Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

This review ends up positive despite my limited time in the game because I really appreciate the stuff that the game obviously cares about: the writing. Its sharp, western vignettes with a nice folk-ish, country-ish soundtrack. The mechanical glue that turns it into a game just needs a little more. The walking between stories is so undetailed and frictionless that it ends up being boring and not meditative. Trying to select a story to tell a stranger also often feels like kind of annoying guess work and not like real problem solving.

记录：24.10.08入。 虽然穷困潦倒，但是还是要坚持赌博，直到输到底掉。 哪怕输得只剩骨头，也要在赌桌上赌一把 “明天会更好” 在资本与命运的赌桌上，底层人永远是输家，哪怕手握 “天牌” 越输越要赌，越赌越穷，越穷越相信 “下一把能赢” 所有正经出路都被堵死，赌博成了唯一能带来 “希望感” 的活动，哪怕这种希望是虚假的。 对了，音乐不错。26/07/27

Incredible game, 10/10. Rich with American Culture and History, Diverse, Honest, Painful, and Beautiful, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is truly a work of art and is easily one of the most underrated games I have ever played. Hopping a train with a pack of stray dogs in a trench coat one night, helping a living corpse kill itself the next, then watching as a man suffocates in a dust storm while trying to save his daughter in the morning, this game is a perfect blend of comedy, fantasy, and tragedy. Cannot recommend enough

没有游戏性就算了，手柄bug还不少，故事也是一般般，歌还行，小众艺术游戏

I have had this game on my wishlist for literal years and now that I've played it, I am quite disappointed. The premise of the stories growing as you go on and learn more about them is so intriguing, however the execution is pretty bad. I expected to learn more and more about the stories as I wander from place to place, however the "growing" of these stories is reduced to merely a Pop-Up with a single sentence that updates you "the story about the horse has grown into the story of the horse and the fox" or some similar shallow bs. All the artwork tiles that you collect have nothing to do with the development of the stories. each new artwork tile thingie that you collect is a potential "new" story which is not progressing your actual stories. So you bascially keep walking in a very repetitive way across a map, your collected stories only develop with a single sentence pop-up after you've told it to someone on a campfire, and that's it. You would have to keep switching the new stories into your "deck" of stories to tell them at a campfire to develop them further, but with them all being so so shallow, why even bother ? The trailer and intro of this game pack more storytelling and effort than the rest of the game. Very Disappointing.

非常好！虽然里面的小故事都非常简单，但是整个游戏做得很有氛围感，就是公路小说的感觉。音乐都非常好听，插画也很好看。是我喜欢的那种像艺术品的独立游戏。