Gaming, traveling, and other stuff
卡普空的一个新作，虽然感觉上有点小品比较单薄，但背着机器人萝莉打枪这个“养闺女”设定还是让我果断买了。玩起来的感觉有点像多年前的Vanquish，场景风格和手感都有点像，但玩法机制差别还是比较大，谈不上精神续作。
Pragmata的这个打敌人要一边玩走格子小游戏hack一边射击的核心机制看起来比较新鲜拉风，玩起来其实并没有多好玩。我个人觉得mind flow有点接不上。我谨慎估计这游戏不会有续作，就算有也要大改玩法。
其他方面倒是都可圈可点，萝莉的外形和配音都不错。我为了出差路上玩买了Switch 2版，画质略渣，但我目测PS5版也没好太多，毕竟低成本作品。打枪的手感不错，设计的控制型和防御型武器也都值得一玩。整体比较短小精干，感觉各种新东西玩一圈也就快通关了。Boss也都不难，基本上都是一遍过或者重试一两次就能过的水平，比较玩家友好。
之前五六个月都是卫斯理的奶奶外婆睡在客厅，感觉好久都没在电视上玩游戏了。。最近给奶奶爷爷租了个房我终于拿回了夜间客厅使用权。打开了尘封的PS5打算玩个画质好一点的游戏。
Just rolled the credits of Metroid Prime 4. I was surprised to see it only took 20 hours to play through this game. It definitely felt much longer, in a good way. It felt like a very robust game with plenty of content. At the end I was hoping it lasts a bit longer or has a bit more content. For a lot of other games it’s the opposite, I hope they end sooner so I can play the next one.M
Metroid Prime 4 is such a masterpiece. I almost feel i have my 2026 game of the year already. Btw I looked up and figured games released in December are usually considered for awards of the next year.
At first I didn’t even realize Metroid Prime was its own series, separate from Metroid. I somehow thought it was a jump of Metroid series from 2D to 3D. Later I found there were three 3D Metroid Prime games on GameCube and Wii. And Metroid Prime 3 was released on 2007… no wonder I never heard of them. So this is a series revival after 18 years. And apparently this 4th-gen was originally developed by Bandai Namco, but was scrapped by Nintendo due to quality issues, and started over by Retro Studios. This backstory explained how the game seemed to make an attempt on open-world with an empty desert, but 99% of actual gameplays still happen in traditional mazes. Zelda made that breakthrough of blending “new abilities unlock new places” and open-world; I’m ok if Metroid doesn’t make that leap.
The graphics, music, and level design of Metroid Prime 4 is very very good. A first-person view brings a more immersive experience than the 2D game; and the sci-fi theme works great with the thrill brought by alien monsters and abandoned facilities. Other levels of lush forest, icy cave, and stormy towers also look stunning and make me want to stop and just stare at the view from time to time.
One thing I wondered was how the game works with the unique pointer control of Switch 2. I’ve seen people on Reddit said it worked great and “felt like the game was designed for that control”. But my own experience was rather disappointing. Metroid Prime 4 has auto-lock (by pressing L2), and has a few bosses that require you to aim “a bit off the center of auto-lock”, which seems to be designed for the Switch 2 control. I tried pointer and motion control, and eventually decided to turn both off and just use the most traditional right stick control. Maybe I’m just too used to the old-school control and less used to the motion/pointer way. The bosses were not hard in normal mode. I was able to beat almost all bosses within 3 tries, including the final boss. The only exception was the “fire dragon” which was a pretty great boss fight. Overall it’s a thrilling, smooth, and not over-challenging game experience. I loved it.
I think my earliest Metroid game was Metroid Fusion on 3DS. The core experience of exploring a huge maze with a detailed map was not new to me at that time as I played Castlevania before, but it was still fun. The most impressive part was how certain puzzles were designed. I remember some puzzles require solutions that are both hard to figure out and hard to execute. It could be a morph ball flying through several screens with precise jumping, transforming, and bombing. I remember having a feeling of achievement after solving some puzzles. Metroid Prime 4 has a lot of puzzles and some of them are clever. But none of the puzzles was sophisticated enough to make you feel “achieving”. It was more of a “huh this is clever” feeling. I think boss fights was a better part of Metroid Prime 4, compared to puzzles.
Overall I’ll give this game 8.5/10. Absolutely worth a try if you are ok with FPS game control on console, and want a sci-fi themed non-open-world Zelda-like experience, lol
最近相当无聊的玩了暗喻幻想。Atlus出的，有点像Persona系列的外传。画风和系统都是Persona系列的味道，但作为”外传”自由度改动的高一些，没有了使魔系统，加入了一个职业树系统。队员可以随便转职，并且可以队伍里面多个人都是同一个职业这一点还挺好玩的，抓到敌人的弱点的时候可以exploit。但是打到后期每个人都还是有自己的“终极职业”，加上某几个打法有点过强，就会觉得打法有点固定。加上Atlus游戏一贯的越到最后对话越多的风格，就会让人有点怎么还没打完的感觉。总体我给7分吧。
Persona这系列的剧情一直还是不错的。倒不是说整体的剧情有多新颖深刻，而是游戏里不时会出现可圈可点的对话，各种对话的选择也都没有明显的对错，有点让你选择你要怎么扮演的意思。本作的主线还算曲折离奇，角色设定也还比较养眼，但支线剧情大多比较二。。
战斗方面演出效果还不错。是Persona系列的水准，前期需要仔细安排，说动辄团灭倒不至于，但打得不好的话就会很快MP用完不得不回城第二天再来继续，就有了个优化的目标。中后期获得强力技能之后有一路轰过去的爽快感。迷宫都比较直截了当，没有太绕的。我还是比较欣赏这一作的系统的。Persona的使魔系统做了这么多年，可能是可以推倒重来一下。
玩到后期我其实已经想玩别的游戏了。这个在家带娃哪里也去不了的年末假期，只能靠游戏度日了。
通关了羊蹄山之魂（Ghost of Yotei）。还可以玩。10分的话我会给到6分吧。
作为一个SONY自家作品，罐头味儿有点重，很多地方都似曾相识，比如很无聊的攀爬，比如从攀爬终点一跃而下的动作跟地平线Aloy的动作如出一辙。开放世界的任务重复度也有点高，清敌人据点来来去去都是那几招，虽然是给了很多手段，但架不住玩家比较懒。。风景是很好的，画质也是很赞的。但没有对马岛那种PS4上做出PS5画面的惊艳感了，属于PS5里这个级别的合格水平。取景于北海道，不少场景确实达到了可以停下来看景色的程度。
本作的战斗做得不错。有一点点魂的意味但远没有那么难。动作帅气，单挑之前主角拔刀那个镜头是真的百看不厌，弹反小兵一刀斩之后甩血的那一下也是装逼程度爆表。前后有五种兵器五种副武器，花样繁多，都玩一遍也差不多通关了。每种武器也都像模像样做了几个招数，各有特点不至于觉得雷同。暗杀和standoff都还挺有爽感的，真打起来也就是扔扔道具就基本收工了，基本还是以爽为主。
说到这游戏发售前的DEI争议。。我确实有时候会有一点选角也太写实了吧的感觉。估计游戏制作方是找了一堆日裔的动作和配音演员。我玩的是英文版，里面好多路人都说着日本腔的英文。女主的长相也相当日本。个人觉得也不错吧，比较容易有代入感。游戏的故事写得还是挺好的，有些曲折，也不长。
我觉得SONY是要做一些减法，不要再把做了一遍的素材给旗下所有3A游戏都来一遍了，这种无脑爬墙我真的是要爬吐了。
前两天通关了Hades 2。产假期间其实是有大把时间玩游戏的，因为每天都被切成一段段三小时的碎片，要集中精神做个什么正事还挺难的。喂奶的时候就拿个iPad在看剧，中间的时候就玩玩游戏。最开始在玩八方旅人2，但这游戏过于休闲，大把文字要读，也没什么太多刺激，属于玩着玩着就会犯困的类型。后来Hades 2出来了，这个游戏正相反，属于拿起来很快就high到放不下来的类型。打了两周打通了，感觉打得有点要吐，放下也正好。
Hades是个把roguelike，成长要素，和动作性融合得很好的游戏。2代相比1代来说青出于蓝，加了很多要素一开始觉得有点混乱，玩熟悉了觉得融合得不错。地图有两套，六把武器还各有两个变体，可以说量大管饱，在新鲜感消退的时候也差不多通关了。
Hades跟很多roguelike一样，主要的乐趣就是快速的组合技能来尝试各种build。一盘最多也就三四十分钟，是好是坏都可以从头再来。对这一作我更欣赏武器的设计一些，六种武器都多少用了用，加上预制build的trial，恍惚在玩怪物猎人的训练所。相对来说对技能的搭配我没有尝试太多。虽然训练所里展示了不少奇技淫巧的build，但每个武器都有一些朴实刚健的build过于好用。。如果不去挑战高难度只是为了通关看个credits的话，没有太多动力去研究更花哨的build。
我最先用来过boss的武器是火炬，比较像弩，远程武器生存能力还是强一些。后来比较爱用的武器是斧头，比较像大剑；还有拳套，手感比较像锤子。基本上还是秉承了我喜欢重武器和拼血的作风。。这游戏也是打到后来有成长了才能拼，早期一拼就挂了。
