The annual April Fool's Day is here as scheduled, are you being tricked today?
Although April Fool's Day originated in the West and was intended to ease the tension of interpersonal communication through good-nature jokes in reality, in Japan, which has always paid attention to social distancing, it is clear that the game across the screen is more suitable as a carrier of April Fool's Day jokes.
Therefore, in today's Japanese iOS free list, the top two of the list have become two "April Fool's Day limited" two-dimensional mobile games, which are from FGO and CY's "Princess Link". With this as a symbol, the annual "whole work" drama of the Sino-Japanese two-dimensional game also kicked off today.
Lead big brother to slaughter the list again, player: Ji Cao Don't 6
Occupying the first place in Japan's iOS free list is The Pixel RPG mobile game "Fate/Pixel Wars" launched by Aniplex, which even ranks First in the overall list in terms of downloads, surpassing The Japanese national social app Line. However, in the eyes of FGO players, the performance of this game is only a basic operation, and there is nothing to brag about. After all, in terms of the two-dimensional April Fool's Day, FGO is the appropriate "leading big brother".
Long before FGO began, in 2013, Type-Moon officially launched a film called "Type-MOON Academy Chibichuki!" The funny manga of "Tsukihime", "Empty Realm", "Magic Night", and "Fate/Stay Night" will be "big-headed" in the inner moon world, further enriching the re-creation of the type moon world in a cute and joyful way.
After the FGO was launched, the magical "big head" protagonist Gollum became a cultural banner in the community spread of the game, in addition to occupying the annual April Fool's Day cheating event C position in the game, it also often appeared in all corners of normal activities, bringing endless fun to players.
As the main drama of April Fool's Day every year, FGO will launch a 24-hour limited "flash mob" mobile game on April 1, and its painting style is naturally pixel + big head, and the plot is also quite brain-opening. Since the app will go offline on time at 0:00 On April 2, Japan time, the app will be offline on time and can no longer be opened, so there will naturally be no paid design in the game, and the time limit setting also deepens the "sense of urgency" for players to download. So, every year on April 1st, you can see Fate's name at the top of the free list in Japan.
This year's "Fate/Pixel Wars" is similar in gameplay to the popular ultra-casual mobile game "Arrow Fest" in Europe and the United States, players need to lead the team to constantly "collide" with other teams, and after winning, they can fully incorporate the opposing team into their own camp. But in terms of packaging, the official still spent a lot of thought, not only reproduced the full SET of UI of the FGO game, but even the BGM was also 8 digitized. If you are "before 90" who has experienced 8-bit computers, this game may evoke many of your childhood memories.
In addition, AR is also the label of FGO April Fool's Day mobile games. In Fate/Pixel Wars, you can turn on your phone's rear camera and take a cross-dimensional photo with the pixelated FGO heroes. Another thoughtful aspect of this design is that it allows players to leave some thoughts after the game stops operating on April 2.
However, although this year's "Fate/Pixel Wars" still helped Yue to hold the first place in the free list, the "Princess Link" derivative mobile game followed by CY with a higher degree of completion made this year's April Fool's Day seem to have a little more "inner volume" than in previous years.
Having money is tough, and CY jokes are a bit expensive
The explosive revenue of "Horse Racing Lady" has made CY a lot of money, and it has also made this year's April Fool's Day another good opportunity for CY to "show off its wealth". Occupying the second place in the free list of the Japanese area today is a derivative of CY's "Princess Link" from the chess mobile game "プリコネ! グランドマスターズ(Princess Link: Self-Propelled Chess Master)".
If it weren't for the official statement that the game only has a one-week limited launch time, it's hard to believe that this well-made self-propelled chess mobile game is just an April Fool's Day project.
This game not only has a gorgeous dynamic story CG and a character setting completely inherited from "Princess Connect", but also completely consistent with the current mainstream self-propelled board games in terms of gameplay.
Each game has a total of 8 players participating, and five characters are randomly swiped before each round is started for players to purchase, and each player has a maximum of 8 alternate characters. Collecting a certain number of identical roles is automatically upgraded. Each round of battle may be PvP or PvE, the winner of the PvP player will give the loser the corresponding damage according to the current number of rounds (for example, the winner of the 8th round will give the loser 8 damage), and the PvE round may bring equipment, gold, and other bonuses to the player.
Coins can also be used to upgrade characters in addition to refreshing and purchasing them, and each time the player upgrades, they can add a new character to the game. Equipment can be directly dragged to assign to characters on the field. Each player initially has 40 health, which is counted as zero, and the last survivor is the winner of the game.
Compared to Fate/Pixel Wars, which is clearly different from the pixel head wind of the original, "プリコネ! グランドマスターズ from UI to stand-up painting completely continues the art style of "Princess Connection", and the volume of the entire game is close to 1G. Even FGO players have expressed great envy for this, hoping that Aniplex can launch a similar product.
Not only that, but at last year's April Fool's Day release, Princess Nexus officially announced three tricks, including talking dolls, PCR baseball boards, and an oversized panel that allows players to show their faces and take pictures. This year, the official actually materialized these three peripherals and limited them to release in the next week. At the same time, the official also said that these three peripherals also appeared "プリコネ!" グランドマスターズ" game, players hope to find these easter eggs during gameplay.
It is the physical surrounding again, and it is the launch of high-quality self-propelled board games, and it has to be said that the cost of April Fool's Day jokes in CY this year is a bit high.
The domestic game is not to be outdone, and the fancy whole game players laugh
Watching their Japanese counterparts continue to work on April Fool's Day, the domestic two-dimensional games seem to be unable to sit still. Although there is no direct launch of spin-off games like the rich FGO and "Princess Link", a number of domestic mobile games have also brought players happiness that belongs only to April 1 in their own way.
For example, the "Girl's Frontline" and "Maiden Frontline: Cloud Map Project" of the scattered network came to a "dream linkage", and the two games exchanged each other's login interface, so that the double repair player opened the "Cloud Map Plan" and suddenly felt "one night back to 18 years".
Also working on the login screen is Mihayu's Crash Academy 2, and when the Gosaka on the login map turns male, players may mistakenly think that the "Book of Undetermined Events" has been opened.
When it comes to Miha you, how can you get less "Original God"? "Original God" this year's trick is to launch a number of painting style qingqi peripherals on the official peripheral mall, although the official only mentions that it is related to April Fool's Day, but from the player's comments and deliberately selected to be online today, there is quite a bit of Sima Zhao's heart that everyone knows.
Hero Entertainment's "Battle Double Pamish" followed the example of scattering, but the interchange was not the login interface, but the modeling of the weapons of the various characters in the game, and even distributed "strange resources" to the player.
And "Sparrow Soul Mahjong" through the official blog to make Kanban Niang Yiji from "Meow Niang" to "Wang Niang", the accompanying text description is to play the current popular "Kamen Rider" Chinese dubbing meme, the incomparably brainwashed "What happened" three times also makes players laugh uncontrollably.
All in all, if you are nervous in real life today, always watching against being deceived by the people around you, then in the game you can definitely completely relax your mind and enjoy the happiness of only once a year. Whether it is a Japanese manufacturer that directly produces a spin-off game, or a domestic game that hides Easter eggs in the subtleties, it is essentially to bring some festive surprises to players in their own ways in this fast-paced and high-pressure era. Now that reality is so tough, enjoy a moment of purest pleasure in the game.
A small Easter egg
In addition to two-dimensional games, Razer, a hardcore peripheral manufacturer, has also brought a real surprise to players today - the "Razer HyperSense Suit" based on Razer's exclusive HyperSense haptic technology.
According to the official introduction, this is a full body sense game set, players can feel the real touch and emotion in the metaverse application after wearing it. It not only uses an improved version of Razer Flowknit, the elastic breathable cloth used by Razer on the latest gaming headsets, but also a sturdy and lightweight intelligent alloy plate armor that accurately simulates the robustness of the game's armor equipment and protects players from threats from the virtual world or other aspects.
The reason why this set can achieve a full body feeling is that it is equipped with as many as 1,333,337 tactile sensors, from physical shock to strong human emotions, everything on the wearer's whole body can be figuratively perceived. In addition, players can adjust the intensity of tactile feedback to their own degree through the built-in chest buttons.
The set also supports Razer's exclusive "Razer Chroma RGB" magic lighting technology. At present, test players are being solicited, the specific listing time and price are undecided, interested players can log on to the razer official website for details.
GameLook friendship tip: The above paragraph, do not believe a word. Happy April Fool's Day! (^_^)
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