On the 18th of last month, the official adaptation animation "Three Kingdoms Killing: Taiping Heavenly Book", which was highly anticipated by "Three Kingdoms" players, finally ushered in the day of broadcasting - players are not paying attention to this "Taiping Heavenly Book" not for anything else, but to give a bad review on time after the animation starts, helping the birth of "the lowest score of domestic animation".
In the rating comment area of the video, of course, there are also troublemakers
"Taiping Tianshu" was originally released in 2021 and officially finalized in May this year, but judging from the comments left by players at the time, probably no one had any expectations for this film from beginning to end, and it seems that the word-of-mouth rollover of the animation is a predictable fact.
As a result, as soon as "Taiping Tianshu" was broadcast, its performance shocked "Three Kingdoms Kill" players from all over the world, and a group of "Three Kingdoms Kill" anchors hurriedly recorded a complaining video, for fear of missing the opportunity to torture the official animation.
"Taiping Tianshu" is a weekly animation, and it has been updated for 4 episodes so far, and Tencent Video has not yet disclosed the specific score of user evaluation.
In fact, the click popularity of the official animation in the early 10,000s is not as high as the number of slice videos on station B, but the comment area has accumulated 58,000 ratings - considering the execution of "Three Kingdoms" players to brush up on bad reviews, it is not difficult to imagine what the background data is like.
The ratings of the main site have not been made public for a long time, and the number of players in scoring communities such as Douban and Bangumi is too loose. I can't find a place to give this animation a bad review.,Let it hit the "lowest score of domestic animation",Obviously, the players of "Three Kingdoms" are a little aggrieved.,It can only be said that the gold content of the Steam evaluation mechanism is still rising at the moment.。
Considering the current production level of "Taiping Tianshu", falling into such a situation is indeed obtained by one's own strength, and it cannot be regarded as innocently affected by the original work.
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"When I woke up, the level of players in the world's "Three Kingdoms" dropped by 10,000 times", this sentence is so appropriate to describe "Taiping Tianshu".
In the world view of the animation, "Three Kingdoms" has become a national-level e-sports game, and the operation is booming, not to mention the passers-by on the street, even the rich brother with a lot of money will not hesitate to ask the booster to score overnight, and this booster happens to be our protagonist and genius player "Guo Xiaoye".
Guo Xiaoye, born Guo Jia, a typical example of not talking and pretending to be a master, has no other purpose for doing power training, just thinking about making more money to repay the debt of his father who owes a lot of debt, as for why he didn't play the professional game of "Three Kingdoms", the explanation given in the animation is that he was banned a few years ago because of the hanging.
Let's ignore whether Guo Jia can win against Shen Xunyu for the time being, anyway, the protagonist has the infamy of opening the hanging, and he has never touched "Three Kingdoms Killing" since then, such a protagonist grabs a lot of money on the sports set, of course, you can also understand it as "I never feel happy playing in a band", almost all of them mean the same thing.
The protagonists are like this, and if someone comes over to enlighten the story, it won't be able to continue. is responsible for bringing the protagonist out of the trough of life, and is naturally the heroine "Sima Yiyi", who "has both talent and appearance" and is known as the dream of 900 million young men. The favorability of the two has been full since the first episode, and it was probably a night between the male protagonist never touching "Three Kingdoms" and returning to the arena.
I like a sentence from a player of "Three Kingdoms": It's just a fantasy before being killed by lightning
Well, in fact, there is nothing wrong with the world view and basic plot framework of "Taiping Tianshu", this kind of classic to old-fashioned template has become a classic, because it is simple and easy to use and does not make mistakes, and the animation of some card games next door is to save the world by playing cards, let's play the game to make money and repay the loan by the way, and the script of uncovering the villain's conspiracy is relatively pragmatic.
However, it is also the card battle part of "Taiping Tianshu" that makes the reputation of this film unified inside and outside the circle, whether it is players in the circle or passers-by outside the circle, they all shake their heads when they watch it, and there is no motivation to click on the next episode at all.
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In order to concretize the tense and exciting card gameplay, "Taiping Tianshu" chose to point up the technology tree full of virtual reality technology, holographic chemical generals have become possible in this era, and the professional players in the animation wear holographic glasses and control the battlefield situation with card games. The generals have to recite a game line every time they launch their skills, and they don't use the original sound of the game, so it's inevitable that there will be some drama after listening to it too much.
When it comes to the specific card game battle, the play of "Taiping Tianshu" is completely unpopular, and the most common problems that players complain about are nothing more than two points: the standard style chaos, and the composition of duels with frequent loopholes.
In all fairness, the standard wind smash brawl is actually a problem that is not a problem, and players who are usually used to playing fairy fights in the "Three Kingdoms" will definitely have a feeling of "three-body people watching primitive people" when they see animated characters holding standard field generals 1V1, after all, these games in the animation, players have played more than ten years ago.
But the card investment animation is obviously not here to serve fans for charity, and it is probably a major purpose of the "Three Kingdoms" animation to attract newcomers into the pit, and it is the fate of most well-known IP adaptation animations to add drama to popular characters like this, and replace it with "Pokémon", most passers-by will always only love to watch Pikachu.
At the end of the animation, there is a rule introduction session, which is aimed at viewers who have never been exposed to "Three Kingdoms".
And the tasteless duel composition is probably the problem of this "Taiping Book of Heaven". Take the much-criticized Zhen Ji VS Sima Yi in the first episode as an example, in the game, the villain's chosen Zhen Ji started with the absolute shadow of the 5 of spades, but he didn't realize that the protagonist's Sima Yi could snatch this spade by selling blood to change the judgment of the lightning reversal game.
Regardless of how the player who can't pay attention to this detail gets professional, this low-level mistake is really made into the climax of A Part, as if the two players really experienced a wonderful game, and the passionate music of unknown meaning is combined with the close-up of the decisive victory that the camera closes in, and everyone's reaction to this must be: I don't know what is burning at all.
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The second episode of the animation is a little better in this regard, but it's not much, such as "why doesn't the ice sword flash" This kind of small slot is not picky, and careful players even noticed that there is a bug of inconsistent hands in the second episode of the game, you must know that the two sides have only gone through four or five rounds, and this kind of goofing is really not deserved.
Is there really no one in the animation team who understands "Three Kingdoms"? Obviously not.,I believe some players can still find a lot of familiar names from the final Staff list of the animation.,Not to mention anything else.,Yang Rening, who is in charge of game planning, has been scolded by players so badly in recent years.,Now it still appears in the animation's "content support" column.
In addition, Huang Kai, who is the chief designer of the game card, also served as the screenwriter of the animation, and some players may ask if Huang Kai has long since retired to the background and retired to retire, but in 2021, it was officially revealed that he had led the team to develop a new 1V1 mode "Three Kingdoms: Duel". The script of Huang Kai, who is not old, is written like this, and it can only be said that there must be a demon when something goes wrong.
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So who should be behind the making of "Taiping Tianshu" like this?
Compared with the "full responsibility of the game card" on the other side of the game, the situation on the animation side is naturally more complicated.
"Taiping Tianshu" is produced by Foch Film and Television, a well-known domestic animation company, but audiences who know domestic animation know that Foch, who is "prolific like a sow", has so many people to do so much animation in a year. The final result is that the first episode of the animation that should be most performed by Foch shows off his muscles, but another animation company in Shanghai, Gouxian Animation, participated in the production as a production co-ordinator, and Gouxian, as a rising star in the industry, can not get the work itself is not many, so it is still a little too heavy for them to carry the expectations of many "Three Kingdoms" players.
Or let's look at it from another angle, the word-of-mouth overturn of "Taiping Tianshu" is inevitable to a certain extent. In 2021, when the animation project was established, Youka is vigorously promoting the "Three Kingdoms" e-sports event, and they planned a series of events called "Hundred Cities and Thousands of Stores", saying that they would unite thousands of board game stores in hundreds of cities across the country to host the "Three Kingdoms" competition.
Now looking back at the world view setting of "Taiping Tianshu", it is not difficult to find that this is indeed the e-sports environment of "Three Kingdoms" that You Card wanted to work hard to lay out.
However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. In August last year, a former "Three Kingdoms Kill" professional player named "Three Kingdoms Kill Absolute Technique" released a video introducing their revenue share - no signing fee, no fixed salary, no advertising share, and the most skilled professional player earns about 40,000 yuan a year.
After the launch of "Taiping Tianshu", the "Three Kingdoms Kmeng" players who won the 2021 Wang Zhan National Championship posted a video complaining, saying that the club that won the three-end championship last year only got a total of 400,000 bonuses, which is far from the tens of millions of bonuses in the animation.
To be honest, for the professional players of "Three Kingdoms", instead of playing the game tirelessly, it is better to think of ways to be a game anchor, and the money earned by the live broadcast is much higher than that of playing the game.
But this involves another problem, most "Three Kingdoms" players don't pay attention to the game at all, they only vote for a team that may win the championship when they have a prize, as for what wonderful operation the players played, no one really cares, the players can't be famous, how many people can watch the live broadcast?
So in this way, in which direction should the "Taiping Book of Heaven" be done? In fact, the animation production team also has a number in their hearts, binding natal generals, engaging in holographic projection, and even in the synopsis, there is a description of "the damage in the game can be transmitted to players in reality", and it is no wonder that many viewers recall the topic that can never be avoided in the animation of card games - "Yu-Gi-Oh".
Now I understand
"Yu-Gi-Oh" was originally a manga, and the card battle part completely served the plot, just like the "Gundam" series showed, Gundam was never the main body of the narrative, what really matters is the interaction between the characters, and the content that the work wants to express.
If you force an analogy, "Taiping Tianshu" may be more like a sequel after "Yu-Gi-Oh DM", with a commercial nature greater than the expression of the work, except that the former is the main promotion of e-sports, and the latter is to sell new cards. Don't underestimate this difference, the characteristics of the new cards sold in the "Yu-Gi-Oh" animation determine that there are several cards that have never appeared before in each duel, which not only maintains the freshness, but also brings infinite possibilities for the composition of the duel.
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And "Three Kingdoms" has been developed for so many years, all kinds of gameplay and every card have been digested by players cleanly, and even if the 1V1 game of the standard style generals is wonderful, players have long been surprised. The animation may lead to more complex games in the future, but it is difficult to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in all aspects of the animation at this stage. As for attracting passers-by...... Let's first consider stabilizing the fan base.
This can't be said to be the problem of "Three Kingdoms" itself, but a common problem of card game adaptation animation.
In recent years, there will always be some unpopular TCG adaptation animations that appear in the new list.,But the domestic attention will always tend to be close to zero.,Even if it's the once beautiful "Yu-Gi-Oh" animation,It's out of the 8th part now, and no one cares about it now.。
Some readers may be able to cite some counterexamples, isn't there a lot of praise for the animation of "Shadow Poetry F" in previous years? This was true at the beginning, but in fact, in the later "Seven Shadows", the reputation of this animation is gradually declining, and then there are not many people left to watch the "Ark Chapter" that is being broadcast...... Of course, considering that "Shadow Verse: Worlds Beyond" has bounced tickets, "Shadow Verse" players may have lost a lot.
TCG and Japan, where the animation industry is so developed, can't solve the problem, and it's obviously unrealistic for you to let Youka and Tencent rely on a "Three Kingdoms" animation to solve it.
Many "Three Kingdoms Killing" players who have watched "Taiping Tianshu" have recently begun to fantasize: animation should not be made into a modern theme that focuses on e-sports from the beginning, but should pull out the generals in the game to remake a Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which may make the animation look better.
In fact, the game card did this - in 2015, a Q version of the animation called "Where is the Lord" perfectly meets the expectations of today's players, but it's a pity that the attention of this work is extremely low, the number of broadcasts on station B is bleak, and the number of Douban ratings is worrying, which is completely undone to play the role of publicity that animation should have.
Of course, if you extend this topic a little further and turn it into "game adaptation animation", it will return to the familiar problem of "who is the game animation for".
Fans are not happy to watch it, passers-by are not happy, the investor spent a lot of money, and the production team spent a lot of effort, but in the end, the result was a lot of chicken feathers.
But from another point of view, it's probably because the two industries of games and animation are relatively close, and the two sides adapt each other, even if they are rotten, they often at least look like that.
Once it involves live-action dramas that span farther, it will often be even more outrageous - coincidentally, such a thing did happen to "Three Kingdoms".
The only thing this movie has in common with the original is probably the low score and bad reviews.