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Ghost Line: Tokyo has been on sale for some time, and the game's sales are obviously not optimistic, although it is released on all platforms, but the number of Steam reviews is only more than two thousand. And the reputation of the game is not very good, although it has not turned over the big car, but it is at best mediocre.
With mediocre stories, mediocre gameplay, and mediocre enemies, almost everything in Ghost Line: Tokyo seems to be in mediocrity. The only exception may be its map, so many people see it as a walking simulator for cloud tourism. In the game, at least, Tango Gameworks did succeed in restoring Tokyo's Shibuya district.
At present, many of the people who give the game a good review are players who praise its map design, and this part of the player is actually not so few, otherwise the game's Steam praise rate is estimated to remain above 80%. If you play it as a cloud travel simulator, will Ghost Line Tokyo qualify?
Tokyo in Ghost Line Tokyo has only one Shibuya district, so it's not very big. But it is very restored, although the names of various iconic places have been changed, but there are landmarks and attractions such as SHIBUYA 109 Building, Yoyogi Park and Shibuya Center Street, as well as the Loyal Dog Hachiko Elephant in front of shibuya subway station, which is a stone beast.
Shibuya Center Street
Yoyogi Park
Someone overseas made a comparison video of the game scene and the real scene, and those who are interested can take a look at it, and the realism is indeed very high. And it restores not only the scale, but also the number of people: there are 250,000 souls in the game, which corresponds to the population of Shibuya.
Comparison video from YouTube @ElAnalistaDeBits
The map was small and not time-consuming, and it took me less than 20 hours to get through all the main and branch lines. After doing all the side lines and main lines, you can basically travel all over Shibuya, so compared with those open worlds that spend more than 50 hours, it will not take long to use this game to travel to the cloud.
And the game's graphics are great, although the optimization is not good, often drop frames, but it can not be denied that its picture quality is very strong, even if it does not open the light chase, it looks very top. If you have a good equipment, then this cloud tour is at least qualified in terms of picture quality, and the disadvantage is that even if you pull the frame count to 100, sometimes it can suddenly drop to 20.
If you look closely, you'll find that this Shibuya of Ghost Line: Tokyo is really full of details. The game in the scene restoration, absolutely to achieve a first-class level, such as Shibuya street has a variety of shops, although these stores can not enter, but the store is very meticulous, you can see the slogan on the advertisement, if there is a stall outside the store, then you can also see the various goods on the stall.
In Shibuya's subway shopping street and the business district under tokyo tower, many shops cannot enter it, but you can see the internal structure. You can see that the production team actually restored these clothing stores, souvenir shops and restaurants, and the furniture and ordering screens inside are complete, and even the menu can be faintly seen after enlarging.
Close to these shops, you can still hear their music, such as izakaya playing Showa jazz, and the more cheerful modern pop music at the door of the love hotel.
The modeling of various items in the game is also surprisingly large. For example, this game needs to eat food to recover blood, and the game makes almost all the Japanese snacks into it, and they all have modeling. Not only are there models of the things that can be bought, but in convenience stores, those Oden and yakitori, as well as various daily necessities, have very detailed modeling.
In addition to modeling, these foods, supplies, and collectibles are well described in detail, and the production team is like carrying a travel brochure into their game. When entering famous streets and attractions, the two male protagonists will also have several conversations, like a tour guide service.
By the end of the game, you can even see a supermarket full of goods, each of which is modeled, and the labels can barely be seen when zoomed in. Note that this is about supermarkets, not convenience stores and small stalls, if you pay attention to these things in the game, you will find that the non-AAA games that can do this are really not so many.
In addition to the shop, the residential buildings in the game are also restored. You can see their small potted plants, bicycles and watering hoses in the courtyard, even dry clothes, there are many kinds.
This game really worked hard in some strange places.
In addition, although most of the buildings are inaccessible (the roof is casual), in fact, if you complete all the branch lines, you can basically walk through the interior of the various buildings. Because in the branch line, you will enter the interiors of various buildings, from hospitals to office buildings, love hotels and houses.
bathhouse
Just the houses, you can go to many sets, including a variety of styles of decoration, some are modern, some are traditional Japanese, some are European, and you can even see the garbage-filled ultra-degenerate Nethmic room, or the UP main room that loves exorcism culture. In short, while you can't enter these houses while wandering around, the game is definitely not just a few house modeling.
Exorcist UP the Lord's room
The books on the shelves are very finely made
In fact, the branch line will not only take you into various rooms, but also let you enter a lot of interesting alien spaces and see interesting visions. For example, in a branch line, you can travel back to the courtyard of ancient Japan and experience the feeling of a 60s Japanese weird movie; in another branch line, you will be pulled into a Rubik's Cube-like space, where the streets and buildings are upside down, just like the scene in Doctor Strange.
Travel back in time
The style of kowloon walled city
In other branches, you can purify the cherry blossom trees in the park and make the cherry blossoms bloom. Or chase a dragon in the cemetery that escapes from an ancient painting and fight it in a cool visual. Ghost Line: Tokyo's side line scenes are very careful and do not use repetitive modeling to distract people.
This dragon can move
However, even if the light is limited to cloud tourism, the shortcomings of the game are obvious. For example, the monsters in the game are everywhere, although not strong, but the harassment is extremely high, and the gameplay is almost failed, making you bored and unable to explore at will.
In addition, the scene of the game is really too hades. Although this is originally half a horror game, its visual effects can make people get bored after 10 hours - although there are some stunning grotesque style visual performances, but most of the time, it is a deserted and shady Shibuya, always the same style, play it as a cloud tourism game, you will soon start to want to see the sun and the bustling crowds.
And Shibuya in the game is really too "dirty". Because the game is set in such a way that everyone disappears, but their clothes, backpacks, and umbrellas are left behind, the streets are full of this kind of debris, and there is hardly a clean street in the past.
In addition, the game will not stop raining, about 1/3 of the time is rainy. And the visual effect of this rain is very annoying, because it is not real rain at all, but the word "rain" that is falling rapidly, which looks very large and obscures the field of vision. If you really want to enjoy Shibuya in this game, they will most likely upset you.
If you are not interested in visiting Shibuya in this game, then... You probably won't like this game.
So this is the huge contradiction of "Ghost Line: Tokyo": it makes a detailed Shibuya, but adds a lot of things to prevent you from appreciating it well, these additions, originally should contribute to the atmosphere and gameplay of the game, but the gameplay and atmosphere of "Ghost Line: Tokyo" collapsed again, resulting in its positioning is very awkward.
Tokyo Tower, unfortunately only once
But if you still want to visit this virtual Shibuya and experience the rare opportunity to visit Tokyo in the clouds during the quarantine period, then Ghost Line: Tokyo is still well worth buying.
A group of stone sculptures under Tokyo Tower
In particular, although it has many shortcomings, it is difficult to find alternatives, the Japanese cities in the "Like Dragon" series are more detailed and vivid, but after all, there is no modern Tokyo; the Japanese cities in other games are either too low in restoration, or the map is too small, or the picture quality is too weak; if we want to find a cloud tour of modern Tokyo big cities, we really have no choice.
In Ghost Line: Tokyo, you can see an electronic version of Shibuya, you can also experience a very rich Japanese exorcism/weird culture, from some special perspectives to see all aspects of Japanese life, the culture involves a range from ancient to modern, so for a cloud travel simulator, it is not so good, but it has indeed passed.
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