The Gothic story is like an iceberg, and at first glance, the part of it floating on the surface of the water is not magnificent, but underwater, it has a surprisingly large volume.
In many "sword and magic" stories, Gothic fantasy can occupy a lot of scenes. Deep castles, vampires in sleeping coffins, confused souls in the night... These are all iconic elements of Gothic fantasy.
The aesthetic style of Gothic fantasy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the grandmaster in this field, Ellen Poe, is naturally sought after by many creators, and the Argentine poet Borges once said, "We have also been created by Edgar Allen Poe." At the same time, Ellen Poe is also the originator of suspense novels, so he has naturally received many tributes to suspense works, and script killing is no exception.
(The pioneer of suspense fiction and the master of Gothic storytelling, Edgar Allan Poe.) ）
In the "K's Game" series, "Legend of the Night" completes a tribute to the master of suspense, Ellen Poe. Whether it is the backstory or the easter egg of the script, or the reversal and ending of the later stages, "Legend of the Night" has the style of this master. Today, I will introduce this gothic script killing - "Legend of the Night".
Script Title: Tales of the Night
Number of players: 7 (5 men and 2 women)
Genre: Magical/Hardcore/Suspense
Game duration: 3-4 hours
Distribution team: Tianjin Man Entertainment Books Co., Ltd
Story Background:
It's a chaotic world where famous gods and ghosts from east and west gather, where the most magnificent castle, usher house, stands majestically, and you're a distinguished guest who receives an invitation from the Dark Witch. Each of you is a demon of all evil, who came here to solve the unsolved mysteries of your past lives, but a murder case broke the atmosphere of the celebration, and in order to calm the wrath of the witch, you must solve the puzzle and find out the real culprit...
Character Introduction:
Werewolf: Loyal and brave, in the moonlight of the full moon will make the same howl as a wolf.
Edward Scissorhand: A lonely gentle gentleman, a robot made by a genius inventor.
Zombie Bride Emily: The girl waiting for true love, killed by the scumbag, transforms into a zombie bride.
Snake Demon Bai Suzhen: A white snake that has been practicing for a thousand years, he was cursed by Fahai and sealed the bottom of the tower forever.
Dragon Smaug: The king of the treasure mountain, he loves glittering gems and gold coins.
Count Vampire: Decadent and gorgeous aristocrat. But never smoked human blood.
Beautiful young Dorian Gray: the immortal painting of the man, the portrait for him to age, forever young.
Reading experience
The main stage of "Legend of the Night" takes place in a castle called "Escher House", which pays tribute to Edgar Poe's short story "The Collapse of Escher House" from its name to its environmental description, and the subsequent cases also secretly echo the plot of this novel, which players familiar with Edgar Poe can clearly find after experiencing the complete game flow.
In terms of narrative, the script adopts the traditional split-screen narrative, and the text volume of the entire script is not large, but relying on the author's solid writing ability, the overall structure of the story is very clear, and the character shaping is relatively full. Although each character in the story has three identity changes, due to the author's clever arrangement and compact game rhythm, it will not make the player feel chaotic, each identity change is very clear, everyone can easily understand the "who am I" and "who are the other players", the player will not reduce their own game experience.
In addition, on the back of each player's character book, there is an excerpt from Poe Poe's short story "Shadow of Death", and players who have experienced this script will surely find the small Easter eggs buried in it.
Play experience
Relying on smooth writing and plump character shaping, although "Legend of the Night" is only a small-scale script that does not require DM, the game effect is not inferior to the traditional script killing with DM configuration. The whole game revolves around a case, the pace is fast, but not urgent, and the player is more time left in each link.
"Legend of the Night" adopts a two-round evidence search mechanism, the game process does not set up a private chat link, all the evidence is public, in the game mode is actually to test the player's logical combing ability. The nuclear trick is decent, and although the content narrative is interspersed with some declension elements, this kind of micro-declension insertion is acceptable considering that its game content is related to ghosts.
The search for evidence in "Legend of the Night" is relatively simple, that is, ordinary card search, but the production of the clue card in the second act is particularly exquisite, using the form of letters, many of which have the author's original modern poems, and the writing method is obviously imitating Ellen Poe's 1845 poetry collection "The Crow and Other Poems", which is very unique.
summary
Purely as a hardcore book, "Legend of the Night" can only be said to be decent, with no particularly obvious shortcomings, but also lacks significant features. If you consider that it is a small volume script kill without DM, then "Legend of the Night" can rise a little more with its good game rhythm.
But as a film full of Easter eggs, a tribute to The Poe fans, "Legend of the Night" is definitely an excellent script. The foreshadowing and tribute of all kinds of grass snake gray lines in the script make this script unconventional. If you're a fan of Poe's books, Tales of the Night is definitely a script worth playing.
Article author: Big sweet potato