Game Design: It is Very Simple For You To Fill In?

  Chapter 47 The Eternal Kingdom, Hallownest!

Games start.

  The dark background slowly rises its winding mist. In the dark game interface, there are two options.

   Classic Mode/Soul of Steel

   "Soul of Steel? Unlocked by first clearing the game?"

   "There is no resurrection, death is permanent."

   "Isn't this the same as the setting of Dead Cells, clearing the level with one life, I'm too familiar with this routine." Yinzi didn't care at all.

   Clear the level with one life? For Dead Cells players, this is all too familiar!

  From the moment you enter the game, the old melodious background music starts to sound, and the wind whistles continuously in the quiet darkness.

  【In the wilderness far away, when your name is mentioned, they are full of awe and regret,

   None can tame our savage souls, and you accepted the challenge,

   Under the palest gaze, you professor, we change, instinct is redeemed.

   You have brought worms and beasts worlds they never dreamed of. 】

  —From "Elegy for Hallownest" written by the teacher Monomon.

  Fluorescence flickered under the street lamp at the corner of the street, and the little knight walked out of the depths of the dust with a bone nail full of cracks on his back. He stood on the cliff where the cold wind was blowing, staring at the hazy city guided by the street lamp in the fog.

   Without hesitation, I jumped down!

  The picture became pitch black, and it took about two or three seconds for the color to reappear, as if passing through the boundless darkness.

   In the dark underground, there are fragmentary fluorescent lights illuminating the underground world.

boom!

  The little knight landed straight on the ground, making a heavy landing sound, bringing up falling rocks and startling countless underground flying insects.

   "MD, this background music gives me goosebumps!" Brother Yin couldn't help turning up the volume, the ethereal background music seemed to carry eternal sadness.

   "I saw someone ask before, how to evaluate whether a game is made with care." Yinzi closed her eyes, feeling the music full of loneliness.

   "Before I would talk about the graphics, game plot, and playability... Now, I will talk about his background music." The little knight in the screen stood there without moving.

"From the old thief's game to the present, you will find that his game bgm is very attentive." Yinzi laughed a little when he said this, "I am the most tortured by digging to survive, but the long-winded narration in the background is also a flower. I recorded a lot in my heart."

   "I've been looking forward to this game since the background music started playing." He took a deep breath and moved his character forward.

   "No map?" Yinzi walked all the way, and encountered a few small reptiles on the road, and it was easy to deal with them.

  Those reptiles are stupid, every blow will knock them back, but after knocking back, they will stubbornly crawl towards the established direction.

  In the dark underground, I wanted to see where I was going, but when I opened the map guide, I found darkness.

  When he confirmed many times that there was no map, the barrage was also a little confusing.

  ‘The old thief forgot to add a map? '

  ‘How is it possible, how can a game producer make such a low-level mistake? '

  ‘Trying around, you can always find the exit. '

  ‘The map of Dead Cells is reorganized, and it’s different every time. Didn’t everyone play like this? '

  …

  Maybe because they are familiar with Ye Feng's urine, the players quickly accepted the setting without a map.

   "I think everyone has been KFCed by the old thief. Did some designers dare not to release the map before?"

   "Then it hasn't been washed away by the players?" Yinzi groped for other areas of the game bit by bit by taking advantage of the faint fluorescent light in the underground world.

  During the game, he found that the mechanism of the game is very simple, probably because of the plane, there are no complicated operations.

  At present, there are only simple attacks and jumps.

  Even that attack was very simple, all he had to do was pick up the bone nail in his hand and gesture in front of him.

   This time, there is no blocking operation.

   "It's too simple, I'm telling the truth." Brother Yin frowned, those reptiles are really too simple.

   Occasionally, I encountered two small flies flying in the sky, but it was only two or three knives.

   Except that finding the way without a map was a bit more complicated, he didn't feel any difficulty.

   Hearing him complain, the barrage was also amused.

  ‘Old thief: You said that the game I made is very simple? (Dark twisted scream!)'

  ‘Old Thief: The good show is yet to come! '

  ‘Come on, last time you said something very simple to me, I was tortured to the point where I lost my mind. '

  ‘(╥╯^╰╥) Everyone can say it’s simple, but don’t just say it’s simple at the beginning, the handicapped party can’t stand it at all. '

  …

   Didn't explore for long, he finally found the way to Hallownest.

  The door leading to Hallownest has the pattern of beetles, old and heavy, and the cracked cracks reveal the white light coming in from the outside.

  With a bone nail in his hand, he split open the gate to Hallownest again and again,

  Through that gate, there is a cross-section road in front, and there are ancient carvings on the railings on the side of the road, and you can vaguely see the prosperity of the past.

  The lower part of the section is shrouded in hazy gray-white mist, making it impossible to see the way ahead.

  It seems that if you walk here, you will enter the territory of the king and the creator, where you will witness the last and only civilization, the eternal kingdom.

   Hallownest.

  The background music has disappeared, only the whistling wind.

  Brother Yin jumped off the cliff.

   There are no more reptiles and monsters blocking the way ahead, only street lights light up the way forward.

  Passing through a piece of ruined land, a decaying town appeared ahead, Dirtmouth.

  The quiet and melodious background music began to sound again, as if silently telling the history of this world.

  In the middle of the town, there is a bench with white souls bulging.

  Beside the bench, there stood a stooped elder worm, and the door of the worm's cave behind him was closed.

   "Hi, traveler. I'm afraid I'm the only one left to welcome you, and you can see that our town is very deserted now."

   "Others, they all disappeared. Go down this well and enter the caves below one by one." Elder Worm told us one sentence after another about the prosperity of this place and the wonders of the underground world.

   From his words we learn that there was once a great kingdom under the town.

  It's been a ruin for a long time, but it still attracts bugs to the depths.

  There is wealth, glory, enlightenment, and that deep darkness seems to contain countless possibilities.

   It's just there, with crazy, disgusting creatures stripped of their old memories.

   "The well on the right, right?" Although there is no map, in the conversation with the NPC, Yinzi also knows where to go next.

  The deep well not far to the right is lit with long bright lights, leading to the bottom of the deep well.

  Compared with the world above, the world under the deep well has a more refined and prosperous painting style.

  This is called the Forgotten Crossroads.

  Brother Yin is here, lost for an hour.

  (end of this chapter)