DEMONIAC WORDS

An experimental vocabulary game. Its presentation is definitely unique, like if an even lower budget Killer7 decided to skip murder and teach english instead. To its benefit, the stylised simplicity of art and music in no way distract from [b]WORDS[/b]. While heavy emphasis is on those fluent in chinese and learning english, the format lends itself fine to the opposite, so my review is written from that perspective. The UI, story statements, and locations are bilingual. I didn't come across any questions on a timer, which frees you to learn at your own pace, take notes, add words to your decks, whatever. Questions themselves are contextual and repetitious in a way that requires you to pay attention, but without that feeling of just repeating something mindlessly. Of course questions that involve spelling english words you'll breeze through but you shouldn't, as often chinese synonyms are listed and called upon in later questions. Otherwise, you will probably want some foundational understanding of radicals if you wish to answer questions logically, without pure guessing. As of this writing, there are 12 chapters available. The first one I went through was relatively short, which is great because there is nothing more tiresome than being trapped in a long lesson where you don't know anything or you know everything and just went to get through. It also makes replays less tedious. At the end of each chapter, there are a handful of questions you must answer to unlock the next, which feels fair. Within the context of the story, your strength in answering these questions provides strength to the avatar of words, so you naturally want to do your best. You can save at any time during a chapter, but you can only load from the chapter display scene or within a chapter itself (not from the main menu), which can be confusing until you realise it. For 2$ and seemingly made by one person, obviously this isn't some full featured language learning program. Perhaps it is missing some basics you'd expect, like hovering over words for pronunciation, or hearing a word, or something similar, I'm not a mind reader. I believe the developer has a lot of ideas for future additions, but as the game is now, it's a curious and inexpensive supplement to any learning you're currently doing.