Linguist FPS - The Language Learning FPS

This is more of a mixed review than a positive one since Steam only has binary options. As some users have already posted, this game is more of a proof of concept and I agree. I'm also glad I brought this game on sale for 80% off as it's not worth the full price. Note: According to Steam I currently have 41 mins in this game as of posting. In those 41 mins I only completed the training level in French + unlocked 2 cities in the actual game. I am not fluent in French but I do know some French words. [b]Pros:[/b] - You do pick up some vocabulary but it feels very limited (at least from how much I've spent in it so far. I'll cover more of this in the cons). It was nice to have the words immediately spoken when looking at/discovering stuff like "explosive barrel", "bridge", "cemetery", and etc when hovering over it. - The VA (for French) is good - clear voice. [b]Cons:[/b] - Limited dictionary. I don't know if you gain more words as you progress but from what I've gotten so far has been numbers (0-9), maybe 8 colours (but only encountered 4-6 of them being used), directions (left/right/straight ahead), movement (jump, walk, crouch, ascend, descend). There was a noun board with about 8-12 icons. - I felt more words or a better progression system in the main game would have been better than a split separate training and main game. Like instead of training, just have the game start with numbers in the main game then unlock a next map that is numbers and colours and so forth. - The robots could use a little more sound design. They either just appear out of thin air like ninjas and run at you or are expected to be behind almost every unlocked door. It would be nice to have some kind of mechanical noise or footsteps to tell you aren't alone in the area. Examples from two games: Portal's turrets will talk (e.g. "Target found"/"Target lost". I think their lasers also make a charging sound?). Borderland's loader bots stomp around the map. They occasionally speak too. - Too many enemy robots that just swarm you. Need safe spots on the map. I'm not sure if going backwards to the previous city will be safe (never tested it out), I'm assuming it isn't. [b]Neither a pro/con but a suggestion if the dev decides to make a sequel or continuation to this:[/b] Most of this sort of pre-exists in the game already. The current game lacks direction to where you should go and lets you pick and choose which door to open. To make the progression more linear, the game could be setup with a simple story (again, pieces of it already exist, just no story to connect the points together). You're an agent or solider who's been paired with this voice who only speaks 1 language. The voice is your only alley who somehow knows all the answers. You are the only person left in your team - you were captured and left alive for unknown reasons. You break out following the voice's instructions (the first puzzle being numbers which you try guessing what the translation is - so full on blind with the voice frantically saying "no not that number!"). The player gains the agent/solider's notes via a phone/digital device that lets the player access what we've learnt including the voice's voice (same setup as the icons but without needing to shoot icons and is on the phone). The voice tells you which door (colour) to take then directions which you figure out on your own while trying to break out of the robot's prison. You break out of the prison with the help of the voice. You need to save the country (or book it to the nearest helicopter/boat that is very far from the player) that's been taken over by evil robots and have no communication back home. I do understand that there is a challenge creating a game like this (with so many language choices). I only gave it a shot since it was on sale and from a small clip of the gameplay in my feed.