F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

高于预期 美术细节优秀 折后70可以无脑入 但存在以下问题: 1 剧情过场动画音画不同步 2 设置界面高概率卡死只能强退 3 主角色对话语音时有时无 不知道是压根没做还是出了bug没显示 4 部分关卡的传送点和首领战前的重生点设置不合理 5 部分bug显示错误 如可通行道路上显示了阻挡的铁门 角色穿模通过 不过瑕不掩瑜 算是国产同类型游戏中的上乘之作了

I played this game to prepare for the upcoming Zoopunk, since I saw that game's trailer and was very intrigued. The Chinese saw the bad press furries got ever since RainFurrest, and made a competent Metroidvania to boost their image. I had a lot of fun and it started off very strong, and while the cracks were starting to show around the midpoint, it did its best to finish strong. [h3]Gameplay[/h3] Alright. You navigate through dashing, wall-jumping, double jumping. You also get 3 weapons to use in combat: The Fist, then you unlock The Drill and the Whip, all of which help you unlock shortcut doors in the world. Additionally, each weapon has a unique feature: the Drill lets you swim through water faster; the Fist moves batteries to activate doors/elevators; the Whip lets you slingshot across grapple points. Each weapon has their own light/medium-heavy combo system and a grapple mixed in there to make fighting supposed to feel unique and complex, and is supposed to make the combat feel super weighty and fun. Enemies can also be executed, including most bosses: you get them at low health and they start glowing red, then you get close and press Circle to finish them off in a stylishly and cinematicly. The weapons also have special moves that rely on Special Points (SP) and can be upgraded using collectibles called Data Disks and money from breaking things and defeating enemies. You also have 4 tools that use Energy Points (EP), each EP can be used to either heal, parry attacks to charge your SP, fire heat-seeking missiles, or lay down an AoE landmine. These can also be upgraded by specific NPCs and w/ key items. You also find power-ups like an omnidirectional dash, which can also upgrade to evade damage, and a parry done by perfectly timing a movement input into an attack. All of these are supposed to make fighting and exploring fun and challenging. Even if you're missing some weapons/upgrades, good platforming fundamentals and some special moves from the Fist or Drill's roster can be used to cross chasms or scale walls w/o the needed upgrades. But you'll notice I said "supposed to" a few times. The combat can be clunky and disconnected: some enemies are small enough to where your aerials won't connect, or they fall faster than you expected, leaving you vulnerable in the air. Some enemies are too heavy to launch and get creative w/ combos to juggle them, so you have to break their posture w/ attack/grab spam, leaving them stunned until they recover. Not every enemy can be stunned, so the clunky combat is literally hit-or-miss. It's less like Yakuza 0, where you can have several viable options for combat, and more like Yakuza 3, where you are better off just grabbing the guy for 80% of the fights and breaking the combat over your knee. Master Wu's combo tutorials do show the potential for the combo system, but they assume that switching weapons mid-combo works flawlessly; they don't lol. To give you an example that frequently happened to me, I would try to launch an enemy w/ the Whip, then jump, switch to Drill, and do an aerial combo that hits twice then ground slams and finishes w/ a lunging dive. You can try and buffer the switch to the Drill, but this is a mixed bag; sometimes it goes off, but more often the input is eaten and you are still just tickling them w/ the Whip. Because some enemies make juggling and aerial combos useless, you can go for posture breaks and grapples instead, but this is assuming they don't recover and YOU'RE not getting interrupted and juggled for 15 seconds due to all of the enemies' attacks somehow being chained together perfectly. As for the Metroidvania aspect, it work well on paper but the execution is hit-or-miss too, mainly w/ the lack of consistency in rewards when you return to a previously-inaccessible area: > Sometimes, it's something meaningful, like an upgrade to your HP, SP, or EP > Sometimes, it's a chest w/ money and/or aforementioned upgrades, which need a Skeleton Key that you can only get from an NPC. > Sometimes, it's a Plant Seed you trade in for money and/or upgrade/key item. > Sometimes, it's a poster you trade in for different weapon paint jobs; each poster is a fun pop culture reference too. > Sometimes, it's just a shortcut. > Other times it's a piggy-bank w/ money; and some of those are actually enemy robots in disguise waiting to shank you. Mind you, money is useless by endgame, when you have all the upgrades you wanted/needed. [h3]Graphics/Art[/h3]Great. The dieselpunk aesthetics mesh really well w/ the East Asian architecture. The whirring gears and mechanisms of your weapons are stunning. The settings of each location fit w/ what TiGames was going for: Places like Old City and Joffre Street have billboards in different languages advertising in-game products, the neon lights all reflect off the wet concrete/asphalt; The Arsenal and Sewers are these concrete/iron mazes, w/ the former's Legion automaton hangar being the centerpiece, and the latter's ambiance being the sound of rushing water; the Western Range is a wide snowy village in the mountains w/ mortars and cannons decorating the streets, soldiers sparring/training in the courtyards while civilians tend to wounds and ration meals; The Prison and Torch Tower are oppressive hybrids of metal and rock, lit only by fluorescent bulbs, electric grids, and computer terminals. All of this boasts the game's impressive and sometimes interactive lighting and reflections, jigglebones and fabric physics, and detailed fur and hair textures. But there are some graphical issues like characters' fur stretching whenever they blink. The game advertises having an interconnected and seamless world design, but the textures and objects are prone to pop-in and not being rendered once you move into a chamber/tunnel, and sometimes the level doesn't even load right away. [h3]Sound/Music[/h3]Good. Attacks sound impressive and carry some impact, enemies getting hit have this sound of metal scraping and crunching. The Whip has this electric crackle to it that I liked but its hit sound were lackluster. The English voice acting leaves something to be desired, w/ some emotional lines being delivered incorrectly or goofy lines missing the mark. The Chinese voice acting is much better though, w/ more passion delivered. The music is good too: electronica, rock, metal, and some atmospheric sound for the platforming sections. The tracks are good but they're short loops, so your brain drowns it out or gets annoyed by it after a while. A fun PS5 controller gimmick is that the sound ofcoins being picked up play through the controller's speakers, which was a neat touch. [h3]Story[/h3]The animal-inhabited Torch City has been under siege by the robot Machine Legion, AKA The Iron Dogs, for the last 6 years. Rayton, a rabbit ex-soldier in the resistance war, hears his friend Urso was arrested, and takes up the mechanical Fist that was fashioned from his Rebellion mech suit and sets out to free him and break the Iron Dog siege, unaware of the rabbit hole he was walking into. This story is great, even several hours in. There are some predictable plot twists that led to good fights, but some story beats felt like asspulls. A few characters pop in, and never go anywhere/do anything else, which is a shame. [h3]Conclusion:[/h3] I ALMOST loved FIST. I griped about the clunky combat, the game having a slog of a 2nd act, and the challah bread story twists, but the aesthetics, exploration, movement, some boss fights, and the 1st + 3rd acts kept me hooked. Reviews online suggest there weren’t enough playtesters, but even so, there was a lot of passion in this. I finished this around 18 hours after exploring and collecting as much as I could, so even at full price you'll get your money's worth.