Katsu 最近的评测

Funcom's decision to force multiplayer and restrict it to official servers sadly means Dune Awakening is missing out on the incredible potential and longevity that modding and private servers have brought to Conan Exiles, so even though DA looks a lot more impressive, it will forever stand in its spiritual predecessor's shadow.

It also feels like there is also a strange mismatch between the game's focus on "community activities" involving guilds, the Landsraad and PvP, whilst at the same time missing out on so many roleplaying and social/communication features that you'd otherwise expect here. As a consequence, the scale of player activity the game tries to go for doesn't really get off the ground, as if the designers were fascinated by and wanted to achieve the kind of community spirit surrounding oldschool MMOs like Ultima Online without understanding what actually gets and keeps people together.

Even so, I would ultimately recommend the game simply because of the vibes it evokes. Arrakis is a fascinating and, in its own way, beautiful setting, and for all the flaws this game has in some of its mechanics, it's quite simply pretty and soothing to look at and play in, basebuilding is fun even with all the limitations and restrictions, and the fully voices storylines and missions are enough to keep you occupied for many hours.

I'd say wait until the game is on sale rather than buying full price, and I don't see a need to buy into any of the DLCs. But at a discounted price, Dune Awakening will offer a lot of content to keep you entertained.

I've often seen Where Winds Meet billed as a gacha MMO, both by its publisher as well as a lot of news sites, but (especially given the negative connotations evoked by other such titles) it would be far more correct to describe it as an F2P single player ARPG with optional multiplayer components and costume monetization, that kind of feel tacked on as if publisher NetEase bullied the devs into changing their original plans for a full price box game.

Fortunately, this means the game does not come across as "greedy" and exploitative, so the F2P element could even be a boon for many gamers low on cash, though I still would have preferred a full price release just to avoid the dozens of menus and sub-menus for costume gachas, battle pass, currencies and seasons which, in spite of being completely optional, are still hard to ignore completely. The game being absolutely loaded with menus upon menus that are inconsistent to navigate is, I suppose, one of its low points.

In terms of gameplay, however, WWM shines by evoking a beautiful wuxia fantasy that looks so stunning you'll find yourself making screenshots again and again every time you play. The world is lovingly crafted, animations are detailed and responsive to the environment (example: the character raising their arms to the side to balance when crossing narrow surfaces), and character customization is probably the most detailed I've seen, with hundreds of sliders for you to use. Combat is suitably flashy, with different weapon schools corresponding to the three usual classes (DPS, Tank, Heal). There are a bunch of moves to learn and use, but you can get used to how things work fairly quickly as the number of skills is limited and rises slowly rather than being thrown at you all at once. There is also an unusual but delightful focus on storytelling, and I found myself spending much more time on exploration, Tomb Rider-style puzzles and "yapping" than actual fights.

Lastly, what "everyone" is talking about: systems upon systems upon systems. I wouldn't quite call WWM an "Everything Game", but it certainly feels like it's at least somewhat trying to be. There's a bunch of minigames (card battlers, mahjong, rhythm game, *of course* fishing..), there is housing, you can go on dates, there is a system for uploading dance videos for your character to learn.. there's even an involved crime system for players to get punished for vandalism and murder, with bounties being posted and characters put into jail, from where you have multiple options to get out again. Including hiring player lawyers to engage in a social combat card battler on your behalf to argue for release! Although this minigame is, in my opinion, probably one of the worst systems in the game as it runs way too quickly, not giving you any time to actually read (which in a minigame about debating feels like a hilarious flaw).

Where Winds Meet also features one of the first "proper" and ethical uses of AI I've seen in videogames, with a type of NPC that has dynamic, AI-powered dialogue for you to engage with, thereby not replacing human writers (who are still responsible for normal dialogue, quests and lore) but occasionally supplementing them with what could be described as your very own virtual DM for specific encounters.

The game can be quite overwhelming if you're not careful, but if you pick and choose which aspects of it to focus your attention on, it can also be a very relaxing and chill excursion into a beautiful world of Chinese folklore, and a refreshing departure from the usual formulaic western fantasy and anime stuff that dominates gaming these days.

I have yet to spend a single dime on this game, but considering how much fun I've had already, I'll probably open my wallet at some point to reward the devs.

A fun little anime shooter that's surprisingly addictive, though the gameplay loop gets repetitive so it's one of those games you should enjoy in small "bites" to avoid getting tired of it too quickly. It's ideal for playing a little every now and then, like squeezing in a run or two during lunch break. It's entertaining to hunt for better or just different guns, and there's an interesting perk system that offers more ways to change how your character plays.

The price of its DLCs may be a little questionable, as it's really too expensive if you want to have everything, but the basic principle behind this type of monetization is clever, allowing players to try the game as much as they want, and essentially decide for themselves how much they want to support the dev by buying entirely optional cosmetics.
I still wish there was an option for a sort of "box edition" upgrade that unlocks everything for $15-20 or so, which I'd consider a fair price point for the game if it was buy-to-play.

PROS:
+ simple but fun anime looter shooter with solid co-op (take note, Bandai Namco)
+ serviceable character customization and photo mode, even if the UI is a bit janky
+ endless replayability via quasi-randomized level maps and tasks
+ surprisingly fitting if limited voices during missions

CONS:
- a few enemies and boss fights feel improperly balanced/too frustrating
- cosmetics way too expensive if you want to buy more than just a few things
- no way to disable tails on your NPC allies, which could mess with the look you want to go for

Welcome to Milkhama! Mecharashi transports the player to a fictional island in a future dominated by two rival superpowers and their Steel Trooper battalions. The world building feels very "anime", which given the subject material probably works in the game's favor. The design of said mechs is solid and hits a perfect middle ground between Battletech's utilitarian war machines and the sleek and agile metal warriors of Gundam or Macross fame, with some models leaning more into one direction or the other.

In terms of gameplay, this title offers both a partially voiced campaign story as well as a host of other game modes that are gradually unlocked by hitting certain milestones to upgrade the player's "Expedition Permit". Most of these are just slightly different takes on the same "deploy and fight" quick battle formula that you can (read: must) farm for various resources, but there's also a more strategic mode imitating a prolonged mercenary campaign, where you have to plan with limited resources and manage downtime/recovery to make sure your ace pilots are actually available for the difficult encounters. On the topic of farming, it should also be noted that the game does have a Sweep mechanic, so whilst you must manually beat a map at least once, afterwards you can simply click a button and collect resources based on prior grading.

The usual gacha model "energy" constraints that limit player activity may feel stingy at first, but you get so many "batteries" through normal gameplay rewards that players can quickly get to a point where this should not be an issue anymore. Similarly, whilst this game has you play the gacha casino for both pilots *and* mecha, the latter are not bound to specific characters, and frugal players who plan ahead on who/what they wish to pull should be able to make ends meet. Like many recent gacha titles, Mecharashi also commits the cardinal sin of letting you pull several copies of a character as part of an upgrade path, but unlike in e.g. Girls' Frontline, here this kind of ascension merely provides stat boosts instead of completely transforming the way a character works, making additional copies a luxury rather than requirement.

Of course Mecharashi would be better as a buy-to-play full price title that could focus on its strengths without being held back by gacha monetization and interface, but fortunately that doesn't mean it's not a good game anyways. For anyone who enjoyed Harebrained's Battletech, this title might well scratch that particular itch.

Pros:
+ deep combat model allowing for clever strategies and synergetic team compositions
+ cool battle animations, tabletop-style maps and a detailed mech painter to let you play out your own little Gundam/Macross anime
+ diverse cast of thematic if archetypical characters mostly unburdened by the usual gacha gooner sexualization

Cons:
- several interlinked artificial timegates that may at times feel like jumping through hoops to progress
- dozens of different currencies/resources to farm to upgrade mechs and pilots
- no customizable player character a la Jagged Alliance or Battletech, or a choice of protagonists like in other recent gacha titles

A welcome addition to turn-based tactics, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint puts you into the combat boots of a 23rd century cyborg mercenary and their merry band of misfits, all fully customizable in their looks and style whilst representing archetypical classes such as hackers, snipers and close combat monsters. Multiclassing further allows to mix and match abilities from different trees, allowing players to create hybrid types like stealth soldiers or to just minmax by doubling down on useful bonuses.

With its dystopian setting and turn-based gameplay, CKF can hardly avoid comparisons to Harebrained's Shadowrun Returns series or Cliffhanger's sadly defunct Shadowrun Chronicles multiplayer game, but whilst the former still deliver a more gripping narrative and the latter had its fun cooperative aspect going for them, Cyber Knights blows both out of the water in terms of combat depth and replayability, owing to more complex movement, response and matrix mechanics as well as built-in procedural mission generation. Even at the game's current state with the campaign unfinished, it's a fun thing to pick up again every now and then whenever you feel like rushing a team of runners through a dystopian killzone.

Unusual for this genre is the successful merger of stealth and combat gameplay and the organic transition between the two, with a great amount of detail affording a realistic security response: Rather than cheating with omniscient awareness of the position of your mercs, guards first investigate disturbances and gradually dispatch backup to the source of a report, which ideally is not your team's current position anymore. Tricking cameras, hiding corpses, sneaking and hacking are all valuable tools to delay The Man coming down on you hard. At the same time, "going loud" remains an option from the very first turn, expanding on the ways you can approach a mission.

CKF is still in Early Access, but thanks to its solid gameplay foundation already great fun to play for fans of cyberpunk atmosphere and turn-based tactics. As a Trese Brothers game, it has an unusually fast-paced update cycle with the regular addition of or expansion on features on top of expected bugfixes. Any gamers who might still hesitate out of fear the game might just cease development halfway through just needs to take a look at their previous title, Star Traders: Frontiers, which was released in 2018 but has just received Update #342(!) in March 2024.

I wish I could recommend this game, as it clearly has potential -- but what might have been a rough gem just has too many edges where inexplicable design decisions interfere with seamless fun.

Starting with the good, BGP can be a fun action game combining serviceable combat mechanics with colorful anime aesthetics generally good character design. The voice acting is top notch and the actors are a perfect fit for each of the protagonists.

The characters' sexualization may be more than questionable, especially when we're getting to non-consensual "Intensive Drilling", a game element that, due to its use of playful/innocent toys rather than actual BDSM gear, feels weirdly stuck between cartoony playfulness and outright smut, as if the game does not know which of the two it wants to commit to, and as if molesting someone in tentacle bondage gets any more okay just because you're using a "magical mushroom" instead of a dildo.
I also have a hard time believing the game's lip-service disclaimer that everyone is over the age of 18 when we're talking about a bunch of school girls -- but obviously, for most people interested in a title like this, that is exactly what they are looking for. :p

Unfortunately, whatever fun one may get out of this game - and it clearly has its moments - is repeatedly hobbled by needlessly frustrating design, such as a lack of checkpoints even during missions consisting of multiple levels, or that the game will throw you back into camp every time you die instead of allowing you to simply reset the encounter. This is annoying as, in spite of its rather simplistic graphics, the game takes forever to load the levels. Having to spend what feels like a minute in a loading screen just to retry a boss is vexing, especially as a lot of deaths will occur to stuff like getting stunlocked by a dozen enemies that enjoy infinite respawns. Annoyingly, it is also not possible to heal your NPC Buddies, and they will ignore any health potions just like they will ignore you going down, instead of resurrecting you like you can do with them.

If this game had co-op like the Earth Defense Force series, which is from the same publisher (both games even feature collaboration DLC from each other), many of these flaws would be negligible as combat would be a lot easier, but when you have to rely on a single NPC Buddy whose AI is as limited as this game's budget must have been, the fights surely feel a lot harder than they ought to be.

Oh yeah, and did I mention this is a PC port that lacks "luxury" features such as mouse control in its menus and makes long range aiming with a sniper rifle feel atrociously jerky?

Summary:

+ cute character designs with excellent voice acting
+ wide selection of fun weapons, from firearms and missile launchers to swords and bows
+ cliché story is saved by entertaining dialogue between the protagonists

- no checkpoints even in long missions, any death = back to mission screen
- extremely limited AI companions that do not heal and only use basic attacks of their #1 weapon
- suboptimal UI design (especially inventory management) that additionally suffers from lack of mouse
- bland skilltree that is bad to navigate and feels more like a tacked-on chore

Missed opportunity. 6/10 Panties.
Maybe get it on a sale, but be prepared for frustrating moments.

Even a year after it's "controversial" launch and after a host of patches and hotfixes, CP2077 is still a glitchy game. However, it is now definitely playable, and able to show its strengths without some bug ruining the experience for you time and again. Having watched friends play when the game was first released, I have a pretty good idea of how bad it could be, and I'm happy to report that the developers seem to have fixed the most notorious issues.

You will still encounter stuff like your parked car occasionally floating a meter above ground, or mission NPCs rubberbanding throgh the scenery as they walk down waypoints, or enemies teleporting/spawning into corners right behind you -- and most notably, the entire police system is still a bolted on, half-finished husk of a gameplay mechanic. However, bugs are far less numerous, and far less likely to kick you out of enjoying the story. Design flaws include an MMO-esque item progression, ability unlocks focusing too much on boring number crunch (e.g. 10 different perks that essentially all do "+damage"), or a food/drink system that functions like mana pots and feels both redundant (negligible benefits completely overshadowed by stims) and out of place (zero animation).

What ultimately saves the game in its current state: the characters, the meticulously animated narrative, and perhaps most importantly Night City itself are all very well done and come together to create an immersive, atmospheric cyberpunk experience where you can easily lose hours feeling like in a movie, or even just driving through the city at night enjoying how much the rain adds to the scenery.

The game still has much potential for improvement, beginning with its at best lackluster, at worst actively unfair police system, all the way down to various setting-relevant yet missing clothes that were once advertised but never materlaized for player characters. But, you can have a great time with the game as it is now, and historically, the developer seems to curate its products over a prolonged time. Though work on CP2077's next patch has been scaled back, we now know that an expansion is in the works.

Given how much polish the game is missing even today, and that the game clearly could've used another year in full development rather than incremental tinkering on a live product, it may not be worth the original full price -- although this is a sentiment born mostly from me wanting to express dissatisfaction with the rushed state of the game and lack of quality for a €€$60 product. Going purely by hours of gameplay fun, CP2077 is clearly a winner, so if you can grab it even for just 20% off, I'll gladly recommend doing so.

Summary

• Gameplay: 8/10 -- a solid foundation held back by some weird 1990s MMORPG ideas
  
• Customization: 6/10 -- disappointing lack of fashion options, visual cyberware, barber shops
  
• Story: 8/10 -- a gripping cyberpunk narrative with fun side stories, excellent use of characters
  
• Visuals: 9/10 -- beautiful level design with attention to detail
  
• Quality: 7/10 -- playable, but still awkward for what marketing presented as a Triple-A product

Result: 8 out of 10 cybereyes

After many, many years of Battletech pseudo-groundedness, I've recently gotten into the mood for something more Macross-y and started looking for suitable games, of which there seem to be precious few on Steam. Of all the ones I looked at, DxM stood out both thanks to its intense visuals as well as the range of features it offers -- ranging from extensive pilot customization (preventing you from yet again being locked into playing some stereotypical dude a la MW5), to online coop gameplay (allowing you to enjoy the game with your friends), to gameplay features like throwing cars or disembarking your mecha that are almost silly in how inconsequential they are yet so very, very much appreciated for how well they fit to the genre. In other words, options that may not be considered necessary at first glance, but surprisingly important just for giving you so much more freedom to enjoy the game.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1751329596246969733/82E8178987CFFD8EB7138B1143E4F5783B84BCE0/

Aside from missing collaboration DLCs, the one downside that needs mentioning is that this game is, of course, a Switch port. Don't get me wrong, they've certainly upped the graphics and the actual combat controls are smooth as butter even if you're playing with mouse and keyboard (as one does). Out of combat, however, you've got the usual console relic of buttonmashing through countless menus and sub-menus, which really doesn't feel very elegant especially considering how many there are. Mouse implementation in the UI would have been very much appreciated, and hopefully, praise the steel, will find its way into the planned sequel.

Still, the horrible menus do not take away from the excellent combat action, and whilst the story seems a bit difficult to get into at first, Marvelous did some really cool worldbuilding here, creating the perfect basis for the player to act as a freelance mercenary who gets to interact with a host of other mercs, sometimes as an ally, other times as opponent. Many of the characters - most of them belonging to teams with such colorful names as Bulletworks or Panzer Crown - are walking tropes, but this only makes the game feel even more "anime", so if you want to feel like you're in the midst of some Gundam show, DxM has got you covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-5itq7L87Y

Recap:

+ Solid, high-octane action gameplay
+ Captures the "anime show" feeling well, thanks to its cast of characters and cutscene directing
+ Lots of mecha customization (no Armored Core, but it's enough)
+ Character customization that'd make even some MMO RPGs envious
+ Optional Coop and PvP modes .. if you can find someone to play them with

- Clunky console port UI
- Lack of promo DLCs (in theory you might be able to mod them in)
- Glowy "Femto" resource on maps devalues otherwise gritty post-apoc environments

Conclusion: Get Into the Damn Robot/10

An action-packed shooter for you and up to two friends that's surprisingly addictive in spite of its flaws.

Gameplay-wise, the action feels very arcade, but thanks to the level design and sound effects suitable for the IP. It is kind of a pity that Insane Difficulty, which would make the game feel a lot more dangerous and tactical, is only unlocked after you've finished the campaign. Likewise, one negative point is arguably how specialist classes have been made less important by making various abilities (welding open doors, setting up a sentry turret, reviving a downed squadmate) available to everyone instead of making class choice and team composition more critical to mission success. Having the Doc's trauma station run out of juice without being able to self-recharge, whilst other marines keep finding first aid kits to self-heal throughout a mission, just feels like bad design.

Customization - certainly one of the long term motivators considering the unlocks acquired by playing and replaying missions - is present but could surely be enhanced. For example, it is possible to put decals on guns but not your armor. Likewise, hats and accessories share the same slot, so you'll have to decide between cowboy hat and sunglasses; it's not possible to equip both. Lastly, in spite of each class having its own progression track, the game does not allow you to actually play different *characters*, i.e. you cannot have, say, an Asian female Technician and a White male Doc on your roster; if you change the looks for one class, you change it for all. Having the game default to your Steam name rather than allowing character names is also somewhat unimmersive.

In spite of the above criticism, the game is a blast for anyone who enjoys a good coop experience a la Left4Dead. Time will tell just how much replayability is in the campaign levels or the wave-focused Horde mode, but at the same time, the game presents a solid foundation upon which the developer could easily expand with DLC and expansions.

Verdict: "Look lady, I just have one question ... where they are"/10

At first glance, it might seem like a controversial design choice to not only combine "cutesy" anime visuals with a WW2 narrative, but on top of that even let you play as the Germans. However, in an example of anime being quite capable of telling serious stories, the game does treat its setting with the appropriate gravitas. Your Wehrmacht tank crew consists not of indoctrinated zealots nor clueless puppets, but rather everyday people who just happened to find themselves born into the wrong side of the war, quite similar to the characters from the famous submarine movie Das Boot. Though proud of their skills and dedicated to fighting for their fatherland, they are ultimately mere cogs in the German war machine, adrift in the current of history as the European conflict unfolds, and as the war drags on just hoping to get home again in one piece.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2498705916
The game tells (some of) the events of WW2 in the European theater, following the characters' exploits from the Polish campaign to sunny France to snowy Russia. You can actually learn quite a bit of history here, although some of it is filtered through the eyes of the "boots on the ground", who do not have all the information. The most obvious example is the true cause of the war, presented as Polish aggression -- though some of the characters are smart enough to question the official story, wondering how their enemies can be so unprepared. One character also expresses dismay about the activities of the notorious Einsatzgruppen, but is of course quickly shut up by a superior. At the very least, the game's dialogue might be enough to get people interested in reading more about the war, whilst doing a good job at lending personality to the different characters, making them relate- and likable in spite of who they're fighting for.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2498700098
In terms of gameplay, Panzer Knights feels like a hybrid between World of Tanks and War Thunder, sporting a healthy mix of arcade (self repair, component HP) and attention to detail (armor angles, location damage, destructable terrain). Depending on what you're driving and what is shooting at you, it is quite possible to get one-hit-killed by something like the KV-2's mighty 152mm gun punching a big hole into your PzIV, or be practically invulnerable as multiple lesser enemies' shots bounce harmlessly off your mighty Tiger's heavy plating. You not only get to unlock all sorts of famous Wehrmacht tanks but also "Beutepanzer" (that is, captured enemy vehicles), in addition to a sizable choice of characters to build your dream crew from. Though you can mix and match the characters as you wish, they all specialize in certain fields, represented by skills you can unlock and upgrade.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2498696896
The game's latent RPG elements also shine in the backgrounds and side stories you can unlock when playing certain missions with specific crew, highlighting friend- and relationships among the characters. This is sadly an underdeveloped aspect of the game, but it's enough to let you appreciate their individual personalities and, in doing so, helping to form a degree of attachment to the dramatis personae.

Of course, the game has a range of weak spots, most notable in a localization that could have really benefited from a native speaker. There are also many areas of the game that are full of unused potential, from your company's other vehicles feeling like an afterthought, to tanks not enforcing any "role slots" (e.g. driver, gunner, loader etc.) for their crew. Some missions are also quite long, and the lack of a checkpoint system can be quite frustrating when you fail close to the end and have to start again from the beginning.

Ultimately, however, the core gameplay is solid and the anime visuals look quite good. If you've enjoyed watching Girls und Panzer, you will feel right at home. I doubt the game will see expansions or a sequel, or even much post-release development save for maybe some bugfixes, but in case the creators do end up making more like this, I'd certainly like to be along for the ride. For 20 bucks, there really are worse things on Steam to spend your money on.

Consider this game if you:

+ are just looking for a couple hours of fun with a single-player tank game
+ have a soft spot for military vehicles of a bygone era, as well as cute anime girls (or boys)
+ don't mind or are even curious about experiencing WW2 "from the other side"
+ really enjoyed Girls und Panzer

What's missing to make the game great:

- a checkpoint system for the longer missions
- non-cosmetic tank customization (component upgrades, ammo loadout)
- more control over your tank company (composition, tactical orders)
- randomized side missions for replayability
- localization QA