Chants of Sennaar

性感多邻国！ 美术音乐很顶的同时更是格局打开

fun little puzzle game, took me 7.6 hrs across 2 sessions to 100% complete, main story takes a bit less time, maybe 5.5-7 hrs depending on how you explore and how quickly you can finish the puzzles. the pathfinding and movement in general is the biggest downside. character will slow down around tight corners so you have to manually "smooth" out the path to keep top speed and sometimes its awkward to enter doors. A lesser issue is that the ui took a bit of getting used to, I found myself accidently closing menus I didn't want to close early on before getting used to the ui. I played on kb&m, so maybe these issues are not present on controller, which is supported according to the game tutorial. some neutral criticism: I wanted more "language puzzles" out off the game. it felt more like a "puzzle game about languages" than a "language puzzle" game if that makes sense. I can understand why they didn't want to lean in so heavily to the language aspect, and the present puzzle aspects are indeed fun, but if you're only interested in the game because it involves languages, just know that its first and foremost a puzzle game. lore and visuals are great, audio and music are okay but could be much, much better. a certain part of the game gave a headache trying to navigate but that is mostly a personal issue and also constrained to that one part of the game. 6.8/10, try the free demo if you're unsure

This is one of the most engaging cipher games and generally puzzle games I've ever played. The puzzles and the story have a nice flow to them, I never felt hard stuck and could always find a solution to a problem by exploring a bit more. The validation system in place for the glyphs is great, too! It prevents you from getting mired in mistakes you've made early in the game later on. When you've validated each glyph in a sentence, the sentence can be displayed in English, which is not only convenient but also makes it a bit more immersive, and it gives the people's speech some much appreciated tone. The languages are also surprisingly in depth! If you pay attention to detail, you can find patterns and make sense of unknown glyphs a bit easier, and it feels quite rewarding. It's not something I usually see in these games but it's a lovely touch! It doesn't feel too linear, either. I never had the sense that I was doing things out of order. Whenever I ran into something I didn't know what to do with or couldn't translate, it was easy to just come back later, and I never had to run back large stretches in order to retrieve something I missed. It's a very smooth and comfortable experience. As for critiques; Like many others it seems, I did not enjoy the stealth sections. As far as stealth gameplay goes it wasn't bad at all, I actually quite like it for what it is, but when opening Chants of Sennaar I feel like puzzling and unfolding the story, I don't feel like stealthing around. At least there are generous checkpoints so it's generally not too frustrating of an experience, and, for what it's worth, the stealth sections are largely front loaded. Personally I also would have liked to have a map on demand. I am rather directionally challenged and had the most success navigating the area that had maps on display on the wall. I spent a lot of time running around in the wrong direction trying to find something in particular. If you're better with directions than I am, however, this might not be an issue for you. All in all though I cannot recommend this game enough.

모든 층이 처음 도착 시 길이 어렵게 느껴지긴 함 하지만 큰 문제는 아님 필연적으로 쏘다니고 헤매기 때문에 극심한 길치가 아니면 자연스럽게 외워짐 하다 보면 자연스럽게 풀리는 구조지만 모든 퍼즐이 매끄럽게 진행되진 않음 일부 구간은 풀고 나서도 이게 맞나 싶음 전체적으로 크게 모난 곳 없이 잘 빠진 퍼즐 게임 저니, 인사이드, 모뉴먼츠 벨리 등 몽환적인 느낌 풍기는 퍼즐 게임을 재밌게 즐긴 경험이 있다면 높은 확률로 해당 게임도 취향에 맞을 것

Единственная на моей памяти игра полностью про лингвистику, КУ/10

太好玩辣！非常有创意的解密游戏，通关此游戏你将精通五门外语！追逐战有点难评，战士层的躲猫猫也是有点恶心在的，但是总体很好玩所以我还是推荐！通关时间比较长是因为我路痴+游戏理解奇异搞笑，感觉一半时间都在找路和查攻略了。。。以下剧透↓ 作为在现实中真的学了几门外语的人来说，这个真结局挺戳我的，前段时间也在自己搞翻译，用自己的知识打破语言的障碍，连接起沟通的桥梁，真是浪漫啊！

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