Atlas Wept

这么好的游戏竟然没人做视频没人玩 太没天理了

I'm going to give this game a thumbs up despite not being able to finish it. This game is a really nice hommage to the Mother series (the most popular / well known of which, in the Western world, is Mother 2 aka Earthbound). It has a lot of qualities of those games and other games that seek to emulate them, like Undertale. As examples of their success: The dialogue is solid and believable, the characters are robust and unique, the world is quirky and uncanny but also feels lived-in and immersive. The combat systems keep the turn-based tropes of their source inspirations but have evolved and abstracted out from them to create different experiences and less tedium and frustration. So why am I not finishing it? They miss on just one (for me, more vital than I realized) key piece. Music. The music in this game is just not on the level of the Mother 2 or 3, or Undertale. It has a bit of the sense of what those games had, but it falls short. I genuinely found myself having to take breaks because the music was so gratingly boring and repetitive that I couldn't handle it. In the other games I've mentioned that Atlas Wept bears similarity to, their music was extremely unique and compelling, to the point that I listen to the Mother 2, Undertale and Mother 3 soundtracks in my spare time fairly often. I would never choose to do this with Atlas Wept's soundtrack; I couldn't even tolerate it enough to get through the game. But playing a game like this without a proper soundtrack is also not really an option, at least for me. So, if you were fan of the Mother series or Undertale, this game is absolutely worth trying. But for me, the music kills it. That's not enough cause for me to give it a thumbs down, because a lot of care and love was clearly put into it and there are many improvements compared to its inspirations. So, a near miss in my books but not deserving of discredit as a whole. 7 / 10