The Roottrees are Dead

Worth the time working out the mystery, it's definitely not easy, but it's very interesting and keeps you guessing the whole time. If you're a puzzle solver, then this is for you.

I got the gnarly brain fog and cognitive loss from my 2 bouts of covid, so I've been playing detective and logic puzzle games in an effort to combat that. I started this game yesterday afternoon thinking I could just do little chunks of it at a time like I do with the Murdle books. But then OOPS I stayed up until 1am finishing the main game and I'm about to spend most of this afternoon doing Roottreemania. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just say that this game is amazing and deeply engrossing. If you like mysteries and logic puzzles, play this game. If you don't love it, I'll eat my hat. Which would be a neat trick as I don't have one.

Excellent jeu d'enquête, la difficulté est bien dosée et l'on finit par se prendre de passion pour l'histoire de la famille Roottree. Je trouve cependant dommage de ne pas pouvoir marquer les dates de naissance et de décès sur l'arbre généalogique.

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tl;dr the first half (The Roottrees are Dead) is **PERFECT**, the second half (Roottreemania) is...frustrating like a failed attempt to copy the first. I guess this is still a yes but keep that in mind. Roottreemania ruins a core part of fun of the original Roottree: cross-referencing of materials. In the original Roottree you're working with materials about a whole family, so you get stories from different angles, putting those pieces together and revealing new keywords make the network and your mapping of the whole story complete, packed with "wow wtf" moments. In Roottreemania you aren't really working with one family tree, but many of them that aren't related to each other at all. It'd be too simple if everything are just a few keywords away right? So to delay your search, the team made more hops towards the end, added more periodicals, piles of irrelevant haystacks that aren't even good red herrings. Many of the searches no longer feels like "wait this is a direction" but more "yeah I have to meticulously go through all keywords I don't know why". This becomes a frustrating process of diving down rabbit holes that are deep just for the sake of it, mixed with red herrings muddling up your mind map even more. There are moments that I have webs/chains of a certain group of people and I was just too lost that I don't even remember why did I have that chain in the first place. Needless to say that means there's not much storytelling when it's just branches of shallow "lives of someone". I wish Roottreemania was nearly as polished and crafted as the original Roottree. One evidence of how messy Roottreemania is that I have to use up every single page of my notebook - didn't have to use that much at all when solving the original Roottree. The fanned out rabbit holes and a bad note-taking UI combined is a nightmare. If I have to redesign the UI, the first thing I'd do is add post-it to the corkboard, it would be at least much easier to solve any timeline puzzles with a more visualized mind map.

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