Blue Prince

I mentioned at one point that I had beaten Blue Prince – inasmuch as one can truly believe they have fully plumbed the depths of the bottomless puzzle pool that is Blue Prince, which at this point I fully believe I have done. But did I like the game?

First, an anecdote: a few weeks ago now I was a guest on the Blizzard Watch Podcast, and we asked editor-in-chief Liz if she liked Blue Prince. We then poked fun at it later because she hemmed and hawed about the game, talked about a number of things she did or didn’t like, discussed the weirdness and the puzzles and the worldbuilding and whether or not things like the letter I missing from every keyboard matters, and never got around to actually saying whether or not she liked the game. This is, I am finding, something of a common refrain.

Clearly not out of my way enough

Clearly a blogging system that got mostly out of my way so I could focus on blogging wasn’t quite good enough. It doesn’t quite help that I broke my setup with Windows for a bit – the newest version of Quartz requires a newer version of Node.js than we were using for work, so I ended up switching back to using Zoner, which has been a trip. That also means actual new posts aren’t getting posted for a bit because I’m not just reinventing the wheel, I’m finding entirely new ways to reinvent the reinventing machine.