SUNLESS SEA

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玩之前的印象：洛夫克拉夫特式深海恐惧探险游戏 玩之后的感觉：黑暗奇幻地底世界文字冒险跑商模拟器 我是抱着当调查员的心态，来玩这个游戏的，玩到一半发现不对劲，我哪是调查员啊！ 首先我不会死，或者说，很难死。我跳海里淹死会变成溺亡者，受了太多伤会变成死亡侨民，但都死不透彻。 我会吃人，这很正常，有时候一不小心就吃了人肉。我看着船上的水手，觉得他们一个个都长得很美味。 我可以把灵魂卖给恶魔，或者猴子，换两百块钱。没了灵魂我会怎么样？不会怎么样。当然我也在大量倒卖别人的灵魂，这在地底世界很正常。 “人类”这个物种是长生不老的，我有个船员的妈是人类，活了几千年。我也不知道，我也没见过人类。 海上的可靠伙伴：老鼠、蘑菇、粘土人。 地狱爆发了内战，这对于我们伦敦人来讲是件好事，毕竟我们不久前才和地狱打了一仗。 我被阳光直射会死，地底人都会，即使如此走私阳光也是一桩大生意，或者说是地底最赚钱的生意，缺点是接触太多阳光会疯掉。 诸如此类的，让我意识到，我确实不是去什么黑暗无光的地底大海小心翼翼地调查的调查员，我是在这片海上跑船的老油子，出海跟回家一样。深海原住民长什么样不重要，重要的是他家燃料卖多少钱。 要说一点不害怕吧，其实也没有。被海盗打掉几个船员只能龟速航行刚好燃料又不够那是真的要命，不过只在没钱的时候会这样。等我赚了钱换了大船大炮，出海我要一路按喇叭，生怕方圆一百海里的海怪海盗不知道我要来了。鱼雷太多，怪物太少。 总的来讲是款优缺点都很突出的游戏，优点就是非常丰富的剧情和茫茫多的分支路线，它是真的摆了个地底世界出来给你玩的。 缺点就是第一，文字表达偏委婉晦涩，有股老伦敦的酸味在那。第二叙事比较碎片化，背景故事要你自己一点点摸索拼凑，一上来容易懵。还有第三，你要有钱才能买大船大炮燃料补给，才能安全远航，然后你要跑商才能有钱，而跑商是个很枯燥的重复劳动。赚得太少，物价太贵，船跑太慢，难受。 这游戏不是个恐怖游戏，它是个黑暗奇幻游戏，而且它在这个奇幻世界的构建上非常优秀，有一种独特的魅力。探索开图的那种刺激感是一方面，开完图以后赚钱买船到处跑推各种故事线又是另一方面，支线啊隐藏要素啊特别多，人物刻画又很好，每次出海都能发现新东西，让你就玩不腻。 总之瑕不掩瑜，船速度慢导致跑商慢赚钱慢难受是一方面，但是优秀的剧情和氛围能让你忍受这种困难。而且也不是非要赚几万买神装属性刷满才能玩，初始给的小船缝缝补补能陪你好久甚至能陪你通关，只不过买了大船会爽，能无双，能赚大钱，所以我要买大船。

如果你不喜欢密教模拟器那一套，就不要买这个游戏。这玩意是更加倍的短篇小说阅读器，不是我以为的航海冒险模拟器……

If you value your time, Don't touch this game, I don't mean it not in a good way. The game's pace are too slow for a rouge-like, in a game which you can lose everything for a lapse of judgement. Losing become too painful. You can spent days without getting any meaning progress, and lose it in minutes. The grinding are inescapable, throughout the game, you are under constant lack of resource like money, food and fuel. The method of getting those resource are few and far between, any chance of getting good return are limited in quanity so you can only get so much. PROVIDED you know where and how to get them, which is obvious not the case of new players. Trading might as well doesn't exist as most trade gain you no more than 3 golds after you throw in resources to transport them, and you also need to know the appropriate's whereabouts to successfully make that trade. There are no one telling information of profitable trade, meaning more resources blown in scouting the vast sea. Time to time again you will be asked for random stuff without knowing where to obtain them. Time to time again you are awarded stuff without where you can use them or somewhere suddenly require them if you need to progress the story. Without a storage option you either store them in your pitifully small inventory or throw them away, only to regret when you are informed they are actually required now somewhere. So in order to play this game remotely "efficiently' you need to keep note of every traders, every quests like a speedrunner so you can speed through the whole again when you die. The most common source of stress while playing didn't not come from enemies, as most of them are quite easily avoidable, but the management of the dwindling resources. Well, I like the atmosphere of the game, but I would rather read it on a book or comic at this point. This is a game I can use cheat without guilt.

I loved the mood, but the gameplay didn't click for me. For a similar Lovecraft-at-Sea setting that clicked very easily for me, check out Dredge.

On one hand, you might want to play this game with the wiki pulled up on another screen. Otherwise, you might end up stuck in a rut of poverty, as the economy in this game is difficult. On the other hand, Sunless Sea is a strongly knowledge-based game. Once you learn of good trade routes, important and detrimental upgrades, and regions where good quarry is, the game really opens up. And the atmosphere! Sunless Sea is a game set in a subterranean ocean, where life is hard and hope is low. Yet this is ultimately a hopeful game, that across this damned sea, there lies knowledge and riches and catharsis. Enter with expectations of short-lived captains and doomed voyages, sail forth with an open mind and a hand on the lamps, and you'll find a world worth learning.

好玩，看完诡秘地海来的