Blue Prince

Amazing game with lots of varied puzzles, sometimes the RNG gets on the nerves but it's alright.

Esse jogo foi feito por (e para) pessoas completamente insanas. Se você for ZERAR (fazer o final verdadeiro e todos os segredos), sem qualquer auxílio de guia, se prepara pra sofrer muito. Após "terminar" o "primeiro final", simplesmente o jogo dá uma guinada e arrasta demais na minha opinião, sendo que o final verdadeiro não vale todo o esforço empenhado. É um jogaço, provavelmente o melhor jogo de puzzle que já joguei, mas podia ser menos mirabolante e mais surpreendente.

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The fantasy of the "uncanny puzzle house" has a powerful pull on me. I think I was born to it. It is my place. Christopher Manson's MAZE was quite possibly my favorite book as a child, and absolutely formative to my tastes. My daydreams gravitate toward puzzles and their spaces, spaces and their puzzles, and shadowy subterranea for which puzzles are a metaphor and occasionally an access. This is all to say that I am of the tribe, and one recognizes another. Blue Prince has been made with deep sensitivity and dedication to the ideal. It gets it, the mysterious it, more truly than any game I've played before, and I suspect that in this respect it will not be surpassed. The symbolist atmosphere is exquisite and precise, and the game is enormously generous of content in a way that makes good again and again on the loving insinuation of hidden depths. It is potent. I feel very grateful to have had such refined puzzle-dreaming shared with me. I must also say this: The run-based game loop is a brilliant inspiration — it's what makes the special atmosphere possible — but it means that over time the game offers a less and less considerate experience. During the first 20 hours, hardly a minute will pass between new discoveries. (20 hours! That's an incredible amount of sheer discovery; I've never experienced anything quite like it.) For the next 50 hours, the focus shifts wonderfully from discovery to mastery. But in the late game, with deep mysteries still whispering but few stones left obviously unturned, the player is left to flounder in too large a possibility space. The conveniences offered don't keep pace with the esoteric demands being made; by that point, every hypothesis requires substantial time and luck just to test. I found that I was suffering through session after session laboriously pursuing false leads and making no meaningful progress, and eventually came to feel that my time wasn't being sufficiently respected by this game, this same wonderful game that had given me 70 truly magical hours!... but then made me wander around for another 50. I ultimately resorted to an unofficial hint system and I'm very glad I did. I just wish it hadn't come to that, because that's not magic. So the game is flawed. But it is also a masterpiece. And it seems to me that it is both of these things for the same reason: because it believes in itself utterly. The game was manifestly built to be adored in every detail, by someone who adored it in every detail. It is rock-solid certain that it is worth obsessing over, world without end, amen. That in itself is enormously rewarding. You know it when you see it. And it is absolutely worth seeing. What house will all live in? This one will do. Kudos.

really fun puzzles and strategy

honestly kinda messed up to have most of the game be post-game content (as far as puzzles are concerened) and an upsetting amout of luck required to have any fun at all, that being said this game is neato

play game good