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Another great game about knowledge, with a superb art direction, especially colors and shot composition.

The game excels at teaching you all these languages in various ways. There's this great attention to details, from characters (words, not people) having a specific look wether they're nouns or verbs etc, to different structures in sentences depending on the language ; if you pay attention you can get really good pretty fast and it is very rewarding.

I did felt that they still had more ideas that somehow didn't get in the game ? Like in the fifth chapter, there's this sequence where you can combine characters to express new ideas, that would have been an amazing concept for a whole chapter but unfortunately it's there just for 2 minutes.
Instead of that, the game pretty often asks you to play through those pretty shitty stealth sequences that shouldn't be there imo.

The story also felt a bit simple in the end. The intention is nice, but the idea of having the big bad machine preventing humans from interacting with each other is a bit dated. We know the internet has bad sides, good ones too especially in it's ability to connect people so ...
Still, the whole quest about connecting people by translating their messages, and witnessing actual changes in the tower was sweet.

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2024


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