Tearscape

クリア済。 戦闘は近接とサブウェポン中心で、近接は剣・大剣・鞭などがありますがモーションは少なく、全体的に既視感の強いシンプルな構成です。 サブウェポンは弾薬制ですが入手が不安定で、実質ギミック用に限定されがちでした。敵・ボスともに耐久が高く、雑魚と強敵の差も大きいため、戦闘バランスはやや大味です。 さらにボスは耐久重視でギミック変化も単調で、撃破の達成感は薄めでした。 成長要素は経験値でHP・スタミナ・近接・サブウェポンを強化する一般的なレベルアップ制です。回避には無敵があるもののスタミナ管理が必要で、全体的にテンポは遅めです。 探索は1エリア1セーブ＆ファストトラベルの形式で、ショートカットは多めです。 一方でパズルの比重が非常に高く、ブロックの順番入力や色配置などが各地に配置されています。ヒントはありますが直感性が低く、総当たりも可能なため解法の納得感に欠ける場面が多いです。 総じて、GB風レトロゼルダを意識した作品ではありますが、戦闘・ボス・パズルいずれも単調さや理不尽さが目立ち、好みはかなり分かれる内容です。レトロな雰囲気を優先する人向けの作品です。

I find it very difficult to recommend this game. The premise is Bloodborne X Link's Awakening, which sounds amazing on paper, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. The lore very obviously attempts to rip Bloodborne off, but fails miserably. It frequently uses terms like "the hunt", "plague", "beasts", but it's all empty and meaningless. But that is the least of its problems. There is almost no reason to fight any of the bosses, other than getting a lot of tears. But you can farm those from regular enemies. You don't get any items, or open any new paths . It's not even required to beat the game. Speaking of beating the game: The isn't even an ending! Unless there's some bull**** hidden ending that is never even hinted at, meaning that even the final boss battle is pointless. Also, that final boss is full of bull****. It's not the kind of "difficult but fair" boss that defines great games. It's just poorly designed and very unfair. The rest of the game is alright, I guess. Combat is simple. exploration is fun sometimes, but often frustrating, especially in the final quarter of the game, with all the convoluted paths and narrow corridors full of powerful enemies. It's not particularly difficult. It's just intentionally obtuse, but not in a way that entices digging deeper to discover its secrets, because those secrets are pretty much worthless. Like the vast majority of tokens and weapons. Discovering a secret loses all impact when the reward is in most cases an item that you'll never use. In short, a lot of squandered potential, and a lot of disappointment.

It's a sort of loose Bloodborne demake thrown into a blender with the Gameboy Color Zelda games. Whereas the latter were mostly focused on the puzzle of navigation using your tools, Tearscape instead mixes elements of more open ended games with the timing based combat of FromSoftware titles. The result is an enjoyable dungeon crawler with some real heart. The premise involves hunting down a bunch of people who messed around with Tears. You're the hunter, and it's time to get to work. It's very reminiscient of other games, and I'll be honest, I didn't always follow it. There isn't an over abundance of world building, just the usual text stuff with items and some traveling NPCs who tell you about the area you're in. It's pretty simple, and ends abruptly, but it's fine for what it is. Instead, the strength lies in the distinct vibes of each area. There's usually a specific gimmick to a given area you're in, like the desert having cacti that can hurt you if you don't cut them down, or the mines having on rail mine carts you can change the course of. Each area is focused, essentially a giant dungeon in and of itself. While this is on a much, much smaller scale, Tearscape manages to succeed and what Tears of the Kingdom wanted to do by completely blending the dungeons with the overworld so the two are basically indistinguishable. Some of the novelty comes with the fact that there are tons of secrets to find. You can find equipable tokens all over the place, often hidden in devilish areas. You can use up to three of these to tailor your play style. There are a couple of different classes of weapons to find, too, with my favorite being the whips and not just because I'm a Castlevania fan. If you have the proper spacing, a whip strike will hit an enemy twice, once on the way out and once on the way back. It's also fast, with an okay area of effect. Contrast this to the Great Swords, which hit like trucks but take forever to wind up. The persistent stream of upgrades and new equipment you can find makes exploration constantly compelling. The structure is also super open ended. The game doesn't tell you this, but you can place markers on the map if you run into something you want to check back on later. Finding a map fills in the geography but the actual markers are entirely up to you. This also means that if you're stumped in one place, you can always leave a marker and just go check out somewhere else. There is usually at least two potential directions for you to explore in, and once you find a new navigational tool, you'll be able to return to old areas for new rewards. It's really impressive and complements the compact size of the game perfectly. The nine hours I have of playtime is how long it took to 100% everything, and the relatively small size is really refreshing since it lets the developer unleash the player. There are some quirks here and there, such as the game's penchant for making you navigate challenges backwards after navigating them to the end and getting what you need, and the story ends pretty abruptly, but this is a really enjoyable little title, one of many in a surge of Gameboy- likes that apply modern design sensibilities to old school aesthetics. This game borrows from many different sources and uses those influences to create an enjoyably open ended title that offers a constant stream of new items and rewards. Check it out.

Like Mina, but even more dull and boring

見下ろし型の８ビット版ブラボとでもいいましょうか 豚はいるけど残念ながらモツ抜きは無いです。 難易度も優しめなので世界観好きならオススメ

This was the best Gameboy Zelda mixed with Dark Souls game until Mina the Hollower released.

After a good 8 hours of playing the game, I'm afraid I can't exactly recommend the game. The level up system pretty much becomes entirely ridiculous, as it doesn't properly scale at all with lower levels. If you spent most of your points in attack, and try your hand in leveling up the other stats, it'll cost an arm and a leg to get it done, and at that point, it just isn't worth it. Secondly, there's no real point in the boss battles, as they do not actively give you any upgrades to defeating them. You get Tears (the game's currency) but other than that...it's not rewarding. Plus, the reusing of enemies with stronger health and attack pretty much gets...really old after a while. Because of the big issue with the level up system, the enemies being repeated and the big bosses being pointless, it brings down the quality of the game dramatically.

尚且合格的2d俯视角塞尔达代餐，能力锁，分层地图、隐藏墙壁、谜题等要素应有尽有，地牢设计有三角力量的神韵。反而是在此基础上缝合的类魂元素显得非常强行，精力限制和翻滚完全可以没有；篝火点极其稀少，而地图的连通性却并没那么强；加点系统与敌人的数值成长缺乏考究，即使全程升血上限都扛不住小怪4下攻击。 地图设计方面存在一个严重问题，所有只会为了拿一个收集物探索一次的支路几乎都不跟主路联通，跑完重重机关之后往往要回头再跑一遍，极其恶心。 不过最大的缺点还是各种缺打磨的小细节，比如各种碰撞判定，悬崖的判定等，最逆天的是玩家掉下悬崖之后回到地面上居然没有无敌时间