Author: Qingming Xiaoyu
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preface
Wild West is a dark west and magic style stitched work, I was surprised by the novel presentation when I first saw the beta version last year, which is very similar to another earlier Western first-person "Wild West - Gunner", even the thick lines and heavy shadows are the same, the visual experience of this style is very enjoyable, this story takes place in the chaotic era of the American West, which makes the land mixed with magical elements dangerous. I don't know which tumbleweed is buried under a corpse.
plot
The game opens with CG showing a barren land under the shell of the Wild West, bandits running rampant in ruined towns, and other characteristic pictures of the times, and the game begins with the theme of revenge, this classic clichéd story will never be left behind, you will play a retired bounty hunter and lose your son. The story unfolds when her husband is kidnapped and all the males in the town are captured, tracing the whereabouts of her husband and investigating the conspiracy that Siren has orchestrated in the dark. The game can provide a lot of driving force for the player in the plot part, because the story lays you a lot of unknown mysteries, and those side quests also urge you to solve.
At first I thought that this would be the protagonist's pursuit of the truth all the way, a book of hard fighting, until the other protagonists appeared in turn, I found that things are not so simple, because the protagonist has 5, separate independent stories, which makes me wonder that this way of connecting makes people scratch their heads, but through various connections, the separate stories of the five bounty hunters will be gathered together under the guidance of fate, which is the real main story of "Wild West".
A little bit to say alone, the world of this game is quite real, such as you ransacked a village, slaughtered a gang, if all killed, then the village will be occupied by another force or directly turned into a ghost town, if not killed, the living people will seek revenge on you, will be in your wild exploration of randomly generated battle locations waiting for you on time. So the revenge began.
Painting style
I was initially drawn to the game's style, similar to the rough lines and deep shadows depicted in Borderlands and The Walking Dead. The first time I entered the game really gave me too many surprises and shocks, originally thought to be just a decoration of empty buckets and water presses, when you put the bucket directly below the machine can receive water, rain and kick down the bucket will show the wet state can not be ignited, can not be ignited by flames, and the action performance when carrying corpses to dig graves and fighting with enemies, under the blessing of this art style, it is vivid, and it shows the desolation and cruelty of the Westworld.
map
The game does not have a free large map in the true sense, but is linked by a large number of fixed mini-maps of the void, the so-called void, refers to the fixed map to the edge of the map to trigger the movement option, bounce to the large map screen, with the screen point to move the way, and these links in the middle of the two fixed maps in the middle of the void position will randomly trigger the battle location to refresh enemy items and the like. Emphasizing that horses are very important, having horses will greatly shorten the travel time of two points and avoid meaningless battles.
Since the supplies in the map are relatively sufficient, who is still too much money? Ben thought about moving back and forth to brush the supplies in the battle room, but he didn't expect that the amount of supplies carried by random events on the movement path plummeted. The fixed map's supplies will not be refreshed, which drives you to do more side quests when the supplies are exhausted, and this reconciliation method is eye-catching at this time.
I don't know if friends who have played have noticed that many points in the map are full of details, large to barren wilderness small to empty glass bottles, every scenery is so real, it can be seen that the production team has not worked hard, the most worth mentioning is that when you find that the well can go down the rope, accidentally hit and bump will drill out from the secret passage of a house, the details of this thing is really not casually talked about.
nurturance
In this work, the character growth does not rely on monster upgrades to improve attributes, but through the two props of "Nipu Relic" and "Golden Ace" to upgrade our abilities and specialties, basically we can learn new skills and enhance passive talents, that is, the maximum movement speed of health. These two key items can only be carpet searched in the map, digging holes, roofs, corpses, cabinets, safes, and so on anywhere. Learning these abilities and talents does not have a pre-order requirement.
Abilities are indispensable to each character's combat and need to be learned by Nip Relic, which includes universal abilities and independent abilities, which as the name suggests, are abilities that everyone can learn to use, including the use of bows and arrows and machetes, as well as various firearms skills. Independent ability is mainly reflected in the characteristics of each person, such as pig people have the skill of "pig suddenly advancing", and bounty hunters have skills that meet their own characteristics such as kicking. These skills are very effective in combat.
The skill tree of the specialty is completely universal, 5 characters can be shared to use, although the learning is not in the order of which can be clicked, but in the early stage in the case of very few golden aces, the specialty you learn greatly affects the way you play, such as you first learn to pry the lock, open the box health, etc., you can get a lot of weapons and supplies, you can drink enemy hard steel, if you first learn the stealth speed, etc., then you have a great advantage in stealth killing the enemy, the specific gameplay still depends on the player to explore.
fight
Speaking of the combat system must start from many factors, because the battle map in the game is mostly relatively small, all the fear comes from the small space and lack of firepower, and there is a powerful explosion mechanism in the game, the enemy is too close to hear the gunshots will run, then you will fall into a bitter battle, at this time you can sneak to more safely and effectively eliminate one enemy after another, because the enemy has a field of vision, which also gives us a better time to control.
In this game, you can pick up a large number of items, including oil and Molotov cocktail grenades, electric mines, etc., plus there are many interactive items in the map, rugged terrain. You can slowly consume enemies by pulling through props and terrain card slots, and from the beginning of the game, the author shows you a realistic physical environment that allows you to benefit from it, such as shooting oil lamp oil barrels to cause burning explosions, and using thunder batteries when it rains.
Here we need to talk about the interesting setting of the game, you can see the number and location of the room from the outside of the room, through stealth can be one by one to get a single enemy, assuming that there is no such setting then will inevitably fall into a frontal conflict of the bitter battle, at this time you will find that the power of melee and guns is not so significant, so predicting the number of enemies in advance is also to allow you to consider the gameplay of the game and slightly reduce the difficulty of the game.
Honor system
In the end to talk about this "honor value system", at first I thought that this setting has a great restriction effect, and then you will find that this is only a superficial restriction on you: 0 yuan to buy the means, if you steal the owner's items, take away other people's horses, your honor value will be reduced, negative numbers in the case of the opportunity to be retaliated against, but I am a positive number when I do not see any benefits, looking at the box things can not be taken, so stubborn play I can not accept, I directly turned these personal items into items without a master, Finally become their master. This setting is a bit of a chicken rib.
epilogue
At the beginning of the game, you will be full of curiosity and questions, the freshness will slowly disappear with the experience of multiple elements of the game, followed by a high repetition of the scene and the battle, the battle is better to say, each map and random battle map to carpet search again, it is really exhausting, fortunately, the story twists and turns in the game, giving people unlimited blindness and expectation, which also slightly makes up for the boring repetition. The advantages of this game are completely crushed and the disadvantages are highly recommended.
+ Excellent artistic style
+ Rich number of items
+ Well-thought-out scene details
+ Complex and in-depth plot
+ Thrilling battles
+ Innovative map delivery mechanism
+ Addictive collection system
- Difficult to select on stacking of corpses
- Repetitive boring map exploration in the middle and late stages
- Battle map design is not perfect
- Enemy ai is not smart enough
- The handle experience is terrible
- The specific amount and display of the channel is not obvious