BOOK OF HOURS

好玩

I've played through Book of Hours twice and just recently finished a play-through of Cultist Simulator. Of the two, I definitely prefer Book of Hours. Both are very text-based games for people who like piecing together a story from bits and pieces. I find them both very imaginative, but Book of Hours has two major advantages over Cultist Simulator: firstly, the visuals. There really was no visual aspect to Cultist Simulator at all beyond some brief background art that flashed up with certain events, and for some people (myself included), it's not as easy to stay engaged with a story that is broken up over a thousand little events if there's not much to look at in the time between the story bits. Here, you have this stylistic scene of Hush House and Brancrug Village that changes with the weather and the seasons. It's still primarily a text-based game, but this is a big improvement over looking at a field of the same set of cards for the entirety of the game. Not to mention it helps establish a sense of the style. The second advantage is the fact that this game is a little more relaxed. In Cultist Simulator, you constantly had to manage conditions (despair, obsession, and affliction) while trying to progress through the story. Given that the games are a little esoteric from the start, that pretty much results in everyone losing the first time they play through because it takes some time to figure out how to handle these, which can be a bit of a turn off. Not to mention when you want to focus on the story, managing these little annoyances just takes time away from that. That's gone in Book of Hours. The challenge is now figuring out the right way to unlock the rooms of the house and find the skills and ingredients you need to progress rather than racing to finish the story before some inevitable string of bad luck ends your run. I do miss some of the different settings from Cultist Simulator, though. The Hush House is interesting, but the expeditions and the dreams in the Mansus gave a little variety of place that Book of Hours could have used (especially if paired with the new visual art of the game). Hopefully, 'Traveling at Night' will keep the best of both.

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Endlessly enthralling. A major upgrade from Cultist Simulator in terms of mechanics while still maintaining the mystery and mystique

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