Harmony: The Fall of Reverie 评测

The game's "inaugural system", a logic map that displays all possible branching paths and how to get there, is one of the worst designed mechanics I've seen in a narrative focused game. The story literally plays out like this: You see Node A, B, and C, each with an ambiguous description on what they are. You click through node A, and a 1-2 minute sequence plays, crafted of coursed with top-notch art/music. By the end of it, you're pushed back to this logic map, needing to pick which of the nodes you'd like to go next. You then choose node B, only to find that it occurs at a completely different time/place/with different characters than the prior sequence. This is so immersion breaking that you almost feel like watching a puppet show, with each canned scenes represented by one of these nodes. Imagine playing a visual novel, and instead of the story progressing naturally, you have to exit out to the menu every 2 minutes to choose which scene plays next. By displaying the exact "outcome" of each route at the very START of chapters & number of points needed to get there, the game 1. Spoils any surprise completely; 2. At each step of the way, encourage the player to not pick according to their heart, but how many points an option gets, and whether it has any short-term bad endings to it (yes, you can infer that through this map, where some paths are comically shorter than others). Instead of being the main character and saving two realms, I ended up feeling like I'm just min-maxing some janky puzzle game. I'm a big fan of the developer and adored many of their past work. But this new venture, as novel as it might look, I absolutely cannot recommend

一个我期待了很久的游戏，好不容易今天出来了，一看价格150软妹币加首发优惠9折 纯视觉小说卖150块，日厂在steam上都没这么敢啊，想必有什么过人之处，咬咬牙还是买下来试一下 于是打开游玩半个多小时，有些失望，因为真的就是非常纯粹，原汁原味的visual novel，没有其他玩法 尽管如此，本作还是在技术力和硬件上拉满了：精美的人物肖像和动画，简练生动的文本，全程配音的对话，恰合时宜的音乐，以及VN该有的功能它都有。看上去很玄乎的“augural”其实就是为了帮助你查看各种选项的结果以及达成某个结局的要求，对于想打全结局的朋友们来说非常方便 可惜他卖150，加上最近自己一直关注的游戏出了不少（比如一会儿另一款也很不错的VN就要出了，希望它的价格能合理点），只能暂时先搁置了 ------------------------------------------------