Caravan SandWitch

Fun, relaxing game. I do wish there was more to do than driving from place to place and climb around, but the world is charming enough that it kept me coming back.

O jogo é excelente. É como se fosse uma mistura de Life is Strange com Nier Automata (a parte do cenário apenas, obviamente). A narrativa é maravilhosa, a direção de arte é perfeita e a trilha sonora parece como um casulo que te envolve. Tudo é muito bom. Franceses sabem MESMO fazer jogos. O único ponto negativo para mim foi a inconsistência na tradução PT-BR. E eu vou explicar isso logo abaixo: Veja bem, ao contrário dos chorumes que tem aí espalhados nas reviews, não sou nem um pouco contra uma linguagem neutra. Sou (quase) formado em bacharelado em letras e desde sempre penso que a língua de fato tem que ser mais inclusiva e menos "machista" de certo modo. PORÉM o que temos no jogo (na tradução PT-BR) é um experimento falho. Não lembro exatamente agora das palavras, mas fiquei me perguntando algo como "como assim 'nômades' é tratado no neutro e 'advogados' não?" (a palavra não é "advogado". Era outra, mas não me recordo de qual). E isso foi mais de uma vez. Em outras palavras, na tentativa de deixar a língua mais inclusiva, deixaram QUASE todas as coisas no neutro, o que pra mim deveria ter sido feito com mais atenção e cuidado. Dito isso, a tradução na esperança de respeitar a identidade das personagens acabou criando MUITA inconsistência ao ponto de me incomodar um pouco de vez em quando. Ao ponto de ser difícil de ler e compreender o que estava sendo dito. Penso também que os animais e os robôs poderiam muito bem serem tratados no feminino/masculino, em vez de todos ficarem simplesmente no neutro - justamente porque foi exatamente isso que criou as inconsistências. Afinal, porque os sapos são tratados no neutro, mas as bruxas no feminino? Enfim, tirando essa questão o jogo é perfeito. Se você for alguém que gosta de explorar mundo aberto acompanhado de uma música relaxante, fazer side quests que agregam valor à história e pilotar uma van, esse jogo é pra você!

Great narrative game, movement feels great and the sound is amazing for an indie game. Not meant in a bad way, but this would be a great game to introduce new people to gaming.

Played the demo for this some time back and was impressed how it was a calming game with nothing to kill and nothing trying to kill you. The music and sound effects are smooth and unobtrusive. Finally bought it when it went on sale, and enjoyed it until about two-thirds through. Then the political agendas started coming out. PROS: -- Smooth gameplay even at highest graphics settings on a moderate machine. -- Unobtrusive sounds and music. -- Driving the van is easy and intuitive. -- Lots of spatial puzzles in appropriately-increasing difficulty as the game progresses. CONS: -- SHORT. Buy on sale, not full price. -- Fairly low-poly game by today's standards. They could have spent a bit more resource budget on textures to make up for it. -- Some aspects of 'how to quest' are not entirely clear. -- Low-key political statements/attitude throughout, but particularly in the second half. -- [spoiler]Depressing ending.[/spoiler]

About the gameplay: The basic concept is really nice. The first few hours are enjoyable enough. There is some music, nothing groundbreaking. The visuals are all right, but it kinda looks like a corporate video. You may be able to "chill" here and there if you want to (and the game would really like you to want it), but you get better results by watching ambient youtube videos. There is not much to explore, you just go to the same places over and over and over and over again as you get upgrades. Multiple sidequest are "time sensitive", meaning if you build your next upgrade (which equals to progressing the main story) you will not be able to finish them. This is utterly pointless and it just enforces you to travel back and forth to the same places multiple times (i guess that is one way to increase playtime). It makes the game really annoying and feel like a chore by the end. About the story and the setting: Oversimplified, dumb narrative spoonfed to you like you are an elementary schooler in your first natural sciences class. And the game is not even trying to go beyond that. Boring dialogue. Ridiculous writing. Even the very few intriguing parts of the game will feel uninteresting by the end. And the narrative setting goes something like this (to oversimplify it even more): - Evil big corporation of a space faring civilization is bad because it wants to do a Dyson construct to solve energy problems. - Evil big corporation is evil, because it does not like sentient AI robots. - Evil big corporation and its stockholders are evil, because profit as such is bad. - Some environmentalism about the responsibility towards nature and a few recurring sentences (I would rather not call them dialogues) against exploiting the environment and people. But don't worry, even in the grim darkness of future capitalism, it is very important to be woke. I mean come on. This character has two mothers. The main character has two fathers. The old woman of the village is apparently gay. The old hermit is also gay. Multiple characters with unspecified genders (including the only baby). And all this between about 10+ people. LGHDTV flags in a few places because why not. This is not about representation. The whole narrative and setting is soft propaganda. An intentional, unsubtle brainwashing attempt. This is a game version of a corporate sensitivity training video you have to watch for social credit. Well, maybe that is the price you have to pay to get money from the French Cult. Ministry. Even with discount I would not recommend this game. (Unless you are really bored.)

休闲解谜，玩着不累，画面非常舒服，主要是通过解锁货车装置去到新地方，但是新能力都是货车上的，有很多大型建筑的攀爬场景（让我想起沙贝、退潮），但主角本身只能跑跳，要是主角自身有一些人物能力会更有趣。音乐也好听（推荐曲目：Pensée Dérobée、Intro、Bienvenue），对我来说唯一槽点是LGBT含量太高，总共有3对同性恋和2对异性恋，你有2个老爸，姐姐和好朋友（女）谈过，老太太的旧相好也是女的，性少数硬是搞成了性多数。除此之外，所有人物的性格都挺可爱的，对话有趣，村民、类人蛙、流浪者、机器人、沙巫…他们的立场不同，但都很善良。任务的发布和结算是由社交媒体的方式发送，NPC们还会在里面聊天，氛围舒适，让玩家在这个世界有参与感，总之是玩着很轻松舒服的一款游戏。全成就大概10~15h，只需要注意做完限时任务再开启下一章节，其他成就都不会错过。

I was rolling my eyes hard at all the "woke" elements but the game itself is beautiful and calming. The music is especially chill and fits the unique aesthetic