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This game looks nice and is easy to navigate, but it wasn't much fun. It's very repetitive. It makes a heavy-handed point if you play through to the end, but some of the subtle changes that happen during the game are easy to misinterpret. I believe that the purpose of the game is to demonstrate what effects water mills had on river-floodplain systems. It sounds like it probably was bad, but I'm not 100% because I don't understand anything I read when I did a search on it. I also don't know what a river-floodplain consists of, or how many there are, but I guess we can be thankful that cheap electricity means we don't have as many water mills around anymore.
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Hmm, I took the in-game literature on floodplain rates as a bit of a joke/red herring. At least, I did in retrospect.
I got to an ending, too, and forgot about the floodplain literature, until now.
I guess maybe I took it too literally? I assumed it had a broad environmental message based on a very specific bit of research.
I’m often surprised by reviews that talk about what an author was trying to say because in a lot of cases, my interpretation was to take it at face value.
Hmm. I hadn't considered that. But you're right. The information is there.
I think since the author labeled it as experimental, they'd welcome multiple interpretations. (I think most authors do.)
As for me, I fell asleep midway through and forgot the beginning when I got back to playing, so I focused on other things. This does seem like a rorschach-test sort of game for me, though, where people can get radically different things from it.
