Is there a mobile game on the market that can support several project departments and studios?
I think this mobile game is the Yin and Yang Division. As a two-dimensional cultivation game, Yin yang division not only brings rich operational benefits to NetEase, but also brings a huge value of cultural IP to NetEase - Yin and Yang Division World.
No matter which mobile game is on the market, it has a "life cycle" from the peak to the gradual demise. As the game of Yin and Yang Division gradually walked down the altar, NetEase did not weaken the existence of Yin and Yang Division, but chose to lay out early - to derive the cultural IP of Yin and Yang Division into a variety of games to retain the vitality of cultural IP.
For example, Yin and Yang Division players have been joking that everything in the Yin and Yang Division is perfect except for the modeling and the occasional fight between the painter. But unexpectedly, NetEase transferred the painter and the modeler (ridicule) to the Baiwen card and the decisive battle of Ping An Jing, respectively.
As a result, the painter did not have the obstacle of modeling, and directly "beautiful to fly" in the Baiwen card. The modeler, in the decisive battle of Heian Kyo, has no limitation of the painter, and has also become a "pain" that the players of the Yin and Yang Division cannot get. In the end, the Yin-Yang Division player can only love and kill each other in Heian Kyo with the planner.
The above passages, as long as they are old players of the Yin and Yang Division, will smile after reading them.
But this also illustrates a problem from the side, the new games derived from the Yin and Yang Division - all doing a good job.
Judging from the 520 conference last year, NetEase's ambitions are not limited to these two games. NetEase will also continue to extend the cultural IP of the Yin-Yang Division, including the "Post-Yin-Yang Division" game, code-named World.
At the 520 press conference, NetEase did not publish too much information about the game, only saying that the backstory of "CodeName World" occurred a hundred years after the story of "Yin and Yang Division". So I inquired about the relevant information and found that NetEase released the social recruitment information about the "CodeName World" project team.
It reveals a bit of plot: Heian Kyo has become a chaotic world of power division due to the disaster, and humans and monsters have been at war, and the world is gradually dying.
At the same time, the official website of Codename World also released a game introduction video. To be honest, after Watching this video, Ah Liang was very touched. Because in this story, we can see the "old man" memories of Heian Kyo.
The old man's memories, starting from the great battle between Oniche and Ibaraki, show the story of humans and yokai working together to destroy Tsukinohahime, and also show the grand scene of the feast of the Heian Kyo Ghost King.
But the key point, at the end, the climax of the storyline, begins with the forces of all sides working together to resist the Great Snake of Yagi. In the video, Harumi, Kagura, and even eight hundred bhikshunis are all working together to defend against the invasion of the Great Serpent of Yagi. Even the armies of the Great Rivers, humans, and the Genji family all came together to launch an earth-shattering defense of the human world.
That is to say, after the feast of the Ghost King, the major forces in Heian Kyo will directly face the resurrected Yagi Great Snake. Whether it is humans, Dajiangshan, Yin and Yang Division, or the Genji Family, they will all come together to protect Heian Kyo, which will be the future plot direction of the Yin and Yang Division. However, the video came to an abrupt halt before the end of the war.
The old man said that the legendary story of the Yin and Yang masters completely disappeared in a catastrophe, leaving only this war-torn world.
However, it is worth mentioning that in the game Codename World, the territory of the Genji family appears. All the inhabitants live under the protection of Genji, but outside the living area, the surrounding watchtowers and positions are towering, confirming the war-torn world thread.
In short, the code name World is the afterlife of the Yin-Yang Master. By pushing back the plot, you can also get a certain amount of "spoiler information". After the Feast of the Ghost King, the various forces of the Yin and Yang Division split their heads to purify the "Cloud Outer Mirror Fragment". Then, they will gather into a force to face the resurrected Yagi Great Snake.
But at present, there is still a "suspicious point" in the plot, after the war - the Yin and Yang Division world suffered heavy casualties, but it is not clear whether it was injured by the Great Snake of Yagi or by mysterious forces - such as tianren and ghost stings. What do you say?
Will all the forces of Heian Kyo come together and defeat the resurrected Yagi Serpent?