20 Minutes Till Dawn

This is yet another game that took VS and made it boring. I don’t have a ton to say about it; it just wasn’t fun. Once again, we see the choice to go with An Aesthetic (TM) without considering the effect it will have on gameplay. The entire game, enemies and environment are in various shades of dark green; it’s basically a green-tinted greyscale. As should have been immensely obvious, this makes quickly parsing the environment a huge pain in the ass. I actually had an unusually hard time with hitboxes in this game; I’m not sure if this is a function of the flat color palette alone or if there was also some wonkiness with the hitboxes, but I haven’t had this issue is any other VS knockoff, so something was up. Oh, also, the game makes the baffling choice to have colliding with trees damage you, which was infuriating, especially when I didn’t have any idea that was going to happen and you only get 4 HP. Having a run ruined because I accidentally hit a damn tree was just horrible. The other unnecessary change it made was of the “why limit weapons?” variety, a mistake Nomad Survival also made (though NS at least compensated for it by giving you tons of rerolls). I had an incredibly hard time telling which upgrades were for which item, and each upgrade tree only has two nodes, so you’re just churning through small weapon upgrades in a way that felt really pointless. It felt more like grabbing random stuff than an intentional build, and the similarity of so many of them was also odd (this is a summon that shoots things; this is a different summon that shoots things). To quote myself, I think sometimes, when people copy ideas from games they like instead of building their own thing from the ground up, they don’t stop to consider that the reason something was being done a certain way wasn’t because no one thought of another option, but because it worked really well the way it was. The reason for the weapon limits in VS wasn’t because they weren’t thinking big enough; it was because that makes for a better, more focused player experience, one in which the player feels in control of their run. Also a couple of the designs were weirdly tits-first, it was like grimdark lovecraft greyscale and then the art took to time to let us know the women were in push-up bras. Thanks, I guess? I also find it squicky when you have a cast that’s all white women, but also one or two Asian ones. I makes the Asian characters feel very fetishy to me, like, “We know y’all like *this* kind of nonwhite lady, winkwink nudgenudge.” Anyway I did three or four runs of this, found it deeply unfun, and then saw that each of the dozen characters has FIFTEEN difficulty levels you were supposed to work through, and just, lol no.

I really want to like this game, because there’s a lot to like. The game’s control feel is wonderful, the art style is really striking, the powerup structure and upgrade tree design is both inspired and imaginative, I could go on. There’s a lot to enjoy; I remain incredibly conflicted because I’m not enjoying this game at all. I think the problem is simple. The game’s system mechanics, enemy spawn rate, damage creep, lack of meaningful health restoration and its myriad of different options leave the game feeling tense…at first. And that’s a good thing, right? Tension creates an engaging experience, doesn’t it? The issues is, when you put the player through the exact same kind of tension for an extended period of time, it takes the tension that makes for a fun and engaging experience and turns it into its antithesis: [b]tedium.[/b] 20 Minutes Till Dawn is a [b]tedious[/b] game. You don’t really feel progression happening because there’s very little progression that’s allowed. I’ve played the game for almost six hours of the game’s twenty minute bursts, and I’ve only managed to clear a stage three times. And it was with the same exact character, going for the same exact build. Every other attempt has been a failure. No matter the character, no matter the weapon, no matter the experimentation. You just get the same end result, and that’s a feeling of failure without anything resembling meaningful progression. You’re pretty much punished for experimenting, because most upgrade options aren’t effective enough to create significantly different results. Survival is a foregone conclusion; you’re going to fail, because the enemy spawn rate is too great compared to the paltry amount of damage you do and the even weaker amount of damage you’re able to take, especially when your hurtbox is larger than it seems and enemies just kind of home in on you faster than you’re able to meaningfully evade them. Just about every choice you make in this game boils down to “which of these is least bad for this attempt at a build.” You’re always fighting against disempowerment, not [i]towards[/i] empowerment, and I think that’s where this game really gets it wrong. As such, despite being a very fun and engaging twin stick survival shooter at a surface level, I can’t recommend this game to anyone because it’s ultimately a waste of time which is, in actuality, one of the most grievous insults one can make to another human being. It’s a shame, because this game has the sauce. It just doesn’t know how to make it taste right.

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吸血鬼倖存者類 場外成長有, 但需要大量時間農 十多個角色, 直接花錢解鎖 符文系統強化也是花錢 合成系統有但不多 角色間差異大, 有些有第二攻擊 美術色調偏暗有特色 音樂音效普通, 上癮感還好 偏困難, 需要場外成長後變強 地圖三張, 模式偏少, 整體小品 元素拆解: 吸血鬼倖存者類 偏農, 靠成長才能爽 整體系統較單純 主要學習點: 理解角色間的Build -符文搭配, 角色專有升級特性, 選擇的升級路線 -懶得研究可直接上網查攻略 缺點: 系統變化較少, 較單調 太農, 初期爽感不夠

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All the characters are girls, the gameplay is fun, the art style rules, buy it!

Очень мало контента, многие текста дают неверную информацию, большинство апгрейдов бесполезные. Арты девочек прикольные, и в целом происходящий буллетхелл забавляет, но играть на уровнях тьмы не рекомендую, душное и не интересное