As an ordinary player, the author recently had the privilege of playing Tencent's new game "Codename. Breaking Dawn", so I would like to share with you some of my experiences.
This is the first game to carry the IP of "Glory of Kings", and naturally it has high hopes. As a blockbuster national mobile game, "Glory of the King" has not only broken the violent theory of short-lived mobile games in the seven years of development history, but also brought a lot of revenue to Tencent Games. How attractive is the IP of the king? Feedback can also be given on this new tour.
Codename. Breaking Dawn has been widely controversial since its debut, because its gameplay style is very close to Nintendo's well-known game "Nintendo All-Star Brawl". As a player of Smash Bros. Brawl, I think dawn does have the shadow of Brawl to a certain extent.
Codename. What is Breaking Dawn?
Many friends who don't care so much about games may wonder: What kind of game is this?
Codename. Breaking Dawn is a horizontal fighting game. Players will choose heroes and engage in 1v1 or 2v2 combat with each other. However, it is foreseeable that in the future, dawn will also open up to support more cooperation and fighting modes between more people, such as 3-player melee, 5-player melee, etc.
In the game, each hero has three skills, as well as shields, grab throws, and jump and attack keys. In combat, players can send quick language and emoticons to interact.
Codename. Where are the advantages and foundations of "Breaking Dawn"?
As the IP of "Glory of Kings", Codename. Breaking Dawn has strong publicity capabilities and a player base. At the same time, it inherits the model and some skills of the hero in the glory of the king, saving a lot of cost in terms of design. (In other words, to do the role according to the ontology)
At the same time, in terms of world view setting, the game inherits the plot of the king's glory short film "Allies". It tells the story of the heroes who are influenced by Ming Shiyin and will enter the dark world formed by their own consciousness and fight to break through themselves.
Benefit from better engines and technologies, Codename. The character refinement of "Breaking Dawn" has a qualitative leap compared to "Glory of Kings". The characters have made significant progress in terms of movement, face modeling, and clothing texture.
At the same time, the game has also made a lot of design and optimization of the scene. In the ring of the Dance Hall, there are a large number of maple leaves falling, and the surrounding umbrellas will rise and fall over time. Many of the scenes are taken from the classic venues of the king, with plenty of beauty
Thanks to the gameplay of the family game Nintendo All-Star Brawl, Codename. Breaking Dawn is more interesting and social in terms of gameplay. The battle time is set to 4 minutes, which means that players can end the game in a short period of time, which is more friendly to the fast-paced life and more in line with the "grab a hand in their spare time" scenario. Because of its unique and multi-choice approach to multiplayer, Codename. Breaking Dawn is also suitable for scenes where friends are playing.
Why do you say Codename. There are a lot of deficiencies in "Breaking Dawn"?
Perhaps because the environment is still in internal testing, the author evaluates the code name with the requirements of the formal service. The completion of "Breaking Dawn" does not seem to be very reasonable. But in some of the places that have been completed, there are still many details that are not enough at dawn.
Some of the character models are rough, and you may wonder why the author's views are contrary to the character designs praised above. But if codename. The character modeling of "Breaking Dawn" in the battle interface is 8 points, and the character modeling in the story mode can only be 4 points. In the author's opinion, the modeling of Xi Shi in the plot mode is even inferior to the modeling in "Glory of Kings". As the opening scene, it is so simple, it is really surprising.
The poor balance of the characters may have been influenced by Harashin and Naruto, Codename. In "Breaking Dawn", only armor is a hero for novices, and the rest of the characters are obtained by drawing cards. Since the Code. Breaking Dawn is a real-time fighting game, and the mode of drawing cards is more likely to cause imbalances between characters. But the most taboo thing about fighting games is the balance problem, and the Shumian Haojie in "Naruto" before it also caused public anger because of the excessive intensity.
In the case of Little Joe, Little Joe's return technique is upward flash (similar to Zelda's return), and the horizontal skill is a ranged swing fan (similar to Simon's horizontal line skill), which makes Little Joe extremely mobile and attritional, and it is difficult for melee fighters to pose a threat to it.
At present, the most difficult to smoke red buff, its skills can not only ignore the shield, but also have a difficult to counter combo, which has a greater impact on the balance of the game.
Meanwhile, Codename. The card draw of "Breaking Dawn" only has the lucky value accumulation mode, and there is no situation where ten consecutive guarantees must be guaranteed. At the same time, the addition of the inscription system will lead to a further increase in the balance between players and players.
Feel feedback is poor Most of the current game's sense of blow is forced up by animation, and there is no actual feel feedback. The cool special effects and inexperienced hand feedback displayed by the character after hitting heavy hits, big moves, flying enemies make the player feel very abrupt and unnatural. After the game is officially launched, if there is no joint mobile phone manufacturer to carry out in-depth optimization, this sense of fragmentation will greatly affect the player's game experience.
Codename. Can "Breaking Dawn" catch fire?
I think we should define whether a game is on fire before discussing this issue. In China's mobile game market, there are thousands of games that are simply not known to players. In the author's opinion, a game can achieve more revenue, achieve profitability, and at the same time rank in the top 30 in the mobile game flow, that is fire.
Taking the current hottest fighting mobile game - "Naruto" as an example, in the 2022 domestic two-dimensional mobile game, "Naruto" ranks second in revenue, second only to "Harajin". It can be seen that fighting games still occupy a place in the mobile game market. With a new gameplay, coupled with the blessing of the Glory of Kings IP, Codename. "Breaking Dawn" will inevitably become a very popular product. But the author also believes that codename. "Breaking Dawn" will not become a mobile game like "Glory of Kings".
The author believes that the fundamental reason for the long-term prosperity of "Glory of kings" over the years lies in its "infinity" and "sociality"
Infinity means that the operation and gameplay of this game are endless. Compared to some story games, Glory of Kings focuses on the competitive mode, which also means that the game will not be bound by the ending plot. For games like Kings, the plot is just the icing on the cake, not the key factor. The original god emphasizes the plot and main line adventure, but the update speed of the plot and adventure is completely inferior to the needs of the player, which explains why the original god will increase in popularity when the new version is updated, and the heat will plummet in the middle of the version.
Sociality is the social attribute of a game. The strong sociability of Glory of Kings not only benefits from the moba nature of its games, but also has a low barrier to entry. And the language communication in the game is more convenient. An average of 15 minutes of matches also provides plenty of time for players to communicate. This also makes "Glory of Kings" a national mobile game for fire. In contrast, "Codename. Breaking Dawn", although the game also has infinite and a certain sociality, but it is far less than Glory of Kings. Codename. "Breaking Dawn" is more suitable for offline friends to play or come to a hand in their leisure time. Because of the super-fast pace of fighting games and the need for concentration, Codename. The social attributes of Breaking Dawn online are difficult to develop. In other words, we don't communicate and interact with others while playing fighting games, and the only way to communicate in the game is quick language and expressions. If the Codename. Breaking Dawn can solve the social difficulties in the fighting game, so its development potential will surely reach another peak.
summary
Based on the above introduction, we have reason to believe that Codename. Breaking Dawn can give us a whole new experience. Perhaps because of the popularity of the "Glory of Kings" IP, coupled with the lack of fighting games in the mobile game market, Codename. "Breaking Dawn" looks at this opportunity and hopes to occupy a world in the mobile game market. But for now, Codename. The details of Breaking Dawn still need to be polished and perfected, and the game still has many shortcomings. May be limited by fighting games, Codename. Breaking Dawn doesn't go to the top like Glory of Kings. But the author believes that the Code. "Breaking Dawn" will never die quickly, but is more likely to become a work like "QQ Speeding Car" and "Naruto", which is less than the top and more than the bottom.