If you ask what the best fighting game is, different people should be able to say different answers, but if you add some restrictions to this question, plus the two conditions of "martial arts" and "arcade", then, all players who have experienced the arcade era will first think of the following game.
"Proud Sword Crazy Knife" is a martial arts fighting game developed by Taiwan's Zhaoxiang Electronics, which extracts and refines common elements in martial arts novels, so that Chinese players can feel the strong martial arts culture at the first time when they come into contact with this game.
For example, more than a dozen characters in the game, although the names of these characters are made up by the creators themselves, but the role setting is too strong, a look to know where the inspiration for these roles comes from, many netizens have also analyzed and summarized these roles over the years.
Long Yinfeng, one of the protagonists of "Proud Sword Crazy Sword", a disciple of Huashan, "Proud Sword" refers to him. He is famous for his master, gentle and elegant conversation, and has the feeling of a scholarly swordsman, similar to Chen Jialuo in "Book of Swords and Enmity".
Zhuge Xiong, nicknamed "Crazy Knife", Wudang Zhang Zhenren re-passed on the disciple, the Five Tigers Broken Door Knife Passed on, when he was young, he was ambushed, he was cut off by a masked Huashan swordsman, and since then he has been determined to take revenge, and the setting of the good boy and the guilty person is very similar to Yang Kang in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and Li Ding'an in "The Broken Knife".
Yizhen monk, Shaolin Temple Protector Luohan, a typical martial arts monk in martial arts novels, the world of martial arts out of Shaolin, all kinds of martial arts novels are always indispensable to the figure of the Shaolin Temple, but this kind of stick monk rarely plays a leading role, generally as a supporting role.
Situ Ling, the lord of Mongolia, is ruthless and willful but likes the Han Dragon Yinfeng, dressed very coolly, the function is to sell meat and set off the charm of the protagonist (of course, it is also very strong to use), corresponding to Zhao Min in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", but unlike Zhao Min, Situ Ling ultimately failed to come together with the Dragon Yinfeng.
Lonely and crippled, a man with broken legs, when he was young, he broke into the bloody door and was cut off by the Sect Master. The double knife is both his weapon and his legs, and he is strong in martial arts, a bit like Ke Zhen evil in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and Duan Yanqing in "Tianlong Babu".
The Golden Wheel Boy, a Kunlun disciple, when he was young, because he stole "Huan Shao Dan", his body shape no longer grew, and his appearance resembled Nezha, and this role obviously integrated the design of the two characters of the Golden Wheel King and the Tianshan Tong Yao.
Qin Hu, a strong green forest good man, the owner of the black wind village, good robbery of the rich and poor, did not deal with the Yuan Dynasty imperial court, and often robbed official silver. This kind of bandit character appears in many martial arts novels, more similar to Katsuyo Katsukogawa in "Three Heroes Sword".
The Yin-Yang Judge, the head of the Hell Gate in Yunnan, not only looks like the Hell Judge, but also gives people a sense of horror in the martial arts moves used, and the remote jianghu alien characters are a bit like Xiao Xiangzi in "Divine Eagle Hero".
The Putuo messenger, the apologetic emissary of Tibetan tantra, likes to use a two-handed machete, a lama's appearance, a typical foreign jianghu alien lineage, similar to the Golden Wheel King in "The Divine Eagle Man" and the Domo Zhi in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon".
Divine operator, real name Ji Peerless, Huainan Salt Gang big boss, with the golden abacus as a weapon, short and fat but strong in martial arts, love money, the city merchant Jia family role, similar to Huang Zhen in "Green Blood Sword".
Onitsuka, a knifeman from Japan, is a short stature who came to Nakahara in admiration for Nakahara's martial arts, a bit like Kamikochi In the Toei Ranger, and the historically real Kamiko Nobuo who pioneered the Kamikoku Karate (although the Eiko version is not short).
Shangguan Yu, a former disciple of the Qingcheng Sect, because he failed to become the leader of the Qingcheng Sect, turned to the Yuan Army as a general, and did not have good intentions towards the county lord Situ Ling, and wanted to use this to smooth down Qingyun. The typical character of the martial general system with a moral appearance is a bit like Zhang Zhaozhong of "Book of Swords and Enmity".
The Two Monsters of the Western Regions and the Thousand Illusions Demon, the second in command and the sect leader of the game villain Blood Cloth gate, the martial arts are strong and the moves are tricky, the martial arts practiced outside the evil door are all the typical villain bosses, the Golden Wheel King of "Divine Eagle Hero", the Blood Knife Old Ancestor of "Lian Cheng Qiao", and the Ji Wushuang of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" are all such characters.
How about listing the characters one by one, does it feel like this game is a big collection of stereotypes about martial arts culture? It is clear that the game designer did not read Jin Yong's novels less.
Unfortunately, "Proud Sword Crazy Knife" is a game released in 1998, as a game product for China, the audience itself is relatively narrow, and the same period of "King of Fighters 97" and other fighting games in China is also the hot time, in 2000 China ushered in the game console ban, "Proud Sword Crazy Knife" did not create the same success as "Three Kingdoms War Chronicle".
It can only be said that if the release time of "Wild Sword" can be released a few years earlier, the game should be able to achieve better results.
With the passage of time, although domestic games are getting better and better, million-level products such as "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" and "Dyson Ball Plan" have also appeared from time to time in recent years, but excellent domestic martial arts fighting games such as "Proud Sword and Wild Knife" have never appeared again, and in recent years, FTG games have indeed declined, and many classic IP have been buried.
In their lifetime, it is difficult for Chinese players to see a martial arts game as heavy as "Proud Sword and Wild Knife".