Wanderstop

Je recommande ce jeu, c'est très chou, très inspiré sur les dialogues et Boro est véritablement attachant, n'hésitez pas à lui offrir beaucoup de thé ! Je suis moi même en épuisement professionnel et j'ai beaucoup ressenti les situations et les dialogues. C'est très fin. Le dernier chapitre est un peu long je trouve, mais j'ai vraiment eu du mal à quitter le jeu une dernière fois. Merci pour ce jeu

Good day, bad day. Burnt out or locked in. Take a minute to go make some tea and spend some time with Boro. Maybe shake a puffin or two. This game helped me through a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ time in life. Thanks devs.

An elegant and emotional experience. This game tries to teach a lesson, both to the main character Alta, as well as the player. A lot of the mechanics really supplement this purpose quite well. This is mainly a story game. The main mechanic is making tea to fulfil different request, which could be considered a puzzle, though it is far from hard. Otherwise there are multiple decorative and recreational mechanics, all of which are optional and most of them are temporary. But the focus is definitely the story. Alta, a great fighter, is stuck in Wanderstop, a tea shop in the middle of a magical forest. Every time she tries to leave her body gives up and she becomes unconscious. So she has to stay there and take a forced vacation, in hopes of finding out what is wrong with her. The main shtick of Wanderstop is that it forces you to slow down. The tea machine is unnecessarily complex, you get the correct ingredients by browsing through a book and comparing ingredient descriptions to the requests and you have to puzzle the plants together yourself. Tea leaves also need to be collected and dried, which takes time. On the other hand it tries to convey the worth of temporary delights. There are lots of possibilities to decorate Wanderstop. [spoiler]But regularly during the game most of it will vanish, making it completely unnecessary. There are no achievements or rewards locked behind most of these activities. Still, I found myself decorating every pot, cleaning every pile of leaves that I see and happily displaying my trinkets all over the shop. The end of the game also hits in that regard. There is no post-game, nothing. It is just over. But it was nice while it lasted.[/spoiler] I'd consider the central lessons to be [spoiler]anti-Sigma-grindset and in favor the Buddhist teaching that your thoughts are something that exist separate from you.[/spoiler] The story and imagery really tell this quite well. Personally, the tutorial felt a bit long winded and on the nose. I hate being mouth-fed with information in a long dialogue, it breaks the immersion and takes away the possibility to experiment before asking for help. But in hindsight, I'd say it set the tone for the whole game quite well, so it's okay. 4.5/5

우연히 어느 유튜버의 플레이 영상을 보게 되었고, 첫 챕터 이후까지 보다가 Boro가 하는 말을 보고선, "이 게임은 직접 해보는 게 좋겠다"는 생각이 들어서 냅다 사서 플레이 했다. 이건 빈 칸(화분, 액자 등)이 많긴 하지만 그걸 채우는 게임은 전혀 아니다. 손님의 서사를 감상하는 게임도 아니다. 왜냐하면 사당을 통해 다음으로 넘어갈 시기가 되면, 손님의 서사는 툭 끊어지고 정원은 비워지기 때문이다. 따라서 필요한 꽃과 나무를 심고, 손님의 요구를 들어 주는 건 다음 장으로 넘어가는 과정의 일부일 뿐, 오로지 주인공 Alta에게만 초점을 맞춰 서사를 잇는 종류의 게임이다. 게임은 내 손에서 벗어난 것(통제할 수 없는 것)을 대하는 법과, 번아웃과 휴식, 낙관적 허무주의, 그리고 변화에 관한 메세지와 조언을 함축적으로 전달하려 하지만, 후반으로 갈수록 점점 난해해지면서 너도 나도 짐작할 수 있는 그 결론을 빙빙 돌려 말하는 감이 있다. (더 자세히 적으려고 시도했지만 루돌로지 채널에서나 다룰만한 장문의 무언가가 연성 되는 바람에 생략하겠다) 그래서 만약 이 게임에 관심이 생겼다면, 적어도 시뮬레이션 장르라는 인식은 버리고 시작하는 게 좋을 것이다.

9/10

Very introspective and thoughful jourmey. While the puzzles are not complex, the way it makes the player think inward is refreshing. Combining game elements with personal embellishments is different and effective.

Phenomenal. It's one of those games that really show what the medium is capable of.