The Eightfold Path

Its a very hard or even impossible game. This was my impression and then I started to pay attention... Buddhist conceptions appear in text boxes and in gameplay. You have to pay attention and be patient to pass puzzles. You will die and reborn several times, until learn how to solve a puzzle. I really like the way to defeat the demons because is a very buddhist way. There is a connection between the steps (of Eightfold Path) and their representative animals and type of puzzles but tell more would be spoiler. The game doesnt use many resources. I could play with bronswer and oficce in process.

Just started the game and its fun and atmospheric so far. I personally find the enemy activation bounds, particularly for the torch guys, a little to big, especially where the skeleton is. Overall just a few minor hot-fixes would be appreciated. Aside from that it's a beautifully handcrafted experience I'm glad exists to project the values of Buddhism!

A very calm game, in which you can explore, solve puzzles, meditate and find some things to think about. I liked how you can meditate anytime in this game, sometimes it has consequences in the game, but you can do this just because you feel like it. The game is not linear, you can go in any direction and explore the map. While thinking about the Buddhism concepts along the way.

Cozy game. Learn about the Eightfold Path.

neat game

This game is beautiful. The art style is beautiful. The world is beautiful. The sound design and music is beautiful. The implementation of the meditation as a mechanic is beautiful. The things it tries to teach are beautiful. This game is also incredibly frustrating and suffers from game design issues. Pathways are long, meandering, and maze like, difficult to navigate and lacking any sort of map or signage to help you keep track of where you've been - so I hope you remember every aspect of this complex map across every play session. Also you walk extremely slowly. The puzzles range from cryptic (the rabbit puzzle) to unforgiving of even slight error (trying to move boulders in a cave). If you "die" you get sent back to a random checkpoint, sometimes it's a million miles from where you just were and there's no way of choosing or knowing how to get back to where you were, so making progress can be very tedious. Sometimes an enemy can fly off the edge of the map and even if you know what you need to do to stop it (no spoilers), there's no time do execute on it. The same is true if you stop the game and pick it back up. Are you where you left off? Not likely. So now time to fumble around fro 15 minutes to find another puzzle to attempt to solve. Overall, I need to reiterate, I find the game beautiful and enjoyable aesthetically, the mechanics reflect the things they're trying to teach, but it could use an update to polish out some of the issues if it wants to be accessible to a wider audience than the most hardcore and dedicated exploration puzzle solvers (and I suspect with the philosophy they teach, that is something the creators would like).

The game is amazing, beautiful, calm, full of detail, and really puts you in the right headspace. I will review again after completing, but loving the experience so far.

初期仏教をベースとした、悟りの道のパズルADV。 森や山の中を歩き、瞑想し、時には動物たちの助けを借りながら、用意された試練を超えていくのが主なゲームプレイです。 初期仏教がベースになっていますが、部分的に禅や大乗仏教の思想も入っている感じがしました。 八正道の一つ一つがざっくりとエリア分けされていて、そこに入るとその道に即した経典の言葉が書かれた石板が置かれています。 その石板がエリアの謎解きのヒントにもなっているのが良い作りだな～と思いました。 やってることと関わりの深い文章が出てくるので自然と身にしみます。 かなりヒントの薄いゲームではあるんですが、「修行だから……」って思うとなぜか頑張れてしまいました。 ゲームで最初に表示される文章が「第一の真理：生は苦である」な時点で良すぎましたね。 初期仏教の言葉達に触れられてすごく楽しかったです。 バグっぽい挙動や翻訳漏れがあったのは惜しいところです。 倉庫番系のパズルを解く場面があるんですが、途中で岩が動かなくなるとかのバグが起きて大変でした。 また、パズルに重要なヒントが翻訳漏れしてるのに気付けなくて1時間半悩んだのも苦しみでした。でも全て修行なので……。（強すぎるロジック） ↓翻訳漏れの方は苦しすぎると思うので、どこで出てくるか、どうすれば文字が出るかだけ書いておきます。 [spoiler] カラスに助けられながら進んだ道のあと、地面から蒸気が噴き出し、動かせる石板が5枚置いてある場所で発生します。この石板、日本語だとインタラクトしても何も起こりませんが、設定言語を英語かスペイン語に変更すると文字が読めるようになります。[/spoiler]