Having played Recursed and Patrick’s Parabox, I perhaps didn’t find Cocoon’s nested-world puzzles quite as mind-bending as I might have otherwise, but I still had a great time solving them even if I rarely felt particularly challenged. It certainly didn’t hurt that solving those puzzles meant getting constantly rewarded with more weird and cool shit to look at; I adored Cocoon’s animation and art direction. Shoutouts in particular to the transitions in and out of the orbs (important to get right since you’re going to be seeing it a lot, and they absolutely nailed it) and all the different doors (I genuinely started looking forward to seeing what new and exciting way the next door was going to open).