
The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
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Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
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interesting short game that wants you to solve its ciphers to truly unlock the whole story. each chapter has its own version of a cipher, and the game does well with its variations. for the full effect i recommend finishing to read a chapter before attempting to solve the ciphered pages! the story itself is very personal thus i'll refrain from commenting on that. the way the letters are presented are a little meh to me personally, and i got a headache from looking at it. turning on subtitles and reading those helped however! anyway, this game is difficult to recommend tbh. due to the private nature of the story, i felt somewhat of a voyeur reading through a journal i wasn't meant to read. the gameplay itself was almost more like a visual novel and while the ciphers added a neat element, i didn't feel particularly challenged. i'd say im very neutral towards this game.
纯谜题还是好玩的,虽然搞懂了密码结构之后真的很简单,一些小隐藏也是完全没隐藏,但这个故事不管是儿子还是母亲都在怀念这个赌博又酗酒谎话连篇的父亲,并且说到遗传要耗费自己很大的努力才能不成为抛弃孩子的父亲也是让我很无语(当然这种劣质基因遗传的可能性是很大)以及解谜最大的问题是我无数次把B看成E......
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The game feels like a chore to get through. Turning on subtitles to bypass the text animation only alleviates this slightly. The puzzles aren't particularly interesting or fun. It is nothing like the developers other games categorized together in the "guilt trilogy," which is part of why I feel let down by it, but I would not find it intriguing or enjoyable lacking that context either. The story and music are fine, but the packaging is all wrong.
他和背影中的父亲那样一般的笨拙,但也一样爱自己的孩子,我是个孩子,我记恨他,也不妨碍我理解他。 居然是亲身经历啊虽然玩这三代游戏感觉到压抑感但是这作这么贴近生活真的很有感触了。 童年经历真的会塑造改变一个人的,非常好解密,喜欢这个作者的作品
a very well written telling of the authors experience during their grandfathers wake, worth it alone for that, most of the ciphers are fairly simple being things like ceaser cyphers, but some will still give you a challenge if you are unfamiliar with cyphers, the only thing i disliked was the execution of the game aspects really and it's mostly minor things like the sound of the letters fliping into place being a constant repeating noise which i found irritating and the presentation being very nice looking but not being very intuitive.
이 게임을 플레이하게 되어 정말 기쁩니다. 짧은 플레이 타임이었지만 어디서도 보기 힘든 게임이었습니다. 자신의 이름과 함께 이토록 개인적이고 깊은 이야기를 세상에 꺼내놓는 용기가 대단하다고 생각했습니다. 플레이하며 사람들은 정말 각자의 아픔을 안고 살아간다는 것을 실감했고, 더 웨이크가 어떤 면에선 저에게도 많은 위안이 되었습니다. 가족이란 무엇이고 가난이란 무엇일까요, 그럼에도 저는 치료할 수 없는 상처는 없다고 믿고 있습니다. 힘들고 오래 걸리겠지만 그것 또한 나의 일부겠죠... 모쪼록 잊지 못할 게임 만들어주신 소미님에게 감사드리고, 모든 상처 입은 사람들이 충분히 자신을 돌볼 수 있는 세상이 되었으면 좋겠습니다.
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好玩
ngl if u struggled to read this u probably have a learning disability
암호해독 게임이라기엔 난이도가 쉬워서, 미니게임 있는 소설에 가깝다는 느낌! 다 하고 나니 참 이상한 기분이 든다...
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