Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!

Game's progression curve is terrible. Basically starts doing everything for you after one bookcase. And about 1/3 of the way in it has nothing more to offer you in terms of gameplay evolving at that point. If the plan was to drop the ball 500/3000 books in and turn it into a repetitive strain simulator it may as well just stripped the whole thing back and have you do everything manually yourself so at the very least you got the sense of acomplishment from that. The ending is nothing. Strange in a game where the development hours are not being used for functionality (where the time demand comes from design instead) that there seems to be no thought or care given to the design at all. Hearing that AI was involved somehow too? Just lazy across the board.

I liked this game, even if it worked terrible frying my pc and giving errors when opened up. And then i was made aware that it was made with AI. No matter how little, its still a bad thing.

using AI isn't the way to go

数千冊、床に散乱した本を拾い集める。”哲学”、”社会”、”召喚魔法”といった分類に沿い、棚に並べる。正しい図書館の完成。 問題は「膨大な量の本が積み重なり、探している本が見つからない」、「床が本に埋もれていて、本の置き場がない」、「図書館が広すぎて、本を棚に置きに行くまでが長い」、「似た見た目の本も多く、タイトルの確認が面倒」といった劣悪な労働。 これにはタイミーもバックレ、もしくは本棚陰で１日休憩の給料泥棒コース。 実は本棚を埋めると魔法が習得可能で超便利なので、途中からはゆるゆる作業ゲーになる。クリアするだけなら簡単なので、魔法図書館の整理をエンジョイしよう。 なお、魔法無使用クリア実績がある。『ゲームは娯楽ではなく労働』、それが実績厨に与えられた呪いである。我々はなぜゲームでまで働くのか、答えはきっと実績の果てにある。知らんけど。

[i]Librarian: Tidy up the Arcane Library![/i] is a game that lives up to its premise and not much more. The library is a mess, clean it up and put everything back in its place. Unlock both spells and new abilities to make it easier, and have a chuckle with some of the titles. The problem is mostly replayability. The books don't change starting places, the shelves aren't different, so once you did one run you practically done it entirely. At best you can try to achievement hunt with a few alternate ways to play, but that's really it. There seems to be a planned extra mode but there's not much information since. Not helped that the useability of the spells is skewered to two major ones: the shelf stacking one and the book collecting one. The other ones just range from kinda useless to a beginner's trap. then there's the usage of AI, something I wish I saw earlier and feel was kinda pointless with how little it is (2 paintings tucked in the corners of the library). You could've just used stock images or made a photo. Overall it's not a bad experience but the cracks begin to show very early and very quickly.

Uses AI, if I had known this I would have never wasted my time and money on it If you are interested in these organisation games there are plenty other ones that were made by actual people

Really fun concept. The first 45 minutes were great: Reading each book title, trying to figure out on which shelf it goes using the map, while developping some sort of system to sort this mess. I started by filtering all "white books", which turned out to either be either Healing, Philosophy or Holy books. It was tedious, but after completing the first shelf, it was oddly satisfying. That was actually an interesting gameplay loop. It was fun looking at the book bindings, appreciating the book titles. Then, weirdly enough, as soon as you start getting spells, the game becomes 100% brainless, just spamming spells and waiting on cooldowns. It become a totally different game for 80% of the experience, and that part just isn't fun at all. There are many ways the game design could have been better once there are spells, but this part isn't well polished.