When you see this title, you may think that I am at Versailles, after all, "One Side Spirit Field" can get 76% of the "most likely praise", which is enough to kill the vast majority of games on Steam. But reality proves that the bottom line of players' tolerance for different game themes is very flexible, and in the games with xiuxian themes, most of them will not get too bad evaluations.
Not to mention the "Xiu Xian Simulator", "Seeking Immortals" and other well-known works, for some works of average quality, players are still difficult to make "sharp comments", such as even the production team conscience found that the "Tai Huang Chu Jing" of the removed game, there are 34% of the praise before the takedown, and there are less than 2 weeks to cut more than 48,000 bad reviews of the "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds", the current total evaluation is still "different praise and depreciation", perhaps for the Xiu Xian culture has a sense of identity and yearning, The Chinese players have always been very tolerant of this kind of subject.
"Before, I didn't have to play, but now some of it is good to play."
Today I want to talk to you about the "One Party Spirit Field", it also chose to challenge the theme of Xiu Xian, the main gameplay is to poke the domestic player XP system "farming", and the test paper that should have been 90 points to make today's 76 points, more or less can make people feel the subtlety of this evaluation.
If you have any friends who have not heard of this game, I will introduce it to you briefly.
Different from the "Ranch Story" series of standard successor grandfather/uncle's slow life unfolding on the country farm, the opening scene of "One Party Lingtian" reveals a strong sense of mission - you are an outsider disciple of the Guiyun Sect who was invited by the elders to come to Luoxia Town to take care of the medicinal garden, but before you can join, the Guiyun Sect became a ruin in a tragic extraterrestrial meteor attack, and most of the middle and high-level disciples inside the door died in the disaster, leaving only you and a few peripheral disciples in the refining period to be saved by the mysterious master. After the disaster subsided, you who almost became disciples of the Guiyun Sect supported each other while taking on the heavy responsibility of rebuilding the Sect.
Now the plot is only a little bit sporadic, but I have no doubt that this natural disaster is not a massacre committed by some evil villain
In depth, it can be compared to a Xiu Xian 3D version of the Stardew Grain Language, or more like the derivative series "Rune Workshop" of Ranch Story, and the gameplay probably includes farming fishing, gifting bubble girls (Hanzi), mining battles, transforming ranches and main line reconstruction Guiyun Faction. This actually makes sense in the setting, runes are not the "magic" under the fantasy worldview, RP (rune points / rune points) is just another name for spirit power / chakra, the functions are similar, most of the gameplay can find a one-to-one correspondence.
Delete the tall names such as spirit plants and spirit frogs in the game, and you will find that they are just ordinary crops/aquatic products.
Of course, this is not a criticism of "One Party Lingtian", I have always believed that every excellent gameplay is the truth that collides in continuous learning, borrowing, overturning and summarizing, in fact, "One Party Lingtian" brings me more than just changing skins, in the gameplay, the production team has also incorporated a lot of Xiu Xian related/interesting elements.
For example, when watering a gourd, we can also live on the hour, and we can summon and drive thundercloud rain with immortal magic;
During the game, we can rebuild some of the Guiyun Sect's facilities, the functions of these facilities, the Zongmen Hall is responsible for the monthly distribution of Feng Lu, the appointment and dismissal of the disciple class, the lecture hall can invite scattered cultivation lecturers, can enhance the attributes of the character, and so on;
The game can also buy runes, elixirs, light dan that increases the speed of movement, mature charms that can make large area crops grow instantly, and so on.
"One Party Spirit Field" can naturally use the produced spiritual plants and caught fish for cooking, and the cooking system learns the gameplay of the noisy kitchen, which is very fresh when it first starts.
As an independent game developed by a 3-person team that has hardly seen the publicity, "One Party Lingtian" has accumulated nearly 1,000 reviews in a week, which proves that simulated management + xiuxian is not without a head. However, in the "Rune Workshop Like" gameplay has a unique competitiveness, the evaluation is not good, 76% of the praise rate, and many to give praise but pointed out a lot of shortcomings of the brother, in many reviews, you can also see a current Internet hot word - unjust simulator, why is this?
It's not that I'm embarrassed, the official admits it
Let me start with a few examples of what I encountered during gameplay.
Brother Yang said that he wanted to learn alchemy, I said that you don't think so much about the miscellaneous fish during the refining period, with this kung fu it is better to help the old Master Brother's organ puppet to screw the screws, he said that the burden of revitalizing the Guiyun Sect is on the shoulders of his master brother, and he does not have the heart to focus on trivial matters. I said that the old lady had just returned from Edwig next door, was an alchemist who had to come to refine Dan, and he hated my poor understanding (obviously we were all in the middle of practicing Qi!). ）。 I said that line, I wish the master brother's immortal path is accessible, do not bother, at this time he stopped me, exposing the true purpose of this conversation - alchemy is a craft that requires the accumulation of experience, when can the master sister prepare some spiritual plants for me to practice my hands, the more the better...
Ji Shijie said that she wanted to do business to subsidize the income and expenditure of the sect, and I said yes, raising my hands in approval. She said that doing business requires some start-up capital, not much, some spiritual plants and 2,000 yuan on the line, rest assured that when the time comes to make money, you have a share. I said that smashing pots and selling iron also had to support the sister of the master. After a while, the sister excitedly told me that she finally made money, I asked how much she earned, she said that she earned 30 W - however, she used the 300,000 to expand the operation, the next step can earn 3 million, I said that the sister my dividend... She said how can I forget the support of the sister of the master, come, this is your dividend (2000 pieces), by the way to expand the operation also need a lot of materials, when the sister to give a little ...
Master Wei said that his goal is to become the world's number one inventor, and I said that you are really good, so what is the price. He said he had just conceived of a project to make a rain hat that could shield him from the wind and rain and ward off evil spirits, and that after the listing, it was expected to completely subvert the small commodity market in Luoxia Town, but he would first be given 500 yuan of research funds. To be honest, at that time, I had about 1,000 pieces on me, but when I thought that this was the dream of my master and disciple, I still gritted my teeth and gave it. A few days later, he finally wrote back to me - the bad news is that this investment is lost, the hat is all smashed in the hand, the good news is that this appearance fashion that has neither attribute bonuses to farming nor any help is sent to the sister as compensation, you see, it is green, and your head is more than matched...
PS. In the summer, Master Wei conceived a new invention, a magic-driven automatic fan, and guess I didn't give him any money.
PS. This hat I still wear, only it can make me wake up all the time - the one who emptied his warehouse to support his disciple, and only had 21 yuan left on his body (the cheapest spirit seed in the store is 30 per bag).
Under ideal circumstances, the structure of an organization should be triangular, a few people are responsible for controlling the strategy, and the majority are responsible for the division of labor, but the Guiyun sect in "One Party Spirit Field" is just the opposite, I found that its organizational structure is an inverted triangle, that is, there are a large number of people who give orders, but there is only one player who really implements the people, ben Sun Tzu in order to take care of the grandfathers in the door school, get up at 7 o'clock every morning to farm, and the spiritual plants produced dare not sell (I don't know which spiritual plants are needed for the subsequent tasks), Livelihood depends on the usual fishing and monster hunting.
In a cultivating immortal world where "heaven and earth are not benevolent and all things are dogs", I will feel that I am the biggest wronged species, is this not quite reasonable?
The brother in many steam comment areas has a similar experience, which also exposes the fundamental problem of "One Party Spirit Field" - it sets many goals for players, and the positive feedback that can be given to players after completing the goals is very weak.
Colonel, I feel like all my efforts have gone too far
In fact, not only in the Chinese unique Xiu Xian world view, people are "unprofitable" especially when they are players, most players not only enjoy the process of completing the difficult game goals, but also look forward to the rewards given by the game after this, about this, many predecessors of "One Party Spirit Field" have handed over good answers.
Some games have positive feedback that can be clearly felt, such as the main experience of the "Rune Workshop" series directly under the predecessor is "No matter what you do in the game, you will gain something".
This is reflected in the game's complex level system - almost all behaviors can be upgraded to the corresponding "level", from daily actions such as walking, sleeping, eating and drinking, to collecting, manufacturing, farming, fighting, etc. Specific gameplay related, these levels will directly affect the attributes of the character, the use of different weapons will accumulate proficiency, the attack of different attributes has a degree of access, the increase of proficiency / hand will also unlock new moves, quantitative changes can often cause qualitative changes.
Giving gifts to NPC/livestock monsters can boost their favor, can increase the NPC's help in fighting together, and monsters can produce more rare resources, perhaps because this level system is infiltrated in every corner of the game, Rune Workshop does not make people have a strong sense of purpose, and the positive feedback of all actions is very natural, as if it is handy, just in line with the concept of "slowing down the pace of life" in the Ranch Story biography.
That's why I was able to tolerate the NS version of Rune Workshop 5, which was less than 20 frames in extremely high quality.
Some games have more obscure positive feedback, such as "Collection, Animal Forest Friends!" As a representative of the islanders, you also need to take care of the 10 islanders and 3 tanuki cats on the island, one of which is still your creditor, and your obvious goal of the game is to collect, make, buy and sell kohlrabi to make money and then pay off the debt.
But what these critters are best at is to put all kinds of rainbow farts on you, including but not limited to when you successfully make props/fishing/catching insects, regardless of the quality, the nearby islanders will come to watch and clap their little hands very hard, this praise is unusually distracting under the game programming - different islanders publish their own evaluations of different props, and these evaluations can often make people feel "humane";
When you make a stupid rocking tree and are stung by wasps, the animals will take the initiative to care for you and try to weaken this frustration, because the time in the game is synchronized with reality, when you log in after a long time in the abandoned pit, your animal friends will boo you and ask you warmly, care about whether you are happy in reality, in the previous 3DS, animal friends will move to other villages, and when you meet them again, this pile of virtual code will recognize you, "because home is flowing, but friendship is forever".
Some people may feel that this is a set of moral kidnapping that makes players feel guilty because they have not been online for a long time, and in the game, some likable characters can also become a kind of positive feedback, which can make players take the initiative to set up the goal of "I want to attack TA" for themselves.
"One Party Lingtian" has many excellent "homework" can be copied but it is not copied, this head iron finally made the production team pay a corresponding price - everyone enjoyed the May Day holiday in its fun, and the production team iterated several versions of "One Party Lingtian" in 5 days, urgently fixed many bugs, and slightly improved the player's wrongful breeding experience (NPC will occasionally send players some fashion garbage)
And now in front of the "Party Spirit Field" is still not a flat "Kangzhuang Road", the game has an urgent need to solve the "unjust simulator" problem, there are also many BUG, optimization, numerical related problems that need to be overcome by the production team, just like the Guiyun faction that has been hit hard in the game. In addition to the problem of complaining about today's article, from the standpoint of farming game lovers, I also sincerely hope that the players' old father-like tolerance and encouragement can become the driving force for "One Party Lingtian" to move forward.
In short, "Tian Bao", you can serve dim sum!