The Final Station

小时候在电视上看人家主播玩，一直想玩，也是圆了儿时的的小心愿，游戏也是好游戏 2025 8 3 14：19就在刚刚我将这部续作DLC也完成了，意犹未尽啊

It's a fine game, but conflicted in a couple of ways. Pros: - Good atmosphere. - Most of the hand-made pixel art is well done (there's also a lot of background assets which are scaled down higher res images, but it does help the hand-made stuff stand out). There were some minor issues like pixels being stretched on the sides of the main characters arm near their body when looking up and down, but not much of a distraction. - Nice attention to detail (little things like the footstep sounds changing depending on where you are). - Doesn't overstay it's welcome, 3-6 hours of playtime. Cons: - Conflicted storytelling. Most of the exposition comes through dialogue of people you pick up and drop off during the course of the game, but when you're walking around doing mini-games to keep the train moving or getting things for them you miss out. If you choose to wait around and listen after reaching your destination, their health + hunger meters tick down. There are some smaller messages for you in the levels you scavenge through, but the most interesting stuff is the character interactions. Also, you rarely get to see what your character is saying - just the response of the person you're speaking to. - Combat. Combat is pretty trivial once you realize that 4/6 of the enemy types can be beaten by walking backwards and punching. There's also a 'charged punch', but it was inconsistent to trigger, and I don't think it really did any more damage compared to just punching in that time. Punching also made ammo a non-issue. - Linearity. Not necessarily a bad thing, but brings problems. The game tries leaning into 'survival' elements like where you have a limited number of health kits you can either use on yourself or people in your train, but since you can restart whenever (with a very generous checkpoint system) you don't have to use a single health pack on yourself if you don't want to. The levels are also static, so there's no replay value besides going for achievements. If it wants to be a survival game, I don't think it leans hard enough into your resource scavenging, or choosing between you and the train. - The crafting wasn't a bad thing either necessarily, but I didn't realize it was in the game until I was going to the last safe zone. The train sections aren't mechanically demanding, but you don't really have the time to sit down and explore the menus to find it. Needing to handle the train mini-games and passengers also cut out the time I had to read the stop descriptions. - This is personal a pet-peeve, but I find level design where you go around a giant loop just to get a key right before a locked door at the start of the loop kind of silly. Even just saying' this is a one-way door' would've been fine with me. Maybe having a locked door might be easier for programming reasons. Even more silly is how often you're walking through peoples apartments and their only response is 'hi, how's it going'. That's just a personal thing I find silly, not a real issue. - Rough English localization. Probably not the dev's fault (at least not entirely), but it is noticeable. The game was made competently enough (especially for being nearly a decade old), so I want to reiterate I don't think it's a bad or broken game. But would I recommend this to my friends who like survival games? No. Would I recommend it to my friends who like narrative games? Probably not. Would I recommend it to my friends who like action games or action platformers? Definitely not. I commend the final station for trying new things and mixing genres, but it wasn't enough for me. Maybe it will be for you.