Versifer 最近的评测

Okay, I will start off saying that the game is great. Very intuitive and fun to play. From a gameplay perspective only, I would give it 8-9/10 and recommend it.

Now, that said.... my problem is the performance. In my 18 hours of game play, the game has crashed at least 15 times. Stable - stable - stable - stable - stable - random crash. This doesn't happen in any other application or game regardless of whether they are more intensive, etc. I have done an update and then multiple clean install of a few different versions of my cards drivers, tweaked settings, etc. but nothing happens. Without fail, 45-90 minutes into playing it will just crash. I have replayed almost every level 2-3 times as a result and its terrible. Not much in games feels worse than being half a turn from hitting the rendezvous zone after clearing the level and completing all objectives and bonus objectives only to have the game crash leaving you 5-10 turns previous with no objectives completed running it over again... and sometimes again.... and if you're unlucky, again :X

If you don't mind that frustration, then absolutely its recommended but, with that, I just can't give it a clear yes.

EDIT at about double or so the previous play timer: The above remains my honest opinion.... BUT... since leaving that review, I have played 6 missions with 0 crashes. No changes have been made to the system, hardware or software. I have no explanation. Will update later if it remains this stable and, if possible, will go back and play some of the early missions again now to test...

tl;dr: I loved this game so much that I literally gifted it out of the blue for a friend with no idea whether he even likes puzzle games. And I fully intend to either let another friend play it when they are over or potentially even just speed run in with them just watching so that they get to experience at least the visuals. Breathtaking.

Full review:

I was incredibly surprised by how much I enjoyed this game. I literally saw a 15 second clip by a random person online just showing the resizing / perspective mechanism in the game and thought to myself, "eh, why not look into this game?" and made a mental note. Then forgot about it completely it was so insignificant of a thought. Skip ahead about two weeks and I open up Steam and see it on sale for something like 50% off and decide to give it a go.

Wow. Just wow. WOW.

I was immediately taken in by the unique game mechanics and how fluidly (with some very small exceptions) the game is able to determine not only the correct size but also correct placement in space of the items as you manipulate them to solve the puzzles. There is also a decent mix of blatantly obvious puzzles as well as some medium ones and a select few that took a moment to think about. And the best part is, there are multiple challenges that I solved in one way and then on subsequent play throughs, realized that there was clearly an intended way to solve it that I didn't do the first time through. A couple times it was faster to do it the "intended" way and a couple times it would have been slower. Even after playing it through about a dozen times now, I still found solutions to two of the puzzles that were faster / easier / more elegant than how I had been doing them and potentially would have made the 30 minute challenge a few seconds easier yet.

And best of all, the visual styling of it all is beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and the music and whole thing just creates a wonderful experience. I literally got tingly, fuzzy feelings all over my skin from many of the visuals - especially once you get to white space. It is a sensory delight, for sure.

Yes, the game is short. I have played the game for roughly 24 hours now (which also includes a few hours of it sitting on the main menu while I was busy about the house, I believe...) and have not only beaten it but completed 100% of the achievements. As the game was first loading I saw the speed run "beat the game in under 1 hour" achievement and thought that I was going to have to play it over and over and over again to get to that point - NOPE. I played it the first time through very leisurely between tasks at work (hooray WFH jobs) in a couple hours. Then, because I was so awestruck at how beautiful the game was, I decided to play through with the creators commentary once just to get their insights and thoughts behind some of the puzzles and visuals. Oops! I beat it in under an hour with multiple stops waiting for commentary segments to finish before continuing on. That said - I did have to play through 4 more times before getting the super speed run "beat the game in under 30 minutes" one and even then did so in 29:47 or something close to that.

Now, I will admit, I did have to cheat and use the internet on one of the challenge mode challenges as I was always requiring one additional jump than allowed.... and after playing the game through about a dozen times, learned about a new bridge to the left of a gap that I didn't know about - I won't spoil it for you (hopefully that didn't already... oops) but you will know what I mean when you find it.... or perhaps you will never find it because you can absolutely beat the game a dozen times without ever needing that extra little find (though, you do need it to beat all the challenges, as best as I can tell).

I got it for 50% off but its worth full price with no question. In fact, I got it for 50% off and gifted it to a friend at 50% off and it STILL would have been worth it to do both at full price. And that's pretty special for a game that I beat and completed every challenge in roughly 24 hours total time that will ultimately have very little replay value outside of showing it off to new people. In 25 years of heavy gaming, this has been a refreshingly new mechanic, beautifully orchestrated, and mesmorizingly delicious.

As someone who never played Minecraft, it feels a bit like a viking Minecraft. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - its like viking Minecraft 2.0. It is a bit of a grind and repetitive, if I'm being honest, which might rub some people the wrong way. In almost 40 hours of playing I've only seen a small handful of enemies and biomes. When you first run into a new type of enemy its fun and challenging to learn how to handle them.... but then you run into them 290384798237q465 times and its just rinse and repeat. Same with the very manual process of gathering and crafting. Maybe I'm just used to nice automated systems like in Satisfactory, but it begins to feel a bit repetitive. I don't feel like leveling up skills really does anything. With skills like running and such it first feels like a slow progression.... but when you really don't use some skill because you don't use a certain weapon type for a while or when you unlock something like the pickaxe and very quickly take it from 0-40 and notice virtually no change, its difficult to stomach. It also feels a bit anticlimactic with the repetition of the biomes... hopping from island to island doesn't really "feel" like its a new island because its just a slightly different version of the exact same island you just spent days exploring.

Okay... so... all of that said. I'm about 40 hours in and while all of that seems like a big list of negatives.... its still enjoyable and I'm sitting down to play more. I'm only one boss down and still have so much to unlock and discover so for $20, I think its definitely enjoyable and worth is.

The game itself feels very polished and looks great for the aesthetic that it is. The controls are fluid and feel good. After playing it only during the free to play period, I decided NOT to purchase the game. It was just way too repetitive and grindy for my taste.

As I noted, it looks and feels great, it just isn't my type of game. To each their own, but I won't be playing it further and wouldn't recommend it to friends.

Back in high school I used to live and die by this game -- then got a girlfriend and my gaming time diminished to an almost non-existent level for a couple of years and I just fell away from CS. Still, it was great fun. Ran a clan, competed in OGL team matches, etc. Great game especially if you get a group of friends together to run with.