Chants of Sennaar, where do i begin?
An awmazing language baced puzzel game with a uniqe gamplay loop, beautifull vissuals and a soundtrack that filles the soul!
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Score: 4/4
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In this game you take up the role of a mysterius figure that does not understan the language of the people you meet, in an atempt to climb the tower (Im guessing it is called Sennaar). You will have to uncover the meaning of the languages you meet along the way, in a heart warming experiance about the importance about talking and understanding one and other.
The areas that you walk through are destinct both visualy and culturaly (it is the only word i know to describe it). It is an awmazing vissual experiance with a clear artistic direction. Paired with the camera work, it frames the journy up the tower, showing scale and grandgure. It has a hint of biblical insperation regarding the tower of Babylon, but exept for the concept it is a compleatly uniqe experiance.
The sound track composed by Thomas Brunet is beond perfect! I have no other words to describe it, it speaks for it self and i can not recomend it enugh. I would put it up there with The Outer wilds soundtrack; personaly i prefer the Chants of Sennaar soundtrack a smidge more.
The puzzels are wonderfull and as a person how loves puzzel games and grew up playing them (Marsinarium, Botanicula, The Journey Down and more), I can say comfortably that this is a uniqe and worthwile experiance! My only critice is that som times the translation puzzels are a bit unclear; a type of puzzel when you get a set of drawings that and match them with a "unknown" word and then get the translation if you matched the set correctly. In these puzzels i somtimes found it difficult recognicing what the drawing was depicting.
For me this was a game about how important it is to try and understand one and other. How only when we are not scared and dugemental about people we do not understand are we able to see people for who they realy are. How important it is to talk and comunicate.
I almost never 100% a game, for this game i think it is a wonderfull experiance (and not frustrating at all, no realy I'm serius). This is a game I think everyone should play at some point in thier life, and i do not say that often!
Best regards!
