11号小镇综合症

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"11号小镇综合症" (Town 11 Syndrome) is a badly made Chinese e-book with minor gameplay elements... the godawfully bad premise here is that you read a bit of Chinese e-book writing (bad writing, very cringe) and pick out select phrases which get used to create a (godawfully bad) painting... why, you ask? Nobody knows, it's a pointless, weird experimental train wreck. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. The game is quite short, and can be run through in just an hour. The lack of content here makes it hard…

A free game can still have Steam achievements, and 11号小镇综合症 has plenty of obvious opportunities for them. Completing the different customers' painting requests, collecting the tickets and reaching the various story outcomes could all have made for some nice achievement milestones. Instead, there are no Steam achievements or Trading Cards at all. The painting mechanic is also fairly simple and repetitive once you understand how the keyword combinations work, so the lack of any Steam progression makes the game feel even more barebones.

~ DIFFICULTY ~ ✅ My grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 A challenge to be reckoned ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ✅ Normal 🔲 Very Good 🔲 An original artistic direction 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Some lore ✅ It's there for people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts 🔲 A model to get inspired by ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 0 (No story) ✅ Short 🔲 Average 🔲 Long 🔲 To infinity and beyond ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Just filling noises/No music 🔲 Trivial and uneventful ✅ Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions 🔲 Memorable 🔲 Transcending whispers of a forgotten world ~ INTEREST ~ ✅ I would rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive and/or uninspired 🔲 A good moment 🔲 Sticking out of the pack 🔲 You will remember it long after ~ REPLAYABILITY ~ ✅ A one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years (or with mods) 🔲 Definitely 🔲 Infinitely replayable (or almost) ~ BUGS ~ ✅ Never heard of 🔲 Minor bugs 🔲 Can get annoying 🔲 Impacts the player's experience badly 🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ ✅ You can run it on a m…

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