GENIE

This is another one of those short walking simulator games. (2.2 hours) For those days where you just feel like kicking back and chilling out to a good story, and enjoy the view of your surroundings. Achievements are straight forward and easy to get just play through the entire and you'll get them all.

I loved everything about this one except the mind numbing repetitive slog to hear each piece of poetry. I began to hate this game by chapter 5, I qave up in disgust by chapter 7.

Leider ein schwächeres Spiel von Tonguç Bodur. Eigentlich sind die einzelnen Level sehr gut gestaltet. Passend zu dem Setting, welches das Spiel mit seiner Geschichte erzählen möchte. Auch die Erzählerin macht eine gute Arbeit. Jedoch ist das Spiel "nur" ein Walking Simulator, und dass als einer der schlechteren. Das gefüllte sinnlose sammeln von Kristallen, die nur den Zweck haben, dass man danach sich auf Plattformen stellen kann, um der Sprecherin 20 Sekunden beim Gedicht vortragen zuhören zu können. Das ist selbst mir, trotz wechselnden Settings und Leveln schnell zu langweilig geworden. Gerne empfehle ich andere Spiele, auch Walking Simulator, von Tonguç Bodur. Aber hierfür lohnt es sich leider nicht!

Bought this game as soon as it came out. Hit a snag in chapter 2 that caused me to drop it for a while. Picked it up again the other day, finished all the way until the end. Game was tedious at times and too wordy, but I remembered the excerpts from the classic 'Drizzlepath: Genie'. Was also entranced by some of the visuals this time -- places worth exploring. Wish Chapter 9 was a whole game by itself, a few others. Look forward to other titles by this same author, games do surprise me.

不好意思，这次要给差评了 我喜欢制作者的大部分步行模拟游戏，也购买了他制作的几乎所有游戏，但这一作，恕我实在是无法享受它。 为什么呢？ 因为玩法实在是太重复了。 游戏总共有15个章节，15张地图，而在每张地图中，你需要做的是： 1.在地图中搜寻零散分布的某种能量水晶 2.寻找那些从地底冒出的交互平台 3.站在交互平台上凝视亮光 4.听诗歌 5.继续在其他地图重复上述流程直至通关 有一说一，虽然作者制作的某些地图，场景美得让人心旷神怡，但通过上述机械般的互动流程，则完全消解了我对地图探索的欲望——毕竟你每张地图做得也不大啊，哦不对，是看似很大，实则能供行走的区域只有非常非常小的一小块，还要在这一小块区域里来来回回、反反复复地寻找互动平台，然后站桩听诗，况且那些强行押韵的诗歌，也没有讲出多么跌宕起伏的故事。 步行模拟游戏要怎样打动人？ 要在一个足够大的、足够美的场景中，通过互动探索，去了解这个世界发生的或曲折、或动人的故事。 可当你用重复、机械的流程设置，指望我在一小块行走区域循环往复地踩平台的时候……对不起，我已经无心欣赏你的诗歌了，我烦躁地只想跳过，赶紧通关。

nice game

After completing Genie, I can say I have played every game Tonguc Bodur has put out. Every. Last One. I'm pretty sure I haven't given a single other one of his games a negative review, but I cannot recommend this one. The music, environments, and voice acting are all great. But the gameplay loop...gets repetitive and uninteresting after a couple of chapters, and there are 15 chapters. The fact that this loop involves looking into a blinding white light, a light that made me physically look away every time, was utterly terrible. I muted the game audio and watched a movie while trying to earn the achievements (I had to stop because somehow one of the chapter's game audio was playing despite the master volume and all other volumes being muted). I might have actually read more of the poems if the pacing was not so slow, and if the whole poem appeared at once like most of Tonguc's games. The story was just not engaging enough to warrant the tediousness and slow pacing. I got this on sale for $0.99 and I still feel like it wasn't worth it. The story was drug out far longer than it needed to be, and not in a meaningful or engaging way like most of Tonguc's games. Get it on sale if you decide to get it at all. Honestly, just check out some of Tonguc's other games, as many of them are actually really great. Just not this one.

I really prefered the previous version so drizzlepath-genie. There the story was a journey, here it seemed more like a slideshow. There you walk a long path here you run in circles on 15 different maps. The poems were OK but they are exactly the same as in the 2016 version. Graphics was OK but not as captivating as the previous one. In other words I am not fun of this one.

Wie immer Entspannung pur - ich liebe diese Art von Spielen - gerne mehr davon - einfach durch die Welten laufen und mehr oder weniger nichts tun ;-)

First, I'm a fan of this dev's games and have played and enjoyed many of them. Genie, as with all of Bodur's games, is filled with beautiful environments to explore. And as described on the game's store page, Genie is 15 chapters of traveling through different environments, collecting shards and then locating platforms where you stand and listen to the story in poetry form. Rinse, repeat … 15 times. The dev does give you the option to fast forward through the narration and by about midway I was thankful for that option. If you haven’t tried any of Bodur’s games, I would recommend most of them if you’re a fan of the walking sim genre and if you enjoy taking screenshots; Bodur’s games are filled with lots of excellent opportunities to capture some nice shots. However, there are better options from this dev than Genie.