Finally it's a happy Friday, and you can skip work tomorrow.
Taking advantage of the weekend, hurry up to recommend a domestic horror game that was afraid of scaring chicken friends before.
Some chicken friends may have guessed, yes, today to recommend to you is the steam of the suspense puzzle game "Three Volts" on the shelves a few days ago.
To be precise, the game has not yet been released, and what can be played at present is the official free demo, including the prologue and the first chapter.
This game was developed by the producer "Moonlight Cockroach", who had previously released two works on Steam, "Hesse Town Kittan" and "Fireworks".
Both titles have a 98% rating on Steam, which shows the strength of the game's producers.
"Three Volts" is an attempt for him to break through himself, weakening the sense of horror of Chinese horror, focusing on creating a suspenseful atmosphere and character portrayal, and introducing a two-line interactive narrative.
The following may involve mild spoilers, and students who mind can download Demo directly to Steam, no money anyway.
Unlike the previous work "Fireworks", which focused on marginal folklore, the entry point of the plot of "Three Volts" is very close to reality.
The story takes place in Shancheng in 2000, when one day the Shancheng News Channel suddenly played a strange old advertisement.
The advertising spokesperson was actually a long-dead teenager with special functions - three-eyed prodigy, and there were many strange things in the place where the advertisement was played, and the news of the return of the prodigy began to circulate in the city.
The shape of this overhead stainless steel pot is taken from the qigong fever of the 80s and 90s in mainland China.
The qigong frenzy of that year swept the country, and even scientific giants like Qian Xuesen were obsessed.
It represents the intersection of superstition and science in a special era, which is also the atmosphere that the game Demo strives to create.
In order to investigate the strange incident that occurred on the TV station, the player will play the role of "false Taoist" Xu Qingyuan and Qiu Wu, a newcomer to the Bureau of Investigation, to explore the truth behind the incident.
In terms of gameplay, the puzzle solving in "Three Volts" is still based on regular item interaction and collecting clues.
But as mentioned earlier, this game introduces a two-line interactive narrative, and the player controls the dual protagonist, which makes the puzzle solving process in the game more tricks.
In some specific scenes, the heroine will "travel through time and space" to the world of the past.
The male protagonist located in the "present" and the female protagonist who travels through the "past", the clues and puzzles are also divided into two time and space, and the two need to cooperate with each other to uncover the truth.
There are also video recorders, BP machines, and projection halls in the game.
In addition to feeling intimate and nostalgic, it also allows players to better immerse themselves in that special era.
Although this work is said to weaken the sense of horror, but the strange advertising film at the beginning of the article scared me, believe you a ghost, you producer is very bad.
Even without traditional folk elements, "Three Volts" still holds Chinese horror to death.
When it comes to Chinese horror, what comes to mind?
Paper man? wreath? Embroidered shoes? Ghost bride? Or a big red lantern lit up in the dark?
Three Volts doesn't use these elements, and there's no Jump scare, but the game cleverly uses the conflict between superstition and science to create a weird and bizarre world.
Slogans such as "Promote Science" and "Break Superstition" can be seen everywhere in the game, but the atmosphere of civilization will always be dispelled by strange events in the next moment, and superstitions in the name of science will follow.
When something familiar appears in front of us in the guise of the exact opposite, this sense of contrast becomes a source of fear.
Marriage is beautiful, but after being twisted by foolish filial piety into a meditative marriage, it becomes an important element of Chinese horror.
Just like life is good, but the hatred of "Chinese Parents" is not steel, and the tragic death of "Most" hit workers.
For social animals like me, they have also become a real Chinese horror.