Apfel | Seb 最近的评测

Great game for a great price, nice to relax or to tilt.

Summary:
Recommendation for anyone that likes the older Pokémon games :)

Pros:
+ relatively high number of Nexomon
+ very well written story, good jokes, likable characters
+ good value for the price
+ Pokémon-esque without being too much of a copy of it

Cons:
- xp / lvl scaling of enemies and wild monsters is a bit 'weird'
- database/pokedex is kinda iffy
-> one cannot look up where to find certain nexomon or even search for specific ones.. the filter could use some additional functions (also bug when scrolling down and going back up leaving white overlay)
- nexomon are not really "unique" within their type-family
- some animations are too long and not skippable (e.g. evolution)

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I had the game on my wishlist for a while and finally got it gifted for Christmas. I just finished the story and wanted to leave a bit of feedback here.
Overall I think most of the important stuff has already been covered by other people's reviews.
I will mostly draw reference to the Pokémon games in general as I think it's the easiest way to understand the similarities and differences (good and bad).
The story is great - much better than most of the Pokémon games. I think there was almost no main story quest that did not include some witty jokes that made me chuckle or smile at least. Gotta love the sidekick Coco.

The difficulty is a bit higher than normal pokemon games. While the fighting in general is less complex the scaling makes it harder. There's quite a lot of fights where you will absolutely need potions and ether. I think in Pokémon this was mostly only the case for Top4 / Champs for me.
This might also be the case because you cannot switch your active Monster "on the fly" when an enemy dies. Instead you always lose your turn when swapping.
The variety of Nexomon is pretty solid with over 300 in this one "generation". The naming is kinda "meh" as each nexomon seems to have its name generated from two words that kinda fit the appearance (at least in English) but well.. Not like Pokémon does it much better. The skills you unlock throughout the journey are kinda similar to Pokémons HMs while not requiring a monster to actually replace an attack for that.

There were two things that annoyed me a lot. Not enough to make the game bad or anything, but if there's a sequel, I really hope they make some adjustments here.
The first being the scaling in regards to XP / levels. While it's interesting that everything scales with your nexomons level (or the story progress, not exactly sure here), it sometimes makes it not feasible to train your nexomon any longer but instead catch new ones und use those. One can always visit places one has been to before and catch the same Nexomon with a much higher level.

The second thing that could be improved is the differences between the nexomon themselves. While there are 300+ different ones, they don't really feel unique. I chose my team by looking for different types and then could change each single monster with another of the same type as it almost made no difference in between those.

Another minor remark I'd like to make is that the animations sometimes took too long (e.g. when evolving a nexomon or showing certain cutscenes). It would be great if one could skip that to an extent as I had a fight where 5 nexomon evolved.

Still, for any fan of the genre and the older pokemon games (which I liked much more than the newer ones) I really recommend this game! I'm looking forward to the sequel.

Love the game and the work put into it.
Bought this in early access and still come back to it due to the various updates.
If you're thinking about buying it: just do it!

Wirklich interessantes Spielkonzept, schön umgesetzt und sogar mehrfach spielbar. Ich kann das Spiel nur empfehlen!
Glory to Arstotzka!

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P.S.: awesome game concept/design, can't do anything wrong with trying it for free. Also don't judge the game before at least playing through it once. It is definitely not only for fans of the visual novel genre!

Great game with an epic narrator, a pretty funny (and sad) story and awesome gameplay.

I played this game mostly together with my girlfriend and we had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to get certain things done and pushing each other into acid or lasers or throwing bombs in the other persons face etc.
Also the "versus" mode is pretty funny as well and just the right thing for in between if you're a little bored.

First of all: This game won't fit everyones' taste and it certainly doesn't need to.

If you expect a game with a lot of action regarding the gameplay I certainly do not recommend this game for you at all.

BUT if you're looking for a wonderful story, a beatiful atmosphere and an amazing soundtrack: Go for it!

When I first heard about this game and watched the first Trailer for it I was pretty confident that this would be a game I'd truly enjoy.
I loved Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls - which are all fantastic "interactive Thrillers" offering a relatively low amount of "real" gameplay - and hoped that this would kind of fall into the same genre.

After the first episode got released I was a little "disappointed" by it. Sure it was good and pretty close to the kind of game I wanted but it still left me hoping for more to come.

As more episodes got released I came to like the game more and more. The character development whent on very well and with the last episode (as of now Ep. 4) the game probably couldn't have done anything better. Even though I kind of expected the "plot twist" I could not think of a better way for it to end.

Although games like these (aka "interactive movies") cannot really be compared for me as the story makes them all so different, I can still say that it's almost or just as good as the games I mentioned before.

I'm really excited to see what's about to happen in the final chapter and can only recommend this game to anyone willing to let himself be engulfed by its emotions and atmosphere.

Well I could probably write a lot about this game but I'm just gonna keep it short and simple.
Great graphics, great atmosphere, good story.
There's only one thing I'd have to criticize:
Even though I'm a really big fan of story-driven games and am totally fine with a few quicktime-events or riddles for the gameplay part, it was just too short. The price of 20€ is okay because the above mentioned good points make up for most of the lack of "content". Still I'd have prefered a little bit more...

Even though the metascore is quite "low" and while I haven't heard anything about the game before, the game itself looked like it could be enjoyable for me. Kind of like a supernatural-thriller-movie with a few methods to interactively find the culprit behind everything. And it was almost exactly as I thought it'd be.

While you get to walk through walls/doors/cars/... in Salem to investigate the death of many young girls - and most importantly your own death - you find piece after piece to finally solve the puzzle.
The story itself starts where most others end: You are a detective getting killed while investigating a murder case. The difference here is that you're not dead-dead but rather "live" on as a ghost to find the meaning behind your death so you can get to heaven (or whatever there is...). Soon you get help of a young medium who's part of the whole case and also searching for her mother (in the end she mostly just makes it possible for you to pick things up / move things / open doors / ...).
The whole game is divided into several different "chapters" where you get from one part of town to another and investigate the place to find more clues. The game mechanics consist of recognizing sounds, answering questions with photos & connected sentences, manipulating people to tell you their "secrets" and hiding from demons / destroying them.
Also there's quite a huge chunk of stuff you can collect to get info about other case which have absolutely nothing to do with the main plot. Even though they are certainly interesting, it would probably take a lot of time to find every single one of those as many are hidden pretty well. I was often missing one part of a "story" and couldn't get myself to keep on searching another 20 minutes.

Even though it definitely isn't one of the best games I ever played, it certainly has it's own unique touch. I really enjoyed playing through the main quests and solving the case (although the final plot twist wasn't that surprising in the end) and would definitely recommend trying it out (at least the demo if there is one) to see if the game fits your taste.
Just keep in mind: It's not the mechanics/gameplay that make the game enjoyable but rather the thrilling story and the way it's told.