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这么多年了还一直在更新，这游戏值得。

俄罗斯方块 YYDS

Best game to play with friends and family

A fun puzzle-solving game to know more about machine learning.

Getting started ❤️

It's a good game to kill time.

The Long Reach is a point-and-click horror-thriller game, filled with mystery, puzzles. You’ll be playing as Calvin and Stewart throughout the game. Discover what happens behind the scene and the experiment's purpose in General Education research facility, could you escape from this "tragedy"?

Any spoilers will seriously affect the game experience so coming up I will not describe much about the details related to the game plot.

At first, you are playing as Calvin, heading to Simon's corner (grocery store), he has to buy the groceries himself after having a quarrel with his girlfriend named Shelly. Everything is normal as usual but something has gone wrong right after Calvin gets the Jelly. The scene continues with two scientists (Stan and Shelly), followed by Stewart (the main protagonists in The Long Reach) walking in. It seems that three of them are carrying some sort of experiment before Christmas. There is a sudden blackout in the midst of the experiment. After coming back to his senses, Steward is found himself locked a the testing room. Now, the story is about to begin...

The Long Reach is very close to the traditional point-and-click adventure game, by interacting with NPCs or viewing textual information in the scene to get missions and related clues, collecting objects by exploring the environment and applying them to the appropriate items to solve the puzzle. Whether this kind of gameplay is fun or not depends entirely on the puzzle design since you need to make logical reasoning based on his acquisition information to determine the purpose of the collected item.
The gameplay could get a little repetitive as you have to run back and forth from one place to another such as rooms to collect the items you need for crafting purpose, mainly for solving the puzzles and progressing the story. I did experience missing a few items and important emails in the first run. My advice here is, interact with every single item you saw along the corridor, rooms etc. this may help you to unlock achievements too.
Moving to the next point, one of the best things in The Long Reach is the creation of an eerie atmosphere. It turns out that even a pixel-like picture, with excellent light, shadow effects and background music, can also present a very good thrilling atmosphere throughout the game. Next, choosing different lines won't result in different outcomes except for the last part, I doubt it.

Pixel art is used to portray the whole story along with the haunting soundtracks. It’s hard to be visually terrifying with a pixel art style comparing to 3D horror games. Thus, sound design plays a prominent role in the game (Yeah, the music literally thrills me out). Besides that, there is one graphic design which I find interesting is that when a character enters the elevator, the picture is temporarily cut into 3D from a horizontal 2D view.

+ Good story-telling
+ Nice pixel art
+ Great atmosphere and soundtracks
+ Diverse dialogue options
+ Autosaving
- A tedious way of solving puzzles

In an era of technological supremacy, it is always necessary to be alert to the potential threat of artificial intelligence to humans. In conclusion, I like the suspense and the pixel art in the story. It’s a great game with an amazing narrative, sound design and pixel style graphics, I finished my first walkthrough in 4.8 hours, missing 2 achievements on the way.

Rating: 8/10

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myStery24 a.k.a myStery

當初只有英文版的時候，我盲目地玩了幾個月。雖然沒搞清楚劇情但至少我還能繼續玩下去。我是因爲它出了中文才重新撿起這款游戲。游戲的玩法很簡單，围圍繞在打怪，收集物質，馴服寵物，釣魚和建設家園。不得不説的是，最近的更新實在是太棒了，不止支持中文還可以聯機。

+ 豐富的劇情
+ 幽默的對話
+ 挑戰性十足的任務 （包含支綫任務）
- 稍有不慎就很容易被杀死（走位很重要的）

高質量的游戲，我認爲原價購入絕對值得！

7/5/2019 對之前的評論做出一些詞語的修正

甭管他人怎么说，我就爱这游戏。一听就上瘾的音乐, 根本停不下来！！酷炫的场景互动与随机事件绝对能让你爱不释手。外加上让我意想不到的游戏玩法，刺激:P
每一关都设置了各种类的道具供你杀人（自行发挥吧xD），而且都是随机，每当你重新游玩，之前的道具可能不再存在或者换了位置，也算是给这款游戏提升了重玩机率。此外，游戏中可以解锁新角色/人物。（个人喜欢用警察女儿和电锯杀人狂）
在这里要强调的一点是游戏的难度级别也是满头疼的，它与游戏的进度不一致。某一关可能难度系数特高的，然后你会一次又一次地失败。
最后我想说因为《疯狂派对》，我开始喜欢上这种像素图形类的游戏。非常期待第二部！
评分：9/10
呃，其实我还没完全通关。自家的笔电（老了啦）不给力，都玩不了，呵呵。。。
我就是要杀个片甲不留，谁叫你三更半夜开派对？ （附加上一副得瑟的样子¯\_(ツ)_/¯）

我觉得这个游戏和九把刀的 《楼下的房客》有点相似。虽然我有那么一点选择困难症，但总体来说我还是挺喜欢这类型的游戏，加上游戏的画风蛮讨喜的。
每一次的抉择都会带来不同的惊喜，是好还是坏，就看你怎么选。