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You play the role of a kid growing up in a Chinese household, from birth to 18 years of age, and earn points that can be allocated to various “aptitudes”, including physical performance, intelligence, emotional capacity and artistic talents.
Based on aptitude, you choose to learn different skills with the aim of making your parents proud. This is especially important when your parents compare you with other kids, which is inevitable when other families visit.
These visits are treated as a kind of combat, in which your parents pitch you against other kids as if you were a Pokémon.
If you have been lazy and lack talent, there will be no achievements to show off -- which means your parents will lose “face”. The face value is equivalent to the health bar in regular combat games.