On March 22, the simulation business mobile game "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" developed by District 51 Studio and published by Aurora Plan was launched on all platforms, this game has both "national style" and "pastoral" attributes, ranked tenth on the reservation list on TapTap, and enjoyed a good score of 8.9 points, and many players in the comment area shared their interesting experience in the game. Why can the combination of national style and pastoral get such high attention, and what is the attraction of "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" that can capture the hearts of players?
The national style is a "small dish", and the countryside is the "staple food"
From the perspective of core gameplay, "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" is still a simulation management game based on idyllic house building, but what makes it special is that the game has just the right supporting content and art music.
In the core gameplay part, "Someone in the Depths of the Paradise" implements an idyllic simulation into all aspects of the game, including farming and farming, whether it is seasonal crops or various fish. Unlike most of the simulation products on the market, "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" uses Chinese aesthetics for design, and the types of construction materials, molding effects, and daily mission content will make every player feel very close, because it is the farmhouse pastoral passed down by the ancestors.
As an added part, "There are people in the depths of Taoyuan" uses the technique of staggered and white space of Chinese paintings for map layout, coupled with the green painting style of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the game uses elegant ink brushstrokes to outline every piano, every clay pot, every wood carving in the scene, and the mountains and slightly cute people and objects skillfully form a sense of contrast, and with the melodious ancient background music, so that players see both the game picture and a beautiful Chinese painting.
In addition, the game also prepares supplementary parts, "There is someone in the depths of the peach source" has a wealth of built-in side gameplay, rhythmic music game type piano playing mini-games, fishing, and even you can team up with friends to play the Taoyuan version of the leaf play "Luo Luo Card". In terms of volume, these are relatively common high-playability mini-games, but they can already be called more differentiated designs in simulation business games.
Moreover, these "supplementary content" taken from the essence of ancient and modern farm life will not become a separate part of the game, but will be organically integrated with the pastoral life gameplay. For example, after a day's work, players can entrust their wishes to DIY lanterns, so that the moonlit night and the starry sky can listen to their hearts; You can also go stargazing with the radish people, identify and name different galaxies with shapes; You can also take a boat trip and sit around a campfire; Everything seemed real and pleasant.
Although the game already contains a rich underlying design such as core gameplay, side games, and unique Chinese style art and music, the ambition of "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" does not stop there, it wants to create an immersive pastoral life experience through more "ambient" game content.
The gameplay is the bone, the fun is the wing
Different from traditional simulation management games, "There Are People in the Depths of Taoyuan" while focusing on gameplay design, but also did something with obvious differentiation - the creation of a leisurely and interesting game atmosphere.
In addition to the colorful natural scenery between mountains and rivers, the more important point in the paradise in literary works is the human fireworks smelled by chickens and dogs. Therefore, in "There is a Home in the Depths of Taoyuan", the idyllic life experienced by players is far more than just landscape scenery and farming operations. Each NPC villager encountered in the game has different story lines and behavioral logic, they are related to each other and independent, and what can be felt in their interaction is a flesh-and-blood "sense of reality", as if we are not playing a game, but visiting neighbors in our leisure time after a hard day, chatting a few words about the short feeling of parents, natural and leisurely.
The same goes for the game's innovative and fun setting, "Radish Man". The radish man is an exclusive elf in "There is a Family in the Depths of Taoyuan" who specializes in different industries, Luo Xiaoman who specializes in farming, Luo Xiaodan who is responsible for raising chickens, and Luo Xiaodao who uses a guillotine... They have different appearances and shapes, and even have different ages, different hobbies and specialties. And the most interesting point is that each radish has its own wishes, and maybe a simple swing is already fulfilling their long-standing wishes. The process of getting along with the turnip people is not only to please themselves, but also to fulfill their wishes, so that each sowing seed, harvesting, and production becomes a unique interaction, making the original mechanical farming and production gameplay lively and interesting.
In order to further enhance the temperature of this idyllic landscape, the production team added story elements to the game, in addition to the trivia between villagers, the main quest is also quite ingenious. For example, the second chapter of "Nan You Qiaomu" tells the singing and crying love story between Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao, and players can personally participate in the love story of Zhou Yu and Da Qiao in the game, feel their poignancy of "if life is only like the first sight, what is the autumn wind sad painting fan", and then incarnate as a "matchmaker" to mediate, looking for the most beautiful one of the seven endings, and continuing the frontier for the broken string.
Of course, these are only the first impressions of the launch of "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan", and if you want to evaluate the game more objectively as a whole, you may need to wait for the game to operate smoothly for a while. However, judging from the content released so far, "Someone in the Depths of Taoyuan" is quite worth a try, whether it is a meticulous art style or many innovative gameplay. So, if you are interested in business simulation games, then this quaint "paradise" may be a good answer.