guigui wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2026 10:54 pm
This reminds me I have yet to beat about 90% of the game
Baba Is You
It is curious how it seems like I can solve many fan-made Lemmings levels -- and believe me some of them are extreme hard -- but I am not able to accomodate my brain to Baba Is You. Different types of thinking certainly.
Baba Is You is my hands down favorite game to come out probably since.. Dark Souls, honestly. As far as "cerebral puzzle" games go, it's absolutely top of the line. Every puzzle presents a new way of thinking that you have to latch on to, and the game forces you to think outside of the box in entirely new ways several times throughout the adventure! There are definitely things in this game that could be spoiled, so try to do as much as you can entirely on your own.
My advice for approaching the game if some puzzles seem difficult (and some are very much so) is as follows:
1. Probably goes without saying, but if you've tried a puzzle for a while and can't make progress, go do some other puzzles that you have access to, and come back later. Maybe even *much* later. This allows you to see it with a fresh perspective, possibly allowing you to think in lanes that you had previously subconsciously ignored, or maybe even bring in knowledge of odd mechanics that you've acquired from other puzzles. The game has *SOME* mechanics that might seem ambiguous until you've tested out how the game reacts to something that feels contradictary. And *a few* puzzles actually rely on those mechanics. Those are arguably the worst in the game, but they aren't too many.
2. Sleep on it. Do something else. Return the next day. Return in a few days. Patience is king in Baba is You, it's not a game you should be in a hurry to complete.
The game had multiple puzzles that I literally solved
while not even playing the game. It has an almost "tetris effect"-like influence on me, where a particular puzzle would stay with me, and some times while in bed and trying to sleep, I'd think of it, and solutions I hadn't thought of would pop up in my head, and I couldn't wait to try them the next day.
If that's not the mark of a fantastic puzzle game, I don't know what is
3. Try the analytical approach.
Something that helped me with a few puzzles was trying to go through what exactly made me stuck on it. I think actually writing it down, could potentially be a good idea. What you want to do is list *all* the reasons why you can't do what you think you need to do. For example "there is no way to make this item pushable" or so on. The more you can list, the better.
And then try to approach each of those reasons as an "assumption". Try to disprove them in every way you possibly can, and maybe even combine the above methods, and wait a day before you do so.
Always assume that you are wrong about something, because the reason you can't solve a puzzle is
always because you made at least one false assumption
'tude
That plus trying to have a story in Drill Land kinda put me off.
)was their arcade like simplicity. At surface level they are very simple games where the depth comes from the skill and strategy of the player.
