The Witness
Developers: TheklaNVIDIA Lightspeed Studios
Publisher: NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios
15 January 2017
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Note: Unlike reviews, comments are considered temporary and may be deleted/purged without notice.my god, i'd rather get nails in my ass
This is just obtuse. What's the fun in a puzzle game when your not sure what the rules or worse yet when you solve one but don't even know how you did it? And not that this influenced my score but inserting a clip from a Tarkovsky film is just about the most "take me seriously, take me seriously" moment I've ever seen in a game.
Jonathan Blow has said in interviews that if there's a thematic throughline to The Witness, it's that the game is concerned with "understanding the truth of the world" (source). It can sound a little pretentious (Jonathan Blow is no stranger to pretension—I also found some of the video clips to be a little much), but I think there's genuinely something insightful in that explanation. The game is all about replicating the beauty and joy of scientific discovery. Every puzzle invites you to hypothesize about the rules that govern the game world, and as you test those hypotheses, some succeed and some fail, but with each attempt you come a little closer to the truth. I think the game succeeds because it draws on our inherent scientific curiosity as humans to learn and understand our environment.