Greymarsh

简单的文字冒险游戏，质量对得起价格，值得一试。 缺点是剧情相当平淡，没有什么吸引力。 死亡惩罚大，初见选错剧情杀会比较难受。 剧情几乎全部是线性的，打完一遍所有事件都遇到过了，每个事件只有对错，没有不同选择导致的分支，没有重玩价值。 文本可以多给些提示，帮助玩家减少卡关，竞技场打木桶很容易卡住。

Now that it's been revamped it's a much easier to enjoy experience. Worth every penny (and more!)

I wanted to enjoy this game, but there is a lot of misleading language in the game. "Checkpoints" are actually save points; I had to repeat the fight on the road least 10 times because I failed to get in the city so many times and then when I was in the city, some children killed me. I figured moving into Chapter 2 would be a "checkpoint," but it wasn't. I am a big fan of text based adventures, but this was not fun to play or read. There were also several instances of inconsistencies in the writing. For example, the purple stone was said to be around our neck, but now its in our pocket, but now its in our hand, and now it is implied its back around our neck. Or basement and cellar being flip flopped in a scene. Much of the writing was bloated and needed heavy editing to be steamlined.

Very good game.

Se ogni azione è sbagliata non si può mai procedere.

Greymarsh is very much inspired by the gamebooks of yore, and as someone who grew up reading/playing a lot of those, I was cautiously optimistic. I'd say Greymarsh is closest to the famous Fighting Fantasy series, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good is that it has a certain nostalgic familiarity if you know those books, and presents a classic romp around a perilous city (in the vein of something like City of Thieves or Kharé: Cityport of Traps). The bad is that it eschews the elaborations on the FF formula introduced by other series like Lone Wolf, Way of the Tiger, or Cretan Chronicles. Even a number of the FF books themselves added further, more complex, mechanics (Black Vein Prophecy, how overlooked you are). Greymarsh is, mechanically, pretty basic. That doesn't make it not worth playing, though. It certainly makes it pretty accessible for someone who didn't grow up with dozens of those books. I mentioned that it follows the City of Thieves type of format, where you roam a city filled with hazards and treasures, and often no way to tell which is which without trying them out. Fortunately it's more forgiving than the infamously punishing gamebook classics. For one thing, it often allows you to backtrack and revisit locations you've already been to. That was very uncommon in gamebooks (probably because of the difficulty of implementing it in an actual physical book) - the only one I can think of right now is Scorpion Swamp, which is seldom mentioned but stands out in my memory for exactly that reason. This means that it's often possible to go back and look at a thing you missed, or take a different exit. The other thing that makes Greymarsh relatively forgiving is that it has a save system of sorts. You can't freely reload to an earlier part of the adventure, but if you get killed you can try again from your last save - a feature common in videogames but not built in to gamebooks (though many of us did it anyway but just flicking back to the previous section). It does need this save system, though, because there's a whole lot of trial and error in here. Sometimes taking the logically sensible choice will work out for you, but as with the classic FF books, a lot of the time it's pretty arbitrary which options in any given situation will get you killed and which won't. Without a reasonable ability to save, the game would become very tiresome very quickly. On the whole I found Greymarsh had interesting enough encounters and an engaging enough setting that I didn't mind having to brute force my way through some of the trial and error. It's not long, at about 3-4 hours, but that feels right for this adventure. It would have been nice to see some more involved mechanics, but maybe in a future game. As it is, I liked most of my time with Greymarsh and I'm curious to check out later games from this developer.

You speak to the innkeeper. You have died. You try to enter the city. You have died. You enter a shed. You have died. You speak to some children. You have died. The game seems just full of "gotcha" moments with little to no foreshadowing. Play Roadwarden instead. It's the better game.