Introduction: In that era, the "Sword Sealing Demon Record" could not resist the rampant pirated commercial enemy but the surging tide of online games, and eventually annihilated, and the sword was covered with dust. Today, the sword is re-sheathed and still shines even if it is not repaired. Because as a Chinese player, how can you be satisfied with just playing a foreign hero, assassin, elf or mage? What has not been erased in the bottom of my heart is Chinese mythical dream, Chinese my own martial arts dream.
preface
At the end of last year, the original "Qin Yan" was put on the shelves steam for sale, and the sentiment party asked while paying for the ticket: "When will it be on the "Sword Sealing Demon Record"?" ”
This review is based on the Steam version
In less than two months, this is coming. The same original, even the game's introduction text is the same as the year, but the shabby of domestic game companies and the tolerance of domestic players make the slot point no longer a slot point. On the contrary, the low threshold of supplementary ticket fees, the memories of the green onion when he was young, and the quality of the game that is still shining today, the game has received a large number of praises without suspense - praise for the game, but also for the once obsessive blood of their own praise, is for the domestic stand-alone ARPG that feels the stones to cross the river but is red and hot in the era.
"China's First Action RPG Game"
Released in November 2002, Sword and Magic is an action role-playing game (ARPG) produced by Pixel Software Technology Co., Ltd., and it has been nearly 20 years since then. Known as "China's first action RPG game", "Sword and Sword Sealing Magic Record" was released in many countries such as China, Japan, the United States and Russia, and the number of genuine copies worldwide was 200,000 copies - this number was obtained in the case of rampant piracy in China and the final sales of Chinese mainland of only 60,000 copies.
The game has three types of characters to choose from
At that time, the appearance of "Diablo 2" can be described as a stone-breaking, as the pioneer and leader of the APRG genre, a large number of domestic ARPG games have gushed out, and "Sword Seal" is one of them, shining with a harmonious and different light.
Regardless of the oblique 45° viewing screen, interface design and combat style, "Sword Seal" and "Diablo 2" are similar at a glance, after all, the classic degree of darkness is difficult to let the works behind it bypass it to do complete innovation, but Sword Seal Magic Record has targeted one of the links and made drastic innovations, thus successfully jumping out of a bunch of followers, that is, the combat part of the game.
Most of the game's creators come from the programs and artists of the original "Qin Yan" production team. It is said that because they tend to have a refreshing and clean feeling rather than the style of teamwork and strategy in "Qin Yan", in order to pursue their dreams, after the completion of "Qin Yan", this group of people left the target company, formed a new team of pixel software on their own, and began to make this game after receiving foreign investment.
Liu Kun, who was the CEO of Pixel Software at the time, liked fighting games such as Samurai Shodown and Street Fighter and implanted them into the game. Cross-genre fusion makes the game's combat the most heterogeneous part and the most commendable place.
In the game, the player can directly manipulate all the combat actions of the protagonist, unlike other ARPG games, which can only attack the target with mouse clicks. Combat is not just offensive, space bar dodge, ALT key block, are born out of the fighting game's defense mechanism.
The combo system was also inspired by combos in fighting games. One of the special features of the game is that the enemy can continue to combos after empty blood until the end of the combo. Players can use this to continue to hit more combos after the enemy has run out of blood, the higher the combo score, the faster the anger and experience points, and the monster will burst out different items according to the level of the combo index. In order to count the number of combos, players will naturally try their best to figure out combo moves.
Wash you wash you wash you wash you...
The custom skill settings provided by Sword seal magic are designed for players to play beautiful combos. This setting is somewhat similar to EIDOS's 1999 release of Revenant, a new system proposed by the game, the "Magic Combination System", which allows players to freely combine magic in the order.
The unique combos editing system is an impressive part of many veteran players
The combos editing system of "Sword Sealing Magic Record" provides the depth of research, searching for "Sword Sealing Magic Record Continuous Moves" on the Internet, you can find a large number of high-scoring martial arts secrets, which are the fruitful results of the high-level players through actual combat exploration. For example, the character of Dragon Fight can first use the air current to rush the enemy into the air to levitate, and take this opportunity to hit the opponent consecutively, even if the opponent's blood tank is empty, he can repeatedly whip the corpse, and even Dante of "Devil Cry" will clap his hands when he sees it.
Controversial gem system
The game's emphasis on the gem system is another alternative innovation based on darkness, but unlike the critically acclaimed combat system, this gem system is like a durian, which caused a two-sided evaluation at the time, like love to death, dislike the whiplash.
There are six kinds of general gems in the game, namely Melacher, Emerald, Amethyst, Tian Huang, Blue Gold Stone, and Chicken Blood Stone, and each gemstone is divided into three levels. When the game progresses to a certain level, it can craft higher level gems; further progress, you can set the crafted gems into the equipment. With the inlay of high-level gemstones, the ability of the character can be enhanced, and the appearance will also change, so how to synthesize gems and set gems has become a university question, and the same search for "Sword Sealing Magic Record Gem System" on the Internet can find the results of the previous exploration. This was a major commonality of the games at that time - the esoteric system was officially not thorough, and the players themselves thought about it, anyway, the games that players could play at that time were not as rich as they are today, and some were time.
Second only to the combo system, it is a big pit that needs to be studied in depth
The reason for the controversy is not in the gem system itself, but in order to fully highlight the thrill of killing the enemy, the game directly cancels the design of weapons and equipment, and directly replaces the equipment system with the gem system. Therefore, in the game, the weapons used have no loss, the items have no weight, and even when the character is upgraded, there is no need to assign attribute points, just use skill points to learn new moves.
The Gem System completely replaces the Equipment System
Some people think that constantly upgrading equipment is one of the important pleasures of the big pineapple, and "Sword Sealing Magic Record" completely deprives this fun, and it is not excluded that this gameplay is the last resort of pixel software in the game development process in order to rush the work.
But some people applauded, believing that such improvements reduced the boredom of "brush brushing" and allowed players to enjoy the thrill of combos and dodges more during the game, which is consistent with the main purpose of the game's development - to let players focus on combat.
There are many missions and characters in the game, and the background provides an index
Fight "beautifully"
Although from today's point of view, the picture of "Sword Sealing Magic Record" can be described as rough, and the frame rate is far from the silky sense of pursuit today, in that era, the UI design of "Sword Sealing Magic Record" was scientific, the lighting effect was natural, the strike screen was smooth and natural, and the details and shadows were basically there, which was superior in similar games.
At that time, the game text was large and large, which seemed very hardcore
Even today's new players can't understand the past, but there is one thing that has not faded with the passage of time, and that is the rare restraint and simplicity embodied in the game's aesthetic. There are too many strange games, there are all kinds of colors everywhere, and it is difficult to find a simple and beautiful one.
Based on the strength of the function, particle effects, reflection effects, DLSS, etc. are often abused, at that time there were already such signs: a number of domestic games always love to pay attention to gorgeous combat effects, whether it is "Sword Man Love" and "Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun Biography", the fight is laser flash, fireball burst, and "Sword" abandons such an eye-catching way, strong national style, solemn visual design, more in line with the original appearance of Chinese martial arts steady and steady, fist to flesh, in a dizziness but appears quite advanced.
The romance of the ancient battlefield white aloe vera was not the first creation of Hidetaka Miyazaki
Write at the end
In that era, "Sword Sealing Magic" could not compete with the rampant pirated commercial enemies but the surging tide of online games, and eventually it was annihilated, and the sword was dusted. Today, the sword is re-sheathed and still shines even if it is not repaired. Because as a Chinese player, how can you be satisfied with just playing a foreign hero, assassin, elf or mage? What has not been erased in the bottom of my heart is Chinese my own mythological dream, Chinese my own martial arts dream.