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Recently, there is a "new work" that has attracted the attention of many old players, that is, the hd remake of the glorious company's "Taikoku Lizhi Biography 5", it is estimated that many new players have not heard of this name, after all, this series has not been new for nearly twenty years, but its excellent content and gameplay, there are still a large number of fans, this issue we will review this classic series with a history of thirty years.
Regarding the "Tale of Taikoku Rishi", it is necessary to start from the history of the protagonist, the protagonist of the series is the Japanese Politician and military figure Toyotomi Hideyoshi of the Sengoku period, whose original name was Kinoshita Fujiyoshi, who came from a humble background, started from a domestic slave, and went all the way to the official residence Yipin Guanbai, and finally ended the Warring States chaos and unified Japan. "Taikoku Lizhi Biography" gives players the opportunity to play this legendary figure, experience the history of struggle that is difficult and fulfilling, and integrate into the long river of history with hundreds of heroes in the period of change.
In 1992, the first work of "Taikaku Tsutomu" was released on the PC platform, the plot of the game began on May 17, 1560, the protagonist of the game Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro in Owari Mori Oda Nobunaga family as an official, and at this time the Oda family is facing a huge crisis, Imakawa Yoshimoto led tens of thousands of troops to attack, Oda Nobunaga decided to throw a desperate attack on the city, and you will play a small infantry leader who has just been promoted in the line of fire, born in a chaotic world, ordered to participate in the "Barrel Narrow Battle" at the time of danger. This famous Jedi counterattack in history has since embarked on the road to rise.
The game's gameplay adopts the combination of RPG adventure and strategy warfare mode, the attributes of the characters are more abundant than the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Nobunaga Nobunaga" and other games at that time, in addition to 6 basic ability values, there are 8 kinds of stunts, as well as tactical levels and strategic levels, it is difficult for players to improve all abilities in the game, and can only be reasonably distributed in the limited growth space, which also allows players to have different styles of game experience.
Players can move freely through the towns of the large map, and through shops, part-time jobs, learning, gambling, duels, etc., improve their abilities and obtain money treasures, complete various tasks to win the trust of Oda Nobunaga, and finally capture Inabayama Castle, appointed by Oda as the lord of Inabayama Castle, and renamed Haba Hideyoshi.
This game is also rich in combat, divided into two parts of siege warfare and field warfare, a total of infantry, cavalry, musketeers three kinds of units, formation, morale and other settings continue the glory of the strategy game features, field battles can achieve up to 15V15 battles, many cities are also divided into a variety of scales according to historical facts, giving players sufficient space for actual combat strategy.
The biggest innovation of "Taikoku Lizhi Biography" is to change the previous strategy game, focusing on the command choice of the state and the divided power level, but to take personal growth as the main line of the game, and design the script around the main line with historical real events, that is, to give players the space for free development, while arranging the general environment change, with a rich collection of props and battlefield strategy, so that you have a different experience in each game, and also have the motivation to repeatedly play.
After the launch of the first generation of the series, it was widely praised, this novel gameplay changed the impression that Glory's previous works were too serious, because home computers were not popular at that time, players were more exposed to the game through the 16-bit console SFC and MD port version, especially the MD version, through the cheap assembly of cassettes, so that many domestic players began to contact the series.
In 1995, the sequel "Taikoku Rietsushi 2" was launched, still the first pc version, and then ported to the new 32-bit console PS and SS, the biggest change in this game is to give players a higher degree of freedom, players do not have to be limited to Oda Nobunaga, can become unfettered ronin free cultivation at any time, devote themselves to other daimyo, and can choose to always assist or establish themselves as kings to unify the world. The first time you play the game, you can still choose Hideyoshi, and after completing the level once, you can choose new characters such as Mitsuhide Shibata and Shibata Katsuya, which greatly enriches the story experience.
The map of this game has also been expanded compared to the previous game, the Kyushu Shikoku area has joined, the number of cities and pools is more, still according to the population and economy and other development conditions set different scales, in addition, each city has a unique topographic design, for example, some cities are built on the mountain, only one road leads to the castle tower, so that the realization of the "one husband and one pass" easy to defend and difficult to attack terrain, leaving a deep impression on the player.
The personal growth part of the game has become more in-depth, the skill has increased to 10, and the role of the treasure has been greatly improved, not only for rewards, but also for recruiting other forces, according to the rarity of the treasure divided into 15 levels, high-level treasures are naturally expensive, but also meet the "landlord old money" style collection desire of some players.
The battle of this game is still divided into field battles and siege battles, the number of warriors increased to 25 people, and the role of planning was greatly improved, much like the feeling of playing "Overlord's Continent" in the past, but the new wall-climbing function in siege warfare weakened the aforementioned city terrain advantage and was criticized by players.
With the help of greatly improved hardware performance, Taikoku Lizhichuan 2 expands the game content to new heights, and also lays the foundation for the gameplay of subsequent works. At that time, the popularity of home computers and 32-bit consoles was not high, and there was no 16-bit port version, resulting in the second generation being less popular among domestic players than the previous game. I was playing the PS version, it is worth mentioning that the console version of the screen uses a 45-degree perspective 3D scene, and the PC version of the traditional top-down view screen is completely different, the terrain of the city has a more intuitive display, the Q version of the character modeling is more interesting, between the huge head and the body, with a thin neck like a bamboo pole, the console version is not so much a transplant, more like a completely remade version, and the relaxed style BGM created by Iwasaki Ishizu also impressed.
In 1999, after five years, "Taikoku Lizhi Biography 3" was late, at this time the Microsoft Windows system became the mainstream, the series has also been a new development, the most intuitive change is the gorgeous color of the watercolor style screen, replacing the series of traditional pixel screens, so that players have a bright feeling, it is easy to immerse themselves in the game world.
The content of this game returns to the growth history of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in addition to the protagonist, only a fictional character Ryota Masakatsu can choose, at the beginning of the game, the player can decide the attributes of the warrior through the choice, including the wise general type, hero type, and confused type, which will affect the upper limit of future learning skills.
The game's map has become more extensive, greatly enriching the internal affairs system, allowing players to have more strategic choices, the storyline runs through the protagonist's life, from the debut of Ashikaga Fujiyoshi to the death of Hideyoshi due to illness in 1598, players can experience the history of growth more comprehensively and carefully, making up for the weakening of the freedom brought about by the reduction of character choices, It is also worth mentioning that the characters in this game are dead according to the real life, and the player must seize the time to pass the level and not be too delayed.
"Taikoku Lizhi Biography 3" was released, home computers began to be widely popular in China, coupled with the third wave of the company's agent of the Chinese version, so that many players really experienced the charm of this series, the game was also ported to the PS console, this time the console version was not remade but restored to the PC version, the overall performance was decent, the music of this work was created by Oi Dingguang, many tracks were impressive, and it was also the last time the PC version used a CD soundtrack.
In 2001, Glory continued to launch a sequel, Taikoku Rishi 4, which still uses hand-drawn style graphics, the degree of refinement is further improved, all characters, skills, and battles are displayed in the form of cards, and ten places of interest are designed on the map, and players will trigger events when they go to specific locations to get the "Attraction Card", which also appeared in the previous release of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 7".
This game has a great evolution in terms of freedom, although the beginning is still only able to choose Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro, but in the game process can be through a variety of interactions to enhance the intimacy, after reaching three hearts can get the "character card", and then in the new game you can play this person, the total number of characters reached 600 people, including almost all the well-known characters of the Warring States period. This is a rich set of events designed as a number of characters, and the trigger conditions for using different characters are also different, giving players the opportunity to experience the same event from different perspectives. The player's class has also changed more, not only can continue the traditional leading soldiers to fight, but also become a ninja with high ninjutsu or a merchant in the world, each class has a corresponding evaluation system, character skills have also increased to 16 kinds, which has an important impact on various tasks, and the exercise of improving skills is a mini-game way, and the difficulty will continue to increase with the level, which greatly improves the playability.
"Taikoku Lizhi Biography 4", the character growth content has become the focus, compared to the reduction of strategic combat scenes, which is also the characteristic of the glorious game at that time, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 7" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8" in the same period have adopted the gameplay that can experience the warriors outside the monarch, and there are some shadows of the Taikoku Lizhi Biography, and the follow-up of this work was transplanted to the PS2 and PSP platforms, and the performance was still outstanding.
In 2004, the last orthodox work in the series, Taikoku LizhiChuan 5, was released, and the game's graphics were once again improved, while the PC version could be run without the need for players to use special transcoding software. The game has a richer content of character growth, there are four classes of samurai, ninja, merchant, pirate, as well as smelting, tea man, medicine man, teacher four equivalent to hobbies of the sub-profession, command, force, government, intelligence, charm five basic attributes plus sixteen skills, so that you have enough space to improve yourself, so that the game towards the cultivation of the genre to take a step closer.
The map of this game is more informative, more cities and sea islands let players have a greater desire to explore, the map has a lot of class-exclusive cities, such as samurai castle, ninja castle, pirate stone, merchant town, etc., each city also includes a large number of facilities for players to use, the previous game appeared in the "scenic card" this time increased to 32, almost became an encyclopedia of monuments.
The game's battles are divided into individual duels and joint battles, the former is a sword duel in a fixed field, while the latter is in the form of turn-based wargames, the combat units are displayed in the form of pieces, plus a variety of strategies and terrain, playing it feels like a board game.
"Taikoku Aspire 5" was subsequently ported to the PS2 and PSP platforms, and the HD remake called DX, in addition to the picture improvement, also added 100 warriors and new events, as well as a richer editing system, although the new work is far away, this bowl of cold rice still makes old players feel very fragrant, and new players also have the opportunity to try this classic series.
"Taikoku Aspire" series to the growth of characters as the main gameplay, so that players in a simple and easy way to experience many classic events in Japanese history, this design makes the player's sense of substitution stronger, but also has an impact on other games, like the Three Kingdoms 7, 8, 10 three works, have greatly increased the character development content, many players are as "Taikoku version of the Three Kingdoms" to play, I hope that one day in the future, Glory can restart this series, let us explore the infinite possibilities in the game world.
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