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amazon Baba Is You reviews
There is a life-long saying from Peter Safar, a leading physician in CPR, that:
“If you can’t win, change the rules of the game.”
This quote conveys an extremely important ideal in life: you can reach your destination in many different ways, without having to follow the rules that others have set. And sure enough, the ability to find and step on untouched paths is the key to success.
Well of course it’s about the figurative meaning of the sentence, not the literal meaning because the literal part is quite paradoxical. Every game needs a clear line between what you can and can’t do, so there won’t be any game that gives you “self-rule” … right?
I think, more than 15 years after the death of Dr. Peter Safar, literally his legendary sentence is most accurately represented in a game. It’s truly “unlawful life”, and that game is Baba Is You.
Not too flashy, no dazzling effects, not too complicated in gameplay, Baba Is You shines with just one point: puzzles.
First of all, talking about the mechanics, you are probably no stranger to the puzzle game genre by pushing blocks or things. Then Baba Is You too, you will control the character to push objects on the screen, how to get to the destination. In general, there is nothing very special … except for a small twist: the phrases you form will be the “rules” of the game.
Remember the name of the game “Baba Is You”? It is composed of three blocks from “Baba”, “Is” and “You”, or “Baba is a friend”. That means the character you control is Baba. For another example, if you see the phrase “Flag Is Win” assembled, it means bringing the character you are controlling to the flag you will win. And if you see the phrase “Water Is Death”, if you go to a certain water, you will … be death.
Such a mechanism certainly requires a bit of English knowledge, but the words in the game are quite popular so you don’t need to worry. Anyway, what you must care about most is definitely: how to win.
Moving blocks, boxes, objects to pave the way to the destination … is itself a problem, a challenge. But you not only need to cross the road to the destination, but you also need to find the way too. You need to move the blocks to create the right rule to solve the puzzle. You can turn into walls, into bricks, into plants, you can fly or teleport, you can turn yourself into a destination … All the rules are made by you, and the most useful weapon. is the ability to “think outside the box”. In short, the problem requires you not only to find the solution but also to find… the problem, and it’s called Baba Is You!
And yet, the creation of Baba Is You lies in the mechanics, but the value of the game is hidden in the screen design.
The game only counts words horizontally from left to right or from top to bottom, so there are many rule clusters that you cannot interact, simply because they are in the corner and covered by obstacles. Therefore, entering a game screen, you can immediately deduce what rules are sure to not change.
But even with that information, you will still struggle with every mechanism, every movement, every trick, every corner of reasoning, big and small, to be able to find the right path. There will be times when you give up, there will be times where you are sure “can’t be!”, There will be times where you will see “I can only do A and B, but tried both ways and all fail! ”… to eventually “fall back” when you realize that the answer is “do A and B … at the same time”.
A mechanism that allows for a universal variation to the point of changing the rules requires a high focus to each screen to ensure the game’s challenge, not too restrictive, but also does not turn it into something too easy. Brainstorming game players have to suffer, manufacturers must also pay attention to ensuring the value of each stage.
Baba Is You will be a journey between grief and happiness. Bi anyone because of the “absolute” difficulty of the puzzles does not suggest, because the ability to reason beyond the limit that the game forces you to apply in each screen. But along with that is the happiness when you have gone through the challenge yourself, successfully grappled with the game’s “turbulence” and demonstrated your outstanding thinking ability.
As a puzzle game that focuses on the value of puzzles… Baba Is You may not be so magnificent, but it will leave thousands of other puzzle game products “glancing up”!