Noita

Okay. I know. Hear me out.rnIf you don’t know, Noita is a game infamous for being extremely difficult, obtuse, and vague. When you start the game you are shown the essentials controls needed to move around and use your wands. That’s it. You are not told how to parse all of the wands stats. You are not told what your goals are. You are not told about the danger that lies ahead. Nothing.rnrnAnd that’s the beauty of it.rnrnThrough experimentation you will discover how wands work. What you can and cannot get away with. Enemy behaviors. How to progress. What the shop is like and much more. As you experiment you may discover mechanics the game never told you about. That sense of discovery will fill you with a sense of wonder and intrigue that no other game can give you.rnrnNoita’s mechanics are so in-depth you could write a book on how the wands and spells work in this game. Now you will truly know how it feels to be a wizard trying to master their spells. Conquer the undiscovered laws of alchemy. Bend the laws of reality to your will.rnHowever, Noita is a cruel mistress. This roguelike is not shy about annihilating you over the tiniest knowledge check or mistake. You will get combo’d and die. You will blow up after some zany magic Rube Goldberg machine. You will find and item and somehow it will kill you.rnrnBut everything happens for a reason. Each death is knowledge. I need you to understand how amazing it feels to apply the knowledge gained into utilizing a spell to your advantage. You will find out how to uncover paths you have never went down before. An enemy that originally gave you a ton of trouble is now one that can be exploited for your gain. A discovery that once killed you will now be understood and you can use its power to your advantage.rnrnYes, the game is brutal. It will beat you down and laugh at your demise, but each time you manage to weave around its punches is nothing short of euphoria.rnrnPlease, please don’t use a wiki. Play the game until you reach the credits, and play it more afterwards to discover its secrets. It WILL be obtuse and you may even need a notebook to keep up with the amount of nonsense it’ll throw at you, but figuring it out for yourself is an amazing feeling that will get taken away from you the moment you look up how something works, any strategies, and the sense of discovery. There is an absurd amount of hidden things to find in the game. Trust me on this.rnrnIf you can’t stomach the huge difficulty of Noita, or the obtuse puzzles that WILL require some note taking, then I concede. Fine. Open up the wiki and spoil it for yourself. Otherwise. PLAY IT BLIND!rnrnNow I need to get back to trying to swim through lava.