Если вам нравятся физические головоломки, вам определенно стоит попробовать Beam, НО важно знать и понимать, что сейчас игра, хоть и вышла в релиз, однако, по сути "находится в раннем доступе", она не закончена, но разработчики активно продолжают разработку, прислушиваясь к отзывам игроков. Имеющиеся уровни все еще полируются, фиксят баги, улучшается интерфейс.
К сожалению, и английский и русский текст в один отзыв не влезет, поэтому, оставляю полностью только английскую версию, а вкратце - Игре было бы неплохо решить пару проблем с здоровьем "главного персонажа" и чекпоинтами, например, добавить уровни сложности. И еще, было бы здорово каким-то образом, добавить элемент навигации в интерфейс игры – карту, мини-карту, стрелочку, которая покажет направление к текущей цели, возможно, с кулдауном, ей не обязательно быть постоянно включенной.
Я буду с интересом следить за судьбой Beam, обязательно вернусь в нее через пару месяцев и буду рад, если мой отзыв поможет игре раскрыть свой потенциал!
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If you like physics puzzles, you definitely should try Beam, BUT it is important to know and understand that now the game, although it has been released, is, in fact, "in early access", it is not finished, but the developers are actively continuing development, listening to player reviews. The existing levels are still being polished, bugs are being fixed, the interface is improving.
I did two runs in Beam, the first was introductory, on the keyboard and mouse, and the second was from scratch and more thoughtful, on the controller. I finished first 25% of the currently available content and here are a couple of thoughts that I would like the developers to take into account:
The game is pretty hardcore, and, alas, this is not achieved by the main gameplay mechanics - platform puzzles, they are just fine. The main hardcore, for me personally, of course, is the health bar. If it were not for it, the game would have shone with completely new colors. Why? Because it disappears almost instantly, if you manage to " nip" yourself with a laser, it instantly disappears if you hit even the smallest fire (and we, for a second, control a rescue capsule, not a piece of paper!), Well, at least from there is no damage from falling, and most of the game, you will spend with 1-2 health points, which, at the slightest mistake, will lead to death and loading a third of the level back, and that, if you found a checkpoint, and you could have missed it, then start altogether level from the beginning ... with full health? No, everything is with the same minimum, + the game will for some reason pre-load you with a full health bar, and then, as if mockingly, will return it to a deplorable state - in my opinion, during this second the worst sensations from the game are caused - please, remove this mockery, it will become much cooler!
But how do you restore health? Find individual repair stations that ... will restore you only 40% of the maximum bar, and this, well, once a level, not more often. Why repair and checkpoint are different elements, which, in total, are no more than collectibles, is a question that has no answer. Why can't each checkpoint restore these 40%, even if there are will not more of them, although I would be glad if they at least help you with the health bar otherwise, why do they need to be activated at all, and they didn't work as autosave? By the way, if you activate it once, then after half an hour of researching the level, you will not be able to save your progress in it, the checkpoint is one-time.
Right during the stream of my second play, Nitabalde in my chat came up with another great idea about health restoration - when collecting collectibles, at least 1 point. And I agree - even the green sphere seems to be hinting + this would spur the interest of their search.
If this is the original concept, and the struggle for survival is really that important - The simplest and most adequate solution with health is to add difficulty levels to the game. Let at the lightest difficulty the damage will be minimal, and like bonus, perhaps, the charge of the "fire extinguisher" will increase, sometimes it has to be managed very clearly, but this is not so important. It is important that by simplifying the aspect of survivability and loss of progress, the game will become friendlier to less hardcore players.
And yet, it would be great to somehow add a navigation element to the game interface - a map, a mini-map, an arrow that will show the direction to the current goal, possibly with a cooldown, it doesn't have to be constantly visieble. The levels in Beam are large and very maze-like, often you have to go back. For example, on the third level, at some point it is said that you need to return to the broken elevator ... It took me a lot of effort to realize where it is, but imagine if I postponed the game for a week during this segment? I would not understand at all what is required of me. If the game somehow reacted that I had been skating without a goal for several minutes and gave a hint, it would be cool (with a map and a mark on it, there would be a case for an easy difficulty level, for example). The game has an attempt at such hints - the levers and buttons often have monitors not far away that display the places in which something has changed, but this does not help much, you might not even be in that place yet, and if you were, then not so the scenery is very different, let's be honest.
I will follow with interest the fate of Beam, I will definitely return to it in a couple of months and I will be glad if my review will help the game to reveal its potential!
