The game with the best puzzles, even if it's not the best game with puzzles.

It's truly incredible to see how much can be squeezed out of a grid and a path. The game does a great job of organically introducing you to new concepts, and confounding you when you're not ready for more advanced ones. The way that so many puzzles break out and interact with the game world is amazing. Yes, some types are better than others, but the game still allows you to get the "main" ending if you skip a few sections.

That said, a lot of the criticism about the rest of the game is fair. Traversal is often unnecessarily slow. The "story" is insubstantial and/or pretentious. And the less said about the ending the better. But if you love challenging yourself with cleverly iterative puzzles, you can approach the game with that lens and not let the rest of it bother you.

You should only take what you want from this game. You don't have to solve EVERYTHING (which seems tedious even to a completionist like me). There is no achievement for it, or even a real progress tracker. In fact the harder stuff can be so obtuse that it seems designed for collaboration.

Just carve out your own path through this world. Enjoy it, and be okay knowing that it's bigger than any one person.

yes.

At long last... it's finally over.