Shine Within

"Shine Within" is a somewhat poorly made 2D top down retro pixel "adventure" game with a trite and off-putting story involving a hero saving a world corrupted by monsters. The gameplay involves collecting items and solving puzzles in a 2D, cartoony setting, with some minigames and optional interactions with monsters. The puzzles aren't great, the story is worse (and feels like Google Translate was having a bad day) and the graphics are atrocious. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $4 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to buy soundtrack DLC from Steam to "support" the "developer"... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

Sorry to say, but it simply is just a walking simulator and a boring one at that IMHO. Yes it feels similar to Undertale but somehow lacks the charm tbh. It's still free so give it a shot if you want, but go in expecting to be bored after 10 minutes of playing.

免费 没中文 没成就 心光闪耀 这片世界栖息着无数心灵魔物，它们尽数被腐化浸染，终日活在无尽绝望之中。如今正静待一位高尚勇者，点亮内心之光，永久拯救这个世界。 本作是一款俯视角动作冒险游戏，你将一路收集道具、破解谜题，探索并揭开这个神秘世界的所有谜团。 游戏特色 探索奇幻神秘大世界，收集物品解锁前行道路。 冒险途中邂逅各式地图解谜关卡。 游玩趣味小游戏，与心灵魔物进行互动。 净化被腐化的灵之村落，拯救一方生灵。 可以抚摸、拥抱可爱的心灵魔物。 甚至还能清理处理一块烤牛肉……？ 追寻本心，完成你命中注定的使命。

i loved this game. Part of the story reminded me of Jesus, the message the game conveys is really beautiful. And I would like to say something to you who are reading this... Be a strong and a gentle person, love is the only way, without love... nothing matters... You have no enemies...

Doceniam pomysł i inspirację undertale, ale mi się osobiście nie podobało

game really wishes it came out before undertale

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