Hua Mulan: A Chinese Learning Adventure Reviews

I wanted to like this game, but it didn't take long to see that it wasn't what I was looking for. The fact they use TTS for the voices means you aren't hearing anything that seems like normal speech. The stability isn't great, and crashes the steam deck on startup. The controls are janky, and difficult to use. I could see this being great, but it needs more time in the oven and some native speaker voice work.

As it stands I do not recommend. It has some neat concepts but is so buggy and short on content that it is not at all ready for mainstream consumption. One of the biggest frustrations is the performance is absolutely terrible even on my relatively modern hardware and the graphical settings on lowest. It frequently locks up and makes the already slow pace of the game even slower while you are waiting for it to become responsive again. In fact I am writing this review while waiting for it to come back to life. Other things that need major improvement are the way that the english translation is represented. It doesn't show the English translation instead you have a voice tell you after the dialog a vague translation of what they said. This makes it extremely useless for actually learning the language and instead you repeat 你好 and 谢谢 ad nauseum throughout the entire chapter.

I was going to give it a positive review even though it's incomplete and I knew there would be bugs. However, I can't even get past the second task because no matter where I am in the village left-clicking makes me talk to the lady who I'm doing the task for. So I am completely stuck and can't get further than the first few minutes of the game. Tremendously disappointing after waiting so long to give this thing a try. I really hope it doesn't take them a year to fix this because I was enjoying it up until that point.

the concept is awesome. but it needs work. graphics are meh. the dialog is ridged and feels like AI. the mic response could be better. the controls could be smother. but i do like the concept of educational immersion gaming to learn a new language. but at this time cant recommend it until it is a better product.

Janky but fun. Excited to see the updates, cause as it currently stands it's < 1 hr of gameplay and not extremely helpful for anyone at HSK1+. For those beginning, welcome and enjoy this silly little game.

In theory this game is awesome. The concept and integration of learning is quite different from other games. But it goes at an unfortunately slow pace. The graphics need a lot of work as they are so janky and all the voice seems to be done by AI. this takes the personality and immersive feeling out of the game. I wanted to like this game so badly as I had it in my wish list for months but I was just left disappointed. Maybe I will return once they fully launch and see if the devs update the game.