Sky: Children of the Light

Эскапизм и зависимость от виртуального мира ская это ужасно, и многие игроки используют игру как бегство от реальности, при чем практически полноценное, в скае можно завести "скайные" отношения, можно жениться, ходить на свидания, изменять, сплетничать за спиной и строить интриги. И это реально в том, что люди вместо того, чтобы что-то предпринимать в изменении своей жизни, уходят в игру с головой, сидят в ней сутками и называют её от того любимой и прекрасной игрой, за то что она как алкоголь, приглушает их боль и опьяняет чувством перерождения другим Я в этом мире Был бы у игры одиночный режим, она бы мне понравилась куда больше. А так, мне жаль тех, кто пользуется игрой для бегства от реальности, кто зависим от ежедневного фарма свечей, ради бесконечных покупок вещей и нарядов . Таких людей оказывается очень много, большше чем я могла себе представить, знакомясь с каждым и узнавая их поближе, очень многие играют в игру просто потому что жить в реальности совсем уже не хотят. Надеюсь, что если в вашей жизни всё плохо, то вы НЕ начнете играть в это, вы только глубже себя закопаете, убегая от проблем. Пожалуйста, стремитесь сделать свою жизнь лучше. Всем тяжело, вам тяжело, возможно вам никто не поможет, не надейтесь на это, НЕ ПОЛАГАЙТЕСЬ на то, что ИГРА сделает вашу жизнь ЛУЧШЕ, выкручивайтесь, старайтесь, ДУМАЙТЕ САМИ

A beautiful game absolutely ruined in moments of 'fear of missing out'.

本质上是氛围感不错、游戏性欠缺、带联网社交互动功能的的慢节奏步行模拟器。初见全地图跑一遍还是有沉浸感的，不值得投入更多精力全收集啥的。地图表现和艺术氛围是陈汉星的长项，但是互动内容很少地图空也是老毛病。有多人合作才能开启的机关设定，新手可以等老玩家解谜。 大地图是云海，主要地图是大约7个嵌在云层里的大面积空岛。可以滑翔但是有能量限制，掉落到云层会向上反弹，滑翔操作感较差速度慢。主线是在空旷的地图里找先灵谜语人NPC互动看短动画，解锁传送点（有点难找）、开门、收集烛光、升级滑翔能量、解锁表情和服装，比较休闲轻松同时驱动力不足。 就这照顾移动端的建模还不如风之旅人，内购内容价格比较离谱，但多数可以龟速收集。因为推联机叙事碎片谜语化显得非常散漫没有吸引力，不如单机的几款作品。而且7年前的老物端上STEAM也2年了还在EA就很迷。

JOURNEY was pure art, a classic in gaming's history. SKY was Meant as a spiritual successor. Made by American Indie developers who were students when they made Journey in 2012. "Sky: CotL" was released for IOS back in 2019. I repeat, ONLY for IOS.. The game came to Steam in 2024 and is in Early Access for some inexplicable reason? Despite being a 7+ year old game. 2 years have passed and still in Early Access? Just get over it, stop pretending. This is a always-online live service game akin to something like Warframe. Leading to my issue with this game: the polar contrast between its artistic roots and the corporate monetization. It's like installing a coin-operated machine on the Mona Lisa and having people throw quarters to see the art piece for 5 minutes.. This is not the way of "Journey" This is selling out. Excessive monetization and wringing of the playerbase has been an issue in our beloved gaming industry and one could expect such lowly behavior from filth like Ubisoft or EA, but from beloved indie devs who created "Journey" one of the best games in human history?! Despicable. - This is a cozy games, so there are no noteworthy or P2W items. Only cosmetic ones and the real price for some are just way too exuberant. The limited pool of items available in the game is locked behind huge candle grinds which forces players to forego the amazing vibe, the sad co-op and just log-in daily to do pesky candle runs. And for what? to get a 3rd cosmetic cloak when one can wear only one at a time? Heck, an action game like Warframe provides far more cosmetic gameplay if that's what you want. - What doesn't help is that the majority of content and cosmetics, especially the cool ones, are locked behind seasons which they promised would return. Years have passed and not a single season has repeated, instead new seasons like the recent "Van Gogh" are added. Very rarely "some" random seasonal trader appears and you might get access to locked content but even then it still has a ridiculous candle price. The game itself is not infinite, running the same regions again and again is not fun, especially if you grind candle runs! The devs claim that their philosophy is to sell specific "emotions and feelings" above all else. What kind of emotions are they getting out of us with such greedy treatment? Players are busy looking DOWN to collect candles, instead of looking UP at the literal Sky, the damn namesake of this game!!! There are so many cute and cool animations, most of which players will take a long time to collect or master. I personally was lucky to have started during an event when all seasonal quest givers (not traders) returned for a brief moment, which allowed me to get all the animations and experience the seasonal quests to some degree. That means I already experienced EVERYTHING this game has to offer! Animations are good but what use are they if there is no one to play with? I ain't gonna drag my friends into this! I expected they would utilize the unique co-op mechanic of Journey to nudge players to play together, but sadly everyone got their noses stuck to the ground caring only about candle runs... Worse is that many are AFK and hold hands with a friend who carries them through candle runs, or fake accounts to sit on the main players shoulders so they can get double rewards. OR a recent addition, Chinese fake player bots. How happy the devs must be after seeing all these flaws and thinking locking us behind 4-8 man requiring doors is their way to "nudge" us towards co-op multiplayer. Funnily there are maybe 2 doors like that in the entire game, hah! For what it's worth the aesthetic is beautiful and the world cool to explore. Seasonal quests are more fleshed out than others and the game is WORTH checking out for at least a single story completion! It retreads same points as Journey and does not fail in its presentation. But after finishing it, what's there to do? What's the point of staying? The players? Hah. Just because the game is worth a single playthrough, I treat it as a linear single player experience and recommend it. Otherwise no.

[quote=][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/12146432-La-Cruceta-Inquieta/][b]Follow/ Sigue a "La Cruceta Inquieta"[/b][/url], Steam curator/ mentor de Steam[/quote] [h1]ESP[/h1] En “Sky: Niños de la Luz” esperaba poder compartir con otros jugadores los buenos momentos de belleza contemplativa de otros juegos como “Journey” o “Abzû” pero, desgraciadamente, ya desde un inicio ofrece poco más que repetitividad y, en cambio, sí una carencia preocupante de alicientes jugables, además de que tampoco su faceta social está lograda al dejar al jugador la posibilidad de interactuar o no con otros y convertirlo más en una opción que en una necesidad. Dado su aparente éxito, seguramente haya jugadores que aprecien su ritmo (excesivamente) pausado y lo vean como un título para simplemente pasar el rato, pero personalmente no puedo recomendar un juego demasiado verde incluso para estar en acceso anticipado. [b]Pros:[/b] - algunos momentos contemplativos que hacen justicia al género; - sus partes de exploración se pueden llegar a disfrutar; - lograda y satisfactoria simulación de nubes. [b]Contras:[/b] - demasiado tiempo en acceso anticipado y aún se nota; - falla como MMO porque su aspecto social está demasiado acotado; - una cosa es ser contemplativo y otra no ofrecer casi alicientes para seguir jugando; - excesiva lentitud y redundancia a cada paso. [h1]ENG[/h1] In “Sky: Children of the Light” I hoped to share with other players the contemplative beauty of games like “Journey” or “Abzû,” but unfortunately, it offers little more than repetitiveness and, instead, a worrying lack of gameplay incentives. Furthermore, its social aspect is poorly executed, leaving players with the option to interact with others, making it more of an option than a necessity. Given its apparent success, there will surely be players who appreciate its (excessively) slow pace and see it as a title simply to pass the time, but personally, I cannot recommend a game that is so unfinished, even for being in early access. [b]Pros:[/b] - Some contemplative moments that do justice to the genre; - Its exploration sections can be quite enjoyable; - A well-executed and satisfying cloud simulation. [b]Cons:[/b] - It's been in early access for too long, and it still shows; - It fails as an MMO because its social aspect is too limited; - There's a difference between being contemplative and offering almost no incentive to keep playing; - Excessive slowness and redundancy at every turn.

As someone who has played the game since it first release which was 6 years ago, the game and community was really good when it was newly released on mobile, as the time passes their creations and stuff does get better with more quality, but most of them are behind a pay wall which is really expensive, even items that uses in game currency are expensive and need you to farm for them for days or month just to get something, and there's too much microtransaction in the game. As for the community it has both good and bad sides, but most people doesn't interact with others now days or when they do they either are looking for people to e-date or they will barely be online after your first interaction. The game is story driven but after you finish the main story there isn't much to do, game play is repetitive needing you to do cr for the game currency which you can get maximum of 20 to 21 per day, but the cosmetics that's good are mostly 80 and above, so it does get boring very easily and mentality draining to grind for the currency every day. I did enjoy this game at one point, but recently i does not enjoy it and would not recommend the game

TLDR; don't play this game unless you're prepared to sink hours upon hours into it for very little rewards. not even unemployed people have the time LOL honestly pains me to say i wouldn't recommend this game to new players, but i think sky gets glazed so much and there aren't many players who feel comfortable possibly disrupting the atmosphere of the community for the majority, so here's my two cents as someone who has played for years, both consecutively and with breaks. the game itself, as in the story and the art, is gorgeous. it's a story that means a lot to many people, that has depth and details that may take you a while to pick up on or discover. but, i believe that almost every other aspect of the game is flawed, starting with the most integral feature: co op. not only do friends who are actively holding hands or being carried or cradled STILL get split into different servers constantly, but it's such a genuine faff around in order to reunite which is extremely frustrating during a candle or winged light run (more on that after). of course it can't be helped if someone's ping differs and so on - but man, when you're in a group of over three people and EVERYONE splits and the lead runner gets put in a full server, that ♥♥♥♥ is so annoying. as for candle running, 20 candles a day is so stingy. pumping out ts, ts groups, events with items that may not return ever OR will return but who knows when is really just unfair. it's no wonder so many players quit after a few days, and others become extremely unmotivated. i mean seriously, for non-sweaty players, a candle run might take 2 to 3 hours, depending on your chosen route AND factoring in splits and crashes. it's exhausting. which brings me to the next point: how can the devs reasonably expect vets to adopt moths when we barely have time to farm candles everyday? this upcoming ts group is supposedly around 730 candles altogether, plus days of moonlight and days of camping. you need to consistenly farm 20 candles a day to only get 120 all up. how can ANYONE save if they're still trying to catch up? it almost feels like a punishment sometimes for not being active when that spirit was introduced during their season. it's frustrating, exhausting, and honestly makes the game lose all it's charm extremely quickly. i only play because i've put years and money into this, and i'm still naively hoping that it will somehow pay off, but i have many sky friends who agree that this game is an absolute chore, players who have been within the community from launch or just after. you could be playing this game for years and still probably never catch up. it's a real, honest shame. i feel bad for moths, for vets and for any loyal player.