ANIMAL WELL

Часть с исследованием мира и нахождением секретов зaeбиcь - очень интересно. А эндгейм, где нужно найти то, не знаю что - просто xyйня. Вот как мне без гайдов понять, что какой-то ссаный кенгуру бродит ПО ВСЕЙ КАРТЕ и мне нужно его oтпuздuть петардами?? Не, наверное, если бы я нашел тоже какую-то зaлyпy где-то в жопе мира то я бы это понял. НО ГДЕ ИСКАТЬ ТО ГАЙДЫ CУKA ГАЙДЫ upd Ладно, на эмоциях написал это. Игра бывает очень сложной в некоторых моментах, но после прохождения, я понимаю - блин, это уникальный опыт. Крутая игрушка с ОГРОМНОЙ кучей секретов, многие из которых обычный человек (я) не увидит. Советую всем после прохождения на ютубе посмотреть все секреты. Их там на час просмотра минимум.

完全意义上的天才游戏，游玩过程中会不断感慨自己真是天才啊！作者真是天才啊！很美很丰富，收集物很多，地图设计神了，玩这样的游戏简直是一种享受❤

I love the sound design, graphics, and tools/puzzles. It's just a shame that the game does not respect your time. It felt like almost every section that had any degree of difficulty or felt particularly time-consuming had a ridiculous runback, much worse than I've seen in Silksong or Elden Ring. The first few hours of the game I was fully immersed in the atmosphere and felt committed to finding every secret and 100%ing the game. By the last hour or so I was praying for it to be over so I never had to touch it again. I still think it's a beautiful game and I enjoyed my first couple hours of exploring the world and its gorgeous visuals. I just cannot recommend it because it is an utterly frustrating and tedious game to complete.

挺纠结的 作为一个坚持没看攻略啃出（算是）第一个结局的人，我确实能感受到这游戏在制作上的诚意和用力。但抽象的是这种感知是我努力用力从游戏里去感受来的，而不是制作人通过游戏本身的方方面面传达给我的，作为一个小作坊，在细节方面还是很多不足的 可以说这游戏只考虑正常攻略可以接触到的内容部分，都拥有一个非常割裂的二象性 一方面就是单一的，单房间的，或是单流程的解谜本身在吃透逻辑和攻略要点的情况下确实是及其优秀的 但首先无文字纯像素图片交互下如何传达解谜要点这一点本身就，不是做得很差，而是根本就没想着做，制作人对玩家传达信息的途径完全没有的，地图要素和解谜交互点全靠玩家自己领悟，特别是一些长传送和需要循环往复的点，往往都会怀疑是否真的就只是一个中继站，无传达信息的另一个问题就是地图交互提示的缺失，像是某些机关，轮轴的逆滚动，往往不是自己领会出来的，而是乱丢垃圾误触发现的，还有一些经典的地图设计谬误，在一个区块需要特定能力开启时，没有在门口摆放强制需要道具走通的房间，而是等玩家一路过关斩将到结尾以后才尴尬发现缺道具，下次来还得再走一遍 第二是地图设计在上帝视角下看着清晰明了，拐点，隐藏点，中继点，单开双向门之类的都看起来设计合理，逻辑严谨，但地图一阖上就是另一回事了。终点被误判作起点，起点位置不明，前期缺少道具的时候发现不了，后期拿到了道具记不起，一些收集性的要素放在地图中间拦路被误认为必须集齐才能开门，实际上门口只是一个蛋或是收集道具而已，大量无必要的隐藏要素更是恨不得让你每个砖块都敲打一遍。最后的追逐战被那只猫鬼追着跑经常因为机关错误掉下悬崖，一掉就是一排地图重走，恶意满满。 最后，游戏的隐藏要素编排比例非常失衡，可以说整个游戏有40%的内容普通人几乎不可能发现得了一点，兔子这种收集品更是直接只露一只告诉你有这么个东西，剩下全部藏在连个线头都没有的地方。还是多想想这个问题，这样的游戏到底是做给谁玩的？ 一个解谜游戏让玩家爬着攻略从结果反推制作人的小巧思然后自顾自的自我感动是否对于一个制作人来说是个很有成就感的事呢？ 动物井是一款优秀的解谜游戏，但有近乎一半内容我无缘接触，我也不会考虑再回头去跟着攻略爬收集，因为对于解谜游戏来说这样没什么意义 希望制作人的下一款游戏能让我自己一个人玩就能体验到更多优秀的内容

Animal Well is as much a puzzle game as a set of ten keys is a puzzle to one lock. As long as you have the correct key, you’ll know exactly how to open that lock. The complete base game of Animal Well is just that. Very few puzzles attempt to cross a line of connecting visual elements or item behaviour to a unique solution. Instead, the game relies on the player noticing a hole in the wall or a picture in the background. There was never a feeling of cleverness and this added a level of tedium compounded by the metroidvania aspects of the game. The game may be the worst metroidvania unlock design I have seen. Only two items provide a movement ability benefit and the order you get them in can not only negate the already simple puzzles, but also halt any platforming challenge. One of the benefits of metroidvanias is that they can make re-treading a previous path feel new when movement abilities are unlocked as they change the pace of exploration. Animal Well unlocks fail to do this, making exploration monotonous. This issue is made worse by how certain items are required to see puzzle answers, requiring the player to re-tread rooms with each items activated to get the true ending. Some of the items are also majorly underused, with only two to five rooms to use it total, and lack multi-purpose functionality that metroidvania upgrades tend to have. Explorations is unrewarding with any capacity apart from sight seeing. The game is beautiful, that’s undeniable, but the journey to get there is boring. There is no narrative and almost no lore, not helped by the creator saying there was no confirmed lore to begin with. I have very little positive to say about this one and I’m surprised by the overwhelming reviews. The price is way too high for an 8 hour main experience and 4 hour true ending content. A regrettable purchase with no key bind options, 3/10

i like this game but its 2026 and this game doesnt have key rebinding if you have any hand accessibility problems dont buy it

I'm gonna be completely honest, this game is absolutely gorgeous and the atmosphere is incredible - the art and sound design wrap around you like a blanket. I really wish I could've enjoyed this game but I could not figure anything out for the life of me. I'm the type of person to search for easter-eggs and secrets in every other game I play. We all do a 180 when we enter a new level to see if there's a juicy coin or two. I check attics + basements + drawers + cupboards + floorboards in other investigative and puzzle games but I couldn't even find a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ powerup in this one. I love everything about it, except for the gameplay