Mable & The Wood

This game is old. Even when it was released, it was not good

I am only 3 bosses into the game and I am thoroughly enjoyoing myself. The enemies are challenging without being too hard for my slower reflexes, and while the story is somewhat surface level right now, it would not kill the game if it never got deeper. I have been recommending this game to my friends and coworkers.

This has some interesting spins on the usual mixture of combat and platforming, but it grows somewhat stale over the course of the game. Initially you won't directly attack enemies, and instead have a sword that is "tethered" to your character. You hook it into a surface and can then move around for a limited amount. When you pull the sword towards you it will slice up anything that is inbetween. This is your attack and how you platform as well, since your character can't jump at all. Eventually you get different forms that change how these elements work, but essentially they're all twisted versions of standard game-play mechanics. For a little while it makes for some interesting game-play, as it subverts how you would normally approach things. But in the end you just do the same stuff you would in a title with more conventional controls, only now it's a bit more fiddly to do anything. There's the odd moment where this approach feels quite nifty, but it also means that boss-battles are quite simplistic, as it doesn't seem to really fit with providing adrenaline packed challenges. Either that or they just didn't do a very good job with them. Sometimes it's a pretty standard arrangement of traps and set-pieces in the level design that occassionally feel like they don't suit this "unique" control scheme, whereas sometimes it works. There's the odd sloppily done bit with bugs and glitches that lessens it overall, and the bland graphics aren't made up for by the pleasant music. It just about remains playable and engaging, but just because it does things differently doesn't mean that its any better than a conventional example of the genre. And in many ways this is still pretty average, albeit not a bad game overall.

...instead, I'm told I have to vanquish some random critters because (checks notes) that would 'bring the dawn'. The result is a poorly looking, malevolent parody of a metroidvania. Nondescript room after nondescript room, dead end after dead end, no discovery, no sense of wonder, no thrill at exploring a new world. No point playing it further. Mabel And The Wood? More like Mabel In The Trash Can.

游戏自我介绍是一款“银河恶魔城”游戏，其实在我看来和银河战士恶魔城八竿子打不着。游戏没有什么设置巧妙的谜题，就是不停地跑图。纯粹考验你的操作技巧。花了14个小时左右通关，解锁了一半的成就。地图不大友好，容易迷路，游戏对玩家的引导性不够。游戏bug不少，有时人物会陷进墙里面，用鬼魂技巧的时候更甚。全屏游戏退出后有时会花屏。既然是喜加一，就不好意思打太低分了，给四星吧。