Now we can all fight the flood.
One month after it was released in Thai, an English-language version of an edutainment smartphone app designed to teach children flood safety has been released.
“Help Sai Fah, a young kid in Samran Town, to face the threats hidden in the dangerous flood water while he is on the quest to reunite with his mom,” reads the description on Google’s Play store. “You and Sai Fah will experience the realities before, during and after a flood and will learn together what to prepare and how to react when a flood disaster strikes!”
“Sai Fah: The Flood Fighter,” made by a Thai developer on behalf of UNESCO Bangkok, is also available on iOS.
As players progress through the game, each level features mini-puzzles which require them to consider safety as they solve problems.
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So, being fans of fighting games whether street or blood or flood, we downloaded it to give it a try. Certainly Sai Fah, being the titular Flood Fighter, would unleash some furious Muay Thai to fend off looters and worse. But after downloading all 78 megabytes of it, we quickly grew bored of walking him around to click on things that neither exploded, died or screamed in agony. Fortunately finding a way to turn off the rage-inducing music was easy enough.
Fortunately we’re not the target audience.
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A lack of weapons, power-ups, character development and fully articulated dismemberment make “Sai Fah: Blood Fighter” difficult to recommend.
