![]() ![]() As a work of art Qin succeeds, but as a game it’s only a passable Myst clone. But most of us do not buy games to be impressed we buy them to have fun. Not all puzzles require searching the encyclopedia for entries that refer to puzzle-related material, but many do — and it gets annoying, feeling more like work and less like gaming.Īnyone interested in the culture and history of China will be impressed by this product. The problem is that I prefer not to have to examine yards and yards of textual rhetoric during my gaming. Ancient Chinese mythology, alchemy, medicine, art, religion, literature, architecture…any historical aspect imaginable is present in the Qin encyclopedia. Qin is half adventure game, half learning software. ![]() Solving puzzles in each realm grants access to the next and eventually one reaches an endgame, after plodding through an endless array of mystical puzzles. Qin is divided into five separate realms: the Plaza, the Palace, the Crypt, the Garden and the Mountain. Set in the burial tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China, Qin places the player in the role of an amateur archaeologist whose job it is to solve puzzles of assorted difficulty and survive pitfalls in order to unravel the mysteries of this historical underworld.
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