Author: Aiden
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Wise operation, and what is the matter with my game
Speaking of the new domestic interactive movie "Shendu Bad Detective" (hereinafter referred to as Shendu), I think that the first thing that players who pay attention to the game news must not know how the quality of the game itself is, but the wise and impressive operation team of the Shendu team, and the very down-to-head "domestic game, you know" is always like a "warning motto" is generally deafening. After hearing this, the author couldn't sleep all night, on the one hand, worried about the physical condition of the Shendu operation team, on the other hand, he was very worried about the quality of the game itself and the bad reputation after the release of the game.
Fortunately, the Shendu operation team finally learned to be obedient this time, and finally understood that Li Zheng was beaten and did not return the mouth after doing the wrong thing. After that, although each article was promoted, it was scolded, but it always maintained a good quality, which was admirable. More importantly, although a large part of the diodes are still blindly messed up, more people are still willing to look at the game itself rationally. But none of this matters, and I don't really care about these things outside the game. The quality of the game that the author is concerned about finally breathed a sigh of relief after more than three hours of repeated games, because the overall quality of the game has been preserved, although the gameplay is slightly lacking, but the overall quality is passed and can be played. As for whether it can satisfy the vast majority of people, this is a matter of opinion, at least the author likes it, and is also looking forward to the follow-up DLC part.
The clouds of the Wu Dynasty Divine Capital are devious and go to war
In terms of plot, gods exist as a prequel story of the TV series "Wind Luoyang", and this work follows the settings of the Wu Dynasty, Lianfang, Bad Well, Spring and Autumn Road in "Wind Luoyang", and constructs a new story of "Wind Luoyang" more than ten years ago. On the one hand, it fills the pit of the previous Spring and Autumn Road for "Wind Rises Luoyang", on the other hand, it allows players to see the gods under the Wu Dynasty from another angle.
As a canon, "The Wind Rises in Luoyang" is adapted from Ma Boyong's novel "Luoyang". Ma Boyong will surely have many people know that the strict logic and humorous style of writing are liked by many readers, who are good at creating historical novels, good at interpreting the struggles and survival of small people in complex historical backgrounds through words, and showing fictional stories in specific historical backgrounds through the perspective of small people. Like the success of "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" a few years ago, it was also written by him. Therefore, the quality of the script itself can naturally be guaranteed. In fact, to be honest, in the author's opinion, the plot interpretation of the divine capital Luoyang in this work is much better than that of "Wind Rises Luoyang", and the actors' acting skills, script level and external manifestations of Fu Huadao are much better than "Wind Rise Luoyang".
Back in this game, the current version of Shinto has only released the first chapter of the game (the first 5 times) for the time being, and the second and third chapters of the game (6-17 times) will be released on the 5th of this month. Therefore, the plot connection will not bring too much trouble and disconnection to the player. In terms of storyline, the content of the first 5 times is from the perspective of a grocery store owner - Du Xun, gradually pulling away from a small character at the bottom of the bad well, through the character's style and the logic of the people around him, and even the reactions made when facing different situations and the possible endings, through the short plot story of the first chapter, the player can have a basic understanding of the entire life state of the bad well. This plays a very important positive role in the full development of the whole story. For the author personally, the light and humorous story begins, and the clever and slightly rogue protagonist image makes the author full of good feelings for the whole story, and is very much looking forward to the subsequent plot unfolding.
Judging from the development stage of the story, the first 5 times tell the story of Du Xun, a small businessman who found out the cause of the unexpected death of the bad marshal and successfully foiled the plot of the other two deputy marshals to seize power by force. This paragraph itself is a relatively complete story unit, from peddling fake jade to being smashed in the shop to being invited to investigate the cause of death of a bad marshal to the conspiracy of the undesirable vice marshal to seize the throne by force, the small climax of the story wave after wave, the actor's acting skills are online, and the emotions at the key nodes of the plot can be toppled. It was really great that the author couldn't stop at all in the process of the game, and the emotions were always hanging, until the end of the 5th time, I still felt unfinished.
From the overall perspective of the story, Chapter 1 is the beginning stage of the whole story, gradually bringing the main line of the story through the struggle of the forces under the bad well, the battle about the Spring and Autumn Road and the Lianfang to the player's eyes, allowing the protagonist group to ascend to the big stage of Shendu through a series of changes. The more exciting main line and some obvious highlights have not yet been brought to the table. This is also a common means used in many dramas, through a small and complete event to weigh the weight of the protagonist group to the player, just like the bait thrown by the fishing guy. Of course, the small story as the beginning usually plays a role in foiling, because the subsequent main plot must be more exciting than it. Therefore, the author is particularly looking forward to the follow-up DLC content.
Of course, as a show itself, the gods are indeed very good, but as a game, this game really needs to be improved. The branch node options of Shendu Story are designed to varying standards, and there are few and simple items to choose, so simple that in fact, you can know which one to choose at a glance. This directly leads to the fact that the branch ending set in the game has no chance to trigger, nor does it have the opportunity to create difficulties for the player, which is unqualified from the perspective of gameplay. If it wasn't for 100% progress of the whole plot line, there really would be no chance to do those side lines. Even if this game does a really good job in the narrative of the script, even the actors in the side plots perform very well. Here is especially praise for the second lady who bought jade, the performance is in place and the mood is reasonable, it is very eye-catching, and the dramatic performance effect is also very obvious.
The only thing that is more exciting in the story is the fifth antique shop owner's duel, which shows some difficulty and wisdom. This paragraph cleverly associates the inner activities of the characters with the character's personality, and through three reasonable and reasonable interests that are in line with the values of the antique shop owner, the psychological impact on the boss and finally the return of the handsome seal make people feel some of the intentions and due standards in the process design. For example, after entering the antique shop first, the protagonist deduces that the price of the jade cup is catty through the ticket information, and then directly points out the attitude of the test boss, and the boss is weak but behaves righteously.
So the protagonist immediately changed the negotiation plan, by informing Shuaiyin's interests to let the boss understand the importance of Shuaiyin to the status quo of the bad well, so as to impress the boss, and the boss was indeed shaken. Finally, through the real story that happened before, let the boss understand that the protagonist group is the righteous party, implying that the boss handed over the handsome seal is the most reasonable choice, and the result is that the boss directly breaks the defense. Finally, through Anqi's confirmation of the fish charm, he gave the boss a reassuring pill and finally got back the handsome seal.
The performance of this paragraph is logically reasonable and reasonable, and it is very convincing. The optional items at the plot nodes are also specially optimized for the personalities of different types of people. The author is here to overturn the car, and finally came back to carefully deliberate to successfully pass the customs, after the customs clearance, the author still remembers this period.
On the other hand, the length of the game is also a big problem for Shendu at present. Compared with the PPT-style plot interpretation of another excellent domestic interactive movie game "Invisible Guardian", the biggest advantage of Shendu is that all the content display of this work is a real video stream, and the player's perception has a sense of substitution of interactive movie games.
Moreover, all the game resources in this game are stored locally, and there is no problem of "Invisible Guardian" that requires connecting to a dedicated server to access game resources. That is to say, players do not need to worry about the problem of the developer running away to close the game directly scrapped that day. But the problem also stems from the advantage of full video streaming, because of cost control! Because the cost of picture PPT and full video streaming under the same game process length is not an order of magnitude at all, Shendu's investment can do several "Invisible Guardians".
Therefore, this game "naturally" simplifies the length of the game flow, and the length of one chapter of Shendu is not even half of that of "Invisible Guardians", which makes me very worried that the total duration of the official version of 3 chapters and 17 times will be very short. That's a good thing, but does it make sense? In the author's opinion, God is first a game, and then a drama, and since it is a game, it is the first thing to ensure gameplay. The production team's consideration in this regard showed a certain degree of lack of understanding of the game industry, and to some extent it was a heavy bet on the wrong plate.
This as a video plot to reduce the length of the game process this practice is not very acceptable to the author, shortening the length of time also shortens the author's happy time, although high-quality video is indeed counted as a kind of compensation, but it is a deficiency after all. I hope that the duration of the official version can be guaranteed.
The gameplay design is weak, high and low
As an interactive movie game, what is the most important core gameplay, I have asked myself this question more than once. At present, one of the answers that the author is more satisfied with is "choice, a story development space left to the player to dispose of", and then there are main gameplay such as puzzle solving and interaction that surround and support this core gameplay. Therefore, for an interactive movie game, the design of the main branch line of the game's plot is the top priority, which directly determines whether the game is fun and playable.
According to this point of view, the game play design of the game shendu is actually unqualified, and the single main line is matched with a very "considerable" number of rare similar branches, which can only ensure that the game is the basic form of an interactive movie game, and does not provide enough game fun, and the game playability, playability and repetitive playability are very general.
In contrast, The Invisible Guardian's densely packed optional side quests and existential endings are invaluable. But why did I still say in the previous article that I was looking forward to the follow-up DLC? That's because I like the plot of this game very much, so the proportion of gameplay has been slightly lowered. Therefore, if the player's friends still have doubts about this game, it is recommended that it is not too late to wait for the release of all the contents of the No. 5 before making plans.
The lack of story line branches is indeed a hard wound of the game as an interactive movie game, and even the third time there is no branch at all, in fact, from the developer's story line page story line to do a large job, it can be seen that this is deliberately diluting the problem of less branches, and the lack of story branches directly leads to the player's lack of sufficient sense of substitution when making choices at key points in the story, that is, the lack of gameplay.
Take the example of Chapter 1, The First Time, this time there are three bad endings in a correct route, although the three bad endings are slightly different in the story performance, and the ending sentences are completely different, but the direct result is starvation. This makes it easy for the player to conclude from the same outcome that there is no difference between the three bad endings. It will leave a very bad impression on the experience of the whole game.
Even the follow-up chapters are the same, although there is a change of death method, but the coming and going of the side ending is still a variety of death methods display. In general, the player's sense of experience of the side line is insufficient, and the expectation and desire to explore the side story will not be very high. In fact, it is completely possible to change the way of thinking, not necessarily to die and live, just a useless person's ending is also different.
The design of the puzzle gameplay is relatively thin, and the overall play is only two main parts of observation and reasoning, as well as several excellent small puzzles that are not systematic. Observation is a little bit, and there is no brain connection at all. Reasoning, on the other hand, is more complex, requiring a list of previous details, and then correlating them through your own abilities and forming a final conclusion. I personally still like this part very much, because the information explained in the plot is limited, and many story details need to be extended and completed by the player themselves, and it will be very rewarding after finally deducing the complete evidence chain. But the problem is that this part of the supply is too small to reverse the dullness of observation.
Some of the puzzle mini-games are still very interesting to play, such as the fourth time to open the window that a small section, the force will be big will push the window open, the protagonist duo is shocked, the guard at the door will come over and punch the face, the drama conflict is obvious, the bridge section is very interesting. In addition, if you try to sneak out of the door multiple times, you will trigger the hidden "stun and stun" option, giving people a feeling of willow and dark flowers, novel and interesting. This paragraph is a very perfect integration of the plot of the story and the puzzle solving of the game, which not only ensures the fun of understanding the puzzle but also does not affect the fluency of the overall plot, which is very good. For example, the 5th time through the Pisces charm to solve the small puzzle of the handsome seal box, it added the principle of tangram, which is also more interesting. It's a pity that there are very few such finishing touches in the entire game flow, which is a pity.
Fu hua Dao was very attentive and met the expectations of the Wu Dynasty Shendu
The worship of Buddhism is one of the most obvious historical features of the Wu Dynasty and even the entire Tang Dynasty. This point is well restored in the game, and it is in line with the author's expectations for the inherent impression of the Tang Dynasty. The Buddhist sculptures and cliff carvings that can be seen everywhere in the scene fully demonstrate the atmosphere of worshiping Buddha in the Tang Dynasty society at that time. And the chaotic extra-legal place of bad wells is full of Buddhist shrines, which is also a great irony.
On the other hand, the game well restores the Architectural Style of the Tang Dynasty, and the columns, eaves, and arches of the Tang Dynasty buildings are well done, and the style of grandeur and strict and cheerful is expressed. When writing this article, I noticed that some people said that the architecture of this work imitates Japan, and it is not a national style at all. Please note that Japanese architecture is partly derived from the Tang Dynasty, and the largest number of Tang Dynasty style buildings are preserved in Japan today, and the saying "Tang Dynasty architecture in Japan" is also derived from this.
So, is it possible that you think that The Japanese architecture is exactly what our ancestors did, and then was sent back to Japan by the Tang envoys? In terms of clothing, even the official class is also coarse cloth linen and stacked patches can also show the hardships of the poor people's life underground, only a bad deputy marshal Guohua family wears silk clothes, which seems out of place, and later found that their family is a person from the joint workshop, which is reasonable.
Personally, just for now, I'm looking forward to future updates
Overall, the content of the first 5 times only tells the story of the small businessman Du Xun using his ingenuity and humor to find out the cause of the accidental death of the bad marshal and successfully foiled the conspiracy of the other two vice marshals to seize power by force, and the bad well affairs of sesame gradually involved the forces on the ground of the gods such as Lianfang, Liubu, and Chunqiu Dao, and gradually introduced the main story into the game. The current release of chapter 1 5 is the beginning of the whole story, just to show the tip of the iceberg of the entire plot for the player, and the plot development of the story is only temporarily over after the first small climax. The real core story is actually far from unfolding, and there will be a new story with a complete 2 chapters and 11 times, which I believe will be very exciting, and the author is very much looking forward to it. But the gameplay design really isn't good enough, so it's not necessarily suitable for all players who like interactive movie games!
As for the long-complained about the price and the problem of selling separately, the author feels that there is no problem. First of all, the price, the total price of the body plus DLC is 68 yuan, and the first 85% discount is 57.8 yuan expensive? "Invisible Guardian" is 66 yuan, basically belongs to the same price range, what is the problem? And that is the price 3 years ago, and now God is still only selling for 68 yuan where is the bad heart? I don't know where the slot point is...
Secondly, to talk about the problem of separate sales, the official explanation is that the internal test feedback requires this, and the author does not believe a word. In my opinion, one reason for the separate sale is that it is not finished and cannot be taken out for the time being; another reason is that they want to sell more before the 51st slot. The author feels that this is also beyond reproach, after all, no one wants to lose money and make money when opening the door to do business.
In addition, the DLC program is only released a week apart, not to mention that the gap of one year or two years, will not bring much trouble to players. Play the first 5 times for a week and then play the last 12 times is no problem, right? Some people spit on the view that part of the first sale is to cut leeks to deceive people, but the first 5 times is also a process of about an hour and a half, do not like even if you finish playing can also be refunded, cut who? In short, please look at these problems rationally, and don't turn yourself into a demon. If you really don't trust them, wait for the release of all the content on The 5th to see the objective evaluation and then decide whether to buy or not to buy it is not too late...