So I think this might be the most hours I've put in to something that I really ended up just hating.
But I think that may have been the point of the game.

Hear me out.
You know how Andy Kaufman wanted to put static into a TV broadcast cause he thought it would be funny to screw with the audience? I think this is a video game of that.
I'm embarrassed it took me so long to catch on, but it boils the frog slowly and lulls you into thinking it's being clever.
It didn't realise this was the case until I found myself "solving" a "puzzle" by literally standing locked in place, listening to an annoyingly pretentious narrator talking about how he used to work at radio shack and realising I would have to stand there for about an hour of him doing this until the moment the "puzzle's" solution became valid.
At that moment I was like "Oh... I'm the butt of the joke. I'm being f***ed with," and I stopped the puzzle, closed the game, and realised I'd been the butt of the joke for over 50 hours.

I don't know if I should be mad at the game for messing with me or if I should respect it for doing such a good job. Either way, I feel stupid for letting myself be duped. Kind of that feeling you get when you're stuck on a puzzle for a long time and then notice something super obvious that makes it trivial, but on a huge scale.

Anyway, I wouldn't recommend playing this game. Zero stars, or maybe five stars.

The problem with the idea of "auteurs" is that no one tells them "no." I loved Braid, but I'm indifferent to the Witness. It's a game with lots of mechanics where you aren't shown the ropes. Or where the exciting mechanic is... visual impairment. Wow. I can feel the intelligence. I might keep playing to see if I change my mind. For another incredible puzzle game, check out Linelight. Beyond underrated.

raised my IQ