Platforming: Mostly excellent. Sometimes certain platforms aren't quite there, and you fall through. Usually not a problem, as you've got infinite lives and the game puts you back on the last bit of solid ground you were on. There are a few timed jumping puzzles, but only one really got to me. I only beat that one through use of a "cheat" you may find while randomly pushing buttons.
Non-platforming puzzles: Outside the next section, there's one room with a "meta" puzzle. You can play for weeks before solving it, because that's how long it takes. You can speed that up, though, once you work out the solution. 
Cryptography: There are three character sets used in the game, one of which has multiple "dialects." All three have rooms intended to teach you the languages. The most obvious one is the last one I found, leaving me running through completed rooms looking for the others. I'd already worked that one out long before.
Two of the character sets are written as though the game were rotated counter-clockwise. The other... might not be.
Some of these puzzles are less than fair. One involves beating the game, playing again, writing down the codes from multiple rooms, and combining parts of those codes in different ways to solve the rooms involved. Another, which I finally had to research on the internet, has no legitimate in-game solution at all, and was solved by brute force well before anyone came up with a ludicrously convoluted explanation of how you might, given enough time and knowledge of the game's release date, get that solution. Since it's optional, and doesn't do anything but finish an "Easter egg" room, I left it undone. One room remains white on my map.
So, yeah. Good game. Flawed.
Someone (in a post deleted for undisclosed reasons) asked what I thought of the ending.
Of both the 100%+ and 200%+ endings, I'll say:
Strip away any pseudo-philosophical crap interpretation that might attach to them; they're just a series of pretty animations.
Edited by TriggerFin (09/25/13 10:24 AM)
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LOL. Thought you said Paz
