"A thousand readers, a thousand Hamlets." Different players will also have different experiences when playing the same script kill, especially those with confrontation mechanisms.
So there is a very interesting phenomenon, many players in the review stage will feel: "This script is too friendly to the murderer/bad guy camp", and the opposite player will have the same feeling: "This script is too friendly to the non-murderer/good guy camp." ”
"The Play of the Muxi Monk" is such a script to kill, it is the old book of 2020, and it may not be particularly high-quality now, but the reputation is still very high. However, many players who come to the book will fall into such a controversy after playing the book: is this ben a murderer friendly ben, or a murderer in prison?
Script name: The Play of the Monk of Muxi
Number of players: 6~7 (4 men and 3 women)
Script Type: Japanese/Reasoning/Hardcore
Game duration: 4 to 5 hours
Script Author: Jia Qiao
Distribution team: Xi'an Traces Studio
Release date: 2020
Synopsis
On a summer day when cicadas were chirping, a group of seven people was inexplicably gathered at the ancient Kishiro Shrine. They were invited to participate in an inexplicable game, and it was the monk in the dark robe who invited them to come here...
In the midst of the cicadas, it seemed that someone was whispering in their ears, and the voice was far-reaching and long-"I am the name of a high monk, and the distant country also knows my name." Now polish a puppet, give Qing Qing an invitation to a play. ”
Biography
Unbroken Autumn Wave: Female, 28 years old, long-haired housewife, wearing an elegant dress and wearing a medical mask.
Amaterasu Sakura: Female, 30 years old, dressed in a cherry blossom-like kimono, well-known lawyer.
Chizuru Tsukiyori: Female, 30 years old, wearing a beautiful and playful Lolita dress, petite cartoonist.
Keiko Otsuka: Male, 40 years old, man in a blue casual suit, president of Otsuka Hospital.
Wise Spring: Male, 40 years old, star criminal, recently mentally exhausted very haggard.
Yayoi Banro: Male, 20 years old, wearing a Hawaiian flower shirt and black shorts, freelancer.
Detective Abe: Male, 27 years old, obese detective, current head of the Abe family.
Gameplay and highlights
"The Play of the Monk" is a Japanese hardcore reasoning book, the reasoning is more brain-burning, so it is not recommended for novice players to get on the car. The script's nucleus and secret room are more complicated and unexpected. However, even if all the details are not introduced, it does not affect the lock, because the lock only needs to launch one or two key points.
In addition to the common body searches, there are many audio -- "visits from the deceased" and "skeleton claim ceremonies". The specific content does not make too many spoilers, can only say that Japanese folk music with Japanese room, combined with the script of the wine swallowing boy, snow girl, earth spider, two mouth girl and other Japanese strange talk elements, the artistic conception created is still very immersive.
"The Play of the Muxi Monk" is a 7-person version, but it is recognized that there is a marginal character "Detective Abe", so many stores only open a 6-person version. However, when I looked at the scripts of other players after the review, I felt that the role of detective was not so marginal. The detective also has a strong sense of participation in the pushing stage, and even some important information is not out of the 6-person version, so if it is a 7-person vehicle bureau, it can still get on the car, not to mention that it is a bit of a jumping scene to let DM concurrently play the roles of Mu Xi Monk and Detective.
Script slot point
Over the course of the game, dm told us that this was an old 2020 book, so its script might not be as rich as some of the current ones. As we gradually unlock each new story, it feels like this.
The script of "The Play of the Monk" is relatively thin, except for the long reading time of the first act, the other scenes are even only half a page of reading, which makes the player not even understand what is happening, and he has to reason in confusion.
The usual script will have a lot of scene descriptions, detailed descriptions, psychological descriptions, etc., which is convenient for players to better substitute, and the "Muxi Monk's Play" is indeed too hard, no padding, no gorgeous rhetoric, vivid writing, directly give you dry clues, the readability of the book is very low, but there is a lot of content to reason and restore.
Even more complaining is the murderer I took. How to say this, the normal character script should first lay out the causes and consequences, explain the background of the story, let the player understand what is going on, and the murderer I got is not so much a character script as more like a DM manual.
It's pretty much grounded, and it comes up and tells you the core ruse of the case and the tricks you're lying about, but it doesn't tell you why you're saying it.
The script also clearly tells you that you must not understand it at present, it does not matter, continue to play and slowly understand. So when I got the script, I was confused, and I didn't know the status of other players, so I could only "act" with the content of the script.
The resulting problem is that killer players and non-murderer players are almost always out of the same line. Non-killer players are discussing who is the killer, while killer players are tasked with completing their own personal tasks. For example, the modus operandi of this script is almost no one except the murderer, because the lock murderer does not need the disc technique at all, and it is difficult to disk out, and the answer is also very rough and far-fetched.
Disputed part
Finally, let's talk about the controversial part of the script. Because I played Murderer Ben, I had a deep understanding of this problem. The following does not involve spoilers, but those who have not played it may not understand it and can be skipped directly.
In the comments section of the mystery circle and the script killing sticker bar, players' evaluations of the "difficulty of locking the murder" of "The Play of the Muxi Monk" are almost polarized. Some people think that this Ben is "extremely friendly" to the murderer, and some people think that this Ben "is a companion". Of course, this is also related to factors such as player level and DM level.
Let's take a look at the square point of view first:
The square generally believes that this ben is very good for the murderer, and it is true, because this ben is most likely to be the murderer's win. But I still don't think this ben is friendly to the murderer, why? Let's look at the opposing point of view.
Opposing views:
The opposing side mentioned two key points, the first key point is that "the murderer can only win by shield", which means that other non-murderer players have correctly identified the murderer (the murderer player has actually lost), but due to a very simple and rough game mechanism, the murderer player has obtained several "shields" for life, resulting in the non-murderer casting the undead murderer and forcing the murderer to win. In fact, as a murderer player, it is not interesting to win this way, and it is far less refreshing than to successfully exonerate yourself.
The second key point is "the method is completely ignored", which is the point I complained about before, the killer and non-murderer players are not on the same line at all, only the murderer's personal task requires the disk modus operandi (because the murderer himself has lost his memory), and other players do not need the disk technique, as long as a few key points can be introduced to lock the murderer.
If it is a novice player to play this book, then the script set a few push positions may also be back, but considering that the people who play this book are basically hardcore players, so a few key points can be pushed out, and at this time, the murderer has no room for maneuver.
In the puzzle comment area, a DM said that he had brought this book several times, even increasing the difficulty for non-murderer players, and still each time "the murderer did not succeed in escaping". So I also think that this ben is not so friendly to the murderer, and the protection mechanism for the murderer is indeed a strong outsider. (The murderer can win, but it is difficult to escape)
summary
Overall, "The Play of the Muxi Monk" is indeed a very hard Japanese reasoning book, very brain-burning, and it is not recommended for newcomers to get on the bus. As an old script, its storyline is relatively thin and the writing is not very readable, but the complex tricks and tricks will indeed make hardcore players happy.
For the killer player, I personally think that there will be some "jail time", but it does not mean that the murderer player has no experience, because the murderer player needs to complete a personal task, and the reasoning of this task is also very brain-burning, even more difficult than the non-murderer player.
The problem is only that when the murderer spends a lot of energy on reasoning, the energy of his own lying and throwing the pot is limited, and even if the non-murderer players successfully identify the real murderer, it is likely that the murderer will not be killed because of a rough game mechanism, so the existence of the confrontation mechanism is greatly reduced.
Article Author: Needle in a haystack