First of all, I am not a lily porpoise.
But recently it has really been brushed by the overwhelming "Daughter of the Volcano".
This is a rare "adopt a daughter" game.
After the death of your wife, you will become the sole guardian of your daughter, and you will carefully arrange her study and life activities, control her interactions with her peers, talk to her daughter, tell bedtime stories, and share the joy of growth.
Outside the family, there are powerful demons who are eyeing humans, the demon king "Owl" is ready to make a comeback at any time, and the daughter will gradually integrate into society in the turbulent and chaotic world, undergo experience, get ahead, and grow into a useful person.
And in the process, there will continue to be smelly boys handing love letters to their daughters. Then when his daughter grows up, one day she will marry into his door...
Bang! My heart is trembling!
Yes? Exotic pigs are coming to arch my cabbage? Don't do this kind of thing!
As a hard action gamer, I don't give a damn about this kind of soft love development game! Do you think I'll care? I have been in the car of Yanhuo Village for 10 years, and my heart has long been as cold as a gravel. Nothing can hurt me --
Sorry, I broke my defense.
After playing the game the first night, I fell into the magic of "raising a daughter".
On April 21, there were 3 domestic independent games on the shelves, namely: "Neon Sequence" self-developed by Station B, the urban construction game "Man Tingfang" with the background of the Song Dynasty, and the seemingly "least lethal" "Daughter of the Volcano".
Then the next day, "Daughter of the Volcano" quickly climbed to the number one on the Steam Hot List; Three days later, it was reported that the game had sold 150,000 copies, and it ended the game as a dark horse.
And surprisingly - "Daughter of the Volcano" was produced by only two women from the Communication University of China, and it was their first work.
When you try to learn more about the game, you'll also be surprised by the level of completion.
Most people's reactions when they first met their daughters Source: @Getaway Live gameplay
In "Daughter of the Volcano", players will go through three major game stages, namely the daughter's infancy, childhood, and adolescence, each with different game content.
The player's main job is to arrange various courses for his daughter, so as to develop the development of four-dimensional attributes such as physique, intelligence, emotion, and imagination. Different attributes will lead to whether the daughter can engage in various jobs in the future, and her personality will gradually develop in the process.
The game is set in the medieval fantasy world of sword and magic, where human society is surrounded by aristocratic battles and refugees, as well as external demonic threats. There is an undercurrent of internal and external troubles.
But this actually has little to do with you, you can train your daughter to become a brave person to fight monsters; Or simply teach dance and painting to date noble sons and become a silly little princess who will be happy all her life.
If you go the warrior line, the game even includes turn-based battle gameplay of Raiders Demon King
Different from common development games, "Daughter of the Volcano" pays great attention to the shaping of supporting character group portraits.
(⚠️ Spoiler warning below!) ）
There will certainly be no shortage of playmates as the daughter grows up, and it is roughly estimated that there are dozens of people to make friends in the game. Playing with different people helps her daughter's ability and character development, and "love" also happens inadvertently in childhood childhood sweetheart.
As she gets older, her height and appearance will gradually change. The trance noticed the change that occurred at an unknown time, enough to make every old father sobble.
Daughter's harem
The daughter will go out and wander when she is an adult, and tie the knot with an NPC a few years later.
However, it is outrageous that daughters do not necessarily like men.... Once a girlfriend will also become a "friendship deterioration" if she is not careful..... Even stepping on a couple of boats .... It's also too exciting.
Of course, after all, I'm not a lily dolphin, so I don't think much about this setting, but I should say that the stickers between girls are really sweet. But I'm not a lily dolphin!
Just as soon as I see my daughter interacting with my girlfriend, my heart itches, similar to a primitive impulse, inspiring people to be the most simple side of goodness and beauty; It is like climbing a mountain peak and witnessing the tide churning, as if there is a providence in the underworld, it is a hazy feeling, bursting out of great revolutionary friendship.
This is a pure and beautiful ambiguous emotion among girls. But I'm not a lily dolphin!
Compared with game design and programming, the two developers of "Volcano's Daughter" are both art students and are better at drawing.
Therefore, under the current era of AI sweeping the world, you can see a lot of standing paintings of many different game characters, as well as your daughter's colorful little dress dressing.
And, most commendably, the game has more than fifty endings, and each ending has an equal level of good drawing. The marriage of daughters and different people will also have different ending pictures.
Daughter and girlfriend's wedding But I'm not a lily porpoise
It is precisely because there are enough endings. In the game, players can only "roughly pave the way for their daughter's future development", unless they follow the strategy step by step, it is difficult to achieve a specific ending. This setting is quite realistic.
Sometimes it unfolds unexpectedly.
The infatuation drug that makes others fall in love with their daughter
But growth itself still has clues to follow.
For example, if you want to promote a certain marriage, encourage your daughter to cultivate more good feelings and stop the love letters of other cats and dogs as an old father.
If you want to become a career in the future, you can also try more certain types of jobs and increase the corresponding value.
There are also some "dark direction" options in the game - yes, if you don't raise it well, your daughter will fall.
For example, she was often arranged to work as a bath maid, or as a temporary maid for the nobles; For example, often scolding her harshly, not sharing her voice with her or helping to solve troubles.
Don't use Blacksmith BUG to make money! Otherwise, there is a probability that the daughter will be abducted by the blacksmith son who has never met once!
When you are young, many of the father's conversations will also have some impact on his daughter's values.
In the continuous exploration and practice, she will try further and produce her own feelings. As her body matures, she will follow the path she approves, gradually becoming independent, she may become a determined warrior, a noble lady, a well-known business tycoon, or simply hugging left and right with a group of girls.
It's so real. This is also all too true.
This mentality is almost like the mood of Minahir II when he first met Alsace: "Child, you have endless possibilities. Child, when you were born, the entire forest of Lordaren whispered your name."
At the same time, you have to be careful enough and tremble every step of the way, because this game really has a "bad ending".
It's like lingering in the social scene, giving all kinds of nobles the ending of the "upper-class woman" as a junior,
Or even more cruelly, it is reduced to the end of "Dust Woman".
Pinched hemp, bring in the father's perspective, raise his daughter like this, I can't wait to cut myself alive.
Although it is only a development game with a short process, the plot of "Daughter of the Volcano" is very brainy, with many branches, and the upper and lower limits of various endings vary greatly.
Even the demon king can replace it,
And the game also has the so-called final "true ending", and the plot will usher in a great reversal. Players who have learned about it have a high opinion of it.
In order to avoid spoilers, we will not mention what the real ending is here, and it is recommended that every player who enters "Daughter of the Volcano" try to promote the real ending for many weeks. The results are quite unimaginable, and after playing, you may also understand that the seemingly confusing title of the game "Daughter of the Volcano" is actually appropriate.
In a game that seems to be "small family", a "epic" plot is crammed in. The game is pretty well done.
"I manipulated colonists to give birth to children in Around the World, but that was ultimately the story of colonizers;
I gave birth to a child in "Stardew Valley", and the child's life was finally frozen in the stage of crawling and walking;
I adopted a daughter in The Elder Scrolls, but she was just an add-on to my prestige, enjoying the glory I had made;
I raise my children in "Chinese Parents", but the templated figuration, no different from thousands of other problem-solving machines;
But in the volcano country, I have a real daughter, her smile is like my smile, her eyes are as clear as a spring, her every step of growth has my footprints, and her life is like my life.
The moment the game was turned off, the old father was in tears.