You MUST PLAY This Language Decoding Puzzle Game! - Chants of Sennaar

[@Aliensrock]

I am no longer asking. I demand that you watch this video, because I am making this game into a full series, whether you like it or not.

[@wandrappel]

kk

[@lazygamez7280]

Yes just yes, give me more

[@itskillerluc6168]

You can always demand me to watch puzzle games

[@keyboardperson1672]

Can't believe you liked your own comment.

[@wilesjc0]

On it, sir! 🫡

[@erikm8373]

I think you had to create a fire using the lens in the cave with the preacher as a check to ensure you have the lens, so you can't skip getting it by brute-forcing the graveyard puzzle.

[@globalincident694]

That's true, but there are later puzzles for which there is no similar check. For instance, to leave the next area after the end of this video, you have to find the right combination of bells to ring. And even if you don't brute force, if you are better at figuring out the language than the game expects, you can easily bypass about a quarter of the whole area.

[@dewhi100]

it has indiana jones vibes. he got hardlocked by a lens too.

[@8knights841]

The check probably exists because it was the tutorial, and they don't want you skipping that. Beyond that, if you're that good, go for gold. At least, that's what I think.

[@notsam2270]

@@globalincident694 hopefully there's no consequences to skipping those areas, it would seem great to figure out a language before the game lets you decipher it via the book (for example, figuring out some sort of roman numeral system which i assume is present in this game before the game just counts for you or something)

[@globalincident694]

@@notsam2270 There are consequences to skipping those areas, in that you will miss out on information related to the language - although if you're clever enough to skip those areas, you're probably also clever enough to work it out anyway. Beyond that, there aren't really any consequences. It is possible to figure some things out before the book, but there are some things that are literally impossible without it. In fact, it is sometimes possible (if you don't talk to every character you meet) for the book to prompt you for a word before you actually hear the word spoken.

[@Mythotix]

Finally a game I have beaten 100% BEFORE Tyler plays it! No fear of spoilers for me!

[@yarde.n]

Same here lol.

[@JKd3vLD]

Me too hahaha

[@electra_]

same here

[@dewhi100]

same

[@dwarfspike]

Yup, same. I'm looking forward to Tyler's confusion as it goes on haha

[@dewhi100]

The starter language uses a lot of syntax tricks to make it easy to pick up. It's cool how each language changes their syntax up.

[@ntfoperative9432]

Is this an actual language or did the devs make their own written language for this game?

[@anonymouspotato3453]

@nftoperative9432 I wouldn't be surprised if some symbols were cribbed from real-world writing systems, but all the actual codes were invented by the devs

[@CardboardRaider]

@@ntfoperative9432I recognize some written languages syntax like cuneiform, and Chinese (simplified).

[@dedeking0738]

I personaly love how medicine/potion is basicaly labeled as conteiner for help

[@mcm3061]

This game is an absolute masterpiece. I knew you would love it

[@Stupidplaceholdername]

I LOVE the editor guy's ability to put in tyler's face on a person during an intro. The unseen also deserves some respect.

[@David-gk2ml]

and when the red laser points at "that guy over there" 2:28 LOL

[@cole_etch]

This is a very beautiful puzzle game and I'm glad you're giving it some attention. It's also something pretty untouched in the puzzle community to have these language deciphering type puzzles. Very intriguing and I have to give it a play myself before spoiling it with your videos.

[@TlalocTemporal]

I wish actual language learing apps were built like this, with exemplary usage and continuous reinforcement rather than a single explanation and a single quiz.

[@DensenBro]

​@@TlalocTemporalmake it urself and become rich 😮

[@Oxygen1004]

@@TlalocTemporal I 100% would have done better in my mandatory language classes if I was doing puzzle games to learn it instead of it being force fed to me

[@VoxxeI]

Coincidentally I have thought of making a language based game like this (if I ever learn how to use a game engine) before this game even came out. Now I feel like I shouldn't make a game like this because someone already has thought of that idea and made an absolutely amazing game out of the concept :(

[@TornaitSuperBird]

@@VoxxeIDon't let that stop you from doing the same. Now that someone has already done it, maybe it can be a little easier for you to think of how to make yours work?

[@murphthasmurf5923]

I wasn’t expecting to hear “you are a good boy, you come” but it snapped me back into attention. Anyway this game is like they took the side mechanics of fez/tunic’s optional language translation and made it into the main focus! Super cool.

[@S1LLYB1LLY-HUM4N]

i love those games!

[@KK-ot3si]

I don't have to decipher anything to learn that this is gonna be a great series!

[@omegahaxors9-11]

... will be/was great? series

[@kingsley.]

… later up/great picture picture move?

[@zucchini5056]

Tyler I want to thank you for posting these amazing games, I think I downloaded so many from what you played and they are just amazing!

[@sunnywunny]

tyler excitedly thinking about being called a good boy for opening 2 doors is a mood

[@plague_doctor-scp-049]

some one unlike make this guy have 69 likes

[@punkbandOnline]

Tyler! If you haven’t found the last page for the Devotee language yet, go back to the area with the shops and talk to the guy making pots in the window. When I played through, I couldn’t figure out what I was missing for way too long - it’s an easy interaction to skip. Very much looking forward to this series!

[@yuryrodri]

I didn't even watch the video yet, but knowing that game I know that this series is gonna be a banger

[@sidneyverite1219]

it is

[@DavidNancyTom]

This game reminds me a lot of Heaven's Vault, a space archaeology game where you uncover an ancient civilization and translate their language word by word. You should check it out if you haven't!

[@Acknalogiek]

I love that Tyler has just started giving his editors little challenges in the videos

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

We all know Tyler is good at solving puzzle games but how good is he at solving real puzzles

[@geeteevee7667]

As someone who likes conlangs I see this as an absolute win

[@КсенийКот]

Went into this gamne as soon as I saw the video, beat it in one sitting, forgot to eat, drink and sleep until i did that, me and my friends are HARDCORE fans now. Every detail is in harmony with each other - even the glyph style and the way people build sentences reflect their culture SO good omg were gushing and its so far past midnight and we cant stop talking about how good this game is

[@orchidscion]

i’m a huge fan of chants of sennaar so i’m glad to see this series! i love how all of the languages are different and have their own rules. glad it seems that you’re enjoying the game!

[@chromonym]

My memories of this game are weird because I played it (or at least the first two parts) on various international flights, so it's cool to watch Alie Nsrock play it while I have a slightly more normal concept of time.

[@MinecraftTestSquad]

Yesss!! I'm so glad you're finally playing this. I've been playing it myself for a little while and I'm on the fourth language currently. The game has been amazing so far and it does get even more complicated and fun to work out. I love that there's actually patterns within the characters you can figure out and use to your advantage. That has helped me a ton.

[@Carma281]

4?

[@triattack8068]

Funnily enough, I got through the entire game without ever considering the patterns and only using context clues.

[@cobaltchromee7533]

For the first time ever, I felt like I knew something before Tyler. This game looks brilliant, I'm glad it's gonna be a series

[@historymaker118]

I'm glad I discovered this game and 100%'d it before watching this video. This game is incredible and so much fun! What is really cool is coming back to it to do a second run once you've learned all the languages and being able to just understand all the symbols without making notes.

[@Acedog11]

This is the first time I've had to stop watching a video, before I even got to the half way point- because i'm HOOKED on this game idea, and really didn't want to spoil it for myself without a playthrough. Thank you for showing this game off.

[@yarde.n]

This is one of my favourite games from the last few years. Such a joy to see you play it.

[@willropa4226]

It's such an interesting gameplay style, so simple yet so amazing, I never knew I'd find it so fun having to try and decipher what each word and sentence is. I'd love seeing more games try out this puzzle style.

[@BoiGamer124]

YES!! Not enough people are playing this game on KZbin, thank you for this 🎉

[@daviskornblum9959]

PLEASE do more of this game - hopefully there’s a lot more and you can do multiple episodes but the puzzling through language is just so fascinating to me

[@mailingcat]

This concept is actually sick. I’m definitely gonna binge this series.

[@deeznoots6241]

Love how he’s good at figuring most stuff out, but he sees a place full of instruments and doesn’t immediately realise the sign is ‘instruments’

[@wollywog42]

Tyler I found your channel recently and I love your content. I’ve been binging many of your playlists already and I’m hooked. Keep up the good work!

[@xicufwm]

Okay, that's the first time I'm NOT going to watch a series in this channel because I don't want this game spoiled to me! Usually I love just watching Tyler playing a game instead of playing it myself, but this one I really want to try unspoiled!

[@JakeJakayo]

I finished this game in one sitting, took about 6 hours, looking forward to this game from your perspective

[@tomoose_art]

I would absolutely love to play a game like this where you start from English and have to translate to another language with similar ancestory, lets say Spanish or German and then you have to translate that into something with a different script like Russian, Hindi or Arabic and then translate it again into another, more difficult language script such as Japanese or Chinese. It would just be fun to learn and explore new languages in this way.

[@OliviaSNava]

This game is one of my favorites to come out in quite some time. I wish tunic had some of the mechanics in this game, it would've made it a lot easier and more enjoyable.

[@queenchaosyet]

Your thumbnail gave me a good chuckle because I’ve just beaten this game myself so I tried to translate what you put on the left then read the right after and did a spit take lmfaoooo. I love the pacing of your editing! Most other CoS playthroughs have little to no editing so having it be shorter helps with my abysmal attention span

[@juliocesarcamilo5132]

the glyphs on the thumbnail mean "devotee seek/want god" for the curious

[@alexanderf8451]

This seems really cool. I love the thought put into the language design. Presumably the later languages get more complex with modifiers and such?

[@HaloInverse]

Not so much with modifier _complexity,_ but the grammar rules (and compound-glyph rules) definitely change between languages. Also, the languages don't always have words for the same concepts (different cultures -> different worldviews/priorities), so sometimes you have to get "creative" when translating sentences from one language to another.

[@angeloid_]

I really wish this game DIDN'T tell you whether or not you had the words correct, and just substituted them in afterward. It would be up to you to constantly guess your own assumptions, and would be more accurate to actual language decoding.

[@Royalleague45]

I absolutely adore this game, I took Chinese for three years and loved you you could usually combine characters to make a new one. It really does have a great way of teaching you a language.

[@IcelyPuzzles]

you're telling me i must play this game o_o_o_o_o_o okay

[@lior_haddad]

Do it

[@CHAZZRMAN]

Hiecly

[@IcelyPuzzles]

chess battle advanced@@CHAZZRMAN

[@lior_haddad]

Chants Bof Sennaadvanced

[@Rev_Erser]

​@@IcelyPuzzlesadvanced battle chess

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

If real languages were created to be this clear, there would be a whole lot less communication issues. The fact that it all seems to make sense, its all connected, and its logically consistent is pretty incredible. Props to the devs.

[@cyberneticsquid]

The thing is "real" languages don't tend to have easily-identifiable creators in charge of all the rules

[@VoxxeI]

You should check out conlangs. They are basically languages made by one person or a small group of people which makes them much more clear on the way they are communicated. I recommend checking out toki pona, which is currently the most popular conlang.

[@deeznoots6241]

Tbf real languages probably started like this, but natural evolution caused massive divergences, especially as multiple languages mixed together and gave each other words

[@GlitchPloit]

(Thumbnail) *gladly.*

[@qoombert]

remember the game called tribal & error? it was like this, but with cavemen and a robot. It has unfortunately been abandoned

[@aaces5023]

This was one of the first puzzle games I've played in a long time, it's a great one! Glad to see you're playing it :)

[@miguelmachado5607]

This is one of the best games you’ve shown this year, hopefully you continue and make a series of this.

[@AlbySilly]

Watched the first 10 ish seconds of the video, paused and grabbed the demo, really liked it so I bought the full game, 10 hours later i completed the game and now I'm gonna sit back, relax, and watch this video. Thanks for sharing this wonderful game

[@caseyfuller9377]

Thanks for taking my suggestion :) Love this game!

[@DagoDuck]

I watched the whole video, then asked myself if you would make this into a series, and then I read your pinned comment. Couldn't be better.

[@Ninjaberry17]

This game looks phenomenal and I truely hope you do a complete series on it

[@itsbombervr8611]

This game is super interesting! Glad a full series is getting made cuz I definitely wanted!

[@jyoumon123]

Oh this game is facinating, I love that it lets you guess at meanign and then recontextualizes and fully defines once you've learned more

[@aj_they]

I played this game recently, I absolutely loved it, I’m so glad I’ll be able to watch you play it!

[@richardtokarcik2218]

I played through the game. Its epic. I liked the story, the puzzles, the struggles I had especially in the third area. I recommend you to scout all the passage ways of each area to figure out all the glyphs. They will be useful later.

[@cyanite15]

I'm so hyped for this. I enjoyed NL's sponsored first look but there are no more videos on it so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the game.

[@FernTheRobot]

As a person fluent in devotee, this video is a blast to watch! Or as Tyler will put it: [you] [tower] [go/come] [me].

[@CorodonSilvern]

Watched a single minute. Bought it. Beat it in 9hrs of play time. Loved it and am now finishing the video.

[@Sintanity]

Watched about five minutes of this before buying the game to play through myself!! I really enjoyed it, now I'm looking forward to watching all your videos on it :D

[@hezecut7342]

One of the rare times I'm gonna go play the game and come back to the video. Thanks for digging up these gems Tyler!

[@keyforlock4299]

Bought and finished this game in less than 24 hours of you uploading this video. Now I can watch the playthrough :)

[@ilikepie4685]

Ooh I saw a spoiler free review on this game! It looks so cool and the language mechanic seems easy to understand!

[@The_Dreadwin]

LOVED THE GAME! i am gonna play it myself as i watch the series

[@SoulStrikes]

FINALLY,this is legit one of the few puzzle game I played start to finish,its just so good

[@coltimgregory]

Bought the game after watching the first 10 miutes, finished it in two days I liked it so much, and now we're back to watch your run!

[@elanimate5716]

I was looking for new games the other week and this one popped up on my radar. So glad you’re playing it. It’s awesome

[@acquaintedfowl1767]

probably the only puzzle game that i've fully completed before you played it, this game is amazing! i hope you enjoy it as much as i did.

[@rojnx9]

A crossover between two of my favourite youtube genres... linguistics/conlangs and puzzles

[@AldoGuerraALDO-METAL]

I started looking for guides and hints for this game and your thumbnail cracked me up so much, I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes straight. I needed that laugh😂. Thanks!

[@EverythingTheorist]

9:56 I love the editing for this bit. It adds to the "I got owned"-ness of the situation in a hilarious way.

[@itskillerluc6168]

Was waiting for 18:00 new vid AND food. Can’t get any better than that.

[@LUNESAUR]

This game looks awesome and unique. Really interested in a full series on it.

[@Stafry]

0:04 Also available on Xbox. Had a blast deciphering all the glyphs and doing the sneaking and having to go back after the "'bad ending" to get the good ending. We definitiatly need more puzzle games like this. P.S. Love your vids! Keep up the good work.

[@nebulae5236]

Seeing this is making me want Tyler to play Tunic more than ever, other puzzle games may have more difficult or well crafted puzzles, but Tunic pushes your curiosity to the limit and makes you want to solve its world more than any other puzzle game I've ever seen. As somebody that's been with the channel for years, I cannot recommend Tunic enough!!!! (I still have the sheets of paper I used for sketching out the puzzles with me :)

[@Taruby]

The issue with Tunic is that there is gameplay, and the gameplay portions are very difficult. I've never seen a video where I've seen Tylor play a game with difficult action RPG elements.

[@nebulae5236]

There are accessibility options to make the game easier, but I don’t know if Tyler would want to use them. Either way, the game at least deserves a chance!

[@Ironnerd63sChannel]

I just saw this on Steam a week ago, I'm so glad you're playing it!

[@Qaetan]

I am constantly at a loss when it comes to your content, @Aliensrock. See the problem here is I fucking LOVE puzzle games, I don't want any spoilers, but I also want to support your channel. Take my upvote, and I'll return to watch this video after I beat the game!

[@alptech322]

oh my gosh, thanks for actually checking it out... I had hoped that you would like it

[@sans69042]

for some reason i love the kinds of game where you have to learn a language i dont know but i love it for some reason so please do a full series

[@ReySilverskin]

I watched the first three minutes of this video before I decided I loved the concept so much that I would stop watching, buy the game, and play through the entire game myself first to avoid being spoiled. That was about eight hours ago. I do not regret my decision one bit. Now I'm back to watch you do it. 🙂

[@nhuthuynhminh2603]

Yess finally you play this. Its probably the editing but watching you play this game is so much better than others i have seen lol, you play lots of puzzle games.

[@Tumbleweed3905]

This game is amazing! I've been following your content for months and this is the first time I'm commenting! Love the content, keep it up!

[@madoakuma4509]

I already love this game, although, admittedly, it would be funny a game that does not verify the words so that there could be plotwists that change the whole story of the game and such

[@VodkaGerbil]

Tyler, I’m on my work lunch so I couldn’t catch the early wave. Love the videos! The videos being 20-30mins fills out my lunch perfectly! Keep up the great work!

[@bobbob1312]

I would LOVE for you to keep playing this. this seems like such a good series.

[@WCGamesOfficial]

First Cocoon, then this game; both of my new favorite puzzle games I've been wanting Tyler to play are getting played. I am so happy

[@first_ghost_]

Wow! That was great! Found that game recently, and really enjoyed it. Please continue, this game is awesome!

[@weirdalexander8193]

When you’re done chanting in Sennaar, I highly recommend submachine:legacy, an anthology of damn good flash-era point and click games remastered on steam and itch and stuff. Then again, it’s more of an adventure than your “oops all puzzles” repertoire. Still, play it in your off time, as someone who’s played the original games constantly, and just 100%d it this morning (it came out like yesterday, didn’t feel like pulling an all nighter), it is the good stuffs!

[@cymen6188]

Yes please full Series! I'm already hooked.

[@Captaindragonfire]

I'm glad you decided to play this. I could only get through the first bit of Northernlion's video before I was screaming at my screen

[@Solusarian]

Seen it from another streamer, and I couldn't see the puzzle aspects of the game with how they played it. This looks so interesting, especially with multiple languages at play.

[@junebyrd]

I played the demo and loved it, so to see you play it and enjoy it makes me super happy.

[@holyhandgrenade5]

This video is very intriguing, I like trying to figure it out before he does. I like this game quite a bit more than some of the other games this week!

[@SomeMrMindism]

The language of the devotee is interesting, it's a blend between Chinese and Korean. Anyway, line under means "verb", open parenthesis besides a glyph means "tool" (tool plant = pot, tool music = instrument, etc.) while a square around a glyph means "place" (place death: cemetery)

[@kito2949]

I have been rewatching your videos since you went on break, and it feels so weird to not see any new videos for this long cus I watch like 90% of your stuff lol. Hope you recover soon :D

[@serketenglish5963]

This is super cool. I would love to see more games with language and decoding systems like this.

[@razielhamalakh9813]

Oh man you're gonna love this. The ultimate puzzle is a work of art.

[@SkellyOfJudgment]

This would be a fun language learning game for a real language. Duolingo should take notes.

[@klikkolee]

Seven minutes into the vid, I was hooked on the game and had to play it myself. It was pretty great. Time to come back and see how things go for you

[@Blodyx_]

I just finished the game yesterday, and its so much fun watching you solve it incorrectly while knowing the answer :D

[@AceFuzzLord]

10:03 If you ask me, pure chance based games are great. Who needs skill when you can have the thrill of not knowing what's going to happen? When you can't predict the next move? Creates a lot of fun, in my opinion.

[@Non-binaryCup]

I can’t wait for this series to continue, I’m already loving it

[@HameleoshaDeHoga]

This is a really interesting game, and it mustve been like a puzzle for the devs to make it too, because i think making up a whole new language is hard on its own, and they also had to build a game around it, with puzzles