Разработчик: Still Games
Описание
Story
The Animal Gods have fallen. Once sacred, they are now husks—haunted beasts lost to toxic fumes from a great bronze industry. Play as Thistle, a small & agile warrior hellbent on destroying the curse that plagues these creatures. Wield a 17th century BC Bronze Sword... and set the Gods free.
Key Features
- Cloak of Flame
Dash / warp through toxic-maze like rivers. Dashing moves Thistle a fixed distance over a fixed amount of time and upgrades to The Long Dash. - Map of The Unholy
Lets you choose dungeons in any order. Journey to the Gardens of Gwyn, the Halls of Eynd, and the Coast of Syn. Find the weapon and weapon upgrade in each dungeon to defeat the Animal Gods. - Light Puzzling
Puzzles rely on approximately 75% skill and 25% strategy. Each dungeon asks players to assess the obstacle ahead and approach cautiously. Puzzles are largely skill-based requiring a hint of strategy and luck. - Character Driven Story
Find notes left by occult-leader Jessuh, starry-eyed Juliette and Scientist Sven. Animal Gods' story balances the relationship between three key characters and their ties to the dark underbelly of the City of Sky Mirror. - Lives-09-Mode
09-Lives mode unlocks after successfully completing Animal Gods on "normal" and challenges you to complete dungeons with 09-lives or less.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2435M @ 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Sound Card: Intel(R) Display Audio
Mac
- OS: OS X Yosemite
- Processor: Dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Sound Card: Intel(R) Display Audio
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2435M @ 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Sound Card: Intel(R) Display Audio
Отзывы пользователей
OKAY, the only reason why I bought this game was because it was dirt cheap and I thought it looked pretty. I finished one dungeon and it was repetitive and boring. Not to mention that the soundtrack gets grating after a while, really really grating, I thought I was going insane as I died over and over again to the platforming.
But I do have to say that the art is actually really really pretty. Though I don't like the PC's walk animation the visuals are decent enough
What's worse than a bad game that is slow paced? A frustrating puzzle game that is bad and slow paced.
A short but pretty and peaceful game. I love it.
Graphics: Beautiful and intriguing, the core of this game.
Music: Simple but harmonic.
Story: Interesting. Not obscure.
Gameplay: Simple and normal but not easy (some place), hit the boxlike thing and through the poison water.
So If you like this kind of art style and do not expect too much of the gameplay, give a shot.
*minor spoilers ahead*
As I traversed the toxin flooded snake god dungeon I carefully inched my way forward, decapitating each Husk from one save point to the next, nimbly dancing from one moving platform to the next. As I bash each of their blue shells into finely ground mush I notice their sad looking eyeballs follow me around the room and reflect on my earlier encounters with the creatures in the game. There's a good deal of evidence given throughout the game in the form of dialogue and diaries that they're sapient and intelligent, and at one point were the ancient human villagers who once populated the entire area. After much effort I finally reach the final stretch, a series of fast moving enemy spawns with narrow walkways taking place on the back of the snake god itself.
Looking at how spread apart the enemies are, I suddenly realize that I can run through this entire gauntlet without killing a single enemy. Some parts are tricky, but with proper timing I manage to zip past each obstacle. None of the enemies make any attempt to hunt me down, many of the bigger ones near the end aren't even moving and I have plenty of space to simply walk around them. Why am I supposed to be attacking them again, when they aren't even a threat? Maybe if I continue to avoid them, the game will recognize that I'm trying to show some mercy on these people, I think. Maybe the snake god will comment on my deliberate willingness to make the game more difficult in an attempt to be more than just some single minded killing machine.
But no, nothing happens, the only way you can finish the dungeon is to (once again) kill enough of the Husks near the end to trigger the exit warp.
Why do scenarios like this bother me? Maybe I've been playing too much Undertale lately, or maybe I've just grown into too much of a cynic to blindly accept typical RPG tropes- but a game that requires you to massacre living, sentient creatures as an arbitrary ritual to progress from one hallway to the next is not something that I can consider morally intelligent. I end up feeling like Thistle is really not any better of a person than the supposedly evil unseen antagonist. It would be somewhat acceptable to me if the game made an attempt to present Thistle as anything but a morally pure priestess, but it doesn't, which pretty much tears down the central theme of the game (the ends do not always justify the means).
Anyways, for everything else I like (the laser jumping puzzles are fun and the controls are good) and dislike (the game is way too short and predictable), this experience sticks out to me the most. I don't feel like I can rightly recommend this when it killed any semblance of immersion to me.
I have not played this game all the way through, but that is because that which I have played quite severly turned me off of it. My first impression was that it would be an art piece with the mechanics of the genre done well enough that one can focus on the visual emersion. However the lair of the Snake god which was the first dungeon piece I took part in, was filled with dull unrewarding gameplay that focused quite entirely on the subliminal story driven religious message. which might have worked had I been doing anything other than hitting boxes with a stick then restarting a section if I touched a box. Moving on only when all the boxes had been sufficiently hit. which makes it sound way more interesting than it actually was. The music which was immedidiately striking was set on loop for my entirity of my play time such that I truly had no motivation to keep hitting boxes.
Maybe it gets better, I'll hope for the best.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Still Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 21.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 50 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 20% положительных (5) |