"My name is Fang Aiju, I have just retired, I have a beautiful daughter-in-law and a son of a nest; I have met dozens of strange people and strangers in my neighbors, and I have many fans on the Internet; I have read thousands of books, walked thousands of miles, and have hundreds of millions of wealth, and the world calls me the contemporary Xu Xiake and the reincarnated Gatsby." Now I plan to march into the martial arts and win the national art, as long as V I am in red envelopes, when I become a generation of masters, I will seal you as a personal disciple. ”
Well, I'll admit, I've never seen a game as "nonsense" as Retirement Simulator. In today's environment where the protagonists in the game industry are generally handsome men and beautiful women, I did not expect that someone would dare to let a newly retired bad old man who looked unattractive be the protagonist.
Some people say that the charm of games is to let us experience a different life, and I think "Retirement Simulator" is exactly that - it focuses on the elderly group that is rarely involved in today's games, bringing me a game experience that is very different from other games.
Colorful retirement
What will life be like in retirement for our generation? Is it chess, walking, square dancing, or computers, games, live broadcasting?
I believe that today, when "inner volume" and "lying flat" are becoming more and more serious, many people will only be disturbed by what is in front of them, and have not carefully considered the above question. And "Retirement Simulator" gives us this opportunity, it lets us play an old man who has just retired from the unit, from scratch to contact the wave of the new era.
"Grounded gas" is the most intuitive and at the same time the most profound impression of this game, this grounded style runs through the game and is expressed in all aspects of it.
The direct manifestation of this "grounding gas" lies in the core content of the game - the cultivation of gameplay. "Retirement Simulator" provides a wealth of cultivation content, from the elderly's favorite chess and square dance, to the elderly university to play music, engage in Peking opera art, and then follow the trend of the times of the network live broadcast and so on.
The benefits of these activities also vary, and we need to exercise the "six dimensions" of physical fitness, art, temperament, thinking, flexibility, communication, and the two core values in the game - health and psychology.
Whether it is to be an old "dead house" who does not leave home, or an elderly artist full of books, everything needs to be decided by us.
In addition to enriching ourselves, we can also build relationships with many characters in the left and right neighbors, front street and back corners, cultivate goodwill, and get corresponding benefits - helpers, helpers. Whether it is a wife and child who has a relationship with you, or a broken-mouthed aunt in the community, a rebellious girl, you can cultivate a close relationship with it.
Everyone has different characteristics
Honestly, there are a lot of places in this game that will give me a sense of déjà vu in the old age version of Persona 5: the protagonists start from the margins of society, gradually establish relationships with other people, and enrich themselves step by step, step by step to the center of the stage; there are some supernatural abilities in the game setting to help themselves - of course, these are far from plagiarism, but just the same thing between excellent works.
What connects the content of the game is the "main line" content of the game. The game provides a total of four optional life goals - the "traveler" route that travels all over the world, the "net red" route with hundreds of millions of fans, the "martial arts" route that becomes a generation of grandmasters, and the "local tycoon" route that becomes rich in the elderly (although the local tycoon line is not yet online).
Four optional life goals
Different routes have clear requirements for the player's various attributes. For example, if you want to be an Internet celebrity, you need a strong communication temperament and better interpersonal relationships, and if you want to be a martial arts master, you must have excellent physical fitness, flexible body shape, and have a good pair of fists and feet.
These four main lines all have clear and clear phased goals, and the multi-week experience will not produce a strong sense of repetition.
Punch the flesh and spew the soul from the mouth
The unique temperament of "grounded gas" in "Retirement Simulator" is also manifested in battles, events and other aspects.
The game offers a rather interesting DBG card system. It fights in a way that is like Land of Deception, divided into "physical" and "spiritual" attacks. You can either know the reason, move with affection, and use the advantage of the old man's mouth to give the opposite side a spiritual blow; or you can transform into the head of the yi fist and empty the blood tank on the other side with a chaotic fist.
In order to match the free cultivation gameplay, the game does not make the difficulty of the battle too high. Even beginners with a relatively shallow understanding of card games will be able to get through the level with relative ease.
In addition, it also provides some solutions that are beyond the card construction itself: you can use natural skills such as "lying flat" and "pretending to be sick" to directly perform dimensionality reduction strikes to end the game - this kind of "skipping class" content, which surprised me at first sight, but when you think about it, it is very much in line with the way some elderly people should act, and it seems real and interesting.
Highly relevant to the combat system are the numerous interesting events in the course of the game. When one of our (or items) property values are sufficient, the corresponding event is triggered. Some are funny, some are sad.
For example, when we took the "martial arts master" route and accidentally beat up three people who kicked the pavilion, we found that they were just boys who came to deliver takeaways; and when I went to the nursing home to meet my dear dry mother, I found that she who was already demented did not remember me... With the growth of attributes and the passage of time, more such and such events will occur, from the short and small things in the parents to the struggle with the company and the pyramid scheme organization, the bittersweet and bittersweet life, and the various sentient beings in the society are revealed here.
However, I still can't help but want to complain twice, why can I always be such a bad old man?!!
The old and the old, the young and the young
"Witty", "humorous" and "grounded" are only the appearances shown in "Retirement Simulator". What made me think more was the courage to focus on the elderly group and the humanistic care that exuded to these vulnerable groups.
The first is the restoration of today's reality in many details. For example, in the opening scene, as the former uncle of the state-owned enterprise staff, on the day before the implementation of "delayed retirement", squeezed into the long dragon of the majority of retirement, when it was the turn of the protagonist, he was told to download an app related to retirement...
The various events in the game also integrate elements such as marriage urging, children's mouths, and health care product scams in daily life, whether it is the theme or gameplay, the plot, all have a strong topic attribute from the root. I was impressed by some things, such as the discord between relatives, the cancer of a loved one, the demolition of the community... For me, these stories, which are often staged in reality, are the most emblematic of the game's thrust and value.
- Of course, this is not a bitter game. Its inner tone is still young and exuberant. In the game, we experience the life of "old age" with a young mindset; outside the game, if we can understand the minds of those older generations, communicate with them, and reduce the generation gap, then I think the practical significance of this game will be achieved.
Because of this, when I finished retirement simulator, put down the computer, walked out of the room, and sat on the bench in the neighborhood, I was still in a bit of a trance. At that time, it was the end of the primary school next to it, and the elderly and children held hands, listening to and telling today's stories; other elderly people were gathering together to chat about the recent parents. Everything is so similar to the game, but not very similar.
epilogue
Retirement Simulator is a pretty magical game that has both humor and grounded skin and some reflections on the current situation. And its rich and fun game content, often let me play until late at night and enjoy it, it brings me joy, thinking, resonance and emotion, many games that cost several times the price is difficult to reach.