Lunarium

非常好游戏，使我重获安详睡眠，就是挖矿麻烦一点

good game

Great simple ARPG/Souls-like with a beautiful artstyle and incredible world. Gameplay certainly has that indie-clunkiness sometimes and the english translation still has a few erroneous dialogue boxes among minor grammar or tone imperfections, but you can still get the significant majority of a character's personality and mannerisms 99% of the time. To me personally, the main heroines are almost perfect in every way to how I would want to action-adventure fantasy heroines to be. The beginning of the game is rough, with your combat abilities being limited to essentially a 3-hit combo and a parry timing you may have to get used to, but by the second major area you visit, you should be able to unlock more skills and find more gear that really start opening up combat. About 1/2-3/4 of the way through the game, most enemies and bosses will start to feel like cakewalks if you've been exploring until you hit the final boss, who is a slight increase in difficulty, but nothing that won't take you maybe a few retries to get down. While there isn't too much "optional" routes and fights, you're rewarded well for the time and energy invested in seeking them out and completing them, should you choose to do so. While the main objectives of the game ultimately lead pretty linearly into one another, I think there is a surprisingly large amount of attention to detail put into the world and the characters you meet along the way, should you choose to complete their stories, go back and interact with them after certain events, or revisit places you don't have to for plot purposes. To me, that indicates that the developers and the writers really cared about the world they crafted, and that's always a plus in my book. Takes around 15-20 hours to finish (if you want to 100% it then it'd be on the upper range of that) but every second I've spent just LOOKING at the game was well worth it. The visuals are astounding and the music is excellent. Each track is perfect for each area of the game, inside and out of combat and including boss tracks. Gameplay might be hit-or-miss for some. It is not nearly as smooth or intuitive as, say, Elden Ring, and most of my grievances are about how some hitboxes for a few attacks through the game do not seem to match with the actual model of the thing hitting you, attack telegraphs being unpredictable for several boss fights (probably a skill issue on my end), and in one boss fight some attacks are simply hard to see because of the (visually stunning, mind you) boss arena. Though the issues I've had are mostly things that maybe could've been patched with some QA and time that an indie game budget understandably cannot afford, and I would say is fairly common in similar indie titles. It is NOT bad, nor is it unplayable - it's just not perfect. If you can get past that, and the look of the game through images and trailers interests you, then the game is more than worth the $18 it charges. I personally love the characters and the writing (ignoring translation errors) and will definitely be recommending this game to anyone who would even be remotely interested. Solid 8/10. Even if I were being fully objective, I would still give it a 7/10.