Veilia

The game ("hidden gem") is supposed to be focused on getting lost and exploring, solving (some tricky, smart) puzzles and challenges (such as timed sequences and platforming sections). Maybe no big deal for skilled gamers! :) (You can’t rebind keys and invert axis.) There are 3 main levels, divided into sub-areas. The game saves your items, but your location always goes back to the beginning of an area. The developer intent is to play through one area [or more] per sitting. So this can take 1-2 hours, or even more… But there are checkpoints within an area. What you get: Diversified level design (tropical island, desert, lava caves, underwater sections, snow-scape, etc.) with beautiful looking graphics (including day and night cycles), nice art style and lovely sound/music. (There is an option to hide the HUD, for taking screenshots! ;-)) Very kind and supportive developer, always responding to community feedback and constantly improving the game!

When I first saw the Steam store page for [i]Veilia[/i] I was intrigued. I love a good casual game and the game promised puzzles and adventure. It also mentioned being about exploring and offering players a challenge, so I decided to take that challenge. However, I will say this right now that I disliked this game very much, however that does not make this a bad title. But full disclosure, there is a lot of walking and wandering around with long spans of time where you will be doing nothing but exploring, if this doesn’t sound fun than I caution you. The story starts off with the player controlling a nameless person who is in jail for murder with no chance of escaping. That is until Veilia shows up, a floating spirit who needs your help to regain her body. She helps you out of the jail and then you go on a journey to find shards that have been scattered around different realms. Find out the secrets behind these mystical realms and prepare to battle the sorcerer who cursed Veilia in the first place. Gameplay is where I had the biggest issue. The game thrusts you into action without much of a tutorial or any help whatsoever. You have no map, no hint system, nothing at all. Your only solution is wander around and try to discover what’s around you. If you enjoy doing this then you’ve found a good game but it’s not for everyone, myself included. I will say, there are things I wish were included to make the lack of direction bearable. The game works with a keyboard and mouse setup, you use the WASD keys to move forward, space to jump and the perspective is first-person. My main issue was since you spend so much time just walking that there was no way to run, I found myself just sitting here holding down the W key and staring off into space. I will admit, there might be a way to run but the game doesn’t have a tutorial on what keys did what except for the WASD, jump and flashlight. The graphics in the game are good -if you force players to explore the world for hours, then it better look good for them. However, I started in the desert level and I was met with a world of sand, nothing but sand. Anything that wasn’t sand felt miles away from each other and the game cycles between night and day, during the night everything is just too dark and even harder to explore. The game’s soundtrack isn’t bad, it’s simple and does not distract from what you’re doing. The characters don’t speak, they have a sort of tone-ish sound instead. Veilia’s sound his high pitched reminding me almost of a certain blue fairy from the [i]Zelda[/i] series while her personality reminded me of a certain sardonic imp from another entry in the series. Just because [i]Veilia[/i] wasn’t the game for me doesn’t mean it won’t be for you. I do feel controller support would help a bit, as well as some options for players who need help. I don’t mind exploring but from what I’ve seen there is more empty walking space than mystical wonders to find. Journey through different lands, solve challenging puzzles and have fun getting lost. This title also offers Steam trading cards and achievements to collect as well. I found this game to be promising but because of the aim to avoid a “hand-holding approach” with gamers it threatens to alienate part of its audience. [h1]Usagi’s Rating[/h1] [list] [*]Must buy. [*]A good game to buy. [*][b]Only buy if on sale.[/b] [*][b]Mediocre.[/b] [*]Avoid at all costs. [/list] Make sure to visit [url=cassus.org]cassus.org[/url] for more quality reviews.

Great art, creepy atmosphere, difficult puzzles. I'm a terrible puzzle solver so this challenged my tiny brain. It's an interesting concept of a game and I'm dying to play more of it to see what happens in the story. I am making a play-through / walk-through of it on my YouTube channel : www.youtube.com/kenaddiction You can watch the first episode here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlG-vLGlyA Check it out to see if this is the game for you or just want to see the story unfold.

很糟糕的一款游戏 太难操作了 游戏里面的话太多了 重力太鬼畜了

Interesting Concept, currently livestreaming my experience on Twitch TV. Im no genius so the puzzles take me quite some time to complete, but so far so good!

The gameplay is horrible. I really did try to get out of the cell by jumping on the stones but how much I tried I could not get on the second stone. Left me fraustrated. Will not play the game anymore.

★★☆☆☆☆ MYSTみたいなゲーム。 大きな欠点を3つあげます。 ①ＦＯＶが狭い。それによって、３Ｄ酔いになりやすい。オプションでＦＯＶ設定も不可。 これは、2016年のゲームとしては決定的な欠陥。 ②キーバインドができない。 ③現在位置がわからなくなる。ゲーム内のマップは広く、コンパスや地図すらない。 これらをアップデートで至急調整する必要があります。

The game is good but they are very complex and need to map the bottom of the screen so I hope to add this observation

Ok, tras 8 horas de juego, soy del menos del 2% de jugadores que terminaron el juego; así que creo que debo dejar una reseña para la posteridad. El juego es sencillo y no encontré ningún bug. No tiene enemigos, prácticamente nada te presiona para que te apures y algunos (pocos) puzzles son relativamente ingeniosos. La estética está bien, un poco monótona, pero creo que logra bien sentimientos de suspenso cuando se lo propone. La historia está bien, tiene aspectos musicales interesantes para reemplazar voces, y hasta ahí llegan las cosas neutras y positivas que me vienen a la mente. El juego es tedioso, tienes amplias partes en las que caminas sin hacer nada más que esperar a llegar de una vez (10 minutos me tomaban algunas partes en las que tenía el botón de avanzar presionado con un peso mientras yo hacía otras cosas y parece que el desarrollador se dio cuenta de esto, porque en un nivel te da un vehículo (que se agradece)); de hecho, en cada mundo sólo tienes por hacer lo que es de la historia (0 elecciones). Si bien el personaje de apoyo no es molesto (diciéndote todo el rato qué hacer), la verdad es que no apoya en nada; no da pistas, no interacciona con el ambiente y poco o nada te da para desarrollar una relación con ella/él (la verdad es que no recuerdo si en algún momento aclararon su género). Si te gustan los juegos de parkour, pues aquí tienes un punto positivo: tiene varias partes de parkour de dificultad media (que no disfruté). Morir es dificil, pero hubo una parte que me habrá tomado una hora en que tenía que pasar un camino complicado y que, al fallar, te quita la mitad de tu vida; por lo que estuve constantemente, tratando de pasar, fallando, esperando a recuperar mi vida (que se recupera con el tiempo, pero lentamente) y volviendo a intentar. El juego consume bastante para lo poco que da (no me daban ganas de abrir nada más mientras lo usaba por miedo a que fuera a dañar mi pc) y, de todas formas, no tiene modo ventana (siempre es pantalla completa). Seguiría, pero esos son los puntos principales y no le encuentro sentido a seguir dándole mi tiempo a este juego. En resumen: Es jugable, pero no es realmente divertido. No recomiendo comprarlo a ningún precio, pero no se me hace totalmente inimaginable el que alguien lo disfrute al recibirlo gratis. (PD: No me gustó el inicio malo :P)

Tags: Adventure - WS - Walking Sim Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Basically a glorified repeated keyhunt through sometimes small environments with a few hotspot puzzles. Easy to lose track of objective. Platforming badly handled. Its sort of a vaguely fantasy related walking simulator with some strange WTF moments here and there. Only played for first impressions and I thought the maps needed redesign, the dialogue needed an uplift, better more interesting plot twists and tasks to accomplish would had been appreciated. On the overall for the genre it is still half decent however. Basically a glorified repeated keyhunt through sometimes small environments with a few hotspot puzzles, and sometimes across expansive empty barren environments with the odd landmark sprinkled around randomly. Sometimes hard to even know where to go or what to do next. Engine is audiovisually pleasant. The early plot hook where you trade in services for freedom works for me. Like the wisp thing and the core concept behind what it is and what it wants. In my playtest the dialogue was underdevelopped and lacked credibility. Everything just felt too bare and too empty. Too much holding W for no reason. The dialogues are not skippable, and use the Dont Starve method of replacing voice actors with instruments. It works okay but it really does not feel respectful of the player's time and the writing is not very good, or at least, repeats itself a lot, seems to lack direction, dynamism, structure, and inspiration. Conclusion: Too generic to be worth the hassle of keeping around in permanent library. The simple prisoner escape hook loses novelty fast, the wisp like companion that acts as quest marker is implement in an iffy way.