Blue Prince: The Best & Worst of Puzzle Games 🎮

A video about obsession, game design, work-life-puzzle game balance, and why Fez’s monolith needs to answer for its crimes. And also Blue Prince is there.

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This video stood on the shoulders of many people who have already had very good opinions on this game. In the order they appear in the video:
@Electrondance does the best writing on puzzle games out there. The first article in the Black Prince series is here: https://www.electrondance.com/marmite-prince/
Grayson Morley, ‘Blue Prince is an obsession simulator’: https://www.backlogmag.com/blue-prince-is-an-obsession-simulator/
@Pentadact and @GMTK both made excellent critiques of this game, as I discuss in the vid.

Thank you to daveincamas from freesound and the Youtube channel Eli B, for sounds and footage that I used.

Music used in this episode:
The Roots Above - Trigg & Gusset
Eight in the Morning - Trigg & Gusset
Under the Blackbridge - Trigg & Gusset
Wake Up - Drew Redman
Lovely Arps - James Primate
The Notebooks - Morusque
Rikonium - Morusque
Secret Lab - Morusque
Relics of Comradery - Lifeformed and Janice Kwan
Secrets - David Fenn
The Museum - Andrew Prahlow
Simon's Theme - Trigg & Gusset

Intro (0:00)
No Spoilers (03:17)
Spoilers (43:12)