Posted on: December 17, 2022

GerardDG
游戏: 236 评论: 54
One of the best games of all time...
...But also one of the most frustrating. It's easy to admire Darkest Dungeon. Its mastery of atmosphere and ambience is unsurpassed. Wayne June is a phenomenal voice actor and a herald of what quality VA work can mean for videogames. The writing and worldbuilding synergize perfectly with the medium. Darkest Dungeon has that kind of passive, subtle narrative that you absorb without noticing it, until you're up to your elbows in horror and it suddenly clicks what's going on, why you're fighting these people, and why their faces are shaped like molten cheese fondue. This art and style and voicework haunts me to this day. How many games from 2016 can say that? I am still thinking about Darkest Dungeon, in a way that no other game can rival. But it's also difficult to recommend Darkest Dungeon. It is a stressful and frustrating experience - on purpose. The latter half of the game is unfun, unfair and unrelenting. On the highest tier, enemies hit for half your health before you take a turn, your characters often miss, and before you know it, several party members are on deaths door. This happens basically all the time and deaths are hard to avoid. Any character lost requires significant grind to replace and it's just this unending slogfest, for what feels like no reason. That's what the game is about. Stress, loss and trauma. In an era of skinnerboxes and live service, I think that's a worthwhile experience to center your game around. I wanna validate the haters here: this probably isn't what you play videogames for. The Darkest Dungeon endgame will crush you and leave you demoralized. I can recommend levels 0-4 to most people interested in squad management RPGs. Level 5, 6 and the Darkest Dungeon? You probably won't enjoy them. I didn't enjoy them and neither did my friends. Buyer beware.
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