Rusty Lake: Roots

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finished Hotel and now Roots. i think this game is way more interesting than the first one, but can't blame Hotel since it doesn't have as much as this game does. so far: Rusty Lake Hotel: 9.5 Rusty Lake Roots: 9.8 why not a 10? because i had to restart the game for The Date achievement and i couldn't play in fullscreen.

I am not sure why it took me this many years to finally start playing the games in this series. Every single one I've played so far has been very good and well worth my time and money. I decided to treat myself during the last summer sale and picked up the entire collection, and I am very glad I did. Absolutely no regrets. I am playing them in the official recommended order. The stories and plot starting with the Cube Escape collection were intriguing if not confusing at times, often leaving me with more questions than answers. Each game/chapter is like a small piece of the story that slowly comes into focus the further you progress. With Rusty Lake Roots I feel like so much was finally revealed, and I found myself unable to stop playing as I became increasingly invested. All of the games in the series are related in some way, even with extra secrets revealed between them if you are observant. At the core of these games are the puzzles, which are so well-designed and thoughtful. The most challenging ones were ones where the objective wasn't very clear to me, and I'll admit I actually needed some hints at some points for figuring out what to do. Once I understood the "rules" each puzzle made sense and I was able to solve it after some time. My gaming desk is full of random scraps of paper with scribblings from this game. I am a big fan of this genre and I have to say this series is definitely one of the best ones out there. I absolutely recommend this game as well as the the entire series.

Roots was the game that blew up and made the series big, and Steam has been recommending it to me for basically a decade now. Fittingly, this was also the studio's first full-length, paid release. Coming off the earlier games that made me both excited and nervous that I wouldn't like it. But I loved it. I was worried at first since the first few vingettes were crazy simple and I was like, "Oh no, did saying they'd shored up their puzzle design actually just mean making everything stupid basic?" but luckily this was just the tutorial section and I really liked the puzzle design overall. I just really loved it! I love how weird it is, how careful, how the pistol on the mantle is always fired. I love how judicious it is with its weirdness, all the ah-ha moments, the way the story is just coherent enough to be compelling without losing that feeling of never quite knowing what's going on. I just really like these games and the way they're put together, and I'm glad to see that the team could so successfully move their formula into a longer-form piece. This is a crappy review, but sorry! I just like these, I don't have anything constructive to say about them. I probably won't do writeups about the following games in the series and will just soak them in.

昨天晚上把绣湖旅馆和绣湖根源两部作品打完了。我意识到在作为一个云玩家的时候，我对这部作品和系列的认知有点浅薄。 在我之前云玩家的时候确实出于名气和感兴趣而去看了很多分析视频，但是给我的东西只是‘这是个充斥着屎尿屁’的、名气挺大的解密游戏，玩法就一个点击互动而已，沾了个猎奇个意想不到的边儿，像是很多游戏不都是二创同人火热，知名度高吗？ 不过当我玩了天堂岛-根源-旅馆，我才发现完全不一样，绣湖天堂岛给我的震撼不高，但是根源里我是实打实的感受到了它的魅力，它的角色画面细节有很多阴郁，常年阴湿的湖泊，一个家族一代又一代的延续，我不知道该怎么说，我觉得这种风格非常独到，家族树这个东西包括每个时期，家族成员的故事线，需要做什么，都在做什么，还有各种隐喻，真的有种在挖掘什么小惊喜的感觉。 玩法只有互动点击的解密游戏竟然把人设，经历，塑造的如此优秀，这是没玩之前作为云玩家完全无法体会的，我真的看了超级多的游戏剧情解析什么的，现在只能说这个游戏热度高，名气大，基本原因就是质量优秀。 特别是其中有一代是用望远镜，结果看到了锈湖旅馆的动物头的人，结果画面一转，角色分支出去了，时间一下子跳了五年，十年，更久或者其他关键的年代。 这个时候你就发现那群旅客就在我们用望远镜看到后的短短几天死掉了hhhh 天啊，好奇妙。 然后我又去玩绣湖旅馆，我一直没看明白这什么玩意，我以为是黑色幽默呢，玩完了也不知道这些动物头是什么。 我退出游戏以后看视频解析，结果刷到绣湖天堂岛的解析了。视频封面是祭祀家族人戴面具的那个地方，我直接就‘我去，合着是这帮人啊！’ 笑死了，绣湖天堂岛那一家子神人气得我鬼火冒，原来猫头鹰不是无差别猎杀(虽然我觉得猫头鹰和乌鸦这俩人一直都无差别猎杀，但是猫头鹰这部绣湖旅馆确实是冤有头债有主了) 玩到兔子的时候我就是看有人说这个情节是兔子是魔术师，用替身逃跑了，我也仅仅只是知道这个，可能是出bug了拿了香菇和迷迭香结果蛤蟆没放，回头打第一关鹿肉的三颗星，兔子的那个眼神看起来有心事真的！！！一下子发现彩蛋了感觉。 不过听说绣湖天堂岛和锈湖旅馆也是中间隔了几百年？一百多年？真是奇妙的！！我真是越来越期待兔子先生后续剧情了，虽然兔子以前是个畜生(把弟弟母亲献祭)现在也是个畜生(字面意思)hhhh 我为此甚至问了GPT，得到了这个解释，得到了这个回应如下，我超级开心啊啊啊啊: 《Roots》里有一个场景，Vanderboom 家族通过望远镜看到动物头的身影，而这些身影和后来《Hotel》的五位客人对应。 问题是： 《Roots》里的那一幕发生在 1870 左右，而《Hotel》的正式故事发生在 1893。 这个问题甚至玩家当年就拿去问过 Rusty Lake 官方。 官方开发者的回复非常关键： “We are aware of point 1. It wasn’t the first time they went to Rusty Lake.” 也就是： “我们知道这个问题。他们并不是第一次去 Rusty Lake。”