Betrayer

Only recommending this game because it is free on GOG. Betrayer has an interesting setting, an engaging mystery, and an incredible ambience. Some elements feel like they were designed by expert developers who know what they are doing; other aspects of the game feel so basic and unrefined even for the standards of a junior game developer. For example, the way in which exploration is handled in the game is awful. Having to run circles around boring forests to "discover" clues takes a lot out of a person. I would argue that this is what will turn most players off initially. I know that is what did it for me when I first tried this game back in 2016 thinking I would get Bethesda-like exploration and world design. However, sticking with the game really does pay off eventually. In my eyes, the second-half vindicates and justifies the slow-starting and supremely boring first-half. There is something enchanting about the girl in red, the spirit world, the enemies you fight, and the clues you gather along your journey. I was anticipating this loop to become boring towards the latter-half of the game, but the progression system succeeds in making the game interesting all the way to the end. Eventually, you'll backtrack to areas where you got wiped by enemies previously and find it much easier to mow through them with all your new shiny upgrades. I cannot praise enough how much the game succeeds in capturing the early-colonial/new world spirit. It really does feel like you are treading new and uncharted land in an attempt to tame it. The game is also surprisingly elegant in how it handles depictions of Natives and other factions that were attempting to colonize the Americas during the early 1600s; a rarity for games to be sure. I will mention that this is by far the most crash-heavy game I ever played, even above modded Skyrim. I'm not sure if the free GOG version comes with any patches, or if the game even received the same patch treatment as other titles such as Dues Ex, but my personal experience with performance has been abysmal. The game crashes even when running everything on minimum. If your game crashes, you will always begin at the central hub of whichever map you were in prior to the crash, meaning that if you were close to your objective and the game decided to "run out of memory," you'll have to restart your trek and run back to your objective again. While tedious, I would not say it's particularly detrimental to the overall experience. The maps are small in size and getting from point A to point B takes like 1 to 2 minutes maximum. I'm glad I finally got to experience Betrayer. It didn't necessarily exceed my expectations, but I walked out with a fondness of the world crafted here, even if the execution is not the greatest.

1. 개인평 예전 판매창 썸네일이 흑백화면에 붉은 색만 있는 것이 특이해서 구매한 게임입니다. 그리고 잊혀져 있다가 최근 겜트북이 고장나서.. 예전 오래된 겜트북 꺼내서 게임을 찾다보니 이 게임이 있더군요. 간단히 소개를 하면 17세기 버지니아 해안 식민지에서 주인공이 곳곳을 탐험하며 일어난 일들을 알아내는 이야기예요. 일단, 스토리에 따른 컷씬 같은 건 없어요. 맵에서 증거물, 메모 등을 찾아서 영혼들과 이야기 하면서 이들에게 일어난 일들을 텍스트로 알아가야 합니다. 이런 방식으로 스토리가 흘러가기에 모 아니면 도입니다. 엄청 지루하거나 아님 엄청 몰입하면서 플레이 할 거예요. 전투는 인디게임이라 그런지 많이 투박한 느낌이 듭니다. 일전에 플레이한 '디폼드'처럼 초반에 많이 어색하지만 중반부부터 유니크 무기를 얻고 전투 방식에 익숙해지면 나름 전투의 곰 씹는 맛이 있는 재미가 있어요. 기본적으로 잠입 암살 형태로 진행해야 편합니다. 무쌍 전투는 익숙해져도 좀 힘든감이 있어요. 뭐.. 무기들만 봐도 모두 원거리 무기예요. 위에서 말한대로 게임이 흑백 장면에 붉은 색으로만 표현되는 부분으로 상당히 독특한 느낌을 주는데, 10분만 하면 눈이 아파서 그냥 설정에서 컬러 조정해서 플레이 했어요, 컬러가 훨씬 나은 것 같은데.. 왜 흑백으로 했을까요? 마케팅일까요? 아무튼 언어가 영어인지라 언어의 장벽이 없고, 게임 내 아이템, 메모 등의 설명들을 모아서 스토리를 알아가는 형태를 좋아한다면 추천합니다. 아~ 참!! 더 이상 스팀에서는 판매하지 않아요. 하지만 GOG에서 무료로 플레이가 가능하니, 한번 호기심이 생기는 분들은 찾아보시는 것도 좋을 듯하지만.. 굳히 요즘 할 게임도 많은데, 이런 게임 할까? 싶네요. 저도 겜트북 고장나서 라이브러리에 오래 된 게임 찾다보니.. 이 게임이 있어서 플레이한거니깐요. 2 . 도전과제 전반적으로 스토리 흐름을 따라가면 대부분 얻을 수 있고, 유니크 무기 수집이나 붉은 후드의 여자 이름 알기, 도둑들 잡기 등 공략을 좀 참고해야 하는 부분도 있지만 그렇게 다 어려운 편은 아니네요. 그렇다고 딸각하거나 짧은 시간에 다 쉽게 얻을 수 있는것도 아니라서 도전과제만 얻고 싶다는 분들에게는 비추입니다.

This game was pulled from the Steam store, so this review is mostly just for my own reference later. This game has a number of interesting ideas, including a setting that is rarely explored (a 1600's English colony in the New World), a heavily sound-based gameplay theme, a monochrome + red visual style, etc. Unfortunately, many of these are... less than helpful in execution. While the stealth aspects work well, the visuals and setting are both undermined heavily by their execution. The colonial frontier is an underutilized setting, rife with political intrigue between various factions within the various factions. On the European side, you have English, Spanish, Dutch, and French colonies all struggling for dominance, and whose actual agents vary between handpicked aristocrats representing their king and country, common farmers just trying to make a new life, religious and political exiles often representing extreme positions, and those seeking fortune or power in this new land. On the side of the natives, you have dozens of tribes and nations, each mired in their own web of alliances, wars, and historical enmities with their various neighbors. And from this, you get various webs of alliances, wars, and trade between various Indian nations and various European ones. But that's not what this game offers. No. This game has basically everyone already dead when you arrive. Further, the supernatural elements of the game come to dominate gameplay, such that even the enemies you fight (who are styled as Spaniards) are just some kind of animal things. We get very little world building for the setting, very little interaction of any kind with actual people. Instead, it's mostly just finding half a scrap of paper or a name and epitaph on a grave. And then for the aesthetic... The idea of the monochrome with red highlights is very interesting, but it's executed horribly. Between the contrast and blur beyond a certain range, the black and white makes it really hard to see the world around you. Fortunately, the game designers apparently realized the potential flaw, and have built-in sliders that allow you to restore color to the world, and also rebalance the contrast, allowing for a much better visual experience. The biggest flaw of the game, however, is the sheer lack of direction. With open world games, it's important to give some kind of hook so that you know where you need to go when you get bored of exploring. Or at the very least, establish a mystery that has concrete clues towards solving. In this game, however, you have an amnesiac and some occult weirdness, and a bunch of random "clues" and various pages of letters and journals scattered around (for reasons), but these clues don't really go towards explaining the singular character's identity or supernatural stuff, at least anywhere within the first area. As a result, I was mostly just meandering around and feeling pretty bored. For a game trying to maintain a tense, foreboding atmosphere, boredom is the last emotion you should want your players to feel. Though I suppose we should be glad there aren't more characters than the amnesiac and a couple ghosts; the writing is abysmal. There's no personality or character in any dialogue. It's just dry exposition. Like the first ghost you meet apparently held his dying wife in his arms as they talked about their son, which should elicit some kind of emotion, but I just couldn't give a crap about it. It was just so dry, and I had to cross the map repeatedly to elicit it, that it was just like... "Yeah, okay, whatevs." I was literally more interested in who stole his shovel than in the death of his wife. So yeah, the game is no longer available anyway so whether or not I recommend the game doesn't exactly matter, but this game is sadly just not really worth my time, despite the glimmers of promise it has.

5 лет назад купил, игра вышла из стима. Самое время начать играть

Для меня слишком криво, не моё. Я просто задолбался от дубовой боевой системы, без интерфейса игра совсем плохо ощущается. Меня окончательно отвернуло от этой игры, вылет при переходе из местности в местность и при имеющейся кривизне боя, вторая смерть за игру меня добила. Никакая история уже тут не удержит. А жаль. Карту бы вообще переделать, не так чтобы игрок сам выбирал отображение меток, а либо сам находил, либо добывал карты с пометками через покупку или поиск. Впрочем местности тут небольшие. Красивый визуальный стиль, соглашусь с тем что при добавлении красок игра может напоминать пятую часть Свитков.

Betrayer was a disappointment. I liked the weird B&W with red look, but the mechanics of the game sucked! The controls were so clunky making the game unenjoyable.

Peak