mumu 丨文
When I was a child, I liked a small game called "Theme Hospital", and two years ago, there was a spiritual sequel called "Double Point Hospital", in which players ran a hospital, but it was a group of neurotics.
The most memorable are various black humorous radio commentaries, such as "Hospitals that can't find patients will lose hospital qualifications" and "Vip visits, please try to pretend to be angry".
After all, the hospital is a bit of a serious place, and the result is that the game is funny. Especially when the epidemic is caused, there are always dead people, and the radio's complaints of "please patients do not die casually in the corridor..." echoed in the corridor repeatedly.
Doctor-patient-themed games are few, but not absent (not referring to the "Night Shift X Building").
In the past two days, watching Zard live broadcast was a new game on Steam by Amway, which is also related to the hospital, called "Rhythm Doctor", which is also a must in terms of nonsense.
The setting is a newly invented rhythm system that can remotely defibrillate a patient's heart, producing a rather miraculous effect.
And as a shift trainee, all you need to do is seize the perfect moment and press the space bar at the seventh beat of the music, which is unexpectedly simple.
During this time, you will encounter all kinds of strange patients, such as the armored warriors of the nightclub bungee, the severed swordsmen who wield swords randomly, and all kinds of strange small animals...
This makes you wonder whether this hospital is curing diseases and saving people, or whether it is here to exorcise ghosts. Occasionally, you will encounter network connection problems, and there will be various levels of difficulty in deformation, and the visual effect is amazing.
During the game, you will accidentally match a lot of idiot men and women to solve the supraventricular heart beat hypermobility caused by "electrocution".
That fluttering heartbeat, feeling like the sky is spinning, is this the feeling of falling in love?
Some music is particularly brainwashed, the rhythm can not be processed, the sequelae of playing several times is the drum beat of "bang, bang, bang", and the crisp beat of the seventh beat in the middle of the night still echoes in the brain.
Maybe you wonder why you have to count to "seven"? Before explaining, please touch your left chest and take a deep breath to feel it, after all, the heartbeat is the most primitive beat.
Usually, almost all melodic passages are divided into multiples of 8, 4, or 4 according to the number of beats – you can recall the trumpet of the broadcast gymnastics "one two three four, two two three four".
In fact, in the game, it is also eight beats, but it is only "one two three four five six seven (empty)", and the eighth beat is empty. Each beat visually appears as a pulse, so there are:
Knockcha, Knockcha, Knockcha, Boom (empty)
Boom (empty), Boom (empty), Boom (empty)
Tong Cha Tong (empty) Tong Cha Tong (Empty)
And so on various combinations of variations...
When there is only one patient, it is equivalent to a "single-voice melody", but in addition to melody, music also has other elements such as harmonic melody.
You'll find more patients joining in, with two, three, or even four lines at the same time, counting "one two three four five six seven!" together. At this time, the music is multi-layered and three-dimensional, and it is structured.
Sounds hardcore, right? But theoretically, the whole process only needs to be played by pressing a key. And the best thing about this game is that it consciously allows you to cultivate a "sense of rhythm" during gameplay.
The team that makes such an interesting game is called 7th Beat Games, a studio made up of more than a dozen young guys.
The first two developers, Hafiz Azman and Winston Lee, were interested in studying at cambridge in the United Kingdom, and won the 2014 IGF Student Showcase Game award for their Demo from Doctor Rhythm.
(The big red button controller they prepared for the exhibition)
I learned about this game many years ago in the Up Main Enigma Voice video. At present, the game has been listed on Steam, the price is 48 yuan, although it is still tested in EA, but the degree of completion is already very high.
Many people may have played or watched the streamers broadcast live another rhythm game they played, A Dance of Fire and Ice.
The same is the type that only presses a key and the difficulty is explosive, in a sense, it is a road to black...
Above is the game mechanics section. If the biggest idea of "Doctor Rhythm" is to express music theory in the form of a game, then the plot of this game can be said to be a windfall.
(Spoiler note below!!! ）
Later, you will find that this rhythmic cardiac defibrillation system is good, but it is actually for the service of capital, and the essence is to replace manpower and provide convenience for squeezing employees.
In the third act in particular, the camera switches from a variety of bizarre heart patients to the bottom medical perspective of the hospital shift.
The female doctor, accompanied by guitar chords, began to make a mental monologue, a "shift song" about the life of medical staff.
From morning to night, I didn't close my eyes for seven days, my friends were all far away from her, and she was the only one who couldn't go to the date and wedding.
Complaining that there is no personal time, "I knew I shouldn't have studied medicine", but I couldn't let go of my patients, "because they needed me more".
At this time, the camera of the politician was inserted at the right time, the suit and leather shoes looked like a dog, and the speech platform was exaggerated, criticizing the doctor for not having the spirit of service, the overtime pay should not rise, and advocating the privatization of medical treatment.
——The production team is from a foreign country, and it may be strange to put the plot advocating privatization of the field of people's livelihood in China. But if you look at the recent blizzard in Texas, the chaos caused by the privatization of the power grid, you can understand what it is.
Finally, the female doctor asked the shift changer, "Say yes half an hour before the shift, why did you come now?" ”
"No... I'm sorry I'm late, my mom has another seizure, the nurse is late, I can only accompany her first. I called the hospital before and asked them to talk to you, but it didn't look like they could notify you..."
If the previous love story belongs to the kind of nonsense funny, then a "Song of Shifts" adds a depth of reflection to the game story and directly sublimates the theme of the doctor-patient relationship.
Finally, I recommend that you can try it if you are interested, the new work of "Rhythm Heavenly Kingdom" can't wait, and it is still possible to play "Rhythm Doctor".
Not to mention, the game has also added a workshop function, and there are now quite a few online homemade scores that can be downloaded.
Article reference: "Tencent Game Creative Competition Bronze Award "Rhythm Doctor" R&D Story Sharing"
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