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文：悗绫 | 编辑：Rin
"Highly Recommended" Dream Lantern Noctuary is a dual-protagonist text adventure (AVG) and action role-playing (ARPG) game produced and published by Gratesca, and the production team is also the production team of the domestic high-quality visual novel "Sea Sand Wind and Cloud Far Away". This is about a fairytale-like world called "Nightless Plain".,Two girl light envoys have their own dreams.,Strive to become a "gardener" who can protect everyone.。 Until one day, the appearance of a mysterious girl who fell from the sky broke the tranquility of this world, and as the investigation deepened, the two light envoys gradually discovered the clues of this world......
The total play time of this work is about 20-30 hours, with fewer branches, and a total of 7 endings, which can be referred to the guide area for specific strategies. It is more difficult in normal mode, so it is recommended to play with the auxiliary customization feature.
Disclaimer: This review contains a small amount of spoilers and over-interpretations and is a personal opinion.
Plot 10/10 Huge story, brilliant script
The plot setting of this work is very huge.,A large number of new words make the author a little overwhelmed in the process of playing.,Combined with the encyclopedia of terms and in-depth play, you can understand a little bit or two.。 And there are six chapters in the chapter, which is really a lot of money.
And the whole story also revolves around the two heroines.,Pink-haired rabbit ear hair ornament.、A girl who uses a comprehensive light pestle "Dream Lantern This Night" and a yellow hair color single ponytail.、A girl who uses a melee light pestle "Lantern Gorgeous Night",The two of them are a very good pair in the first half of the chapter.,They have very different personalities and they both have dreams of becoming garden visitors.。 Until a mysterious light envoy who accidentally appeared in the Rose Tower appeared in front of them, the light envoy named "Moonlight Glow" seemed to be hiding something, and her body was full of suspicions as if she was not from this world - of course, everything in this world was just the dream of this "sage".
In the first half of the chapter, the duo of "Dream Lanterns This Night" and "Colorful Lights Night" is nothing more than familiar with the daily life of visitors to the garden, and by the way, let players who are outside understand the basic situation of the world - do you think this game is just for players to watch the daily life of girls' stickers and candy? Wrong! In the middle of the third chapter of the game, the owner of the dream, "Moonlight Night", will let the two learn a lot of information that backfires and the truth of this world.
When the author played here, I was also very surprised, as if there was a sense of "Little Busters", the dreams of the two people trapped in the dream were all based on the world they expected, and at this time they received the blessing of Kaguya and many light messengers, and they were already capable of facing the truth of this world - dreams, waking up.
The two who returned to the real world were surprised to find that both their positions and identities were exactly opposite, completely different from those in their dreams. "Dream of Lights" is a member of the Light Pollution Organization and is the adjutant of the adjutant against the visitors, while "Illuminated Night" is the captain of the visitors and always assists the sages in their fight against light pollution and dark beasts.
The true identities of the other light envoys are also different from those in the dream - there is no sunlight in the real world, the original sister partner has become the opposite side, and the instructor who has always accompanied the night does not actually exist, etc. But the identities of several key characters are still very different. The visitors and the Light Pollution are reluctant to cooperate, the frequency of the Dark Beast Tide increases, the light envoys of the various factions gradually decrease, and a larger conspiracy gradually emerges.
The last mastermind behind the scenes is actually the "Shadow Lantern Eclipse Night", who hopes to make all the lightbears sleep forever in the dream world through her own means, so as to create a world of no disaster, no pain, and only beautiful dreams for all the lightbearers - to single-handedly end the dark night that has shrouded the Nightless Plains for a full three hundred years, and for this reason, she does not hesitate to bring the entire Nightless Plains into the dream world she wants. The Dark Beast's friend of the Dead Lantern desperately allows the Lantern Spirit to bring out this message, and the light pollution and the visitors also put aside their hatred and work together to face a common enemy.
In the final battle, this night's body was unfortunately taken away by the eclipse night, and the other night and the night that survived in the dream were once again on opposite sides, but fortunately, Kaguya's appearance broke the deadlock. Kaguya makes this night choose to stay in the dream and the fantasy world forever, and it is also to accept the reality and return to the nightless plain of the eternal night. Choosing the latter requires the player to complete several consecutive episodes, but normally the latter is expected by most players.
In the end, with the efforts of everyone, the crisis was successfully resolved. However, at this time, there was still no sun in the Nightless Plain, and dark beasts were rampant, and everyone once again found the answer to restore the sun, that is, let the "Dream Lantern This Night" replace the previous sun's "Clear Light Without Night". The three paths left for the player to choose also correspond to the three endings, and the future that the night hopes for is in the hands of the player.
It is also to let Nightless continue to sleep here, return to the normal life of Nightless, but still have to fight against the dark beast, it is also to take the initiative to inherit Nightless's power and plunge into endless darkness until the next successor appears, perhaps, there is a new path to choose...... Distribute the power of the Nightless Lord equally to all the Lightmen. It is true that only the third option is the true ending that the author yearns for the most, and this is the end of the fairy tale of the nightless...... Of course, the above is only the tip of the iceberg of this work, and more stories also need to be experienced by players themselves.
The most outstanding point of this work is that dreams and reality are constantly intertwined, and a large number of side quests are arranged for so many characters to complete their image and character portrayal. Personally, I think the characterization of this game is extremely successful, and I can remember every character clearly, even if she is a supporting character. And my favorite is the instructor's "Little Lantern Night", the strict instructor but in fact are all fantasy characters of this night, and the final sublimation is also touching.
is worthy of being the pinnacle of domestic visual novel production team, and its stories are even more interlocking, with strong logic, and are full of screenwriters' ideas everywhere, which is really great. The worldview is large enough, and although the explanation of the words is a little difficult to understand, the overall impression is still very good.
The game 7/10 has a very average feel and the combat is a little boring
It's a pity that it's still this combat system.,The gameplay of this work is still quite high.,It's a bit of a regular RPG.,But in fact, it's AVG-based RPG supplemented.。 The two heroines that the player can control, "Dream Lantern Night" and "Lantern Night", the two have different attack methods, this night focuses on ranged and attrition, and Night focuses on melee and fast attack, and each has three different switchable attack methods (?) and different QTE.
As the story progresses, players will also learn three operations: Light Extraction, Healing, Power Strike, and Ultimate Combo (Ultimate Combo). The Light Extraction Technique requires defeating the Dark Beast to obtain a certain amount of Light Extraction before it can be used, and it is a very powerful skill. And most of the dark beasts only have a health bar, while the elite and the boss will have a shield bar (elemental shell), the elemental shell will enter the stun when the elemental shell is exhausted, and it can also trigger the character's heavy attack, just look at this time to attack fiercely.
The best point is the blessing system, through the branch to complete the task to obtain the blessing of the corresponding character, each blessing can be passive skills are different, some blessings are very powerful, naturally there are those blessings of unknown meaning, so a reasonable combination can be a good clearance. Each blessing costs a certain amount of COST points, which requires players to complete side quests to obtain Flower Dew in order to level up to unlock more COST points. Normal players will definitely go and complete the branch quest together, and the subsequent ending route divergence has certain requirements for the completion of the branch quest.
Finally, let's talk about this battle.,The author still feels a little hard to play.,Use the handle to play the whole process.,The forward and backward swing of the skill is very long, resulting in a very poor feel.。 Those powerful hits and ultimate combos don't recover over time, so there's no way to know the length of the total battle round, and it's not easy to determine when to use these two skills.
These two skills can only be replenished through map supplies, and it is never known if there will be waves in the future. There are still quite a lot of types of tasks, such as the regular defeat of monsters, guardian display, collection of materials, boss battles, and even the most painful semi-parkour levels and semi-puzzle levels. It all gave me a torturous gaming experience, but luckily there is a secondary customization mode that allows you to manually reduce the difficulty......
Other 9/10 beautiful vertical illustrations, excellent Cantonese dubbing
The art of this work is definitely the most exquisite and excellent style of painting I've seen since I played a domestic game.,It's no exaggeration to say that every CG of this work can be used as wallpaper.。 The art style is unified, and the characters are painted with great care, and it can be seen that the painter has put a lot of effort into it, and the settings of various characters are also shown in the costumes.
The difference in character expressions is very good.,It's not an illustration that has never been broken at all.,A lot of text with one or two exquisite CG illustrations is really eye-catching.。 Not to mention the art quality of this work.,Play for a little more than ten minutes.,You can feel how good the art of this work is.。 The art style of the UI interface and the main interface is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is beautiful and convenient, and the OP and ED hand-drawn styles are just right and full of details.
The background music is quite emotional, the music of the daily plot is beautiful, and the music of the battle is even more distinctive. And dubbing is divided into Mandarin and Cantonese dubbing, as an old Cantonese naturally has to use Cantonese dubbing, each character's dubbing is quite natural, and I can't find fault with it at all (annoying). The only thing to say is a pity.,The dubbing of this work is not full-text dubbing.,Even the main line alone didn't do full-text dubbing.,Most of the time it's boring to watch the plot.,It's uncomfortable to have no dubbing at all.,Fortunately, the key plot is dubbed.。
epilogue
To be honest, if you play it for a few minutes, you will know how brilliant this game is. However, the large number of undubbed voices does make me a little uncomfortable, and it would be nice to have the full dubbing. The story of this work is very good.,The details and settings are stuffed full.,It's not too profound, it's not too profound, it's not too bland.,The reversals in many places are even more called "amazing".,The ending is still conventional, full of emotion and joy.,The overall look and feel is excellent.。
The most unsatisfactory place is the combat system.,The poor feel is bizarre.,It's really a big failure of this work.。 The original price of this work is slightly lower than the cost performance.,It is recommended to wait for a discount to start.。 In short, it is only suitable for players who like AVG-based and RPG-supplemented gameplay.