This article is written by Yun Ji
War, a word that is far away from us, but very close. Because while we live peacefully in this land, there are still people who live every day in a place where there is a lot of fire and can't see tomorrow. We can't imagine what happened to us, but there are always other ways to understand how cruel war can be.
Valiant Hearts: the great War is an action-adventure anti-war game developed by the ubisoft montpellier team and released on June 25, 2014. On November 8, 2018, it landed on NS. The game tells the story of four different places where small characters experience unknown situations due to war (the game is set in the first world war). The main content of the game is not complicated, because the protagonists are living for a purpose, so in the game plot, we can see the moving points of each of their little characters who dare to resist the war.
The overall style of the game screen looks like reading a graffiti picture book, and the 2D screen of the whole article is not rigid in tone at all, but adds a lot of life (can also be understood as realistic) to every character and scene in the game. And the game breaks through the conventional image of 2D games, a variety of lens mirrors, the superposition of dark and shallow layers, and a variety of sound effects, showing players a lot of interesting dynamic scenes (I am most impressed by the scene where emile carries a banner and charges with comrades, players need to dodge the shell charge under the influence of visual impairment, and the sense of tension and excitement is full in this instant) Even now, there are few works that are so attentive.
However, there is still a little flaw in the operation of the mobile phone, which may also be due to the author's own operation errors. The first character we can operate, emile, appears to be difficult to slide the screen when digging tunnels in a certain chapter, resulting in the characters staying silly in place most of the time. Other operations are not big problems, are simple operations, as long as there is no panic, give the appropriate response, the game is very good to pass.
Next, back to the puzzles, all the puzzles in the game can be said to be not difficult. Because the puzzles of the game follow the rhythm of the narrative (equivalent to the scene puzzles), a lot of observation will find the trick. If you really don't understand how to solve the puzzle, a small question mark will appear when you stay at the interaction point for a while to tell you what to do next. Of course, if you want to collect all the items in each chapter, it is still recommended to watch the video guide to solve the problem.
The puzzles of "Braveheart" are well combined with the plot story, not only because of the historical facts as a background support and the idea of the puzzles being integrated into the scene (not very difficult), but also because of the many details that the game team has worked hard to create. For example, there are many interactions with the dog after the French uncle Emile, who we initially controlled, escaped with the dog; emile and the American soldier Freddie's encounter at the train station; and even a few of them and nurse Anne took a car to avoid plane bombing When the background concert was inexplicably familiar... It can be seen that every detail of the game work can portray the humanity of each character under the cruelty of war, which is also what moved me about this game.
It can also be seen from this that they express their views on war in the game, and there is no place for forced sensationalism in the game, and there is no ambiguity in the serious place. Every character we can manipulate will see others fall down trying to resist the enemy, and they still move forward without hesitation. The scenes are not scary and bloody, but there is always a sense of sadness, because war is never a comedy ending. I believe that even if this work is a few years away from now, its indictment of war still does not wear away its own color due to time, and it is definitely worth playing.
Because there are predecessors who wrote history, we have the beauty of our current life.