working on problems and think you need to do things one way and then finally realize that functional fixedness is a thing and nothing says the walls are blocked. Then you realize you can use the same line that allows you to control your baba can be used to make a win condition.

Was stuck trying to get the Flag/Win box out of the grass corner on the bottom right. However, the walls are not blocking so I went around.

Overall, I have to say this game was a great buy and if you like puzzles of any type this would be a solid purchase. I am easily going to pass a dollar to an hour of gameplay and I suspect so shall you!

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