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盘点2012年10款经典的独立冒险游戏

发布时间:2013-01-21 14:57:30 Tags:,,,

作者:Konstantinos Dimopoulos

所有人都知道,冒险游戏还未消失。除此之外,独立领域(甚至在“独立”这一术语开始流行起来之前)也始终都是这类型游戏的主要支柱之一,也是任何新理念,工具,次类型和实践的“孕育箱”。随着我们的Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter项目,以及Wadjet Eye Games和Telltale的活跃,我们可以看到冒险游戏的不断崛起,即独立冒险游戏以全新的形式和姿态再次“绽放”在我们面前是件再自然不过的事了。

所以挑选2012年最优秀的10款冒险游戏变成了一个极具挑战性的任务,也许我们忽视了一些非常出色的作品,但同时我们也对呈现在这里的10款游戏充满自信,它们都是独立冒险游戏的经典之作:

1.《共鸣》(发行商:Wadjet Eye Games/开发商:XII games)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

Resonance(from indiegames)

Resonance(from indiegames)

早在2007年,开发商们便公开了这款游戏,那时它已经被当成是经典了。这是关于科学误区的互动故事,一名粒子物理学家的神秘死亡引起人们相互竞争去找出隐藏的地下室,并寻找他那可怕的新发现,同时还可以不断进化角色。可以说《共鸣》拥有扣人心弦的情节,引人入胜的科幻背景,卓越的编写技巧,高质量的旁白以及高像素的图像等等。这是一款复杂的冒险游戏,玩家需要控制4个独特的角色,同时游戏还使用了独创性的记忆机制,让角色和游戏世界更显生动。

2.《The Sea Will Claim Everything》(开发商:Jonas Kyratzes)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

The Sea Will Claim Everything(from indiegames)

The Sea Will Claim Everything(from indiegames)

这是一款发生在超现实的“梦想土地”上的游戏,它具有最出色的音乐,同时其手绘风格的图像也不会让玩家感到别扭,它所传达的故事会让你对游戏充满自豪感(可能会这么想),它拥有了许多古怪的角色,它设置了一堵用于呈现文本内容的墙壁,它甚至突出了2个非常巧妙的谜题,但说实话,这些都不是吸引玩家玩《The Sea Will Claim Everything》的主要原因。很多玩家都是因为游戏可以帮助自己变成一个更加出色的人而去尝试它。

3.《McPixel》(开发商:Sos)[面向Windows,Mac和Linux的付费游戏]

McPixel(from indiegames)

McPixel(from indiegames)

作为Sos Sosowski面向Windows和Mac而发行的具有戏剧性的冒险游戏,《McPixel》是第一款成功发行于Steam的Greenlight平台上的游戏,也是第一款得到海盗湾(游戏邦注:一个专门储存,分类即搜寻Bittorrent种子文件的网站)公开认可的游戏。除了这些第一的头衔外,《McPixel》还具有非常出色的设计以及有趣的指向点击机制,突出了超过100个单一控制屏幕,以及20秒的挑战内容,让玩家必须通过使用在周边领域找到的对象去阻止爆炸灾难的发生。

4.《认知:艾丽卡·里德的惊悚故事第一章:刽子手》(开发商:Phoenix Online Studios)[面向Windows和Mac的付费游戏]

Cognition(from indiegames)

Cognition(from indiegames)

利用团队中曾负责《国王密使》3D创造的人才,以及《狩魔猎人》设计师Jane Jensen的帮助,《认知:艾丽卡·里德的惊悚故事第一章:刽子手》成为了一款能够带给玩家超自然感触的黑暗惊悚游戏,几乎所有类型的玩家都能够进行尝试。故事写作非常出色,制作价值让人印象深刻,大多数谜题都非常具有吸引力,更重要的是,游戏情节既简单又扣人心弦。玩家需要在游戏中帮助Erica Reed(少量但却强大的女性领导者之一),使用其认知功能和探索技巧而抓捕一系列杀手。这种游戏设置不仅非常刺激,同时还能激发玩家的大脑运转。

5.《一路向北:第一章》(开发商:Skygoblin)[面向Windows,Mac,Linux以及iOS]

The Journey Down(from indiegames)

The Journey Down(from indiegames)

一开始便作为最让人印象深刻的免费冒险游戏之一,随后《一路向北:第一章》经过不断完善,最终发展成让人惊艳且非常出色的游戏,最难能可贵的还是它仍保留了出色的冒险元素,Rastafarian主题,以及能够逗乐玩家的幽默感。游戏的2位主人公Bwana和Kito既需要努力做到收支相抵,还需要在面对贪污和各种危险的情况下解决谜题,并继续向前行走着。而我们也仍耐心地等待着《第二章》的到来,并对游戏的图像风格和高质量的旁白赞叹连连。

6.《埃德娜和哈维:哈维的新眼睛》(开发商:Daedalic)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

Edna & Harvey(from indiegames)

Edna & Harvey(from indiegames)

卡通图像,适时的幽默,蓝色的兔子,黑暗的背景,以及乐趣,不会特别苛刻的谜题和迷你游戏的混合都将《哈维的新眼睛》塑造成一款非常有趣的游戏,除此之外,它还不会吓跑那些刚接触冒险游戏的玩家们。同时,帮助反抗的孩子们击败女修道院院长并逃出学校能够带给玩家更大的满足。并且《哈维的新眼睛》也是少数能够与出色的“前辈”相媲美的续集游戏。

7.《原基》(开发商:Wormwood Studios/发行商:Wadjet Eye Games)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

Primordia(from indiegames)

Primordia(from indiegames)

如果2012年不是独立冒险游戏腾飞的一年,《原基》在这个列表上的排名将会更靠前。不过不管怎样,这里所列出的所有游戏都非常出色。也许《原基》需要找到最适合自己的步调,也许它缺少了我们所期待的创造性谜题,但不管怎么说它仍是一款拥有华丽图像,并发生在世界末日后世界(没有人类)的出色游戏。因为世界的创造者已消失了,所以整个游戏世界被聪明的机器人所占领,但这一切都不是《原基》的最大魅力所在。实际上,从这款游戏中我们可以明显地看出《Beneath A Steel Sky》的影子。

8.《Cypher》(开发商:Cabrera Brothers)[面向Windows和Mac的付费游戏]

Cypher(from indiegames)

Cypher(from indiegames)

《Cypher》是一款既有网络朋克元素也有商业性质的文本冒险游戏,我们从中可以感受到设计师想通过图像再现这类型游戏,并将其引向全新的用户。尽管具有一定的缺陷,但是这款游戏凭借着让人惊艳的图像,有趣的故事以及合理的选择设置取得了巨大的成功。《Cypher》发生在名为NeoSushi的城市中(灵感是源自80年代的科幻漫画),玩家必须在死亡线上挣扎着,而其他人则需要努力找出储存在你脑中的数据。同时,你还需要努力与与分析程序做对抗,但我们总是认为这只是第一步。

9.《金属死亡》(开发商:Walk Thru Walls Studios)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

Metal Dead(from indiegames)

Metal Dead(from indiegames)

在经历了不可避免的僵尸末日后,两个金属人发现自己的耳朵里充斥着重金属音乐,同时他们还自杀性地驱车朝着感染区中央前进着,即MediGeniTech的总部。当其中一个金属人死去后,僵尸头将变成暗示系统,告诉着我们2012年最粗暴的冒险即将展开。带着手绘的图像,幽默感,困难的谜题以及有趣的结局,《金属死亡》可以说是一款不能错过的好游戏。除此之外,僵尸角色也具有娱乐性与新颖性。

10.《Anna’s Quest: Vol. 1》(开发商:Krams Design)[面向Windows的付费游戏]

Annas-Quest(from-indiegames)

Annas-Quest(from-indiegames)

《Anna’s Quest》是2012年最让人惊讶的冒险游戏,不仅因为它那让人印象深刻的游戏设计,同时这也是该款游戏的开发商第二次进行指向点击游戏的尝试。它不仅拥有出色的外观,高质的音效,有趣的动画,同时还传达了深层次的童话故事,能够带给玩家一些特别的感触——所以尽管游戏并不长,但却能让玩家获得充实感。

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Top 10 Indie Adventure Games of 2012

By Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Adventure games were never really dead; everybody knows that. Besides, the indie scene, even before the term indie was such a widely used word, was one of the main pillars of the genre and a wild incubator of new ideas, tools, sub-genres and practices. In our post Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter, Wadjet Eye Games and Telltale days then, during a most obvious genre renaissance, it’s only natural that the indie adventure is blooming in all its forms and shapes.

Choosing the top 10 adventures of 2012 has thus been a most challenging task and we’re sure to have skipped some rather brilliant offerings, but we are pretty confident the 10 games presented here are both excellent and representative of what indie adventures excel at:

10. Anna’s Quest: Vol. 1 (Krams Design) [Windows, paid]

Anna’s Quest was the most surprising adventure of the year, mainly because it’s such an impressively accomplished and excellently designed game, while also being its developer’s second only attempt at a point-and-clicker. Interestingly it also happens to be a wonderfully illustrated, perfectly voiced, charmingly animated, deep and refreshingly creepy fairy-tale with some really odd touches, that, despite its short length, feels absolutely rich.

9. Metal Dead (Walk Thru Walls Studios) [Windows, paid]

Following the apparently inevitable zombie apocalypse two metal-heads find themselves listening to heavy metal tunes while suicidally driving towards the epicenter of the infestation; the corporate HQ of MediGeniTech. When one of said metal-heads dies and his severed, zombified head turns into a brilliant hint system and plot device one of the most outrageous adventures of 2012 begins in earnest. Sporting graphics that felt properly hand-drawn, a wild sense of humour, tough puzzles and a glorious finale, Metal Dead simply cannot be missed. Oh, and it’s all the proof you should need that zombies can still be both entertaining and novel.

8. Cypher (Cabrera Brothers) [Windows and Mac, paid]

CYPHER is a cyberpunk, commercial text-adventure game released with the ambitious goal of aesthetically revitalizing the genre and introducing it to new audiences. Quite shockingly and despite its flaws it actually succeeded; must have been those amazing visuals, that interesting story and the incredible selection of feelies… Set within NeoSushi, a city obviously inspired by ’80s sci-fi manga, CYPHER has you struggling to stay alive while everyone seems to be after some sort of data stored in your head. Granted, it also has you struggling against its parser and less-than-stellar translation, but we can’t help but feel that this was only the first step.

7. Primordia (Wadjet Eye Games / Wormwood Studios) [Windows, paid]

If it weren’t such an excellent year for the indie adventure game, Primordia would have placed much higher on this very list. Then again, we all know that all the games here are all virtually equally excellent. Anyway. Primordia might need a while to properly find its pace and it might lack those superbly innovative puzzles many of us crave, but it’s a stunningly beautiful pixel-art game set in a unique post-apocalyptic world that also lacks living humans. It does sport a smart robot-religion worshiping the long lost creators instead, but that’s not what makes Primordia a sublime game. It’s the dialog and the fact that it’s an accomplished indie love-letter to Beneath A Steel Sky.

6. Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes (Daedalic) [Windows, paid]

Cartoon graphics, twisted and at times anarchic humour, blue rabbits, dark undertones and an assortment of fun and not particularly demanding puzzles and mini-games make Harvey’s New Eyes an incredibly enjoyable game that, as an added bonus, won’t intimidate genre newcomers. Besides, helping rebellious kids battle the oppressive regime of a Mother Superior run school is most satisfying on more than a few levels. And Harvey’s Eyes definitely is one of those few sequels that manage to measure up to their illustrious predecessors.

5. The Journey Down: Chapter One (Skygoblin) [Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS]

Starting off as one of the most impressive freeware adventures we have ever seen, The Journey Down: Chapter 1 evolved into an absolutely stunning and impossibly polished offering, that most obviously remains an absolutely excellent adventure with a Rastafarian theme and humour that will actually make you laugh. Bwana and Kito, its two protagonists, are trying to make ends meet while solving puzzles and journeying through a plot of corruption and danger, whereas we are impatiently waiting for chapter 2 and marveling at the stylized art and quality voice-overs.

4. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, Episode 1 (Phoenix Online Studios) [Windows and Mac, paid]

Employing the talents of the team responsible for re-imagining King’s Quest in 3D and the help of legendary Gabriel Knight designer Jane Jensen, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, Ep.1: The Hangman is a dark thriller with supernatural touches that all genre fans have to experience. The writing is top-notch, the production values impressive, most of the puzzles inspired and, most importantly, the plot is simply gripping. Helping Erica Reed, one of those rare strong female leads, use her subtle powers of post-cognition and detective skills to bring down a serial killer is properly exciting and will even give that old brain a work-out.

3. McPixel (Sos) [Windows, Mac and Linux, paid]

Sos Sosowski’s comedic Windows and Mac adventure game McPixel was the very first title to be ever successfully published as part of the Steam Greenlight program and, I think, the very first game openly endorsed by Pirate Bay. Firsts aside, McPixel is an elegantly designed and utterly hilarious take on the point-and-clicker featuring over 100 single-screen, 20-second challenges in which players must prevent explosive disasters by using objects found in the surrounding area.

2. The Sea Will Claim Everything (Jonas Kyratzes) [Windows, paid]

It’s the biggest game in the surreal and wonderful Lands of Dream, it sports one of the best soundtracks we’ve ever encountered, its unique hand-drawn visuals wouldn’t feel out of place in a children’s book, it tells a story that will make you proud of gaming (and possibly think), it features dozens of odd characters, it’s huge, it’s got impressive walls of text and it even features two of the smartest puzzles we’ve encountered, but these are not the reasons you should play The Sea Will Claim Everything. No. You should play this game because it can actually help you become a better person.

1. Resonance (Wadjet Eye Games / XII games) [Windows, paid]

Resonance, a game originally announced back in 2007, should already be considered a classic. It is an interactive story about science gone spectacularly wrong, a particle physicist’s mysterious death that sparks a race to find his hidden vault and claim his terrifying new discovery, and evolving characters. Great plot, excellent sci-fi setting, brilliant writing, quality voice-overs and some of the best pixel-art graphics we’ve ever seen aren’t all that Resonance has to offer though. It’s a complex adventure that lets you control four unique characters and introduces a ground-breaking memory mechanic that really brings its characters and world to life. (source:indiegames)


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