Under the epidemic, the script killing exhibition was suspended, and the number of new scripts on the market was significantly reduced. At the same time, a board game called "Blood On The Colcktower" suddenly broke the circle, surpassing the much-anticipated "Avalon 2" in one fell swoop, becoming the first blockbuster board game in 2022. Subsequently, the Blood Stained Bell Tower won a large number of fans among the script killers with interesting game mechanics and a strong sense of participation.
For a time, the blood-stained bell tower was in the limelight in board games and script killing circles, "Are you 'dyed' today?" It has also become the most popular greeting among current players.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, many script killing stores have opened a "bell tower car", and some script killing stores have even directly added "blood-stained bell tower" to their own store names. This can't help but make some players sigh, is the script killing going to be gradually replaced by the blood-stained bell tower?
So, can the Blood Stained Bell Tower really replace the script killing? Compared with the script killing, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the blood-stained bell tower? Today we will explore it.
What is the "Blood Stained Clock Tower"?
Bloodstained Clock Tower is a board game developed by The Pandemonium Institute from Sydney, Australia. At present, players are only exposed to its demo version, and the official version is reported to be released abroad in May this year.
Not long ago, The Pandemonium Institute, the official publisher of Blood Stained Clock Tower, reached a strategic cooperation with Jishi, who will serve as the official partner of Blood Stained Clock Tower in China and jointly explore the domestic market with The Pandemonium Institute.
In terms of game flow and staffing, the Blood Stained Bell Tower is very close to the werewolf kill, the number of players fluctuates between 5-15 people, requires a host, and is roughly divided into two camps: good guys and bad guys. The progression of the game is carried out in the alternation of "day" and "night", with chat, voting, etc. during the day, and knife people at night, as well as letting the character use some specific skills. In general, the game's winning condition is "slaughtering edges", that is, one faction destroys the vast majority of the personnel of the other faction, or destroys some key characters of the other side. Players who have played werewolf kills can easily understand the basic gameplay of the game.
Unlike werewolf kills, the balance of the Bloodstained Bell Tower is very good, the characters available for players to choose from have unique skills, there are no obvious marginal people, and dead players can continue to speak, and hold a chance to vote, without letting the players who were knifed in the first night or the first round have no game experience for the whole time.
Blood Stained Bell Tower also designed a "traveler" character for players with limited time, the identity of the traveler is public, can be joined halfway after the game starts, and players can also take the initiative to propose "exile traveler", which effectively solves the problem of late arrival and early departure of pigeon players, making the game time more flexible.
(Some versions of the Traveler Skill)
More flexible rules of the game than script kills
For the Script Killing Store, the Blood Stained Bell Tower is an excellent operating project, and most of the Script Killing Stores can meet the game conditions of the Blood Stained Bell Tower.
In the Bloodstained Bell Tower, the host is called the "Storyteller", a character closer to the DM killed by the script than the "God" killed by the werewolves. Since the Blood Stained Clock Tower can conduct private chats, there is no order of speech, and the storyteller has a certain room for some characters, it is crucial for the storyteller to control the rhythm of the game, and the professional DM of the script killing store can be more easily competent for this job, so that the players involved will not feel chaotic.
In addition, the blood-stained clock tower is more inclined to social and entertaining, and it is necessary for storytellers to drive the atmosphere of the scene and avoid cold scenes, which happen to be the work content of DM, so for the script to kill DM, it is not difficult to transform into a blood-stained storyteller.
On the other hand, at least so far, the cost of purchasing the game of the Blood-Stained Bell Tower is very low, far less than the cost of buying the script by the script killing shop. At present, the original team of the Blood Stained Bell Tower has not launched a Chinese version, so most of the stores operating the Blood Stained Clock Tower use open source resources on the Internet, do not need to buy this or only buy cheap pirated copies, saving a lot of costs.
In terms of players, the price of playing a blood-stained bell tower is much cheaper than the script kill, and the game time of the blood-stained bell tower is also shorter than the script kill, and it only takes 1-3 hours to play a round. This makes it easier for office workers to organize a bureau after work on weekdays, and the store also increases the flow of customers.
Compared with the one-time game of script killing, the players of the Blood Stained Bell Tower have a higher re-brushing rate, and the number of players is more flexible, and there will be no situation where the game cannot be played due to lack of people. This flexible game mechanism makes the Blood Stained Clock Tower a full-fledged "pigeon master buster".
Blood stains still can't replace script killing
Although the Blood Stained Clock Tower has a good game quality and is also very suitable for script killing store operations, it cannot replace script killing.
The Blood Stained Clock Tower can be played repeatedly, and there are multiple DLCs for players to choose from, but these DLCs only make some articles on the game characters and character skills, and do not change the most fundamental gameplay, changing the soup and not changing the medicine. Over time, players will inevitably get bored with this game mode. Since the Blood-Stained Clock Tower does not have a story core to support, many script killers who like to experience emotional books, hardcore books, and horror books may not like this board game.
A large part of the players who contact and understand the Blood Stained Bell Tower through the script killing store are fans of the mechanics, and once they are tired of playing the game mechanics of the Blood Stained Clock Tower, the attraction of the Blood Stained Bell Tower, which lacks plot and immersion, will greatly reduce their attractiveness.
Compared with the blood-stained clock tower, the script killing that is constantly updated and iterated is more playable, whether it is the mechanism or the plot, different scripts can often present different content, which can constantly bring players a sense of freshness. At the same time, the script killing can also give players a better sense of immersion through means such as service, audio and video, sound and optoelectronics, real-life evidence, etc. Although the price will be higher than that of the blood-stained bell tower, the richer game content can also bring players a better game experience.
More importantly, there are still some copyright hidden dangers in the blood-stained bell tower. Whether the game is an open source game with open copyright by the author is still debatable, and once there is a copyright dispute in the future, it will affect players and stores.
However, the emergence of the Blood Stained Bell Tower is still a positive for the script killing industry, which fills the market gap during the shutdown of the script killing exhibition, and also adds some customers to those script killing shops affected by the epidemic.
At present, it seems that the Blood Stained Bell Tower is expected to become a resident game for some script killing stores, but it remains to be seen whether this board game can develop to the level of Three Kingdoms Killing or Werewolf Killing.
Article Author: Needles in a Haystack Big Sweet Potato