Foreword: From the perspective of January 2022, if you have the heart to review the development process of domestic mobile games in 2020 and 2021, there are two key time points - "Original God" in September 2020 and "Magic Tower" in December 2021. As one of the few large-scale open-world games on the domestic market, even if there are many differences in the world view, operation mode, and screen engine, it is difficult for players not to compare the two together. Such as the pool flowing water, combat system, screen engine and other issues, the player has their own conclusions, the author also try to avoid stepping on a bunch of one here, the topic of this article is the word "map".
The facts are heart-wrenching! Tower players laugh at the map for being too small, less than one-half of the Moon
As we all know, there are seven countries in the whole picture of Tivat, and at the current stage, only three countries are open to Mond, Rizuki, and Inari. To be fair, we chose the Mond body (that is, excluding the snow mountain) and the Riyue body as a reference, from the existing data, as of the opening of the original god has completed a total of about 15 square kilometers of map size, accounting for less than 1/5 of the total map size (about 70 square kilometers), this algorithm is based on the distance prompt of the task guide.
Looking at the magic tower again, some players recently calculated the upper and lower physical distances of the open area of the magic tower (that is, the Star Island Refuge - Snow Field Double-headed Dog), the result is 2765m, combined with the left and right distance is slightly less than the upper and lower distance, the conclusion is that "the magic tower map is only 2000m by 2000m, only about 4 square kilometers". Then some phantom tower players laughed at themselves, "The fact is very serious, it is indeed small, not half the size of the next door Liyue", "Take the map than iron to meet porcelain, fortunately the phantom tower Z axis is rich".
Subsequently, some of the original god players also began the road of "grabbing bamboo shoots", and even some netizens said that "the magic tower just opened and was in a hurry to link up, which is not clear to continue life." Similar to the original god being ridiculed by the Zelda player group, the public opinion pressure of the magic tower since its opening is indeed not small, but is it really so "unpredictable" as rumors? Non also.
The magic tower has a frequent rhythm, the production is hasty is the root cause, and netizens still need to be tolerant
Since its launch on December 16, 2021, it is obviously the "most difficult month" experienced by the magic tower production team. Under the high expectations of the open world player group (in fact, they choose 5 stars), their answer sheets are not high scores, and for a time the rhythm of "the plot is too torn" and "the sense of operation needs to be optimized" is flying, it seems that the magic tower does not have anything to affirm? The answer is again no.
Looking at "Original God", as an open-world game that was established as early as the beginning of 2017, beta in June 2019, and launched in September 2020, even the most discerning players have to admit that "the workload of the Miha tour production team is difficult to estimate". However, neither Mihayou himself nor the major domestic manufacturers obviously realized in advance that "the open world market is so empty", compared with the speed of the reaction of perfect world, the main company of the phantom tower, is actually not slow.
In the 2019 Perfect World annual report, we saw a "self-developed open world MMORPG game" was approved, which was really unheard of in the highly confidential situation of the original god development stage, but it was still pulled away for 2 years of technology accumulation. Under the hasty production, the magic tower can have the current game capacity is not bad, after all, the follow-up update is only "adding bricks and tiles on the shoulders of giants", and the reputation of the magic tower cannot be conclusive.
Summary of personal analysis
Objectively speaking, players still have some underestimation of Perfect World's technical background as a listed game company, which is not in conflict with our deep understanding of "self-selected 5 stars are gone". At the same time, Mihayou's technical accumulation from the "Crash" series to the present is not a day's work, and its magic Unity 3.5 engine is even better than some Unity 4 after tuning. Especially from the perspective of the development of domestic games, I hope that the purpose of our "original spraying illusion" is to hate iron and steel, and hope that domestic games can be expected in the future, rather than just vicious pulling. Finally, what do you think of the gap between the Phantom Tower and the Original God in map making? Will the two have a chance to go hand in hand in the future?