The Beginner's Guide

This is an interesting walking sim that makes us think about our lives. It's during the walking that we're listening to a narrator, and we're also thinking to ourselves, "What's the point of this game or how does this apply to my life?" I sort of dislike the narrator, Davey, by the end of the game. Davey's an unreliable narrator that won't let Coda be a free person, and that's sad, and we get to experience that in this explorative experimental game. For some reason this game inspires me to make games—at least try making simple stuff at first.\ It's a short game. Go ahead and give it a try.

This game is beautiful. It has a coherent plot even though the environment sometimes doesn't make sense. I love how the game reveals things to you and leaves a mystery with you. 10/10 wish I could replay for the first time.

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the narrator's voice...cant listen to it for hours game is way too slow waste of time

我相信你玩完后会有自己的感悟

First off, I have never played The Stanley Parable, and I don't think I ever will. Secondly, the game crashes on my PC as soon as I launch it, apparently due to how many cores my CPU has or something. So I played it entirely on Steam Deck with mouse and keyboard. Something about The Beginner's Guide speaks to me. I don't know if it's because I'm an amateur dev myself, or because I just generally connect to it's themes and ideas. The disparity in the narrative to pit intrinsic and extrinsic motivation against each other is the analysis that I keep returning to this game for. I've watched multiple playthroughs on Youtube from multiple people, though, actually playing the game, I couldn't help but feel disconnected for some reason. But maybe that's a problem with me, and how I've somehow made this entire review about myself. Anyways, I find this game to be interesting to think about.