Lil Salad 最近的评测

Lost Ark is overall a mediocre MMO that can be best described as being as wide and beautiful as an ocean but as shallow as a pond. It can be plenty of fun, but the bad portions of it have to be acknowledged. I still plan on playing this as the combat is unique and enjoyable.

Pros
- Particle effects look fantastic, but these present an issue later on in the game when there's so much going on that it is almost impossible to see boss AOEs, especially ones that don't use the normal red AOE texture.
- Sound design is unmatched in the genre
- Wide array of classes with a great amount of customization and spec'ing
- Free to Play with Pay 2 Progress/Convenience facets
- Overworld design, dungeon/boss cinematics, and music is pretty beautiful
- PvE combat is refined. Classes have so much variation in their combos that killing legions of enemies is really satisfying
- End game content in terms of abyss dungeons and some guardian raids are really well done

Cons
- The story in this game is not captivating in the slightest, is told poorly, at times is all over the place, and can be summed up as "collect these magical artifacts to stop evil demons." Before you can collect these artifacts you'll have to slog through what feels like an endless amount of menial fetch quests and a few sub plots before finally finding out some demon commander who has no motive aside from being evil is pulling the strings on the continent you're on. Go and kill the, retrieve the magical artifact, then move on. This goes to the next big issue.

- Questing is REALLY bad. It is the norm in MMOs to have fetch quests, filler quests, whatever you would like to call them. However in Lost Ark these quests take up like 95% of what you'll be doing. A massive amount of forgettable, pace breaking, and obnoxiously designed quests detract from that 5% of quests that are actually memorable and fun to do. Given how boring the story is and double that with how awful questing is, progressing through the pre-50 questline is really bound to make plenty of players quit.

- The voice acting and animation work outside of combat are of poor quality and it greatly takes away the impact of many scenes in the game. I'm sure the voice acting is much better in its native language, but the animation work is really awkward in many portions of the game.

- Timed event bloat. There's a countless amount of these and makes it so if you aren't a dedicated Lost Ark player who has their eyes glued to the server time you're bound to regularly be missing out on these. Additionally some of these events have multiple spawn locations, just to waste a bit more of your time.

- This game heavily encourages you to have alternate characters. Some people like this, some people hate it. The purpose of these alts is to simply run the same exact repeatable content you do on your main so you can amass a bunch of crystals to upgrade your gear. These primarily being dailies, chaos dungeons, and abyss dungeons. If you don't do this, it'll take an incredibly long time at a certain point to upgrade your main character. The combat is fun, but not so fun that it is a joy to run through the same exact thing 6 times every single day throughout the week.

Like I said at the start of this review, the game has amazing combat mechanics and it is satisfying to fight bosses who you do have to learn their move set if you want to regularly clear them. Most of the classes look fun to play as. The biggest thing that drags this game down is simply the questing/poor story and the whole thing of needing to have alts if don't want to roadblock yourself later down the line.

If you can brute force your way through the terrible story, powerpass/knowledge transfer your alts, and have a significant amount of time to do repeatable content on numerous alts, you will most likely enjoy what this game has to offer because it does have plenty to offer behind those walls.

This game is a love letter to classic Sonic fans while also catering to those who may have started playing Sonic in the late 2000s. This developer managed to capture the same nostalgia and spirit that Sonic Mania captured many years after this game was released.

If you're a 90s kid that spent alot of time growing up with all the classics and early 3D Sonic games, this little gem will blow you away with the first few sets of levels, bosses, and challenges. Replayability exists in the form of challenges and earning S ranks with some exploration in the main stages with collecting red emblems. Alot of the experience though is in that first playthrough, it really blows you away.

This game is meant to be played with a controller, trying to play with a keyboard likely takes alot of the enjoyment out of playing the game. Run config tool before starting the game for the very first time. Ran completely fine.

Having played the original Final Fantasy 12 on the PS2, Final Fantasy 12 International Zodiac Job System on an emulator, Final Fantasy 12 the Zodiac Age on PS4, and this port, I can say this port is the definitive way to the enjoy Final Fantasy 12. There are many benefits to this version when compared to the PS4 release in that the fidelity of the game in this release can reach levels much higher than that of the PS4. Not even when I ran this on emulator was I able to reach as close of beautifying look at Final Fantasy 12 as I am able to with this port.

With the graphic prowess set aside let me quickly discuss the few pros and cons of the port in general when compared to the older versions of the game.

PROS:

- Personally I would list this as a con (but then again you aren't forced to play like this), but having the option of selecting two classes rather than one like in the Zodiac Job System is a neat concept. It allows for plenty of mixing in team composition however Square didn't really tune the game to be played this way. It further eases up game play on normal difficulty. Like I said though you have the option of just playing one class or none at all for the characters.

- Immediate availability of New Game+ and New Game-. You don't have to fully complete the game and Trial Mode in order to unlock these two.

- Access to the original soundtrack.

- Includes a wide catalogue of bug fixes, changes, and balance fixes from the Zodiac Job System version of the game plus many more that can only be found in this version of the game.

- When it comes to ports which Square does notoriously awful most of the time, this version of the game is easily one of their best Final Fantasy ports in that it retains almost everything that the original PS4 release had while upgrading the overall experience both visually and tangibly.

CONS:

- Denuvo DRM. There's just no place for DRM in a game like this. It makes little sense to even have this in here anyways given that none of their other ports have this. May also explain why the initial price of the game is higher than it should be. Ultimately though this is a small gripe and would be ridiculous to not buy the game over it.

- Some Day 1 bugs do exist. Modifying some graphical options, such as VSYNC, via the in-game menu will freeze and crash the game as will changing the Full-Screen option to Borderless. ALT-TAB'ing is a nightmare. By default the game caps FPS at 30 which will cause a "2x speed" effect to occur. This is the issue that some buyers are experiencing. It can easily be fixed by capping the FPS to 60.

- Lack of area of effect for low tier magical spells. This was also present in the PS4 release.

- Price tag is higher than the PS4 version when you disregard the sale that is currently in place for the first week.


Overall the game is more than worth it for any Final Fantasy 12 fan, even if you did purchase the PS4 version. Outside of the very early bug fixing and setting tinkering you have to go through initially, the game runs just fine if you have the hardware for it. The same experience that could be had on the PS4 can be experienced here in much higher fidelity with some extra quality of life features.