Of all the mobile games I've played, the "Cat Game" that has been downloaded more than 2.6 million times on TapTap and has a 9.0 player rating , The Other Eden: Cat Beyond Time and Space, should be a very unique one.
To give a few examples, obviously this is a mobile game with "GACHA" card drawing elements, but it is difficult for you to hear players discussing the topics related to "human rights cards" and "PVP between characters", which may be because "Another Eden" is a pure single-player mobile game with no combat power list, no friend system and no PVP nature gameplay.
Each mission in the game does not take long, "Another Eden" is very suitable for playing in the fragmented time for a while, old players often persuade newcomers to settle down, the game to launch a "real adventure", thanks to the screenwriter Masato Kato, he used a "Key to Time" to be remembered by RPG players around the world, the same main "crossing + king's adventure" "Another Eden" in the minds of many players, naturally also became the spiritual sequel to the "Key to Time" series.
By the way, mobile games often engage in linkage with other IP, because ip authorization time is limited, and the linkage activities of other mobile games will generally be limited in time, and each card pool is marked with a big "limited" word, as if always urging players - after this village, there is no such shop.
"Another Eden" is a little different, as a pure single-player gameplay mobile game, its linkage is permanent, there is no time limit for opening and ending, each linkage activity will launch some new characters, and all the new characters of the linkage do not need to draw cards to obtain, so you may not often see it on the sales /kryptonite rankings, in the player reputation rankings, the sincerity of "cat game" is well known.
After logging in to the national service, "Another Eden" also inherited this "sincerity", although it was a year late to open the service, at the beginning of the service, it directly opened the first phase of the linkage with P5, and the role of the first phase of the linkage JOKER and MONA compared the intensity of the dimensionality reduction blow of the opening role, so that many players ridiculed, after the opening of the service, after playing the P5 linkage to take the role, you can even use the card pool to draw cards for 3 or 4 months, enjoy the ultimate white prostitution pleasure.
Of course, the benefits may become a highlight of a game to attract new players, and the real decision to make players decide to stay requires something more realistic, such as the quality of the game itself.
"Another Eden" will open a new linkage on January 12, this time it linkage is namco's old game IP legend series, I had the privilege of experiencing all the content of this linkage in advance, so I want to talk about why this linkage can capture the heart of my legendary player from the quality of the activity.
This sense of excitement was generated at the beginning of the linkage activity.
▲ Right, but too right
"Another Eden" specially invited the industry's veteran animation company Production I.G to make an animated version of the op for this linkage, plus DEEN, which once contributed to one of the most popular works in the legend series, and the new song "間違いない World" linked to this legend series, so that new players mistakenly thought that the animation was linked, and also let every legend player feel this sincerity when starting the mission.
"Another Eden" also invited the royal composers of the Legend series Sakuraba Andi Tamura Shinji to rewrite the new battle song in the linkage event, and several original BGMs from Fantasy Legend and Infinite Legend were also added to "Another Eden" after the adaptation, if it were not for the legendary protagonists who crossed over and became the 3-headed villains who were very characteristic of "The Other Eden", you might think that you are playing a new mobile game in the Legend series.
Compared with the P5 linkage in two phases to out of the heart of the monster gang of 4 characters, the legend series linkage is more "generous", a phase of linkage can get 4 well-known protagonists in the legend series for free.
They are the male protagonist Kress in the series's pioneering work "Fantasy Legend"; because of the popularity ranking after the launch of the perennial list, the male protagonist of "Twilight Legend" Yully, who was treated outside the popularity vote after 2013; the only "big heroine" in the legend series, Violet of "Berserk Legend"; and Mira of the elf queen (voiced by Miyuki Sawagi) in "Infinite Legend", she and The male protagonist Jude were somewhat ignorant and left regrets, which still makes many legend fans miss -
It is worth mentioning that the role added this time is not a common vase in the traditional mobile game linkage, the nature of the stand-alone mobile game makes "Another Eden" do not have to consider the balance of strength when designing the linkage role, only need to consider "restoring the original", this time the 4 characters of the legend series linkage are also born under this design logic.
These four legendary protagonists do have a "protagonist-level" treatment.
The original male protagonist Kress, but also a rare character who can cast slashing arrays, provide strength buff buff buffs for slashing teammates, and can also bring a lot of new ideas to the current team;
Yuli, who carries the Qiren Tall Tai Knife, is a standard powerful thug, with a maximum AF multiplier of 7.2 and a critical strike rate of 80;
Mira, the elf queen who did not particularly reflect the combat ability in the original game, transformed into a very comprehensive auxiliary hand, which can reduce the physical resistance of enemies by up to 60, and can also provide our character with a maximum of 120 strength and speed buff;
Violet is very much in line with the character image of "Berserk Warfare" in the original game, which can enter the demon eater state through skills, greatly enhance the combat effectiveness, not only has the power of three consecutive powerful all the skills, but also the aoe with the most attacks outside the joker, and has a clear advantage for those enemies who need to break the number of shields.
You should also find that without joining the other characters in "Another Eden", the "Legend Team" composed of these 4 people alone can also assume most of the responsibilities of output, gain, debuffs and so on in the team, which is already a very versatile team, if you like the legend to enter the pit "Another Eden" player in this linkage, the main force to cultivate this team, daily use is completely enough.
In addition to the 4 protagonists who can enter the team, Mint in Fantasy Legends, Labit in Twilight, Luo Yan in Infinite Legends, and Maggierou in Berserk Legends, these important characters will also travel to the world of Another Eden and venture with us (hinting at the second phase of linkage).
I bet there must be particularly die-hard legendary players in the production team, in order to be able to find 4 of the 20 orthodox works in the series that take into account the feelings and the player's heart's desire of the "legend", of course, not only the linkage character selection is very accurate, in the small details of the processing and tribute to some of the classic gameplay of the legendary series, "The Other Eden" still directly hits the soul of each legendary player.
For example, when the HP of the legendary characters is below 25%, the five-star skills they have will become more powerful Mysteries, and there will be new performances with cuts when using the Mysteries.
Another example is the legendary series of classic small theater, with the linkage of the main line plot advancement, the lower right corner of the "Another Eden" screen will also appear to be able to carry out a small theater logo, allowing players to understand the game world view, their personality and background story from the character dialogue, of course, the small theater can bring players a smile in addition to the relatively serious main line plot.
"Boy meets girl" is the eternal theme of the legend series, in the small theater, girls from different works will also get together to discuss this ignorant emotion;
Boys with common weapon types will exchange experiences with each other on the use of weapons;
The heroine of "The Other Eden", Amy and Violet, are voice actors of Lina Sato, and in the small theater, the two will also complain that each other's voices are very similar to their own, and Amy will also learn Violet to sing her skill name.
The thought of "Gun Sister" splitting her personality in the recording studio and "fighting left and right" is a bit unbearable.
There is also a cooking system, you can learn a variety of dishes from various characters in the process of adventure, cooking can be used outside the battle, providing a lot of powerful buff buff, and you can freely designate the chef, let some companions who are not good at board kung fu to cook, and also bring very interesting "laugh" fruit.
As a veteran IP that has lasted for more than 20 years, the Legend series is constantly improving, polishing the next-generation works such as "The Legend of Dawn", and at the same time, it has not forgotten the essence of JRPG, presenting players with a royal but bloody adventure story, bringing a journey of both ups and downs and ordinary daily life.
This is also in line with the sense of experience brought to me by the linkage activities of "Another Eden" and the legend series, even if the plot is tired, we can recall the funny stories between the characters and the linkage characters, cook some food with our companions, and see the scenery.
Even if one is a turn-based RPG, one is an ARPG, and the Legends series has a clear difference in gameplay, this linkage does not make me feel abrupt or unnatural, as if with kress, Ully, Mira, Violet reunited in "The Other Eden" with kress, Yully, Mira, Violet, the memory of the old friends has not changed at all, but we are still like the newcomer adventurers who just embarked on the journey many years ago, full of expectations for the future.
In fact, this is enough.