TUNIC

I thought that about the first half or two thirds of this game was awesome. Great music, visuals, and gameplay. It starts out as if someone mixed in some dark souls with classic SNES Zelda in the best way possible. Eventually though, it changes gears and I felt it became more tedious than fun - a lot of retracing steps, finding things in places you've already been, more frustrating enemy mechanics, and a shift to a certain type of puzzle. I got fed up enough that I looked at what remained and decided to nope out on completing it. I know a lot of people don't mind the shift, so it's up to the reader to decide if it's for them or not. Light spoilers if you want more info: right around the time you start running into environmental hazards, and/or enemies that can reduce your HP until you restore at a shrine, it bogs down. It only gets worse from there, with eventually losing your powers and having to go find/collect your powers again. If you're interested in the 'good' ending you also need to be prepared for A LOT more wandering around + puzzle solving.

Very fun

Hahahaha it looks like Zelda but plays like Dark Souls. And it has a horrible in-game Japanese-style guide that you have to "figure out" on your own! Oh man, it would be so cool to play the game but you spend all your time wandering the garbage overworld for upgrades just so you can beat the horribly designed bosses.

Almost all the text in the game is in a weird language that apparently we're supposed to learn. That's just needless complication for no reason. My character should understand the language of the world they live in.

This game is the BIGGEST VAGUE POST EVER. You wont get any readable text in this game, other then the Main/Pause menu. It wants to be DEEP soo hard, but fails. Music is GOOD btw.

谁跟我说这是个解谜游戏的！！！ 这游戏底子真的太好了，本来绝对是我心中的五星神作水平，玩法融合我最爱的类魂+类银+解谜，地图设计很棒，还融合了知识锁+能力锁的设计，纯探图体验不错。 游戏最惊艳的部分是这个指导手册的设计，堪称神之一笔。游戏的一切内容都和这个指导手册联系紧密，包括基础操作、游戏地图、流程提示，除此之外，手册中还隐藏了大量的信息，游戏中所有的解谜要素都围绕着这本手册展开。这本指导手册以绘本的形式呈现，书中文字用的是几乎无法识别的神秘语言，通过书页的收集，你会不断地增加对这个游戏的了解，游戏以这种巧妙的“知识锁”设计，通过信息差来限制玩家的游玩进程。指导手册包含了游戏中几乎所有的内容（注意，是所有！），还暗藏了一个终极谜题的解法，这个终极谜题堪称精妙，虽然我最终没有完全解出来（其中一步实在有点难想到）。 游玩过程中我是真的无时无刻不在佩服这个游戏的创意和关卡设计，但我在很多时候的游戏体验真的不是很好，我想给它但满分但一想到我的游玩历程我还是放弃了。我不满意的地方主要有这么几点： 一是战斗体验太差，游戏深度集合了宫崎英高游戏中的诸多恶意，虽然我是坐牢游戏爱好者但游戏中许多恶意有点超出我的极限了，包括但不限于扣血量上限的陷阱和怪物、把你所有属性打回解放前的流程、恶意堆阴间怪和几乎无限的怪物索敌机制，我在魂游和丝之歌中都没有体会过这种恶意。还有后期boss和小怪人均读指令后撤步大师，配上你的小短手体验真的绝了，那个拾荒者boss打得差点让我想把手柄砸了。游戏的锁定也是奇烂无比，锁定要长按就不说了，用法杖锁定乱跳导致没杀掉某个阴间怪经常让我血压飙升。盾反要按两下RT键以及莫名其妙会不触发的bug也同样是非常反人类的地方。 二是前后期体验割裂严重，游戏前期绝大部分时间都是在探图+打怪，标准的类银和类魂游戏体验，后期解锁真结局时游戏玩法又转到解谜上去了。游戏的谜题设计还算不错，收集灵魂的谜题难度不大，基本上你到位置就能一眼得到解法，最终谜题和部分宝藏的收集会略有难度。但游戏的解谜体验确实算不上多好，许多解谜要你按方向键，但按动方向键之后没有任何提示，你完全不知道自己按得对不对，许多谜题的按键流程又奇长无比。此外，游戏的谜题隐藏在世界的各个角落，所以强制要求你反复跑图。虽然游戏有一定能力锁设计方便你进行后期跑图，但由于游戏中没有掉落的设定导致高低差地形完全无法越过，跑图仍然存在巨大的限制。跑图上的繁琐搭配上许多隐藏较深或难度较高的谜题导致游玩过程负反馈较大，后期许多宝藏我都没有认真研究就跑去看攻略了因为我有点没耐心再反复跑图找线索了。 三是引导实在过弱，我知道游戏引导基本都包含在手册中了，但地图上很多路线都是隐藏的，主线道路缺乏引导，卡关了也不知道自己是能力或知识没解锁还是没在哪个犄角旮旯找到路，去查攻略又经常被莫名其妙剧透，有点影响体验。地图包含在手册中但你又经常要翻手册找提示然后再翻回来，来回翻手册有时会有点烦躁。护符等道具在手册上也不好好描述，找到护符也不知道有什么用，找到一个免疫关卡负面的护符但我完全看不懂，导致我在采石场坐牢半天。因为游戏的引导带来的负面体验还有不少，比如寻找灵魂的过程，一开始没意识到手册中的咒语导致我差点想破口大骂这满地图藏必须找的隐藏谜题的逆天设计。 游戏创意和设计真的很棒，但实际游玩过程确实需要一定耐心去克服游戏中存在的不足。另外游戏的画风确实很可爱，玩起来挺治愈的！

Has to be one of the most overrated games I've ever played. Almost everything about it is mid. The things that aren't mid are genuinely bad game design. The combat is clunky, the camera is a nightmare on certain bosses, it is obnoxiously cryptic for no good reason, movement just feels off, and the game seems to pride itself on trying to waste your time. 4/10 would not recommend to anyone I know