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The new era of artistic expression is becoming more and more diverse, and the way stories are interpreted is constantly improving. The stunning debut of "Black Myth: Wukong" has made the mythological game a little more hot and deeper to pursue. More and more creators have re-chosen to polish the familiar stories, and make the classics reproduced in the public's information circle with unique and innovative performance models.
Today I want to introduce one of the unique National Style 2D action games - "Journey to the West • Glass Glass".
【Journey to the West Glass Cup" PV Video】
At first sight, it is strange, but it has a strong national charm; under the theme of the journey to the west, which is the most widely recognized by the people, it tells the love-hate entanglement experienced by the most obscure "sand monk" in the book "Five Hundred Years Under the Five Finger Mountain".
Journey to the West · "Glass Cup" wants to present a new mythological movie of national style in the form of a game.
【Concept Illustration of "Journey to the West"
Where does the story begin
Speaking of the journey to the west, the passage of the Great Haunting Heavenly Palace must have been deeply rooted in everyone's memory, and then it was five hundred years under the Five Finger Mountain, and the four masters and apprentices successively joined the team and learned the scriptures together, and everyone should be able to recall this.
However, this story is about the blank space of the original text, the five hundred years full of clues and imagination space.
【Original painting of the scene of "Journey to the West and Glass Cup"】
In the heavenly court of each magic power, excluding intention, object damage is almost impossible. However, a glass cup that survived during the great disturbance in the Heavenly Palace was shattered by the Roller Curtain General, so he was relegated to the human world, shouldering the responsibility of retrieving the fragments of the glass cup, and experiencing the pain of cultivation...
How the story is represented
Unlike Black Mythology, the author chose the way he was best at expressing himself.
The author from the art academy studied the direction of Chinese painting, and under his classic inheritance and his own painting style, he completed a unique set of national style art scenes and human images:
【Screenshot of some people in "Journey to the West" Liu Lizhan】
Considering the style of painting and the economic strength of independent game makers, the most suitable gameplay found is the horizontal scroll-style scene movement, and the static drawing with the plot performance of the pane line patch.
In the earliest versions, this was also a major part of the game. However, the author is not satisfied with this.
【Journey to the West Glass Cup" Early Game Plot】
A story needs to be vivid, and movies and games need to be more like it. Therefore, action adventure has become a new focus of the author's subsequent choice and development.
After adjusting the game genre to action-adventure, the author carefully designed various types of weapons and action performances, as well as a wealth of monster & boss attack/spell effects, so that the story performance is more in line with the rhythm of ups and downs. Of course, all this still follows the author's concept of national style.
【Battle Screen of "Journey to the West" Game】
In addition, in order to supplement the gameplay, the author also added some interesting gameplay and random content to it, so that the work also has depth in this aspect and can withstand the player's thinking.
【Random items and buffs in Journey to the West Glass Cup】
How the story progresses
As a "game" in which players can participate, it also has a natural advantage in addition to the film's interpretation of the story - the infinite possibilities that players can bring, and the author certainly does not let this go.
In the progress of the story, the player will also encounter multiple choices, which will also affect the direction of the story and gradually develop to a different ending.
【Plot branch options in Journey to the West Glass Cup】
So, the only information you can tell about how the plot will progress is that there are variables and multiple possibilities.
【The author's deliberate blank space in the PV of "Journey to the West"
As far as the content released so far is concerned, the target national style game movie "Journey to the West • Liu Lizhan" has a fairly excellent content expression and market competitiveness. The game will be launched in 2022, I believe that the complete work will certainly leave players with new topics and memories, let's wait and see!