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Not how language works, not how translation works, too many leaps of logic necessary. Terrible font for the English text, unreadable. 0/10 try again

打完了，想法是很好的，也比较硬核，但是： 1.最大的问题：不像是游戏，该有的反馈都没有。猜对还是猜错？不知道。单个字符还好，词汇大多数只能靠蒙，你也不知道蒙得对不对，毫无玩下去的欲望。甚至最后打开宝盒就只是打开而已，然后呢？有什么意义？没有。没有炫酷的动画和新剧情，只是打开了而已。 2.可能是有人玩完了巴别塔圣歌决定入手，但是巴别塔圣歌是将语言融入对话、场景，理解难度远比这个游戏低。这部更接近现实里破译死语言的感觉，难度是有的。 3.作者交不起电费吗，暗色背景+黑色文物是几个意思？语言学解密真就只看字是吧。 4.非得给那两封信写花体吗？ 5.一个我认为很奇怪的点：一个表音文字居然是靠词汇上方的符号表示词性？不觉得很奇怪吗。哪怕是给提示也太格格不入了 如果你能忍受以上几点，并且真的对语言学感兴趣，那就来玩吧，反正原价就挺便宜了，打折更便宜。

There might be a great game here, but I could not find it. Maybe I am not the audience, but after playing several other games about language and getting this one recommended I decided to try it. I could not figure out how to start on the puzzles, and after reading the guides I see that it requires you to make some assumptions that are really not justified. Just get Chants of Sennar instead, it is a so much better game.

This could have been good. *sigh* Ok. Look. The premise is good, some bits are great, I had the occasional puzzle revelation while playing. But on the whole it left me very frustrated. I shouldn't even care so much about the weaknesses of a game that sells for so cheap, but it *could have been good*. * First of all, you can't zoom in as far as you want to, and you can't scroll left and right when looking at artifacts. That makes some bits of the text hard to read, which in this game is pretty inexcusable. * You have to press 'Enter' every time you type in a solution (transliteration/translation) for a character or word. This is such a small thing, but it's the only time I need to take my right hand off the mouse. It's awkward every time, and it happens a lot. It should save what you type as soon as you click away with the mouse. * You can only look at one face of one artifact at a time, unless you take screenshots. Fine, that's just a minor annoyance, but given that the game tries to help you in other ways (like highlighting every appearance of a character or word on the screen), it's just unhelpful. You can't move the notes around on the screen, either. * The game intentionally allows and provides multiple interpretations of transliteration, but the 100% achievement demands a specific one. * The game lets you fill in solutions (transliterations or translations) for characters and words, then populates every appearance of those characters and words with your solutions. Seems helpful, except that the "words" you write answers for aren't semantically complete, so they have different meanings in different places. There should have been an option to write solutions for the semantically complete units (if not units of arbitrary sizes, which you select yourselves). * Some words don't have enough information to be translated. They have solutions, which are logical, but it's pure guesswork. * The language just... feels off? Like, I don't want an actually realistic language (too complicated), but it would be nice to have one that *felt* realistic, you know? I'm not a linguist, other comments have talked about how the language doesn't make sense, but it was jarring in places.

Not that I regret starting this game. It was fun playing this game. But it surely has some 'frustrating' components in the game as others mentioned. My biggest complaint is [spoiler]math[/spoiler]. It is necessity to clear the game, but it stays ambiguous even if you know everything else. [spoiler]decimal including 0[/spoiler], [spoiler]ordering of digits[/spoiler], [spoiler]"THIS AND" notating addition[/spoiler]. It felt off to [spoiler]use well-known system without further explanation[/spoiler] considering how the game usually opens up wide possibility and let player deduce the answer.

Any game that compels me to pull out a pen and paper gets a thumbs up. I had such a great time with this. This would make such a cool table top game (like those "solve a murder" games that give you a bunch of evidence). I can see it now, mini versions of all the artifacts, the note in the form of a scroll, the last artifact being a real puzzle box with an item inside.... and you play it by candle light. Yes, perfect.

As a linguist, I was hoping this would be up my alley. It was not. The Nari language doesn't work the way languages do. I don't even think this is a particularly fun puzzle regardless of its theme. Full disclosure: I ended up looking through answers after getting violently angry trying to work out if there was some strange movement going on and getting confused at a highly asymmetric (presumed) phonology. My play time is short because of that; I'd expect something closer to 10–20 hours legit. If 10–20 hours of banging your head against a wall that is only barely internally consistent sounds fun, have at it.

언어를 추리하는 게임. 재미가 없지는 않은데 일반적으로 추천할 만한 게임은 아님 1. 언어 게임인데 확대를 제대로 지원 안 해서 글자 못 알아보겠는 병신 같은 경우을 도대체 왜 만드는지 모르겠음 2. 추리 자체도 정교하게 잘 디자인 되었다기보다는 굉장히 주먹구구식이라 좀 별로임