Word Game

Finally gotten around to play it. You do need to know how to read mandarin and have a bit of understanding to tackle the puzzles but the game will always have a hint system and teaches you how to solve them if you are stuck. They do limit you so there are only one answer to all the puzzles though but it make sense... I have played many RPG games and becoming the hero is no new feat for me. However, when I was elevated to the rank of hero in this game, I was so touched by the whole thing lol For me, the story was great too, definitely worth a try!

The game has its geniuses and has its flaws. Overall probably a 7.5/10 and potentially can get into my 'good stuff' collection of games. Good: - The concept is intriguing and most of the wordplays are very smart. The core gameplay and the word construction / manipulation is very well done. - There are enough twists in the plot to keep me engaged. - It started as a classic JRPG-style-save-the-princess kind of story but made it very clear that itself is anti-norm. I'm actually quite happy with how the plot advanced and even though some story points lack logical integrity, it successfully conveyed the emotions that it wants to tell. - The level design, including the art / ui if you can call it that, is beautifully done. The CGIs are pretty as well and as someone who doesn't like twiddling my thumbs and doing nothing while watching CGIs, I was relatively happy with this one and didn't feel bored. Visual effects, especially at the last battle, is absolutely stunning. Flaws: - I think lots of people, including me, went in thinking that the game is going to be more like a chinese 'Baba is you' and expected a high degree of freedom of manipulation, and were heavily disappointed when they realise that the game is more like a single-storyline-point-and-click-JRPG. The puzzles appear more like 'problems to solve for the story to advance', rather than something you can play around with and 'break the game' with. Freedom is extremely limited and all the puzzles really only have one solution. I can see why this came out this way but I can also see why this can be disappointing. The levels that were designed weren't all perfect either - most of them were great, some not. - The writing is a little subpar. I understand that character choice / sentence length / word placements can be very limited due to puzzle design, but some of the writing are really just... so poorly written that you can see that the author butchered it just for the puzzle to work. I think the game really shines when the puzzles work when the writing matches 'effortlessly', if I can put it that way, and the occassional poor writings really just take you out and realise that the author has limits. If a puzzle don't work and you can't find out a way to make it nice, I'd rather just redo the puzzle... or at least refine the writing a bit better. - Characters in the main story are very poorly written and no-one has any character. It's hard to feel for any of them. I would say the death of a certain character is very well written and memorable, but we need more moments like this, more emotional attachments. The game is great overall. I can see why someone might be disappointed or felt that the story was subpar, but I think the game managed to focused on some key gameplay elements and some key emotional journeys very well. Some chapters might be more boring than others, and that's okay. This is not a perfect game but it's definitely made with passion and lots of effort and managed to get lots of things right.

This is the best game I have played on Stream as a vTuber in the past 3 years. Full of suprises, Full of plot twists, and full of creativitiy. basically CLS Makes me ultra proud of myself for being able to read traditional Chinese. CRAAAZYYYYY . CLS again. Must play if you are a gamer (somehow). Incredible.