Whateverland

因为两年前试过本作的Prologue，感觉很不错，就趁打折买了来，最近终于通关了。我总共打了3遍，花了10多个小时，手动做到全成就，所有结局都看过了，全体验达成。本作是个点击冒险游戏，里面还包含了十几个小游戏，漫画式手绘风格，音乐也很契合主题。特别是剧情很不错，创作出了一个光怪陆离的小世界，讲述了大量角色的故事，通过在其中的冒险还可以用不同选择决定人物的命运。游戏汉化由WhisperGames，也就是轻语工作室完成，质量很高，玩起来不会有啥语言隔阂。不过，游戏也存在不少问题，后面详细讲。 [h1]大量对话与小游戏[/h1] 除了手绘风格画面、原创音乐、分支选项和多结局以外，游戏的另外两大特点就是文本量和小游戏。说到游戏文本，每个关键人物都有很多种对话选项，分支人物涉及的对话也不少，而且有全语音。通过这些对话，游戏很好地刻画出了各个人物，讲述出了各自的故事，甚至还能拼凑出女巫的故事，以及这个世界的起源等。在游戏中按住空格键可以看到所有可互动的物品，大量物品都有着主角的吐槽，很多还带有跟同伴尼克的对话。文本这方面是制作组的专长，他们对自己的定位就是做故事驱动类型的游戏。 本作的各种小游戏真不少，最大的一种就是Bell&Bone，控制三个不同技能的角色（外加一个守门员）在不同地形中传球射门得分，有点类似回合制足球。有策略性，不过就算输了也没关系，游戏设计的是只要得一分就算咱赢，敌人得了两分都不怕。就算不喜欢这个游戏，游戏也提供了毛球这个作弊道具，使用时将召唤黑猫直接躺赢。另一大类则是开锁游戏，游戏设计了七八个各式锁具，解开的方式类似《The Room | 未上锁的房间》里的复杂盒子。真要手动打开的话颇有难度，因为缺乏提示很容易卡关，后文有开锁建议。另外，游戏有把魔法钥匙，可以一键开锁，最好用一次，可解锁成就。其他的小游戏就非常多样了，比如管道连接、电台信号联网、画中人物历险记（个人感觉是最好玩的一个）、做饭、纹身、挑鱼、甚至还有个俯视角潜行游戏，十分多样。质量虽然有些参差，但好在体验十分丰富。 [h1]众生百态相【部分剧透】[/h1] 主角是个小偷，因为偷女巫的东西，被扔进了一个女巫创造出的奇异世界——随便境。这里面可住着不少人，大部分是因为得罪过女巫，也有因为其他原因，甚至主动进入的。在这里面的人永远不会死，有人会一直维持原来的样子，有人则会因为个性变成动物、怪兽、人鱼、鬼魂、美杜莎等各种光怪陆离的生物。随便境里可不是啥都没有的监狱，里面有城市和外围世界，包括各种建筑、大桥、垃圾场等，城里还有酒吧、爵士乐俱乐部、赌场、电台、集市、公寓等等，俨然一个小世界。里面的人也是各式各样，还来自不同时代，有懒汉、叛逆小孩、猫奴、兔奴、失忆人、乐队、贵族、美食家、黑帮、万人迷、发明家、渔夫、商贩、瘾君子……用游戏里的话说，“如果这是个监狱的话，那就是最受人喜爱的一个”。 与大部分的居民不同，意外进入这里的主角是迫切想离开的。在救出一个被柜子锁住的鬼魂尼克让其“出柜”后，我们得知随便境存在一段能召唤女巫的咒语。如果女巫同意就能离开，只是咒语被分成了7份，我们主要就是通过与各个咒语碎片的持有人进行互动，最终凑齐碎片召唤女巫。结局跟获取咒语的方式，也就是善恶选择有关系，也跟离开的意愿，以及跟尼克的关系有关，建议不同善恶度临近结局那里存个档，通过不同选择体验多结局。结局那里有个小反转，最后女巫的话倒是非常发人深省，人物分支结局会用类似《辐射》的幻灯片+解说进行说明。 [h1]善恶选择[/h1] 游戏针对每个碎片收集都涉及了两种获取方式，一善一恶，用太阳和月亮分别标记。由于两种获取方式的体验很不同，也牵扯到不同结局，因此推荐至少玩两遍，分别用不同方式。不用纠结于全善全恶，游戏会按最终善恶数目来决定结局，只要其中一种比另一种多就行。邪恶路线看起来更为简便直接，但是往往都需要撬开一个层层嵌套的复杂锁具，非常容易卡关。这关联到游戏另一个巨大的问题——缺乏提示，即对绝大部分小游戏都缺乏提示与说明，只能靠自己领悟。我虽然玩了三遍，但撬锁的时候有时仍会卡住，就是因为缺乏提示，忘了之前怎么解锁的了。指南区里有两篇文章，但非常简略，对卡关的解决没啥帮助。Youtube上有用的视频也不多，但我最后找到一组撬锁指南，只要搜索Whateverland evil就能看到，不用谢了。 [h1]技术性问题[/h1] 游戏技术存在问题，其中的Bug不少，最明显的一个就是按了Esc弹出菜单后，游戏其实并不会暂停。我还遇到过人物卡在原地发生交叠，撬锁画面无法拖动，部分画面缺失的问题。有些设计也不太合理，比如点击可互动物品后弹出互动菜单，只能通过再点击里面的返回箭头才能返回重新活动，点击空白区域就不会返回。经常因为误点击以为自己卡住了，有点恼人。不过，虽然存在问题，但打通关是绝没有问题的，仍然很推荐。 [h1]开发商与政治立场[/h1] 制作组Caligari Games成立于2018年，2019年推出了首款游戏《The Great Perhaps》，当时合作的发行商是Daedalic Entertainment。游戏获奖不少，我接下来准备去试试。经历疫情期间的艰难制作，他们在22年推出了本作，与国内的轻语合作进行发行。制作组大概有十几个人的规模，但从他们的官网等地方都难以找到所属国家信息。其实最好的判断方式就是看结尾制作团队的名字，游戏支持的语言，以及边角的报道。答案其实有些不出所料，那就是俄罗斯，或者准确的说是前俄罗斯。在2022年之前说Caligari Games来自俄罗斯是没有问题的，但那年发生了一件影响整个世界的大事件——俄罗斯入侵乌克兰。 2022年，有人在GOG上仅仅因为团队中有俄罗斯人而给本作打了一星差评，为此制作组在Twitter/X上做了蛮长的回复。他们直截了当地表明了立场：不支持俄罗斯腐败和非法的政府及其恐怖行动，全心全意地支持乌克兰及其人民。从法律意义上说，他们已经不是俄罗斯游戏公司了，而是隶属于西班牙，因此不会给俄罗斯付一分钱的税。整个制作组虽然大多数人来自俄罗斯，但战争打响后，大部分人离开了俄罗斯（当时还有人因为参加反战抗议活动被拘留）。Caligari逐渐变成了一个国际团队，其中有西班牙人、哈萨克斯坦人、格鲁吉亚人与乌克兰人（作曲者）。制作组会定期向乌克兰慈善机构捐款，而且还喊出荣光归乌克兰！

Миловидный проходняк, фулпрайс точно не стоит. Игра из серии купил-прошел-забыл. Поставила бы нейтральный отзыв, если бы можно было, негативный оставлять не хочется, бахну плюсик только ради Ника и Франсуа.

[h3]Приятная - наверное, самое подходящее слово для описания.[/h3] Маленькая, не сильно сложная игрушка, которая развлечет вас на 1-2 вечера. Диалоги интересные, гг способен расположить к себе, кого бы он ни отыгрывал. Спутник слегка назойливый, но не раздражающий, в меру болтливый. НПС приятно-поехавшие, Франсуа - в сердечке. Характеры прописаны хорошо, болтать с ними интересно. Сюжет простенький, но его достаточно. Не затянуто, но и довольно полно рассказано все. Изначально игрушка зацепила визуалом. Им же и продолжила приятно радовать всю игру. Озвучка так же на уровне. Из [b]минусов[/b] отмечу ее "дубовость", много багов, в диалогах ответы слишком близко расположены друг к другу, промахнуться - раз плюнуть. Игра позволяет сохраниться в диалоге, но при загрузке потом ломается. В головоломках временами багуют предметы. В общем, если нет привычки часто сохраняться - настрадаетесь. В целом, Whateverland - хорошая игра, которая способна "отработать" свой ценник [strike]по скидке[/strike]. Но это больше проходной проект, который забудется через месяц после прохождения, нежели то, что займет место в сердечке и останется в воспоминаниях. [quote]Рекомендую, но предупреждаю, багов достаточно, не забывайте сохраняться[/quote] p.s. на количество часов не обращайте внимание, я писала по ней руководство. сама игра проходится за пару-тройку часов в ленивом темпе, на все концовки

This is a very cute game. The characters are funny, voice acting is good, music is nice, and I had a good time playing. I played the nice guy, guess I will have to go back and try to be a jerk :) Edited to add: Went back and did the Bad Boy route,the Bad Boy route has some great puzzles that you miss by taking the good route. Definitely worth a second play through.

The prologue was great and it made me excited. When I completed the game all I can say is ... I am a little disappointed. Most of the dialogues are bland, I have the impression that most of the missions are the same only the mini-games change. Need something? then you must first do something for that person in return. This game does not beat The Great Perhaps - this game had its atmosphere and most of all the story was moving and beautiful.

This isn't a bad game, but I take issue with the writing itself. I'm totally able to get into the weirdness of it all, but I thought it was a little...precious. Like a little too quirky for my taste, and not handling dark humour very well. I found certain things handled very awkwardly, such as the sweater-wearing kid who [spoiler]turns out to have been a wannabe school shooter who lost his memory...[/spoiler] - I wasn't a fan. It wasn't handled in a particularly ingenious way. This is a potentially nitpicky thing coming from me: I also found the characters of Louis and Fida borderline......eeeeeeh....weeeellll...you know. I'm not like, calling out and pointing a finger right now to have anyone cancelled, I'm not there, but like...really? They were each awkward in their own way and I gotta say, I skipped a lot of Louis' dialogue and I rolled my eyes as to why Fida wanted to be in Whateverland. That's where I'll leave that point. Sorry for vagueness. The puzzles themselves were okay, but either overexplained or underexplained (how weird!). However I truly loved the last lockpicking puzzle. Then there's that turn-based strategy minigame which was introduced very awkwardly. I'm not against it being in the game at all, in fact it wasn't too bad, but it felt a little forced. Overall, on sale or free and you are addicted to puzzle and/or PnC? Sure. If you are expecting a really good, bizarre, story experience with strong puzzles? No.

Шикарная игра! Красивая Мораль и интересный сюжет! 11 из 10 говорящих Ников

便宜的小游戏，画风太赞了，玩到最后是感动的，特别是那个抑郁症teenager的故事

If there were an opportunity to put a mark of Can't-Decide or Whatever, it'd suit better, but it is what it is. The game itself if fine, though my issue with it is that it's rather bland. To begin with, the game advertises itself as one showing charismatic characters and dark humor. Well, I'd played Deponia, and it's got more dark humor or, fairly speaking, charismatic characters simply on its first location! Here...what was the dark humor exactly? "Oh, a lantern. I'd like one of those." "Neon? I though they'd gone our of fashion." Although there were a couple of witty jokes and one grave moment, the vast majority of it is like mentioned above. Oh, and lots of comic cliches! They're straightforward and hence insufferable. Another torturous moment is the gameplay. I've got lots of issues here. One of them is that you click on an item, its menu opens, and unless you hover your mouse over one of the options and choose, the character is absolutely immobile. The player is unable even to choose another item on the screen, so every time one clicks a wrong item the procedure is the following: hover your mouse over the cancel button, click it, and then choose your next action by dragging your mouse to the other end of the screen. This is so inconvenient! And! And! Sometimes, as it was in my experience, I hadn't noticed my clicking an item and was thinking the game had frozen or crashed, or something else. Here comes another problem that to access your character's inventory, you have to drag your mouse to the icon, click it, then do something there and close it. In other quests with item menus, and so far in Deponia (where you can call your bag with a mouse roll, and the game is almost a decade older, mind you), there's an issue that you want to interact with an item but the character walks instead and by it closes the window, but believe me this is not as pesky as not being able to move because of your inventory or an item menu open. This is simply irritating! What else is nettling is in the game's vital system of Bells & Bones matches. You have to pass them, either skipping matches with yarns or indulging yourself. I've won every one of them, and I have no idea what it was exactly. Like, there are three bugs, each with a unique skill, which your opponents never use but for one, rooting. If I choose to play and not skip it, presumably I accept a bit of a challenge, don't I? There was none. All of the opponents play like a 600 ELO bot in chess, so this mini-game is meaningless by itself, only worsened by the gameplay issues: when you click a bug, its squares for movement are visible, and oftentimes you cannot move there without any reason, though in other cases if your unit cannot go somewhere, the square is not highlighted, therefore, the system is supposed to highlight precisely those squares where that unit can move. But it doesn't. It's weird. Add to it, I almost lost one match because of my bug starting wondering somewhere far instead of knocking the opponent's unit and capturing the bell. I guess it'd be better without this mini-game at all, though I like the design of Bukashas. The atmosphere there is cute. The last thing is the quest compartment. Well, there isn't much of it. Yes, there are some undemanding riddles and a couple of item interactions, but that's pretty much it. And, again, the gameplay: sometimes you need to open the inventory to drag an item to a place on the map, as it happens in other quests, but sometimes it doesn't work, so you have to go through the procedure of moving your mouse to close the inventory, after which... in brief, the same procedure again. Then the item activated automatically by plainly interacting with the item through its menu. There's little logic here. All in all, the game has some pleasant graphics and soundtrack, the dialogs are not aggravating, the characters are sweet, and some jokes can give you a smile. If you have the mood and a good discount, why not try it. However, I personally can't recommend it in earnest. Hope this review is helpful.

Fun story, fun puzzles. However, the Turkish localization is beyond terrible. Play in the original language.