News You Can Bruise for 2002 February 20 (entry 1)

Wed Feb 20 2002 10:34: Wow, Degeneracy got an XYZZY nomination for Best Puzzles. I don't think it deserves it, though, and I say that without having played any of the other games. As I argue in my postmortem, the actual puzzles are either based on vague ideas or are standard adventure game puzzles that trick you by looking like completely different standard adventure game puzzles (a good idea, but probably not the best one of the year).

Of course, the real puzzle is just figuring out what is going on, so maybe that's what they meant.