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Two or three things about witches and demons
The story of this work is quite interesting, urban and magical themes. In this world, there is a supernatural race like demons, who link to the human world from another space, and then by hiding, deleting and tampering with some human memories, they are tricked into signing contracts with demons to obtain power beyond human cognition. Since the contracts signed with demons are often unequal, in the end, only tragedies that harm others and harm themselves will occur. Therefore, humans have a profession that confronts demons - witches, witches are humans who actively contract with demons and use magic, and their job is to save humans and seal demons.
Because it is signed on its own initiative rather than being seduced by the devil, to a large extent, the relationship between the witch and the contract demon is more of an equal relationship such as colleagues and partners. However, after all, the object of the contract is the devil, and the long-term use of the demon power will eventually lead to the erosion of the witch, and when the erosion degree is 100%, it is when the demon harvests the soul. This setting is quite similar to the worldview in the "Persona" series.
The heroine of "The Witch of Strength", Avdoga, is a witch, and the demon she signed is called Mephisto. The name Mephista comes from a demon god in the medieval European Renaissance German writer Goethe's opera "Faust", whose nature is cunning, treating humans as playthings and playing with them, tempting human beings to fall to hell and be harvested by them in the process of indulging in pleasure.
In this work, the heroine signs a demon with the same name, but it is a middle two, tsundere, simple, stupid cute girl image. Riding the bus will cause motion sickness, trip over wires, hit the cupboard above your head and other daily little things, while gritting your teeth, while still hard mouth nothing, stupid cute. Follow the heroine all day to run errands for the heroine, find lost kittens, help grandma cross the road. Of course, there is also a café with a bunch of debts with the heroine, and every time he talks about following the heroine's old face of the devil, but when the heroine shouts to work, she will do it upside down.
After arriving at the café, he still spoke in the middle two: "Tremble, stupid human! Mephista, the Great Demon of Hell, has finally arrived in her faithful territory! "The point, she is too good for the heroine, and she doesn't look like a demon at all. Such a cute girl, who can not love it.
Eye-catching anti-tower defense gameplay
The game of "Strength Witch" adopts anti-tower defense gameplay, and the victory rules of the game are simple, players start from the starting point, defeat demons (defense towers) along the way, get out of the mental maze, and save humanity.
Anti-tower defense, and the basic gameplay of traditional tower defense games are the opposite, the attacker, the player, along a fixed trajectory route to attack the defender; The defenders, the enemy, use the negative emotions evoked by the demons as defense towers around the trajectory route, and launch attacks on the witches passing by. In the game, the map route in the maze is fixed, the defensive tower placement design is also fixed, and the player can control the change of the witch match as the attacking side and the witch's advance route.
Witch matching, somewhat similar to card games, players use the "Witch Card", a magic item that has been passed down for thousands of years, to consume a concrete magic called "Panta", which can charge magic or drive magic props, summon "Witch Card" to join the battle, "Panta" is also very easy to understand, just need to defeat the enemy character (defense tower) with the "Panta" symbol on the head.
There are two types of "witch cards", one type is to summon all kinds of witches, different witches actually have different classes and skills, warriors, tanks, auxiliaries, nannies, etc.; The other type is a variety of function cards, adding "Panta", blood return, and so on. The witch summoned by the player will return to the hand after death, and after a period of cooling, they can be replayed.
Since it is an anti-tower defense game, the path forward of the player character is quite important, and in "Powerful Witch", the design idea of the relevant mechanism of the forward route is novel and distinctive, and I personally like it. In each maze map, the routes that witches can walk are fixed routes that come with the system, and players do not need to spend time designing new paths. However, at forks in the route, players can selectively change the direction of progress.
For example, different types of enemies, his attack range and attack direction will change, just like enemies whose attack direction is straight (fixed direction, will not turn), detour to cut his flank and rear convenience can be killed without damage. In addition, on many branch routes, there will be some fragments of broken memories, which have been hidden, deleted, and tampered with by demons, and players also need to find and collect them in the psychic maze, understand the past of these enchanters, and facilitate the witches to break the contract between them and the demons.
Time management guru
In addition to completing story missions within the normal deadline, players can have some daily activities every day, such as going to some shops on the street to improve a certain attribute of the character; Interacting with some NPCs on the street can trigger the side story of NPCs; Using "Witch Vision" on the street, you can find demons roaming the world (demon level difficulty is linked to color, green is miscellaneous). In addition, in the game, the player does not run a coffee shop, and can also make coffee in the shop.
summary
The art style of the game is very good, whether it is 2D standing drawing during dialogue, 2.5D modeling when moving, or scene style. The UI page design is concise and clear, with no superfluous content. The voice acting is voiced throughout the whole process, even in the settings menu and exiting the game, and the voice acting is very good. The phone can be set to play background music, and there are many songs in the background music song list, and they are all super good.
The theme of the game's plot urban plus magic is still very attractive, the rhythm of storytelling is also well grasped, and there is no problem with the connection between the main line and daily life, not procrastinating or tense. The character creation is still relatively successful, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, the personality is quite distinct. The maze design is good, and the design of normal enemies and boss enemies is also different. The café can be purchased for furnishing and furnishing.
On the whole game, in addition to the anti-tower defense combat gameplay, the shadow of "Persona" can be clearly seen in all other aspects. Domestic games are produced at such a level, it is very good, the price is less than 60 yuan, counting the discount, it is quite real, not worse than those Japanese two or three hundred games, and even better than some productions.