Submachine: Legacy

Mateusz Skutnik is a genius. Nobody does liminal spaces like this

+【统一精致的重制品质】 不同时期的Flash作品经过重新绘制，画面、界面和整体风格都保持得很统一。 连续玩完十余个章节，也很少感受到明显的年代断层和视觉割裂。 +【系列作品得到完整保存】 十部主线、多部外传和新增内容被重新整合，部分旧版本的差异也被保留下来。 作为一套Flash时代作品的完整合集，本作在内容保存和重制诚意上值得肯定。 +【独特的工业美术风格】 冰冷机械、地下遗迹和几何建筑组成了很有辨识度的视觉风格。 手绘画面精致而克制，也很好地保留了这些空间神秘、孤独和略带压迫的感觉。 +【多元神话增添世界观吸引力】 埃及、印度、希腊罗马及中南美洲等神话符号，与机械遗迹和多重空间交错出现。 多数内容只是点到为止，但确实为潜机世界增加了神秘感，也让背景设定更有吸引力。 +【背景音乐很有氛围】 低沉而空灵的环境音乐与废弃空间很契合，也不会过度干扰思考。 它很好地维持了孤独探索的感觉，也是整个流程里一直表现不错的部分。 +【少数谜题尚有可取之处】 整体解谜质量虽然非常弱，但稍微有几个谜题还算是有点意思，例如第三章利用房间坐标和循环规律推进。 这些段落至少需要玩家观察变化、归纳规律，解开后也能明白谜题到底是怎么设计的。 +【后期表现形式稍有新意】 后面几章加入了坐标传送、平行空间和不同维度之间的切换，形式上比前期多了一些变化。 谜题质量虽然一般，但这些跨时空的表现方式还有些想象力，至少让几个章节有了点新鲜感。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -【场景指向非常模糊】 很多入口和转向都没有清楚的视觉提示，部分点击区域与实际通路也不一致。 卡关时甚至无法判断当前场景能不能左右转，只能反复扫过画面边缘寻找出口。 -【反复折返浪费时间】 道具和对应机关经常隔着很远，又没有地图、快速移动或合理捷径。 玩家只能在大量相似房间之间来回赶路，许多时间都耗在没有意义的折返上。 -【物品缺少明确用途提示】 拿到新物品后，游戏很少告诉你它对应哪个区域或机关，也无法由此判断下一步该去哪里。 有些物品会在背包里放很久，甚至没用过就能过关，只会让有效线索变得更难判断。 -【大量互动没有实际意义】 抽屉、盖板和机械部件大多可以点击、翻动或开启，其中很多却与线索和谜题无关。 这些互动并没有让解谜变得丰富，反而让人更难分清哪些东西真正有用，只能把场景逐个点一遍。 -【谜题缺少推理逻辑】 关键道具、环境线索和机关结果之间经常缺少必要联系，很多答案根本无法从现有信息中合理推出。 即使看完攻略知道了解法，也不会觉得豁然开朗，只会疑惑之前到底应该怎么想到。 -【几个章节尤其折磨】 第二章突然塞入多层灯塔、隐蔽出口和多套联系薄弱的机关；第四章又要求借助坐标传送器四处试探。 第十章更把庞大空间、反复回溯、像素搜索和外部记录堆在一起，几乎把此前的问题全部放大。 -【重制没有改善核心体验】 游戏要求玩家提前记录坐标、图案和用途不明的地点，却删除了原版提供的记事本。 既然已经重制，完全可以加入截图收藏、标签标记等功能；结果只有画面得到升级，导航、记录和引导仍停留在早期Flash游戏阶段。 -【剧情始终浮于表面】 前期章节与早期《逃离方块》相似，都是用零散文本和抽象场景拼接世界，缺少完整的剧情串联。 但《逃离方块》后来进化出了《锈湖：根源》这样拥有清晰时间线、人物关系和主题收束的作品。 虽然后面的章节稍有好转，但整体剧情仍然零散、抽象而且单薄。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ·【汉化致谢】 感谢Submachine贴吧交流群本地化小组制作的民间汉化补丁，让我们能够完整体验本作。 ·【更像电子安静书】 本作更像一本以翻页、找物和拨动机关为主的电子安静书，而不是一款真正的解谜游戏。 画面虽然精致，但大量互动没有谜题逻辑和玩法价值，只剩下摆弄场景的表面形式。 ·【是否硬核，还是折磨】 早期点击游戏缺少提示、要求手动记录，或许会被解释成所谓的硬核设计。 但重制版升级了画面，却保留这些落后的体验，甚至删掉原有记事本；这种困难不来自思考，只是在消耗玩家的时间和耐心，也谈不上对玩家有基本的尊重。 ·【关于评分标准的补充】 哪怕它不是一款解谜游戏，只是把自己定位成点击式迷宫，只要这套玩法设计得精彩，我同样会给到70分以上。 如果迷宫探索更有趣、更有逻辑，哪怕解谜很弱，我也会给到72或73分；但本作两方面都没有做好。 最终给69.5分，是因为画面、音乐和世界观确实有可取之处，但最核心的游玩体验还达不到70分以上的标准。 【综合评分：69.5】

Such wasted potential. TLDR : if you dislike pixel hunting and solutions to puzzles that make no sense within the game world, this game won't be for you. This game started so well, with its beautiful hand drawn graphics, some fairly original puzzles and its incredible world building, but also with the fact that from a very early point you understand that there will be more to it than simply finding the exit to each level, and that one big interconnected puzzle is hidden right there, waiting to tie everything together when you'll revisit the game. So after finding the first ending (and getting to that point was a really pleasant experience overall) I was very eager to tackle that final puzzle. But what a huge disappointment and waste of time that turned out to be... I'm not going to spoil anything but let me just tell you that it relies on several highly questionable design choices, in my opinion. - Firstly, some parts of the solution make no sense at all within the game world because it requires you to navigate between different levels through the main menu by quitting levels and restarting others. This completely broke the otherwise amazing world building for me. - Secondly, the final optional level is such a huge maze of thematically unrelated locations connected through teleporters that it became very tedious to navigate and to remember what was where. Now if it were just for these two points, I would have considered it forgivable and would still have considered the game an overall pleasant, if unequal, experience. - But, unfortunately, the final puzzle also relies on some of the most obnoxious and just plainly anti-fun pixel hunting I've ever seen in a point and click game. Calling it pixel hunting is actually too generous, because in several instances you can't even see what you're looking for on screen, you just have to move your cursor everywhere methodically, hoping to discover an invisible interactable spot. In the end I had to give up and resort to using a guide to know where the last two of them where, and when I found out I was glad I didn't lose any more time on it because the solution was just dumb. This left me with a huge feeling of disappointment, and I genuinely don't understand how could anyone find this kind of "difficulty" fun.

Every few years I would go back and replay the entire flash-game series again, so finding out that this remastered version came out was quite exciting. The atmosphere of Submachine is something special, and it was a great experience as always, although honestly the new Shattered Quadrant post-game was not the best.

Incredible puzzles, spooky music, intriguing lore. It was super satisfying to solve the ultimate puzzle with everything coming together, even if there's so much to have to think about at the same time ! Notes on what is needed where are very useful to make.

it has deep story... ...i don't like story games... ...but this one? damn! 100% recommend! Not giving anyone any spoilers... but it's not easy game.