Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Just like the original "Dark Soul", after the prequel of the first fire era was released.

There are also many players who are also complaining and complaining online.

As for the main content of the complaint, it's basically the fact that the campfire can't teleport.

"Ah, I vomited! Why can't the bonfire in this work be teleported? I'm trapped in the village of Bingbing!"

"It's the same! I'm lost, and I can't find my way back to the fire shrine!"

"Yes yes, lost +1! So why cancel the campfire!"

"Cough, I want to explain here. The bonfire has not been cancelled. After the king's city is reached, the teleportation can be started after seeing Princess Sun and getting the royal equipment."

"I also read that guide post, I have to say that Princess Sun is really big!"

"Oh, this big one has a little something!"

"Hey, it's average, not much stuff."

"But one thing to say, when fighting the witch Krag of Chaos, the animation is simply too exciting, I can't hold it!"

"Fuck! Brother has a good appetite, you can't control the spider body below!"

"Don't make the building crooked, you LSPs, isn't this discussion about the bonfire!"

"To be honest, I wasn't used to it without the bonfire at first, but then I discovered that the map design in "Dark Souls: The Age of First Fire" is simply amazing, with all kinds of routes extending in all directions."

"+1, Chuanhuo Sacrificial Field is connected to the Undead Town outside the city, the ruins of Little Longde, the underground cemetery and other places, it is simply rich!"

"Yeah, Mengxin can go and see the map and strategy of the online boss. Although there is no teleportation, there are various shortcuts, so it is quite easy to get on the road."

"That's right, don't believe those who say that the best experience is to keep the original flavor without reading the guide. "Dark Souls" is not a plot-oriented game, and the first week is the most enthusiastic time. Look at the guide and avoid detours. , don't leave any regrets for your first fire-passing journey!"

"+1 is just after reading the guide, so I can save my Suo from going crazy!"

"The map and strategy of the boss, there is a hammer! The bosses have already wrestled with the famous bosses such as the tomb king Nite, the witch, and Artelis, and I am still suffering in the sick village!"

As a sequel, many players already understand what kind of game "Dark Souls" is.

So although there are many players complaining, there are also more players maintaining.

And with the experience, many players have also discovered the subtlety of the game map, and more and more players have praised it.

At the same time, on the game community platform and major live broadcast platforms, the prequel game "Dark Soul: The Age of First Fire" has also completed various screen-swiping feats.

After all, it is a hard-core abused attribute label, which can be said to be quite explosive for the effect of live broadcast.

Coupled with the blessing of the popularity of the previous work.

Although Dark Souls: Age of First Fire is more difficult than its predecessors.

However, the performance in terms of sales is quite good, with domestic sales of 2.4 million copies in the first week and overseas sales of 3.1 million copies in the first week.

And the popularity of related topics is also very explosive, far exceeding the performance of sales data.

Chen Xu was not surprised by this.

After all, no matter what, Dark Souls itself is still a **** game.

This is also doomed, that is, most players will choose to watch rather than play by themselves.

Even if the difficulty curve of the game is reasonable, as long as you insist that most players can pass the level.

But persistence is a difficult thing in itself.

However, for players who really like the game of Dark Souls, especially some players who pay attention to the plot, it is a carnival.

Because "Dark Soul: The Age of First Fire" better complements the world view of Dark Soul.

At the same time, many players' doubts have been answered.

Of course, because of the characteristics of the game itself, there is no real answer. Players mostly rely on various blank spaces in the game to make up their own minds. It can be said that everyone has a "Dark Soul" in their minds. Different people have different interpretations.

In the game, should we spread fire or put out fire?

This question permeates the entire game.

This is the confusion in every player's heart.

From the perspective of the content of the game, players can actually feel that the flame goes out and this will be the final outcome.

Because in "Dark Soul: The Age of First Fire", if the player chooses to spread the fire, they can see that the first fire at this time is like a huge stove sun.

But in the previous work, if the player chooses to pass the fire at the end, there will be only a small cluster of flames.

It can be seen that if you continue to spread the fire, the flame will be extinguished one day.

Also, many players have different opinions on whether the fire spread is a scam or not.

In addition to simply believing that the rumor was a Gwen hoax, or that it was not a Gwen hoax, there were also players who made bold assumptions.

In the plot animation at the beginning, it is introduced that four characters have obtained the king's soul. In addition to the three well-known gods, the sun king Gwen, the witch of Izaris, and the tomb king Nite, there is also a little-known god. dwarf.

The fundamental bureau speculates that this dwarf is likely to be the ancestor of humans.

What the three of Gwen obtained was the king soul, so is it possible that the fire that the dwarves obtained was the dark soul, and later this dark soul was distributed to many humans, which is one of the reasons why the dwarves did not participate in the war .

In "Dark Souls: The Age of First Fire", you can see the introduction to human nature:

[If the soul is the root of all life, what is the humanity that only human beings have? 】

This can also see some hints that human nature is the soul of darkness.

What is the power of the dark soul?

Here it can be boldly assumed that Dark Souls is inextricably linked to the Abyss.

The dark magic in the game, as can be seen from the description, is mixed with strong human emotions.

Anger, sadness, love, jealousy, greed, it is this strong emotion that strengthens the originally pure soul energy.

And this may be the true power of Dark Souls - strong emotions, or desires.

Through the introduction of Manus' soul, we can also get a glimpse of one or two. Manus was once a strong man, but now his soul is full of humanity, and it is sticky like a polymer of humanity.

It can be guessed that the power that the Dark Soul bestows on human beings stems from the power that human beings long for in the depths of their hearts.

It is precisely because of this that the fragments of the Dark Soul are called human nature.

Both the gods and the dwarves feared that the Dark Souls would spin out of control and create an abyss.

So they used the first fire to set up the seal of fire, spread the power of the first fire throughout the world, and at the same time spread the seal of fire to every human being.

And this reincarnation is like a curse, forever haunting humans with dark souls.

But one day the fire will be extinguished, so the kings each began to seek solutions.

Gwen, the king of the gods, set an example to be the first to spread fire, and sacrificed himself to maintain the age of fire and maintain the seal of fire. It was precisely to suppress the rampage of the dark soul, the witch wanted to create the first fire, but was swallowed by chaos and became the source of the devil. .

But just like the overthrow of decaying dynasties and the establishment of new dynasties in ancient times, the original dragon slayers turned into evil dragons over time. After countless years, the Protoss used undead to spread fire, but they did not want to curb the runaway of the dark soul. The appearance of the abyss is simply to maintain the eternal existence of the Protoss.

Of course, after some players put forward these ideas, there are new doubters.

And you can always find solid information.

In the major game forums, in order to prove that their opinions and endings are correct, soulists study every word and every punctuation in the game through various data.

As for ordinary players, they are just watching the fun. What kind of plot is orthodox?

For a thousand undead, there are a thousand stories about the world of Dark Souls.

What is the plot in the end, each player has their own understanding.

And compared to the main storyline of the game, the characters that appear in the prequel are what makes players immersed in the game and moved.

The first Sun Knight Solar in the game to help the player.

Like the player, Solar also came to seek the mission of the undead. He praised and worshipped the sun, and hoped to shine like the sun.

But the difference from the player is that in one of the bad endings, if the conditions are not met, Solar can get the news after going crazy and killing him. His equipment is just ordinary equipment and has no magical power, and the sun above it is just a painting. When he went up, he continued to move forward entirely by his own tenacity.

And if good conditions are reached, the shortcut to the abandoned city of Izaris is opened in advance, and all the sun bugs are killed in advance, which can save Solar, and after that, although Solar seems discouraged, he becomes discouraged. elder brother.

But in the end, it can be learned that Solal is still reinvigorated, and completes the mission of the undead with the player and challenges Gwen at the end.

A pose that praises the sun, it can be said that Rhodeland's most dazzling existence.

In addition, in order to save Urasilu and the whole world, who are constantly being swallowed by the abyss, Artelis, who signed a contract with the monsters in the abyss to gain the ability to walk freely in the abyss, and fought against the abyss with the power of one person.

Jin Shining, who killed the fire-proof girl, was inspired by the protagonist to rise to fight, but he became a frustrated brother who became a living corpse in the Ruins of Little Lund.

White Spider Soft Girl, Cragg, Onion Brother, Gwendelin...

It can be said that every NPC and BOSS have a touching story behind them.