LogFAQs > #972912129

I slightttttly prefer The Witness over Outer Wilds, mostly just because The Witness is more replayable. They're basically neck and neck in my top 10 though.

Outer Wilds certainly has a better story...but, The Witness does get me thinking introspectively in other ways.

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Separately, I've had a question about Outer Wilds for a while, and I've been forgetting to ask people.

Is the Quantum Moon optional? Is it likely that many players beat the game without going there? I feel like yes, but I'm not sure.

If so, I kinda disagree with that design choice. I feel like that's a pretty big chunk of the game that you could "miss".

I mean, I get it: the point of the game is that you explore it because you WANT to, not because the game requires you to. ...But that's not entirely true--I mean, it DOES have an ending, and that ending DOES require you to go to a lot of specific places.

I need Mark Brown to make one of those key/door metroidvania diagrams for Outer Wilds.