Still a masterpiece of a puzzle game, it’s not until this recentmost playthrough that I understood how meditative and deliberately slow-paced the game is. Ramping up the speed on the boat to max is absolutely deafening and the game wants you to take your time. We live in a world that moves so incredibly fast and this game, with brilliant mechanics and challenges, encourages you to stop, look around, and peacefully live in the moment. There's also some really sick Metroidvania aspects where areas that are locked off early on stay locked until you get the "key", that key being your knowledge and ability to identify puzzle mechanics and solve them.

Dodges five stars because the mountain puzzles, among some others, can get really messy, and definitely should've stayed in the cave plexus.