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I Hate this game like you wouldn't believe

500kg of Freedom

So I'm very conflicted on this game. On the one hand the visuals are very good, the art style is cohesive and a lot of moments do have that wow factor. On the other the puzzles themselves are somewhat shallow, or at least they seemed that way to me. I'm not saying I'm some kind of super-high-IQ gamer, I'm definitely not, but a lot of these "puzzles" seemed to be solvable by just bumbling around a room. I did have fun doing the required tasks to advance, But that was mostly for the spectacle of them, not because I was discovering something or figuring out a solution. Stuff like The giant ball maze are really cool while you're doing them, with the music swelling as you progress and the huge crashes as monumental objects move and collide. But reflecting after completing the game leaves me feeling a bit empty about the whole experience.

The game is often missing the "a-ha" feeling that so many other puzzlers have and seems to be trying to supplement it by falling back on impossible geometry. It then rarely actually does anything with it other than "you can fall forever" or "the door is a door on one side and a wall on the other" or some kind of variant.

The game feels like it's trying to be "Le Deep" with its presentation, but I really don't know what it was trying to say. Maybe I'm just too stupid to see it. Maybe it's supposed to be vague so that you can project any interpretation you want on it. Maybe nothing matters but cool shapes and pretty colors.

I don't want to make this game sound like the worst thing ever, it's not. But if I had somehow known everything I know now before I bought this game, I would not have bought it. And I got it on sale.

Inject this straight into my eyes