Malys

Slay The Spire + John Constantine. Написано дуже кльово, атмосфера чіпляє. Ага, і пісня в головному меню - вогонь!

(本レビュー冒頭の｢全文を読む｣をクリックすると見やすいレイアウトになるよ) ローグライクデッキ構築カードゲームの大傑作｢Monster Train｣を4000時間以上もプレイしたデッキ構築ジャンキー(俺)の感想 Normal難易度で全キャラ(3種)でそれぞれ1回クリア。Hardでも1キャラでクリア。 [h2]悪魔祓いをテーマにした、Slay the Spireの下位互換デッキ構築カードゲーム[/h2] [olist] [*]本作は、若干小説じみた演出ありで、ゲーム観としては、エクソシストの主人公が敵を悪魔祓する体裁。 [*]まず大前提として、くっそダルいんだが、本作は悪魔祓いという建付けだから、通常のデッキ構築ゲーで出てくる用語が全て宗教的な用語に置き換えられてて、頭の中で理解し直さなきゃならないのがしんどい。例えば、HPはWill(意志力ってところか)、カードを発動させるためのマナポイントはロウソクの本数に置き換えられてる、金の単位はFaith等々。 [*]使えるキャラは3種類。 どのキャラを選んでも基礎カード(=攻撃･防御)は同じで、3枚ほどの個別カードがあるのみ。 各キャラに応じて固有カードがあるわけでもなく、どのキャラを選んでも道中入手しうるカードプールは共通。要するに、総カードが少ない。従って、プレイの多様性は大分少ない。 [*]戦闘でカードを使うのに必要なマナポイントは毎ターン与えられるのではなく、カードをdiscard(廃棄)することで1ポイント貰えるから、これを利用する。このdiscardも本作ではburnしてロウソクを1本点灯させるという建付けになってる。 [*]ゲームバランス: [olist] [*]Stage1個毎に7回以上戦わされて、それが計3 Stageあるから、兎に角時間がかかる。1回のRunで3時間ほど掛かる。 [*]初期デッキに含まれるクラン共通の攻撃カードには攻撃力6なのに、Stage1からHP60超えの敵が普通に湧いてくる。 [*]Elite敵に至っては、第3形態まであって、それぞれの形態のHPが100超えてるから、兎に角時間がかかる。 [*]Stage1なんてデッキが何も育ってないから、初等的な戦い方しか出来ないのに、HPの多い敵とひたすら冗長な戦いを繰り返させられ、繰り返し感が強すぎて飽きてくる。 [*]Shopで売買しようにも、金が足りなくて殆ど何も買えない。Shopに'投資'することで永続的に割引を受けられるという意味不明なシステム→従って、最初の数時間のプレイでは、金で何も買えず'投資'するしか無くなる。 しかも、この永続的な割引はArtifact Shop、Card Shop、Upgrade Shop等でそれぞれ別枠扱いだから、各Shopで永続割引を買わなきゃいけないクソ仕様。 [/olist] [*]ただ、全Shopに対して'投資'し終えたら、やっと本来の価格で売買･アプグレ出来るので、Normal難易度が普通の難易度化する。 [*]ラスボスを特定条件下で倒すと、真ボスMalysが出現。HP300弱で手下を2体従えてて強い。倒すと実績解除。 [*]実績以外の繰り返し収集要素は無し。 [*]15時間プレイした現在としては、ゲーム観ってものが大体分かってきて、Hard難易度でも無双できた。 [*]不満点:手札が8枚ぐらい以上になると、カードの文面が、HUDの下に潜り込んで、読めなくなる。 それと、底が浅い。15時間プレイした今、プレイパターンの底がついて、｢もういいや｣と感じた。 [*]致命的な欠点≡[b][u]無限ループを不可能にするAshedというクソ仕様[/u][/b]!!!: カードを廃棄→マナポイント1個Get…と、同時に、そのカードに'Ashed'(燃やされて灰になったという)状態が付与されるのが、本作の仕様。 Ashed状態になったカードは、そのターンの間に限り、もう2度と廃棄出来なくなる。 だから、[b][u]【不要カードを廃棄→稼いだマナポイントで、複数ドローカードを使う】という繰り返しの無限ループが出来なくなる[/u][/b]。出来たとしてもせいぜい2,3ループになってしまう。 [/olist] 総評 駄作までとは言えないが、凡作。スレスパがあるのにわざわざ本作を買う価値は全く無い。 鍵屋で100円レベル。

It's a cool idea, nice mechanics, but the game doesn't have much replayability.

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After a hundred plus hours playing this game I struggle to give it a positive review. I love the theme and style, but it just has too many bugs to worth anyone else purchasing it.

Genuinely fun enough game, similar to slay the spire but with less memorisation of enemy attack patterns and a more reasonable difficulty ramping. Could use a rebalancing of some decks archetypes, the most interesting deck is allies but is also the weakest of the decks. Card draw with miracles, and defensive heavy decks seem the strongest. As a suggestion I would say the ability to reroll shops would be worth while, in particular the card and curios shops would allow the player to be more flexible in their deck building. The unique shop types are probably the most interesting part of the game.

Well you get what you see — you LITERALLY ONLY get what you see. Highly repetitive and hardly engaging. There should be some in-depth content or at least sth meaningful... pity, I seen none.

I actually found this game to be extremely compelling, and intensely disappointing. First, the narrative elements are mostly well done, and add an extra layer to the game which is captivating. I stopped to read basically every unique encounter because they were all so well written, from each of the characters who act as merchants basically, to the simple descriptions leading up to even basic enemy encounters, which are worth reading through. The overall atmosphere that is cultivated and especially, ESPECIALLY, the visual design is probably some of the best that I have ever come across in a game, ever. Some of the enemy designs are breathtaking. I would like to think that generally I have a really high tolerance for horror media, I engage with horror media a lot, but some of the enemy designs here are actually, legitimately unsettling. Especially the mini-boss ones which are illustrated to be staring literally directly at you, it's actually slightly hard to pull your eyes off of them to look down at the cards, it's a borderline immersive experience. The gameplay mechanics, when they work and everything goes well, are super fun. I like the resource mechanics more than something like Slay the Spire, especially because of how all of the mechanics are carefully and intricately weaved into the aesthetics of the game's setting. Unfortunately, I give this game a thumbs up because I want to support it somehow, even though a positive Steam review means basically nothing at this point, but I can't seriously say that I recommend it broadly. But there is so much potential here it's crazy. This could be such, such an incredible game. But it looks totally and completely abandoned. Like the production value is so clearly insane. A complex, obviously professionally very well written narrative with tons of dialogue, so many incredibly detailed illustrations, it's obvious that a team of people really worked on this. But there's like not even more than a couple hundred Steam reviews and a tiny amount of social media presence which fizzled out like a year ago. Just, how is that even possible!? Regardless, it looks like the last update was over 6 months ago, and going off of how much attention this is getting I can't even blame them for abandoning it. It must be kind of crushing to make something this good and to have it not be appreciated in the way that it should. But gosh, so much of the experience of playing it just sucks. It's buggy beyond belief. Mechanics not working like they should. Visual glitches. Dialogue glitching and just not playing. Random blank screens. It's non-stop. And the balancing is horrible. The glow deck is totally broken, you just snowball every single fight and it's clear that an appropriate counter to the glow mechanic was never implemented. But the initial damage based deck is horrible. You get whittled down as debuffs get stacked harder and harder while the deck lacks both resources and defense. And like other people have pointed out, the length of the mini-boss fights is ridiculous. I had one which went over 40 turns, they can literally take like 30 minutes if you really draw it out and truly fight for your win. It sucks to play the game knowing that none of these things will ever be fixed, and this wonderful example of how good a video game can be as an interactive art-form will just rot further into obscurity. Most gamers would probably be immediately hostile to these sorts of things but it's nice that Malys includes elements of diversity. It's done in a way which I didn't find to be patronizing, othering, and without drawing unnecessary attention to theses topics. UPDATED THOUGHTS: After playing another 20 or so hours I've found that Malys has undeniably grown on me. Once you get a hang of the flow of each "exorcism" then the balancing feels much more even across each deck and run. At first I thought that the miniboss-esque exorcisms were too long, with three phases and several hundred health usually for each phase 2 and 3, I've found now that it's really not bad at all and once you have a decent deck going you'll just completely blow through everything without any resistance. At first I thought that the game was stacked against the player, but now I'm consistently having runs where it feels basically impossible to die, when you have like 7 phantom, 200 shield, and a mini-boss at like 20 shackle consistently. Card draw is really the number 1 thing, you can get like three or four hands in a single turn while also cutting the cost of pretty much all cards down to 0 for a whole turn. Actually feels really good to pull off. Still, it's just obviously an abandoned, discarded gem of a game. Love the characters too, they're all interesting in their own right and feel well fleshed out. It's nice to see how the MC's and other character's relationships grow, I really like the MC and the hot demon guy as a pair, if this game had the audience it deserved there would be literally so much fanfic stuff of those them.