These puzzles make engineers look stupid... Baba Is You!

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

Notice that while turning "BABA is YOU" into "BABA is [x]" renders you powerless, turning it into "[x] is YOU" doesn't. YOU are the active player, not BABA... It just turns out that, most of the time, BABA is YOU.

[@lucasc8972]

This is shown in the second level, where WALL IS YOU

[@FuriousMaximum]

[Spoilers For Lake Extra Level 1] In lake extra-1 we complete the stage by making both baba and rock is you

[@BobBobson]

BABA is WIN

[@dazenith4517]

The game while first introducing things the way we expect them to work. Constantly afterwards wants you to abandon your preconceptions about how you think they work and instead think how they should work to win each level. It really taxes your mind to rethink every level what each object should be. Fun and tiring.

[@axiezimmah]

@@BobBobson baba is win only works if baba is you as well. Or if you are on top of baba

[@unifirstuniverse2418]

I like how he reads "Key is open", pushes the key, reads "key is push", then double checks that he can push the key.

[@philtorpey]

I enjoy that you pronounce “defeat” as “death”.

[@alessondf]

I had to go back to the video to check, all this time I was reading death

[@phantomy2034]

That misconception seems more common than I originally thought. I heard somewhere that originally it was going to be "death" instead "defeat", but it was changed to sound less harsh. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. Regardless, all you need to know is that if something has that parameter, it's bad for whatever "you" are in the level.

[@sussybrudda7967]

death is baba

[@phantomy2034]

@@sussybrudda7967 Actually, that's a rule in a later level; "Baba is defeat". You're something else, but if you try to become Baba, you die. So for that level, you _can't_ be Baba.

[@sussybrudda7967]

baba is death

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

This game is super literal. When it says Baba is you, it means literally sprites that are Baba is You. When you say Baba is Rock, Baba sprites become rock sprites, they are no longer Baba and therefore Baba is you (but there is only rock). Shut and Open are basically words that mean that whenever an object that is shut meets an object that is open, both are destroyed.

[@henke37]

Also, Open objects are allowed to enter Shut objects, despite the Shut object being Stop.

[@angelinasommeil]

@Skyler Shaneyfelt it would destroy itself

[@lilyofluck371]

@Skyler Shaneyfelt it would just X out.

[@phantomy2034]

@Skyler Shaneyfelt The object would just end up destroying itself.

[@felixma9192]

@Skyler Shaneyfelt some levels will make use of this interaction later into the game

[@sebastianriis2873]

Im an engineer myself and my brain collapesed at the "Poem" even tho im have been an engineer for 20 years... There is no way im not playing this game, looks fun and sounds fun. Love your videos and keep doing the good work.

[@HaiderRubixnMore]

Www

[@CanadaPlayz48]

"Rose is red, Violet is blue, Flag is win and Baba is you." - RCE the Poet

[@tikmasd]

This game makes me feel drunk and nauseous, love it

[@BobBigWheels]

That's strange, this game makes me feel drunk with power!

[@tikmasd]

@@BobBigWheels Programming is playing god, creating a world, that follows the rules of the creator.

[@BobBigWheels]

I'm a bad programmer, does that make me a bad god?

[@tikmasd]

@@BobBigWheels Just makes the bugs more fun

[@BobBigWheels]

*Features more fun

[@ayushkumar-dh7ef]

I was thinking about Baba is engineer today Thank you Matt.

[@hsunk]

How long will it take until he sees that it says DEFEAT instead of DEATH?

[@SimonSideburns]

I'm sure he reads comments and has seen people, including me mentioning it, but I'm sure he now does it just to cause us to comment on the videos, and guess what, it's working. Here we are all debating it again 🙂.

[@duanejohnston8982]

😂

[@LofferLogge]

Everyone I've seen play this game (including me) has made that mistake. It probably says something about how we process words, or something.

[@LoPhatKao]

he's british, so uses meters instead of defeat ;)

[@phantomy2034]

@@LofferLogge I didn't, but I can understand the "confusion" here.

[@kzagon]

This is an amazing concept! Cant believe I didn't know about this game. Now I see why logic circuits are difficult for people.

[@FUGP72]

Being an engineer myself, I know that colleges didn't make engineering students take a lot of English related courses...but D-E-F-E-A-T does not spell DEATH.

[@mikespiehs8860]

Bro people say things different than they read on purpose all the time. It doesn't really matter too because in the game, they mean the same thing

[@alexsdailydive]

No defeat means giving up or someone getting too hurt that they leave

[@FUGP72]

@@mikespiehs8860 Uhhhh...no. I know you are an idiot...but you can't be THAT big of an idiot. So...in your fantasyworld that you live in to hide from the loneliness of the real world for you, you think he went through the entire 15 1/2 minute video saying EVERY SINGLE OTHER WORD IN THE GAME right...but made the conscious decision to say ONE word wrong on purpose? Wow...it really is true that KZbin fanboy incels are pathetic. I made a joking comment about his misreading a word and you get SO upset that you felt you had to come to his rescue. Sad. Also...I am not your bro. Seriously, you have SO MUCH going against you already in life. Don't also be the guy who says "bro" a lot. You should NEVER give up trying to lose your virginity. No matter how hopeless it may be in your case.

[@icyprocyon]

"This a weird game, you complete a level and don't really know why, and you're like 'do I feel better about myself or worse?'" this is software development in a nutshell

[@creepy99]

"These puzzles make engineers look stupid" "Like that's hard..." --probably some architect

[@tkfaf15]

I love watching you play this because most levels have more than once way to solve them & half the time your solution is different than mine.

[@synthomuito]

i like how if we didnt watch the last episode it would look like you are actually smart with how good you started

[@lonelyPorterCH]

a very cool game, still on my wishlist, because for almost every game I buy, I wait until its at least 50% discounted^^ (I have a big enough backlog of items, so its no problem to wait)

[@dutcherrct3]

I don't think this particular game will ever be 50% discounted. It is already relatively cheap, it's actively maintained by a very small team and they devote 10% of the revenue of the game to charity (as it says on the title screen). I had this game on my wishlist for a very long time and I don't believe I've ever seen it discounted in a steam sale. That said, I do suggest you don't buy this game because it will definitely cause you headaches ;)

[@mcawesome9705]

I'm going to take this as an opportunity to continue explaining some of the rules in this game. Individual nouns are not going to be explained; every non-special noun behaves in the exact same way. Everything below is a Property unless explicitly stated otherwise. OPEN and SHUT - If an object that is OPEN occupies the same tile as an object that is SHUT, both are destroyed. This includes itself. [Colour] - Changes the object's colour to match. FLOAT - If an object is FLOAT, it will not be affected by an object that is OPEN, SHUT, SINK, HOT, DEFEAT, WIN, unless it is also FLOAT, and vice versa.

[@TrueNargin]

The key to this game is to let go of the properties of objects we know. It's actually very logical - there are objects like Baba, rock, key and so on. Then there's connectors like "is" for example. And finally, the third block type gives the objects properties. Whenever you encounter a new block if it's an object you don't care because it doesn't matter what object you have in this game but if it's one of the other two your goal is to figure out exactly what it does so for example SHUT means that this object can be erased with another object that has the OPEN property (erasing it in the process as well), PUSH gives the object collision and makes it pushable, YOU means the player can control the object and so on and so forth.

[@ryancallahan1441]

Super auto pets looks different.

[@zocorzwiftshot]

I don't remember but i think this looks a bit off?

[@lonelybaya1636]

i think he using darkmode this time

[@beforelifewaschaos]

Please, more from that game! Because i love -to see you suffer- to see you having fun and enjoying yourself :)

[@ollllj]

you solve this game, by solving the puzzles in reverse, because they where all designed "in reverse"

[@gabrielgavrilas5712]

As a computer scientist I feel like Matt does here every day in my job 😂😂

[@Delaterius]

It would be computer science if one time, BABA IS YOU didn't make Baba you, and the game made you go through all of the levels over again looking for the reason that BABA IS YOU didn't work this time, but you can't find the reason so you take a break, come back, question your life, go through all of the levels again and find out that there's an IS in one of the levels that's actually lS, and even though there's no way this could possibly have any effect on the current level, you fix it anyway, and everything works now, and you go in a closet and cry.

[@gabrielgavrilas5712]

@@Delaterius 🤣🤣 perfect

[@andrii_dutko]

​@@Delaterius Imagine a challenge mode where the levels where like nested functions, and the states were global. So each time you end the level, you start the next with the global states and the staff you've passed down.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@DelateriusThere’s an IS that’s IS?

[@michaelwagner6877]

This is fantastic, I definitely want to see more

[@mme725]

Ah yes, Babber is you. My favorite logic puzzle. Lol

[@Skauri]

I love Matt just melting his brain trying to get to the end. RCE is Win

[@therookiegamer2727]

thumbnail really emphasizes title because: 1. engineer is a rule block and dumb is a name block. 2. it is displayed as (Rule)(Connection)(label) which is not how the game works

[@enderguardian7443]

dumb is engineer

[@felixma9192]

BABA FEELING ENGINEER IS DUMB

[@justinwhite2725]

2:52 open is a verb only in this context, not an adjective. Something that 'is open' deletes something that 'is shut'

[@Zraupp10]

@8:40 moved the flag out and change back to the jelly to move the flag up to get in

[@phantomy2034]

There's no point in doing that. You can't win with the flag if it's push or stop, because both stop you from overlapping with the flag. Also, you can't turn the flag into anything else, as he demonstrated (7:42-7:52), because of "flag is flag" and it's behind a wall which can't be moved (due to "wall is stop", which is down in the corner, thus this can't be altered either), so this can't be altered.

[@unu9651]

9:22 "Baba is open. Does that mean I can open this door? Yes, but now I don't exist. Interesting." 10:29 "So if I'm not a crab, I don't exist." 11:13 "Yes! Yes! So now it doesn't matter if we're a crab, because it can't happen."

[@seanshepherd1071]

I cannot wait to watch Matt try and tackle some of the later (FAR MORE ABSTRACT) levels of this game.

[@cheyenneminten9384]

This is exactly the same as me in coding class. I don't understand how I did it but I did. Or I just can't get it and then I wonder why I need this class for graphic design😂

[@ke6gwf]

Reminds me a lot of programming PLCs where you basically drag and drop logic functions into place like this, and on industrial automation, there is always the possibility of instant death if you choose wrong!

[@MattGriffiths81]

We're all aware it says DEFEAT and not DEATH right? Because I spent the first week playing this reading DEATH too 😂 (p.s. you missed level [ : ] at 12:54 ) Loving the series. Thanks Matt. From Matt. Who is also an engineer. Just not a civil one. Not that I'm not civil. I am, just not a civil engineer. 💜

[@kailomonkey]

WALL IS SHUT MATT! WALL IS SHUT!!! "Wall is shut? Naw that's bullocks, oh!"

[@abcdefgcdefg5178]

I have literally downloaded every game I have seen Matt play and they are all great, more developers should sponser him

[@LuigiP3000]

Probably one of, if not my favorite game you play through!

[@aaaab384]

I love the title. You don't need to buy a puzzle game to make engineers look stupid; it's actually a fairly trivial task. If you want to make an engineer look stupid, just take any mathematical concept he talks about all the time and ask him for its definition, or take any theorem he can't stop mentioning every time he opens his mouth and ask him for its mathematical proof.

[@caseygreyson4178]

8:45 another solution would have been to move the second baba (the one at the bottom) to push the flag without having it be stuck

[@phantomy2034]

There's a problem with your "solution": True as that may be, you can't touch the flag to win unless you break the "flag is stop" and "flag is push" parameters. Both of these stop you from interacting with the flag to win. Also, you can't make "Baba Is Win", due to it being stuck against the wall, you also can't turn the flag into a jelly because of "Flag Is Flag" and it's stuck behind a wall.

[@alexolas1246]

“I don’t want to be a jelly baby with leg” I AM DEFEAT 😭

[@FloofyFella]

“Rock is Rock” Gives “The floor is made of floor” vibes

[@kathyjohnson2043]

I love watching people (try) to play Baba is You. I really hope you will try Minecraft again. I would love to see what you could create, especially with red dust circuits.

[@phantomy2034]

I myself haven't really used "redstone" yet, but I've only recently started playing Minecraft...

[@kingdweeb5065]

Love this series! Hope you manage to find the time to stick with it, so nice to see someone struggle as much as I did with these levels 😄

[@doomed_outt]

i like how sprites are just sprites and not what they seem like, BABA is a sprite and DOOR is a sprite and WALL etc. it doesnt matter what they seem like they are sprite A sprite B sprite C and i love it

[@phantomy2034]

I'm seeing a lot of the same type of comments, but I'd like to address one of them: Jelly Throne (level 11): "flag is jelly" does not work due to "flag is flag". See 7:42-7:52.

[@MrNathansamson]

"I don't know how or why I finished this level" Well for the ad revenue mostly if I have to guess :)

[@fonze5664]

Love seeing you play this game, you're doing great! I hope you continue to see it through to the end!

[@andrii_dutko]

I totally love how there's like 3+ possible solutions on most of these levels.

[@morganpresley496]

i'm shocked you didn't make a "brain is jelly" joke on that level lol

[@drunkduck2485]

Yay essentially any item that is named baba is you so you could be like the Brooklyn bridge

[@itz_daniel7144]

The only game where it somehow makes no sense and sense to say “Oh so I can’t win? Shut up I’m a wall now.”

[@tun1p]

This game breaks my head.

[@rikschaaf]

0:03 There is no R in Baba is You :P

[@leahswett9805]

Just when I think I’m understanding this game I loose it again. Baba is you is confused…

[@olasdorosdiliusimilius2174]

It would actually be Baba is you is confused

[@pkmnjourney]

Please make more videos of this. I love the way you approach this game.

[@MaiseNow]

Matt continuously turning himself into Crab is the newest form of carcinization (aka the evolution thing where different creatures keep reinventing the crab)

[@baystated]

"DEFEAT" Matt: Death. Also Matt: Matt-sounds Bay cannot unhear.

[@phantomy2034]

It can't be helped given what the parameter does... I've seen several people make that "mistake".

[@nwunder]

In case it helps, pushing open into shut destroys both. beither applies to specifically a key or a door. which is why you were able to make wall shut then use star (which was open) to destroy it notably, both are destroyed. so you could technically push shut into open for the same effect

[@AlexanderS.Fraser]

15:09 RCE didn't notice the Strongest shape

[@Greggorto]

“I don’t want to be a Jelly Bean with legs.” Among Us & Fall Guys fandoms: *Confused Screaming*

[@peterpeladon]

Wonderful work so far! You can do it, despite the challenge! Can't wait to see more.

[@pacoroszelmusic55]

please more! i love this game and watching someone else struggle makes me feel so much better about how bad i am at the game

[@dragonmaster1500]

7:15 Huh, I never thought of turning the key into a door. I always tried to make it so that the phrase was "Key is You". Nice out of the box thinking.

[@phantomy2034]

This is the first time I ever saw someone do that in particular to solve that level!

[@Firefly256]

I’ve thought of key is shut so the key would be simultaneously open and shut thus destroying itself

[@phantomy2034]

@@Firefly256 I saw someone do that recently and was surprised that it worked! I didn't think of that either!

[@RyluRocky]

14:57 He just summed up every programmers life.

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

Omg that solution to Two Doors was so different from what I did and I love it

[@claire7004]

This is one of my favourite games you play just because of how absolutely mind fucky this gets in the dumbest way

[@lamb-mz2sd]

This game breaks so many pre-established concept that it really feels like brain melting when playing.

[@I-Need-Therapy-Now]

“I don’t want to be a jelly babe with legs!”

[@sergeyk9060]

Booshing that like button because i want RCE to suffer and admit that defeat is not death

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

Football team loses, the board: "Well, you know what happens now."

[@therookiegamer2727]

4:30 yep. baba is you is win

[@Idoexist._.]

I love how engineer instead of using normal route, breaks entire level

[@AuzIka]

Me as programmer Program failed : " why it is failed?" Program success : "why it is success?"

[@steelratgoestogym]

Hey RCE, just thikning you might like The Swapper - another cool and atmospheric puzzle game, a bit old, but I loved it. And thank you for showing us some really nice games. :) I haven't been playing for quite a while, but you made me remember the joy of it, so it's the second game I'm buying (and actually playing, which is not always the case, lol) since I've started following you a couple of month ago. The first choice was inspired by Timberborneeers! :D

[@MatildaHinanawi]

Please do play more of this! It's great to see and it's such a good game.

[@larsthestorf5630]

Yeeeeyy another Episode of Baba is You. With the last one i got hooked and you make me buy the game immediately

[@axiezimmah]

I think that wasn't the "intended" way to beat level 10. It's definitely fun to watch because your solutions are really creative

[@phantomy2034]

That was definitely a new one, I'll say!

[@Firefly256]

Really there’s no intended way in baba is you

[@10bd1]

Just FYI, the words that are square with the letters being hollow have to appear after the “is”. Can’t have them before. Other words can go on either side of “is”

[@olivercooksey2243]

I feel like you’d enjoy Turing complete, about making a computer through logic and circuits

[@DarthZ01]

Idk how you have so much trouble, it's all about variable definition. Items defined as you can be controlled. You win when one item defined as you intersects an item defined as win. You lose when no item defined as you exists. Most other words define various cases where objects stop existing or how they can/can't be moved. It's about determining what functions you have and how they can move/delete items so that you can intersect win.

[@Lamrock93]

Crab storage was the first one that really stumped me

[@BlackSoap361]

I feel like this is the sort of game that would give me bizarre dreams.

[@noobhero6661]

Yes RCE, the difficulty is all over the place, but you don’t need to complete all the levels in an area to progress. Tho with that said, it is hard to not do all the levels.

[@jakobchristensen4511]

It's actually super easy, barely an inconvinience - You just try and then you give up when your brain is melted.

[@zefree3239]

i wanna see a full play through honestly

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Ive always had an easy time with puzzles. And baba is you is the hardest puzzles ive ever played.

[@vyas3028]

You should try Factorio. You can spend a year on it and not realise the time passing by. The perfect engineering game.

[@timehunter9467]

“Talking bollocks” made me laugh for some reason, can’t get any more British. We say such weird things. Well, we talk bollocks 🤦‍♂️

[@juliusgodinez1987]

Mat @5:12 "hello there buddy I'm Mr Jellybean what's your name?"

[@lexkeister]

7:20 that is literally the hardest solution you could have e gone for 😬

[@phantomy2034]

Actually, that's pretty clever. That's the first time I've ever seen that solution and I wouldn't have thought to try that.

[@ReySilverskin]

Remember, despite what the title of the game says, BABA is not always YOU

[@kalicrowamusic3315]

Awe yay more levels!!!! Always love seeing these

[@CMF412]

This game has some amazingly complex secret levels

[@borischan5252]

Architect is You

[@snipermagoo]

I like it because it makes you feel stupid, rather than feeling that the game is too hard.

[@reubenmckay]

I look forward to part three

[@drive_6665]

RCE be like: BRAIN is MUSH

[@link_team3855]

"Think like excel, like the if formula' The if-then-else you just described half of all coding structure. the other half is loops. (While, for, untill, ect)

[@GuitaristJeimuzu]

"Wall is Death" It's DEFEAT! AAAAGGGGHHHH

[@ace_falken5362]

Baba is you series from RCE??? Yes please

[@michasokoowski6651]

1:23 DUDE, you just pushed another key... like 5 seconds ago...

[@siwakorn2408]

i like how you say "death" instead of "defeat"

[@undeadboyoexe6268]

my brain is perfectly wired for this game and it's interesting to see how other people think, it's cool