(played through a different client) This game was a big, big surprise. It's what I play when I just want the rest of the world to curl up and die in a corner somewhere, slowly and painfully. Which is a blood-drenched accolade for a very peaceful game. You play as an archaeologist - though a weird one, as the people around you don't believe in history, for religious reasons. You get to visit beautiful places. You get to fly around, and it's stunning and calming and awesome. You could skip it, but why would you? You also play as a ridiculously bad scholar. Sure, you see an antique bit of...whatever, and you can tell right away how old it is, and where in the universe it comes from. The text on it? No clue. In a way, deciphering those texts IS the game, and it's great fun. This is a game that somehow managed to fill all empty areas around my screen with densely-written post-it notes. The fact that an apparently educated protagonist never seems to realize the words for "Heaven" and "Heaven's" are related is baffling though. On the other hand... the moment you realize that they are, and why and how they're related, is glorious. Play this if you love languages, or if you love discovering stuff for discovery's sake, or whenever the world around you gets altogether too real.
