FOUNTAINS

我真的知道自己在什么地方吗？ 我应该知道自己在什么地方吧。

这个大粪我真的下定决心给差评了，这是唯一一个我玩不下去的类魂。 boss战是疯了吗？主角性能如此差的情况下，boss全都是全屏瞬移加远程法术，打起来除了折磨就是折磨。与之相伴的，竟然是极高的数值、疯狗般地读指令和前摇一年的喝药。作者你自己看看你这游戏的战斗玩起来好玩吗？

好不容易打死那个宅邸那个放电的，去森林打骑士被两戟把戳死，伤害看不懂，没引导不知道上哪收集，地下室一片黑不知道哪里买灯，一看攻略还剩四个boss个个超雄技能不断，给我恶心坏了

An excellent soulslike - theres a little backtracking and metroidvania style exploration, but I had a lot of fun with it!

确实是个不错的游戏，唯一可惜的是攻略不多，很多有意思的地方不知道怎么去，如果能更新boss rush或者能重复挑战就好了，可惜游戏已经停更了

It's just fun. Has elements of Soulsbornes and Hyper Light Drifter but adds more. If you like those games you'll love this!

If there was a mixed option, that would have been more appropriate. But since there is not, I'm slightly leaning positive. The game started off incredibly strong. The metroidvania elements really shine in the top down/isometric viewpoint of the game. Lots of areas that you very obviously have to come back to once you unlock more traversal options. The map has a level of interconnected-ness that is found in very few games in the genre. You get these traversal upgrade very quickly into the game and you can probably explore 80% of the map in the first 20% of the game. Dare I say Fountains does it better than a majority of metroidvanias? As with the progression in traversal abilities, the character progression is quite front loaded. There are no stat points of any sort to allocate - your HP can be upgraded by finding life shards and you have other permanent upgrades that can be purchased with currency. You very quickly cap out on weapon damage. The maximum weapon attack in the game is 37, and you find a 36 attack weapon quite early into the game. Armor upgrades are incremental at best as well. The combat feels nice. Attacks feel weighty and dashing is smooth. You gain mana by attacking enemies, which can be used to heal or for your traversal abilities, which doubles as offensive abilities. Healing is very slow and clunky. Not only does it take a while to heal, there is also a period afterwards where you can't dash. With enemy bosses attacking as fast as they do - this dashing delay definitely needed to be lowered considerably. On the topic of bosses... They start off very fair and telegraphed (and if not telegraphed, at least have you some time in between their attacks) but quickly become overwhelming. Krus took me about 35 attempts and Vela took me two days of on and off attempts. I honestly lost count. The problem is how frequently they start a new attack string after ending their current attack string. There are some back to back attack string combinations that just straight up don't allow you to heal. So you get into this dice roll where if they use one specific attack string, you'll get hit and if they don't, then your heal will go off. Coupled that with the bosses large HP pool and it's not a great time. I know boss difficulty is subjective, but there is a certain feeling of the difficulty that this game presents that just isn't rewarding. For instance, the final DLC boss in Lies of P took me 56 attempts but I loved every minute of it. Vela and Krus on the other hand, was a drag. They just didn't feel fair. I only ended up finishing the game due to sheer gamer pride. Would I recommend the game? A hesitant yes. But with a caveat that it won't be for everybody. It won't even be for soulslike enjoyers. Fountains has FromSoft beat in the difficulty department... And it's not particularly close nor in an enjoyable way. But the exploration, vibe, music, art, and general gameplay outside of some particularly difficult boss encounters are great.