Blue Prince

fair bit of puzzles, annoying at times where puzzle solutions could be hidden in places that the game never expected you to look there before (or really any reason to look there) which i didnt think was a fun conclusion to a longer puzzle i thought was interesting up until then. the very late game puzzles are also tedious at times, feeling like a boring fetch quest at the worst points, but the "final" puzzle was a very nice conclusion that captured the magic of the start of the game. some of the last achievements are annoying and frustrating with rng, and i can be notoriously unlucky. a great bunch of puzzles and the drafting mechanic is fun but also left me desiring more; feeling like it was not necessarily underutilized, but left me wondering what a puzzle game with a deeper focus on drafting challenges could look like. hope some more challenges like that could be added in the update. dirigiblocks when edit: i forgot to mention but i could not really connect with the story personally. it was serviceable, but also so ridiculous and often hilarious that i just could not take it seriously. i saw someone say they felt "ludonarrative consonance" with the gameplay and story, however i couldnt see it as anything but the exact opposite. [spoiler] when i was piecing together the story at the start, one very important motivating question was why would a mother leave her child? by the end, when i had finished the story, i understood she was motivated by a plot point to leave, but still, abandoning her child felt like too much for me to believe, that she felt less like a character who lived with and raised this child and more like a poorly crafted caricature that was used to motivate you to continue solving puzzles and discovering more of the plot. i said "she must hate her child" as a joke, but by the end it genuinely felt like the only reason she could abandon her child is because she is a horrible mother with political delusions of grandeur who felt her child had bad vibes, and not anything righteous either- just another monarchy?.. every new plot point i discovered would make me laugh from my gut with its absurdity. it all felt like rich people with psychosis, which hey, given the worlds current conditions, maybe isnt too far from reality [/spoiler]