BOOK OF HOURS

취향에 맞는 순간 100개의 엔딩을 향해 달릴수밖에 없는 명작

I was initially troubled by the UI. That improved a lot after changing some key bindings and relying more on keyboard instead of mouse. Manually cataloguing everything also became tedious after a while, which was resolved after I wrote some scripts to search through the game files. There were times when I stared at the Tree for hours and still couldn't decide what to do with all my Skills - that also got better as I progressed and learned more about the skills. What didn't get better, however, was my frustration with the text. On one hand, the game advises you to read *everything* - and to be fair, it does reward the player when they pay attention to the text. But it seems that not everything is supposed to be taken seriously. There are lots of stuff that are just "flavour text" and lead to nowhere (no pun intended). At times, I feel like the text is lying to my face. I'm talking about [spoiler]Ashartine being described as an 'Ink of Revelation' but cannot be crafted using the skill Inks of Revelation. I mean, the skill can craft so many inks that don't even share its principles. WHY NOT ASHARTINE, AN INK OF REVELATION???? And don't tell me this is okay because Inks of Revelation crafts the precursor of Ashartine. It's not unique in this respect. So many other skills can do the same thing.[/spoiler] And more generally, [spoiler]why are the Inks skills so bad at crafting their own inks? What's the point of calling them Inks of XYZ when there are better skills to craft inks of xyz?[/spoiler] I'm also talking about [spoiler]descriptions of food items and cooking-related skills in the base game. I don't understand why aspects such as Raw have to be present in the base game when they are only applicable to the House of Light DLC. Are base game players expected to do a full research on the DLC before starting the game? I don't want to be bothered by the DLC at the moment, and I don't want hints that could be easily misunderstood without the needed context (for example, how am I supposed to know that the helpers cannot be categorised as 'guests' - I literally treat them as guests by giving them food and drink and discussing Regrets and Ditties with them). The same issue with the Spicing skill. I thought I obtained something special and was looking forward to using it somewhere. It was a huge disappointment when I learned it's for the DLC.[/spoiler] So, while I don't regret the time spent on this game, I have to say that it genuinely bothers me sometimes. You can always say such and such are intended and I'm just not the target player. Well, from my perspective, they just feel like bad design.