Pathogenic

I explored a dude's colon. 10/10

————就像小时候酷暑炎日买到的西瓜，切开发现皮厚肉不甜 在十个小时的体验后，我最终还是敲定了这个结论，它既有优点也有缺点，就体验来说勉强达到及格线，或许是我未更进一步体验 优点：他创新的以病菌为题材结合肉鸽玩法，以及科幻感十足的射击体验，武器以及成长系统可圈可点，多种多样的搭配可以打出很有趣的效果，多种自机可以随意选择，以及可以多人本地游玩使这款游戏达到了优秀的水平 缺点：怪物离谱的成长曲线，第二关开始体感变差的背景音乐，有些搭配会减少武器伤害（如十字放射+跟踪会巨幅降低伤害），经常凑不出像样的武器，甚至可以说某些装备如果前期没拿到中后期就要走苦痛之路，没拿到直接重来等糟糕体验。以及升级有些矛盾，改变外形的同时也会改变机体本身的判定框（尽管可以不改变外形），哪怕点了天赋不消耗能量，升级奖励依然会给你填入加能量槽以及空能量槽加伤，如果说奖励池的污染不可避免，那玩家没装备鞭毛的情况下升级奖励池会剔除掉鞭毛移速加伤是出于什么想法？（也或许是我没刷出来）以及怪物的强度成长令人窒息，第一关还是龙傲天的玩家往往第二关就会疲软下来，玩家的升级难以抗衡怪物的升级，如果玩家不改变体型，那无法装备更多内置装备和武器，同款武器难以获取，纵使有稀有道具可以统一化武器，但有些武器升级的收益甚至不如击败加伤+击败超载的组合，且在部分情况下，双武器配置甚至大于多武器配置，在没有高等级武器下的我，打全身判定且疯狂冲刺的蛔虫类怪物时一度让我回想起打神明吞噬者的感受，，可以说如果你想打出精彩的结局，你恐怕要去找不少好种子。 在喜忧参半的体验下，最后我并没有感受到如节奏地牢那种肉鸽输了还想继续玩的体验，每次被蛔爷冲击后的失落感让我不想再继续游玩，总结优缺点后，它值得一玩，但又不值得深度体验——至少当前版本如此

9/10 for inducing a deadly illness in the game. 11/10 for inducing epilepsy in real life.

Fun gameplay loop and a great love-letter to microbiology. Good art and music too. Can't wait to get good at it.

Binding of Isaac eat your heart out.

I feel like anything I like about this game is a result of it being an action roguelike, and everything I dislike comes from issues with how the developers have put their own spin on the genre, so I don't think I could ever recommend it to people who haven't already played each of (for example) Binding of Isaac, The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, Noita, Nova Drift, Tiny Rogues (if you don't mind the vibe coding in the forthcoming update), and Rabbit & Steel. I believe all of those do bullet hell better than this game, and everything but Binding of Isaac has a better build-crafting system. It felt a lot like Pathogenic just gets bullet hell wrong. Sluggish movement pairs well with deliberate combat (see Rabbit & Steel), but I don't believe it works well with the chaotic combat that the game advertises in its trailer, where most of the clips involves the player taking damage from whatever crap is strewn about the screen haphazardly. I believe I played while maximizing my cell's thrust whenever possible, but I never felt like I could control my character well enough in the face of whatever attack I was being subjected to. It felt like playing Nova Drift (a game notable for its intentionally obtuse controls) without that game's very generous health regen. A lot of it comes down to knowing what the enemy will do before you see it start to attack, which is to say Pathogenic's combat just isn't readable; you're just going to get hit by a bunch of things seeing them for the first (or fifth) time. On the topic of readability, the game is extremely obtuse with all its numbers. There's no shot speed, range, or geometry given for anything and the limited inventory space means you're likely going to make a lot of blind, irreversible decisions about swapping weapons or items. This sucked a lot. It also didn't help that on paper my epic starting weapon had higher dps than almost anything I ever found and a geometry I knew I could hit things with, so had to force myself to experiment with new weapons (because I have to learn somehow) rather than *want* to do so. It's like playing Binding of Isaac without missinghud or a wiki--never an experience I'd recommend. Also, I don't believe any of my damage increasing abilities ever displayed what they were actually doing on any of my attacks. Pathogenic also makes the genuinely interesting decision of having your hitbox be tied to your character's geometry. There's no law of bullet hells that says "thou shalt be a single illuminated pixel", but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was it maddening to get caught on every piece of stray geometry and catch probably a half-dozen projectiles because I'm a squishy little blob and not a tiny circle surrounded by an intangible blob. I'm still going to play more of the game because people I trust have told me it's very good, and I don't value my time enough, so it's possible that my first impression is just off and the game gets better in the 6th hour.

초반은 쉬우나 후반부로 갈수록 게임이 매우 어렵게 변합니다. 한마디로 재밌다..