A Rose in the Twilight

SUPER recomendo! Jogo simples e incrível! Uma história bem legal, puzzles bem elaborados, trilha sonora ótima, ambientação muito boa, enfim, é um jogo muito bom!

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极力推荐！美术音乐这些都不错，就是后期有些关卡稍难一点，哈哈~

クリア日: 2018/01/31 👍️

[h1]微グロ注意[/h1] 死にゲーとは言えど謎解きの難易度も程よいですし、取り敢えず楽しかったです！！！！

Cool experience

Schönes Jump n' Run mit Rätsel in einem ganz eigenen Artstyle. Es war an einigen Stellen herausfordernd, vor allem der Endfight.

The giant can lift Rose. He can also throw her like a rugby ball. [h1]My Experience[/h1] A young girl named Rose wakes up in a ruined castle with no memory of what had occured, and with a strange rose on her back. She wanders and runs into a helpful giant along the way. They both venture to explore the castle and find out what went wrong. It's a puzzle platformer where you swap between two characters with different abilities, and making use of them to reach the end of every stage. I gotta warn that there is some upsetting imagery depicting suicide, like hanging is in the game. Otherwise there's mainly blood here and there. I love this NIS team's style of cute art with a hand-drawn and sketchy quality to it. The animations are of a similar, not perfectly smooth but its part of what gives it its charm. A fairy tale book appeal maybe? The world is largely monochrome with barely anything standing out other than red, but the strange scenery gives off a fantastical impression, along with some sights really letting you take in that something had gone horribly wrong here. I found the controls a little odd and at times actually led to me messing up but otherwise no issues. Just takes a lot of getting used to. The gameplay is primarily about manipulating the environment to get where you need to go. Rose can absorb the color out of objects which will cause them to freeze in place, and also give color so that they become animate again. The Giant meanwhile can carry and throw colored objects, including Rose. Each chapter has its own little gimmicks. Given it's a puzzle platformer, some physics is involved, but said physics has a lot of hiccups and it can get especially infuriating due to some puzzles require precise timing, precise throws, precise jumps, etc... One early section of the game, the Courtyard, required me to bounce off mushrooms to get up somewhere. Sure, not my first rodeo. I kept trying it for so long and didn't understand what I was doing wrong. I looked up a guide and it looked like I had to make an extremely precise bounce at a specific point in the mushrooms to get up to the next section. I bounced on those mushrooms a few times before I managed to get up. But get this... A little later on, I realized you can actually manually jump on the mushrooms for a significant boost. The game did not teach or show me this in any way, I figured it out from the walkthrough I was watching when I noticed the player managed to jump higher than I did. Are you serious? In that same chapter, the Courtyard, there was a stretch that neither the Giant nor Rose can pass safely that a big bug monster was walking across. By now you've seen this monster before and probably understand that it's gonna eat Rose if it can. I was stuck there, and had to refer to the walkthrough again. Guess what? You can actually jump on the monster's back and basically ride it across the gap. There was nothing in the game before this that suggested you can do that. These issues are mainly in the courtyard, but I encoutered a few rare similar issues later on, but for the most part it was smooth sailing from there. There were times where I got stuck and referred to the walkthrough again, but I can safely say most of those were "Oh nevermind I'm just dumb" moments. Still, maybe its because I suck at puzzle games but a few felt too obscure to the point where I was genuinely questioning how players were supposed to figure that out. There's a couple that require you to backtrack a room to grab an object to bring with you into the next as its part of the solution. Man... Oh one more example - There's a puzzle where Rose has to ride on a bench sliding down a slope. Sounds fun right? The solution is to slightly move Rose just enough to help the bench get over an obstacle. Enjoy dealing with the physics. Puzzles and rage aside, there's a handy retry feature to let you go back to the last checkpoint and reset the room so you can try figuring out the solution from 0 again. You also have a really handy map that you can instantly move to any level, which will be necessary if you want to 100% the game and get the true ending. It's a slow paced game, neither the Giant nor Rose move fast which some might find a little annoying, myself included but ultimately it didn't bother me much. The story is mostly wordless, told through some text fragments you can pick up throughout the game and short cutscenes. So without spoilers I found the story entertaining and interesting but not much more than that, I guess the puzzles sucked any and all attachment out of me. [h2]Conclusion[/h2] I know I did a lot of complaining, but half of it is just me sucking at puzzle games and a bit of personal preferences. I had fun with it and it kept me hooked enough that I still kept going to see it through to the end. The physics and obscure solutions are gonna be annoying though. I also want to mention that the base price of the game is pretty steep in my opinion, so I recommend getting it on sale. At least it's not htoL#♥♥♥. [i]Please remember to check other reviews to make a properly informed decision about purchasing this game. I am but one man speaking from my own experience and with my own preferences.[/i]