This is a game in which my jaw dropped and I gasped audibly when I learned things about the world. Not when I was involved in some type of spectacle but simply when I learned information about all the mysteries I'd been flying around and inspecting and experimenting on for hours.

The flow of information and discovery is paced so beautifully: there is always a thread to follow or a new place to explore and doing so is shockingly smooth. The movement is not perfect but given the universe we're exploring it works shockingly well from my perspective.

The only flaws in the discovery were a few instances in which I knew exactly where to go but I didn't know how to trigger some type of event mechanically. I looked these instances up which took the immersion away but was very forgivable given the scale of the product and the team involved.

This is just such a genuinely joyful and artful creation. The game loves you for playing it and I don't know how you can help not loving it back.

I bounced off this game after a few hours the first time I played; was playing right around when my son was born so I guess my brain was scrambled because this thing is an immediate entry in the "video game canon" if such a thing exists.