Zephyr, the West Wind 最近的评测

monty python's night in the woods
the sonic to untitled goose game's mario
northern british jazzpunk if that's a thing people still remember anymore
give coal supper 10 bob

An enjoyable but short romp. The noir duck detective himself is by far the best part of this game, as the idea of "played straight noir detective with metaphorical alcoholism in cutesy anthro animal world" is very well executed. The mystery is not particularly difficult to solve and it won't reasonably take more than 3 hours however. Very hopeful for a sequel or more cases in the future, the idea has legs, wings, and a beak.

An indie attempt at capturing something along the lines of the original Morrowind. The main draw is the narrative component; while the main quest is fairly linear, the worthwhile side quests are for the most part complex and ambiguous moral dilemmas. While there is dungeon delving, it's far more about exploration than a fairly rudimentary combat system- this can occasionally backfire (key spells to play a mage are often impossible to find and loot is often not the most rewarding).
The game doesn't have the same depth as a Bethesda title as the faction reputation system is borderline meaningless and there are very few optional dungeons past the initial zone, but given the development team size and actual soul in the game it more than makes up for it. If a Morrowind throwback with modern touches and good writing would appeal to you, definitely check this out.

Walking simulator about a nun possessed by the devil and prisoner who has been chosen by god. Enjoyment is slightly dependent on interest on basic Christian theology and games which are very Russian. Minigames are kind of annoying and I wish there would be a skip button, they ruin the pacing of some scenes and I should not want to throw my controller in the middle of pondering free will.

Performance is not great and the microtransactions are obnoxious if fairly obviously tacked on by management (the portcrystal is the only truly egregious one and even then it's only going to be relevant in late game- it is *only* an extra fast travel point and you still need to get ferry crystals ingame. rift crystals and lifestones are not that difficult to earn. everything else is just the deluxe edition items.). Nevertheless I am enjoying myself quite a bit 7 hours in, maybe wait to see if the framerate gets better if you want to but they were cooking on this one.

Really brilliant concept for a VR title that doesn't just feel like a tech demo or yet another shooter, but relies heavily on good VR eye-hand coordination to complete puzzles optimally. Surprisingly good voice acting.

I'm not that angry at the price I got it at, but the early game side quests are both tedious and repetitive along with having relatively few "meaningful" choices after the prologue. Writing is also rough; I think their heart is in the right place and it's usually serviceable but two conversations in a row where your indigenous companion uses the line "And you call us savages" is not a good sign. Everything I've heard in terms of spoilers doesn't indicate it getting better in terms of not taking the laziest road possible in terms of plotlines. Less importantly the English script is full of typos and a significant amount of voice lines seem to have just been recorded for a male protagonist, so expect to get called "sir" a jarring amount of times as Lady de Sardet. I do think the studio and game has potential though.

A decent but short adventure game; managed to get the perfect ending within 8 hours without using a walkthrough. Probably a reasonable recommend to fans of Outer Wilds or other timeloop puzzlers when it's on sale.

Story:
The minimal spoilers version is Ancient Roman timeloop. The classical setting is mostly done reasonably well if to a very shallow extent. I'm not fond of the direction the ending took aesthetically (though ultimately it didn't really impact the plot at all) but it was ultimately fun enough and getting there was satisfying.

Gameplay:
Overall fairly well done; it's basically a stripped down version of Skyrim reimplemented in Unreal. No obvious bugs other than a few graphical issues. Certain decisions were clunky: one particular quest requires you to exhaust previously selected dialogue options in a way that's not intuitive despite having actually completed it. A certain necessary step for the perfect ending requires you to pick up an item despite the quest giver giving you another item, which may cause an unnecessary reload. Combat is minimal other than the one optional section, which is nice as it's almost entirely vestigial. The character building choices are also rather annoying: the archaeologist in particular is entirely worthless as you gain no real insights that anyone who is not basically familiar with the classical world would be. This is especially notable considering other options include movement speed in a game entirely built around walking around.

You've heard of "The Dark Souls of X", now get ready for "It's like Baldur's Gate 3 but"

Worth buying on sale, maybe not for full price. Script was flawed because of random tone whiplash around the beginning of the third act, which I'm gonna hazard was contractual. Buy this over the terrible original any day.