My idea is the one that I wrote in the review: games must be intellectually stimulating, but we must remember the First Commandment of Billy Wilder: Thou shalt not bore. They are games, not books. Books can be boring, because they are not meant primarily for fun. You can still enjoy a boring book, because fun in books is a plus. Fun in games, on the other hand, is a must. If a game is not fun, it can’t stimulate your intellect.

To me, IF authors must write as if they were feeding a baby. You don’t tell a baby: eat your spinach, they’re good for your health. You tell him: Here comes the plane! And the goal is that they eat and enjoy eating what’s good for them, not necessarily that they know all the facts about what they put in their mouths. If they’re interested, they will learn about it eventually. And that’s what I liked about Book and Volume. It respects the player’s freedom to think about the game or to just enjoy it. And when you think about it, it turns out it is a very good game and you enjoy it even more. Savoir Faire makes me feel like the author is constantly telling me: Look at how great an author I am! And that bores me. The case of Varicella is different, because I enjoy all other Adam’s games. I just dislike this one.

Wow. I don’t know which of “aburridos” or “excesivamente literarios” is least apt of a description of Varicella and Savoir Faire. (I could, certainly, have failed to translate the meaning of that sentence correctly.)