Verho - Curse of Faces

I want to describe my feelings about the game in detail and without any toxicity, I will attach the English version of the review below. ------ Я хочу подробно и без какой-то токсичности описать свои ощущения от игры, я приложу версию ревью на английском ниже. [RU] Если честно, игра выглядела и описывалась намного лучше, чем она есть на самом деле. Это первая игра разработчиков как я понимаю, наверное поэтому я прощаю ей многое, но оценить игру положительно мне правда сложно. Люди могут ругать ее за графику, или простоту локаций местами, но это вообще не проблема. Художественный стиль у автора интересный, необычный, местами даже занятный, локации атмосферные, звуки потрясающие, озвучка персонажей мое почтение, правда сделана неплохо, особенно некоторые НПС. Но местами игра сделана не просто плохо, а отвратительно до такой степени, что я сам не заметил как влепил себе ладонью по лбу, когда в очередной раз меня убил моб вылетевший из-за стены... причем это не фигура речи, я реально влепил себе по лицу неосознанно. Неоднократно мобы просто вылетали на меня из стен, декораций, ландшафта, просто потому что... потому. Вы в разрушенном городе полном домов, а враг огромный монстр который летает по арене как юла? Ждите что он влетит в вас из неоткуда. Вы хотите спрятаться от монстра который делает в вас рывок за стеной? Он снесет вас через стену, вы коснетесь его модельки и получите дополнительный урон, поздравляю, вы труп. Враг это летающий жук, который стреляет в вас а потом резко пикирует в игрока чтобы столкнуть с обрыва? Не бойтесь, он полетит к вам через колонны, деревья декор локации и точно вас найдет, спасибо хоть снаряды имеют коллизию... По честному, это моя основная проблема с игрой, я устал от этого бреда и если изначально хотел пройти игру два раза, то уже не уверен. Просто пройду ее раз чтобы закрыть гештальд... я разочарован, я искренне надеялся на то что игра хотя бы будет работать корректно. Я уже не говорю про скучную боевку, глуповатые механики боссов, и просто отвратительную реализацию ловушек в игре. И все же, я очень хочу увидеть рост разработчика в его следующих играх. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ENG] To be honest, the game looked and was described as something much better than it turned out to be. As I understand it, this is the developers’ first game, which is probably why I’m willing to forgive it a lot — but it’s genuinely difficult for me to rate it positively overall. Some people criticize the graphics or the occasional simplicity of the environments, but for me that’s not the problem at all. The artistic style is interesting and unique, sometimes even charming. The locations are atmospheric, the sound design is excellent, and the voice acting is genuinely impressive — especially for certain NPCs. However, in some areas the game isn’t just poorly made — it’s outright frustrating to the point where I unconsciously slapped my own forehead when yet another enemy phased out of a wall and killed me... and that’s not an exaggeration. I really did facepalm without realizing it. Time and again, enemies would fly out of walls, decorations, and terrain for no apparent reason. You’re in a ruined city full of buildings, fighting a huge flying monster that zooms around the arena like a spinning top? Expect it to phase straight into you out of nowhere. Trying to take cover from a charging monster behind a wall? It will simply smash through it, you’ll clip its model, take extra damage, and congratulations — you’re dead. A flying beetle enemy that shoots at you and then dives in to knock you off a cliff? Don’t worry, it will fly straight through columns, trees, and decorations to reach you. At least the projectiles have collision... Honestly, this is my biggest issue with the game. I got so tired of these problems that even though I originally planned to play it twice, now I’m not sure I will. I’ll probably just finish it once to close the gestalt. I’m disappointed — I truly hoped the game would at least function properly. Not to mention the rather boring combat, the questionable boss mechanics, and the simply awful implementation of traps. That said, I really want to see the developers grow and improve with their future projects.

[h1]ゲーム性は良いが、戦闘が単調過ぎて時間が経つのが長く感じるゲーム。[/h1] キングスフィールドは未プレイなので、ダクソを引き合いに出させてもらうが、マップ構造やステ振り、武器仕様(能力補正等)、篝火ワープ等はダクソライク。 なので当然ビルドも存在する。 この辺のゲーム性は非常に好きな部類なのだが、何よりも戦闘が単調過ぎるのが辛い。 回避やパリィも無いし、本作の仕様上、すべての武器攻撃は溜め攻撃じゃないとまともなダメージが出ないため、どんな敵も基本攻撃溜めながら、溜まったら敵の攻撃範囲に入らないようにして殴る。 また、離れて攻撃を溜める。これの繰り返し。 自分は脳筋のステ振りでやってたので、魔法も使う事が無いし、本当に溜め攻撃の繰り返し。 形の違う敵が出てきても、やってる事は全部同じ。 戦闘はかなりスローテンポなので、早々やられる事も無い。やばくなると後ろ向いて逃げれば良いし、回復アイテムも瞬時回復。 なので、緊張感も無い。 これだけ頭を使う事が無い戦闘を続けるとすぐ飽きる。 FPSの戦闘でもDark and Darkerみたいな感じだったら良かった。 しゃがみを使う事も無いし、ジャンプを駆使して回避する事も無いし、特定の部位を狙う澄ます必要も無い。攻撃範囲に入らないように溜め斬りするだけ。 ちなみにDark and Darkerの戦闘難易度(操作難易度)を"１０"とすると本作は"１"かな。 結構な数マップを進めたつもりだし、レベルも結構上がったつもりだったので、体感もう20時間ぐらいはプレイしてる気でいた。 時間が流れるのがこんなに長く感じるなんて…。 (Demo版のデータを引き継いでいるので実際のプレイ時間は8，9時間ぐらいかな？でもYoutubeとか見ながらやったりしてるしなぁ) [h3]まとめ[/h3] という訳で個人的には熱中度は低かった。 戦闘がおもしろく無いので、ビルドがあっても特に意欲に繋がらない。 溜め攻撃しかしないので、振りが速い武器のメリットがわからない、攻撃力とリーチが一番ある武器以外使う必要性が無いのも、ダクソライクなゲーム性を見事に打ち消している。 他のレビューでも書いた事があるが、個人的に[u]"戦闘があるゲームで戦闘がおもしろく無いゲームは絶対に続かない"[/u]という法則があるんだが、本作も例に漏れず。 ダクソっぽい世界観、雰囲気、3Dマップの探索はそれなりに楽しいものだったが、それだけでは最後まで続けるモチベにはならなかった。 もう少し戦闘にプレイヤーが工夫する余地があって欲しかった。 以上

挺不错的

好游戏，不过测了下智力跟咒剑对法术都没有加成效果，点到能用就行了

This game is just okay - not great, not bad. The style and level design are awesome, no complaints at all. The problem is the gameplay - too much grinding and killing the same enemies again and again. For what? Grinding just to lift a heavy weapon. Sounds annoying. It feels very boring after a while. The game also needs polishing though it is not early-access. Hitboxes and attacks are clunky and enemies can deal damage even through walls. Somehow I got pulled into playing for 3 hours straight because the atmosphere is super immersive. But I don't know if I'll keep playing. It's kind of boring, to be honest.

good

I liked it

Verho is best described as an uncut gem. It has a fair few flaws and rough edges but is really a fantastic experience at its core. I'm going to go into the good, the okay/neutral, and the bad but it's important to note that the majority is good but it's not realistic to go into as much detail on all of that as with what isn't good. So the good... a wide variety of genuinely interesting and fun weapons and spells, solid combat for this kind of game (combat doesn't tend to be their greatest strength imo), most of the areas are well designed and reward exploration, the world and lore are interesting, the visuals are great and the masks make for a very unique style, on and on. I'm listing these out in brief (and it isn't exhaustive) but I don't want to understate that this game is overall very good. The okay and neutral are things I think could go either way for a person, are a mixed bag, I was unimpressed with, etc. First off the voice acting is definitely a mixed bag ranging from excellent to amateur. None of it is so bad as to be a true issue but quality does vary a lot. Second, the boss fights. There are a lot of them for this kind of game and the quality varies a fair bit. I don't consider bosses to really be a selling point for games like this and do think the game would largely be improved if it had about half as many bosses and minibosses. That said, none of them left me frustrated or felt unfair so it's whatever. Third, general enemy design. With a few exceptions I will cover later, enemy design ranges from decent to mildly annoying. There are also a fair few reskins with minor mechanical changes later in the game but I can forgive that given the budget and time constraints they were under (not like we don't see larger devs do even worse in this regard). Overall a mixed bag for sure. Fourth, some of the secrets/puzzles. To be blunt, there are a couple that are the sort of thing you need a community effort or dumb luck to figure out and any normal person will need a guide. This doesn't bother me as the rewards aren't especially important and the whole thing falls into easter egg status for me. But I know it may bother some. Fifth and final, the story and characters. The story (not the world/lore mind you which is solid) is pretty average. Not terrible, not great. The characters are actually more interesting on average and I genuinely like a few a lot but I do think this is a case of your mileage may vary. I could easily see other people finding certain characters annoying or excessively tropey. The bad... oh boy there aren't many bad things but the ones that there are were properly awful for me. First of all, a handful of enemies are frankly inexcusably awful designs. I will avoid spoiler details but suffice to say there are enemies that can clip through terrain/objects to get to you and do so very aggressively for their most dangerous attacks. I cannot emphasize enough how frustrating and unfun this is. It ruined at least one otherwise very well made zone for me. A game like this really wants to reward creative use of the environment, even if it makes certain enemies far easier, and these enemies actively punish you for trying to do that. Second, the final area of the game is honestly awful. It's confusing to navigate but not in a "figuring out the trick/path" way but more "everything looks the same and connects in ways that are not at all intuitive." It's also kinda crap to look at. The four final areas share a general style but of the four, this one was the one I hated to look at. In defense of the devs, my understanding is these last areas were made under a ton of time/budget pressure so I can personally forgive it but I'm not going to lie about my experience. And... that's about it for what I would call truly bad. I can nitpick things sure but these were the only two things that seriously dragged my experience down. I encountered a few bugs here and there, mostly involving getting clipped through the map or into a wall, but they were few and far between. No crashes, performance was fine but a bit worse in endgame areas (played on Steam Deck using latest Proton GE release). The tl;dr here is an overall good but definitely not perfect game that I can comfortably recommend to people who are into the retro "King's Field like" subgenre that is steadily growing. It wears its inspirations on its sleeve and generally does them justice. I prefer Lunacid as an overall experience but that's not a mark against it as Lunacid is a top 10 game for me.

I love the atmosphere. The game was made with love, and care.

genuinely one of the best games I have ever played. Really glad I played this and gave it the time. Im thinking of getting all the achievements at this point.