Text丨Xinlan Shuhua
Editor丨Pepper Mayu Fish
Preface
For a long time, the theme of the Three Kingdoms has been a popular setting in the game industry, and various manufacturers will disassemble and reinterpret the characters based on historical facts or "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Most games won't make too outrageous adaptations, even if the world view design is more magical, you can see the taste of respect for the design of these Three Kingdoms military generals and ministers.
But there is such a game, which is made by Chinese people, but the plot of "Young Zhuge Liang" being eaten by refugees is set up in the plot, when countless righteous netizens think that this plot is a serious insult to Zhuge Liang, gamers say that it is this plot that writes Zhuge Liang's greatness.
What exactly is this game? What's the real story? Why do players insist that this is to counter Zhuge Liang's greatness?
"Juvenile Zhuge Liang" was eaten
This game is called "Code Name Kite", the game plot is based on the Three Kingdoms as the narrative background, and there are strange and chaotic elements, the protagonist is the king of Guangling who is dressed as a man, and the mother of the female protagonist is a crossing setting, and the master Zuo Ci is an immortal cultivator who has lived for many years.
Since it is the theme of the Three Kingdoms, it is inevitable to write about the heroes of this era, in addition to the bosses of the three camps of Wei, Shu and Wu, the image creation of Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang is also quite eye-catching.
However, so far, these two characters have not been officially launched, but Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying has clues that are suspected of Zhuge Liang, that is, the controversial plot of "Young Zhuge Liang" being eaten.
As can be seen from the picture above, in the plot of the game, Zhuge Liang was eaten by the refugees he had saved when he was a child, and only a skull remained, which was worn by Huang Yueying.
In addition to the tragic death, Zhuge Liang's soul will never be able to rest in peace, and he cannot be reincarnated in this world set by gods and ghosts, and can only be integrated into the dragon vein.
At first glance, it seems that the characters are indeed very great, and the setting of sacrificing oneself to save the common people is also quite touching, but one premise cannot be ignored, that is, this person is Zhuge Liang!
Who is Zhuge Liang? It is a person who really implements "do your best and die and die" to the end, and is a person who still faithfully assists Liu Chan until the last moment of his life after Liu Bei said the words "You can take it yourself".
During his tenure as prime minister, he did countless things to benefit the people, although he was deified in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but it was also because he could afford this exaggeration.
As a mortal, he has done feats comparable to that of a god, and everything is an achievement that he has done through his own efforts.
However, the plot of this game vainly tries to erase Zhuge Liang's actions with God-given merits, and replace his pure heart for the country and the people with a "pure and ignorant heart".
Not to mention how outrageous the plot of sharing food is, how much does he hate Zhuge Liang to make his corpse incomplete?
Looking at the Three Kingdoms, even a traitor like Cao Cao may not be worthy of such a severe punishment, and only those who commit a crime like Dong Zhuo's dehumanization will be eaten by everyone.
What is Zhuge Liang's crime? Why should he be subjected to such an insult?
The most absurd thing about this plot is that it not only insults Zhuge Liang, but also the general public.
It is true that there is indeed cannibalism in the famine season, but in the face of a great benefactor who once saved him, how many people can really lose their minds to this point?
In the plot of the game, it is regrettable that such a thing as eating the young Zhuge Liang went on like this, and no one stood up to stop it halfway.
Does the screenwriter mean to ridicule ordinary people for being ungrateful, or even inhumane?
There is another point that is very vigilant, that is, Zhuge Liang's willingness to fill the people with his own flesh is an act of Western sacrifice.
In other words, although this game uses the background of the Three Kingdoms, it actually tells a very Western-style story and is full of Western ideas.
The game is also a culture, and has always had the role of entertaining and educating, and the three views of the game can easily affect the player's three views, and then change the player's three views, which is a kind of cultural output.
I have always been vigilant against the cultural invasion of the West, but I don't think that the Chinese people themselves are helping the invasion of Western ideas, which is really sad.
Brainwashed young gamers
The target audience for this game is people who know little about the history of the Three Kingdoms, who have no interest in history and no reverence for history.
In the hearts of these players, as long as the plot is exciting enough, as for whether the plot is reasonable, whether there is a real character, and whether such an adaptation will insult the character is not something they consider.
Because I like this game enough, I am willing to be brainwashed by the three views of the game, because I was brainwashed, so I like this game even more, and I try my best to maintain it like a star chaser.
When a normal person points out the unreasonableness of the plot, the gamer's first reaction is to defend it, and use all kinds of words to try to prove the reasonableness of the game's plot.
Regarding the above-mentioned plot of Zhuge Liang being eaten, I think this is not an insulting description, but a more spicy realist technique, which depicts the miserable appearance of all beings under the war at that time.
Normal people feel that they should be more cautious when dealing with historical figures with special significance like Zhuge Liang, and if they just want to satisfy their own plot coolness, they should not borrow the names of these historical greats.
But players feel that as long as the plot is well written, no matter how much they make it up.
Players feel that this is just a game, and that creative freedom should not be resisted.
And in their eyes, this game is not a serious science of history, and people who are really interested in history will not learn history through this game.
But the fact is that there are indeed people who will take the history of this game as real, and the promotion of the game is obviously promoted with the help of the fame of the history of the Three Kingdoms.
The plot in this game is very nonsense, in addition to letting Dong Zhuo say the lines "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand", but also let Guo Jia claim to be a "slave with three surnames", and then Guo Jia and Lu Bu were silent at the same time.
A game of three kingdoms made by the Japanese
If you ask which country makes the best Three Kingdoms game, I am afraid that the first reaction in the minds of many gamers is the Three Kingdoms game made by the Japanese.
From the "Dynasty Warriors" series to the "Three Kingdoms" series, Japanese producers have excellent both character and plot drawings, and they have obviously thoroughly understood the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and based on this, they have added many Japanese cultural characteristics.
For example, in "Dynasty Warriors", Cao Cao's image is very Japanese, and his actions also have very strong Japanese samurai characteristics.
Ironically, the image design of "Dynasty Warriors" has influenced the image design of many domestic Three Kingdoms games, and the famous mobile game Honor of Kings can be seen in the character design.
The most obvious is Lu Bu's design, where the two character designs are put together to almost make people think that they are different versions of the same game.
epilogue
The Three Kingdoms are obviously the history of our China, but in the end they were propagandized by the Japanese, so that's it, and it was not easy to make a game with this theme in China, but the propaganda was still the thoughts of foreigners, which is really ridiculous and generous.
To borrow the words of Liu Xiaolingtong: "Drama is not nonsense, and adaptation is not nonsense." ”
I hope that game makers can respect the culture of their own countries and not give up to each other.