While we’ve always ridiculed Konami for not trying to get ahead – and of course there’s some truth to that – they’ve really been working on it in recent years.
For example, they dug out their old game “Moon Wind Demon” from decades ago and made it into a meat pigeon. The unique ukiyo-e art style made this game a lot of popularity at the beginning of its announcement;
“Moon Wind Demon: Immortal Moon”
Another example is last year’s multimedia idol project “Shine Post”. Although the main body is still a mobile game, Konami has brought in investment after a long time and started an original animation;
The animation was officially broadcast on July 12, but no one seems to pay attention to it in China
Another example is that they recently turned out their own big IP “Yu-Gi-Oh” and made a new game called “Y-Gi-Oh Cross Duel”, which supports official Chinese. .
The official Chinese translation of Cross Duel is “cross duel”, which is weird, but since the title of the game is still written in big English, let’s just call it CD.
The official Chinese language should be great news for domestic players, but unfortunately, the discussion of CD is not as high as one-tenth of “Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel” in China. The reason is probably that the game is currently only available in a few regions such as Hong Kong servers. The Android side needs to go through the Google Play channel, and the ios side needs to register an account. As for why only so many regions are listed, no one can understand.
When I turn on my android device, this prompt pops up
Entering the game, the system will throw you four options to roughly estimate how much you know about the series. But please forget your inherent knowledge of Yu-Gi-Oh. Because in the CD, all the techniques and strategies you have mastered before, the memory of the card effects is meaningless. In this new rule, everything starts from scratch.
There are 4 players in each game, which can be understood as a 1V3 game mechanism. The three monster areas you own correspond to the left, center, and right players’ battle lines, respectively. Placing a monster into the battlefield will automatically advance, and it will automatically fight when encountering an enemy. The one with the highest attack power wins.
After the battle, the winning monster is restored to its original shape – kind of like the health mechanic of the creature cards in Magic: The Gathering. When your monster advances to the enemy’s territory, it will deal HP damage to the opponent. After 8 turns, the one with the higher remaining HP wins.
Of course, the CD also contains the tactical strategies of magic and trap cards, but the release timing, usage scenarios and text effects are completely different from the previous “Yu-Gi-Oh”, and there are some original cards in the CD, which look novel.
“Game King” players must not understand what “not moving” means
The monsters with various designs in “Yu-Gi-Oh” are all turned into whiteboards in the CD, and no longer enjoy different effects. If you don’t like Axe Wars, you can spend the corresponding skill fragments to upgrade your monsters, strengthen their attributes, and even make them learn skills. For example, the blue-eyed white dragon, described as the “Legendary Dragon” in the introduction text of OCG, has an impressive 3000 attack power in the CD, and a very good destructive skill.
“A legendary dragon known for its high attack power, it can crush any opponent. Its destructive power is immeasurable”
Although the game’s mechanics and gameplay completely subvert the traditional “Yu-Gi-Oh”, Konami has honestly added historical animation elements to the game. From the first generation that everyone is most familiar with, to the recent seventh generation, and the eighth generation is probably still serialized and has not been implemented into the game.
Hairstyles are getting weirder
Friends who are familiar with “Yu-Gi-Oh” should know that starting from the 7th generation, the gameplay of the game has been different from before. You can see Yu My Ace standing side by side with the other 6 protagonists. In a sense, this is the only game that starts from scratch.
The card face design after the 7th generation is very different from the traditional
Since there are so many popular characters appearing, don’t waste their popularity. Konami has specially built a favorability function for the game. Team up with your favorite characters to duel to increase your trustworthiness and unlock special voices. How to say some voices… quite otome.
Unsurprisingly, the most popular videos about CDs on station B are the unlocking conditions for each character and the collection of special voices.
Of course, this is the video after the game goes live. In August last year, there was a closed beta event on CD, and I didn’t participate because of the trouble, but from the monster summoning animation that flowed out at that time, it really was more in line with the sexual fetish of a poker player than how to attack a man.
Not only the ace monsters of the protagonists of the past dynasties, but in the CD, each monster has its own 3D modeling. The number of monsters may not be many, but the fineness of the model and the small performances in some details are much better than the “Duel Link” also developed for Konami. I especially like the attack performance of “Hot Archer”. In the animation, this monster will miss the arrow because the arrow in his hand is too hot. In the CD, a small modeling is used to restore this setting of the animation. . It’s a pity that I didn’t record it in time, and I can only aggrieved you to take a look at the cute black magic girl.
However, what does not match the sincere special effects and modeling is the level of focus on the game. Let’s not say that the game is too livery and kryptonite for the time being, the card draw pool was temporarily closed on July 12 for unknown reasons, and it was not finally repaired until the afternoon of the 14th. The first time I saw a mobile game that didn’t allow players to draw cards for two days, I really thought that the game would stop after two days.
Considering that CDs suddenly landed on the mobile platform silently, the rotten operation seems to be somewhat reasonable.
There were a lot of big things that happened last Thursday. For example, when the CD was suddenly put on the shelves, everyone quickly got up in the middle of the night to try it out;
For example, that day was the birthday of Yuxing Fudo, the protagonist of “Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS”. Everyone got up early and rushed to the Twitter of the voice actress Miyashita Yuya to celebrate collectively;
Another example was the sad news of Takahashi-sensei’s death that afternoon.
CD’s current gaming experience may not be satisfactory, but this is also a rare innovative step. The creator of Yu-Gi-Oh is no longer there, but the works he left behind are still moving forward, being developed, and loved by players all over the world.
Teacher go well. -CaesarZX
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