For all of its gorgeous visual wrapping paper and kind of pretentious presentation, The Witness is an amazingly engaging and intelligent puzzle game, nothing more. Not that it needs to be anything more, the game takes its very simple line-based puzzles as far as the concept can be stretched and is constantly fascinating. The puzzles are so smartly designed, filling the game with the kind of "fuck I'm a genius" moments you'd want from it. The puzzles are so inventive, that to describe them in too much detail would be doing them and you a disservice, the game is all about discovery. The odd puzzle here and there is a little unintuitive, and though the completion of the puzzles (especially some of the more bizarre and creative ones) is a reward in itself, it would have been nice if the game offered a little more in the way of a material reward for progress in the optional puzzles. But the game is amazing. If you're in the market for a pure puzzle game, this is the one.
