Far Cry + Stranger Things, Animal Crossing + Doom, what other interesting linkages are there in the game?

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The Far Cry 6 game disc has been sitting idle on my bookshelf for a few days.

The scenery of Yala is beautiful, but after the main storyline is completed, there is not much playable content in the game. But I’m going back to Yarra Adventure recently because I’m a big fan of Stranger Things after 3 seasons.

Some people may find it strange, what is the relationship between a TV series and a game? All I can say is that if I hadn’t watched all of Netflix’s hit TV series “Stranger Things” before, maybe this special mission “Mysterious Disappearance” wouldn’t have appealed to me so much.

The game has an 18.5G update. After entering the game, there will be two new special Yala missions: one is “The Vanishing” (mysterious disappearance), and the other is called “Blood Flow”.

The conditions for triggering the linkage in the game are very simple: after selecting “Special Yara Story”, the protagonist Danny will receive a call from Juan, saying that a group of teams with C4 bombs mysteriously disappeared recently, let Danny investigate, and then Follow the directions to go to a bunker and officially start the “Mysterious Disappearance” linked mission.

Since it is a linkage, “Mysterious Disappearance” not only imitates strange stories in animation, but the unique map of this mission also restores the “other world” in the TV series very well, and you can also see the giant spider-shaped monsters in the play.

The mission goal of “Mysterious Disappearance” is still to ask the protagonist to close the channel connecting the real world and the foreign world to prevent monsters from other worlds from running into reality. Although players can’t tear up the monsters in the TV series in the game, the route design of the mission level and the tension reflected in the final chase show the production team’s intention to complete this linkage with “Stranger Things”. Therefore, as a “Far Cry 6” player who has finished watching this show, I generally give this mission a good rating.

In contrast, the other linked mission with Rambo, “Blood in a River”, is more casual. This mission will not see the real John Rambo, and the mission design is only to let the player “use Rambo’s method” to execute an enemy officer, and the reward after completing the mission is a “bow and arrow used by Rambo” , the linkage task as a whole seems unremarkable, and there are no surprises.

“Rainbow Six” & “Rainbow Pony”

“Far Cry 6” is not the first game to be linked with a film and television series, nor will it be the last.

“Rainbow Pony” is a very popular American children’s fantasy animation, and “Rainbow Six: Siege” is a multiplayer tactical shooting game produced by Ubisoft. The two works have ” The word “rainbow” doesn’t seem to make people feel that there is any connection between them.

But it is Ubisoft after all. On April Fool’s Day in 2019, Ubisoft updated a new map and special skins for each operator in “Rainbow Six: Siege”.

The new map for this special event is actually the interior of a toy plane with ponies, flowers and stars painted on the walls. The colors inside are mainly purple, red, pink and other bright colors, and the background music has also been replaced by children’s animations. The cheerful tone of the film, I have to say that this is completely an indoor children’s playground.

The rescue object of the special event mission has also changed from an ordinary hostage to a kidnapped teddy bear. But I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional by the producer. I feel that the design of this teddy bear is a little too anthropomorphic, and when combined with its movements, it looks a little weird.

If it is said that the linkage between “Rainbow Pony” and “Rainbow Six: Siege” is really “nine and eight”, and it is too spoof, then the linkage of film and television games mentioned next obviously makes people feel a lot more reasonable.

Ghost Recon: Wilderness & Predator

Also produced by Ubisoft, “Ghost Recon: Wilderness” is also a tactical shooting game, telling the story of a “Phantom” team consisting of four people who went to Bolivia to fight the drug cartel “Santa Blanca”.

Later, Ubisoft updated a special mission for the game – “The Moving Jungle”. The enemy to be cleared in this mission is not a drug dealer, but a Predator from a classic movie “Predator”.

Thanks to the fact that “Ghost Recon: Wilderness” contains super-giant maps of various landforms such as plateaus, jungles, deserts, mountains, etc., the execution location of this special mission is also quite restored to the movie – in the depths of a jungle.

In addition to the environmental scenes, the lines and soundtrack also restore the content of the movie. For example, at the end, the Predator will self-destruct, and even players will say Schwarzenegger’s classic lines in the movie:

If it bleeds, that means we can kill it.

After successfully completing the mission “The Moving Jungle”, players can get a special piece of equipment – the Predator’s helmet.

“Jelly Bean: The Ultimate Knockout” & “Nier: Automata”

Compared with movies and games, because games and games belong to the same field, they are more laissez-faire when linked together. Even some of the original beautiful game characters have become somewhat unsightly after being adjusted by the “hand of God” of the production team.

Unfortunately, as a player of Monster Hunter: World and Nier: Automata, I’m well aware of the psychological distortions this behavior can cause players.

“Jelly Bean: Ultimate Knockout” is a multiplayer online knockout game developed by Meditonic that has attracted more than 1.5 million players within 24 hours of its release. During the same period, “Jelly Bean Man” reached 113 million viewers on live-streaming platforms Twitch and YouTube.

Excellent games must have excellent art blessings. Just like the name of “Jelly Bean Man”, the image controlled by the player in the game is indeed a jelly bean-shaped character. Under the action of the game’s physics engine, Jelly Bean’s naive actions are really ridiculous.

Such a simple and honest image must have a lot of friendly linkages with other game IPs, such as “Cup Head Jelly Bean Man”, “Unknown Goose Jelly Bean Man”, “Super Bomb Jelly Bean Man, etc.”. If the above-mentioned linkage really does not have a sense of disobedience, then the linkage between 2b and Jelly Bean Man really reflects the “maliciousness” of the production team.

2b is a female mechanical life form with silver hair, slender body and free and easy movements. As the protagonist of “Nier: Automata”, many players buy the game for its image design.

Interestingly, although 2b is a girl with a height of 168 cm and a weight of 300 catties in the official setting, her tall figure does not make people feel “violating”. However, in “Jelly Bean Man”, it is difficult for players to ignore 2b’s body setting.

The only thing that can give players comfort is that the “Extended Version 2b” still has agile and vigorous skills.

“Doom” & “Assemble! Animal Crossing

Generally speaking, game manufacturers choose a good release time for new games, which can often bring key advantages to new games in the early stage of release. Therefore, major game manufacturers will avoid the period when some games are released together.

However, the plan always fails to keep up with the changes. Nintendo originally wanted to release the “Collections!” in 2019. Animal Crossing, postponed to March 20, 2020. On the other side, id Software also accidentally announced that its new work “Doom: Eternal” was postponed from 2019 to March 20, 2020, and “Crash” on the same day as “Animal Crossing”. The “crash” on the release date of the game’s masterpiece was not a happy event, but this time the crash situation was completely different from what was expected.

“Assemble! Animal Crossing is a life simulation game. From the ESRB’s game rating of “E”, it can be seen that it is a game for “all ages”, while “Doom: Eternal” is properly rated as ” 18+”.

The reason for this “linkage” is actually that on February 17, a “Doom” player left a post on the Reddit section of “Animal Crossing Friends Club”, expressing the central idea: Although the two new games are in the same It was released today, but the Doom community absolutely supports Animal Crossing.

Of course, Animal Crossing fans also left friendly greetings in the Doom section. There are always infinite possibilities for a peaceful atmosphere, and then it is time to create the personality of the fans on both sides. It is worth mentioning that the officials of the two works did not actually link in the game, and only left comments on the other party’s official Twitter account.

But this did not affect the interaction of fans on both sides, and even players who were not originally from the Doom series expressed their desire to buy Doom: Eternal.

Perhaps after this civil linkage, “Assemble! Animal Crossing and Doom: Eternal will create a “maximally differentiated” player overlap.

Monster Hunter: World & more

In addition to landing on the host platform, the importance of the PC platform is also self-evident for many games, especially some games that can support various Mods (mods) modification, the most typical example is “The Elder Scrolls 5”. Most of the mods are made by private players, and the linkage can be called an official mod, and there are many games that can be called “linkage madness”.

After all, “Monster Hunter: World” (including “Iceland”) has been updated with seven special linkage missions since its release, which are related to “Street Fighter 5”, “Rockman”, “Horizon: Zero Dawn” and “Devil May Cry”. ”, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy, and Resident Evil 2 Re.

Among them, it is worth mentioning the linkage with Capcom’s own “Resident Evil 2 Re”. In addition to regular elements such as Leon and Claire’s hunter skin, the production team also added a receptionist skin “Tyrant”. .

The receptionist is the player’s assistant in “Monster Hunter: World”. He is affectionately called “Kanban Girl” by the player, and can be said to be the most familiar NPC in the game. But if you want to cater to Capcom’s bad taste one day, you can replace your Kanban girl with a “Kanban Tyrant” by paying.

In fact, I personally think that “Kanban Tyrant” may not be able to become the hunter’s assistant, but when Capcom was doing the linkage, it only replaced the appearance of the Kanban girl, and did not change the corresponding action settings, so that such an action appeared quite girlish. The tyrant is indeed a bit unacceptable.

Kingdom Hearts 3 & Disney

“Kingdom Hearts 3” is produced by Swirnix and can be regarded as a Disney movie of the game version, and the plot in it is an appropriate adaptation of the original movie. Characters who have a little face in the Disney universe will basically show their faces in “Kingdom Hearts 3”. Not only that, but the newly added “Super Marines”, “Toy Story”, “Tangled” and The English dubbing of “Frozen” is the original voice actor of the original Disney animation.

The true “King of Linkage”

I have talked about so many game linkages, but to say who is the real “King of linkage”, I think if “Fortress Night” considers itself second, then there should be no other games that dare to recognize first.

According to the statistics of the website Fnbr.co, so far, “Fortress Night” has launched a total of 1292 skins. In addition to some self-created skins, other skins are linked with well-known IPs of third-party manufacturers. There are other games, movies, animations, and sports. It’s just unexpected, and it can’t be linked without it, which perfectly interprets what is meant by “” Everything can be connected.”

In this era of increasingly developed multimedia entertainment, circles with different hobbies are gradually overlapping. It’s like “Assemble! Players of “Animal Crossing Friends Club” began to try a completely different type of game “Doom: Eternal”. The linkage between “Fortress Night” and major film and television works also allows related movie lovers to experience a game from their own hands. Put your favorite movie characters.

After all, from “listening” and “seeing” to “listening, watching, and doing”, it seems that there is only one more dimension of interactive experience, but the freshness brought to people can be unprecedented. If you are a fan of a certain movie IP, you might as well find out if there are game works linked to it, which should bring you a brand new experience.

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