In fact, many people's understanding of arcade machines has a chronological deviation, most people think that the 80s is already the stage of arcade production, some of the more classic games such as Street Fighter, King of Fighters These are at this time came into being. However, after a closer look at arcade players, they will find that in fact, works such as King of Fighters, Street Fighter, and Three Kingdoms War Chronicles have a more popular market after 90 years, and while players are flocking to it, they have also prompted game manufacturers to produce better offspring.
During this period, Capcom, as the big brother of arcade manufacturers, naturally spared no effort, and in the case of the good reverse of the previous generation of works Dungeons and Dragons, he launched a real arcade 3A masterpiece "Dungeons & Dragons 2: Dark Secrets" in 1996.
The launch of the game undoubtedly opened up a new pattern in the arcade era, with as many as 6 characters with distinct personalities (12 class branches), an epic adventure of warriors and dragons, a dozen wonderful and meticulous level designs, and rich scene interactions and treasure chest Easter eggs, which made almost all arcade players at that time flock to it. Recall that in the arcade hall at that time, the fiery degree of this machine completely exceeded that of the king of fighters and street fighters, and some players who did not have money on the machine could no longer move their steps around here, and witnessed this blood-boiling dragon slaying adventure with the owner through vision.
At the beginning of the game, the player can choose from the roles of warrior, dwarf, elf, priest, mage, and thief. In order to distinguish the difference between each character, Capcom has made a specific positioning in the design, such as the warrior is to attack the high-blooded front row tank, many arcade players have a good feeling for it at first glance, which is conducive to getting started; and some classes with unique usage (thieves, mages, etc.) can experience different ways of breaking through levels by stealing monster props and releasing full-screen monster magic.
Selecting the character, the player begins to take an adventure, and the first scene is a village ransacking incident that the two-dimensional people "like to hear", pushing a box of treasure and two beautiful girls of goblin warriors, the protagonist is used to practice his hands and educate.
After rescuing the villagers, the player will learn through continuous adventures that the continent is being eroded by darkness and that the demon god is about to break the seal. All the player and the adventure team have to do is defeat the Red Dragon Queen, the unleasher of the Demon God, and then avoid the world from falling into darkness again, in the process, different characters will unlock different branch routes, such as the dwarf defeating the twin BOSS will reduce the subsequent scene by one boss, the elf chooses to go to his hometown to see a thousand-year-old giant tree, where he will meet the Red Dragon Queen in advance to know the details of her evil plan to resurrect the Demon God to unify the continent.
Including in some subsequent levels, players can also find the legendary sword by observing the grottoes on both sides of the cliff, the arrows pointed to by the broken wooden planks, etc., unlock more game eggs, and add fuel to the final BOSS battle.
In the final decisive moment, after the player defeats the Red Dragon Queen and reseals the Demon God into the earth, each character will usher in their own ending. According to the player's early choices, the author knows that the endings are: the swordsman will run to build the country, the mage will build a tower to collect disciples, the elf will choose to continue the adventure, the dwarf will go home to forge the artifact, each character ending is not fixed, the guess all adds up to more than 18 kinds, the plot, branch lines, and endings are directly full.
Overall, Dungeons & Dragons 2: Dark Shadows created a new arcade model in the environment at the time, with complex multi-threaded game trends, different character selection routes, super comfortable combat methods, and excellent graphics.
I have to say that 26 years ago, the advent of this work was really well received by the public, more and more knights, magic, dragons, adventure games to learn from it, but also inherited the advantages of many parties, followed by the continuous improvement of technical power, role-playing adventure games can always get everyone's high praise, maybe there are dungeons and dragons credit it ~
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