Obviously there is a wide spread of opinions on this game but a lot of the "critical re-examination" this game has gotten over the years just seems absurd and performative to me. You guys know there's more than one name in the credits, right? Sure, Blowey Joey might be an asshat, but the way people talk about this game you would think the very concept of a game having puzzles was inherently a pseudointellectual, elitist idea.
Everyone loves to bring up that Soulja Boy video as some kind of dunk, and there's obviously something funny about the idea that someone could be offended by it, but the reason it's funny is precisely because Soulja Boy is clearly having fun engaging with an obviously satisfying game mechanic, and that isn't enough. It's a cheap criticism that only caught on because of a really unflattering edit in Indie Game: The Movie, and it's a criticism that really only applies to one of the 80-ish people in the game's credits.
It looks good, sounds good, feels good, but some of those puzzles definitely suck. A lot of them just kind of feel like "a programmer realized a certain thing was possible in the game's systems", and in the last couple worlds it drifts into Amiga-core territory.
Everyone loves to bring up that Soulja Boy video as some kind of dunk, and there's obviously something funny about the idea that someone could be offended by it, but the reason it's funny is precisely because Soulja Boy is clearly having fun engaging with an obviously satisfying game mechanic, and that isn't enough. It's a cheap criticism that only caught on because of a really unflattering edit in Indie Game: The Movie, and it's a criticism that really only applies to one of the 80-ish people in the game's credits.
It looks good, sounds good, feels good, but some of those puzzles definitely suck. A lot of them just kind of feel like "a programmer realized a certain thing was possible in the game's systems", and in the last couple worlds it drifts into Amiga-core territory.