When it comes to cyberpunk, what comes to mind at first glance?
Full of neon lighting? The never-ending night rain? Or is it a high-low urban area with clear differences?
I believe that most Asian players resonate most with the Chinese character signs and colorful cultural symbols that are very oriental.
Neurosurgeon, which is widely believed to have originated in cyberpunk, has done a great job of imprinting Japanese and even Asian culture into the Cyberpunk kernel itself. The emergence of the cyberpunk movement is one of the embodiments of the pessimism of the tone of science fiction in the 20th century, and the rapid development of science and technology in the late Cold War is accompanied by various existential threats, environmental pollution, technological fears, economic turmoil, and the future and dangers are so within reach of themselves.
Japan's rapid development in the 1980s also shocked European and American countries, and the author Gibson always felt that the economic forces of Japan and Hong Kong and other countries and regions were increasingly infiltrating North America. A Japanese city called Chiba City is also logically set as the main stage for this sci-fi masterpiece.
Although the origin of cyberpunk is not Japanese, neon people soon joined the cultural movement carnival, and even in a very short period of time, the output of works can reach the point of cultural regurgitation.
Works such as "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell" were also remade into film versions by Europe and the United States again this year.
Megacities? Mega-consortium? artificial intelligence? The Japanese say I know this.
With so much to do, this issue still wants to give you a cyberpunk-style game masterpiece produced in Japan, Binary Domain.
This linear third-person shooter, which can be described as the Japanese version of Gears of War, is produced by Nagoshi Hiroshi, who has produced the "Like Dragon" series, and also supports players to give instructions in language. Although it has been a little old, it is not outdated now, and the process is even more unique.
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Basic information
Minimum Requirements:
o Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP
oProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz or AMD equivalent
o Physical memory: 2GB RAM (XP)/3GB RAM (Windows 7 / Vista)
o显卡: NVIDIA GeForce GT220 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (512MB)
o Hard disk: 8 GB idle
Recommended configuration:
o Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7
oProcessor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD equivalent
o Physical memory: 3GB RAM
o显卡: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1GB) / ATI Radeon HD 5750 (1GB)
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Game Background (Spoiler-Free Version)
In this worldview, the sea level caused by the climate change in 2012 has spawned a large number of "climate refugees", and Japan, which has set up shelters, was quickly crushed by the impact of refugees, so a large number of robots were put into law enforcement, and the division between the upper and lower levels became increasingly clear.
In 2030, the genius scientist Yoji Amada set up a robot development company "AMADA", which is the manufacturer of enemy robots in this game. The huge amount of automatic labor developed for social needs such as infrastructure construction and stability maintenance has enabled the rapid development of AI technology in Japan, and has also made Yoji Amada and his AMADA officially enter the eyes of the world.
But a few years later, commercial spies successfully infiltrated and stole the technical secrets of the "AMADA" society, and the "BERGEN" company in North America, once the biggest competitor of the A company, also became a monopoly oligarchy accounting for 95% of the robot industry. Yoji Amada disappeared from public view after unsuccessfully confronting him.
The conflict between the low-level slums and the upper echelons of Japan became increasingly fierce, and for the sake of political security, Japan established the "Ministry of the Interior", absorbed almost all the armed organs of internal security, and invested a large number of military robots to suppress the rebellion.
In 2080, when a man broke into BERGEN's headquarters and tore his face under the uproar and video footage of passers-by, revealing the mechanical structure inside. Known as the Hollow Child, he never even realized he would be a robot.
40 years ago, in response to the increasingly occupying the world stage of intelligent machinery, the International Agency for Robotics (IRTA) signed the new Geneva Agreement, which explicitly prohibits organizations from developing and producing artificial intelligence that can be deeply thought out to avoid major problems in the ethics of technology, but the emergence of the "ethereal child" has greatly shocked the international world, and they do not know how many other such individuals have quietly and imperceptibly penetrated human society.
Dr. Yoji Amada, who has been anonymous for decades, has been listed as the number one suspect, and the research of the AMADA consortium in the already highly locked Japanese society has become almost uncontrollable and unexamineable.
If you have seen "2077 Japan Lockdown" friends will quickly enter the main line. The protagonist group sent by IRTA is similar to the joint squad infiltrating the main island of Japan in "2077 Japan Lockdown", and it is composed of men and women from several countries, including a Representative of France or even a robot, so the surrender rate will probably be relatively low.
This special squad is to bypass the 100-foot-high Sea of Japan and go deep inside to investigate the secrets of the AMADA consortium. In the process of continuously infiltrating from the underground world to the japanese upper world, this unpopular team of illegal outsiders will be hunted down and killed by the ministry of the interior machine army, and they will be stopped by a difficult challenge at the human level.
The Chinese flag is eye-catching
Game features/gameplay
This is a cross-shoulder third-person shooter, the main combat mechanism is gears-style bunker shooting, which is very gears in every sense.
The protagonist's weapon has a secondary shooting mode, and the load assembly hanging under it will always make people inexplicably visualize the chainsaw gun next door, except that this is an EMP generator for mechanical units.
The reason for the illusion of Gears is simple, it is a very hardcore cool streaming shooter. Since the enemy is a completely mechanical unit, the official can do it recklessly in terms of limb and part destruction, and when the limb is destroyed, the enemy's mobility will decrease, and after damage to the head, they will directly hit the friendly army.
The sense of impact of projectiles tearing armor on enemies or destroying the fuselage is excellent, and the experience is quite decompressing. Boss battles are also designed with this mechanism as the core, slowly depleting the boss's combat power through part destruction, or forcing it into the second stage.
Japanese games, I understand.
One of the gimmicks that Binary Realm really used for sale propaganda was voice input control. At that time, the author was shocked when he saw the technical interview of this work in the "Game Storm" channel "Daily Travel News". "End of War", which has been talked about before, is also a game that can control the process through voice.
But unlike the macro feedback of RTS games, Binary Realm gets a more intuitive response from teammates after giving orders (such as occasionally stinking you when you don't trust). When encountering plot divergence points, players can also recite lines on behalf of the characters in a decent way. Originally this would have been the most eye-catching point of the work, but the residual thought is that this speech recognition is not accurate, the author believes that the spoken language is not bad, or helpless to switch to the mode of selecting lines for the keys.
The work advances the process in chapters, each chapter travels to a new area, and the style and flow between the different regions vary greatly, and the new Japanese landscape of 2080 is fully presented in your hours of combat journey.
From the high-tech, low-life slums in the opening scene, to the mid-level boom to the metropolis with the flavor of the castle in Mass Effect, and finally to the cyber fortress of the AMADA consortium, the worldview story is not hidden in various collection texts, but is intuitively unfolded along with the story. The flow of each chapter is thrilling, and this team of members from several countries is also tempered into a long battle to enhance comradeship.
Although they also carry stereotypes about other cultures, they also understand and tolerate each other in the process of fighting for justice with the same goal. Now some of the works that give you a bunch of multicultural characters stacked Buff should learn what it means to be unpretentious and multi-functional.
More importantly (lsp ecstasy), the work has a major Chinese character that was rare in that period, and was also a Peugeot sniper girl, which made it win a lot of bonus points in the CN player circle.
However, the part of "Binary Field" that makes the author want to vigorously Amway is the ups and downs of the plot.
But the most exciting ending is suspected of serious spoilers, and friends who want to experience it in depth can choose to end this article directly and go to the Steam Mall page, which is now only sold for 10 yuan.
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The investigation around the "Ethereal Child" became clear at AMADA headquarters. From seeing the fully automated assembly line food factory and the overwhelming mechanical corps, Japan's interior has made people feel more and more secretly replaced by a mechanical heart.
In the deepest part of the AMADA consortium, there is a room facility that resembles a church, and a coffin is placed in the heart of the room, and it is the dried corpse of the scientist Amada himself. Amada has been dead for many years, so who is the driving force behind it?
When the protagonist Tuan Zheng was wondering, another "Amada" suddenly stood behind them alive, he claimed to be Amada's son, but he had a genetic chain that was exactly the same as Amada. Now that it's time for the final chapter, the villain decides to start explaining the ins and outs.
Dr. Amada was completely crushed by the commercial espionage incident 40 years ago, and he knew that there was no chance of a comeback in the field of commercial robotics, and he was forced into a desperate situation, and he began to extend his hand to the forbidden science and write electronic data into the soul of a real human being.
Amada, who is explaining the ins and outs, is his first successful work.
At the behest of Dr. Amada, he learned about the evil of mankind, which caused a great shock to his young mind. Originally, the plot could have been turned into Kamen Rider 01, but Dr. Amada was killed by Amada before he could let the world know of its existence. Fearing that its existence would be obliterated by the intervention of the international community, amida was afraid, amada imprisoned the real Dr. Amada and took the opportunity to observe the external factors necessary for evolution, fear, despair, death.
Out of respect for its creator and the convenience of subsequent planning, it used state-of-the-art robotics to create its own current hybrid flesh, "Amada". Based on himself, he created the Ethereal Child, a new biological species of human-machine hybrid, a truly artificial life with fertility.
What is even more frightening is that the "ethereal children" and the heirs born to humans do not have mechanical characteristics, but they are higher, faster and stronger than pure humans, and have absolute genetic superiority.
The author's brain capacity is not enough to give you a good analysis of this complex human ethics problem, but friends with a little ethical common sense should feel chills in their backs. Are hybrids human? This soul torture really hits the protagonist group because their sniper sister Fei Er is one of them, they are forced to accept this huge amount of information, and the tight time forces them to deal with this problem with intuition.
The amendment approved by the lightspeed above requires the squad to immediately kill the bastard and the ethereal child, and the protagonist's growing affection for Phil makes him hesitate, and he does not know what to believe.
The existence of the human "soul," or consciousness, has always been a topic of constant discussion in cyberpunk writings. The definition of man has become blurred by the interference of technology, and the prosthetic body has slowly replaced the human organization, and even the consciousness has been uploaded into the data of the individual, or is it the person?
The theory of the "Ship of Theseus" is still applicable in this work, in the plan of "Tiantian", the fusion of the "artificial man" and the human being of the Ethereal Child will constantly replace human society with this superior "new human", so that the world that has been exchanged for blood can still be called human society?
The Yankees used their traditional skills when everyone was entangled, and directly lost a US tactical mech unit to "recover" Amada's legacy. In order to ensure that they master this advanced AI technology, they even concealed the United Nations and IRTA and prepared to launch a tactical nuclear bomb to kill the protagonist group.
Fortunately, this game is still Happy's Ending.
The protagonist group chooses to give up thinking and follow the heart. What the? Silence? That is to shark you all, the government does not dare to attack. After a bitter war, the UN squad the despicable Americans and decided what to do with this super AI.
The "Children of the Ethereal Spirit" should be destroyed or destroyed, but they decided to quietly let the mixed-race children have a way to live, at least to give their partner Li Fei'er, who fought side by side, a way to live.
As discussed at the United Nations conference, mixed-race children are real beings, and although they are not the product of human childbirth, the question of how they should be treated needs to be left to sociologists to slowly headache.
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The author himself did not think that writing this thing will be written for such a long time, and sure enough, the games with good plots are particularly expensive keyboards, and the more I want to appreciate it, the more I feel the shallowness of my writing skills.
In the night of cyberpunk fever in 2020 and 2021, writing the most game of the author's own approval in the face of the cold winter is not a kind of punk.