Recently, the release of an interactive movie game trial related video called "Shendu Bad Detective" on Station B caught my attention, before the game officially released its first trailer in December last year, and finally got 132,000 views. The demo version of the game has been released on the b station, small black box, TapTap, Weibo and other platforms of the player community has received a good response.
(Picture: There are many trial videos on station B, and many of them have received more than 100,000 views and thousands of bullet screens in a week)
And "Shendu Bad Detective" has also achieved extraordinary results in the TapTap community, with a score of 9.9, the following is a simple list of scoring charts for your reference:
With the small-scale test of "Shendu Bad Detective", a well-known game media [Game Inn] recently also tweeted publicly and gave a high evaluation, [Game Inn] believes that players' satisfaction with "Shendu Bad Detective" mainly lies in three points: the actor's acting skills, full motion images, and rich interaction.
In the article, the game inn also mentioned "Invisible Guardians", another interactive movie game released in 2019 and with rave reviews. So, after three years, what kind of innovation has "Divine Bad Detective" made in the field of interactive video works?
(Pictured: God is not good detective propaganda map, the scene seems to hide a lot of information)
In this regard, I agree with some of the views of the game inn.
In recent years, the game has developed in two directions, one direction is towards freedom, the most typical example of which is the open world AAA masterpiece. Another direction is the development of the plot carefully crafted, or more specifically towards a cinematic narrative. Interactive movie games are the embodiment of the development of cinematic narrative games to the extreme.
In today's game market, male consumers are the main force, while women in the film and television market, especially in the TV drama market, are the main consumers. Compared with traditional video games, interactive video games are simpler to operate and easier to use, and the threshold is low. At the same time, the division between film and television works and video games is even less obvious. Interactive movies and games are favored by female players because of their obvious characteristics in film and television works. Through some simple interactions in this category of works, you can get more fun than simply chasing dramas, and at the same time, you will not lose the fun of the original drama chasing.
It can be said that the game inn has explained a set of theories of interactive movie games very comprehensively, but the actual operation of game manufacturers is always unsatisfactory, and in some domestic film and game works that appear after "Invisible Guardian", the sense of separation between the plot, gameplay, and players is very serious. It's a bit of a lame giant.
After reading the tweets from the game inn, I also immediately went to read some demo videos related to "Bad Detective" and found that this game was indeed a wonderful balance.
In terms of character shaping, he has the characteristics of Zhou's comedy; in terms of plot design, his world view is complete; and in terms of gameplay, he has designed the so-called "thinking play" without being discouraged. And under the addition of the actor's excellent acting skills, there is almost no sense of violation at the film and television level of "God Is Bad Detective", which can be said to be impeccable.
It has a movie-watching experience like a costume drama, which makes "Divine Bad Detective" attractive to female users who love to chase dramas. However, compared with traditional film and television works, "Shendu Bad Detective" has interactive performance to open the door to a new world for users who like to chase dramas, and at the same time can give gamers a movie viewing experience, without exception, the game "Shendu Bad Detective" has achieved the so-called "broken circle", so that its influence is no longer limited to the game circle. Friends who often follow the drama may find that the actors invited by "Divine Bad Detective" are all film and television industry professionals, including some old drama bones, such as the woman in the picture above played by Shi Rui, who loves to laugh at the members of the conference room. Participated in the filming of many film and television dramas and dramas, and the performance of sketches.
Of course, the current response of players to this game is not bad, but it is only limited to good, because the final reputation is determined by many factors, and many cases of good-selling games eventually stillbirth are not in the minority, especially such a costly game, and the final pricing geometry also makes many players wonder.
A Cheng took a look, this game is set on Steam on April 28, there is no official price yet, but there is a small detail worth paying attention to, the official in its Steam store page specially posted such a line of information:
A Cheng believes that since the first five times since it is used as a dessert to try, the current information exposed by Steam, the full version of the content includes [the body 1 ~ 5 times] and [dlc6 ~ 17 times], the first test in the video of the trial has been released 4 times, up the main play about 1 hour or so; plus a fifth time, A Cheng believes that the ontology pricing should not be too high, 30 yuan or less. DLC has a total of 12 episodes, and the climax of the plot of the film and television drama may be this sixth time, so will this reversal routine be more valuable? The price of DLC should be around 60-80 yuan.
I don't know if I will launch a bundle, I hope that the price will be below 100 yuan, so that more players can experience the interactive design of the whole video.
Compared with the price of foreign AAA games, if the final full version of "Divine Bad Detective" is priced within 100, I think for the post-production of 6000+ hours, the cost performance is very high.
(Photo: Nippon Film Game's new work "Spring Lost 100 Years" and its pricing)
Actually, if you think about it, "Detective God" you only spent a minute, but you can experience the double happiness of the game and the drama at the same time, I think it is very profitable. I don't know what readers think of it, welcome to leave a message to discuss ~