"Daughter of the Volcano" released by Gamera is the biggest dark horse in recent days, with 150,000 sales in three days and rave reviews in 3K+ reviews, and the magic of "see you in the next round" can be called a time crusher, making people never sleep once they start. This is a "Pretty Girl Dreamworks" type of development game: that is, through schedule management, resource allocation and various activities related to mini-games to create your ideal "little princess" as much as possible.
The fact that I haven't played the Pretty Girl DreamWorks series doesn't stop me from being addicted to the game, and in these two days of almost sleepless 20 hours of a week, I rubbed out an almost perfect hexagonal warrior - True Ending, Big Rich, Marrying a Princess, 4 Attribute S, Homework No. 1, Power Mind 110 Charm 190, and experienced almost all the game system except horse racing. So let me share some thoughts and experiences about this game.
The cute young girl raised... Only a few rounds can be tried
At the beginning of "Volcano's Daughter", our protagonist becomes a middle-aged widowed single father, leaving behind only thoughts of his deceased wife, a 5-year-old daughter, and the determination to raise her as an adult.
Although the setting of this "undead" is really miserable, it feels really good in the game, because the daughter is also too cute. It is:
It's so cute to call daddy in a milky voice!
It's so cute in a small dress!
Dislike dad hide-and-seek is not powerful, so cute!
So lovely to take to family restaurants and interact with other people!
As a father who also raises a daughter in reality and is also (soon) 5 years old, I watched my family's big problem of eating for an hour chasing and feeding, the mischievous king who said that he would do something if he didn't let him do anything (laughing proudly while doing bad things), the walking item destroyer, and the crying bag that began to cry for three seconds once it didn't meet my heart, and I couldn't help but shed tears - although there are cute times, but... Angels like this are so unreal.
However...... In fact, although the cultivation of this young girl who is probably used as a teaching link is too punishable, it is too short, that is, it has just entered the rhythm, and the time immediately jumps to 6 years later... It has reached the age of 12 when the daughter can live independently, including work, adventure, class and other life content, and then the game enters a "countdown" tip: there are still 42 rounds before the daughter becomes an adult, then also borrow the hot comment of Steam: Although the time of the game is only 42 rounds, we have to give her a complete life!
Warm and pleasant small-town life, but also need to become a time management leader
"Daughter of the Volcano" is set in a volcano country that is a bit like an otherworldly style that only exists for humans, dangerous monsters are about to move, and the knights of several major families are ready to fight it is the overall big story background.
But in the overall game content, it reflects a very warm and pleasant daily atmosphere, such as our daily life begins with receiving letters and reading newspapers, and letters and greetings and gifts from my daughter's friends.
Reading the newspaper is the news of the volcano country, which has a lot of interesting meme content, such as "A man wearing a square hood crawls on the street, and everyone shouts: I have reached the second dimension!" I don't draw anymore! Such a neta bridge, or "a strange pigeon appeared in the square, uttering the words 'XX the first in the world'" - XX is the name you gave your daughter, which means that Nima read that her own pigeon was lost...
After reading the newspaper, receiving letters and receiving mare's milk* links, it is to the daughter's boudoir, at this time the daughter who has entered adolescence begins to have a lonely heart, and with the increase in external activities, more and more admirers will send love letters, these letters can get mood, money boost or additional gifts, but it takes a certain feeling to "digest".
*It is recommended that even if you are not involved in horse racing at all, you must catch the horse as soon as possible, the horse can provide additional attribute bonuses for battles, which is very important for early dungeon exploration, and the monthly mare's milk is a very important cooking ingredient, and almost all ingredients that increase attributes are needed.
And the perception value comes from asking others, talking to passers-by who cannot cultivate favorability, participating in labor→ asking others and sharing "patience value" (3 points per day) with competitions and invitations, so a many-to-many coupling resource transformation gameplay mode has begun to take shape: our goal is to exchange daily recovery of physical strength and patience values for as many attributes * (strength, brain, charm), four-dimensional * (physique, intelligence, emotion, imagination), furniture (passively increase four dimensions), clothing (in addition to attributes, the most important role is to look good!). ), equipment (determines the combat effectiveness of the dungeon). And this also includes "lubricants" such as reputation and money - money can be converted into almost all resources, and reputation can help us quickly learn courses in the church to increase attributes.
* Attributes are the main source of damage bonuses for weapons (the graduation bow is 80% strength addition), the biggest role of the mind is the identification of items in the alchemy shop (the higher the success rate), charm determines the effect and success of events such as prom & part-time job & performance, and the by-product is that you can be very rich.
*Skill points can be obtained for each quality improvement in the four dimensions, and skills are divided into three skill trees according to combat, life and socialization. Obviously, if we aim for the real ending, we will eventually have to fill the combat skill tree as much as possible, but the farming system that lives before this can play a very good auxiliary effect. It should be noted that the four dimensions in the game are all S as the limit, so it is impossible to fill all the skills.
The earthlings can no longer stop me from farming
I believe that through the above description, friends have some concepts for the way to convert resources in the game many-to-many, but the most important thing is "open source", that is, how to get more "starting resources" - among which patience is a non-renewable resource (it's a pity, the transformation mechanism should be increased to make the charm route more practical), then we can revolve around the "physical strength":
The ways to increase physical strength include sleeping at home (+3), sleeping in the field (+3), eating in restaurants (+5), skill tree cap +3, and then the most important food supply - wheat synthetic bread = +1, bird egg synthetic omelette = +1, animal meat synthetic grilled sausage = +1~+2, raspberry animal meat synthetic roast meat = +3~+4.....This is just the tip of the iceberg of the cooking system in the game, in addition to a large number of dishes with mood, four latitudes, and attributes!
Then this system is important and fun: important needless to say, replenishing physical strength is the basis for participating in all activities, and fun is that it has both cumulative and unexpected surprises - cumulativeness means that you will accumulate experience every time you cook, upgrade to get more recipes, and increase the chance of producing high-end products and double the production of dishes when cooking; And the unexpected surprise is the harvest of high-end products.
All systems in the game follow such an "accident" + "accumulation" mechanism, forming a cycle process with very strong positive feedback - such as drawing chance to get paintings, boat chance to get ingredients, arithmetic chance to get notes, listening to stories to get books, etc., which can be upgraded to a maximum of level 5, and the level increase can also enhance the basic effect and the probability of the "jackpot". For the physically demanding ones: the same is true for performances and part-time jobs (prom parties are the only exception).
For farming, on the one hand, it provides one of the most important ways to produce ingredients (meat, eggs, plums, which need to be obtained at risk), one of the most important ways to produce gifts (various flowers), and also provides interesting diversity, such as flowers may obtain high-grade flower seeds, planting carrots chance to get golden carrots, etc. So when there is a double harvest (lucky) golden carrot (lucky) in the field, and a double cooking (lucky) is made into double the cuisine (lucky), this refreshing feeling is simply a conflict heavenly feeling!
Be wary of the trap of fertilizer consumption, and performing horse racing is the right way to get rich
If you want to ask, what is the use of money? That available is too large, 1 time per month for 200 cinemas + properties; Item appraisal lottery at the alchemy shop; Clothing stores and weapon stores need a large mouthful of blood - weapons that are eliminated if they are better can be sold, and alchemy appraisals can also be obtained, but clothing belongs to: it doesn't matter what the attributes are, even if it is to change clothes, each set must have! In addition, there is the church atonement, restaurants order food, buy ingredients, and monthly tuition for classes.
It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of the last year (Winter Fire Year), a mysterious merchant will appear, and the whole body is full of good goods, and it is recommended to prepare 10,000 yuan the year before to buy her light! In addition, merchants will appear from time to time, and the items sold are discounted, most of which are items that increase attributes, and it is recommended that they must be bought (you can smash pots and sell iron, and all items obtained by risk can theoretically be sold).
The demand for game money is also reflected in horse breeding and fertilizer, but fertilizer contains a current official plug-in - taking farming as an example, the routine is a cycle of two months, but if you use 5 packs of fertilizer, you can harvest it instantly, that is, if you have enough money equal to the field can be infinitely planted, and unlimited is equal to unlimited physical strength, unlimited physical strength If you happen to meet the double salary of the bath, you can even achieve the meter reversal...
However, meter reversal comes at a price, that is, because you buy a huge amount of fertilizer in the process, then the favorability with the blacksmith will inevitably kill all other playable characters, and finally your girlfriend will be arched by the blacksmith's son... To avoid this, consider a limited reversal, such as catching her and giving gifts every day if you identify who you want to raid, and then make sure that the favor of the desired target can overwhelm the blacksmith. In addition, there is a horse race in three scenes a month in the game, and the ability to make money has exploded in the middle of the game, and the total has been able to provide 3~4K income, which is basically enough.
Some pay too much for quest battles
The main problem of the game at present, in the mechanism is mainly the copy battle is a little too expensive, the original words such as life system gameplay, social system gameplay should have their own gameplay route, but because the main plot involves the battle, so the protagonist's combat attributes have also become a hard threshold demand, and the next copy battle has money, reputation, ingredients can also reduce the darkness, if according to the conversion of physical strength and output, compared to the game's other system income is almost a ride of the dust, in addition to a monthly limit is more time-consuming (especially just hit dungeons 3 and dungeons 4) hardly have any drawbacks anymore.
And the quest time is also one of the biggest poison points in the current multi-week - if the second week sets an S-level completion dungeon, you can unlock the one-click completion dungeon (even if the income is discounted).
Unfinished parts with plot thunder points
In many ways, I feel that this work is a bit of a mobile game scrap - although all aspects, especially the illustration stack, the material is very high, the quality is high, the design is great, especially the characters and copywriting, but for example, some operation logic (ESC is useless), the system of the next copy, etc., are a bit like a halfway turn. Some PC conventions don't have features like text skipping you've seen.
Of course, this is not a big problem in itself, but there is also a big problem that the game should still have a system for obtaining materials for adventure (and even different monsters have different drops) (I suspect it is an alchemy system, so that the mind has more utility than identification), but this system is currently castrated as a whole.
In addition, it is currently almost known that a certain raidable character has a thunder problem, this setting itself I think is nothing, but what is not good is that it does not give players a chance to change, and most of the bad reviews of Steam (and the quagmire) are also aimed at this, but I believe this is not a difficult change.
The biggest surprise of April
Overall, "Daughter of the Volcano" is probably the biggest surprise that solo travel gave me in April, in fact, there are many good games with potential during this time, such as "Fishing Sail Dark Tide" has a little bit of "Diver Dave" flavor, "Rusted moss" makes people dream back to "cave story", "Snow Land" and "Crow Guard Journey" although they have big problems with randomness and content completion, respectively, but they are also very desirable in terms of their respective longboards.
But when Daughter of the Volcano came out, I think at least for me, the best solo game of the month is probably no longer controversial, it's the second time in a long time I've experienced a game that completely forgets time and surroundings before sitting on a computer, and I enjoyed playing it for twenty hours, and I hope you get that experience too.
+ My daughter is really so cute!
+ Warm and peaceful town life
+ Great characters, texts and illustrations
+ Many-to-many resource conversion and coupling
+ Cumulative sense and unexpected fun
-The risk is too cost-effective, and the system corresponding to the material is missing
- Text skips operations waiting for optimization
- The plot of a playable character
Game rating
| Daughter of the volcano | Author's rating | MC scoring | Steam rating |
| Volcano Princess | 8.8/10 | TBD | 96% 4211 reviews |