The Novelist v1.11-TE-0daytown

如何在你自私的野心与家庭的和谐间做出选择？如何通过一个又一个微小的决定让每一个家庭成员都感到开心？这些是《小说家（The Novelist）》向玩家提出的问题。尽管游戏对这些问题的解答并不十分出色，但其勇于在游戏中提出这样的内容已经值得玩家在上面花上几个小时了。在游戏中，玩家将扮演一名鬼魂，以一个旁观者的视角来体察一个家庭中所发生的各种矛盾冲突。在每天结束的时候，玩家可以对家庭成员施加影响，进而改变他们彼此之间的关系。《小说家》的故事和角色刻画方面仍有许多不足，让我多少有些失望，游戏也因此没能获得开发者所期望的那种程度的成功。IGN给出了6.5的分数。

《小说家》是一部有趣、极简抽象艺术风格的家庭伦理剧，却被肤浅的叙事方式拖了后腿。

作为一款着眼于家庭关系的游戏，《小说家》非常有趣，在一定程度上也能引起玩家的共鸣。不过游戏缺少雄厚的感情深度，而随着游戏的进行，角色刻画的缺陷也越来越明显。尽管如此，这部游戏也值得你静下心来好好玩上几个小时。尽管游戏中父母与孩子的关系刻画得比较肤浅，但伴侣之间的关系与各自的心理挣扎都再现得相当不错。

Description:
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be. The Kaplans have come to a remote coastal home for the summer, unaware that they’re sharing the house with a mysterious ghostly presence: you.

Read the family’s thoughts. Explore their memories. Uncover their desires and intervene in their lives. But stay out of sight; you can’t help the Kaplans if they know there’s a ghost in the house. It’s up to you to decide how Dan’s career and family life will evolve, but choose carefully; there are no easy answers, and every choice has a cost.

Dan’s relationships – to his work, his wife, and his son – react and shift in response to your choices. With a different sequence of events in every playthrough, The Novelist gives life to a unique experience each time you play.

The decisions you make will define the Kaplans’ lives, but they may also tell you something about yourself.