Terra Nil

引导不清楚，经常陷入死循环。河谷要我烧地，烧地要有花丛，下雨植被恢复完了也没有一颗树让我放蜂巢

It's fun and unique, right up to the point you are forced to take pictures of animals. First, the camera used to take pictures is so zoomed in every picture looks the same, second the animals are often covered by vegetation making them hard to find, and third you cannot progress through the level until you take pictures of animals that are happy, which often you have no control over as they are spawned dynamically and have requirements you were not even aware of until the end, when you have already begun removing buildings. It's not fun, it's a chore, and it grinds the game to a halt in the worst way possible. If for some reason you think taking ♥♥♥♥♥♥ zoomed in pictures of hard to see animals sounds fun, then it's probably the game for you.

First missions was quite fun and interesting but later ones are just weird, you have steps which directly contradicts with what animals want which makes maps too long and kill all the fun, while maps are very small you have very little options to actually do anything and instead of having huge map with lot of biomes you always have just few at each map and it gets boring fast...

Taking photographs should 100% be an optional objective.

几年前看同事中午吃完饭演示过一段，那会儿好像还没有后面的动物和拍照之类的环节，是Demo版？ 这次玩大概也是记忆里的样子，有个拟物化的手册界面挺拉风的，星球的视角式的章节选择也挺有感觉 暂时各环节中最喜欢最后的回收环节，感觉挺有做家务式的治愈感的，咔咔收拾清洁打包走人 第一个环节则是感觉最有压力感的？ 虽然可操作空间很大，也虽然每一步比如翻土动作大多都是容易加资源的，但总会感觉每一步都走得战战兢兢的有压力而且可能也因为总碎碎糟糟的而感到难受（比如像是浇地的覆盖面总是很难覆盖的很严丝合缝啦，某个东西总是放的不确定是不是很合适啊等等这样的）总有点边缘系统很激活的感觉or激活完美强迫症的感觉似的，淦 第二个环节则中规中矩，也有随着次数增多逐渐发现规律和趣味的感觉 比如放火动作一开始还挺情绪有起伏的，有种搞不清楚好事儿还是坏事儿，事件仿佛容易失控总胆战心惊的感觉 后来慢慢搞明白了就发现能享受和更好的掌控这个过程了（比如巧妙地烧出以快林地来丰富生态增加动物空间/食品配给） 下雨天烧地种树就更是一种别样的动态操作控制体验了，个中味道很是微妙 --- 说完喜欢的部分，说点不好的地方 1 是每次胜利时的镜头位置不能调整位置实在难受 等于是按起飞键时镜头在哪就死记在哪了，纯傻缺设计，这也导致每次按【欣赏一会儿】的时候镜头会很没有意义的往那个点漫游，太怪了 2 最后一个环节中那个动物拍照的部分很难评 起初第一印象居然特别地有【保洁干完活了得按标准打个卡后才能下班】的体验 一开始我按照直觉本来是以为不得搞一个【随便拍拍来激发玩家自发创作动机】的宽松路线啊 结果发现居然不把那一大排的拍照要求全部实现还不行orz 必须逐条完成 那我就得硬着头皮开始研究为什么我湿地里的那只小青蛙不快乐了 我倒是因此有了一些对动物习性的知识收获和深入统计系统细节的乐趣 但第一次也明显获得了 流畅感突然被打断，做事儿的感觉和心态突然被改变了 的感觉 做完之后，我也开始感觉这里把 [动物心情] 和 [拍照的要求条目]之间做关联这件事是有点说法的 比方说，要求你拍一张快乐的青蛙，其实是等于变相的把【让一群青蛙快乐】的这类目标转置/包装化了 但为何呢？会更好吗？能服务于环保的实质性价值吗？ 毕竟这么一转置，等于同时也压缩了目标的边界和性质，而且变成了打卡式的任务了 好处或许是更简洁明了清晰明快了，也降低了难度（包括模拟的难度？） 但越玩还是越觉得有点奇怪... 本来你是一种很宏大的，使命感的行动，视角也是很全局的 然而却突然在这一段收缩到一种很具体的服务从业者的视点了？ 虽然具体化了 但似乎很容易把人引导到【只要完成照片拍摄任务，其他动物群落状态如何，就也有点无所谓了】的心态上？ 也不知道这算不算是做减法减到自己大动脉了的类型... --- 总的来看，也不免会觉得这个动物系统本身多少也是带点被强行焊接的味道在的 玩起来明显的有些悬置于其他系统的感觉 它主要的价值暂时来看是为地图和玩家的阶段性进度赋予了更多可视化和生动性 但从迁移操作的方式，以及拍照系统对它目标化的处理上来看，都有点脱离了主要的语境的意思 现在的效果上完全没有当年《模拟城市》突然可以聚焦个体视角那么有趣，反而感觉假假的 与此同时，考虑到游戏分阶段式的系统评估，后面做的各种环境调整（乃至破坏）都是不再被系统关注/统计 所以倘若此时为了上面提到的实现动物拍照目标而对环境进行各种鲁莽操作，更是带来了感觉不必要的跳桌风险吧 会觉得不如这里只去要求照片的数量好了？把创造性观察和记录的心态返还给玩家，而不是将其考核化？ 至于生物群落的状态进行的考核和评估，或许可以探索一下其他的方式？但暂时也没啥头绪 而这里怎么让玩家真正觉得这些动物不假，甚至更愿意往里面投射情感关注，可能其实也是更重要且更复杂的了... ---- 暂时进度到海岛最后一个阶段了，感觉海边好啊，还是海有意思啊

'Terra nil' apparently means "nothing on earth" in Latin. Well, time to bring back the 'something'. the good + The idea behind it. No combat, no time limit. Hard to call it 'cozy' as you think of the ecological destruction that took place there. You can still see the remains of the cities, streets and toxic radioactive barrels. On the other hand that only reinforces our important goal - bringing back various ecosystems the greed had pillaged. + Wonderful sound design + Gorgeous artwork. Shame the photo mode won't let you hide the HUD. + Flexibility of play. With options you can give yourself quite a challange or just relax and remove any resource management altogether. + Makes you feel all hopefull and fuzzy inside. the bad - No saving on current map. Levels are randomly generated and can be quite a time investment. - Weird complaint but every larger update over the years sort of reset my progress. It was nice to go back and help the animals and the plants but beating all levels 100% for like the third time was bit awkward. It made me appraciate the last batch of regions more though.

优化有点差，玩久了好卡