Feature Articles
Tuesday5th Mar 2019
Soapbox I Should've Scored The Witness 10/10
Stephen reflects on his original 9/10 review
There comes a point in any reviewer's writing career where they'll wish they'd scored something differently. Personally, there are a handful of games I've tackled for Push Square over the years which deserve higher or lower scores than I gave them. I won't be going through all of them here, although let's...
Monday26th Dec 2016
Game of the Year 2016 #7 - The Witness
Blown away
If there was an annual award for 'Game Most Often Judged by Cover', The Witness would take it this year, hands down. Written off by many as "that game that's just about drawing lines", Jonathan Blow's long-delayed successor to Braid is, and has always been, about more than what's on the surface. Sure, your only real interaction with the...
Sunday31st Jan 2016
Soapbox The Witness on PS4 Is a Special Kind of Brilliant
Seeing things differently
There are puzzle games, and then there is The Witness. As those of you that have spoken to me over the past few days will know, I wasn't convinced that Jonathan Blow's long-awaited magnum opus was going to be for me. I hated predecessor Braid with a passion, for starters – but all of this chatter about mind-numbing...
Monday25th Jan 2016
Round Up Witness the Reviews for The Witness on PS4
That headline sounded better in our head
The Witness is here. After approximately eight years of development, a budget bigger than every cent earned by Braid, and a press campaign that included rocking up at the PlayStation 4's reveal event, Jonathan Blow has finally put the lid on his 80 hour puzzler. But is it any good? Well, we don't know,...
