Cairn

Most of the difficulty of this game comes from the systems fighting you every damn step of the way. There's a ledge near your limb? Nope, won't grab that thanks. Your stamina is getting low? Well you've got no idea why since there's no indication whatsoever for which limbs aren't stable for "immersion". The "realistic" climbing is nonsense, your character regularly does what looks like a complex yoga pose on the wall which counts as a resting state but at the same time sometimes positions with all four limbs on flat, horizontal surfaces and then falls off the wall.

终于带着这个酗酒吸毒家暴的主角登顶了。 全游戏没有一个人有弧光也是让我感到不可思议。 怀念全世界最好的智攀宝

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The first thing that captivated me was the beautiful art style. I often stopped during my journey just to look around. Surprisingly, though, the game reminded me of a soulslike. It’s just you, all alone, facing a massive enemy. Every mistake can lead to death. The truly phenomenal climbing mechanics—which I’ve never seen anywhere else—made me feel like a real climber. Deciding where and how to position my limbs is incredibly immersive. As for the story, though, I didn’t feel any attachment at all to the main character’s partner or pet. The game tells me they’re important, but I don’t feel it. Once they disappeared from the picture, the story became more interesting. The main character acts like a spoiled little girl. The ending, on the other hand, seems like it was written by a different author. It’s intriguing, inspiring, and thought-provoking. In the end, it leaves you on your own, leaving you with nothing but a question. “How much are you willing to sacrifice to reach the top?”

There have been plenty of games that have tried to capture the feeling of climbing a mountain, but what sets Cairn apart from all of them is just how well it captures the deliberacy of climbing. Before you even start climbing, you have to choose a route by looking around and deciding which rockfaces look the easiest to scale. As you begin your ascent, you carefully move each limb one by one to varying angles across the cliffside, watching out for shaking limbs and heavy breathing to make sure your holds are solid. As you climb higher, you weigh the risk of placing a piton that might break against the risk of losing your grip and falling to the potentially fatal ground below. Every action you take feels carefully thought out, and that's the deliberacy that Cairn captures better than any other game in the genre.

遊戲劇情: ★★ 優化: ★★★ 核心玩法(攀爬): ★★★★★ 沉浸感: ★★★★★ 登頂成就感: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 一週目完成的感想是「我終於做到了」。感到開心的同時會到空虛，稍微有點了解劇情中想傳達的意義。因為動畫演出的部分覺得還好，玩到2~3週目時才比較看得下去，也就比較理解其中的含義。 第一次登頂後，會不斷想要挑戰極限、探索不同的路線，重玩性很高，讓我花費大量時間解成就及挑戰自我。玩到後來可以 free solo 直到登頂為止，非常刺激好玩。 每次登頂後反而會有更大的空虛感襲來，會想馬上開啟下一個新週目來填補這種空虛。就是在這樣的狀況下，我玩了至少7個週目吧！這是我在玩其他遊戲時不曾有過的遊玩體驗。 目前市面上很難找到類似的遊戲，希望能再出續作或更多的 DLC❤️ 提一點跟優化相關的，在遊戲第一次更新後，會開始聲音、畫面不同步，要跳到選單等個幾秒繼續遊戲，才會恢復正常。這個狀況在我熟練攀爬機制，可以越爬越快後變得更常發生。我的電腦是 48GB RAM, SSD, RTX3080Ti, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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