cera's review DIRECTOR'S CUT:

this is one of the most beautiful games i've ever played, not just in aesthetics but in what it teaches the player. don't get me wrong, there are things that i actively hate about this game, as well as some of the outside factors surrounding it (if you know you know). but the truth of this is that the game is still so good that it blows past all of that and makes it seem like trash littered around the most gorgeous hike you've ever taken: the bad things are mere footnotes in comparison to what you can see.

people will tell you the witness is a game about puzzles. it's not. it's about linguistics and semiotics and meditation. it's about observing.

all of the best art in the world is art that acts as a mirror for us to see parts of ourselves in. sometimes good, sometimes the things we fear, but the most powerful thing is when it allows us to see things about ourselves that we didn't understand in the first place, the things we couldn't put into words but knew were true.

the answers you needed were always right in front of us, you just didn't know it. we were just looking at the wrong things, at what people told us were important. stop looking. stop.