Emotion

有点意思，但是日语看不懂，玩着还行

Emotion is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is a particularly badly made 2D retro pixel platformer locked to a 4:3 aspect ratio, presumably because it was developed using a CRT found in a dumpster. Anyway that means it won't look right on any modern gaming PC. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The game has a basic plot about an android that had emotions, lost them, and got them back again. The way that androids deal with this is apparently through awfully done platforming with a bit of Naruto running. At least I think that's what it supposed to be... the graphics are really bad. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. It's also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who paid money for this... nobody got refunded. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak user count was only ONE person. That's right, only one person ever used this at a time. When I tried this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak user count for the product. OUCH. The only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality product is to be expected. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

Игра 'Emotion' — это, без преувеличения, глоток свежего воздуха в индустрии, которая порой утопает в однотипных механиках и предсказуемых сюжетах. Здесь нет литres крови, разрушений в масштабах города или героического спасения вселенной. Вместо этого разработчики предлагают нам погрузиться в тончайшие нюансы человеческих переживаний. Искусственный интеллект, отвечающий за повествование, поражает своей гибкостью. Он буквально подстраивается под ваши действия, слова и даже, кажется, под ваше настроение. Каждое решение, даже самое незначительное, отзывается эхом, формируя уникальную эмоциональную карту вашего персонажа. Это не просто игра, это своего рода зеркало, отражающее наши собственные страхи, радости, сомнения и надежды. Визуальная составляющая, хоть и не поражает фотореализмом, обладает особой, меланхоличной красотой, которая идеально дополняет атмосферу. Саундтрек — отдельное произведение искусства, проникающее в самое сердце. 'Emotion' — это вызов, предложение взглянуть на себя и окружающий мир под новым углом. Она заставляет думать, чувствовать и, что самое главное, — вспоминать.

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