The silver saddle shines on the white horse, sassy like a shooting star, martial arts is a fairy tale for adults, that young horse, free and wanton world of rivers and lakes makes countless people's hearts yearn for it. In addition to the profound internal power of the integration of heaven and man in martial arts moves and the unity of heaven and man, martial arts is also the romantic imagination of loyalty and righteousness that has been Chinese for thousands of years, and sword and feud are rooted in the chivalrous culture in the bones of Chinese.
As a kind of moral ideal, everyone has a different view of chivalrous culture. Some people think that Xia is a sword travel, searching the world for absolute learning; Some people think that chivalry is for the country and the people, and is famous all over the world; Some people also think that chivalry is the heart and can do anything for justice, but no matter what kind of chivalry you play, you can't do without the stage called "jianghu".
Nowadays, with the development of technology, video games with more intuitive graphics technology have quietly replaced the status of novels in the martial arts world and have become the most suitable carrier. Players can have a more realistic understanding of the heroic image they play through the specific gameplay with high interaction and strong sense of substitution in video games, and the most suitable game type for carrying martial arts themes is RPG. It just so happened that at the beginning of this year, several demos of martial arts RPGs were released, and after trying them out, the most interesting thing for me was "The Legend of the Great Heroes" developed by Half Bottle Vinegar Studio.
It is not easy to reflect the concept of "martial arts" in the game, the gameplay is solid and interesting is only the foundation, the most important thing is to make the differentiation of the martial arts theme, so that players feel like they are truly in the rivers and lakes. On the one hand, this world of rivers and lakes must have flesh and blood, adventures, unparalleled treasures, grudges, and intrigues; On the other hand, the protagonist of the game that is substituted by the player must have a distinct chivalrous spirit and become the spokesperson for interpreting the chivalry in the player's heart.
If you know a little about the producer Shen Half Bottle of Immortal Vinegar, it is not difficult to find his strong personal style in "The Legend of the Great Hero". Although this vinegar fairy-style open world is very rudimentary in form and slightly lacking in size, it is "small and complete", and the exploration content is no worse than some cans. "The Legend of the Great Hero" portrays a martial arts river and lake with a hundred schools of thought, good and evil factions, lined up, and each sect hides several martial arts secrets. The game has designed more than 100 kinds of martial arts corresponding to 18 martial arts such as fists, palms, swords, guns and sticks, etc., and players can even freely match the martial arts of different schools to create their own martial arts genres.
In addition, unlike RPGs where the entire world revolves around the protagonist, the world of "The Legend of the Great Heroes" is self-revolving . There is a natural passage of time in the game, and each NPC also has an independent behavioral AI, and when the player explores in the big world, the NPC is also carrying out its own life trajectory. Maybe because you linger for a while and don't make it to an important meeting, the progress later in the game will be completely different, plus there are many trigger adventures set up in the game, which makes every step of the player's action full of unknowns.
It can be seen that "The Legend of the Great Heroes" wants to bring players a real, unique martial arts flavor of the world of rivers and lakes, after experiencing the EA version of the game, I can responsibly say that "The Legend of the Great Heroes" brings not only a grand world view, but also a specific gameplay that is highly compatible with it.
What impressed me the most about this game was freedom. The protagonist played by the player is not a young warrior living in a secluded fishing village or a well-known and decent closed disciple, but a blank piece of paper, he has no name, no concern, and even martial arts, as the vinegar fairy said, "The Legend of the Great Hero" is not so much a "hero simulator" as it is a "survival simulator of rivers and lakes". You don't have to take on the burden of dominating the martial arts and saving the world from the beginning, which is completely different from the fatalism of being ordered by heaven in traditional martial arts games, and players can focus on character development and play with a more relaxed attitude.
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At the same time, "The Legend of the Great Heroes" does not specify the main mission and game goal in the true sense of the player, and the player's behavior will hardly be subject to any constraints, but every behavior of the player is like a mark written on a blank piece of paper, which will determine what kind of person the protagonist eventually becomes. The game has a pair of God's eyes and a numerical system to judge the player, if you often steal, your character will decline, then the decent will turn you away, you can choose to change your past mistakes, change your mind, or you can go further and further on the road with evil people, as the villain boss to dominate the world - what kind of hero to become, it is up to the player himself.
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So, since we are determined to become heroes, should we find a secluded place, concentrate on cultivation, and refine our martial arts? No, in fact, "The Legend of the Great Heroes" is a game that emphasizes "joining the world", and rich NPC interaction constitutes the main part of the gameplay, in other words, we can get a lot of benefits from interacting with NPCs in the game.
You will find that each NPC has its own network, whether it is a wife and children, or a mentor and apprentice, and by joining their network, we can meet more people. Managing relationships with others is an important part of the game, even if it is an inconspicuous little person on the side of the road, there may be a lot of unknown secrets hidden in the belly, and if you want to get the peerless martial arts lost under the cliff, you must have some relationship with people.
But associating with NPCs is not a mechanical process of gift-giving, and players can treat each NPC with their own style and ideas. In the face of simple villagers, I will treat each other with courtesy and return the favor, but in the face of vicious robbers, I may have to communicate with my fists. In the face of NPCs with different personalities, different players are bound to make different choices, for example, a hungry little beggar stole your hard-earned money, will you choose to punish, recover the stolen money, or have pity and not be prosecuted? Because players can choose their own position and social means, each player can have a completely different look and feel when playing "The Legend of the Great Heroes".
As mentioned above, players are often faced with a dilemma when walking the rivers and lakes, some choices will only affect the temporary profit, but some choices will affect the progress of the timeline, allowing the authorities to enter different branch routes. At present, "The Legend of the Great Heroes" has a total of more than ten achievable endings, which will be triggered when the conditions are met, and players will be given hints in the game, experience different plot lines, and play more endings, which is also one of the important pleasures in the game.
"The Legend of the Great Heroes" slowly unfolds a vivid picture scroll for players from the perspective of a small character. Vinegar fairy did not define "martial arts" in the game, and the process of crawling and growing up in the game was actually the process of interacting with the game world from the heart and pursuing the inner chivalrous. Everyone can compose their own inner rivers and lakes, perhaps it is the interpretation of martial arts games and chivalrous culture by vinegar fairy and "The Legend of Great Xia Lizhi", at least when I play, I feel from my heart, the martial arts world in my mind is like this.