Chants of Sennaar
Jul. 6th, 2024 09:50 amI had assumed that I would just ignore the Game category of the Hugos, but I saw Q playing a teeny bit of Chants of Sennaar (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
glassonion recruited him to help try out the nominees) and was like "I have to do this myself, this is awesome", and so I did do it myself, and it was indeed awesome. This is only the second videogame I have ever finished (after It Takes Two, which I was going to review here like a year ago and apparently never did) and the, hm, fifth videogame I have played any of (the others being Mario Kart 8, Unpacking (which I think J and I are close to the end of) and Overcooked 2) (I am not here counting the many, many computer games I have spent many, many weeks or months of my life playing) so this is a review from a position of no genre literacy. But I thought it was very clever and very satisfying and very do-able by me (although I had trouble getting the controller to do what I wanted it to do during the time-dependent "sneaking" parts and for one bit handed it off to J (other J) to do the actual driving while I told him what I was trying to do). Highly recommended if you like codes or puzzles or ever invented a fantasy hieroglyphic language or daydreamed about deciphering one.
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glassonion recruited him to help try out the nominees) and was like "I have to do this myself, this is awesome", and so I did do it myself, and it was indeed awesome. This is only the second videogame I have ever finished (after It Takes Two, which I was going to review here like a year ago and apparently never did) and the, hm, fifth videogame I have played any of (the others being Mario Kart 8, Unpacking (which I think J and I are close to the end of) and Overcooked 2) (I am not here counting the many, many computer games I have spent many, many weeks or months of my life playing) so this is a review from a position of no genre literacy. But I thought it was very clever and very satisfying and very do-able by me (although I had trouble getting the controller to do what I wanted it to do during the time-dependent "sneaking" parts and for one bit handed it off to J (other J) to do the actual driving while I told him what I was trying to do). Highly recommended if you like codes or puzzles or ever invented a fantasy hieroglyphic language or daydreamed about deciphering one.Some spoilers: ( Read more... )
