On March 5, 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain Speech" in Fulton, usa, and the prelude to the Cold War officially began. Since then, mankind has embarked on a long tightrope walk, under the confrontation between the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, and under the deterrence of nuclear weapons, the distance between human civilization and the end has never been closer.
But the Cold War was also the highlight of human civilization, and during those years, mankind made leaps and bounds in many fields such as science and technology, art, and culture. We built the prototype of the Internet, created new songs and poems, and even left footprints on the moon, creating energy with the authority of the sun. Destruction or rebirth? Wasteland or sea of stars? All the choices of that era were at the hands of human beings.
Now that the Cold War has long since ended, its afterglow still echoes in this world. Examples include the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, or games and stories such as "Bliss Disco". Of course, script killing is no exception. Today, we will take stock of some scripts set in the Cold War period.
"Spring in the Northland" - This spring, someone has fallen into the abyss of hell
Release date: 2019
Author: Si Xi
Distribution Team: Drama Live-Action Reasoning Detective
Number of players: 6 players
Game duration: 4 hours
Whether it is for Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, or now Russia, the "Chernobyl" incident is an unforgettable trauma, and the story of "Northern Spring" is related to this.
The 1980s were the second phase of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union's strong period, when the Soviet Union was gradually shifting from expansion to contraction, and the internal undercurrent was surging and "Northern Spring" restored the characteristics of this historical period very well. The turbulent world pattern, the spy agencies that infiltrate each other, the Ukrainian civilians who know nothing about it... Together, these contradictory scenes construct the absurd and terrible characteristics of the Cold War era.
Each character constructed by "Northern Spring" is a small person of the year, in the torrent of history, players can feel the rich emotions of these characters, the kind of confusion full of helplessness and grievances, wanting to seek change but unable to ask for it, even now, it will resonate with many players.
"Stars" - Run to the stars, that is the only way to salvation
Release date: 2022
Author: Stars
Distribution Team: Ryūriyama River Studios
If the outcome or course of the Cold War had been different, where would the world have gone? What has become of it? Many science fiction works are keen to discuss this issue. As a result, many works of different styles such as cyberpunk, atomic punk, and wasteland themes were born. The story told by "Stars" takes place in a Cold War world similar to the "eve of the wasteland".
In this story, the Cold War is not over, the world is on the verge of destruction, but it is not the nuclear weapons of the superpowers that bring destruction, but the giant comets that fall from the sky. With the advent of comets, a large number of creatures in low latitudes have died, global food production has decreased, and the greenhouse effect has intensified... Threatened by the Earth crisis, a program called "Stars" was secretly unfolding in the bipolar pattern. Unity or division, cooperation or competition, has become a matter of life and death for human beings.
"Stars" is a story that travels to space to find a way to salvation, the clear and smooth writing and interesting mechanics make the whole script extremely playable, and the romantic story core makes it very immersive. On this journey to the stars, every player can become a witness to civilization.
Memorandum 2 Day 6 – Conspiracy, Blood and Dagger
Release date: 2021
Author: Silver Shao
Distribution Team: Sijia Detective Studio
Number of players: 5
The Cold War, in the final analysis, was a war. Conspiracy webs and killing vultures have always been entangled in this, blood and death are more favorable to that era, even the medical technology originally used to cure diseases and save people, under the deformed desire of people, will become a killing machine, just like the story told in this "Memo 2 Sixth Day".
Memorandum 2, Day 6, tells the story of a murder in a secret chamber halfway across the world, and in the context of the Cold War era, a mysterious medical experiment that gathers five different patients seeking medical treatment. They will spend six days in a lonely boat on the ocean, and as the murder unfolds, a conspiracy quietly begins...
"Memorandum 2 Day 6" does not explore too many "human nature", "future", "reflection" and other things, just a simple mechanism and reasoning, the six medical patients have their own physical defects, in the follow-up push and battle royale link, these will become the key points. This hardcore book full of mechanical elements will definitely make pineapple heads addicted.
"Rhine Sunset" – even under the high walls, the sun will still rise
Release date: 2020
Distribution team: Tricky Mist Studios, Mog Street Studios
The Berlin Wall is a "spectacle", its length and height are unremarkable, not magnificent, but it is the embodiment of the opposition between two ideologies, and before the birth of the Berlin Wall, I am afraid that no one could have imagined that "thought" could be presented in this way. The story of "Rhine Sunset" takes place under this high wall.
In this script, the turbulent world situation, the Warsaw Pact of internal and external troubles, and the turbulent Eastern Europe are all presented in front of the player's eyes. The large-scale text full of details of the hard-core murder case makes it particularly difficult to push the murder and restore the truth. However, the whole story is cleverly and rationally designed, and the vivid character and flawless behavior logic make the book still immerse the player under the premise of being hardcore enough.
summary
War of any kind is full of cruelty. We are unaware of this only because it is still far away from us. War is by no means "fun", on the contrary, it is one of the most terrible acts of humanity.
War itself is stupid, we have a natural springboard like the moon, an excellent transit station like Mars, a huge fuel depot like Jupiter, fusion materials and spacecraft shells are pitching around us, and with such excellent conditions, we should look at the vast starry sky instead of staying on the ground and thinking about how to throw more bombs at our own kind.
Therefore, may there be no more war in the world.
Article author: Big sweet potato