【Review Preface】
The Empire series of "Three Kingdoms Matchless" dates back to the release of "True Three Kingdoms 3: Empire" on March 18, 2004, compared to the original Empire series, which integrates RPG and SLG elements on the basis of the original game, allowing players to enjoy the refreshing slash and slash of "one ride and a thousand" while also using strategy and tactics to achieve the goal of unifying the world. Time back to September 27, 2020 Glorious announced the anniversary work "True Three Kingdoms Matchless 8: Empire" (hereinafter referred to as 358E) on the 20th anniversary of the "True Three Kingdoms Matchless" (hereinafter referred to as 358E), although it is not the much-anticipated "True Three Kingdoms Matchless 9" but the official announcement to abandon the controversial open world setting of this biography still makes many players clap their hands, after experiencing a ticket jump, the 358 Empire is finally officially released on December 23, 2021, let's take a look at how this game is!
【Visit the battlefield】
The presence of self-built characters to allow players to visit the battlefield can be said to be a major selling point of the Empire series, so the face pinch link has become the traditional art of the series. 358E this time follows the "Renwang 2" face pinching system, I believe that even if you have not played "Renwang 2" will hear about its excellent level, "pinch the face for three hours, die for five minutes" This evaluation can be said to be no exaggeration. It is believed that this time compared with the previous generation, the richer pinch system can make the protagonists of each series of games join the Three Kingdoms like "Renwang 2".
Putting aside the face pinching system, there are 94 matchless martial artists to choose from in the game, in addition to the 358 legendary martial generals, Dong Bai, Hua Xiong, Xiahou Ji and other people who appear in the DLC have also joined, which can be said to be the most in the past.
▲ Hua Xiong has Yan Liangwen ugly can you mention the schedule?
"Mass Face" as an indispensable part of the Peerless can be said to accompany me to play the Three Kingdoms Peerless series so far, here we do not discuss how many looks of the "Public Face" in 358E but talk about the warriors included in this game. Earlier only said that there are 94 peerless martial generals, why is there no mention of the "public face" here? Because I can't count at all, people like Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang who defected to the leader of the Wuquan clan after their defeat, and who did not have a good relationship with Han Sui, Beigong Boyu, I have never heard of these people, I believe that it will be interesting to play the role of these "marginal people" to unify the Three Kingdoms.
▲ Forgive me for seeing shallow I really didn't know there was such a person...
【Calming the Chaotic World】
The interior of the 358E can be divided into three parts: setting goals, implementing and evaluating, with a cycle of six months each. After the game starts, the player needs to choose any of the randomly generated political goals as the main goal for the current six months, and if the goal is achieved at the time of evaluation, the corresponding meritorious reward can be awarded.
Political strategic instructions can be divided into eight major items such as internal affairs, personnel, diplomacy, and military affairs, internal affairs affect finances and military food, personnel can mobilize troops, seal officers for military generals, diplomacy is used to form alliances and poach other forces and military generals, military can recruit troops to supplement the military generals, in these political strategies players can choose one instruction per month. Focusing on the walk in the command, after selecting this command, the player can have a dialogue with the warrior in the city to increase the favorability (regardless of whether the warrior is in the opposition or not), and when the favorability level is raised to S, it will trigger a confession (only the opposite sex) or a tie plot.
When the player's role position is promoted, the power in their hands will also increase. Taking the self-built character as an example, if you choose to join the faction of a group leader, you will start with the lowest level of warriors. The most basic siege can only start from the periphery of your city, and you can only nominate the wild warriors who have a better relationship with you in the walking interface, and whether you can join your country depends on the opinion of the monarch. As the position increases, players can provide different strategic objectives for the monarch to choose from in the evaluation summary, of course, if you are not happy in your home country, you can always switch to another country.
If you are a monarch, not only can the player participate in battles in various regions of the country at any time, but the fate of the warrior will also be decided by you, but the coolest thing is to directly refuse the political goals provided by the minister, how to come. However, if you want to compare, I still think it is more interesting to start from the military commander step by step.
▲Reaching certain conditions can trigger special events
Overall, 358E's internal affairs system is doing a good job, whether the player plays as a wild warrior or a monarch of a country will have a different experience. However, the setting that only one measure can be implemented a month greatly reduces the variables of the game, and there is the hope that interpersonal relationships can be more detailed in the next game, such as lü Lingqi who is not under his command when using Lü Bu as the monarch, but has become a wild warrior, and similar situations really affect the player's sense of involvement.
【One ride is a thousand】
In terms of combat, 358E continues the combo mechanic of this pass, which can be connected by holding down the RB button to continuous attacks, reactive attacks or special moves. Honestly, when 358 was passed down, because of the change of the continuous segment and the setting of changing the role from the beginning of the script, I did not play for long to retreat from the pit, but this time the actual experience of the changed continuous segment is actually not so unbearable, the continuous attack response attack played the continuous segment like the last blow of the old version of C1 followed by the last blow of C2, if I have to choose one of the two, I still think that the old version of the C continuous segment is more classic.
In the "True Three Kingdoms Matchless" 20th anniversary program officially announced the main gameplay of this game "siege war", after the battle begins, the player's faction will launch an attack on the random side of the enemy's home front, occupy different strongholds on the map can use different ways to attack the city. For example, if you occupy the rush car stronghold, you can arrange the rush car on the battlefield to launch an attack from the front, and after occupying the well base, the well car will go to the city wall to set up a ladder And the player can climb up the city wall to launch a surprise attack, and the variety of siege methods is also one of the buying points of this game.
Different from siege warfare, in the defensive battle of 358E, players not only have to deal with various enemy attacks but also timely dissolve the enemy's combat secret arrangement, if you do not deal with it in time, the difficulty of the battlefield will increase by more than one notch, as far as the thunder bear summoned by the enemy army is concerned, I think it can be said to be the most difficult unit in this game. In general, although the combat levels this time can attack the city in different ways, it is still inevitable to feel bored after playing for a long time, and compared with the previous game, it is still more interesting to play in different areas and different levels.
When the player controls the character to increase the level to obtain the title can unlock the secret meter, the secret meter is divided into two kinds of combat secret plan and battlefield secret plan, the battle secret plan requires the player to choose in the battle preparation link, after deciding the battle secret plan used, the battlefield will randomly refresh the task, complete the task similar to "occupy X strongholds", "find XX commander in X strongholds" after the secret plan arrangement is considered successful. Then the battlefield will appear only effective against the enemy of the poisonous fog, fire and other immortals, in addition to magic can also incite the mountain thieves to riot, ask for reinforcements, summon thunder bears and other espers.
Battlefield secrets are mainly responsible for dealing with unexpected situations on the battlefield, when the player controls the martial general's health is insufficient, he can use the "follow-up troops" to provide a reply for our army, such as attacking the enemy stronghold and encountering difficulties, you can use the "Kirin's Divine Thunder" to provide a large amount of attribute damage to the enemy. It is worth mentioning that each different battlefield secret plan is equipped with original paintings, and the quality of these original paintings is still quite high!
▲ y1s1 glorious original painting or top!
Unlike the ambiguous number of battlefields in this biography, 358E will display the total number of battlefields in the upper right corner of the screen according to the strength of the player's appearance, and the defeat and retreat of the warriors and the mutual fight between the soldiers will affect the number of battlefields. When the difference in strength between the two sides is large, the smaller side will rapidly reduce and irreparably reduce, and when one side is insufficient, the small soldiers will not be able to refresh, and the military generals will not be able to return to the battlefield after defeat, that is to say, if you want to achieve the feat of 20,000 horses and horses breaking 100,000 enemy troops in the Battle of Guandu in 358E, it is almost impossible. Strength will affect not only the situation of the battlefield but also the state of the warrior, if after a battle a military general suffers heavy losses and does not restore his strength when participating in the next battle, then the maximum physical strength of the military general will decrease. Simply put, the 358E warlord strength affects the maximum health of the warlord.
Finally, talking about the 358E brush brush, in battles and random events, the player will get the treasure jade, the treasure jade in addition to the additional attribute improvement can be equipped with the treasure jade also corresponds to the weapon level, like the fifth level treasure jade corresponding to the white crushing knife, equipped with the third level of the treasure jade weapon will be upgraded to the Kirin Tooth. Combined with the internal affairs system, 358E strengthens the SLG gameplay and weakens the traditional brush brushing link, but compared with the way to obtain secret weapons in the specific levels of the "Warring States Matchless 5" character in the same period, 358E's weapon acquisition is more common.
【Evaluation Summary】
After learning the lessons of 358 this biography, 358E abandoned the open world setting, siege warfare and defensive warfare are strategic but will be easy to get tired of playing for a long time. Fortunately, the interesting enough interior system adds a lot of playability to this game, allowing players to have different experiences in various positions. However, from the positioning of the 20th anniversary of this work, it is still almost meaningless.