Mohism: Battle of Words

A really good Ace Attorney style game in a Wuxia Setting. Both the Art and Music were a lot better than a game with this price would let you expect. The english translation was very readable as well, except for constant, wrong splitting up of words and some untranslated chinese symbols, that make solving a riddle in the last case harder than it should be. I definitely recommend this hidden gem, but I do have some nitpicks: First, even though game has a wuxia setting, it is a very "grounded" one. If you played the Demo, set in the enigmatic Order of the Blade, you might expect a lot of similiar cases, taking place in exotic martial arts sects or other typical Wuxia tropes. That is not the case. After the first introductory case, which barely counts, the rest of the 4 cases are following a common storyline, that deals with the murder of a highranking official, and the uncovering of a conspiracy. It ends up feeling very mundane compared to the Demo case. I was hoping for the wuxia elements to be more prominent. Second, one of the features to distinguish it self from Ace Attorney is the ability to choose the outcome of a case. This was a decent idea, executed very badly. The mechanic first appears at the end of the introductory case, where your choice has very minor consequences. Then it disappears completly, as there is no way to influence the endings of case 2 or 3, and only appears again right at the end of case 4, the last case. [spoiler]Here you can basically decide between 2 endings. Both endings, though, are somewhat dissatisfying. After basically 5-8 hours of a linear experience I would have preferred just having a satisfying ending and I don't understand the point of this mechanic at all. [/spoiler] Thats all my problems. All in all it is a very solid experience, especially for the price point.

高赞差评说的很对，序章好像是做出了电车难题一样的设置，但是终章如果主角不去包庇那位杀害恩人之子的恐怖组织头目就会落得一个悲惨下场，纯纯的双标。还有，主角最后的选择其实影响不了boss的结局。

This is a very interesting game. I had this wishlisted after I played the demo. I am enjoying this quite a bit. The translation to english ain't too bad on this one. The gameplay and mystery solving is good. No complaints.

This is a really good detective game in the style of Phoenix Wright. More than Phoenix Wright, it makes great use of a very flavorful setting (Ming China/wuxia). It's generally a more serious set of cases than Phoenix Wright, and the characters are more enjoyable. (Fewer annoying comic relief characters). It's hard but usually fair/logical and you get unlimited retries. The first case is brilliant. The case takes fantastical plot twists in who killed whom and makes it feel entirely natural. Overall it's one of the best tutorial missions I've ever seen, and one of the best mystery cases I've seen in a video game. The main character's trainer solves this beautifully convoluted case almost instantly and there's a lot of writing skill in how he realizes the truth and how he nudges you towards little pieces of it. ... Case interaction: you can understand a Mohism case fully but still get some choices wrong if you try things in a different order than the writers intended. In one case I had to challenge a character who claims he brought "nothing" to a crime scene. I have evidence that he had a cape. I nervously offer the cape as a contradiction even though only an asshat detective would claim that having clothes contradicts anything, unless the crime scene were like a nudist colony or a Kevin Spacey birthday party. The game slaps me around for giving the wrong answer. Fair enough. Later on, I get asked to find ANOTHER contradiction and then the cape contradiction is suddenly a big deal. WTF. ... If you haven't already played the game, it's really solid and I recommend it. If you have already played the game, the backstory sounds like it could be a con job. [spoiler] Reportedly a ~9 month pregnant royal VIP is rescued after a siege is broken and their first instinct is to move her? Their boat comes under heavy attack, and she sees this as an opportunity to murder a bodyguard and light the ship on fire? Then she jumps into the water and swims away, and then she *walks* to a friendly keep miles away, and she successfully gives birth to a healthy child that night? [/spoiler] Press X to doubt. In particular, taking a super-pregnant VIP on a journey AFTER the siege has been broken, is really weird timing.

又短又贵，没什么推理逻辑的武侠皮推理游戏。玩法太普通不如互交互影视游戏交互点丰富。 设定真是难受，古代和武侠两个元素，全是靠美术视觉来表现的。

As someone that loves detective games ala the Ace Attorney and Danganronpa series, as well as Wuxia films. this game proved the perfect combination! I loved every bit of this game... my only complaint is that the ending felt a bit short, I feel like one more case would have been perfect. I would love more games like this set in pre-modern China. I also loved the music, although there aren't too many tracks, so i'm sure some people could complain that it is too repetitive for their liking. I played this on Linux via Proton. I experienced some minor glitches. I found that that the game would crash randomly sometimes, but by chance when I played it without a network connection one time, I found it worked perfectly and I completed the game. Hence despite my 0.8h on record, I probably put in somewhere around 12-15h. I would definitely recommend this for everyone that likes detective games, wuxia, and graphic novels, although I wouldn't know how many people there are out there where this venn diagram intersects!

I've had a very good time playing this game! It nails the wuxia vibes and the Ace Attorney-style gameplay works surprisingly well in this setting. The Chinese-to-English translation is good, with some puns and jokes thrown in (which seems like a staple of any Ace Attorney-style game). It's not perfect, but at no point was I unable to follow what was being talked about. The art style is unique but I grew to really like it! And the voice acting is nice. The cross-examination is on a timer, but you get unlimited tries. So don't stress about the timer. Also, the game narrows down what pieces of evidence you can submit for the cross-examination which makes it easier to find relevant clues (but doesn't eliminate the challenge). One criticism I have of the game is that at certain points the game will ask you to make logical deductions where lots of concepts are floating on the screen and you have to click on the right ones. The concept is fine, but I think it must work better with Chinese characters because the sentences are hard to read in English because they wiggle around. Thankfully if you hold your mouse over them they pause. But I think that system could have been executed a little better. The second criticism I have is that when you are browsing through cross-examination statements, the game will slowly reveal the text instead of having it all written out. That is fine for the initial dialogue, but it was a little annoying when finding statements to contradict. And it adds pressure to the timer. This is a very minor thing, and as I mentioned before, the timer doesn't matter because you get infinite retries. I would really like to see another game in this series!

……总体来说还可以，想入的建议多看看玩家测评再考虑 画风和ui很合我口味美中不足的是有几个案子里逻辑方面稍微有点差 最后的大结局也是……比较难评 不过因为我本人主要看剧情推理逻辑的部分比较宽容再加上古风推理题材很新颖，所以决定好评

A good story set in a pretty and fairly rich world. It is 100% a detective, mystery-solving game, but of the linear style; you don't have freedom to go about the cases your way(e.g. choosing who to question), but rather gather evidence and do deductions and questioning in a specific order, gradually revealing more and more of the case. I found the translation pretty good; not especially stilted, and clear with all the necessary information gameplay-wise, but could be better. One annoyance was the text formatting: there's unnecessary hyphenation(as in, to break words across lines) and sometimes the hyphens are even misplaced so they're not the last thing on the line.

虽然画面比较低龄化，但还算是个不错的首尾呼应的故事，可惜据说制作组已经散了。最后很不解为什么有很多玩家对四姑娘有很深的敌意。