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Remembering good times
When people get older, they are easy to fall into the cage called "memory" and can't get out, midnight dreams are more and more frequent, unconsciously they will think about all kinds of things in the past, well, mainly pervasive faint regret, those who made wrong choices and passed by came to mind, and the thought of "what if at that time" could not be pressed at all, haunting you like a ghost.
But in the end, he learned to reconcile with himself and continue to move forward with those irreparable regrets. After all, life always has to go on, and stubbornly stopping and moving forward in the end is just forcing yourself into a corner and retreating. Nowadays I am about "half and half", willing to try new things, and I also like old things - eating dishes with fixed tastes, listening to old songs, reading old novels, watching old movies, even if I have already enjoyed it many times.
The same is true for game taste, which does not exclude the ultimate visual experience when 3D has long become mainstream, but still stubbornly likes 2D works, especially pixel style and nostalgic style. So I was developed by Froach Club, Poppy Works, and Poppy Games' "Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories" co-released by Poppy Works and XSEED Games to the wishlist, this very strong old GB sense of both sight can be said to be the right heart, after all, who can resist returning to that carefree good time?
Original picture
As we said, "Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories" brings the most original retro experience, completely presenting the style of an old-fashioned GB game, which means that there must be a pixel matrix in the picture dimension, with very strong generation characteristics.
Of course, nostalgia and nostalgia have to take care of the feelings of players now, and they certainly can't be hardcore to the point of pure black and white, so the production team compromised and simulated the feeling of inserting a GB special card on GBC. That is, the change in grayscale is more pronounced, while a slightly layered light green (?) is rendered with a slightly distinct layer of light green (?). The effect, well, is exactly the same feeling as the LCD screen that was not very high resolution back then.
After the tone of the picture is set, all that remains is the art of showing pixels. The production team did a great job of doing this by using the "focus" strategy – that is, the main part of the screen only occupies a small part of the entire image, and the rest is filled with black and has no complicated decorations, allowing the player to fully concentrate. On the other hand, no matter what the scene is full of various details, such as the crooked poster pasted on the wall of the room, the quilt that fell half on the floor in the sloppy room, and the cabinet that was half-pulled out of the drawer, the atmosphere was immediately in place. Therefore, players will be happy to look at everything with an appreciative eye during the journey.
The plot is dominated by suspense
"Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories" should be classified as a puzzle adventure by genre, so the plot will be the core part of the work. This time we play a migrant girl, but the location of the part-time job is a little strange, in a beverage company called "Agronite Industries" - the name of the company comes from the founder Ranby Rabbit Egrantina, well, the founder is indeed a rabbit, well, probably to satisfy Mr. Lambie's proclivities, the company's non-animal human employees have to be forced to bring rabbit ears. Recently, the company intends to rebrand "Melon Soda 2.0", and we play the role of the design department, but to meet Mr. Lambi and participate in the shareholders' meeting is not simple.
Of course, this is not the point, the point is that the male protagonist left us a letter telling us to take the train to Hedgehog Town to find him if we can slip out of work - the male protagonist also seems to work in Egrantina Industries and has an office with us. It's just that he didn't see anyone all day, only his colleagues met him in a hurry in the corridor, and even left his briefcase behind. So we came to Hedgehog Town with his briefcase, but I didn't expect to be robbed as soon as I got off the train, and the bag actually contained melon seeds that were strictly forbidden in Hedgehog Town? We are thus involved in incredible events, and all kinds of suspense drive players forward with great interest.
The worldview is terrifying
Although the few humans who appear in this game are small animals, which can be said to be cute throughout, if you study the worldview a little, you can find something wrong - for example, melons, why are melon-related products in Hamster Town very popular and banned in Hedgehog Town? Well, we saw at the train station that someone asked the conductor to buy melon soda, and there was a melon soda vending machine next to it, which seemed to illustrate something.
Similarly, the election of the new mayor of Hedgehog Town has also arisen around the "legalization of melons", with the new candidate, the Cat King, advocating legality, and the mayor of Hogwars, who is looking forward to re-election, naturally opposed. Well, the Cat King is indeed a king with a castle, and the Mayor of Hogwarts is Hogwarts IV, as far as his great-grandfather is the mayor, and his grandfather and father are both mayors. I want to see here, what exactly this so-called melon means, everyone must know in their minds.
In addition, the bad guys on the surface are not necessarily bad guys in fact, such as the CC caries group that is deeply entangled with us, which confirms that it is a small gangster organization that lives in the sewers of the slums in the traditional concept, and our bags are stolen by their people, and they also engage in bad things such as explosions and prison robberies, but compared to those "good people" with masks, they appear more normal and more flesh and blood. In short, the shaping of the world view of this work is still very interesting, and the hidden details make people think about it very scary.
Traditional puzzle solving is also fun
The gameplay of this work can be roughly classified as traditional puzzle solving, but the puzzle solving part is more to promote the development of the plot and serve, so there will not be a very high difficulty, just just the right degree to make you need to think a little - for example, the popular hamster star is performing outdoors, but the lively fans and security personnel block the road and we can't pass, and a conversation is fruitless, so what should I do? I think you can consider starting with the concert itself, well, the DJ in charge of the audio equipment also happens to be chatting with people on the sidelines, so this is "the right time and place" (?) , what we need to do is self-evident.
In addition to the above situations, most of the time in the process is not so much solving puzzles as really running map exploration, as long as it feels that the plot has no clue and can't go on, then go around and around, talk to various characters and objects, always find something, and some key items will also flash very clearly. This kind of carpet inspection may be irritating in other works, but in this work, due to the cute style of the art and the lack of scenes, this is not the case. And after having skates, the movement speed is also much faster, in this way you can better feel the customs, see what fitness dog and cat princess love story (?) It's still quite pleasant.
Overall rating: 8/10
Recommended for: Nostalgia lovers