Possessor(s)

趁打折买捆绑包，10元人民币买的，无论如何也值回票价了，因此给好评 但游戏体验是拧巴。说好玩吧又有点无聊，说无聊吧又有点好玩。 就说一个系统吧，这游戏的武器和技能工具系统 有一个主武器槽，决定平A攻击模组 技能工具槽有三个，按Y键或↑+Y或↓+Y释放 跟丝之歌的工具系统挺像哦，就目前说的部分感觉都没啥问题，构筑丰富对吧 然后我就要说莫名其妙的部分——附加物！ 附加物的功能定位类似于空洞骑士的徽章，或者丝之歌的被动类工具，但区别在于，附加物不是直接装备于人物身上，而是装备于主武器或者技能工具上，玩家需要在商人处交付一定数量的开槽物品（游戏里最广泛的一种收集奖励）以及魂（货币），选择给某种主武器或者技能工具开槽。 那它这样设计，附加物是加在主武器或者技能工具上，按道理是应该影响相应的平A或者技能模组才对吧？类似于哈迪斯那样的，给个别动作模组加上特效，或者改变攻击距离范围、投射数量之类的对吧？！ 屁嘞！附加物的效果实际上都是这样的：增加人物基础生命值、增加奔跑速度、增加魂掉落…… 没错，作为主武器或者技能工具的附加物，它们的效果居然跟主武器或者技能工具没有半毛钱的关联度！ 那它干嘛不设计成直接装在人物身上？唯一的作用是增加玩家替换主武器或者技能工具的沉没成本呗？ 我对此评价是——学丝之歌学废了!

Bit of a disappointing metroidvania. The aesthetics are beautiful and the music is great (very much in line with Heart Machine's early work) but the floaty, imprecise controls and clipped animations make the platforming and battles an absolute chore. Some movements feel genuinely incomplete (catching the nerve ladder is a good example, where Luca just teleports onto it SOMETIMES but, infuriatingly, detaches if you keep holding down the button???). Moving with the whip feels downright unfair at times. Also, if you put pits of death and other traps just below the character's field of view, let the player look down. Modern Castlevania and Metroid entries, Hollow Knight/Silk Song, MIO, all of them have had this silly feature forever, here it's just excluded? Why? Story-telling is subjective but, to me, it feels kinda'..... under-cooked? The world feels barren as you move from one point to the next. The writing is wooden and overwrought in a way that feels like early 2000's fan fiction. There's a general tendency towards luxuriating in misery that doesn't feel earned. Maybe it gets better towards the latter part of the game but I simply don't have the strength. For what it's worth: it runs ok on the Steam Deck (though it's surprisingly resource-intensive). Maybe that contributed to the choppy controls? Who knows.

Боевка - платформенные файтинги с импровизированным оружием, исследование строится на новых способностях, а визуал с рисованными 2D-персонажами на 3D-фоне очень даже неплох! По поводу боссов - они довольно интересные и прорисованные, у каждого свой уникальный мув-сет, разумеется. Но ... уровни неровные по качеству: где-то круто, а где-то попадаешь в тупики и непонятно, куда дальше, в некоторых местах бывает даже застреваешь :( Навигация утомляет из-за тупиков, анимация местами дерганая, а биомы немного повторяются, отсюда оценка 7/10. Но на фоне всего этого за свою цену игра даёт довольно много. В общем, цепляет она стилем, что мне крайне понравился, и историей, но до идеала далековато будет.

I really want to like Possessor(s) but movement in this game is so frustratingly stiff that I'm just not enjoying my time with it.

I really enjoyed it despite being a slightly flawed experience. Combat was very fun and fast paced(if you use certain weapons, the other options feel slightly bad) while also being souls/sekiro inspired and platforming was fun and smooth. Story was ok, slightly edgy. Art is good and the designs of characters and enemies and weapons were interesting and mostly based on random stuff you could find in buildings(though I wish there were more standard enemies since I feel like you see all of them halfway through). Main criticism is the map, it's very bad and doesn't reflect the actual terrain at all. Still had a lot of fun and especially with the bosses, mostly chill with some slight challenge in between on the standard difficulty(and there's either that or easy)

Loved the story and art, the game-play was a little clunky at times but was never horrible or overly frustrating.

Warning: frame lags are real... dodging and parrying is a pain in the butt. Other than that, I did enjoy the game overall. If there's a neutral option I'd probably have gone with that tho. The plot is alright, and the ending is a good setup for a second installment. But many of the lines felt rushed and definitely could've been better written. The art is top notch, altho the nose blood on Luca's character becomes really annoying (that or just my OCD?)... after Rhem healed her she could've definitely cleaned up that one line of blood that was driving me crazy, lol. I didn't mind the back tracking because I don't think this was meant to be a speed clear game. The maps are fairly well built for a one-off game, however, I see the potential for the map to be at least 2x larger if all the rooms, cracks, and doors held additional rooms. I've never relied on game maps for too much so I think the existing labels are more than sufficient. Since most resources are single-use, there wasn't too much need in using special labels and marks. Overall, 6.5 out of 10 type of game.