The World Well: Blood of Caro

Game itself is fine with a decent story however, The later chapters seem to fall off hard and seems so rushed compared to the earlier chapters These issues range from: A major story side character [spoiler]Bani[/spoiler] is just completely dropped from the story with no real conclusion to their arc nor logical sense as to what they would even do on their own. [spoiler]It's already established early on that they straight up have no where else to go and stick with 4 and Noma due to that[/spoiler] One of the later story chapters is so weak with the amount of exposition [spoiler]I believe it's in Chapter 8 when Oldritch talks about the original timeline. I genuinely don't think we needed 45+ minutes going on about how in this alternate timeline everyone gets blown up. It's already clear whatever happened in the future is bad, I don't really need a buildup explaining how the United Nations was established and how state borders in this version were made because it just isn't related to the objective or goal of our protagonists.[/spoiler] which just seemed to contribute little to nothing for the story. The tag choose your own adventure seems misleading to me because there isn't really a lot of "choices", or at the very least major ones with the exception of the final one. I've only played the game once so I'm not exactly sure if there's more than 3 possible endings out of the 1 I got, but from what I played it didn't really leave a impression that my choices would affect how the story would develop. As I said however for this point this is from my impression after obtaining only one ending so I may be wrong. Finally, the ending that I got left me wanting more but not in a good way. It's in a way where a lot of the stuff felt incomplete down to the main objective of our characters. [spoiler]The entire premise of the story is the 4 and Noma are off to kill the big bad vampire Victor, but from the Farewell, Old World! ending this just straight up never happens. I don't know if this is the best ending but it does feel like it's supposed to be a good ending as it displays a text that there'll eventually be a epilogue for the two. It's just that in that ending, Noma and 4's goal of killing Victory is never accomplished. It's just a fade to black explaining his plans are exposed and it's left at that. I was expecting there to be at least another chapter or two after, but I was pretty bummed out at the fact that they left it there.[/spoiler] While the ending does complete the character arc for one of the main protagonists, it never resolved the whole point of the adventure. For a personal thing the 3D assets do more harm than good and break my immersion. When it comes to the background and character art which are drawn, they're extremely well done. However, it's super noticeable when they aren't hand drawn and look extremely out of place. [spoiler]Early on you meet a character called Old Moe (or something along those line) and you can clearly tell it wasn't hand drawn. The more immersion shattering examples would be in a later chapters where VOIZ bombs the capital and they're just flying out F4U corsairs, not even any of the sigils or anything that would denote them as "magic", just bare bone stock F4U corsairs like it's the Pacific War.[/spoiler] I do understand that this is only a $10 game made by a small developer/team which is why I don't necessarily believe the 3D asset and negative aspects of the story would result in a negative review. It's just something that stuck in my head while I was playing. For all the bad stuff I did enjoy the story for what it was and I think it's still worth a try.

Even though I'm quite new to the VN's genre, from the scarce count of them I've played, The World Well: Blood of Caro and Stella of the End are the ones I liked most. Perhaps, I just favor the world setting like this, but these two really are masterpieces. I like the characters, the cruel reality of the World that 4 and Noma live in, and that devs are not afraid of showing the cruelty of human nature. It all feels natural. Even though this game probably will stay unrecognized, as dozens of other VNs from small studies. It is sad, but I wish the best to the devs and others! Will be waiting for the continuation of this series with all my heart. (For some reason, I've finished the game only after 36 hours in; maybe I am a slow reader, but I was surely invested to the plot and setting of world.)

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[h1]《井域：喀洛之血》简评[/h1] 本作是一款电影化叙事的视觉小说，讲述了来自不同时空的少女4与诺玛，为了各自的目的一同踏上旅途的故事。游戏中有着大量的百合元素呈现，玩起来体验还是很足的。 剧情一开始的较短介绍与后续紧凑的片段让玩家能很快的代入到游戏的剧情中去，就在危机关头时刻，一次意外，让主角发现了一个破损的机器设施，至此，主角的旅程发生了微妙的变化。 游戏的设定非常丰富，有庄园，领主，有飞船，机器设施，当然，作为穷吸血鬼与穷人的结合，“喀洛”是这个世界的热门货。 游戏中对于角色的刻画表现。有着很多细节的地方，比如说一开始主角与洛马刚开始相见的时候。两人的互相斗嘴，互相算计。到后来的慢慢接纳，互相理解。在角色的变化方面给人的感受还是很不错的。 游戏在剧情的推进中插入了一些的回想内容，这些内容补充了角色设定，在一定的基础上也让游戏的剧情变得更加完善。 总的来说，《井域：喀洛之血》是一款整体体验下来还算不错的互动视觉小说，游戏内的世界观非常丰富，因一次事故，主角与名叫诺玛的特工开启了一段有趣而又丰富的冒险之旅。游戏中的3D动画表现很细节，喜欢这种有着科幻风格视觉小说作品的不妨一试。 [quote] 专业评测 | 独立视角 | 帮你发现好游戏 欢迎关注 [url= https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45363287/]“🎮丨游戏高手鉴赏组丨🎮”[/url] [/quote]

总之，用了几天快速推完了，非常和我口味的一部作品。那我也来稍微讲讲好了 《井域：喀洛之血》 一部国产百合（微量）科幻政治视觉小说，讲述了刚刚完成复仇失去存在意义的半吸血鬼少女杀手4，与穿越时空来自未来的特工诺玛相遇，而为了阻止会在未来统治世界发动战争毁灭两个文明的吸血鬼暴君，踏上了刺杀的道路。 游戏内要素包含：羊人神族，终结者，区，双区姐妹，i4tv，战败洗脑，被做局，重大历史机遇，大量回忆杀，见证英雄，欢乐斗地主，批斗大会，保卫我们的现代生活，自由世界，骄兵必败败兵必哀哀兵必胜，文官集团，魔法核弹，无限制扔核大赛，填色游戏，猜疑链，技术爆炸，人性论，赢麻，多首的怪物，女同性恨 先说结论，百合要素基本上只能算是添头，大概是用来让你知道这是个二次元视觉小说的，本质是一个科幻政治题材的视觉小说，但我刚好就吃世界观和政治斗争这一套。 优点：演出很不错，还有3D小动画看，魔导世界观和地缘格局政治推演很有意思，玩过钢铁雄心的多少有点既视感，整个剧本的框架其实也挺有趣的，而且两个女主的性格很讨喜（尤其是看哭哭） 吐槽：不完全是缺点，包括了我游玩时的一些吐槽，首先喜欢我骄兵必败败兵必哀哀兵必胜吗？虽然可能知道剧本上是想写得更有戏剧性一点，但表现出来就是每到主角振奋一些时就会触发骄兵必败，情况立刻急转直下，主角立刻沦为区（不过我还是挺喜欢看i4tv的，看美少女露出痛苦的表情也是一种享受）[spoiler] 说得就是你黑皮白毛小妹，不是反派害了你，是这世道害了你 [/spoiler]，以及其中的一些角色的对时局的评论和政治隐喻是否有些太过于明显了，虽然不能说不适合，但看了反而会让人出戏。以及其实整部作品出现的意识形态和思考其实都没有超出中学课本水平，[spoiler] 比如革命军的桥段既视感是不是也有点太重了，这不是完全抄得历史书吗 [/spoiler]，但至少没有出现给吸血鬼资本家奴隶主和贵族洗白的情节。 npc化身设定讲解机的情况也挺多的，几个人干聊政治十几分钟扯人性论属实让我有点没绷住，不过看得出来，制作组应该是想驳斥人性论的，毕竟全游戏最大的人性论者就是反派了。 另外就是最后一章的问题，整个第八章大半都去讲背景板的历史和政治了，而且这段历史简直就像是钢4里玩家为了走极端路线故意选错事件一样，让幕后黑手摘了桃子。不管是叙事节奏还是合理性都有点太怪了[spoiler] 毕竟机器人小妹真的在血C，从头C到尾，我方MVP了属于是，比主角两个秒倒的双区姐妹强太多了 [/spoiler]，但反派的动机相当神秘，一个信奉社达和人性论的技术官僚，苟到最后拿到了吃鸡大赛的冠军，然后对内开始搞种族主义，只能说魔法核弹真的很厉害吧[spoiler] 世界政府的文官集团还是太权威了，不是这个世道害了你，是这个文官集团害了你啊 [/spoiler] [spoiler] 另外我也是一开始就猜反派就是另外一条时间线的4的，还挺期待看到更多扭曲的表情（主要是诺玛的，可惜这时候诺玛已经成区了）以及4是如何成为帝国大元帅的，结果原来是多首的怪物。另外，实际上好像大部分骄兵必败时刻只要给主角团再加点战斗力事情走向就会变成另外的样子，但两个主角硬是吃瘪了好几回（美少女哭哭真美味啊）毕竟和机器人小妹汇合后主角团其实基本就是大优了，结局也是把仇敌干掉就直接宣布胜利了，机器人小妹把活全包办了属于是，不过可能这就是公路片吧，到达目的地就是结局了 [/spoiler] 总结：非常和我胃口的科幻政治视觉小说，10分我能给8分，要是流程拉长一点就好了，到最后都有一种意犹未尽的感觉，很有趣的故事

Love me some third-worldist vampire yuri. Really great game with a really well-developed world.

除了第八章的部分有点过于拖沓了吧，总的看来还不错

（首先诺玛泳装很好看😍） 评分8/10，略低于预期吧，但是整体上可以是一部佳作了 （1）百合浓度（8/10）：浓度没预期的高，感情线比较明确，有亲亲，但是描写还是偏少，主要问题是缺一个后日谈，导致无论是整体的故事还是感情线都结束的太仓促了 （2）作品本身的题材（7/10）：除开百合之外，这部作品本身的题材相对于轻松向，有很多偏向政治内容的描写，借助时空、国家纷争、人类和吸血鬼等种族的概念进行世界观的搭建，且对现实世界的借鉴比较多 优点：整体的世界观很宏大，内容很充足，有能引人思考的点 缺点：文字性描述中涉及到很多虚构概念，同时理论的推理段过于冗长了，尤其是第5、6章，作者的出发点是好的，但是对于视觉小说来说纯文字+虚构概念上的讲大端理论很容易让人犯困，这是一大扣分点；如果真的想进行理论的阐释，可以配合动态图讲解会更好 这样的前置理论过多和最后结尾过于仓促导致了整体观感上不是很好，有很多挖的坑都没完全填（估计都会放在后日谈里了，不过就现在而言观感确实不好） （3）美术和演出（9/10）： 美术：相对于这个价位游戏本身的美术和演出非常优秀，相比于纯对话的视觉小说有很多动态的地图、前后视差来增强表现力，以及作者自己做的动画（很有心了） 音乐：虽然音乐创作有点穷，但是和演出配合恰到好处，西幻风格的主界面音乐很好听 音效：大体上音效优秀，但是其中有一些耳鸣音效、枪声可能对于部分群体刺激性比较大，希望可以做一个选择性演出的选项 美中不足的一点是没配音（众筹钱不够也没办法，希望后续可补） （4）游玩时长：本人阅读速度比较慢，除去有9个小时挂机时间，大约游玩时间在15-20小时 整体来讲是一部合格的作品，价格也不高，比起纯百合作品更像一部奇幻小说，感兴趣的可以入手:) 同时也期待一手后续的后日谈吧，无论是免费还是收费都支持