BOOK OF HOURS

好游戏

好玩，喜欢玩。从同世界观第一部来的，司辰之书没有那种紧迫感，虽然依然是大量需要查Wiki的内容，但是不那么着急了，一个方案没了还有下一个，错过了一个还有下一个，总有解决方案的。不过刺激感较少，适合我这种讨厌对抗性游戏的玩家。

I found Cultist Simulator to be neat, and was really hoping this would be an evolution on that formula. And it kind of is. The base mechanics are still there and used in nifty new ways. There's just a few things I cannot get over no matter how hard I try. First, the UI is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unredeemable mess. Once you get rolling and have a good amount of skills, soul elements, etc, the buckets at the bottom of the screen just get insane. And god help you if you want to find a skill with a specific Aspect. Yeah, you can click the aspect and it will momentarily highlight everything that has it. But that means you need the bin of skills pulled up, which takes up half the screen. It's just annoying and makes playing the game a chore. Additionally, you frequently need to find a combination of things. For example, I need a workbench that can evolve Hushery and allows Winter to be slotted. There is no way to search or highlight that combination. You can highlight one attribute at a time. So, you spam click on a workbench to highlight all of them, then you spam click Winter, and try to look for where they overlap. And this is in an environment with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of clutter. The game desperately needs a search function so I can find the specific combination of things I need in the moment. Forcing me to manually look for it in the mess of the house adds nothing to gameplay, it just makes it annoying. The last thing which really put the nail in the coffin for me, there are several puzzles where you need a specific thing, but the thing is determined by RNG for no reason. The best example is Assistants. You need assistants to help open new rooms. You also need them to be at or above a certain level in a certain aspect. Each assistant comes with a base of 4 in 3 different aspects. You can buff them with a memory, a soul aspect, a food, and a drink. Food and Drink are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nightmare to sort through and generally don't give enough of a buff to make a ton of difference. So mostly, it is memories and base stats. Of memories, weather is the only way to get large buffs. A memory from a book gives you +2 sky, the weather outside being stormy gives 4. You can't control the weather, but you can be patient. So let's say you have a high level Sky room you want to open. You level up your Phost as high as you can to get a boost to sky. Then you wait for it to storm, so far so good. How do you get an assistant with a base of 4 in Sky? You roll the dice at the inn. It's completely random. Oh and you can't keep the assistant over night, so you have a limited number of rolls for the day, before the weather is gone and you lose your chance. Even more infuriating, you need time to buff the assistant, so later in the game you have to roll the right one on the first try. Get anything else and you miss your shot. It is purely frustrating. It isn't making the puzzle more interesting or harder. I have solved the puzzle, I know the combination of things I need to do, don't make me pull the lever on the slot machine 100 times to input the solution.

I want so, so badly to be the kind of person who loves this game. But god, it's so frustrating, overwhelming and tedious at times. The lack of tutorial or any sort of guidance has you floundering in the dark, unsure of everything you're doing. It's not at all intuitive, and it can really make you feel stupid when you do try to look up tutorials or guides and everyone else seems to take to the game like ducks to water. It's honestly such a shame because it is such a rich world, and the concept of it is so appealing, but the clunky UI and inhospitable nature of the mechanics makes it super hard to adapt to. Will I continue to try and master it out of pure spite and frustration? Yes, but I would not recommend this game to just anyone. Like many reviewers say, it really doe stake a specific kind of person, and I so wish that person was me.

Really good

玩起来非常上头，超级杀时间。 只通关了一次。 不知不觉中内化了那些象征和符号在意识和文化中的存在，很回味。

有点太好玩了

吾乃暗夜之术掌控者，窥星精通者，蛾与冬的参悟者，噤声之屋的修复人和看守者。我精通拉丁语，亚兰语，梵语和旧世界的语言，蜕皮者和公爵是我的老师，历史由我来书写。