I. M. Fearless 最近的评测

This game fails on a puzzle design level. Two basic quality standards I expect out of a puzzle game of this nature are that there are no superfluous parts of a puzzle (provided that misdirection is not the point) and that the requirement for a rank such as three stars is the optimal solution for at least a large percentage of the puzzles if not all of them. This game fails repeatedly on both. A sample puzzle could have 20 dots and claim that three stars is ten moves or less. I just completed it in three moves without even touching three quarters of the grid. This alone tells me that no quality control went into the puzzles themselves.

To add insult to injury, twice within the first 15 levels I completed one below the three star rank only to be given two stars, at which point I replayed the puzzle with the same exact solution and was given three stars, so there's a serious bug. Further, the difficulty is schizophrenic even if I limit myself to the three-star guidelines; the game takes three levels to start throwing seemingly random collections of dots at you and then every puzzle looks the same.

Finally, the navigation interface is cumbersome. The escape key pulls you completely out of a puzzle back to the level select screen. There is no restart button so the above is the only real way to restart - except that there is a restart button when you complete the level.

I do not recommend this game even on sale until these issues have been properly addressed.

I was expecting this game to be an overpriced, poorly-designed, poorly-implemented, ugly-looking-and-sounding piece of trash. It exceeded my expectations in ways I couldn't even imagine.

Out of complete nowhere, several months after playing, I suddenly got a series of AV warnings claiming that the .exe is a Trojan. I wouldn't be surprised.

The good:
I like the concept of the puzzles. It's unique, and does take a little time to think through. Subtly a memory puzzle at times. Very consistent, which can be tricky to make in a puzzle game. The presentation is also generally quite pretty, and the music is nice and relaxing, and each move you make sounds rather musical as well so that's nice.

The bad:
Repetitive. No surprises here whatsoever, and once you come up with a strategy for the early puzzles every other one works exactly the same way. I like the puzzle idea but now I feel like I've done as many of them as I'd ever want to. Game awards a crown for a "perfect" score, which just means no undos - this could benefit from some kind of extra challenges, I'd say by taking advantage of the multiple solutions each puzzle has in its current form. Game feels meant for a touchscreen, and I wouldn't want to play it with a mouse. Also, no indication on a puzzle screen how many more puzzles are left in the set - I've taken to tallying them just so I know how far I have left.

The ugly:
While I've never had much issue with the gameplay (aside from what I think is fat fingers on my part but I could be wrong), the interface is bugged to hell. Sometimes I'll exit a puzzle set (seems to happen when I exit one without completing it all the way) and the puzzle set select screens bug out and overlay on top of each other and navigation becomes impossible. When you complete a level and all the ribbons slide away, the two on the bottom don't quite make it all the way off the top of the screen before blinking out, implying that the game was never really intended for a landscape view (and really, the left and right 1/3 of the screen is almost empty the entire game). Most damning, the achievements for completing and perfecting an entire puzzle set trigger on completing and perfecting the FIRST puzzle in a set, meaning you can get 14/24 achievements from playing a tiny fraction of the available puzzles.

Verdict:
I do not recommend spending more than $1.00 for this game.

It took maybe fifteen mnutes for this to reach my Favorite Indie Games list. The art is amazng, the music spectacular, the gameplay feels straght out of the Metroid series (in a very good way) and the dialogue and background references had me in stitches. Only thing is, now I can't play it for awhile ... I'm going to play a few other games first, and save the best for later :D