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Chapter 516: The Potential of Ancient Games
Even with the explosion of technology and the prevalence of virtual stealth games, games like Tetris and Candy Crush Saga are still among the most popular games.

The reason is simple. These games have a very long history, and their playability has been tested for nearly a hundred years. To this day, whether you are a shoujo game enthusiast or a fighting game fanatic, you will enjoy playing a game of Candy Crush or Tetris for a long time.

If you lose one or two games, you might get addicted and play all day. These old games are simple in rules, easy to get started, and you can quickly gain a sense of accomplishment.

In order to pay tribute to these classics, it is normal to add these mini-games into puzzle games. Sometimes even monsters will have similar little easter egg mechanisms.

There are many such monsters in "Godlock".

For example, there is a kind of Super Golem, whose shell has resistance to all attributes. Any attribute attack will remain on the surface of the shell and be thrown out when the Super Golem attacks, turning it into a very stomach-breaking barrage attack.

Of course, you can use physical attacks, but monsters like Gram don't have any fancy abilities, they are just hard. Any melee weapon that hits them will make your hands numb, and the feel is quite bad.

Furthermore, using physical attacks will cause this Mega Golem to randomly generate attributes attached to the surface, and then throw the attributes out to launch a barrage of bullets.

When this Super Grimm appeared, it was ranked in the top ten most shitty monsters, and it was asking for trouble when it started fighting.

Until a player accidentally discovered the mechanism of this Super Golem. The same elements attached to the shell of the Super Golem will be connected together, and more than three will cause a powerful explosion.

Match three or more blocks of the same color to eliminate them. The fire attribute is red, the water attribute is blue, the wind attribute is cyan, and so on. Physical attacks above a certain level can just move an element to be attached... Isn't this Candy Crush?
Once this design was discovered, Grem, who was named Candy Crush, instantly became the new favorite of players. Even if you have reached the maximum level, you will still play Candy Crush as if to reminisce.

After all, failure or mistakes in ordinary Candy Crush Saga are just like that, but in this Candy Crush Saga, once you fail or make a mistake, you will be smashed into a meat patty. During the Candy Crush Saga, you will be drowned in the barrage of comments if you are not careful. It is really exciting.

The only pity is that in the Candy Crush Saga, Greem's health bar is too thin, and the game ends after a short while, so many players have requested to lengthen Greem's health bar.

For many players, these little easter eggs are very interesting and are small surprises in trivial life.

Is there any old game that you took as the core mechanism design?

【Snake】 is an extremely simple but highly playable battle game. Two or more players play as several short snakes, which grow in size by eating beans.

The special thing about this game is that it is BE, which means bad ending. No matter how terrible the snake grows, the final ending is self-destruction.

This is the end of the greedy snake.

There's a sense of energy in and out of this game, as if telling the game maker that it wants to become some kind of monster.

The underlying logic of all snake monsters in "Godlock" was born from this, namely infinite growth, shedding, and swallowing, which is simply called "Snake".

However, not all snake monsters can bring out the characteristics of [Greedy Snake], which is influenced by the reference prototype. For example, only pythons that rely on their bodies to strangle the opponent will be more inclined to grow their bodies, while venomous snakes that rely on toxicity do not need to grow their bodies.

Of course, if a monster is incredibly large and has the strongest toxicity, it can be directly described as a poisonous super python...

The designer would only seriously defend himself, saying that first of all, it was a sea snake, and secondly, its race was strictly speaking a giant. It was a god-like existence, so don't worry about it.

In the process of infinite growth, molting and swallowing, the most important thing is molting. In the real world, snakes shed their skin not only for growth, but also to remove parasites and bacteria, keep the skin clean and healthy, and repair wounds and scars to restore the integrity and beauty of the skin.

In other words, [Shedding] can also be considered a recovery skill. Even ordinary snake monsters can use the [Shedding] skill to restore more than half of their health in one go.

As the level of the snake monster increases, the proficiency of [Shedding] increases, and finally breaks through the limit, turning into a second health bar, a second chance, or even rebirth.

"Is the setting of snake so shameless?"

Blaze closed his eyes and began to wonder whether the Yamata no Orochi had the damn ability to [shed its skin].

Is there? Is there no?

The more he recalled, the more vague Blaze's memory became. Although the Hunter had discovered the skills of the Yamata no Orochi, he first observed the output skills.

Skills like [Heavenly Sword] look scary, so you have to take a closer look. If you look at it more, you won't have time.

Monsters at the level of Yamata no Orochi can sense the behavior of the other party to identify their attributes, and they are extremely sensitive.

"But this is just right. The last time I defeated it, it didn't even give me any materials."

"Aren't you very proud to say that you used the warehouse method to defeat the opponent's regeneration ability?" Although Chicken did not participate in that battle, Blaze recounted it word for word.

When talking about the Yamata no Orochi's shameless self-healing ability to reattach its broken tail to its body and continue using it, Blaze patted his chest proudly and said that he used the method of storing the broken tail in a warehouse to make the Yamata no Orochi's tail shorter and shorter.

"Well, the tail of the Yamata no Orochi is too big to be put directly into the warehouse, so I cut it into smaller pieces, so..."

Blaze was thinking, one of the tails of the Yamata no Orochi contains the divine sword Ame Murasaki, and there are seven tails, so does that mean there are seven divine swords?

As a result, he was severely tricked. Ame Murasaki was a weapon that would only drop after defeating the Yamata no Orochi, and what he peeled off during the battle could only be considered as materials.

[Ancient snake meat with bone fragments]

[Snake meat is full of the vitality of snakes. After being made into a simple dish, only one bite can satisfy the energy consumption of an adult's strenuous exercise for a whole day. Be careful of the bone spurs when eating. If you are stabbed, it will cause internal bleeding.]

Judging from the name, it is a consolation prize used to make up the numbers, or an ordinary prop that pollutes the prize pool and reduces the probability of winning the grand prize.

"I cut off seven tails, and this is what I get?"

Blaze couldn't help but clench the piece of meat in his hand, and then a light shone in his palm.

“Hmm! What is this!?”

(End of this chapter)