I loved blue prince until I hated it.

[shane.cummings]

I've played over a hundred runs at this point. I got the normal ending on day 8. After that I still loved doing runs and finding little things each day that felt like progress. It was exciting and even the repeating puzzles were fun.

I looked up my first hint to a puzzle on day 80. And every time that I've looked something up I'm like "There is no way I would have figured that out." Some of it is missing very small details, but mostly it is that my brain just doesn't think that way. Some of the later puzzles just want you to think about something in a very specific way and without much if any guidance and none that tries to put it in a different perspective.

I'm about 120 hours in and I'm ready to give up. I don't like games where I have to look up the answers outside of the game to make further progress and the 2 or 3 puzzles that I've had to do that with have shown me that I wouldn't have gotten them no matter how many runs I would have done.

At this point I wish I had just watched someone else play the game and with a community behind them to group think their way through this.