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After a long wait, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is finally here.
Reasonably, after the release of this year-old game, it quickly set off a wave of attention from the industry and players.
A number of media gave full praise, maintaining a high standard on par with the breath of the wilderness. Although the user rating of the game on the M station in the first two days of the game dropped below 6 points due to frame rate loading, malicious scoring, etc. (and then quickly recovered), this "full screen gameplay" is still an exclusive experience brought to you by Nintendo: "unbearable" hard parameters, colliding with top gameplay.
Unexpectedly, under the study of many players, this work created a living "fastest legend" record, directly killing the game.
Less than a week after its release, a large number of live examples have appeared online. Even after unlocking on the night of the 11th, I played casually for a while, and then went to social media on the day of the 12th, and the world was already divided into "my king's tears" and "other people's king's tears".
No wonder it's nicknamed "The Legend of Zelda: Minecraft" again.
More than a simple review, here I want to talk to you about the extended gameplay brought by ability. It is it that has contracted most of the fun of netizens these days.
Let's just say that the ability that Intelligence Ji talked about in the official demonstration on March 28 now seems to be not only completely right, but also more and more outrageous under the blessing of the player's strange brain hole. I think many people have played the previous game like me, and have some psychological expectations, but even so, the actual situation still breaks down this expectation on the spot.
It all depends on the game's exaggerated freedom. From the huge initial empty island of the novice period, it plays a silent role in moisturizing.
On the initial empty island, players can unlock four abilities in turn. But the so-called "order" is very arbitrary, even if you don't have the ability to respond, you can use the experience of the previous game to walk around the entire empty island with complex terrain. This more three-dimensional "novice village" is more than a little higher than the initial terrace of the previous game, and the sense of existence is greatly enhanced, and it is no longer thrown away after use, and it is completely ok to use it as a base in the sky area.
Once the four abilities are unlocked and can operate on the land of Hyrule, the nature of the game has to change.
After the small test of the Yakushi knife, the first to learn and most commonly used "Ultimate Hand" ability became the main skill that people understand. This ability adds a "paste" feature to the "moving" object of the previous game's magnetic grabber, allowing you to glue multiple materials together at various angles. Wood and ingredients, equipment, and devices with corresponding technological abilities (engines, flamethrowers, wheels, rockets, etc.) are all included, and there are almost unlimited possibilities to beckon the player.
But before reaching the depths, the human reproductive cult is confirmed again and again in the serious game. Below the Spitfire will explode abstract plank man, ox canoe, Armstrong swing acceleration jet Armstrong cannon... Instantly activate everyone's creative passion.
The various ideas you see now are born under the fusion of the new "Zonau Device" props in Kingdom Tears, and due to the variety of functions of the device, the effect after the combination is often unexpected.
I really like a quote from a Zelda player: Huh?
(Source: @Big Chicken Drumsticks Who Lost Their Dreams_)
In other words, the higher the content of the Zonau device, the deeper the understanding of the function, and the more strange the final thing created. Worried about not matching the settings? Rest assured, the seamless production team gave an explanation - this is "lost ancient technology".
So naturally, an unprecedented arms race began.
Previously, there were concerns that the Tears of Kingdom might not be as fresh and creative as Breath of the Wild, and one joke responded, "It's okay, Nintendo will 'steal' from players." Now I look at it, it seems that I really said it right.
There is a technique in Breath of the Wilderness that allows you to directly use the magnet ability to combine props in the scene and fly in the sky in defiance of the rules of gravity.
Six years later, in Kingdom Tears, the production team achieved this from the gameplay, you can not only fly, but also shoot shells, lasers to carry out air-to-ground strikes, times have indeed changed.
What runs on the ground, swims in the water, and flies in the sky is all under the ground. Some are simple but practical, while others are complex and powerful, depending on how you put it together. So that a considerable number of netizens regard this generation of Kingdom Tears as cyber building blocks and electronic Lego, once they get started, they can't stop.
(Amphibious unicycle)
With such a set of atmospheres, the appearance of Gundam is very reasonable. Outrageous, but judging from the current overall gameplay progress, what is more outrageous than the Gundam dimensionality reduction strike mobs should be still to come.
Who is Zelda? It's really unfamiliar.
(Source@SoulBanana)
When it comes to the persecution of the ultimate hand, not only are there enemies, but "ahahah" has also become the "hardest hit area" for Kingdom Tears players.
This generation of "Yahaha" collection process adds a new form of finding friends to the original small puzzle solving - you need to send the "Yahaha" whose backpack is too heavy to walk to a companion not far from it, and if you succeed, you will get two fruits.
However, as we all know, Zelda players can always find a trick that goes astray with a clear goal. If you can lift the backpack of "Yahaha" with the character itself and stick it to something, it will give rise to additional bullying.
Like the above parade through the streets, helping Yahaha to warm up is just a show of hands, and ten missiles to watch it leave is the most thoughtful etiquette.
In contrast to the various highlights of the Ultimate Hand, another fusion ability, "Leftover Build", gives a normalized combat bonus, which can attach additional items to your weapon, no matter what precious material it is, or something strange.
Don't underestimate the magical effect of simple addition. For example, stones that look larger than people are mounted on small wooden shields, regardless of strength, the deterrent to the enemy is sufficient, which is not difficult to speculate about the strong physical fitness of the Hylaru bullies.
The rest of the material construction is not as cool as the ultimate hand, but it is better than giving you a little surprise at any time. For example, by loading weapons with unexpected materials, dramatic unfolding can be achieved. There are many new and old props in the game, and the ideas can be imagined to some extent.
There are two remaining abilities, one is "Babel Technique" that allows players to penetrate the terrain vertically upwards and enter the platform above, and the other is "Inverted Qiankun" that controls the flow of objects backwards according to the trajectory of movement, which seems to be lower in playability than the first two, focusing on puzzle solving and exploring scene applications. But on the whole, these four abilities are everywhere the evolution and difference between the Tears of the Kingdom and the Breath of the Wilderness.
Breath of the Wilderness bombs, time stops, magnetic grabs... The core is mainly "show operation", and there is a linkage between skills and skills, skills and props, but the connection is relatively limited. When it comes to Kingdom Tears, the endless joy of "free combination and assembly" is integrated into it, and the rich combination of skill-driven props has achieved a comprehensive surpass on the gameplay layer of the previous game.
The cooperation between abilities is also closer to the naked eye. Needless to say, the linkage between the polar hand and the rest of the material construction can be used together, such as the pulling effect of the reverse hand and the extreme hand, which can achieve the miracle of "the left foot and the right foot to the sky".
(Source@GF_GoFlower)
Today, I've seen people use the reverse trajectory to attack the enemy, and it seems that flowers can be played in battle.
Babel is a convenience type ability based on the huge Z-axis space setting of the game's sky, ground, and underground trinity. In this regard, the production team specifically explained that this was not originally the ability of the plan, but a development and testing tool similar to the official plug-in, because it was very convenient to use, it was simply added to the game, which can help players explore freely in the map space further expanded by this work.
Now that it comes to the hands of players, we might as well wait and see, anyway, it will definitely not only be used to unleash a millennium kill on the statue, right?
After a few days of hard waiting, I believe that many physical version players should have entered the delivery and delivery stage one after another, and after watching the armament revival awards these days, I know that everyone is in a hurry, but there is no need to be so urgent.
In the end, the gap between "other people's world" and "mine's world" is sometimes really large, which is also another level of "human sorrow and joy are not connected".
The physics engine that the previous game was proud of will shine in Kingdom's Tears further enriched gameplay system. If you are obsessed with superpowers and ignore the basic laws of physics, it is easy to make jokes, deviate from the track of good life, and slide into the category of "mentally retarded funny".
In the past few days since its release, the Weibo topics related to "Kingdom Tears Players Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped Bar Owner" have always maintained a certain intensity of updates, and a steady stream of "negative cases" have been passed on to the world, with educational significance and comedy effects.
Why did the straight minecart tremble violently in place and could not flexibly turn corners?
Why does the boardwalk fall so frequently that it can't bear the weight of even one person?
The body, power, wheels are all available, but the vehicle is strangely not moving at all?
Around various confusing phenomena, the player community has become a popular science scene that "approaches science". The truth of the so-called "physics does not exist" is probably that the Kingdom Tears players returned them all to the teacher.
Therefore, the threshold for mastering this generation is also higher, and it is already very happy to play step by step, but it is important to learn those tricks and tricks, see more and try more, and those "stupid" and live mutual sharing hide the door to the new world.
Some netizens said that "the tears of the kingdom are too worthy of the name", the spirit of the old king in heaven and the princess waiting to be saved, seeing that Link as a savior is even more crazy and not doing his job, it is difficult not to shed tears.
Of course, living so much is naturally inseparable from the foundation of the previous work that has been evergreen for many years. Breath of the Wild's brilliant high-play operation was still consolidating the impression of "this game sold xx really at a loss" a month before the release of Kingdom Tears. And now, we can be sure that Kingdom Tears took the baton perfectly. It will provide all those who love the game with the same long-term happiness as the breath of the wilderness.
From "Kingdom Tears is just a large-scale DLC for Breath of the Wilderness" to "Breath of the Wilderness is just a large-scale demo of Tears of the Kingdom", this transformation of true fragrance once again proves -
What electronic impotence? It's just that you haven't come across a spicy game yet.