A Game of Changes
Pros:
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Dev is very responsive and incredibly nice and helpful
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Game has a nice relaxing pace
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Core concept is interesting, creative, and fun
Cons:
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Fairly regular freezing and crashing
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If you’re unfamiliar with the source material, the gameplay is confusing, and there’s no tutorial
6/10
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
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As a fan of the Tao Te Ching, I picked this game up on a whim shortly after release.
It appears simple but has challenged my patience as a Zen koan does to the student.
Choices appear to be mapped as the player walks on the trapezoid block, which denotes a forked path, with what looks like two Asian characters on it. Each character is a set of three horizontal lines be they solid or halved – called “trigrams.” Walking over the forked block, a trigram appears onscreen at right.*
*A web search of ‘trigrams i ching’ yields info on decoding the eight trigrams of the Taoist I Ching and the 64 hexagrams, corresponding to 64 levels in the game. Each hexagram presents a philosophy, to start the level. www -dot- taoistiching -dot- org
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game