SHINONOME : Rainy Night Manor

This game is very good 👍😊

可以

A fun little game where you investigate and fight the demons in the house. Pros: - Fun Gameplay - A lot of neat items - The sound mechanic was neat Cons: - The audio needs some fine tuning (Some parts are a little loud and grating) - Limited environments - Player base is still relativly smol Overall it's a fun little adventure I can see being a hidden gem many end up loving. I give it 3/4 inventory slots.

Seeing as there's already an announced and in-development quasi-sequel to this game, it's probably unlikely this game is ever going to leave Early Access (provided said quasi-sequel isn't just the full release version, when i'll really look like a clown) Either way, I think my opinion of actually giving this game a positive review is legitimate in both cases for a few reasons that i'll go over quickly. I think this game has a really cool and unique idea for a gameplay loop. It's fundamentally very well designed in a lot of ways but has two specific drawbacks that can really sour the experience. The first one is that it's kind of buggy. Not in a game crashes losing save file way (Though the game did once crash on me and lost me about 2-3 hours worth of progress at the start, which was a bug at the time, probably fixed by now), but in a general gameplay loop being kind of super buggy. Enemies will ocassionaly just decide to deal damage to you telepathically like we're sending packets to a server that doesn't exist and there's desync between me and the enemy, enemies will ocasionally forget to take damage. One of the worst examples of this is a particular mechanic with the Shuriken. The game explains very early on that it's possible, and usually recommended to throw certain items from the room next door, to avoid taking damage as much as possible. Unfortunately for everyone involved this sometimes results in throwing shurikens into a room you KNOW there are large enemies that will definitely be hit once you've thrown it, only for you to waste your shuriken as the enemy waltzes out of the room as though you just sneezed at it. It's small little irritations like that that hamper a lot of the aspects of the gameplay and lead to extremely frustrating moments that add especially because this game's difficulty is brutal. It really doesn't like pulling punches in the way its designed and can sometimes feel like you're just getting screwed over for no other reason than the game's wacky spaghetti code. The second complaint is the level designs for some of the later (pre-made levels). The game is split into two halves. There's the pre-made levels which are developer crafted and usually are closer to a sort of puzzle that you as the player need to solve. The second half are randomly-generated dungeons of all shapes and sizes. My problem is the first half, the pre-made levels. The randomly generated dungeons can definitely have a bit of a feast-or-famine situation, but it never feels too frustrating because ultimately you are keenly aware you are at the mercy of the random level generation. But the premade levels, especially the later ones, feel like they were designed specifically to mess with the player and frustrate them. The levels in the latter half start getting into a really nasty and unfun habit of basically having one good solution to the puzzle of the level, and requiring sometimes several hours worth of trial and error deaths that ultimately barely feel like they're of any fault to your own. While there's definitely room for skill expression, especially in the randomly generated dungeons, these puzzles' room for skill expression can sometimes be completely crushed when you don't solve the level in the exact way the developer intended. This is just unfun in a lot of cases, and whats worse is that it never resolves into a feeling of succeeding at a difficult challenge. I've trashed on the game a lot despite the positive review, but I felt it necessary to write the review to inform people, since it's been a good while since we've had any solid updates on the game, and with Shinonome Abyss somewhere on the horizon, I'll probably buy and play that too, since chances are, it'll patch up a lot of my complaints I had here. This game is exceedingly charming despite my problems with it, so if it seems like your kind of thing I think it's worth a shot, even at full price purely because of the variety and quantity of content you get.

Pretty interesting rogue-like still in early access, it’s hard to tell how this will develop but if it follows in the spirit of the ideas shown here, I can imagine it reaching Shiren levels of complexity. I guess my one complaint is that it’s not necessarily very frightening but that’s a small complaint.

Nesse jogo você controla Yono, uma aprendiz de exorcista que se vê em uma casa assombrada por "ayakashis", que são uma espécie de monstros/espíritos. Visualmente lembra um jogo de RPG Maker, mas eu diria que a jogabilidade se assemelha mais à um survival horror (como algum Resident Evil clássico) onde você tem recursos limitados espalhados pela casa em um espaço de itens mais limitado ainda e você vai precisar administrar o uso de itens como velas, comida para não morrer de fome e munição (mas calma, você poderá usar o cenário ao seu favor contra um ayakashi). Voltando a falar dos gráficos: Apesar de lembrar um RPG Maker, eu ainda acho que Shinonome se destaca. Os cenários não são grandes coisas (ou pelo menos eu não sou muito fã da mescla do cenário 3D com personagens 2D), mas a pixel art do jogo tem um grande charme e eu fiz questão de escolher uma imagem do jogo com o portrait da Yono porque foi um aspecto visual que achei lindo.

A little dungeon crawler, beautiful and subtle with his terror.