书之旅人 Story Walker

I have no idea what is going on since the game is only in Chinese but the art style is extremely cool and I highly suggest giving it a try just for the art style Hopefully one day it will be available in english Also the game has catboys :3

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"书之旅人 Story Walker" is a poorly made casual Chinese walking sim adventure/puzzle game thing... you control a little girl, walk around low poly cel shaded cartoony environment with nothing much really to do... I mean the developer themselves tell you to try to stay awake when you play this. I didn't think that would be hard, but yeah I really wanted to go to bed instead of playing this any longer. What do you do in the game? Just walk around and click through badly written Chinese VN text. 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 g…

Visually this is one of the most unique and beautiful games I've ever played. The developers and artists deserve the highest praise for everything from character sprites to animations to landscape textures - even if I can't read Chinese to save my life, it was so relaxing to walk through peaceful forests and bright sunflower fields, and the way they generated waterfalls and fires was divine. I've never seen this brand of graphics before and I'm in love. Sadly I couldn't progress much because of the language barrier, but if they ever come out with an English translation I'll gladly be the first to play it!

[h1]Before I played 书之旅人 Story Walker, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Zero idea of what I should be doing, but the art style kept me in. It's a short game with an amazing art style, just walking throught the forest was really, really appealing to my eyes. I would advise to take a peek at the game just to experience the art and the music.