EPΘCH

From this post I only have played for about an hours worth of this game single player. At first it's a little strange to play takes a little while to get use to the buttons (Remapped mine now) but as you play the game it sucks you in wanting more which is great. I really enjoy this game so far and recommend you at least give it a try! :D

Pretty easily takes the Souls play style to the 16-bit realm. Suffer a wee bit from control issues.

I am so so happy that gamepad support has been added. I take back any bad thing I ever said about this game. Bravo sir.

Not even an hour deep into playing this game. Already ripped a clump of hair from my head. 10/10

EPOCH is a fascinating game. It's one of the first RPGs I've ever played, and beaten. I got it several years ago back when literally nobody had heard of the game - which, let's be real here, that's *still* true even to this day. But that's a shame, because it really is a cool, mysterious, great game with intriguing story, few but endearing characters, wonderful pixelated graphics, and challenging fights all throughout, from Ry the Dark Warden 30 seconds in to [spoiler] Rios the Creator [/spoiler] at the end. You can play as one of several different races, from the traditional dwarves, elves, and humans, to more original ones, such as the aquatic race of the Ghroulians or the mystical automatons called Cogsmen (I think that's what they're called? Idk it's been awhile since I played). Each race comes with a special ability that helps you out in some way throughout the game, though I'm gonna be honest, some abilities are straight-up better than others. For example, as a Ghroulian, you start the game with the ability to swim, which you would otherwise get around halfway-ish into the game. It nets you some cool stuff that you wouldn't get until later, but once you hit the point you'd normally get that power, it becomes obselete. What's not obselete, though, is the gameplay and story. The story is very mysterious, and you never really put the whole thing together. You can figure out most of it through item descriptions and character dialogue, and the final words of the now-deceased souls you collect on your adventure. The game is quite like Dark Souls in this and other ways, or so I've heard. It features many deities, ancient castles and other locations, temples, and other such things. Magic is quite prevalent, allowing you to use all sorts of runic spells to blast away your foes. Which brings me to combat, which is pretty cool. You get two hands, which you can use to either wield a pair of one-handed weapons or a single two-handed weapon. You can dodge-roll, parry, jump backwards, sprint, and do other fancy maneuvers. Combo these with powerful weapons and spells to get the edge on your enemies. The bosses are pretty hard, especially the ones not directly in your path (another Dark Souls trait). But I love the challenge, and have beaten every boss multiple times over. So yeah, love EPOCH, it's got awesome artwork, interesting story, good combat, all the stuff you could want out of an RPG. Lots of bugs, though, which is what makes me give it an 8.5/10 P.S. DON'T waste your time with the successor, Nother. It's super laggy, even on a decent computer, and the story makes NO sense. Graphics are bad too.

基本操作： E：推进对话，与人物对话 按住shift：蹲下 （可以过隐藏通道） 方向+Shift：翻滚（理论上应该可以滚隐藏通道） 按住空格：人物准备冲刺（人物头点了一下，有点可爱） 按住空格+方向：奔跑（感觉不是很流畅，用键盘感觉有点僵硬） 鼠标左键：左手装备动作 鼠标右键：右手装备动作 （这里可以双持，左手拿仗右手拿武器什么的） 玩了一段时间，感觉就是魂系列和塞尔达的合体，当然游戏介绍就是这样说的。 敌人有动作，你自己可以翻滚，你的攻击有硬直（看武器和加点），附魔是相互覆盖的，设计来说还算那么回事。 里面貌似没有交易系统，拿到的金块直接销毁得到钱，我倒发现了一个不友好的地方，就是合成武器，我看到有一个配方是大剑+大剑，所以我就合成了，然后因为还得到了一把合成后的大剑，然后我就试试看再合成，成功了！但是装备之后....超过负重了，挥动一下300体力下去了我去，虽然你限制了使用配方的属性，但是武器是随便拿的？ 这里的属性点太珍贵了...你要不升级能力要不升级武器，升1级给1个技能点，还有商店里面有个水晶需要1技能点激活，怎么激活？按Q是打开背包，接近附魔台按Q也是打开背包，接近铁钻按Q也是打开背包，如果做成一个你使用什么工具台，相应可操作的物品高亮我觉得更友好一些。 武器先说到这，说说魔法，魔法是一个比较蛋疼的存在，你需要技能点学习，学习后每隔存档貌似都有使用次数，不止学习的魔法，装备的魔法仗也有使用次数，最后只能存档后充能？那你觉得法师有啥用····这又不是火焰符文...我知道这是在平衡法爷，但这使用次数也太平衡了，当然你后期学习很多魔法（技能点不够用啊大哥），还有发射魔法弹道貌似不对啊，我为了开一个门用了3次火魔法（有一些门是可以通过魔法解除的，这倒是不错，很有既视感··） 里面还有弓箭可以使用，箭矢是消耗的那我没的说，我买没用所以不知道，不过人物里面貌似没有针对走弓箭的强化，别告诉我近战闪避那个，要这样说+一个翻滚距离也不错（但没有，就算有又要用技能点） 在游戏的过程中，死的最多的还是掉落而死···有的是被怪打下去的，有的是地图太黑了没看到，这没什么，看到YOU DIED很亲切（我希望你们弄一个属于自己的YOU DIED）。现在卡关了，因为一个蜘蛛网，我不能通过通道，我以为是要打掉，但是在隧道里面不能挥动武器，然后我用魔法看看吧？我去...我的火魔法都可以烧门区区蜘蛛网没有事...然后我就卡关了出不去了，没有别的出口（我蹲着做了一圈没发现别的出口），我试图会跟你们联系解决这个问题，要不然我就要重新打。 还有这个游戏感觉还是金钱至上（刷刷刷钱买东西买装备）...后面的特大怪我就不吐槽了，本来就这画风了你再放大（感觉就是拉个怪然后把图像放大），简直马赛克，让我有种看到了青鬼的感觉（甚至比青鬼还差劲，人家还有脸呢，让我想起了蓝莓味道的某岚播过的那个怪） 好了就说到这了，如果喜欢我的评论就在B站搜索：Randiris，这游戏我也放了一个初见玩

I would love to love this game. but first off its hard for a lot of parts. which doesnt neccessarily push me away as I like some good challenge. but then come the bugs, missing features and such. dont get me wrong, I am almost to the last area so i pushed through nonetheless. but just a few things to mention: shift is the key used for crowling. there are supposed to be "doge rolling" and (very late game) "diving" which both are supposed to use the shift key and therefor dont work. no matter how fast, slow, whatever you press shift, it's always crouching. dodge rolling and such simply dont exist in this game, despite the sign posts in the game. then there is a certain temple where you dirve around with railcars. the second railcar area has your railcar stop and you are supposed to autmatically transfer into other rail car situated there (or rather be thrown into them). well, collision detection might be the issue there but suddenly the railcar jsut stops at the end of it's tracks, putting you on top of a void spot. a slight move and the void captures you. I managed with some movement trickery to barely grasp the next car and jump in, but this section doesnt work as intended and is almost game breaking since you NEEED to pass this area. then the infinite hest inventory, which by itself is great. got 16 visible slots but can fit infinite items in. only issue: say you wanna get that certain key, or item out of the filled chest. well, you only see some random 16 of all items in there, so you gotta take out items over and over again until your desired item is shown. and by taking out, I mean: putting it into your inventory. which has also 16 slots but is NOT infinite! I think you see the issue there. and things like some scroll bar to look thorugh all the items in the chest jsut doesnt exist. then in general, lack of any tutorial. how does item forging work? how does this work, how does that work? why the hell cant I buy a sword (which has str+1, agi+1 by default, if I remeber correctly) and put on 3 new enchantments (by trial and error you learn that there can be max. 3 "effects" on a weapon. you also relaize that the initial str+1, agi+1 are hardcoded, so you cant replace them and therefor have only 2-1 effect remaining. putting on a new effect replaces the previous effect so building a custom weapon is impossible. well, none of these are ever explained though) you also got a left and right hand, aka left and right mosue button. remember reading that sign about it? me neither. ran around for quite a while with simply a sword while wondering how the fck the guy in the game guide can use sword and shield at once. there are some more things (although not game breaking, just annoying) that I cant remember right now. dont get me wrong, this game aint bad, it's a hard game that one can sure come to love depite it's difficulty. if jsut those issues that really arent gameplay issues but simply missing features and bad programming. stuff that the dev could easily fix. but if you follow the disussions and such it's obvious that he put out "patches" until 2016/2017, also did some thing in 2019 once. alwass doing some more minor or aesthetic fixes while for literally 6+ years totally ignoring the real BIG issues (mentioned above) that can soft lock you or downright make completing the game impossible. only my impresion but it feels like he doesnt give a sh and jsut fixes whatever he feels like,. ignoring the big issues. and obviously he has probably abandoned this game like 5 years, since he stopped responding to anything around 2017. oh yeah, 2 more weird things: you cant jump omn blue squares. the game never intends that you cant do it sicne there is literally a chest which you cant reach without jumping from a blue square. it's jsut ♥♥♥♥♥ programming making you unable to jump. dont ask me how he even accidentally achieved this but it sucks. had me doubt myself the first few times when I couldnt do simple jumps. but later seeing someone complain about this in the discussions, (of course no developer answer, never) so I deep tested it and yep, no jump on blue squares ever. also a thing: when on ice and you charge a bow shot, the character, ignoring all laws of momentum preservment and such, jsut slowly move towards the mouse. where you aim your charged ♥♥♥♥, character slide in that direction. obviously that is nonsense behaviour and shouldnt work that way. told you, sloppy programming/not fixing stuff mentioned many times/ignoring user complains and jsut doing whatever the fck you wanna do (for the most part, not fixing anything). So yeah, could be a good game, if the dev just some proper patdhes, not jsut fixing minor ♥♥♥♥ but rahter the few big issues. I dont even dare to buy the sequel nother sicne that seems abandoned since 2016/2017 too and I dont even wanna imagine what ugly bugs and game breaking things are in there. as said, I love the game for what it is, but the glitches and bugs can make (intentionally) hard game even much harder :-/

Great game. very fun mechanics for combat. very similar to dark souls. lots of secrets to find.