TEVI

A lot of the complaints you see in the negative reviews got addressed and changes overtime with new updates so keep that in mind. I am a big Rabi-Ribi fan so i was excited and counting the days until this game got released. Let's start with the positives. This is a great metroidvania with its main selling point at least for me are the boss fights. Gameplay itself its well polished and feels good to control so don't expect any jank, the combat has a lot of room for you to customize with all the different equippables, really you can play however you want and make it work just fine. The music comes from the same dream team as Rabi-Ribi , it is great music and has great tracks but they typically are not as catchy as Rabi-Ribi so they went for something that fits the ambience, that's not necessarily a bad thing its just a different design choice that really is a matter of preference , still the music varies from just decent to really good , its never bad per say. The exploration initially came with some annoying problems that already get covered in other negative reviews but a lot of those got tweaaked, like for example crumble blocks traps used to have no indicator on them but now they do. Some people pointed out this game is more linear after a certain point , but for this there's a mode that lets you go anywhere freely from the start, this used to be an unlockable you get from beating the game but now its available from the start (but still i wouldn't recommend it in your first playtrough), for story related purposes at a certain point bosses are done in a certain order but that still won't stop you from exploring the very very large map, its just that in order to progress the story logically bosses are done in a certain order which is the opposite of what Rabi-Ribi had. In general if you care more about gameplay this game is perfectly fine, when it comes to exploration there's a bunch of quality of life features built into the game such as the map automatically placing marks of items you see but can't get yet so backtracking and going on a collectathon is much easier, this can be deactivated though if you don't like that, the map itself also lets you know where there's exits so you can figure out with logic alone how you are supposed to get items or navigate yourself through it. Graphically aswell the game speaks for itself, its high quality but if you like it or not thats of course also a matter of preference, even if you don't like it please give the game a shot. Which takes me to the negatives which in my opinion can be ignored just fine if you don't care about those things. The story and characters are a mix bag: if you come from Rabi-Ribi there's a chance a lot of the designs won't be appealing to you, its also a matter of preference, for me personally most characters are great but by looking at the general consensus of the fanbase, the fan favorites tend to be just a very fraction of them while a lot of others are treated as if they don't exist. This i am sure has something to do with their screen time, some characters are quite the big deal but you don't see them enough for you to care, the story is also a mixbag, if you are the type who doesn't care about the story you probably won't mind it, but if you do you will find that the first half is great then by the end things get weaker (which i assume is because of some kind of time constraint or even budget) as the final parts feel a bit rushed and shoehorned in. I think that the story in this game might have been too ambitious for itself, at least the base game (which FYI the DLC addresses those things in order to properly close things out.) , you know how some games have a simple story but still when its over you even though you are satisfied you want more? well in this one i didn't really get that feeling, this is a complex story but just because its complex doesn't make it better which takes me to the next point. Pacing: This game's biggest pitfall if you care about story at all is that it doesn't consider that today people's short attention spans, i have been watching a lot of people who try this game for the first time and in general (even japanese players who are used to VNs) tend to get tired very quick of the very long dialogue and lore dumps that the game presents to you way too early into the game. Because the game pauses you too much at the beginning, most people get frustrated and just want to get to the action as soon as possible, for some people the amount of text early becomes so much that they end up skipping dialogue very early and end up not caring about the story. I think it would have been better if the game priorized the early game by giving you information little by little and then when you are into the story THEN do the lore dumping, this was a minor issue in the original rabi-ribi but not nearly to the extend of this game. Then again, that issue is probably a non issue if you are going to skip the story anyway. The story itself is not bad, the problem is that the game raises your expectations with that large amount of lore and information being dumped on the player, so because of this the time investments may become disappointment if you care that much, still having said that try the DLC. The sigils, not sure how to feel about them, there's a lot of them for you to customize your built but feels as if you took the rabi ribi badges and split them into tiny parts, it might feel like a bit too much, its good that it gives you a lot of freedom but at the same time it will result into a lot of reading which you already do a lot of so the act of equipping them might feel like a chore if you are minmaxer kind of player. When it comes to replay value, there's a lot to do with the achievements, items you missed, the circus, replaying it with different difficulty modifiers. This game from the trailers and screenshots you pretty much know what to expect, if you are here for the gameplay and difficulty there's a lot for you, if you are here to play this game in the lowest difficulty and only enjoy the story then make sure you know what you are getting into, its fun going around exploring regardless, the story itself is not boring but some anime tropes drive certain people insane but if you are a fan of that then honestly just go for it. In conclusion what i think of this game is that the best aspect of this game is the game part and the worst part is the story part, i am personally someone who cares more about the game part so i don't mind the story much.

TEVI is to Rabi Ribi what Metroid Prime 4 is to Metroid Prime. Instead of exploration, and fun puzzles, and a world to travel at your leisure, you get one ways. And hallways. And every bit of your toolkit locked away behind story. You will follow the path, you will not deviate, and you will only be allowed to get most of your sidegrades, because calling them upgrades is questionable, once the game finally takes off the leash. Instead of interesting plot and meaningful characters, you just get so many characters, the game actually forgets about them as soon as they're no longer on screen. All those plot points the game brings up? That's it. They're points. They're not connected to anything. Don't get me wrong, Rabi Ribi didn't exactly have much of a story either, but this game expects you to try to take it seriously. They even had voice acting for it. And it is just SO bad. I wanted to like this game. I absolutely adored Rabi Ribi, so to find out this was coming was like finding out someone is baking you a second giant cake... Except that's not chocolate frosting that cake. It was never chocolate. And the actual cake is just cardboard and disappointment.

石友们好啊！ 最近TEVI的DLC上线之后也是把首发打了一大半的游戏从头到尾重新打完啦！ 游戏时长本体20-30小时流程， DlC 5-10小时流程。 难度宽容度很高，每个难度中间还有个+ 的半格调整，能找到你最适配的那个—— 前作RABIREBI是我接触的第一个PC独立游戏， （谁能不喜欢兔女郎兔耳娘艾莉娜——） 打完之后也是顺藤摸瓜来到steam平台。 所以TEVI上线我也是马上就入了手， 不过可惜在当时疫情+后期剧情不对我的胃口，最后一只搁置了。 这次DLC的内容诚意满满，BOSS战设计非常出色， 也弥补了剧情遗憾，做出了我想看的—— （编剧以后不要再搞黑深残那一套了，真的很烂俗，我很不喜欢。） 首先是玩法系统—— TEVI是非常标准的类银河恶魔城，有能力锁，需要探索的大地图， 战斗是偏向于高速的弹幕形式，就是在躲避弹幕的同时保持连击。 先讲地图吧！ 我全程在hard难度下通关的，探图压力在类银这个品类里算是宝宝级的， 本体小怪难度偏低，剧情大地图里几乎没有跳跳乐，非常安逸。 （跳跳乐全部都放在DLC的马戏团了。） 但是地图本身的设计并算不上出色，中规中矩， （场景设计和音乐切换做得很好。） 仔细想了一下，比较负反馈的主要是两点—— 首先是假兔子小姐并没有下平台的手段， 这就会让很多地方“有来无回”，在往上往下前进时必须要注意自己能否回去。 有一种很诡异的不适感，很多地图都是没法走回头路的。 （虽然大部分会用另一条路作为回去的手段，但还是很奇怪。） 其次是游戏内的隐藏，金币紫水晶药水这些， 大多数都是藏在一些可以被炸开的方块和隐藏墙里， 而这些需要用炸弹一个个试来排错，作者又很喜欢在地图里放一些很突兀的缺口， 在拿到投掷炸弹之后，我不下一次在地图里的小缺口里扔炸弹， 但实际真的炸到隐藏物品的概率不到十分之一，无用功占比很高。 不过好在过地图给的压力很小，实际体验只是稍微有点不舒服， （本体几乎没有啥负反馈，很流畅，但地图设计上还是稍显平庸） （也就美米涅雌小鬼的赛跑有点折磨——） 之后来说战斗系统吧！ TEVI中最具特色的应该是魔粹系统，如果要类比的话， 33号的灵光点系统感觉是最贴切的，（前作rabi就有了，这边的数值没那么崩坏） 点数给的非常足，大部分技能都可以带上， 里面有强化技能的，给新招式的，保命的，提升属性的—— 应有尽有，大部分有趣的搓招和技能都需要携带魔粹。 同时本作有比较重要的几个战斗机制来配合魔粹， 1连击评分系统是最重要的战斗要素之一， 连续目标会将评分从e逐渐打到sss，携带特殊魔粹可以解锁max评分 很多魔粹都是根据评分来强化和产生效果的， 比如我最喜欢的一闪，三闪，五闪， 携带相关魔粹后，在评分s或以上时，冲刺攻击会变成上面的三种， 再带上闪有无敌帧的魔粹，又帅又好用。 不止有连击高评分，低评分也有加成，不过得益于能带的魔粹非常多， （通关能带300+的点数，魔粹消耗根据强度从0-9点都有） 所以完全可以全部都要！ 2金色闪避 金色闪避就是每当闪避条满时，我们会产生一层能躲避一切攻击的效果， 在我们执行闪避动作后会触发这种效果， 后面很多的动作携带魔粹都会被认作闪避动作，上限非常高， 也是躲一些雨点弹幕的最好选择！ 3.BOSS的状态和BREAK 所有的boss敌人在被攻击一定次数后都会从普通的黄色变成红色的霸体状态 受到的伤害大幅下降并且拥有出招霸体， 每次出招完都会复原身体状态，基本就是找机会输出，在打出霸体时后撤。 （也要注意尽可能补连击——） （有魔粹可以在霸体打出正常伤害，不过内置cd） 在架势条被打空，敌人会进入破防状态， 我们就可以疯狂抽他们陀螺，很爽—— 除开这些还有手雷也非常好用，可以删除敌方的增益，并且上破防， DLC还可以给麻痹，伤害带800%和蓄力加速的魔粹非常强力—— 采薇是短剑+大扳手的近战以及双伙伴浮游炮的设计， 每种炮都有三种不同形态，还能互相联动，搭配上众多的魔粹， 整体战斗节奏又快又爽！ 不过DLC难度偏高，一周目本体的Hard难度几乎没有坐牢， 但通关存档进DLC被DIO大人堵门暴打，卡了接近两小时—— （声优是子安，形象也非常相似，招式还会砸压路机——） （泷泽萝拉哒！！） 几个boss都很吃机制理解和背板，虽然难但是设计的很不错， DLC的Boss战时常也比较久，平均要有15分钟了， 不想坐牢背板的宝宝可调成普通难度—— 剧情方面，本体三流黑深残，DLC知错能改！ 采薇在首发时，剧情就被很多兔友们诟病，硬要整点恶心人的坏逼剧情， 我是真很反感那种硬把角色写死，硬搞死人黑暗那套的， 而采薇的本体就是如此，欢快的基调里转悲伤内核可以写的很好 但本作的剧情走向非常糟糕，从宏大的叙事一转狗血伦理剧，还写的很惨—— 结果就是最后很多角色为了衬托多么黑暗，一个接一个把他们写死， 这种走向真的很败好感，至少我很不喜欢。 不过DLC的剧情非常不错，给了个很好的HE， 还有甜甜的女孩子感情，钉宫配的维娜非常可爱。 （她说要和我去世界尽头啊，这不是告白吗❤️） TEVI的剧情可以看出是想作为中带你来写的， 剧情推动非常足，基本可以算是线性的类银了， 基本一个一个目标点都按顺序给标好了， 在不容易找不到路的同时，也下降了探索性， 算是有得有失。 游戏美术非常顶级，CG非常多，人物画的很漂亮。 （正太御姐萝莉，各种各样的异种族一应俱全——） 台词对话也是全语音的，而且几乎都是超大牌的熟人配音， （子安，钉宫，杉田都有） 视觉听觉上都非常享受啦！ 维娜钉宫太加分了！傲娇没有退环境！ 到推荐时间了！ 1. 喜欢类银，高速弹幕战斗，爽快连击的宝宝。 2. 喜欢兔耳娘的宝宝（骗你的，你根本不是兔耳娘！） 3. 接受或者倾向二次元画风的宝宝。 4. 喜欢女孩子贴贴，并做好主线剧情观感不佳准备的宝宝。 RABI粉丝可以放心入，虽然相比RABI有些地方是退步的，但更出色的手感和多样化的战斗，依旧是优秀的续作，里面艾莉娜也客串了好多地方—— 总结：TEVI在地图设计上略显平庸，在剧情走向上曾迷失方向，但它凭借顶级的二次元美学、丝滑的高速战斗手感，以及两年后那份迟到的美好，完成了自我修正。 评分8.9/10,推荐购入dlc

Що ж, пройшов я гру. Це було дуже круто. Купив я гру ще рік назад (трохи більше), але десь на третій годині я застяг - не знав, як пройти далі. Куди не піду - усюди тупік. Так я бігав 2-3 години і на шостій годині я закинув гру. Пройшов цілий рік. Я по приколу вирішив зайти на годинку, щоб зрозуміти, що я знову проход не знайду. Пішов я по рандомному шляху і з першого ж разу знайшов правильний прохід й продовжив грати. Спочатку перші годин 15-20 були схожі на звичайну типічну метроідванію, де ти постійно бігаєш по локаціям, досліджуєш, періодично я підглядував стрім, де і як далі йти (разів 5 мінімум). Але з часом гра перетворюється просто на бос-раш, де тобі кажуть кудии йти, ти платформериш до боса, проходиш його, трохи бігаєш фармишся на крафт блинчиків і шуруєш на наступного боса і так годин із десять. Все більше розповідається сюжет і менше дослідження. Під кінець вже нудно стає. Десь із середини гри битви із босами стають такими затяжними. Їх по 40 хвилин на кожного можна витрачати. Це дуже довго і не адекватно. Перша половина гри, годин так із 15-20 мені сподобалась на всі 100%, а друга половина лише на 50%, так як годин із 10-15 будуть лише битви з босами по 30-40 хвилин та сюжет. Сюжет дуже крутий, а ось із битвами перемудрили. Дослідження на другому етапі повністю закінчується. А дві останні битви... ХТО ВИРІШИВ, ЩО БУДЕ КРУТО ДОДАТИ ЕФЕКТИ, ЯКІ ЗМЕНШУЮТЬ ФПС ГРИ ІЗ 100+ ДО 20-??? І як я пройшов тих босів із першого разу? Мене так бомбило із цих спецефектів і що половина гри - просто битва із босами нескінченні, що я спочатку думав не рекомендувати гру, але все ж таки сюжет під кінець дуже завернули, та й після проходження гри тепер можна надосліджуватись вдоль та впоперек. Я поки візьму перерву на півроки чи більше, а коли понапроходжу нових ігор - повернусь дослідити Аз на 100%, та й DLC треба пройти, яке у мене куплене ось буквально на цьому літньому розпродажі. Іще хочу додати, що боси мене стали виводити наприкінці п'ятої глави, коли я прийшов на отого боса-яйця і не пройшов його. Я подивився на стрімі й дізнався, що він проходиться 40 хвилин!!! Я тоді думав, що я постараюсь пройти його і закину гру, не буду проходити. На наступний день я його пройшов, закінчив п'яту главу і думав все,... але ні... Я там іще трохи побігав ось і наступний бос, ось тоді й починаєжться безперервна череда босів. Пускай кожний сам для себе вирішує, чи хоче він грати у цю гру, чи ні. Хоч боси мене й бісили, але остаточна думка моя залишається позитивною, тому я раджу спробувати, але не кожному сподобається така гра.

I'll start with the simple praises. Amazing music that makes I can relax to or listen on loop. Attractive and beautiful character designs, CG arts, and good chibi sprites. Fantastic and emotional voice acting. Improved and better combat than Rabi-Ribi and the movements are fluid and responsive. TEVI is a steampunk theme metroidvania that plays mostly like Rabi-Ribi but with improvements and bosses are easier, mainly the combat being a big improvement. This is also one the longest metroidvania I've played if going for 100% map and collectible. The story is simple to understand and starts off a bit comedic and lighthearted. But as the story progress and nearing the end of the story, it gets really emotional really fast. The world building and lore is sizable that even an idiot like me can understand. The game have a few easter eggs (ha, rabbit pun) and references, one obvious one being from their previous game. Boss fights is similar to Rabi-Ribi or just basically a chaotic bullet hell fight where the boss fill up the screen like it is a landmine and require almost pixel perfect dodging. I said it is easier than Rabi-Ribi because you don't have any BS bosses like Irisu and Miru with stupid gimmicks. You can even facetank with healing items on most of the boss fights. But it is only easy in the early game when you lack potions/sigils and get easier mid to end of the game. You're reward for exploring and collecting items that helps you become really strong and make boss fights even easier. I played on Expert difficulty for my first (even though this isn't the highest difficulty because it is locked behind a clearing the game once) and I was able to beat a few bosses first try. Over all, 8.5/10.

打分：6/10 我没想到这竟然是一款2023年的游戏，放在2026年的今天，除了CV和原画之外，游戏里绝大多数内容给我的感觉是，我拿AI都能搓出来。 我不太明白这款游戏为什么能有86%的特别好评。因为除了CV和原画之外，无论是人物能力设定、战斗反馈、地图探索还是藏品收集，虽然谈不上糟到能用"依托"来形容，但也确实是相当平庸，平庸到让人昏昏欲睡的地步。 玩这款游戏之前，我刚刚连续通关了《The Last Faith》和《Moonscars》，这两款类银河战士恶魔城游戏。可《TEVI》让打开游戏不到半个小时我就萌生了退意，以至于静置了很多天都没有再玩游戏，方才稍稍缓过神来。我实在想不通，一款2023年出品的游戏，明明前面有那么多前辈可以借鉴参考，怎么还会闹出没有"平台下跳"这种笑话。在我玩过的上百款类银游戏中，犯过这种肤浅到让人懒得强调的错误设计理念的游戏，掰着手指头都数得过来。取消"平台下跳"转而让玩家迂回跑图，唯一解释就是为了拖延跑图时间、进而延长游戏时长。并且，我实在感受不到这背后有什么"优秀的地图设计"在支撑——因为在我整体地图探索率达到18%、且至少跑过7张探索率在95%以上的地图区域时，我一点都没感觉到制作组想设计出一张优秀地图的欲望。我也不能理解，地图前期就存在的大量弯弯绕绕和"能力锁"死角，除了拖慢跑图节奏、给后期全收集强行增加时长之外，到底还有什么意义？就为了那点无关紧要的金钱堆，或者提升那么微弱的几点数值？ 说到收集品，这些所谓的收集品真是毫无吸引力。唯一对战斗还能带来点帮助的"魔淬"，也被游戏内毫无反馈、毫无交互的战斗系统给彻底冲淡了。你们是怎么做出这种素质如此低下的战斗内容的？还搞个战斗评分系统，你看看你那怪物破防前各打各的交互逻辑，再看看砍在怪物身上那毫无反馈的打击手感，真的有让人打连击、刷评分的欲望吗？最高难度下Boss和角色更是各打各的。玩了这么多年游戏，除了在一些低成本独立制作组那里，我真是很难见到这么无聊的Boss战。 还没有闪避，美其名曰搞一个平A连段穿插后空翻来躲避怪物攻击——"你看我们让角色能在平A怪物的途中做一个帅气的后空翻闪避攻击，真的是好帅气、好有新意呢！"还有，为了让你们能够感受到我们优秀（x）的"地图设计"，我们明明可以做"平台下跳"，但我们偏不，我们偏要让玩家在弯弯绕绕的地图里绕来绕去，营造一种"柳暗花明又一村"的感觉，真得是好棒棒、好有感觉呢！ 呕~ 还有那个硬塞进去的怪物素材掉落和工作台制作系统，真的有必要为了这点日式RPG元素硬往里塞吗？真的吗？ 所以这游戏的钱到底花在哪儿了？不会真的全花在CV和原画上了吧？我怎么觉得"舍本逐末""本末倒置"才是这款游戏最核心、最突出的问题呢？ 不过话说回来，如果把《TEVI》当作一部视觉小说而不是类银河战士恶魔城游戏，那一切似乎就说得通了，上述一切问题迎刃而解，因为这些游戏内容本来就不是为了后者而服务的。可问题又回来了，做一张这么无聊的大地图，加上一堆这么无聊的战斗，就为了看那点剧情和听CV配音，又是图什么呢？直接做视觉小说不好吗？唉。 Wakaranai，Wakaranai yo！ PS： （1）不明白为什么会吐槽“白雾之森”这张地图，明显跟着红花走找到存档点白雾就消失的一张普通区域地图不应该带来如此数目众多的抱怨。

yeah the reviews were right. the game DOES become 10x better when you unlock airdash holy ♥♥♥♥

等了这么久终于玩到dlc了，也是弥补了本体剧情上的遗憾，游戏bgm也是一大特色。