What is the fundamental difference between reality and game?
Social mass, sensory dimension, degree of reality... See, are you also caught up in the myth of egoistic thinking, focusing only on "people" and their divergent networks? Man is only one of thousands of creatures, and human society is only a small part of the world, but ask, are not the circles of non-human creatures or "monsters" also one of the elements that make up the real world?
In recent years, adventures in the theme of crossing and other worlds have become popular on the Japanese manga stage, with many works, but few authors think about the social problems of monsters. In addition to a number of online game themes represented by "Sword Art Online" and "Recorded Horizon", pure-blood alien world fans still need to plan the core worldview structure, in this regard, "authenticity" is obviously indispensable.
Under the premise of reality, fighting monsters is not a subtraction calculation of "value" and "blood bar", this side is a hunting behavior, and the other side is a way of survival. A little less of Overlord's Dragon Auror technology, a little more brutal material similar to the short story "Red-nosed Elk" in Sword Art Online, and this is the ingredient rule of A-1 Pictures' other adventure, "Grimmgar of Grey and Fantasy".
Grimgar of Ash and Fantasy
The original protagonist group of "Gray Illusion"
In the otherworldly food chain, is it difficult to KO a goblin?
"What's the difficulty of this, isn't it just a matter of having hands?" Many people may think so, after all, in the setting of the general day tour, the goblin is a low-level creature of the same grade as the slime, and it is an "experience machine" for novice adventurers. "Gray Illusion" does not think so, "Why is it that a group of students who live a campus life can easily defeat the 'wild monsters' who survive in the law of the jungle just by traveling through the past?" In order to repair this irrationality, the author Ten Words Qing made a "water master" - the basic value of the goblin is better than that of humans, and humans can wear equipment.
For a simple example, a rookie adventurer who is just starting out has a hard time using the base weapon in his hand to face 1vs1 with a goblin, and sneaking in is a good idea, but it is also a skill (weakness) to be killed by a bio-based goblin.
Therefore, the first battle of the protagonist group, 6 new adventurers vs. 2 goblins, properly fight more than less. As a result, the Goblins' intense and reckless attacks hit Harshilo (Rogue) and Lander (Dark Knight) dangerously, and Dream (Hunter's) bad archery almost hit his teammates. Even Shiloh, in order to solve the first goblin of the squad, almost shouted: "Please don't struggle anymore." ”
Unfamiliar with Goblin weaknesses, personality traits, and even "zero-based" combat skills and teamwork, every battle of the protagonist group is like a knife tip licking blood. In the 12 episodes of the anime, Goblin runs through the entire opening scene of Gray Fantasy and the first volume of the novel. Looking at their clumsy battle scenes, and the obstacles such as blood sickness, everything is like the first time we slaughtered chickens and fish, which is not a thing that will be born.
Coldness like abandoning "human nature" is always a world away from thinking and doing. Even if it is changed to us, it may not be better than "Gray Illusion", and "combat skills" such as card terrain output, card bug BOSS operation, well... Are you sure the goblin across doesn't jump up and hammer your head off? Therefore, some time ago, the Xinjiang girl of "8 minutes and 1 sheep" became popular all over the Internet, in addition to the joke of "desert butcher", people still have deep recognition of her in their bones. No, there is always reverence.
The universal "reality" constructs the underlying logic of the world view of "Gray Illusion", replacing the sense of distance with a sense of substitution, and the audience is more immersed. For the survival law of the other world "Grimmgar", the priest Manado in the "Gray Illusion" drama expressed it very bluntly: "Guys, this is a battle of life, whether it is us or opponents, the goblins are also serious!" ”
In the battle of gambling with his life, no one will treat it perfunctorily.
Doomed niche high score "pure adventure ban"
A good work, there are always a few key events that drive the plot.
"Gray Illusion" begins with Manado's death, and the growth of Harsilo is on the right track, the former letting a novice squad let go of naïve ideas, and the latter allowing the protagonist group to complete the spiritual inheritance of one generation to two generations of "leaders". It can be said that when Harshilo decided to fight the "Death Spot" alone, it was his responsibility as captain; And he tried his last bit of strength to kill the death spot, but he had the strength to be the captain.
With the double improvement of personal ability and team awareness, Harshilo has gradually transformed into a qualified captain. Or some people think that the story line of "Gray Illusion" is actually a group of "scum" counterattacking and growing into "school bully", but Red Lotus thinks that it is more like a group of casual players who are forced to fight and open up the wilderness by survival, after all, life will have so many lying flat, but it is more "rolled" than whom.
Games can derive life, rather than combining the two into one, Ten Words Qing once confessed in the afterword of the first volume: "I was influenced by the game to start writing novels." He said that if he had not been fascinated by online RPGs, his debut work "Mary of the Rose" would not have been born, and the same was true of "Grimmgar" of Grey and Fantasy. Born out of the game, Gray Illusion still has all kinds of traces of the game, but the place of life in this show is more important than anything.
Perhaps, we can also understand "Gray Illusion" in this way: adventure, is a game of "living to death".
On Douban, 9045 bean friends voted a high score of 8.8 for "Gray Fantasy", I actually don't want to talk about the rating, in terms of influence, "Gray Fantasy" is destined to be a carnival of the small crowd, not a phenomenon-level work. In contrast, the scoring crowd of masterpieces such as "Naruto" and "Steel" is in the early 100,000s, which is more than 10 times the amount of the "Gray Illusion" crowd.
As an adventure fan, "Gray Fantasy" rejects a series of temptations such as Shuangwen and the harem, and puts a limited space on core elements such as fighting, growth, and exploration, which is what is missing in today's era. The niche attribute determines the ceiling of the "Gray Illusion" report card, and the average volume BD hovers around 5000, barely reaching the threshold of the second period, and it is 108,000 miles away from the big explosion.
In the 6 years since the animation, the second season of "Gray Illusion" has not moved, so that some fans have "nibbled" the animation and novel back and forth several times. Hope is not insignificant, perhaps, at a certain moment of content disconnection, the medium-to-upper performance of "Gray Illusion" still has the possibility of pulling out and slipping. The future is uncertain, and the small partner who can't wait can "nibble" the novel first, but here is a friendly tip: go deeper, you may have the possibility of becoming a member of the "blade party".
And all said about it, the little partner burst liver "against the cold water" went ~