MIO: Memories in Orbit

Just intentionally frustrating game design. Beat a boss? Get punished with a jumping puzzle and lose all your cash. Beat an insanely difficult jumping puzzle? Get a useless reward. Almost all modifiers you find are completely useless. Not just situational. No, they are just trash. Find an HP up? Story takes it away right away and you basically always have the starting HP. Travel points are initially deactivated and you have to beat more jumping puzzles to activate them. And even if you activate them, they aren't all connected and you are still forced to walk A LOT. I hope you like walking, because for every boss attempt you will have to walk. No challenge on the way. Just walking to get more play time I guess?! Just beat the bosses first try then. Which is basically impossible with how random the boss attacks are. Basically all boss attacks start with a white flash and then they can either attack you or ninja shuriken around for a minute. There is not much story and not much dialog. But at least the game has good atmosphere. Can't recommend playing this game unless you are into severely punishing platformers with meh controls. My problem with the controls? How about a boss centered around a specific mechanic that just bugs out randomly. And it just gets worse and worse the more you play. Not just the difficulty. That would be fine. But it just gets more annoying. Things that other platformers put in optional endgame areas are everywhere here and mandatory to beat the game. No idea why the review score is so high. Maybe most people only played the first few hours and gave up and thought they just weren't good enough? No, the issue is the game and not the players. It's just frustrating and constantly makes you want to quit.

除了画面，指引、探图和战斗没有一点正反馈，玩了是让人恼火的设计。网上宣传类比奥日、空洞骑士，简直吹牛上天了。就是看网上宣传买的，结果大失所望。

This is a fantastic vision of what a metroidvania should be. The story is excellent and told through play, not exposition. The actual gameplay and movement feels fantastic. And to top it off the game is beautiful with a very distinct style. Pick it up if you like the genre, you'll probably like this one.

This is an easy recommendation. The art is so great, the movement mechanics are so smooth, the story is hauntingly beautiful. Even the boss fights are the fun kind of boss fights where I wanted to spend time to learn the moves and counters instead of bashing my head against the wall. I agree with some of the criticism that the run backs to the bosses can get a little annoying but that was never enough to ruin my enjoyment of the game. As a fan of Metroidvanias in general, this game is excellent.

开荒过程中会有些许红温，在一些地方可以看到制作组的“小巧思”，然而在玩完之后还是认为这是一座非常好的类银游戏。无论是美术还是音乐都是绝佳的，而在游戏设计上能感觉制作组有可以使他与空洞骑士、丝之歌、奥日做出区别：下批任可以重置空中状态但是没有伤害、没有传统的冲刺，或许这也是有人诟病其战斗系统的原因，但是在熟练之后搭配游戏出众的音乐还是会有极致的爽感。 地图设计有浓厚的黑魂式的箱庭设计。在游戏开始时各种锁着的门就可以体现。而最惊艳的是游戏中后期才会被玩家发现的[spoiler] 环形地图设计 [/spoiler] 总的而言非常推荐有有类银基础的玩家购买。

Short version: The game is incredible all around and I loved every bit of it. The core gameplay as a platforming-heavy MV is top notch with fun movement, challenging and creative platforming puzzles, good boss fights, and being heavily rewarded for exploration. On top of that, the music, art, setting, and environmental storytelling are all incredible. The story's theme is very much in line with games like Nine Sols and NieR Automata. Very strongly recommend to anyone who is a fan of platformers, metroidvanias, and deep environmental storytelling. Longer version: PLATFORMING: The game's core mechanical focus. Very creative platforming puzzles, the harder stuff is technically optional, but most players will likely want to accomplish them. I absolutely love the movement mechanics. It has MV staples like double jump, jump resets, and glide, but the other two primary techs are more unique and really enable the puzzles and movement. Players are heavily rewarded for exploring, but you will likely need a guide to find everything since some paths are very well hidden. COMBAT: As said above, the game is much more platforming-focused than combat-focused. Think something closer to Celeste than Metroid, Castlevania, etc. That said, combat is still fun! Movement tech and the upgrade system give players a fair amount of creative freedom in how they battle, but players may find certain loadouts to be so much better than others that some modifiers go unused. Overworld combat is more prevalent in early and mid game, while late-game is almost purely platforming and boss fights. I do like that the overworld critters aren't just to annoy you; they are often a part of the platforming options throughout the game. Boss fights are fun, most are challenging without being overly frustrating. Like most games with soulslike influence it's about learning the dance and finding that sweet spot of greed vs patience. Only a few boss patterns feel a little unfair and even then there are ways to mitigate them. MUSIC & SOUND: The music score is solid, but I wish there were more tracks so certain ones weren't used so often. The sound design is amazing. Every little sound effect, nuanced music shifts, etc. are all perfectly placed and extremely satisfying. You truly hear the Vessel around you and your own presence within it as you explore. VISUALS: The art is beautiful and very stylized. Some people may not like that the art transitions between rendered and sketched styles, and that's a fair opinion, but it is clearly intentional and adds to the environmental storytelling. Personally, I am a big fan of anything with the hand drawn aesthetic, so I love it. STORY: Very strong environmental storytelling, similar to a Soulslike influence. You get the gist of the world around you at the surface, but there's so much more if you're someone who loves digging in. The Vessel, its history, how it arrived in its current state, and the current events are pieced together through the general environment, structures, in-lore symbolism, out of context foreshadowing, items, item locations in relation to their surroundings, item lore descriptions, NPC dialogue, recountings of events and their aftermath written by unreliable/biased narrators, etc. I would very often get a new lore reveal and dig through prior foreshadowing to piece together the context and full depth of the story beyond the immediate actions we are undertaking. OVERALL: Very strong 9/10 for anyone that enjoys platformer heavy MVs, games with questions of existentialism that don't necessarily have a correct answer, games with deep environmental storytelling, and games set far into a dystopian setting where the defining world events have long since happened and protagonist must find their purpose and decide how to move forward. As noted, it loses just a bit for not having a broader music score, but it is not something that significantly detracts from the game. That said, if you prefer a more combat-heavy game in this genre, then Nine Sols, Hollow Knight, Silksong, or Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night are all worth checking out.

虽然游戏提供辅助模式(boss战每次死亡都会削boss血量 免费的随时间恢复的1格血) 但游戏后期的跳跳乐足以让不开挂的玩家道心破碎 没错 这游戏前中期即便有这样那样的缺点 但都不致命 唯一致命的地方就是游戏后期的干锅区域 你得完成2个极高难度的跳跳乐 从而拿到最后一个能力 之后探索全部地图 打真boss 看真结局 干锅区域的跳跳乐有多难？长时间 超远距离 不落地 不落地意味着不能保存位置 失误1次直接重头开始 我一度怀疑制作组诚心这么设计 后来看到别人评论说制作组解散了 我只想说 活™该 对于你们这群抖S制作者 18层地狱实在是太少了 100！层起步吧