Gorogoa is incredible. The puzzles feels intuitive and satisfying, but the best part is how the puzzle solving connects with the storytelling in a way that's more than just theming. (No spoilers, but in case you want to go in fresh) The story is incredibly vague, but leaves you with enough that you occasionally feel like you have a grasp of something even if it's not necessarily a sequence of events, which is not unlike the act of sliding disparate pictures around looking for patterns that feel natural yet accidental. You create brief moments of coherence enough to progress, but instantly tear them apart into new configurations. The pictures seem to span a long history, but the way you manipulate them collapses time, and defies causality. In one motion, you're solving a puzzle and creating order, while simultaneously feeling like you're running along with its free associative dream logic. Crucially, it doesn't ever explain itself, leaving you with symbols and motifs that exist mostly in glimpses I'm going to have to play it a second time focusing on the story now that I know the puzzle solutions. ---
