Arvale

Well I was all excited to play this game when I read the discussion groups on the web. And I really enjoyed it until... Until it got so incredibly slow that I could not get through a minor battle in less than 10 minutes. It also lost any charm after a certain point as side-quests became few and far between, then non-existent. Just go from one major boss battle to the next. I finally quit playing as it was just too tedious going from battle to battle just to level up, then another 10-15 minutes trying to beat the boss who is ridiculously strong and ends up killing every party member just before his health runs out. Such a bummer as this was so fun to begin with. I'm sorry to say I would not recommend this game even at the really cheap price I paid for it (I think $2 or something like that).

Originally released in 4 parts, Aldorlea now brings Arvale to Steam as a full game ---- and it's a very good presentation. Opening at the castle of Entoque we find our main character, Duncan, who is a gardener for the king but has apparently been at the center of world saving activities in years gone by. The problem is that he has no memory of what transpired. And so the story begins as the king sends him on a simple mission, and Duncan slowly learns more about his past, and how to uncover the details ---- which is critical because dark forces are gathering once again. There are a ton of things to do (with a good number of side quests), things to find, people to recruit and interact with, dungeons/mazes to explore, monsters to deal with, weapons and spells to master, and a narrator to interact with as you move through the land. The narrator is full of good humor, and adds an interesting perspective to the events of the game, as well as being very helpful to the beginning player. There is as much interaction with non playing characters as I've seen in this type of game in a very long time ---- but it all adds to the exploring aspect. And this is a game where anything and everything needs to be examined for clues and information. The artwork is beautiful throughout with battle scenes being especially well done. Music is excellent without being obtrusive. And there are plenty of cut scenes adding to the story. The care and attention to detail in Arvale are easy to see and certainly enjoy throughout this well crafted game that would be a fine choice for any player of any age, of any experience. A first-rate and engaging rpg adventure.

On sale for pretty cheap so I thought I'd give a chance. No regrets so far. Something I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet is the Music! I'm not sure where these tracks came from, but many of them (the castle music and the first town in particular) are fantastic. Happy that the creators took the time to procure (or hire/make? I have no idea since there are no title credits) great tracks, a total must have for an RPG and in this case, it definitely ticks off that box. Looking forward to the rest!

有卡。 机翻简介： 阿尔维尔 传说他拯救了世界。可惜他不记得了，因为为了再次拯救它，邓肯必须在这个充满任务和搞笑对话的20小时RPG中找回他的记忆！ 说明 由Aldorlea Games（Millennium、Asguaard、The Book of Legends、Girlfriend Rescue等）发行的Steam独家游戏《Arvale》的这一部分结合了之前发布的所有四集，使其成为一款完整的独立游戏，游戏时间约为20小时。 如果您在游戏中遇到延迟： 打开文件夹并查看game.exe的属性 选中“以管理员身份运行”选项 故事情节 邓肯·福赛斯是恩托奎城堡的皇家园丁。他每天都在与肮脏的花坛作斗争，追捕有毒的杂草，偶尔还会为国王陛下洗衣服。 与此同时，城堡周围的传言是邓肯曾经拯救了世界。这对邓肯来说是个新闻。他不记得过去几年发生了什么事。他肯定不记得拯救了世界。不幸的是，他可能不得不这样做——以免世界再次陷入混乱。黑暗势力正在崛起，击败他们的关键在于邓肯的记忆——这种记忆现在分散在阿尔维尔的世界里。 带他踏上一段史诗般的旅程，找回那些记忆，挫败整个世界的某些厄运，同时与怪物作战，探索地下城，挑战龙，营救美丽的少女，召集朋友和敌人，奇怪的是，还与独轮车交谈。 特征 *大型、沉浸式、视觉世界，有各种各样的地点。 *与故事中数百个有趣的角色互动 *笑。很多。Arvale以其有趣、滑稽的对话而闻名 *完成过多支线任务 *2小时原创音乐 *许多可玩角色给人一种独特的讲故事体验。 *超过20小时的冒险游戏时间！ *为你的角色装备更酷的武器，包括剑、长矛、鞭子等 *对敌人施展魔法咒语，从火、冰和闪电咒语到陌生人和更有趣的Filibuster和Minecraft。 *与各种邪恶的野兽作战，从小白鼠和蝙蝠到狼人、恶魔和食人魔。 *与成千上万的非玩家角色互动，了解更多关于世界的信息，并在途中给你一些娱乐——很多NPC都非常有趣。 *笑。很多。Arvale以其有趣、搞笑的对话而闻名，这款游戏也不例外。 *观看揭开角色故事的原创过场动画。由于邓肯对它的了解并不比你多，你会对你所学到的东西和酷炫的视觉效果感到惊讶。 *通过选择许多支线任务来收集更多物品和对抗更多怪物，实现超额目标 Aldorlea的畅销游戏已在Steam上发布 一千年 艾斯奎亚特 月亮孩子 女朋友救援 漂泊的心 不败

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Very boring. Arvale 1/10 Heisen

RPG Maker strikes again! Arvale is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. This time Andorlea/Warfare/SimProse/whatever other shell account this guy uses to try hide his identity has once more stamped out a painfully generic copy + paste RPG Maker asset flip. There's a completely crap attempt at humour amongst the asset flipped game visuals, and the usual bad anime fan-fic plot. It's horribly basic, riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, full of stock copy + pasted RPG Maker assets... no real game development has taken place here, this is just a cash grab, it's shovelware polluting Steam for profit. This "developer" has dumped over 100 copy+pasted RPG Maker asset flips onto Steam, and keeps pumping out minimum viable product RPG Maker asset flips as rapidly as possible to try gouge gamers. We must ask why this ongoing pollution has any serious value for gamers or the gaming industry. This kind of cash grab construction kit shovelware from bad actors like Andorlea gives amateur developers a bad name. This pollution takes marketing space away from genuine indie developers who are doing the right thing, and making real games instead of copying+pasting premade assets in a children's video game construction kit. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games. This pollution is harmful to Steam, to gamers and the gaming industry. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only appears around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. Arvale has the far too high price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. Note: This game features a number of suspicious, likely fake positive reviews. The reviews all appear at almost exactly the same time, precisely 3 days after the game launched on Steam (days 0-2, practically no reviews, suddenly, all at the same time, ~10 reviews drop!), all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and all have very similar wording and writing style. This is highly unusual given the very low quality of the game and poor player counts. The "Positive" review score on this game should be taken with a large grain of salt. This might be done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product.

Unfortunately this is going to be a short review, as the game is sadly quite buggy and constantly crashing. It's a pain in the arse to get it running, and once you overcome one problem another springs up to replace it. It's a pity, as the game is fairly amusing and charming, but there doesn't seem a whole lot of point going into detail about it. Of the 1 hour or so play-time I've clocked up, I'd say it was a max of about 20 minutes actually spent able to run it. It controls well, looks nice enough and has quite bouncy tunes, yet I can hardly recommend it when you might not be able to play it.

“Arvale” could be characterized as a standard JRPG with decent gameplay, relatively good graphics and funny story. The protagonist, a gardener called Duke, is apparently a great hero who had saved the kingdom from terrible evil – but the problem is that he remembers absolutely nothing about it. So he needs to set out on a quest to find his lost memory and recover his heroic skills, all the while being confronted by facts that he was probably responsible for dooming an entire village or abandoning his elven girlfriend and so on. On the technical side, the game has nicely assembled and rich environment, standard music and workable combat system, even though it gets a bit grinding at times. There is one serious technical problem though: the game is incredibly lagging to the point of being unplayable, fortunately this can be bypassed by running it in administrator mode. Once this is sorted out, Arvale becomes quite an enjoyable game of high adventure spiced with cool humor.

卡得要死....