Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker

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I really wanted to like this game because the idea behind it is honestly pretty interesting. A game where you can create your own characters, scenarios and basically build your own version of the Three Kingdoms universe is something I would normally spend a lot of time with. There is a lot of potential here, especially for people who enjoy strategy games and older Koei titles. Unfortunately, the biggest problem is the language support. The game is basically Japanese-only, which makes it extremely difficult to understand what you're doing if you don't speak Japanese. This is especially frustrating because the game has a lot of menus, settings and different systems that you need to understand before you can really enjoy it. Even after spending some time trying to figure things out, I still felt like I was missing a huge part of the game simply because I couldn't understand the text. There is also an issue with Japanese characters displaying incorrectly on some Windows configurations. Instead of readable text, you can sometimes get strange symbols or garbled characters. From what I understand, changing the Windows system locale to Japanese can help, but having to change system settings just to make the game display its text correctly is not something most players will want to deal with. The lack of English localization also makes the game much harder to recommend to friends. The concept itself is interesting enough that I think there is definitely an audience outside Japan, but the current language barrier prevents a lot of people from experiencing it properly. Another thing I would really like to see is better support for sharing custom scenarios. The creation tools are probably one of the most interesting parts of the game, so being able to easily share scenarios with other players would make the experience much more enjoyable. Steam Workshop support would be especially useful for this. That said, I don't think the game is bad. There is a genuinely interesting idea here, and if you already know Japanese or are familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games, you will probably get much more out of it. The creation tools and the freedom to make your own scenarios are definitely appealing. For me, though, the language and text-rendering issues are too significant to ignore. I would love to come back to this game if English support is added and the compatibility issues with different Windows language settings are improved. So unfortunately I can't recommend it in its current state, but I really hope the developers continue supporting it because there is a good game hidden underneath the language and accessibility problems.