"Elin" is perhaps one of my most anticipated games this year, it is not an exaggeration.
In fact, there is very little information about this game. There is only one developer at this stage, and artists and translators are still looking for. The game does not have a multiplayer mode, and even if it can support MOD, you have to wait until the game is released. The reason I look forward to
is that the developer Noa once launched the independently developed fan game "Elona" in 2006. This game has simple graphics, inconvenient operation, and extremely unfriendly to novices, but the freedom and system complexity of the game are far above those of games such as The Elder Scrolls 5. And "Elin" is its prequel.
Open world sandbox games are the trend in recent years. Aside from the longer history of "Radiation", "The Elder Scrolls" and "GTA", the recent "Final Fantasy 15" has also followed this wave. However, due to the positioning of the 3A masterpiece, both the pursuit of high-quality game graphics and the embedding of a high-degree-of-freedom game system will be restrained regardless of the development cost or the realization of the gameplay. So some independent development teams and even independent developers have moved in another direction: minimize the demand for graphics and art, use limited or reusable materials to implement a complex but fun game system. "Elona" is one of the representatives.
"Elona" wears the skin of a Japanese RPG, but it is not a linear narrative RPG, but an open world sandbox game. After the player chooses the gender, race, occupation and enters the game at the beginning, he can start to release himself.
Of course, you can play traditional occupations such as warfare, animal husbandry, fighting monsters and leveling, doing tasks and navigating the maze, just like a normal RPG; you can also choose to become a farmer, a pianist or a tourist without fighting at all. Life skills to improve your character level; you can buy a house, hire a few maids, and play the game as a simulated business, because the real estate will also bring a fixed income; you can also take a poke ball out to catch pets, and you can catch hundreds of pets Species, animals and plants, ghosts and monsters, even old men, girls, can be caught-even you can have sex with anyone or any creature in the game, your pet is also OK, whether it is a PY transaction or a lure and kill, it's up to you . The game also provides the second-week mesh inheritance: as long as the person who has sex with you can get your genetic factor. The most brilliant setting of the
game is undoubtedly the world view. In the game, "Ethereum Wind" regularly invades the world, and all characters including players have "Ethere Disease". This is a special disease that causes "physical changes". It will get worse every once in a while, and the symptoms are different. You can only take antibody drugs regularly to eliminate the symptoms. Symptoms include ulceration of the face, enlarged head, longer eyes, and feet turned into hooves. These diseases will bring certain attribute bonuses or negative effects-like this kind of insightful game settings abound in the game.
and lead the player to complete the novice tutorial character "Romias", the most representative of the spirit of this game. He taught you how to eat, but the food he handed you was a beggar’s corpse; he taught you to dig gold bars, but the identification was "cursed and very worthless rusty forged gold bars"; finally you lifted the curse, He will suddenly throw 3 mobs named "Ball Ball", some novice players may be killed directly here; not to mention that you will be taught to unlock the lock but will not tell you that your skill level is not enough, and now you can't play at all. open. The
game's death method is also strange: starved to death without food, trapped to death without sleeping, carried overweight and crushed to death, sex too much to death, and even just playing the piano is too ugly, and it is caused by passers-by. Smashed...
Yes, this game is so free and fun. If the screen is not so simple, the operation is not so inconvenient, and the novice is not so cruel, maybe the audience can be wider. And this is the most exciting part of this "Elin". This time, the new effect is on the Unity engine. Compared with the 3A masterpiece, the screen is still very "sketch", but compared to "Elona" it is a qualitative leap. Not to mention that this time it also supports mouse operation, and the UI design is much more convenient and easy to use than the original version.
In fact, there was news that a 3D version of "Elona" was about to be released a few years ago, and even screenshots of the game came out, but in 2014, the artist Noa's long-term cooperation with the author passed away, which caused a great blow to the author. Game development It was suspended for a while, and there was no news of resuming development until last year.
It has been confirmed that the story will come to "Elona" hundreds of years ago, but due to many technical and artistic changes this time, the author has limited energy alone. The game map temporarily only has a village and its surroundings, and the game mechanism has also changed accordingly. According to the official log, the current gameplay is more similar to "Random Story" and "Rune Workshop". But judging from the video released so far, many interesting features of the previous game have been retained. The
game has a paper doll system that can be adjusted freely, many optional actions, and the riding system, pet system, construction system, etc. are also there. The most interesting is the "any door". It seems that players only need to "install" their house door on any wall and open it to enter their private house.
"Elin" is expected to land on Steam in the form of early access in 2017. How will this new "3D light and shadow upgrade" work? I look forward to it.
