Return of the Obra Dinn

Obra Dinn se tornou um dos meus jogos de puzzle/investigação favoritos. Em nenhum momento o jogo duvida da capacidade do jogador, deixando informações nas entrelinhas de cada cena, o que torna o progresso extremamente gratificante. Você realmente sente que está conectando os pontos da história do navio e de sua tripulação. O estilo artístico torna tudo muito mais marcante. A lore e a trilha sonora são excelentes. Os gráficos em preto e branco, inspirados no Macintosh Classic, transformam a investigação em um navio em um verdadeiro filme noir interativo. As mecânicas têm um potencial absurdo para criar mistérios. O jogo não indica um caminho correto pra prosseguir, deixando ao jogador a liberdade de decidir como vai começar a juntar as peças. A experiência de zerar esse jogo é única. Dê uma chance e você não vai se arrepender. E ao hacker chinês que invadiu minha conta para reembolsar meu Obra Dinn, saiba que ninguém ganha do cara paciente XD.

[h1]Probably the best game out there to make you feel like a detective[/h1] [b]I'm not a fan of puzzles in general and usually dislike puzzle games, and I still really enjoyed this one. That's how good it is.[/b] But it's probably because it's not really a puzzle game, at least not a traditional one. We're not talking about solving weird and abstract stuff, but about something way more down to earth : be a detective, and solve who died and how. The game doesn't do anything for you, doesn't give you clues or make suggestions when stuck, or conclude things for you. No, YOU have to think hard, link informations, deduce everything yourself. [b]Because of that, it rarely gets frustrating, and it's extremely rewarding to figure out stuff because, well, you did it all by yourself.[/b] [h1]Not a perfect game[/h1] [b]The game is not perfect though. I have a few complaints, but they're minor and aren't a dealbreaker.[/b] [h3]The game is ugly[/h3] I know it has a distinct art direction that make it stand out, but it still is ugly to look at. But it's a matter of taste, and most of the time, it doesn't make the game harder (aside from a few deaths where it's a pixel bloat). And I guess it's able to run on pretty much anything more powerful that a fridge. [h3]You HAVE to complete it in a short period of time[/h3] You need to have everything clear in your mind. I made the mistake of putting the game aside for a few weeks for my previous playthrough. Don't do this : it was near impossible to go back into it, and the game stayed on my backlog for years afterwards. But as the game is pretty short (my playthrough took me 8 hours), it's not too much of a problem [h3]A bit too much bruteforce near the end[/h3] Without spoiling anything, you pretty much have to bruteforce the game for a few deaths by just switching names because you don't really have other options (yes men of a certain country, I'm thinking of you), which doesn't feel like actually deducing, and more using/exploiting video game mechanics. A bit sad, considering it's something the game managed to avoid up to that moment. [h3]And a few nitpicks that would be quality of life improvements[/h3] - be able to run, especially near the end of the game - be able to enter a memory from the book without having to walk to the corpse (especially for the ones that are accessible only from other memories) - be able to skip a new cutscene if you want to ; having to wait for a full minute when you just to write off the cause of death of the victim is a pain - have a keyboard key to exit a memory instead of walking (very slowly) to the door would be a nice addition

The game is an absolute treat. It is so very very close to being a perfect game. I am in equal parts happy and sad that it fell just slightly short of being perfect Visually 10/10 The premise 10/10 The execution 8/10 The idea in and of itself has lots of intrigue. A detective in the 1800s investigating the loss of one of his majesty's ships. It was this premise alone that made me buy the game. The art style is great too, it really gives the game a creepy atmosphere. HOWEVER, I have three main gripes with how the game is executed. [olist] [*] When encountering a new scene, you are forced to sit around for a scripted fade out. I found that when this happened I either had too little time to do any deduction or too much time given the emptiness of the scene [*] The art style makes it very hard to read what's being shown sometimes. In particular: [spoiler] fire and things on fire read very poorly [/spoiler] [*] I feel the game was needlessly obtuse and should have done more to communicate the level of detail that goes into a scene. A Rubik's Cube is hard on its own but it is a thousand times harder when you don't know the objective is to make all sides one solid color. Even the simplest puzzle can become impossible if you don't know the nature of the puzzle. In particular, you should pay attention to [spoiler] outfits, shoes, accents, hammock numbers, even skin color (bearing in mind skin color is another thing that the artstyle makes hard to read) [/spoiler] [/olist]

[h2] 奥伯拉丁的回归（2018） 10h 杰作：并没有讲一个多么精彩的故事，但一步步揭开真相的过程依然很迷人。 [/h2] 10个小时终于把人找全了，虽然有不少是通过穷尽组合试出来的——对，说的就是你们这堆水手，有够烦人的！ 相隔多年，Lucas Pope 的才华再次让人惊叹。从《Paper, Please》到《奥伯拉丁》，他依旧在探索那些电子游戏独有的表达方式。而这一次，我们不是边境官员，而是扮演一位保险调查员，登上一艘死亡商船，通过回溯每个人生命最后的瞬间，查明60名船员的身份与命运。 整个过程中没有传统侦探游戏的搜证、审问、机关解谜，而是不断地重复“回溯→观察→思考→假设→验证”。真相从未被隐藏，它始终摆在你的眼前，人物的站位、职业、口音、服饰、动作、相互关系……只是在等待你建立起正确的逻辑。 虽然黑白画面偶尔会影响到信息的识别，部分动作表现也多少有点离谱（枪决的枪法真的过分了），后期区分大量水手的设计也不甚高明。不过，这些问题也只是让你多试几个组合，并不影响解锁那一刻的心旷神怡。 当终局到来，我们并没有收获太多回甘，因为它真正精彩的，从来不是谜底，而是推理本身。《奥伯拉丁》没有讲一个多么精彩的故事，却完成了侦探推理与电子游戏机制的一次优美结合。一步步揭开真相的过程，依然令人着迷。

终于拿下《奥伯拉丁的回归》。 优点： 1.高度独创的游戏形式：玩家进入一个个凝固在死亡瞬间的三维场景，从人物的位置、服饰、口音、随身物品乃至社交关系中，拼出整船六十人的身份与命运。 2.宿命感塑造：定格于灾难瞬间的场景、1-bit单色抖动渲染，以及如挽歌般反复回旋的配乐，共同为整段航程罩上了一层冷峻而沉重的宿命色彩。尤其在前中期，当几个原本毫无关联的细节突然连成一线时，破案的快感几乎无可替代。 缺点： 1.终盘没能维持这种水准。随着直接线索耗尽，推理逐渐退化为吊床编号、岗位分组和名单消元；部分谜题甚至利用视觉焦点和死因归类进行近乎恶意的误导。玩家可能已经正确理解了事件，却因为没有猜中系统对“凶手”或“死因”的编码方式而无法通过验证。这不再是“我忽略了什么”，而是“作者究竟想让我怎么填”。 2.结尾来得过于仓促。《交易》补齐了事件的因果，却没有给这艘船和这些被我们逐一认识的人留下足够的情感余波。一本调查簿被填满，故事便迅速盖章结案，形式上完整，情绪上却戛然而止。 它依然是一部几乎无法被替代的推理游戏杰作，只是并非从头到尾都同样公平、同样精妙。 9/10。

In short? This is singe-handedly one of the best mystery adventure games I have EVER had the privilege of playing. While I do recommend playing at least twice, One to experience the tragedy of the Obra Dinn, and second to see all the clues you missed the first playthrough(if any). I only wish I could play this again for the first time.

many of the causes of death can very clearly and accurately be described by several of the things in the cause of death list making the "deduction system" for them trail and error which is stupid, not the intended solution and also the only way to solve it at the same time. I get that some things are supposed to be unclear that's not the problem the problem is some that are clear can have many clear and accurate descriptions from what you are given. This also wouldn't be a problem if the game accepted any of the accurate descriptions instead of requiring a specific one. There is also apparently some information that the player is expected to have external from the game but this is never shown in any way in-game, there is a glossary showing a bit of the info but so much more external info is required and intentional. This is a terrible design and from what I have gathered from looking into it is that more than half of the people with "positive reviews" claiming "game good" just started guessing whatever after a bit. That's not solving anything