Последние обзоры Sea Burial

Good.

Temporary review which I'll edit later, but I want to give a positive review while this game is fresh. While not perfect, Hunt the Night is GOOD. The boss fights (I've just completed the third at the time of this review) feel great, the world looks nice visually, and exploration is pretty much always rewarded. There are some bugs that should get ironed out, but I'm sure that'll happen in the near future.

EDIT: I've 100 percented the game so I feel qualified to leave a better review now. Overall quality is good though it feels the best during the prologue. I think the game could use more connective tissue for why you're doing what you're doing in the various zones, but on the whole exploration feels rewarded and the combat feels enjoyable. Later bosses aren't quite as interesting to me as the earlier ones, but there aren't any fights that I felt were bad (devs if you see this I wouldn't mind the damage tuned down and the moveset tuned up on the final boss.)

Worth purchasing and playing.

Having only played vanilla P3 and P3:FES, I'm pleased with this edition. It looks and sounds fine on my machine, I haven't encountered any crashes, slowdowns or bugs, and while if you're used to the PS2 versions the P3P is initially an adjustment, it's one that I've made pretty quickly.

For first timers, this is a great way to finally experience the first "modern" Persona title. It came out before Obama was president, so please don't expect something as slick to play as P5/P5R, but it's exceptional in terms of atmosphere and writing. $20.00 is a steal, too, for how much content there is in this; male and female MCs have a lot of different experiences available to them, and it's worth your time to do both.

Inside apparently took me 3.9 hours, but it felt a lot more like 10+. I have this feeling that when this game was mapped out, the devs had this one really cool scene in mind - if you've played it, you know the one I mean - and were having a real head scratcher trying to figure out how to justify charging $20.00 for that, so they slapped another 3.5 hours of content together, had their 5th graders take a crack at some puzzles, and congratulated themselves on a job very well done.

I paid $2.00 for this game, and while I cannot say that this is a lot of money, what I will say is that I could probably buy 6 McNuggets for that same price. While McNuggets are not always good, based on my past experiences with them and my past experiences with Inside, I think that I probably would have had a better time overall with them. So if we consider that maybe 15-20 minutes of this game is (from my perspective) worth your time, we're looking at a ratio of 2 dollars to 15-20 minutes. If I told you that you could watch MOST of an episode of Community if you gave me two bucks, you probably wouldn't take me up on that offer, so why would you take up Inside?

At the end of the day I do not recommend Inside, and the appropriate pricing that I should have paid is an apology to me from everyone who tricked me into playing it.

One of the best and most rewarding examples of rewarding puzzles and rewarding exploration that I've played in years. An absolute must play.

If Chained Echoes had been released for the SNES or the PS1, we'd still be talking about it today as a classic from that era. It draws clear inspiration from some of the best from that period and puts it in a modern context. The sprite work, the music, the combat, and the story: all exceptional. That this is the work of one person is unbelievable. Worth purchase at full price, and an absolute must on sale.

An incredibly high quality remake that combines the best parts of all versions of this game. A masterwork of storytelling and design that you cannot afford to miss if you have any interest in RPGs or tactical games. There simply are no competitors.

I'd also say take the negative reviews with a grain of salt: while this isn't for everyone (it can be hard, and demands adaptability) a lot of the upset seems to be over relatively minor issues like naming conventions.

I can't think of any other game that took me over a hundred hours to finish which, when I was done, I immediately and happy restarted. Every time you think there can't be more to do, there is.

Tightly designed, fun to play and full of content. Visually appealing, great audio design, and interesting progression/character changing mechanics. It feels like a genuine pleasure to explore and never wears its welcome thin. Highly recommended for any fan of metroidvanias.

In short: while not a perfect game, Masquerada is an excellent game: something refreshing for strategy RPG fans who want an innovative take on the genre, and something lovingly crafted for fans of caring, attentive design. A tragically overlooked game that deserves much more attention than it's received.

PRO:
-Visually a delight - extensive use of color and themes which are very rarely used in gaming.
-Excellent voice acting - there are some pretty big names for the size of this game, and they try their hardest.
-(Relatively) engaging combat - while I don't view the battle system as by any means perfect, it does enough different and offers enough in the way of options to let you develop your own style.
-Very good music - Someone more than earned their salary, and the few tracks with lyrics are absolutely the highlight.
-A story that kept my attention throughout, and left me interested in seeing what comes next every chapter.

CON:
-A heavy reliance on reading. While it makes the world feel more organic to not have characters immersed in a society need to discuss basic details of it, the player is faced with the arduous choice of either proceeding through scenes and learning based on context clues (which is what I settled into after a certain point) or stopping many times during an act to read each new lore entry on culture/history/characters/magic/factions/etc. I feel bad saying this to an extent, because whoever did that writing really, really cared about what they were doing and I love that kind of passion, but more of an attempt to make me meld into the world without needing to read a pause menu novel would have gone a long way to smoothing over the flow of the game.
-Limited growth - Early in the game you pick from one of four elements, which follow certain archetypes for play style, and commit to it. You can select abilities from your chosen element, and manage which skills you use within those confines (so someone could play earth mask very differently than I did), but your involvement in your character's growth largely ends there. There is no equipment to manage, really only two statistics which matter, and no real way of feeling like your character is 'rewarded' for winning fights other than the occasional, seemingly random skill point drop. The nice thing is that if you hate the way you're playing, you can easily and freely (as there is no currency) reset skill points.
-Combat is kind of easy - there are a few fights that were troublesome, and it may also play into the fact that I focused on my abilities in such a way that health going low was more or less impossible, but very few encounters posed any level of a threat to me after a certain point in the game. This is fine, and it still felt fun, and perhaps I would have even liked the game less if they'd been harder fights, given the lack of character growth outside of abilities, but I feel it is probably a net negative.