Diari

It's truly charming visually, with a lovely style and great music to boot! But I wouldn't attach this project with a game- at least, not this kind of game. The gameplay feels way to experimental to be final. It's a fine story, but the game it's attached to holds it back. A lot of the mechanics feel very unpolished. The main jumps (I'll call it the ABA standard) occasionally get delayed when i press them, and the height varies in degrees that feel more up to chance than timing. I'll have times where my B jump doubles the height of my A and others when it doesn't even cover 1/3 the height. For a precision platformer, the acceleration feels totally out of wack - i can zoom to the other side of a corridor with a second of pressing left or right, which makes tight spaces with spikes nearly impossible with the micro-tapping i need to do on my keys. And the roll gives you invincibility, but I can't ever tell when I'll be able to move again or use it after cooldown. I'm gonna stay on spikes for a little bit. Why are their hitboxes square? And why have health canisters if they kill you instantly anyways? The projectiles that actually matter when it comes to health just feel like tiny gnat…

quite literally the most underrated game on steam

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An interesting world with very weak movement mechanics. Character motion is very abrupt and is nearly unplayable with the analog stick of the controller. I didn't go through the time trying to make it work with the D-Pad, but you will likely get better results with keyboard. That being said, there's many places where you have to land and maneuver in spaces that require micro adjustment of your movement where pushing an arrow for a second longer than it takes to register means dying and resetting a whole sequence. The presence of two (kinda three) forms of jump is interesting, but also rather overwhelming when alternating them as needed. The first timed sequence is just stupid as is the first boss. It might get better, but it's wasted enough of my time with unforgiving spikes that are easier to walk into when trying to jump than interesting to engage with. Very weird how it withholds health mechanics, but then those mechanics mean nothing more than handling bullet spam during some sections rather than insisting on pixel perfect accuracy of the endless spikes that still oneshot you.

Only recommend if you are a platformer vet. Fun game with smooth movement, but as a platformer noob this game is completely inaccessible. Only play this game if you have a few years of platformer experience and good motor skills.

下面是中英双译=bilingual translation (Chinese-English)。 Me：今天是2026年3月9日。是我玩Diari这么久以来的一次总结性锐评。我是从泰拉瑞亚模组到这里来的，也就支持一下作者，没想到这个游戏这么令人无语！（至今没有完美通关，也没有玩到最终结局{需要通过钥匙解锁的门}） 1.这个游戏的整体画风是相当不错的，建筑的布局也还行。但是越玩到后面你会感觉很烦。因为虽然游戏流程短，但是作者跟我说这个游戏有8个结局！！！我玩了36个小时-也就只解锁了4个（时钟，成长树，黑暗人，Aimacra的大头照）。为什么这么慢呢？答：就是这个结局的解锁方式是要求你在每一次对话中做出选择。每个选择会影响最后的结局。我服了，可能有人会问：哥们哥们，不是有存档点吗？OK看下一个锐评。 2.很烂的存档点：我是2024年7月30购买的Diari，这个游戏的保存是通过床来解决的。我们姑且举一个例子吧。。。 （世界A）OK！New game！ 让我们踏上旅程吧！好的，玩到最后，你发现你只能通过重新开一把游戏来解决了。（存档的机制是就近原则） （世界B）OK！又是一个新存档。又要重打一边了（除去失误大约要3个小时） （世界C）OK！你发现你只要在每一个选项前保存游戏，并且复制粘贴了下来，保存到自己新创建的文件夹中保存下来！ （世界D）怎么回事？这个存档文件夹怎么比游戏本体还要大？（我的老内存条有已经400MB了） 3，剧情，没什么大问题 4.（路痴与盲人）为什么我会只样子比喻玩家呢？因为在这个游戏中是没有小地图的，因为游戏引擎的原因，作者没办法。所以你只能到处闯来闯去，能有什么名堂来？ 总结：我受够这个作者了，我给她发消息她有时候就冷暴力我，Diari现在一堆BUG不修去搞2.5D的东西 QWQ Here is the English translation for your review. I have tried to keep the tone passionate and critical, matching your original text, while making it sound natural in English. Bilingual Translation (Chinese-English) 1.》Me: Today is March 9, 2026. This is a summary and a sharp critique after playing Diari for so long. I came here from the Terraria mod just to support the author, but I didn't expect the game to be this speechless! (I ha…