CrossCode

The story is really cool but the combat and puzzles are not fun for me at all. Running around the mazes that are the exploration areas where you have to find the right platform to jump up on is tedious. The ice mine dungeon was where I called it quits, I think I was close to the end but the fourth or fifth room that requires you to shoot platforms that you need to hop across was it for me. This was after 4 mini bosses and at least 2 normal bosses. You end up picking up the same quests over and over, just like an MMO. I'm sure CrossCode feels better as you go, maybe the story is rewarding but the effort required, to me, is not worth it. Also, my taste and preferences are trash. This game is clearly beloved and I have had opinions. Please try it out for yourself but I do not recommend it.

「面白いがオススメはしない」の項目がなくて困った。 良い点は、作り込みがエグい。詳細は他のレビュー見てくれ。 悪い点は、作り込みがエグい。敵もダンジョンも、ギミックが多すぎる。 腰据えてじっくりゲームに取り組むタイプの、作業耐性のあるパズル要素好きな奴には超名作。 その逆の人間には苦行。俺は中間の人間、実績解除込みで遊んでたから後半辛い時間が長かった。

[i]В первую очередь хочу сказать спасибо одному человеку из списка друзей, который наиграл 500 часов и написал об этом очень положительный [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Tmerus_Darkheart/recommended/368340]обзор[/url], благодаря чему я с предвкушением купил эту игру 2 года назад.[/i] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3665730376 CrossCode это та самая невероятно качественная инди игра, которую легко пропустить. Если говорить от лица разработчика, то это будет примерно так: [i]«Да, мы сделали игру-головоломку, завернули ее в обертку зельдавании и ламповости, как если бы Stardew Valley была экшен рпг, написали всё это на JavaScript (!), и вы будете играть в это 100 часов».[/i] Практически все негативные отзывы жалуются на "душные и сложные" подземелья и бесконечные головоломки. По факту да, каждая локация игры представляет собой сплетенный в клубок пазл со спрятанными сундуками и скрытыми местами, и чтобы добраться до каждого придется распутать этот клубок - исследовать всё вокруг и найти каждый путь. А после этого игрока ждут подземелья с пространственными головоломками и боссами. Но на поверку каждое подземелье успевало закончиться до того как я успевал устать, а исследование локаций приносило большой кайф. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1895560944 Игра написана на [b]ImpactJS[/b], и судя по всему это единственный настолько крупный и качественный проект на этом движке. Игра очень хорошо работает и имеет большой потенциал для кастомизации, помимо базового набора гибких настроек, до сих пор существует живое [url=https://github.com/CCDirectLink]коммьюнити модов[/url], и при наличии навыков джаваскрипта можно самостоятельно что-либо улучшить. [i]Таким образом, игру можно расценить как легкую ежедневную разминку для мозга и уголок лампового контента, чистый кайф на пару месяцев. В общем, рекомендую попробовать. А я пойду, у меня еще прохождение [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1517030/CrossCode_A_New_Home/]DLC[/url] и получение ачивок.[/i] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1466655189

This game has a pacing issue and a publicity issue. Despite how refined and out-of-the-park some aspects of the game are (such as the art), if I feel that the underlying machine doesn't work, then I cannot enjoy a game. For CrossCode, it often feels like the game is unsure what it wants you to do so it throws everything at you all at once. This wouldn't be an issue if the tasks didn't take as much time as they do. I remember doing circles in maps trying to figure out where the next objective was on a sub-quest at every major location that I visited, which gets really frustrating. Despite how the combat looks, most of the time, I wouldn't call it satisfying. I'm doing combat for the sake of doing combat. It's not a dangerous dance, it feels repetitive since it's mostly through it that you interact with the world. The only notable exceptions to this are the PvP fights. The length of the sub-quests are a huge detriment to pacing, but the largest detriment is already known by those who have played it: the amount of time you spend on puzzles. They are too long and might I say boring for a title whose first tag on Steam is "Action RPG" and where "Puzzle" isn't on the first four visible tags. Let me be clear: THIS GAME IS A PUZZLE GAME and should be advertised as such. Whether it is "How do I platform to that oddly placed item" or "What must I do to exit this dungeon", the bulk of the platforming isn't an expression of skill but rather an exercise in patience and tedious problem-solving. Long Puzzles are a required to progress the main story, so they HAVE to be faced in their entirety. The game also suffers from incorrect publicity from youtube. I am distrustful and picky when it comes to game recommendations on youtube since I am aware that people have vastly different tastes from mine. CrossCode was probably the only game which features in many video recommendations with glowing reviews. I took it as a sign of quality and polish, and this game does feature quality and polish, but these reviews fail at expressing how unconfident the game is in choosing its main game genre. This results in a massive mismatched expectations problem. When I think of a game trying to be a single-player MMO fantasy, I think "Multi-Phase Boss Fights", "Deep difficult dungeons", "Funny Internet banterz", "Hunting for rare spawns/drops". Who thinks of a game which is meant to be emphasizing the fantasy of being in an MMO and thinks "Oh yeah, angular mirror puzzles lol" like -_-

After dying to a miniboss for the fourth time I felt that I finally got the hang of the timing of its attacks. But I also noticed that I had gone through 4 cycles of it enhancing itself with smaller mobs, me tediously dodging attacks and cracking it open to clear out the mobs, then it doing it again after like 2 non-reinforced attacks... and I got through like 1/4 of its HP. So in order to defeat it, I would possibly have to go through 16 cycles, dodging and weaving for something like 20-30 minutes, and the combat system is just not fun enough to justify it. Maybe I was underleveled, but that was towards the end of a dungeon and the last thing I wanted was to go fight more mobs just to farm XP. TLDR: The game started feeling like a chore. Not what I wanted.

This game is riddled with absolute frustrating and infuriating, convoluted solutions to their "puzzles". It's poorly designed from start to finish

游戏除了跳跳乐以外的部分太对我胃口了，加一千昏，跳跳乐纯屎，扣一万昏 但是话又说回来了，装个喷气背包mod，不是我喜欢的跳跳乐，我直接飞，加一千万昏

游戏是好游戏，但是年纪大了，不太愿意废脑子解密了，太累了。