![]() ![]() (You can’t play if you’re not Baba or something else, after all.) In these instances, the music cuts to silence, letting you sit with what you’ve done. For example, sinking Baba or breaking the sentence “Baba is You”, causes the game to freeze. One exception is when the player puts the game in a position where further play is impossible. For the most part, the audio does little to heighten the player’s experience with the game. Players may choose to mute the music entirely as they play - “play” often means staring at the screen in deep thought. ![]() There’s little variation when it comes to music in the game, causing it to become repetitive. Teikari wrote all the music himself, which shows. Where great puzzle games like The Witness draw from the complexities that 3D space can offer, Baba poses enough of a challenge in two dimensions. In the same vein, the game thrives in 2D. If Baba is You used more realistic graphics, it would be a distraction from what the game is all about. Especially when an adorable sheep-bunny thing is at the heart of it all. Part of Baba is You’s charm is its simple pixelated style with words that look as if a child wrote them. Now, Baba Is You invites you into a space where rewriting the game’s program (in simple and cute pixels) is part of the experience, and is also the key (or flag, or rock, or wall) to the solution. The programmed code of a game has always sat behind the screen, never to be read by the players. Some puzzles are solved by reworking “Baba is You” to be something like “Flag is You”, having you move around the map as the flag, leaving the Baba you were just moments ago immobile.īaba Is You is a refreshing take on the puzzle game genre. By rearranging or breaking these sentences, you can change the win/loss conditions. (Most consider Baba to be a sheep or a bunny.) To complete puzzles, you push around objects as well as word blocks that dictate each level’s rules. In most levels, you begin as Baba - a white entity of unknown species. While most games contain rules for the sake of containing gameplay, Baba Is You uses its rules as gameplay. In Baba Is You, rules are made to be broken. It was released in March 2019 on PC and Nintendo Switch and made its mobile debut on June 22, 2021, for iOS and Android devices. ![]() Baba Is You has 200 puzzles and was made using Multimedia Fusion 2. It was originally made for and won the 2017 Nordic Game Jam, and has won several more awards since then. Baba is You is a 2D, logic-driven indie puzzle game by Finnish developer, Arvi "Hemplui" Teikari. ![]()
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