Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Lying on top of the animus, a sound similar to electric current came from Song Ren's ear, and the next moment his eyes went black.

A burst of something similar to data appeared in front of Song Ren.

He is no stranger to this either, this is obviously the world of animus.

Then along with the cutscene, Song Ren found himself in a laboratory-like place.

A young man in a white shirt sat up from the animus.

Song Ren recognized it at a glance. This young man was Desmond, the protagonist in the first promotional film about animus in Assassin's Creed.

'My name is Desmond Miles, and I am a prisoner of this war...'

After that, Desmond's inner confession sounded in Song Ren's ear, which gave him some understanding of some of Desmond's background.

The Desmond in front of him was born in the Assassin family, but he always felt that the so-called Assassins and the Templars were just fictions of his parents' generation, so he could no longer bear to leave the family and went to New York, and became an ordinary person incognito. bartender.

However, when he got his motorcycle driver's license, he registered his real identity information, which led to the Templars discovering his identity as an assassin, and was directly kidnapped, forcing him to return to his past ancestors through animus, to find the The whereabouts of the Hallows of Eden.

Of course, these were all things Desmond learned from a master Assassin named Altaïr who had previously possessed them.

It turned out that the grievances between the Templars and the Assassin organization have been going on for thousands of years until now.

Now the power of the Templars has penetrated into all aspects of politics, economy, culture and so on.

The same Assassin forces have been fighting against the Templars.

Lying on top of the animus, Song Ren experienced the feeling of a baby being born, and then with the help of Lucy, it was an escape scene.

It wasn't long, and Desmond was still invincible without a health bar.

Compared with the original version, Chen Xu has slightly strengthened the plot of this section to make it more in line with the plot.

After all, although the main purpose is to let players understand the general situation of the modern timeline, and act as a beginner's tutorial to tell players how to attack and run.

But in the original plot, Desmond and Lucy escaped too easily.

It couldn't even be said to be escaping, but he came out with punches and kicks, and by the way, Desmond showed off a wave of eagle eyes.

So Chen Xu aimed at the modern line and made this escape plot slightly more realistic.

Shrinking in the trunk and the screen went black for a few seconds, Song Ren and Lucy came to the new base, and lay down on the machine again under the arrangement of Lucy and others.

What he has to do now is to search for the memories of his ancestors through the genes in his blood.

Use the bleeding effect to learn the Assassin's skills as quickly as possible, and find the whereabouts of the Hallows of Eden one step ahead of the Templars.

"It's finally about to start!" Song Ren looked forward to seeing Desmond lying on top of the animus.

The plot of the previous modern line, although he has been operating it, is obviously completely different from the game experience he imagined.

Lying on the chair, with a needle-like thing inserted into his arm, the picture in front of Song Ren began to blur, and then turned into countless fragments of light and shadow.

The surrounding things like data fragments are constantly being reorganized, and the buildings are assembled one by one.

At the same time, the lens is slowly pulled up.

One of Song Ren's perspectives has also become God's perspective.

After the emergence of architecture, countless data have formed human beings.

Then, as the data was generated, the whole world began to slowly move.

'Wow! ' An eagle croak came from the sky.

Later, only sporadic data could be seen on the sky, and pedestrians who had been standing still on the streets and alleys began to move and chat, just like a real world.

Florence during the Renaissance, as well as various peculiar buildings, came into Song Ren's eyes.

With more and more pedestrians on the street, a line of subtitles appeared in Song Ren's field of vision.

'Florence: AD 1476'

In the end, Song Ren's camera came to a young man who was giving a speech in Italian.

'We are united! ’

'Quiet, my friend, be quiet! ’

'thanks. ’

'Do you know why we are here tonight? ’

'It's an honor! Vieri insulted my family's reputation and imposed his misfortune on us, if I...'

Facing a group of strong men, the young man was giving a speech, but someone interrupted his words soon.

'Stop talking nonsense! idiot! ’

At the other end of the intersection, the same young man walked over with a group of people with a look of anger.

'good night ah! Vieri, we are talking about you! ’

‘It surprised me to see you here, I thought the Patches would just hire other people to do dirty things. ’

The young man who started the speech looked at the other party with contempt and said.

'Every time you are in trouble, your family will only call for guards, cowards! Afraid to handle things on your own? ' Vieri responded.

'Your sister seems to be very satisfied with the 'treatment' I gave her before! ' The young man who gave the speech said with a frivolous smile.

This is Ezio from the promotional video.

Is this the Assassin Master?

How do you feel like an old gangster! ?

Listening to Ezio's words, Song Ren was still a little confused.

If there is any character he looks forward to most in the game, then it is Ezio.

After all, the previous promotional video was too handsome.

But now that I have just entered the game, how can this Ezio look like a rogue, and he is still a rogue!

It's really a big difference.

How did the white-robed assassin who promised not to have feelings for him become an old-fashioned gangster?

With the stone thrown by Vieri smashing Ezio's forehead, the next step is a common game teaching level, teaching a player a more detailed combat mode.

Compared to a combat system in the previous "Assassin's Creed".

Chen Xu has carried out a richer treatment in this area.

Such as parry and block, as well as rolls, grapples, and the killstreak system that was later added to the Brotherhood.

The combat elements in the game are still very rich, such as block, counterattack, and combos according to the attack frequency.

Especially the execution performance after the counterattack made Song Ren feel very cool.

But what Song Ren liked the most was to grab the enemy, and then use his knee to make an egg explosion.

Not too difficult a fight.

The only thing that worries him is that it is still unclear what the difficulty of the game is.

After all, under Nebula Games, games like this that don’t have difficulty options are generally more painful.

Although there are exceptions, such as the previously released "Red Dead Redemption: Redemption".

But this Assassin's Creed seems to have a certain action element.

But even if Song Ren was a little scared, he still had to play.

The previous episodes have no special meaning, but mainly explain Ezio's interpersonal and background relationships.

What surprised Song Ren was the parkour competition with his brother Federico next.

Compared with "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", the climbing in "Assassin's Creed" is more inclined to "Uncharted".

Walls, as well as houses, have specially designed stress points that can be climbed.

However, compared to "Uncharted Sea", the climbing in "Assassin's Creed" is more smooth, just like parkour, there is no need to stop, as long as the route that can be advanced is arranged.

Running in the streets of Florence, climbing the beams, and finally reaching the top of the cathedral, Ezio stood with his brother overlooking Florence.

At this time, the background music called 'Ezio\'s Family' sounded in Song Ren's ears, and it appeared in his field of vision with the logo of the moonlight "Assassin's Creed".

The beautiful melody in his ears, along with Florence under the moonlight, made Song Ren intoxicated.

Of course, such an intoxication was quickly broken by the next conversation between Ezio and his brother.

Facing the inquiries from his brother to come home, Ezio turned his gaze to a house not far away.

Suddenly, the older brother in front of him knew what his younger brother was thinking.

'Ezio! Give Christina a good night's sleep! ’

'There will be enough time for her to sleep later. ’

Song Ren: ? ? ? ? ? ?

Whose assassin is like this!

Is this really the handsome white-robed assassin in the promotional trailer?

The current Ezio is too unreasonable, isn't it?

But it's okay, it's so unreasonable, in the plot, Mr. Chen shouldn't send a knife.

Although it seems that the theme of the Templars and Assassins is heavy, it is only the theme.

Thinking of his brother just now, and Christina, who has not yet met, Song Ren also smiled in the game, quite a relaxed and pleasant feeling of "Uncharted".