Ghana 2025

I’m forced to be a bit of a pedant. Yes, games are always full of conventions. Yes, there are games designed for people who don’t like to think too deeply. But not for the completely mentally deficient! Or do the authors of this game themselves belong to such a category and therefore don’t understand what they’re doing?

Judge for yourselves. There’s a log lying on the ground, blocking half of a wide road, with the other half clear. To the left of the log is a baby elephant, and to the right is an adult elephant waiting for it. And the “talented” designers tell us: “The log is in the way of the baby elephant.” And they suggest we try to move it with something.

But what – can’t baby elephant go around it? And the adult elephant is incapable of moving the log? And what does the player do to help the poor elephants finally reunite? They find a shovel and somehow use it to remove the log. With a shovel? Are you serious? A shovel to move a log that an adult elephant can’t budge?

What were the authors smoking? And who do they consider players to be? And who do those players consider themselves to be, who allow these “talented” designers to treat them this way?