BABA IS YOU
EDITOR’S NOTE: IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE, OUR lONGTIME GAME REVIEWER THOMAS L. McDONALD REVIEWED THE ELECTRONIC PUZZLE GAME BABA IS YOU, WHICH WAS RECENTLY RELEASED ON MOBILE PLATFORMS. McDONALD GAVE THE GAME AN "A" RATING FOR ITS DEPTH AND ORIGINALITY. HERE, NEW CONTRIBUTOR DILLON FORNEY, ANOTHER FAN OF THE GAME, DISCUSSES ITS MECHANICS IN MORE DETAIL.
Baba Is You is a single-player puzzle game where you make the rules with what you’re given. You start as a little creature named Baba, but you don’t have to be Baba all the time. You could be a flag, a rock, water, text, a conveyer belt—anything the game gives you. The main goal in each level is to win by standing on top of a tile with an item that has the win condition. It could be a flag, a rock, water, text, a conveyer belt—even Baba could be the winning item. There are additional rules in the game; for example, STOP prevents you from walking on a tile with the item marked with STOP. It could be a flag, a rock, blah blah blah—even Baba could stop you. Now, you may be wondering, “What do you mean anything could be
