Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

The whole game can be said that after defeating the evil omen demon, it can be said that the official entry into Stoneville City has ushered in the familiar taste.

As an open world, it can be said that while "Eldon's Circle" has brought surprises to many players, there is also a special feeling that it lacks a little flavor and feels a bit like a soul game.

Although the big tree guard at the beginning has become a refund teacher for countless players, when exploring the Dragon's Breath Land, he mistakenly entered Galid because of a trap treasure chest, and he was even more confused by abuse.

Or maybe some players found the right way and came to the Weeping Peninsula below Nimgford.

But this is an open-ended way of playing. Players feel more like they are playing traditional ARPGs, but the difficulty is a little higher. Three or five soldiers can kill themselves.

To be honest, this kind of big map-style exploration makes players feel that the content is very rich.

There is a lot of content that can be interactively explored, and there are some new discoveries almost everywhere.

Even on the map, such as Moen City on the Weeping Peninsula, players can still see soldiers from different camps fighting against each other.

If you go deeper, you will be able to understand the plot of this area, that is, the Weeping Peninsula was once the territory of the demihumans.

But it was conquered by Ge Fulei later, and then included in the sphere of influence of the golden family.

After the capture of Lower Moen City, the Golden Clan dispatched nobles and soldiers to rule here, and the residents of the border area also began to settle here.

Years later, due to experiments or the reproduction of different species, hybrid demi-humans were born here in the Weeping Peninsula. They have high intelligence and are dominated by the human nobles and soldiers here. They have become slaves of underground status and have been abused. .

With the shattering of Eldon's Circle and the weakening of the golden family, Greck in Stonewell City was unable to govern such a frontier castle, and over the years, the number of hybrid demi-humans who have been bred over the years has increased.

As the demi-human queen was hunted down by the local humans, a riot finally emerged.

As slaves, the hybrid demihumans rose up and fired the first shot of the border uprising.

The former servant raised his hatchet and began to resist. The traces of the battle can be seen everywhere. The bodies of Greck's personal soldiers fell to the ground, like purgatory. The bodies of countless soldiers and residents piled up in the open space in the city. Countless flies make it a dead city.

It can be said that from the point of view of the BOSS battle and the fragmented plot, players are very satisfied.

But as a soul game, there are still some things that players look forward to.

That is the design of the maze.

Various dungeons, although there are also organs, are still a little different from the places imagined by the players.

Aside from the plot and the difficulty of BOSS battles in Soul Games, the most anticipated place for players is the well-designed map.

The three-dimensional map in the prequel to the Black Soul, the intricate Yanan Village in the Curse of Blood Origin, and the Ashina Castle and the Palace of the Source in Sekiro.

With the unique mobs and various traps in the game, it can be said that these points are what players look forward to.

However, the wild maps and strongholds of "Ayrden's Circle" did not make players feel that subtle point.

Including the monsters in various ruins, aside from the treasures obtained through exploration, many players still feel that they are just separate piles of monsters.

In addition to brushing runes, and the beginning of the rise, in more cases, players ride their own spirit horses to avoid these difficult mobs.

But after arriving in Stoneville City, the various three-dimensional designs that run through it, as well as the clever elevators and shortcuts, as well as the traps that run through the Soul series, all made players shout, this feeling is back!

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After defeating the ominous demon, Malkit, the plot dialogue of the 'Miko' Melina was triggered, and Song Ren came to the blessing point of the big round table.

Here he met a new friend, a teacher who could teach him his prayers, but unfortunately he was a heroic knight.

I strengthened my weapon with the blacksmith, and by the way, I experienced Feiya's hug in the small room.

I have to say, this dead sleeping girl named Feiya is like Welfare Ji in the French Ring!

Song Ren never expected that there would be a hug.

The only thing that made him feel the pain of the egg was after the hug, probably because he was sucked, and the upper limit of health was inexplicably less.

In addition, there is the most painful point for Song Ren, that is, in the lobby on the first floor of the big round table, he was invaded by an NPC red spirit, and the red spirit holding a sickle, he was unable to fight back. .

Especially recruiting ashes, in the face of this Red Spirit BOSS, there is no way to use it.

Fortunately, before triggering this red spirit, he spent the rune on him.

"The next thing to do is to go to Stonewell City in the main storyline and find that limb."

After getting ready, Song Ren didn't mean to drag it on. He had just defeated the evil omen demon and he could say that he was full of confidence.

The Red Spirit of the Round Table Hall?

It was just an accident.

Passing through the gate to defeat the evil omen, behind is the gate of Stonewell City, where Song Ren met another NPC.

There was a small room with an open door in the broken city wall next to it. After entering, Song Ren saw a tall and pale NPC standing in the corner. He even had a huge shackle around his neck. Those who faded took the initiative to say hello.

‘Excuse me, the one over there… can you come here? ’

‘You are the fader, right? If you want to enter the city, I advise you not to enter through the main gate, but through the cave over there. No one else knows about that path except me. ’

Looking at the wretched NPC in front of him, out of his first instinct, Song Ren felt that this person was no fun.

"From the small road? There must be fraud!" Song Ren decisively chose to refuse.

'Okay... that's right, it's normal for you to be suspicious... I respect your choice, if you want to go in through the main door, I'll yell to open the door. ’

'... But think about it again, is this okay? I advise you to think about it carefully. ’

After thinking about it, Song Ren still came to the gate. After all, he only had more than 1,000 souls to die.

How big is it? And his intuition told him that this NPC must not be a good person.

However, as the door opened, Song Ren's brows furrowed.

Because bloodstains won't deceive people, Song Ren saw countless bloodstains on the road ahead, no less than the one guarded by the big tree when he just went out.

"How did these people die?" Song Ren also had some curiosity in his heart as he controlled the character to run over.

'Whoosh whoosh...'

There was a cracking sound in his ears, and Song Ren soon understood how these people died.

Crossing the big intersection of the corner, a group of soldiers are standing there, and there are hidden ballistas on the high walls on both sides.

Without reacting at all, he was shot into a hedgehog by a crossbow.

"So, this guy is really a good person!?"

The resurrection came out of the bonfire and returned to the room again. The previous NPC was gone.

At this time, Song Ren also felt a little guilty.

He misunderstood a nice NPC!

Thinking about it carefully, when he first went to the church when he played Bloodborne, didn't he also regard the weird old lady in red as a bad person?

With this feeling of guilt, he walked along the seemingly safe path, but Song Ren soon felt that full of soul flavor.

The path is remote and narrow, and there is a black eagle wielding sharp claws here, who often hides in the woods to give him a trick.

Here, Song Ren learned to press the lock button at all times.

Entering the small attic, the soldiers in the distance will throw flames, and those wooden barrels that look like barricades will explode directly, making him feel full of malice.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. What really made him feel helpless was when he was looking for a key, he was stabbed in the back!

"So the key should be here, right?" Entering a small dark room where he could not see his fingers, Song Ren found the treasure chest hidden in the corner at a glance.

However, before he could run over to pick it up, he heard a strange laughter coming from behind him.

"Hey hey hey hey..."

In addition to this eerie laughter, there was also a clanging sound that made him despair.

The entrance door is closed!

At the same time, there was a sound of metal colliding in the corner in the other direction. Pressing the enemy search button, Song Ren silently swallowed.

There, a knight in silver-white armor and holding a sword and a shield was eyeing him.

"Grass! Who is it!"

As the knight emptied his health bar, Song Ren couldn't help but scolded.

More than 10,000 runes have not been consumed yet!

Resurrected from the resurrection point, and moved forward cautiously. As long as a little blood was lost, Song Ren would drink the blood bottle to ensure his own safety.

Because if he dies again, then the rune is really gone.

After overcoming obstacles all the way, he finally came to the small black room on the second floor again. Song Ren entered tremblingly, but to his surprise, the door of the small black room was not closed again this time.

But what made him even more dazed happened.

"Grass! Who stole my money!? How much less than three thousand!"