幻现的花海 - Sea of Phantom Flowers

部分内容涉及剧透，请谨慎观看 [spoiler] 幻现的花海，是柏拉图的理想国，是永恒幸福的摇篮，但也是阻碍勇者前进的回廊。 也许唯有跳出迷雾，以利剑劈开幻影，方能一睹真正灿烂无垠的花海。[/spoiler] 整体流程不长，但细节到位，演出优秀，回味绵长；一款质量上乘的短篇作品。

RPG Maker strikes again! "幻现的花海 - Sea of Phantom Flowers" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This RPG Maker asset flip is square in the middle of what we should expect from most RPG Maker asset flips. This is a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction JRPG with cringe inducing writing about, you guessed it, the developers imaginary girlfriend/waifu, who goes to her hometown before fighting a demon. The writing is pure cringe, but what should we expect when the subject is someone's imaginary girlfriend and how awesome she is. You wouldn't know her, she goes to another school, in Canada. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. There's no English translation for the this, but that's okay. The language of bad products is universal. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. You're expected to pay up $3 USD to unlock content through DLC purchases. The game should not be considered completely unlocked until you empty your wallet for the developer. This is misleading and predatory pricing on a product falsely marketed as "free". In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Nope. There's no up front cost here, but I still feel like I should be asking for my money back, and I didn't even spend any. That's how bad this is.