"God Dance Fantasy" DLC "Gentleman's Heart" review: the gentleman is not looking for food

When we mention God Dance Fantasy, what comes to mind? An expansive worldview, elaborate game mechanics, or intricate character relationships?

But when I started this free DLC "Gentleman's Heart", I found that the production team of "God Dance Fantasy" chose a different way, they tried to do a subtraction.

In this era, we always seem to see some games blindly doing addition, the original reasonable game system, framework and content constantly piled up and filled in subsequent works, until the entire game becomes bloated and difficult to do, and finally push it down again.

The overall idea of the production team of "God Dance Fantasy" is unusually clear, they did not intend to reproduce the breadth of the "God Dance Fantasy" biography in this DLC "Gentleman's Heart", but started from the direction of depth.

In the "Gentleman's Heart", we will not see the active performance of flying star and Cloud, the game will focus on the body of Tan Jing, in the game's narrative, the unsmiling black face of the prime minister is not much, but it is enough to affect people's hearts, from the initial appearance of doubts to the feelings of Wangshu between the lines, from the self-created sword was expelled from the kingdom of the emperor to the Taotang prime minister, From being suspected of being behind the scenes to the final truth to stand and die, just a few times, an unforgettable character has been shaped, and then the natural exit can be said to be a play amazing for a period of time, so that many players through the legend are thinking, haunted.

This time, the production team of "Gentleman's Heart" will focus on the story of Tan Jing, which is really an expected and unexpected thing, but the presentation method is clever enough, the production team did not go to tell us the story of Tan Jing. In the course of the game, we actually handled Wang Shu, the fierce shadow from the sudden country. The full moon dance with the flying star in this cross is also enough to make people move.

Because Wang Shu has the power of instant shadow in this transmission, the production team also spread this point out in this "Gentleman's Heart", but unfortunately there is no unique gameplay or small games designed around it in this game, but the power of instant shadow is no longer something that can only be seen in combat, we can directly control Wang Shu to use the power of instant shadow to move in the air. Not only does it speed up the action pace of the game and allow us to go to places we couldn't go before, but the whole game, in my opinion, is more action-oriented, and its freedom and exploration are greatly increased.

The reason for the DLC called "Gentleman's Heart" is also clear in an instant when we enter the game, the time point of the plot is in the middle and late game, Wangshu from the black market to find a strange pot that can find people's hearts, a entanglement will take Yinchuan and you sleep together to go to the cloud quiet, But did not expect to go to sleep after the strange pot will Wangshu, LAN Xiang, Yinchuan and swim sleep four people sucked in.

After entering, four people found the depths of Tan Jing's mind, but followed by the pot of parasitic nightmare soul everywhere threat, and four people need to do is to collect defeat the nightmare soul to find a way out.

This time, the spiritual world of Tanjing is set as a carved gallery painting, building, pavilion and Yu staggered scene, the design of the scene is also very clever, the overall three-dimensional sense is very strong, in addition to various portals, we also need to use the instantaneous power of Wangshu to carry out various platform jumps to reach their destination, looking for various clues in this world.

The air wall, which has been criticized for a long time in the original series, has also been greatly modified in "Gentleman's Heart" this time. At least I can say that I did not encounter any air wall when I got through the whole plot of DLC, and some parts that were not allowed to pass due to plot reasons were cut off by reasonable plot or physical means. The areas without partitions are free to explore, using Wang Shu's instantaneous power, I can almost reach anything I want to go, even jumping off the bridge of the "death" operation, there is no air wall to stop the player, the flexibility of action and the freedom of map design make the overall fluency of the game greatly increased.

This time the focus of the game is naturally placed on the story and puzzle above, the entire fantasy world has a total of four areas to explore, respectively: Music department, history Department, military department and witchcraft Department, each department has a completely different style and puzzles, solve all the puzzles of each department can fight with the nightmare soul, the battle can be won after the meta soul, the four parts of the meta soul can fight with the nightmare soul.

Because the above has been said, this time the focus of the game on the story and puzzle above, so the difficulty of the battle is not high, but each battle has different combat tasks, need more strategic ability to think and make decisions according to different tasks.

And the key plot and puzzle are very good, as mentioned above, each of the branches has a completely different style and puzzles, and we can see the past of Tan Jing in different branches, which is not shown to us in the plot of the game series, when we have watched each strand of the plot of the four branches, Will find a full to almost can be said to be overflow of the Tan Jing appeared in front of us, his decision, his sorrow, his suffering, his great justice, his loneliness, a living person standing in front of us.

The puzzle solving of each part is also very suitable for the setting of the current part, in the music section, you need to identify the sounds of various ancient instruments to solve the puzzle; In the history department, it is necessary to read various historical materials to obtain the solution of the puzzle. The overall puzzle setting involves many traditional cultures, and each puzzle requires you to carefully observe the subtle clues in the environment, and use your brain to think carefully to solve.

And the production team also cleverly in the various departments to add different gameplay, let me especially impressed is the military "find the nightmare soul" gameplay, disguised as the escort of the nightmare soul will be in Wang Shu back to him when she observes her, and we need to use the third person player perspective to observe who will look behind us, this gameplay setting is really interesting. To some extent, even out of the "God dance fantasy" of the game.

The whole DLC level takes about three hours, and the three-hour game process can be said to be very substantial. The rhythm of plot performance - puzzle solving - battle is very good. It changes the inherent impression that God Dance Fantasy passed to me, and it is indeed a qualified dessert for a free plot DLC.

From this "Gentleman's Heart", we can also see that the production team for their own innovation and change, not only based on the basic mode of the game to make more action Settings, but also learn the suggestions of players to modify the details, so that the game experience is completely different from the game.

And for such a production group, I think, we should look forward to the birth of their new work.

Look forward to the sentence: "Relax, there is no water in it." Back in front of us again.