This review is for people who, like me, look at black textboxes with a lot of scary three letter words and angry punctuation and do no immediatly go "Ah he is developping a back-end stack loop-de-loop mysql assembler." It took me 10 tries to print "Hello World" and "arrays", "pointers" and "references" are as mysterious to me as the inner thoughts and preferences of women.

In other words people who are as good as clueless in programming. Song lyrics are more my forte.


Still, I can recommend it with some caveats.

1. You need to look at the manual which can be off-putting but I liked it. It's like f***ing up building Ikea furniture and having to look at the manual except in Shenzhen you are not ashamed to be proud when you fix it.

2. Pay attention to the graphics and screw around a lot. It isn't like how I experienced my attempt at learning python where it goes "syntax error hihi :3 here are 16 angry red lines."
In other words, it feels like the feedback is pretty good.

3. It can be a great introduction to logic, which is helpfull outside of nerd computer stuff.

4. I feel like I already improved in the pretty short time I played. 15 yen mess of microchips that do one task 24 times? Not anymore now it's only 6 yen worth of microchips being completly redundant. I know what an accumulator does (it accumulates).

+Story is decent
+Art is great
+Objectives are clear
+As intuitive as digital wizardy can be
+Takes up less space on ur pc than a highly rendered nipple in CoD Blackest Ops 8 (<0,5gb).
-Not a lot of space to work with when you feel like trying things out.
-game wants you to play Solitare, I don't want to play solitaire I am not a geriatric.


Let me understand the magic rocks filled with lightning, let me talk to them and I will conquer the universe.

Some to-do list games seem fun but end up feeling like work, while most great games never feel like work at all. SHENZHEN I/O gives you both.