Voice of the Ancients

I do like the game and I also like how it was made however there is the point where you have to purchase the other two can you make them all for free please get back to me if you can

Maybe made by an ambitious but premature pioneer; perhaps even the earliest, then forgotten first of its kind; hopefully at least in some sense released too soon to succeed. The premise of text adventure with native vocal interface proved viable enough that there are many such games (most likely, mostly cloned) by now in late 2025. So finding this game 9 yrs after its release, with a fairly recent update, yet not a single prior rating or review was bizarre to say the least. Even if some technical catastrophe had caused complete loss of legacy reactions, it wouldn’t fully account for this void (unless it happened today). Before continuing, I should note that I didn’t check if any of the other games are older, or what their responses are like, or anything else. I did try to try playing this one, but I’ll get back to that. It’s clear that this game is & probably always was a total failure. IMHO, the explanation for how this happened begins and ends with its core premise. Making something fully voice controlled is a demanding proposition. The inherent accessibility it grants to the vision impaired comes at the expense of being able to play silently, which greatly reduces the environments in which playing is possible. While headphones allow audio output, mandatory audio input makes playing in almost any social setting awkward at best. During a flight, train, bus or rideshare trip, for example, who wants to be the obnoxious person talking to their game? So right from the start, you’re at a severe disadvantage employing an interface that by nature reduces practical playability for all. I don’t mean to disparage or condemn the idea, just to honestly state its inherent downside. Given the significant limitations, it is vital for such a game to excel at what it does. The writing, of course must be first rate, with the same added importance as any non graphical game. But when using speech, the best script will then depend upon delivery. It follows that if voice is a game’s primary focus, it ought be the foremost priority. This seems so obvious as to need no mention. Yet it’s here that this game fails before it begins, bringing me back to my attempt to try playing it. Would it ever be acceptable for voice acting in a traditional game to be supplied not by the game itself, but rather through a device’s own AI voices? Of course not, so how magnified is the offense in a game that makes its entire nature speech-based? That’s what this does, and I’ll wager most if not all the others like it do too. Classic monetize piggybacked iOS device features as an original product scheme. Right at the start, after mic and voice recognition permission, it strongly suggests downloading the enhanced premium version of several iOS provided voices, which would require a storage footprint of multiple gigabytes. After seeing that, it became clear that its interactive functionality was also entirely enabled by using iOS capabilities. Just pure sham in my book. Now rewind 9 years, recall the state of voice recognition and range/quality of Siri voices provided a decade ago. On the best devices, maybe a clunky interface and obviously artificial speech. Most would find the experience cheap and unappealing. The piggyback scheme tried to exploit prematurely, before its basis was fully developed. Meanwhile, iOS accessibility has improved dramatically, allowing traditional games to perform better than this would anyway. Back then or now, whatever the piggyback game did was already possible.