Otherskin

За Otherskin я не то чтобы следил, но в вишлисте она висела с тех пор, как я впервые увидел страничку игры в магазине. И вот она вышла. И оказалась именно тем, что я от неё ждал. Есть такие игры, которые никогда не станут ААА-хитами, но при этом в них очень приятно играть и проходить. Вот Otherskin как раз такая. Помните Little Nemo: The Dream Master? Вот это вот примерно оно. Платформер с очень простой стрельбой и спецумениями. Каждый уровень - простая головоломка, где нужно добраться до конца. Причем каждый раз с разными условиями. На каждом уровне героиня получает 2 или 3 способности местных обитателей. Способности самые разные - от длинного языка, чтобы цепляться и подтягиваться в недоступные ранее места, до энергетического импульса для переключения питания, от высокого прыжка с плавным планированием вниз до достаточно долгого периода бега прямо в воздухе по энергетической тропинке под ногами. Комбинируя всё это, нужно добраться до конца уровня, отстреливаясь и отбиваясь от местной живности. Стрельба, как и рукопашка, здесь очень простые, но при этом стрелять довольно приятно, да и какая-никакая прокачка пристуствует, чтобы игрок не заскучал. Проходится всё это примерно за 12-13 часов, если лететь вперёд. Если же задаться целью выбить все ачивменты и собрать все коллекционные предметы - то немного дольше, но не сказать, что сильно сложно. Боссы на месте, не сложные, но и не простые, в самый раз. И всё бы хорошо, но... Опять этот UE! Игра местами дико красивая, но исключительно из-за дизайна. При этом тормозит оно так, будто я запустил Cyberpunk в 4K. Оптимизация у игры очень и очень слабая. Нет, если у вас карта уровня 4070 и выше, то можно с DLSS Quality играть в 2K с частотой кадров выше 80 в большинстве случаев. Но периодические зависания, дропы кадров, статтеры и прочие болезни Unreal Engine - на месте. И тем не менее - рекомендую. Это как раз из тех игр, от которых особо ничего не ждёшь, но запустив, проходишь с удовольствием.

So, Demo was good, game feels fun HOWEVER,. i simply can not recomand it. After the demo part the game crashed twice on me once on loading a cutscene and once on teleport, one of the crashes corrupted my save file, and if such thing is the case I can not recomand it to anyone. I have high hopes for the developrers fixing the bugs and will most likely revisit the tittle in the future, but now it feels like an alfa, and, i personally do not take enjoyment of early access tittles.

Почти коридорное приключение с элементами головоломки, слешера и шутера. Героиня прилетает на планету - источник Порчи, там попадает в Шпиль ("базу"), из которого выходит уничтожать ядра Порчи в разных локациях. У героини есть несколько видов оружия и умения костюма, которые она прокачивает, а также в каждой локации собираются навыки (захват крюка, обращение времени, взрыв энергии, высокий прыжок и т.д.), которые нужны для прохождения локации и преодоления препятствий на пути к ядру. В каждой локации свой набор навыков, локации можно проходить повторно. В некоторых локациях есть боссы со своими механиками. Разнообразие локаций и условий в них потрясающее - пещеры, джунгли, горы, орбита планеты. Есть даже локация с мини-планетоидами, вектор гравитации для которых меняется на центр этого планетоида (осторожно, вас может дезориентировать и укачать). Игра не слишком сложна - нет гринда, нет заморочных достижений типа "пройди всю игру не умирая", с механиками боссов можно разобраться самому, без гайдов. Сбор предметов не осложнён хитрыми трюками типа "дёрни рычаг там, постой на плите тут - и тогда где-то сзади откроется потайная дверка", всё можно найти просто внимательно осматривая все углы локации. Проблему может составить только сбор биофрагментов (их много и они раскиданы в самых хитрых местах - в щелях над головой, сзади, за углом или выступом под ногами, под мостом, за водопадом, среди растений и т.д., и т.п.), но опять же поможет внимательность и к тому же за сбор их всех нет достижения. В целом игра великолепна... но всё портят её недостатки. Неоптимизированность (невысокий фпс и регулярные лаги на 1-5 сек - вероятно, из-за подгрузки данных - из-за чего камеру разворачивает совершенно произвольно), много тумана и дымки (даже отключение постобработки не спасает), инерционное движение (не сразу начинается и заканчивается) и повороты героини (нарезает круги). И баги, баги, баги. Из самых серьёзных - часто невозможно завершить локацию Орбитальные доки из-за того, что ядро не теряет оболочку, а в Логове Левиафана героиня легко улетает за текстуры или игра вообще часто крашится. Или в Покинутых архивах иногда невозможно открыть дверь, потому что пропадают глаза, которые нужно уничтожить, приходится переигрывать локацию. Ну и по мелочам - например, при возврате к контрольной точке вы можете оказаться в воздухе. И всё же, несмотря на недостатки, на которые я иногда даже матерился, игра мне очень понравилась.

Lame

This is another game I wish I could have a neutral recommendation on because it's not terrible but not great either. Otherskin is the second big release from the Game Atelier, makers of Monster Boy & the Cursed Kingdom, the best of the Wonder Boy series and one of my favorite games of the last decade. So, suffice to say that going into this game I had some high expectations on the gameplay side of things at least, and unfortunately the game utterly failed to live up to them. However, I believe this game is still somewhat fun in its own right. First of all, I have to say the Game Atelier have not improved in the writing department. I have absolutely no idea why they bothered getting VO for this script as 99% of the spoken lines are incidental dialogue about what's currently going on. At the end of the game, I barely have a picture of who Alex is despite her yammering on in every level. Plus, outside of her and her AI companion, there are literally no other characters so there is basically no story despite the premise. You need to stop the space goo from destroying the universe and then you do; end of story. There is some lore about the civilization that used to inhabit the planet, but it doesn't hold a candle to what Metroid Prime or Marathon trilogies achieved over two decades ago. Pre-release information and footage might have lead you, like me, to believe that this game was a metroidvania just like their last title. Instead we got a stage-based 3D Platformer inspired by many games from the Gamecube/PS2 era such a Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Ratchet &Clank, and the Spyro series among many others I'm sure. Instead of gaining abilities and progressing over the course of the entire game, you gain a certain number of abilities within each stage and complete challenges based around them, and then you're stripped of them once you get back to the hub. Your base abilities are no slouch as you have a double jump and dash in addition to your gun and sword. Plus, you can upgrade them to give you new and stronger attacks. Stage design is generally very good with some standout setpieces such as a level that takes place on the body of a giant creature, a level that has you rail-grinding on a low orbit space station, a level that has you jumping between Mario Galaxy gravity spheres in a massive jungle, etc. The abilities you can copy from enemies are all very simple things like high jump. electricity pulses, a fluid sac and shooter. They're all one-button stuff which allows you to easily engage ith the challenges designed around them and later challenges that incorporate two or three of them at a time. In between this, you fight the occasional enemy rush or bossfight. Now, all that sounds great, I'm sure, and it is legitimately fun. However, the reason I want to give it a thumbs sideways is because the game doesn't really do much interesting or remarkable that wasn't being done by the games that inspired it, and given the choice, I would rather play those. However, there is a lot of good here, which is why I can't recommend you don't play it. So ultimately, I feel like I have to fall on th side of recommend as the positives I believe outweigh the negatives. The main issue I have is really with some of the jank and glitches I encountered such as clipping into objects, enemies still attacking after death, and poor performance at times for seemingly no reason (Thankfully no crashes). It's not really a deal breaker, though if you have a machine that can run this on medium settings at least.

Naja. Es ist ok. Hauptsächlich Jump&Run gemischt mit Rätseln zum Weg freimachen. Hier und da noch ein Bug. Aber spielbar. Schade das es kein neutral hier auf Steam Rezension gibt. Dann wäre es hier neutral. Wer es mal sehen will.... auf meinem kleinen youtube Kanal @MasterOperator1 Der Bug Reporter funktioniert auch nicht. Send ist immer ausgegraut.

Pretty good idea, all the morphs and whatnot. Its simple, straightforward story (so far) is not necessarily a bad thing, but the bugs definitely are; random invisible outcroppings halfway down vertical cliff faces that respawn you there to die repeatedly being a good example a bit more polish being needed. Still would recommend, it's pretty fun at least as far as I got. FYI: Doesn't work on Steam Deck.

3D action bio-punk The universe is threatened by Corruption. Its origin's been traced back to planer Vandermere, the home of the now-extinct alien civilization known as Magna. Alex is the 13th Crusader of the Exodus mission- a soldier/researcher sent to investigate the planet. Her ship is attacked in orbit and infected by the Corruption. However, her bio-suit allows her to survive the infection, and gives her a unique ability- she can interact with the local fauna also infected by Corruption, and replicate their unique organs to imitate their biological adaptations. The game is a relatively linear, level-based action-adventure. Alex jumps, dashes, shoots and slashes her way through various levels connected to a central hub by portals, with the goal of reaching the end of each level and destroying the Corruption Core there. Each level has up to 3 alien creatures whose abilities (morphs) she can absorb and replicate. These range from fairly standard things like high jump & glide (via insect wings) and grapple (using a toad-like tongue), to more exotic things like time manipulation to restore destroyed structures and platforms, or manipulating environment with things like electricity, acid, sonic pulses, etc. Each level is designed around a specific theme, and there's quite a bit of variety and unique mechanics in each, being used in both traversal and puzzle-solving. Each level also has shrines that increase Alex's health, and unlock additional weapons, weapon firing modes, or abilities such as dash or heal. Killing enemies and breaking "bio-clusters" (local version of chests) grants currency that's used to upgrade Alex's suit and gun stats. Levels also have collectibles like Murals and Curiosities, that give further insight into the Magna and each level's backstory. While there's a bit of choice in which order you tackle some of the levels, and you can revisit the levels to collect things you may have missed, overall the game's structure is linear. You can backtrack in individual levels once you obtain specific morphs, which makes the game metroidvania-adjacent, without hitting the threshold. Gunplay is fairly basic, without meaningful recoil, and base weapons doing weak damage, but getting better with upgrades, encouraging exploration for more currency. The sniper rifle, in particular, becomes a strong mid-range weapon as well. Likewise, your melee "holo-sword" has a wide swing arc, but doesn't actually stun enemies, or stop them from attacking (unless you use ground-pound to juggle them). The penalty for dying is losing a bit of currency (that can be collected again), so death could be annoying, but not frustrating. Enemy variety's pretty sparse, but the focus of the game isn't combat, but exploration. The monster bosses are pretty unique (though typically you need to aim for weak spots to stun & whale on them), while more humanoid ones can feel a bit tedious. I enjoyed the puzzles focused around combining morph abilities, and didn't find things too difficult- though some of the collectibles could require some looking around, or even re-starting the level. Overall, getting to 98% completion (missing a few bio-clusters on a couple of levels- but having maxed out all upgrades anyway) took me 20 hours. This was a super-completion run, with restarting a few level after completion. Overall, I feel I got my money's worth. On the technical side, the game is UE5, and there was some stutter. Oddly enough, never had it disrupt combat, but sometimes when rotating the camera, it would be noticeable. There were a few relatively minor bugs, 3 crashes, and one time key items (corruption eyes I had to destroy) failed to spawn, so I had to go back to the hub and restart the level. So there's certainly things to address in a patch. Overall, I still loved the game, for the sheer level variety. There's a ton of creativity on display, and since there's no overall interconnected world here, the developers could go absolutely wild with trying to show off what challenges the different morph combos could yield. The sheer variety and creativity, combined with charming old-school sensibilities evokes games like Soul Reaver in terms of mechanics. Alex moves fast, jumps high, and the platforming generally feels good. The combat can start off feeling iffy, but once you upgrade some weapons (and especially once you get and upgrade the sniper rifle), it becomes mostly trivial, allowing you to focus on exploring, puzzling, and appreciating the sheer creativity on display here.

《Otherskin》是一款以科幻宇宙为背景的第三人称动作冒险解密游戏。游戏的背景故事是整个宇宙中有一种叫“腐化”的灾难，是宇宙中所有生命的威胁，但这次却发现了疑似“腐化”来源的地点，而本作的主角Alex 是太空十字军“幸运的”第13号志愿者，带着一套高科技人工智能战衣独自前往腐化的“发源地”——范德米尔星球，不过没想到的是在迫降过程中，她的战斗服意外吸收了腐化能量，导致DNA发生变异，从而获得了吸收被感染生物能力的机会。 游戏的一大特点就是游戏中的能力吸收机制。在本作中，玩家在击败特定敌人后，可以吸取它们的能力，而在合适的时机玩家就需要使用这些获取的特殊能力来进行探索，这些能力有飞行，钩锁，时间逆流等。 游戏的另一大特点是游戏中的关卡设计。说实话，游戏中的地图设计和关卡设计是非常不错的，首先是根据游戏内会遇到的难题给出相应的怪物让玩家击杀后获取能力来解题（虽然怪要玩家自己找和打）。此外在游戏中玩家的boss战是与巨大生物进行战斗，虽然说这种战斗都是寻找机制，然后重复，但也说的上是非常不错了。在游戏中还有着例如控制重力解密，操作移动平台解谜等解密玩法。在游戏的节奏把控方面算的上不错。 从画面表现来看，游戏整体美术风格还算不错，充满异星风味。遗憾的是，游戏的优化表现较差，我在游玩时经常遇到卡顿、掉帧现象，而且游戏中的美术除了场景不错以外其他的都比较一般，尤其是游戏中的建模，配上游戏中僵硬的动作，毫无打击感的攻击，对游戏的体验造成了比较大的影响。 在玩法方面，游戏除了解密部分就是动作射击部分了。玩家可使用近战武器和远程枪械进行战斗，但在游戏中近战攻击算不上流畅，一次性只能打两下，而远程武器又手感稀碎，加上需要充能攻击，这就使得游戏的战斗手感是在说不上是好。虽然游戏中可以升级战甲和远程枪械，但实际提升的感觉并不大，只能说一般。 总的来说，《Otherskin》是一款在地图和关卡设计上非常不错但其他方面有着短板的作品。其在性能优化、操作手感和其他方面上仍有明显不足。如果你对科幻题材感兴趣，可以试试。 [quote] 亲亲亲！亲亲亲！噗铃噗铃！爱你爱你！姆尼姆尼！叻咯叻咯！姆拉姆拉！[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44515001]不动不动不动卿[/url]亲亲亲！亲亲亲！爱你爱你！姆尼姆尼！噗铃噗铃！波隆奴璐璐！叻咯叻咯！ [/quote]

Otherskin is a fairly enjoyable game with solid and fun gameplay. There are some technical issues, including a few bugs, one crash, and occasional stutters, but nothing game-breaking. The visuals are decent — not impressive, but they get the job done. The story exists, but it lacks deeper lore and world-building details. The biggest downside is the short length, especially considering the price. Overall, it’s a solid mid-tier game best picked up on sale.