I am a huge impatient baby but ReWire is still good

One day I will learn some genre terminology, instead of clumsily describing puzzle games for several sentences. But not today! Today I am being not a professional critic but a loveable scamp. That's what they pay me for, probably.

Today it's time for ReWire, a mildly aggravating game lying somewhere between Pipe Mania and a tile-moving puzzle. It has a story, and you might expect me to bang on here about how it uplifts something modest, the power of narrative, and emotional investment. Perhaps I would, if I hadn't immediately started skipping the entire thing because it's so damn slow and I am going to die, we are all decaying mass, I feel myself age and wither and the dust gather in my mortal pores at every moment and oh my god, games, will you please, please let us skip to the next line of text at will.

It's a fun game, though.

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