Another freebie on Steam but this one is special as the only language available is Chinese.
From the website:
《丽丽公主》是一款以RPG形式制作的文字冒险游戏，游戏第一章以改编法国作家小仲马的著作《茶花女》剧情为开篇，随后引入第二章“迷失小镇”，第三章“温蒂妮之恋”，以及第四章“梅奥的格里希”，剧情与解谜相辅相成，上演了一段温情而感人的爱情故事。
本作有着丰富的游戏剧情，生动的情景解谜，有趣的人物特技，同时也不乏卖萌与幽默。
另外，本作独特的文本优化，更是极大地提高了文字阅读的顺畅性，让更多不爱看书的人喜欢上视觉小说！
Enjoy!
You’ve convinced me. Xie xie.
Targeted to only about 1/5 of the world.
Then every deal not having all languages of the world is "kind of targeted."
There are a lot more native Chinese speakers than there are native English speakers.
There are a lot more native Chinese English speakers than there are native English Chinese speakers.
But free is free. Thanks OP
So you changed it. What does that prove? Totally useless and meaningless comment you made there.
In 20 years time at the most (providing immigration levels keep steady) everyone in Australia will be learning Chinese as the second official language and after that it becomes a native language.
@Lysander: I don’t see that happening. Even China doesn’t know what Chinese is. Only like 70% of China speaks Mandarin. The other part speaks other dialects like Cantonese.
English is just one of those languages that are easy to learn as a second language so is it currently the most globally used and is this iconic symbol associated with free speech. I don’t see it being replaced anytime soon unless there is a massive shift in how the work operates, especially the American entertainment system.
@SlappersOnly: Dunno about the 'free speech', but it is heavily ingrained in software and computer hardware programming…. Tho French and Latin are not the franca lingua they used to be so anything could happen say 100+ years down the line…..
@SlappersOnly: Annually about 135,000 - 170,000 student applications are granted for Chinese students. According to some mates of mine who work at immigration virtually all of those apply for a graduate visa afterwards, and then for permanent residency. Only those that somehow manage to fail all the different kinds of the compulsory English test go back which are very, very few according to my mates.
As the Chinese often have large families (as have other Asian cultures) and try to get them to Australia (Grandfather, Uncle, Aunt etc.) the actual net number is likely to be significantly higher. But even without that.
Assume 135,000 Chinese coming into the country year on year for 20 years - that makes almost 3 million in students. Add to that the permanent residencies every year (flowing from the graduate visas) and you have virtually double that. Then consider the existing Chinese population and you see that soon the number will be so great that Mandarin and Cantonese will indeed be a second official language.
For example, at UTAS the huge majority of foreign students are from China and the number keeps growing every year. UTAS buys up buildings and even hotels allover town to build accommodation.
See for example: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/stati…
@Lysander: You don't get to discount non-native speakers. As long as Chinese people keep learning to speak English, these numbers don't change.
Australia doesn't have an officially declared language - not even English. Look it up.
@bigbadboogieman: Well, guess what it is: British English.
And mate, be honest, unless done for learning purposes you would not play a game in a non-native language. Do you really think that most Chinese would prefer English over Chinese?
Why do you think there is a Steam client in Chinese and many other languages? Because people prefer their own language over English.
To make it short: a freebie potentially applicable to 1.5 billion people is not exactly targeted as you said.
The end.
@Lysander: Nah man it's targeted……. and I am just trying to pull your leg.. haha. We'll like it when you get all worked up.
@bigbadboogieman: And my office likes remarks like yours. We even have a table/ranking in the office - you are now officially in the top ten although it will be a long way to top - you can guess who sits there.
@Lysander: Probably JV. Hahahah good to know it's a long way for me. Come on man I am your biggest fan.. 😊
In 20 years time at the most (providing immigration levels keep steady) everyone in Australia will be learning Chinese as the second official language and after that it becomes a native language.
You're in for some disappointment if you truly believe that. Only in the days of Khans and conquerors did nations bother to change their official languages and even then, complete language extinction was a phenomenon that took a very, very long time (on the order of centuries); human beings are naturally resistant to change and language is one of those aspects of our socio-cultural milieu we change last.
The cost, institutional restructuring and length of time required in changing a nation's de facto official language is the reason it has only occurred roughly 5 times since the start of the 20th century, and even then, those cases were mostly isolated to extremely underdeveloped, poor countries like Timor Leste, Gabon and Rwanda which never had much of a functioning central government and thus required less institutional reorganization to effect language reform.
The only example I can think of in modern times of a geographically and demographically large nation with a diverse population that actually wholesale changed its language is Turkey's transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish Republic, in which they not only changed alphabets from the Arabic script to the Latin alphabet (which the Turkish people of the 1920s had zero familiarity with), but also significantly reorganized their language into Modern Turkish, which is now so divergent from Ottoman Turkish, that modern Turkish people are unable to understand written or spoken Ottoman Turkish.
That process was an incremental transformation that took decades and decades and only by about 1980, were the vestiges and influences of Ottoman Turkish finally reduced to the point that Turkey could consider its current official language as truly representative of the speech of 90% or more of its population.
Just imagining the effort that it would require to translate Australia's entire legislative corpus into another language beggars belief.
@Gnostikos: By that time at least 1/3 of the population will be Chinese so there will be little to no resistance to introducing a parallel official language.
De facto, economically, Australia is already a dependent of China.
@Lysander: See… Like I said, people here kind of enjoy when you get worked up … :)
FYI.. I am pretty sure we can grow our own food if China stops buying stuff from us. So yeah, no dependency even though it may appear as superficial depency on China to the naive.
@bigbadboogieman: Hey, I have no issue with this situation as I have more than one country to go to and live.
If China stops buying stuff from and in Australia the future looks dire.
Have a check how many huge farms were bought in the last 10 years by the Chinese.
I think I read that over 50% of all Australian agricultural land is now in direct or indirect Chinese ownership.
So much for growing your own food.
@Lysander: Yeah nah mate.. the Aussies will probably cancel their visas and deport them. Whoever's left will be Aussie citizens since China doesn't recognise dual citizenship so yeah if push comes to shove "we" will grow our own food and if we don't have land then we will be the workforce for the government's farm land.
By that time at least 1/3 of the population will be Chinese so there will be little to no resistance to introducing a parallel official language.
Nice attempt at improving your social credit score but I don't think the CCP was watching, comrade.
I'm sure you've earned at least ¥0.50 for your efforts though.
It'll take a lot more than having a one-third minority, with very little political representation or lobbying power, to swing the entire nation's stance on our official language.
Australia isn't even an independent nation in the first place. We're still part of the Commonwealth and thus still possess a very pervasive legacy of British influence and still have a Governor-General who can effectively shut down our key political processes at the UK's behest if they feel we're drifting too far out of their sphere of influence.
There's also the ANZUS treaty, ECHELON and the intense subordination of Australia's defence policy, military strategy and intelligence agencies by the US.
All of those interests are far more powerful and deeply entrenched than a recent trend of Chinese immigration which still doesn't make up our largest foreign-born migrant group, which has always been British citizens.
De facto, economically, Australia is already a dependent of China.
China's more dependant on Australian minerals than we are on China's low-quality junk.
This entire Chicom fantasy of a new "Chinese century" is laughable.
All it took was Trump imposing some tariffs, blacklisting Chinese companies and another influenza outbreak to cripple China's economic growth to the point where they've had their worst quarter in 27 years.
You keep chugging the Kool-Aid all you like, but China's struggling just to keep a bunch of Uyghurs and students in Hong Kong in line; meanwhile the US spends more on defence than the next 10 largest military budgets combined, while China has 2 functioning aircraft carriers (and both of them are based on ancient ex-Soviet designs). When push comes to shove, China will fold like the paper tiger it is.
What people like yourself fail to realise is what exactly China and the US are competing over and how important the US dollar's status as the reserve currency of the world and as the currency of choice for hydrocarbon trade is, and what the US will do to maintain that supremacy. We've been in a constant state of war since 9/11 because of those very facts and America won't hesitate to pull rank on China to keep them from challenging that hegemony.
I don't particularly care for either side here; both are tyrannical, imperialist regimes that offer a horrific future for mankind if they assume unchallenged control of the world, but if I was a betting man, I'd back the horse I know has the better odds.
I don’t speak Chinese and don’t intend to learn. Added to my Steam Account! Thanks OP
free is free
"Princess Lili" is a text adventure game made in the form of RPG. The first chapter of the game begins with the adaptation of the French writer Xiao Zhongma's work "La Traviata", and then introduces the second chapter "Lost Town", The chapters "Windini's Love" and the fourth chapter "Mayo's Griech", the plot and the puzzle are mutually reinforcing, and a warm and touching love story is staged.
This game has a wealth of game plots, vivid situational puzzles, interesting character stunts, and at the same time sells adorable and humorous.
In addition, the unique text optimization of this book has greatly improved the smoothness of text reading and made more people who do not like reading like visual novels!
Saved everyone a copy/paste.
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Don't learn Chinese just for this guys, not worth it unless you're a 10 year old girl