Opening Remarks:
"As we all know, Mihayou is an animation production company"
"Make a wish on March 7, out of the will return the wish"
"Wife Sticker"
"Progress Visible to the Naked Eye"
"Is the second test coming?"
(The above content is from the bullet screen of the first character PV B station of "Crash: Star Dome Railway")
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Today (April 21st), Mihayou's new game "Crash: Star Dome Railway" released a new game PV on Station B, "March 7 Character PV - "Come, Take a Picture!" It is worth mentioning that this is also the first character PV of this game since its release last year. The video rushed to the hot search at the speed of light shortly after the B station was launched, and as of press time, the total number of plays had exceeded 1 million, and the data was still rising.
In fact, since the announcement of the launch of the PV "Next Stop, Galaxy!" was announced in October last year. Up to now, the official has been very low-key, almost no new product trends have been revealed, and there are very few insider revelations from insiders.
Even so, players can also be described as the expectation of "Crash: Star Dome Railway" MAX, just on the B station spontaneously created thousands of related videos, covering the first test experience, PV analysis, character display and other content, many works have reached millions of views. Up to now, on the official website, the number of player reservations has exceeded 1.6 million; and on TapTap, the game has also rushed to the top of the reservation list, with more than 1.35 million reservations and a rating of 8.1.
Players on TapTap often use this style to express their expectations
Compared with the first exposure PV of "Crash: Star Dome Railway" last year, the character PV released today will focus on the body of the Kanban Lady character March Seven. What is the purpose of Miha's trip? What hidden information can we get from the new PV?
In just 2 minutes, the Kanban Lady stood still
For RPG games, telling a good story, creating enough immersion and substitution is a necessary lesson, and character building plays a vital role in it, which is exactly what Mihayou is good at.
With popular characters to attract the attention of players, with the help of emotional resonance to stimulate derivative creation, and then promote secondary dissemination, feed back the popularity of the game, this virtuous circle Miha tour has long been familiar with the road, "Crash 3" in a popular classic image is the best evidence, as a sequel out of the same door, "Crash: Star Dome Railway" obviously wants to inherit this fine tradition.
Although the character PV this time is less than 2 minutes, it is enough to show the vivid side of a paper man. This girl will be happy to see the beautiful scenery, eager to remember all the unknowns, and seems to have endless vitality, but she will also fall into the confusion of her life, and know how to share the happiness, but also slightly off-line. From rich facial expressions to fluent body language, behind the natural is inseparable from the absolute top technical support, the direct result is to leave people with a fairly strong memory point in a short period of time, sunshine, vitality and other labels are attached to the kanban lady's body.
In a matter of seconds, the rich emotional transformation of March Seven was revealed
Although the character PV can be regarded as an extension of the game's real content, it will definitely form a unity with the character shaping of the product itself. I believe that many players should remember the character-related animation shorts such as "Zhong Li: Listening to the Book" in "Original God", which is to make a character really jump on the paper and even resonate with the group with this combination of inside and outside.
"Zhong Li: The Book Listener" has been played more than 30 million times on Station B
In this PV, March Seven, used as the core emotional conflict of the character is the frozen fragment of her memory, combined with the news released during the test, we know that March Seven is not her real name, but she is in order to remember the frozen self was found by the train "rebirth" date, and her life and past are the secrets she wants to rely on the camera to find.
Frozen constant ice on March 7
To give an example, it is worth boldly guessing that in the huge worldview of "Crash: Star Dome Railway", as the adventure unfolds, the protagonist group is bound to meet more characters, and these characters are bound to be very different personalities and serve the plot narrative of the grass snake gray line. If each character can stand like March 7, such a group of portraits meets the big drama is enough to be called an epic picture of the Galaxy.
The first character PV, why choose March Seven
If the starting PV is a milestone for Crash: Star Dome Railway, then the official announcement of the first character PV is also of great significance. Changing a product presentation form, whether it can further increase user expectations, narrow the distance with users, and establish a sense of identity of users, are the missions to be undertaken by this new PV. So such an important publicity material, who to choose the protagonist has become an important issue.
In this regard, perhaps many friends feel that the answer is obvious. Judging from the information that has been disclosed, March 7 is not only an icon of "Crash: Star Dome Railway", but also one of the "Royal Three Houses" often said by players.
But don't forget, "Crash: Star Dome Railway" is a sequel with IP halo blessing, and some of the familiar names in crash IP also appear in this work, and Miha you did not deliberately play this sentiment card, naturally with other intentions.
A "tree of imaginary numbers" theory has been mentioned in the crash series, and in the official spin-off comic of "Crash 3: Alien Land", the concept of "heavenly man" and "parallel world" is also introduced, and what is more interesting is that in the character painting on the official website of "Crash: Star Dome Railway", Walter's memory fragment presents the story in Crash 3, and the detail of the memory fragment being broken also implies that Walter has traveled from a parallel universe to start a new journey.
It is not difficult to infer that "Crash: Star Dome Railway" is a new branch growing on the "tree of imaginary numbers" of the collapse IP, and even the character of the same name will have a new experience in this new world line. In other words, "Crash: Star Dome Railway" will not have an IP threshold in the narrative, while retaining some of the old character names and introducing more new faces such as March Seven, which can be said to not only connect the emotions of old users, but also take into account the independence of the new work itself, sweeping away the entry concerns of many new players.
Speaking of which, it is not difficult to understand why Miha You chose March 7 to become the protagonist of this PV, which clearly reveals the determination of the IP sequel to start a new start, as well as the confidence to successfully create more new characters and tell a new story.
"Retro innovation" at the gameplay level
In addition to the characters and story, the core gameplay of Crash: Star Dome Railway has always been the focus of user attention.
In the latest PV, there is a scene of March Seven fighting with the enemy, from which it can be seen that March Seven uses a group attack of ice bows and arrows, and the enemy will have a frozen effect trigger, which also echoes the setting of her waking up from the constant ice. According to public information, the combat gameplay of Crash: Star Dome Railway adopts a turn-based system, and combines classic mechanisms such as elemental defense and large map attack.
Turn-based combat may seem retro, but it's a bold evolution of Crash: Star Dome Railroad. On the one hand, this is Mihayou's first attempt in this genre field, on the other hand, from the perspective of market pattern, boutique turn-based games actually have a very large market, but the production cost and difficulty of "boutique" are much higher.
In the turn-based battle of Crash: Star Dome Railway, based on the classic sequence of action bars, players also need to have multiple dimensions of strategic considerations, such as how to balance the consumption of combat skill points and the timing of accumulation, how to use elements to match the lineup, how to grasp the order of different character moves, and so on.
In addition, although turn-based compared to action games lower the operating threshold, but by no means means everything from simple, "Crash: Star Dome Railway" subverts the more common automatic pathfinding design, but allows players to explore freely in the map, through each character's unique map maze skills to provide the opening advantage of the battle, in addition, in the combat action performance, you can also see Mihayou's long-term accumulation of deep skills in the ACT field.
And with this action, you can believe it's turn-based
In order to make this free exploration more interesting, "Crash: Star Dome Railway" also adopts the design of the box court map, and it has to be said that when other manufacturers are busy making up for the course of opening up the world, they dare to retro back to the more classic box court exploration, which also reflects Mihayou's consistent creative style.
In the author's opinion, the exploration and turn-based system of the box court map also have a higher degree of fit, and can also better serve the world view of "Crash: Star Dome Railway": the protagonist group takes a train to adventure on different planets, these planets are diverse in landform, terroir, race and even civilization, there is no transition area between each other, and each box court map can put more effort into the depth of the scene interaction details. Players can experience the puzzles and interactive eggs that can be seen everywhere when they explore freely, and maybe they can also find their favorite scenery like March 7 to punch in and take souvenirs.
It is a little regrettable that this PV does not have much ink on the game scene, but in the limited real-life display, some highlights of the reverie can still be found. To be sure, these exposed scene shots are not only for good looks, but also in the game will definitely be organically combined with the gameplay functionality.
This is one of The Landmarks of Belloberg
This should be a place similar to a florist
This little room with "gears" is full of steampunk
Will the second test be far away?
Although the new PV this time has made many players with expectations a little relieved to a certain extent, it can be seen from the bullet screen that the most concerned question is "when can I play".
In fact, we did find a very hidden important message through PV. In this PV, we can see that there is the words "the picture in development does not represent the final quality" in the picture. Compared with the starting PV 6 months ago, the official definition of the product as an "early version" at that time. In this regard, we boldly guess that after a period of low-key and dedicated development, the completion of the game has improved significantly. After a long time of dormancy, a new publicity material was suddenly released, which may be a precursor to the approaching of the second test.
There are subtle differences between the words in the originating PV (top) and this PV (bottom).
After the first test in October last year, Crash: Star Dome Railway received unanimous praise from test players, and given Miha's increasingly mature industrial pipeline and the industry's recognized top technical strength, we can be sure that the overall quality of the new crash: Star Dome Railway is very guaranteed. In addition, we also learned that for this new product, Mihayou has invested a large-scale development team of more than 400 people. Such a "revival of the masses", perhaps "Crash: Star Dome Railway" carries more than just the ace IP orthodox sequel.
In the many user reviews of "You can always believe in Miha Tour", we also expect Miha Tour to once again amaze the entire industry.