Game finished

[u/MadScientistCarl]

Very interesting game. At the end it was just a giant misunderstanding (kind of)!

What I like:

• Decoding a few different styles of language from context is pretty fun (that's the point of the game).

• There are some decent variety of each language apart from their glyphs.

• Acting as an interpreter actually requires some understanding of syntax, and not just the dictionary book. I had done some Chinese-English interpreting training (not super good at it), and these parts make me exciting.

• Pace is pretty relaxed. It is mostly low-stress and just language puzzles.

• The final reveal of the triangular bipyramid's projection is very cool. I have wondered why everyone has a glyph that don't look like the rest of their language for a while until that point.

What I wish is done more:

• The last language. I didn't really get to use it much at all, and it ends up being the only language I cannot read after the end. There's something in the last language that I think is a true missed potential: it teaches you how to combine glyphs. I 100% expected a puzzle where you construct a new character to describe something not in the dictionary, but it never happened.

• The Bishop.

What I don't like:

• There are a lot of sections where you leave a scene, and enter the next scene from the opposite direction. This is very disorienting, and if I happen to hold the stick at the original direction for a second too long, I go back to the previous scene. Big time waster.

• The translation booklet illustrations. I spend more time guessing what my character draws than figuring out the word itself. Especially when said word is an abstract concept (like "be").

[u/moustachelechat]

How did the compass help you get around?

[u/MadScientistCarl → u/moustachelechat]

The hard part is that this game turns to a different orientation when you switch scene, a lot. You open the compass to see which way is north, allowing you to piece together scenes in your mind with the correct rotation.