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TRON: Identity / TRON: Identity
2023.04.12 / NS, PC
In September 2022, at its D23 Expo 2022 celebration, Disney revealed an upcoming new member of the “TRON” (Creation, Electronic World War) family-developed by British manufacturer Bithell Games and officially released this month. In this visual novel, players will enter a network area without the intervention of “User” (User, that is, a real person), and play the role of a detective program named Query to find out the truth of a large-scale crime.
The “Creation” series started in 1982 as a sci-fi movie of the same name. It tells the story of the genius programmer Kevin Flynn who created and physically entered the world of computer programs called “The Grid” and interacted with the programs with autonomous consciousness. It was a pioneering film in terms of concept and vision, and later derived a huge matrix of peripheral works. After the release of the 2010 movie sequel TRON: Legacy, the audiovisual aesthetics of subsequent works in the series have basically remained consistent with the special effects blockbuster, and “TRON: Identification” is no exception.
This work mainly uses mechanisms such as dialogue and click interaction to advance the story, and some puzzle solving games are mixed in it. The truth of the event is objective and unchanged, and the player’s choice can lead to different endings. Although most of the games are shown in relatively “money-saving” static pictures (with certain dynamic effects), the hand-painted characters and scene modeling are exquisite, and the iconic lighting of the “Chuang” series is presented with high quality. The effect, especially to the fans with a strong sense of intimacy.
Border / Boundary
2023.04.13 / PC
After about seven years of long-distance development, the space shooting competitive game “Frontier”, which was incubated by Sony’s “China Star Project” and is now published by Huya, has finally launched on Steam in the form of early access, openly accepting the test of players from all walks of life.
In the past so many years, the author has been paying attention to “Border” and was fortunate to participate in a round of beta testing. The main things that arouse my personal interest are the rare hardcore space theme, delicate audio-visual effects, and freshness. Six-way operation (forward/backward, up/down, clockwise/counterclockwise), etc. In addition to the operations that may not touch the ground and make people spin, the overall paradigm of “Frontier” is basically modeled after mainstream competing products. The game has built-in classic PvP rules such as stronghold attack and defense, team deathmatch, etc. Players need to choose before each round. Characters with favorite skills, custom weapon configurations, and fight in the weightless space arena.
It is a blessing for “Frontier” to go through all kinds of hardships and finally be successfully released, but the sale on the shelves may only be the first step in the long march. As a result, the willingness to purchase will be weakened. If the follow-up updates of characters, weapons, maps, and modes are not as expected, balance adjustments, and plug-in bans are not efficient enough, the popularity of the game may be severely hit. Require.
ROCKMAN EXE Collection 1+2 / Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1 & 2
2023.04.14 / PS4, NS, PC
Since 2015’s “Mega Man Legacy Collection”, Capcom has launched a round of compilation projects for the “Rockman” series, and the “ROCKMAN EXE Collection” released this time is the fourth project of the project. collection.
As the title indicates, this collection, released in two volumes 1 and 2, contains 10 works of different versions from the 1st to 6th generations of the “ROCKMAN EXE” series (the original game was released between 2001 and 2005). This series creates a parallel Yu Yuanzu’s world view of the “Rockman” series has changed from the previous horizontal version of the ACT gameplay, and adopted a strategy RPG mechanism. Players will travel back and forth in and out of the online world for adventures, and play the role of the student Guangredou (Lan Hiraki), when entering the network battle, he operates the Rockman character named “MegaMan.EXE” to conduct real-time strategy battles in a 3×6 grid field (not limited to this, there will be more micro-innovations in the later stages of the series).
Minecraft: Legends / Minecraft Legends
2023.04.18 / PS4, PS5, Xbox (smart distribution), NS, PC
The work officially released on the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase in June 2022 follows the world view and art style of “Minecraft” as a real-time strategy work, composed of “Homeworld 2” (Homeworld 2, under development), “Lost Space: Breaking “Hardspace: Shipbreaker” (Hardspace: Shipbreaker), the developer behind Blackbird Interactive, is the main producer. It is another big move for the IP holder Mojang Studio to expand the influence of “Minecraft” IP.
This game adopts the combination of TPS action and real-time strategy. Players can resist the invasion of piglins (Piglins) in single-player campaigns and online multiplayer cooperation. There is also an online PvP mode for players to try to build and push each other. As far as personal perception is concerned, this work is better than the previous “My World: Dungeons” (Minecraft Dungeons) in terms of graphics and gameplay depth.
Judging from the current feedback from the community, the fun and expansion potential of the basic gameplay mechanism of “Minecraft: Legend” has been highly recognized, and the number of players has exceeded 3 million within two weeks of its release, but the game is debatable and needs to be improved There are still many designs, such as weak teaching guidance, mandatory sharing of loot resources, limited communication, extremely low matching efficiency, poor balance (puppet killing the Quartet), etc. If the development team can make more benign changes based on community feedback, or It can strengthen the community.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp / Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
2023.04.21 / NS
“Advanced Warfare” is a turn-based strategy game series that landed on the Nintendo platform very early. Players play the role of commanders on the battlefield, with the mission of annihilating the enemy, responsible for unit assignment, facility construction, resource management and other work links. Point the country on the screen similar to the sand table.
The series was first founded in 1998 by Intelligent Systems, Nintendo’s second-party team. The series of works span Famicom, Game Boy, Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Wii and other platforms. The core strategy gameplay has always been For example, peripheral functions such as online connection and map editing are occasionally repaired. This remake is in charge of WayForward Technologies, an American independent developer who is familiar with the Ren series platform. It includes the refurbishment of the first and second generations of the series.
A sad anecdote is that the “Advanced Warfare” series, which focuses on romanticized war simulations, has encountered the embarrassment of at least two release dates colliding with real war threats: one is the first US version of “Advanced Warfare”. The “9.11” incident happened two days later, which delayed the release of the Japanese and European versions. The other incident was this remake collection. Due to the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, it was announced to suspend the release in March last year.
Dead Island 2 / Dead Island 2
2023.04.21 / PS4, PS5, Xbox (smart distribution), PC
It’s hard to imagine that this sequel to the “Dead Island” series, which was released as early as 2014, will be shelved on the zombie theme, and it will not be released until today. At the same time, the author is also surprised that Deep Silver is interested in this IP. With such persistence, even after so many years of poor performance, he finally produced a sequel with a relatively authentic flavor of the series.
This work was originally handled by two developers: first, Techland, the developer of the first two “Dead Island” games (transferred to manage the “Dying Light” (Dying Light) series), and later changed to “Spec Ops: The Line” “The developer of Yager Development (the production concept is inconsistent with the publisher). Until 2019, Dambuster Studios, a British developer under Deep Silver, finally took over the burden. The predecessor of this manufacturer was Crytek UK, which was first responsible for “Homefront: The Revolution”.
“Dead Island 2” moved the stage of the story to Los Angeles. Players will visit multiple open areas belonging to Los Angeles from a first-person perspective, freely hunt zombies, cultivate characters, accumulate supplies, and advance the main story line through interactions with NPCs . Killing zombies with powerful melee attacks and enjoying the sensory experience of the enemy’s flesh and blood are the core competitiveness of the “Dead Island” series. The second generation has made great efforts in these aspects, and the overall audio-visual experience of the game is good. NPCs and zombies are quite exquisite in both movement and appearance, and the urban scenes carved according to real scenes are also pleasing to the eye. However, according to the feedback from the community, this game’s emphasis on combat experience is obviously too much. “Where to go, how many to kill” runs through the whole story without salt and taste, which lowers the overall value of the game.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor / Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
2023.04.28 / PS5, XS X|S, PC
The sequel to “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order” (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order), five years after the story of the first generation, the protagonist Cal Kestis and a group of people will set out on an adventure again, looking for the same as themselves under the shadow of the empire The Rebellion Spark.
Through the experience sharing of some media in the early stage, it can be seen that “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” retains the ability upgrade of Cal in the previous work as much as possible-this is also a tendency in the industry in recent years. Skills such as pushing and pulling, and insert more advanced skills in the follow-up process (such as the air sprint in this work, etc.); in terms of combat skills, this work not only improves the skill tree of single sword, double-headed sword, and dual-wielding sword , also added two new skill trees, Kylo Ren-style epee and Blaster. Players can finally choose two of the five routes to equip, and they can be modified at any time at the save point; as for The enemies that players will face, in the multiple promotional videos released by the development team, we have seen many brand new imperial robots, bounty hunters, etc. I believe that this series that applies the design logic of classic Galaxy City will not let us So disappointed.
It is also worth noting that, as Disney and Lucasfilm have attached great importance to and invested in the derivative works of “Star Wars” in recent years, they are looking for interesting story fragments in the new “Star Wars” world view works to fill the timeline of the main story. , seems to have become an important selling point deliberately created by IP holders and fans generally buy it. The story of this work is still in between “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith) and “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” , when the “Order 66” (Order 66) that slaughtered the Jedi was spreading, considering that works such as “The Mandalorian” (including the first generation of this series) in recent years have been continuously lengthening “66” The list of survivors of “Secret Order”, perhaps fans can report some expectations for possible surprises of “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor”.
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