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《潜水员戴夫》初见给人以美轮美奂的感觉，但当你潜入其中时，你会发现一个隐藏在海平面下的巨大且奇妙的世界。这款以水为主题的冒险游戏超越了我的预期，其中包含了令人难以抗拒的探索、模拟经营和小游戏等玩法，不断地吸引我深入其中，甚至让我忘记了时间的流逝。

《潜水员戴夫》的角色和剧情都非常丰富，内容超出了我的预料，带来了无数惊喜。如果有人告诉我今年玩过的最佳游戏会是一款复古独立RPG，扮演经营寿司店的胖胖潜水员，我可能不会相信，但《潜水员戴夫》确实做到了。这款游戏不仅看起来很棒，体验也非常出色。

游戏主要讲述了一群可爱的同事在神秘的蓝洞附近开寿司店的故事。这个巨型蓝洞每天都会变换地貌和生态系统。玩家将扮演戴夫，一个胖胖的潜水员，他总是半推半就地满足着生活中每个人的异想天开。在这段可爱又无厘头的经历中，你会遇到鲛人族文明、激进的野生动物保护者，以及对戴夫体重评头论足的人们。尽管剧情看似简单直白，但却意外地充满内涵，角色们比他们初亮相时的像素风面孔复杂得多。即便我已经在游戏中投入了30多个小时，我仍然渴望与班乔（坚忍、无畏的寿司厨子）和达夫（沉迷二次元的枪匠）共度时光。每当与这些角色互动时，游戏都会呈现出非常有趣且令人难忘的过场动画，充分展示了角色的个性。

《潜水员戴夫》不仅是一款有趣的冒险RPG，还内置了深度的餐厅模拟经营要素。你需要潜入蓝洞深处寻找鱼类和补给，与水中的敌人斗智斗勇，同时管理寿司店的各项事务，包括制作食谱、烹饪、招聘、培训员工和处理挑剔的顾客。潜入蓝洞是这趟冒险旅程的核心：你将使用鱼叉、枪支和网枪捕获并杀死鱼类，把它们制作成寿司，然后继续探索深处。这一过程中，你会与侵略性的鲨鱼对抗，畅游于充满谜题的古代遗址，并与巨型Boss战斗。追踪和收集海洋生物的过程充满禅意，通过简单且反馈极佳的战斗玩法，可以用最少的蛮力智取猎物。选择合适的武器和策略是游戏的重要部分，这种玩法上的权衡给了玩家多种完成任务的途径。

尽管游戏的模式大同小异，但提供了相当大的创造空间，通常能带来有趣的节目效果。游戏还提供了不少调剂节奏的玩法，比如与巨大Boss战斗和解决简单谜题，尽管这些玩法过于简单，很难提供有意义的挑战。Boss战虽然新鲜，但大多可以通过学习行为模式快速击败，谜题也大多不费吹灰之力。

每次潜水前，你可以对装备进行升级，以提高战斗力和收获更多利润。游戏内有不少实用的升级，比如增加氧气瓶的容量、增强潜水服、增加装载箱的重量以及制作和升级武器。所有这些都需要通过捕获鱼类和提高寿司店的利润来获得资源，形成一个难以绕开的循环。

在整个探险过程中，你需要密切关注氧气罐，它既是生命条，也是负重限制器。负重过多会影响行动速度，增加潜水的风险。虽然氧气耗尽不会导致死亡，但会使你损失部分进度。游戏的氧气和负重限制确保了你需要定期从潜水中回到寿司店，体验另一半的玩法——餐厅模拟经营。

经营寿司店需要掌握诸多业务能力，包括收集原材料、招聘和培训员工、经营农场和养殖场、学习食谱和升级菜单。每当看到销量上升或开设新业务时，我的内心就获得了极大的满足。为了准备晚上的寿司，我需要进行详细的计划，这唤醒了我内心的企业家之魂。

《潜水员戴夫》最优秀的品质在于其不断向玩家抛出新奇且荒谬的元素。如果你觉得鱼叉捕鱼和餐厅管理不够，可以尝试赌运小游戏、深海摄影、海马竞速、养电子宠物和节奏音游等玩法。即便在剧情的最后几个小时，我仍然能解锁新的玩法机制，进一步丰富游戏体验。

尽管并非所有的试验性玩法都能成功，有些小游戏可能显得粗糙，但这些失误设计非常少。即便出现不太好玩的小游戏，至少也能视为一次猎奇的体验。

需要注意的是，尽管《潜水员戴夫》在早期体验阶段优化良好，但仍存在一些Bug。有时UI会消失，导致无法管理农场，有时敌人或物体会消失，还有几次在特定区域会出现随机掉帧现象。虽然这些问题没有频繁到让我弃坑，但确实会让游戏体验大打折扣。

《潜水员戴夫》是一款令人难以忘怀的RPG冒险作品。剧情和角色充满吸引力，水下探险和餐厅管理部分非常杀时间，大量猎奇的小游戏和惊喜确保了整段旅程不会变得乏味。尽管存在不堪一击的Boss、简单的谜题和Bug，但这款游戏依旧饱含有趣内容，轻松占据了我今年玩过的优秀游戏之一的位置。

①美轮美奂的像素海洋景观
②新颖而富有吸引力的探索+冒险+经营混合玩法
③有深度和内涵的故事情节
个性十足且可爱的角色们
①战斗和解谜难度过低
②小游戏的玩法过于简单

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Dave the Diver feels beautiful at first glance, but when you dive in, you'll discover a huge and marvelous world hidden beneath the surface of the sea. This water-themed adventure game exceeded my expectations with an irresistible mix of exploration, simulation, and mini-gameplay that continually drew me in deeper and deeper, even making me forget about the passage of time.

With a rich cast of characters and storylines, Dave the Diver exceeded my expectations with countless surprises. If someone had told me that the best game I'd played this year would be a retro indie RPG playing as a chubby diver running a sushi restaurant, I probably wouldn't have believed them, but Diver Dave certainly delivered. Not only does this game look great, the experience is outstanding.

The game focuses on a group of cute coworkers who run a sushi restaurant near a mysterious blue hole. This giant blue hole changes landscapes and ecosystems on a daily basis. Players will take on the role of Dave, a chubby diver who is always half-heartedly catering to the whims of everyone in his life. Throughout this adorable and nonsensical experience, you'll encounter the Shark civilization, radical wildlife conservationists, and people who are judgmental about Dave's weight. While the plot seems simple and straightforward, it's unexpectedly full of substance, and the characters are much more complex than the pixelated faces they first appear with. Even with the 30+ hours I've put into the game, I'm still eager to spend time with Banjo (the stoic, fearless sushi cook) and Duff (the secondary-obsessed gunsmith). Whenever interacting with these characters, the game presents very fun and memorable over-the-top animations that showcase the characters' personalities to the fullest.

Not only is Dave the Diver a fun adventure RPG, but it also has a deep restaurant simulation element built in. You'll need to dive into the depths of the Blue Hole in search of fish and supplies, battling enemies in the water while managing the affairs of a sushi restaurant, including creating recipes, cooking, hiring, training staff, and dealing with discerning customers. Diving into the Blue Hole is the centerpiece of this adventure: you'll use harpoons, guns, and net guns to catch and kill fish, make them into sushi, and then continue exploring the depths. This process will see you confront aggressive sharks, swim through ancient ruins full of puzzles, and battle giant bosses. Tracking and collecting sea creatures is Zen-like, and through simple and excellent feedback combat gameplay, you can outsmart your prey with minimal brute force. Choosing the right weapon and strategy is an important part of the game, and this trade-off in gameplay gives the player multiple avenues for accomplishing the mission.

While the game's modes are pretty much the same, it offers quite a bit of room for creativity, which usually results in an interesting program. The game also offers quite a few ways to spice up the pace of play, such as fighting giant bosses and solving simple puzzles, though these are too simple to provide meaningful challenge.The boss fights, while fresh, can mostly be defeated quickly by learning behavior patterns, and the puzzles are mostly effortless.

Before each dive, you can upgrade your equipment to improve combat power and reap more profits. There are a number of useful upgrades within the game, such as increasing the capacity of your oxygen tanks, enhancing your wetsuit, increasing the weight of your loading crates, and crafting and upgrading weapons. All of these require resources by catching fish and increasing profits at the sushi restaurant, creating a cycle that is hard to get around.

Throughout the adventure, you'll need to keep a close eye on the oxygen tanks, which act as both a life bar and a weight limiter. Carrying too much weight will affect your speed of movement and increase the risk of diving. While running out of oxygen won't result in death, it will cost you some of your progress. The game's oxygen and weight limitations ensure that you'll need to return from your dives to the sushi restaurant periodically to experience the other half of the gameplay - the restaurant simulation.

Running a sushi restaurant requires mastering a number of business skills, including gathering raw materials, hiring and training staff, running farms and breeding grounds, learning recipes and upgrading menus. I gained great satisfaction in my heart whenever I saw an increase in sales or the opening of a new business. The detailed planning required to prepare my evening sushi awakens the entrepreneurial soul within me.

The best quality of Dave the Diver is the novel and absurd elements it constantly throws at the player. If you don't find spearfishing and restaurant management enough, you can try out gameplay such as gambling on luck mini-games, deep-sea photography, seahorse racing, raising electronic pets, and rhythmic audio games. Even in the final hours of the episode, I was still able to unlock new gameplay mechanics to further enrich the experience.

While not all of the experimental gameplay works, and some of the mini-games may seem rough, these missteps are very few by design. Even when the less-than-fun mini-games appear, they can at least be seen as a hunting experience.

It should be noted that while Dave the Diver is well optimized in the early stages of the experience, there are still a few bugs; sometimes the UI disappears, making it impossible to manage farms, sometimes enemies or objects disappear, and a few times random frame drops occur in specific areas. While these issues aren't frequent enough to make me abandon the game, they do take away from the experience.

Dave the Diver is an unforgettable RPG adventure. The plot and characters are engaging, the underwater adventure and restaurant management sections are time-killing, and plenty of hunting mini-games and surprises ensure that the whole journey doesn't become tedious. Despite the presence of underwhelming bosses, simple puzzles and bugs, this game is still packed with interesting content and easily takes its place as one of the best games I've played this year.

Advantages:
① Beautiful pixelated ocean landscapes
②New and engaging exploration+adventure+management hybrid gameplay
③Deep and meaningful storyline
The characters are full of personality and cuteness
Disadvantages:
①The difficulty of combat and puzzle solving is too low
②Small games are too simple to play