Players who pay attention to domestic single-player games should find that the development momentum of domestic single-player games has been getting better and better over the years, from not seeing a game that can be used in the past year to now giving birth to two or three high-quality games every year. Although there is still a lot of distance from the 3A masterpiece, at least let's players who like domestic stand-alone machines can have hope every year.
However, there are also some domestic games, which obviously have a good reputation at the beginning, and the game itself has a good quality, but in the subsequent game update, it attracted a lot of bad reviews from players because of some saucy operations by the production team. Not only did the reputation that had been accumulated so hard before suddenly be lost, but even the future prospects of the game became no longer optimistic, and it can be said that a good hand of cards was played poorly.
1. Taigo picture scroll
"Taigo Picture Scroll" is the game that I think is the most regrettable, and it really amazed too many players in the year it was released. Because the domestic stand-alone games at that time were almost a desert, there were few games that could be played. So when such a game with rich gameplay, exquisite text, and a high degree of freedom was released, it immediately exploded in the player group, and "Taiwu Picture Scroll" was often called "the light of domestic games" by players in those two years.
It's a pity that in the subsequent updates, the game has not only become more and more perfect, but has become more and more bloated, and there are more and more new ways to play in the game, but they are not too integrated with each other, giving me a very messy feeling. Another big problem is that the novice guidance of the game is not very good, and many newcomers are immediately persuaded to quit by so many incomprehensible gameplay as soon as they enter the game.
It's been almost 6 years since the game was first released, and it's still in an early access phase, and although the update frequency is still not low, I think the producers don't seem to have decided what the core gameplay of the game is, which gives me a feeling of updating just for the sake of updating. The positive rating of players has also dropped from very good reviews at the beginning to mixed reviews so far, which is a bit of a bad feeling for such a game with a good start.
2. Yaara Onitani
This game was also a sales myth of domestic stand-alone games back then, and I remember that it never fell out of the top 10 on the Steam best-selling list for more than two months, and even ranked second on the best-selling list for several weeks. Although the game itself is relatively rough, as the first game that shows all the elements that should be in the theme of cultivating immortals, coupled with the frequency of updates by the production team almost 1~2 times a week when it was first released, players are also full of expectations for the future of this game.
However, the good times didn't last long.,The update frequency of the game is getting slower and slower.,From the beginning of a week or even two times a week, it slowly becomes a month or so after that.,The content of the game is actually still a change of soup.,There is no eye-catching gameplay.。 Especially when the content of the workshop was updated for the first time, the so-called workshop of a third party was still used, which was not official on Steam, and it was this wave of speechless operations that directly caused the game's reputation to plummet.
Now the game has already been developed and turned into the official version.,Although the game content is much richer than at the beginning.,But the overall gameplay is actually still like that.,The repetition is very high.,Basically, the first 2 hours of the game can experience most of the gameplay.。 My assessment is that it's really good to pass the time when you don't have a game to play, but the quality of the game itself isn't worth investing too much time in it.
3.Mirror2
"Mirror2" can be regarded as the biggest cyber scam in recent years, the original game relied on astringent elements + simple and easy match-3 gameplay, and with some more touching plots, it won the favor of many players. And the price of the game is also quite cheap, and the plot of the DLC can be called the apex of this type of game, so the original Mirror is also a conscience game in the minds of many people.
It is precisely by virtue of the reputation of the original game that Mirror2 achieved great success in the early days of release, not only did the sales be gratifying, but the game's praise rate on steam once reached 97%, which is the same praise rate as "The Witcher 3". But just when everyone thought the game was going to get better and better, an announcement from the production team made all players feel that they had been deceived.
The reason was that the production team decided to abandon the astringent elements of the previous generation, but they themselves understood what their game relied on to attract players, so they didn't talk about it for a few months before the release of Mirror2, and didn't inform players until the game was almost sold, so angry players immediately responded to the production team with bad reviews. The game's praise rate has also dropped from rave reviews at the beginning to a rave reviews, and the final ending ended with the production team going bankrupt and the game permanently ruined, and the player's enthusiasm was completely wiped out.
4. The way of chivalry
"The Way of Chivalry" was also called "Xia Yin Pavilion" at the beginning, this game actually had a good reputation in the early access stage, and there was only the plot of the first year at the beginning, although the game process was relatively short, but the experience was good in all aspects, after all, Heluo Studio has rich experience in making martial arts games, so both the gameplay and the creation of a martial arts atmosphere are online.
But just when players thought that the final official version could have a happy ending, the plot of the last year of the game unexpectedly pulled the crotch. The plot of the third year of the game is quite bad, and in a nutshell, it is a bad ending, and this level of plot has also caused the game's praise rate to drop all the way to 38%. Although the production team then reworked the plot for a third year, the overall level was still unsatisfactory, and the game with a good start inevitably ended in a hurry.
5. Mostly
The game is even more heavyweight, and all players, including me, still don't know what happened to it. There was a demo version of the game before it was released, and it gave me a really good feeling. The demo version of the game mainly tells the story of an ordinary young man working to pay off his debts, and the gameplay of the game is similar to that of Sims, but it is closer to our daily life, so the sense of substitution is stronger to play.
It's just that the game was taken off the shelves a few days after its release, and it hasn't landed on Steam since. The reason of the production team is that the game is not perfect, but now that it has been one and a half years, there is still no word on when the game will be released. For the first purchaser, it seems that he is a big wrongdoer, buying a half-finished game, and there is a high probability that there will never be an update again.
summary
In fact, many old players are happy to support domestic stand-alone games, because they all know that it is not easy to make stand-alone games in China. Therefore, many games are only half-finished, and the gameplay content is very simple, but as long as there is a little sparkle and innovation, they will support one. But there are also games like I said, which obviously have a good start, but the more they do it, the more careless they do, the quality of the game is getting worse and worse, and some even run away directly. The enthusiasm of the players was gradually exhausted, and since then, they have not dared to support the games in the early stage. At least I only think about the official version when I buy the game now, and I don't think about the early access version of the game at all, because I'm really scared.