Unexpectedly, the five-year-old mobile game "Legend of Wonderland RO: Guarding Eternal Love" (hereinafter referred to as RO Shouai) actually had a new action.
Perhaps many young players have not heard of RO MMORPG, but for some old players, RO is like "Legend" or "World of Warcraft" in their minds, which is a landmark masterpiece.
The four words "Legend of Wonderland" itself represent the feelings and memories of old players, and the failure of RO2 has made many players who have left good memories in RO "difficult to reconcile". So from the moment my heart announced the launch of the self-developed RO ShouAi, many of the old players around me simultaneously conveyed to me such a message: "My childhood has continued again."
I am pleased that Heartbeat has always been a state of dedication to RO Shou Ai. On the basis of constantly modifying the old version, each version update can bring you enough and fun new content. To know that the operation of mobile games for 5 years is itself a very difficult thing, to be able to maintain such an update frequency as always in the five years, I really feel that the entire development team is "generating electricity for love".
A few days ago, the development team prepared a sumptuous "online face-to-face meeting" for players who have been supporting the game. The time to face the meeting is not long, but from the perspective of content intensity, it is not as simple as just announcing some new content.
For "RO Shouai" itself, this online face-to-face will be more like a declaration, with a rich and rich content to tell players that in the next five years, RO Shouai will be more exciting.
The renovation of the picture does not mean that the taste has changed
For old games, updating the art is actually a "thankless thing": first, the engine of the game has been determined at the time of development, which leads to the fact that the space for updating the art is actually limited; and the old art style has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is also a very severe test for the art team to add on the basis of maintaining the original art style.
The art style of "RO ShouAi" is inherited from Duanyou, and the style of Duanyou itself is a cute type of the Q version. For the development team or new and old players, directly following the old style is undoubtedly the most conservative and easiest way. But to my surprise, at this face-to-face meeting, the production team actually carried out a drastic renovation of the original art - the professional style, the scene map, and even all the fashions that had been launched before, were completely renovated. The details of the renovation design are far more than just refining the textures.
Judging from the comparison of the pictures that have been announced, the most obvious thing is the change in the posture and proportion of the original character: compared with the original character modeling, the renovated character has removed the original black outline of the three shades and two, making the character model itself softer; the head-to-body ratio has been further reduced, and the square piece hand has finally changed back to five fingers, making the character more in line with the aesthetics of contemporary players when viewed up close; the professional appearance has been redesigned, such as more bottles hanging from the alchemical waist. Priests have more belts and shoulder decorations, etc.
In terms of scenes, the changes in the new version are more obvious: the kingdom of Prundra has been moved directly from the interior to the outside, and sunlight can be poured directly from the courtyard into the throne; the guild hall has added many new objects and light sources than before. Players can have a drink at the bar counter and have a lively time.
Just adjusting the characters and costumes is really a big job. Coupled with the recombination of the scenes, "RO Shou Ai" can be called a new "change" this time - it is more appropriate to call it "deep" than a change.
Where it wasn't good enough, refine it to make it normal; and will there be a better expression of what was already good enough? In fact, judging from the degree of renovation of the overall picture, the overall tone and art style of the game have not changed significantly. So for the development team, what they're thinking about is not how to look fresher or better, but more like "RO in the eyes of modern players."
So when players enter the game, they will feel that RO Shouai has changed, but it will not make you feel like "changed a game" - the new version of the character has become more handsome, the scene has become more beautiful, the desire to take photos has become stronger, but in the end, it is still the RO you are familiar with, and the taste has not changed at all.
New themes, new ways to play
The second play is the theme of the next version, The Mystery of the Seven Royal Families.
Compared with the previous simple way of advancing the main line plot, this expansion pack needs to be "decrypted" by the player - this is a story about the curse of the royal family, and the player in front of the screen is no longer stupid to watch the plot, but needs to participate in it, investigate, search for evidence, and reason about the bizarre events.
Just looking at the trailer, you can see that this is a new story that includes elements of suspense and horror, and the system shown is quite the scale of "Reverse Judgment". But I personally feel that the evidence search reasoning will not be the main gameplay of this core expansion pack - after all, "RO ShouAi" itself is an MMORPG game, and running the main line and fighting monsters are the first ways to play.
However, it is not difficult to guess that while the player is promoting the progress of the royal secret scroll, the map attributes as a reward can effectively improve the efficiency of the player in fighting monster brushing; on the other hand, the emergence of map attributes will undoubtedly make the player more focused on the behavior of advancing the main plot. The two influence each other, so that players can feel a richer and more convenient game experience in the running map spawner.
In addition, we can see a pagination called Insights. This is a skill similar to the "gift" in RPGs, enhancing the ability to solve puzzle parts by using insight points. Although the ability to be enhanced is not shown in the film, it can be seen that the number of abilities involved in the puzzle part is as many as 5. It can be seen that the entire puzzle solving system will have a certain degree of complexity, and the addition of ability is not only affecting the player's reasoning efficiency.
But then again, whether the design of the reasoning system is good or not, and whether the development of the story can justify itself, it all depends on the skills of the production team. However, I personally still hope that such a heavy story line can finally usher in a bright ending.
New characters, new quests, and new songs enrich the content of the version
As part of the new expansion pack, the new classes and new quests will naturally not be absent. Although goku is the DPS class that appears in RO Shouai for the first time, in fact, in the original RO, goku is the second turn class of taekwondo - a profession that abandons the path of taekwondo and obtains soul power. It has the strongest life-saving and auxiliary skills in the original version, and has a unique advantage in GVG battles.
The professional appearance of the Goku in RO Shou Ai is significantly different from the image in the original work. However, it can still be seen that the equipment used by the Golem is still the original legal equipment. This also shows that in terms of feel and career positioning, there should be no major changes in the spirit of the enlightened. The promotional video mentions that the Golem will have a strong output ability and the ability to change the shape of the enemy, compared to the original Golem in the GVG very limited output ability and field control ability, can the Golem in "RO ShouAi" abandon the auxiliary plus direction of IVD and evolve more fun or unexpected genres? I'm looking forward to that.
Another quest, "Lost Island", is added to bring players more ancient equipment. As an ancient equipment system with a certain degree of randomness, the addition of new quests obviously increases the way players can improve their equipment, and it is not difficult to predict that Lost Island will become a lively scene with a lot of people after the version update.
At the end of the new content section of the Direct Encounter, Jun Ichikawa, a well-known music producer who contributed songs in the mobile game "Magical Girl Komon Gaiden", announced the news of the new version of the theme song "Missed Flower" together with singer Yumi Matsuzawa.
In addition to the major music platforms on the song conference, the RO soundtrack will also be made into vinyl records. The vinyl record itself has collectible value, and judging from the published images, the production team itself wants to make this record a perfect collection - the entire album not only has gilded ornamentation and relief prints, but also an abstract main city concept map and a text description containing multiple Chinese words. If I could get a vinyl record like this, I would probably not even be willing to take it apart.
What makes me even more concerned is that the name of this vinyl is called "the next five years". So is there something more exciting hidden in this vinyl record?
What will we see in the next five years?
In the second half of the conference, the producers did not live up to the expectations of the players, and directly brought the development direction of the game for the next five years.
First of all, the game will bring 2 original "hero classes" to players after the end game full class update is completed. If you are a player who has been playing in the series, I believe that the image of the original hero announced this time is very familiar - it is the magic swordsman and valkyrie from the NPC.
Although at the launch, the development team only brought art designs for these two opposing attribute roles. The method of obtaining classes, the positioning of the team, and the difficulty of operation are still mysteries. But the development team promised that the future hero class would be "lightweight" and the skill mix and tactics would be "liberalized". And since it is called a "hero class", it is conceivable that the strength of the character will reach a newer height.
New classes plus level increases are bound to bring about all the stubborn diseases of MMORPGs - numerical inflation. However, the development team seems to have thought of this for a long time: in order to cope with the numerical increase, the development team will also compress the value on the basis of the original battle formula, greatly reducing latency and improving the overall game experience.
From these two points, it is speculated that the future RO shouai will become more lightweight and emphasize the mutual cooperation between professions. On the premise of reducing the threshold of players' games, it is more prominent that the strong social concept of union cooperation and players helping each other has been emphasized in RO Shouai.
Secondly, as one of the derivative developments that have been mentioned in recent years, RO Shouai will also join the mechanism of "global events". This new mechanic will support 6v6 vs 12v12 battles, and can build their own rooms, allowing players to compete in the last game anytime, anywhere. This is undoubtedly a convenient and intimate new change for RO that carries forward the PVP and GVG gameplay.
At a time when the e-sports wave is sweeping the game industry, RO's measures to keep love will inevitably give players the illusion of "catching up with the fashion". Although the PVP content of RO itself is very solid, but engaging in e-sports competitions is a very labor-consuming and material work, how to win the attention of new players, or through e-sports to successfully break the circle, it is still debatable.
Finally, RO has been linked with several IPs such as Ultraman, EVA, Kaichuan, and Dragon Fighter. At the face-to-face meeting, the development team announced that in addition to some of the events that will be reproduced, two popular Japanese IP characters will be linked as gunmen and samurai next year.
The production team sells a small level with the prompt that "one is to gain incredible power at a huge price, and the other is to drive the steel body with a fiery soul of justice". I discussed with several editors in the group for half a day, and I felt that "Fullmetal Alchemist" or "Tianyuan Breakthrough" seemed to be more in line with these characteristics, but what the correct answer was, or look forward to the official final answer.
epilogue
I always thought that after so many years of baptism, the heat of RO love has long gone. But looking at the blessings from players at home and abroad at the end of the film, I really realized that those players who love RO and make RO a part of their lives have never left.
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of RO. In the near future, the new version of RO Shouai will also meet with players. This change is a new journey for players, but for the development team, it is only the first step for the next five years.
Looking to the future without stopping, how long will the RO accompany us in the future? Let's wait and see.
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