Hints and walkthroughs for larger puzzle games?

[rovarsson]

@kamineko

I really want to push back against the idea that immersion is always a design goal, and that immersion is always better. I hardly every forget that I’m playing an interactive fiction game on my laptop.

This is partly what I was getting at in the intro to my review of Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth.

@rovarsson

After the glorious decades of stitching an IF game tighter to narrative and plot, imposing unwritten (and written, cf the bill of rights) rules from the story-telling plane on IF pieces, there has been a resurgence of the game-for-the-sake-of-the-game.

More games with directly mimesis-breaking mechanics and properties like learn-by-dying, replay to optimise your turn-count,…
I welcome this. Through the past few decades, “immersion” had taken on somewhat of a “Holy Grail”-halo. An often referenced, valiantly sought after, but ultimately seldomly if ever attained ideal.
A concept that should never have been promoted to ideal in the first place.