Xiangsheng Simulator

I don't think I get this game. I don't think that's necessarily bad - I'm lacking a lot of cultural context here, and there's a lot of googling and research I'm having to to understand what my role here in the game is, what I should be doing, et cetera, because it hasn't really tutorialised me well. It tried a bit, but I think if you lack the cultural knowledge of how Xiangsheng works and what the role of the penggen is - which I lack - it's an uphill battle. I think even more so because in these responses my natural inclination is the sardonic-toned ones, and those often get negatives. But sometimes they don't? Sometimes I have to play a yes-man, sometimes I have to play something else that I don't think goes well through the translation layer. But they're trying to make that accessible to an english audience, and I think that deserves some praise, so I don't really want to give it a no-recommend despite not understanding it. The game is actively trying to teach you what it's about as you play, that's part of the back and forth, I just kind of wish there was a "no failure state" mode so I didn't have to keep restarting the banter and figure things out without the stop-start. The negatives would be that it's an text-to-speech voice (it's in english, which is a plus, but in comedy, the personability of said person is quite important I feel? You can turn it off though if you don't like it, which is also a plus.) and without context, you're struggling. There's the natural limit of pre-set jokes and responses, and it doesn't feel hugely fluid for a stand-up comedy simulator, which is the closest cultural comparison I can summon from playing it. It's quite solid with accessibility options - screen reader, turn off the hurry mode, et cetera. The translation is piece by piece readable and makes sense, I think any translation confusion comes from things not translating well between languages/losing nuance? I can't say if it's a good Xiangsheng Simulator - I just don't understand, but it's given me reason to go look at subtitled Xiangsheng, and that's been a neat rabbithole. Maybe I'll understand by the time I come back to it!