In March of this year, we reported on a long-running two-dimensional product called "The Fantasy Adventure of the Princess of Canterbury and the Knight Awakening the Champion's Sword" (hereinafter referred to as "The Sword of the Crown of the Canterbury"), which is written by my company's two-dimensional professional account.
At that time, the game was still in the deletion test period, no matter how much I played, the progress could not be officially launched, so I did not spend too much effort to promote the main line, played 3 chapters, felt that its level design and gameplay style were quite special, very classic Zelda Legend series flavor, I wrote an article to introduce to you.
There are many classic puzzle designs in "Kangong Riding crown sword", such as passing the torch
Later, when the game was officially launched, I re-entered the pit and found that because I did not push too many main lines, the introductory article missed an important feature of "Kangong Riding Crown Sword" to attract players. This time, I took the opportunity of the half anniversary of the game's launch to talk to you again.
"Kangong Riding the Crown Sword" pays a high-density tribute to the various stems in the classic works.
This feature often appears in movies, not games. Many movies like to bury some homages to the classic old terrier in the lines and scene design, the most famous "I am your father" of "Star Wars" has been reproduced by countless movies, and the famous dancing scene of "Pulp Fiction" is a tribute to "Outlaw", and later he has become the object of tribute to Stephen Chow's "Hundred Variable Stars".
In the game to pay tribute to the elders is not so common, one is the risk of being accused by the player of plagiarism or stitching monsters, the other is that the movie is already a century-old cultural industry, practitioners have confidence in the audience's taste and experience, and the history of video games is only 50 years, it is easy to appear "who you say this understands" embarrassing situation.
The massive tribute to The Sword of the Crown of Kangong cleverly avoids both of these problems. Like the movie's play terrier, the tribute to "Kangong Riding the Crown Sword" is often point-to-point and frank; the object of the tribute is also cleverly chosen: there are many well-known game memes, but more are popular culture and two-dimensional terriers with a wide audience, and there is always a terrier for you.
In the first chapter, the player can pull up a "Master's Sword".
In the branch line of the second chapter, the Saiyan transformation effect of Dragon Ball appears.
and Ubisoft's potato servers.
The entire third chapter of the game pays homage to the magical campus of the Harry Potter series, with invisibility cloaks, ghosts, talking murals, and villains resurrected from a diary, as well as the flying car that shines in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JOJO's "wryyyyy", and the 88 km/h speed of Back to the Future...
There are many such homages in every chapter (world) of "Kangong Riding the Crown Sword", but the high density of playing stems does not destroy the tone of the game itself, but adjusts the rhythm of the entire game flow. Because these memes are flashes, only a line or a scene, and most of them are interspersed in a slightly lengthy plot dialogue, it is easy to make people laugh, but it is only a "laugh".
This large number of "will smile" together, constitute the unique game atmosphere of "Kangong Riding Crown Sword": it seems to be able to bring players back to a beautiful childhood, let people in the modern two-dimensional mobile game, but the heart returns to the ancient era when the GBA is still popular in China and Harry Potter is still updated.
The gameplay and art style of "Kangong Riding the Crown Sword" are also similar totones. In the March article, we mentioned that its level design is retro, involving a lot of classic puzzle elements - pushing boxes, lighting torches, racing, throwing bombs, hiding maps and props... The game's art style is also full of nostalgic pixel style.
Whether it's a coincidence or a deliberate design, the atmosphere they create together gives Cangong The Crown Sword a trait that rarely appears in mobile games when playing: it can draw players into the flow of the heart and make people forget that they are playing mobile games - even after dozens of hours of playing, I will still subconsciously want to save the file when I quit the game, as if playing a game on the GBA.
Lines that pay tribute to Pokémon
Players also have a good impression of these tributes. When recommending "Kangong Riding Crown Sword" to others on TapTap or on social media, many players will mention that "this game has a lot of memes and is very interesting". Sharing a certain element that may be a tribute to the forum has also become a daily entertainment for many Players of the Canong Knight's Crown.
In addition to the fun of these terriers themselves, the act of "recognizing the terriers" itself can bring players a lot of positive feedback. An old terrier quietly buried in the dialogue without explanation can not only narrow the distance between the developer and the player, there is a tacit understanding of "we are our own people", and also hints at the developer's trust in the player's ACG experience. This kind of emotional interaction is invaluable to a two-dimensional game.
Including the domestic market action of "Kangong Riding the Crown Sword" in the past six months, it is also full of the meaning of "paying tribute to the classic". First of all, he cooperated with Tengger with a steppe-style two-dimensional divine song "Dalabang Bar", and this half anniversary and then did "Kan Le Song" - from the song title, it can be seen that it is a tribute to Beethoven's famous song "Ode to Joy", in fact, it also uses the original song, with the lyrics of the "Kangong Riding Crown Sword" style, and like those tributes in the game, there is no sense of violation.
In the past six months since its launch, "Kangong Riding the Crown Sword" is not out of the circle, but it has also gained a firm foothold in the domestic secondary market and performed stably. Maybe that's why: both the developer and the publisher know exactly what the tone of the game is and what players want from it.