00:00BigWalk is one of the best co-op puzzle games I've played, right up there with Portal 2's co-op
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00:05To fall in love with it, though, you'll need to gather a few friends who are willing to commit to
00:09around 10 to 12 hours of wandering around an island solving puzzles.
00:13And this is the crucial thing, using the in-game proximity voice or text chat only.
00:19No sitting in a Discord server allowed.
00:21BigWalk doesn't work unless you accept that you're going to wind up separated from your friends, bumbling around in the
00:27dark because you fell in a hole and dropped your walkie-talkie.
00:30It's a game about communication.
00:32Many of the puzzles will separate you from your friends in soundproof rooms, so that you have to get instructions
00:37only with arm signals.
00:39By the end of the game, my crew and I had developed our own crude sign language.
00:42And the ending, by the way, is great.
00:44But again, for it to work, you've got to commit to its premise.
00:48No alt-tabbing allowed.
00:50Great games ask something from us, and that's the ask from BigWalk.
00:54But it fully delivers.
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