"One-way Ticket" evaluation: The world has boundaries, human nature has limitations

I like AVG games very much, especially ADV, which focuses on the psychological description and internal expression of characters and has certain practical significance. The first time I saw the PV of this game, my eyes were already firmly absorbed: I wanted to play, and I thought so in my heart at that time. Compared with RPG, SLG and other mainstream engine games with core gameplay, the natural advantages of AVG games make it better than many in the intensity of the story, which is beyond doubt (here is only AVG games as the main object, and does not disparage other categories of games). Therefore, in a way, AVG games are more fulfilling in the expression of game content, more free and easy, and players can see a lot more things, which is one of the main reasons I like it. In this era of running for the Central Plains, and a group of males, "One-way Ticket" as a domestic AVG game adapted from real events, although there are shortcomings, but on the performance and talk, really commendable.

ADV, Galgame, AVG

I think it is necessary to put the concepts of ADV, Galgame and AVG together. ADV refers to the text adventure game, originated in Japan, is one of the branches of adventure games. Galgame full name "girl and love game" refers to the girl type ADV, as the bulk of Japanese personal computer electronic interactive games, currently almost occupy a large part of the ADV market, so that ADV is now used to refer to Galgame. AVG is used by foreign developers to refer to the game genre, Japanese AVG is equivalent to ADV (adventure game). Due to cultural differences, only some of ADV's games have been translated into a few languages for overseas sales (mainly English and Chinese), and it is unclear why they have not been released in large numbers in other markets outside Southeast Asia (including South Korea).

"One-way Ticket" and Lu Rongyu 2682

As explained above, the "One Way Ticket" is an AVG game based on the adaptation of real events, so the development direction of the story should respect the authenticity of the event, because the specific details can not be investigated, although there are irremediable shortcomings in the degree of restoration, but also open up a huge space in the creation of the plot, but also more inspired players before and after learning the real events. Experience a sense of curiosity and engagement with the story.

Friends who have found the background of the story in advance should understand that the work is adapted from the "Pacific escape murder case" that shocked the world in history - Lu Rongyu 2682 tragedy. In December 2010 (that is, the official Heisei 22 years), Lu Rongyu 2682 with 33 crew members went to Peru and Chile in the Southeast Pacific to start the fifth maritime operation, which is normal work, but the interests have already taken the upper hand. Indirectly driven by it, the dark side of human nature is once again brought out, which leads to a series of internal battles and frenzied killings. The illegal organization headed by Liu Guizao temporarily assembled in the premeditation of hijacking the ship, on the way back home, brutally killed 16 people, and caused 6 missing, and the remaining 11 people were all sentenced (due to the need for evaluation, hereby briefly elaborate on the real incident, detailed information please find online, here no longer focus on analysis).

To be honest, before I came into contact with "One Way Ticket", I had never known such a thing happened, and thought it was a story that could only be seen in comics, novels or movies. So before the game started, I learned about it from a colleague and was shocked to find out the relevant information. With such a mood, the author began the sea journey of "One-way Ticket", but when I saw the subtitles, the body froze in the chair, just stared at the monitor for a long time.

One Way Ticket

I want to talk about the external expression first, and the internal expression, we'll talk about it later.

The introduction of a text adventure game is really hard to introduce. Unlike other categories of games, which can be dissected in terms of gameplay mechanics, it is "clear and simple". You say more to reveal the plot, you say less players do not understand, so the author can only do his best to give the audience of the old man to perform a wave (laughter).

The story location: Japan, the male protagonist as a social youth after graduating from university, in the face of employment difficulties, parents' expectations and girlfriend Bhayi invisible pressure and other circumstances, introduced by a good friend Aoki, that will be 3.2 million yen per year salary as a reward after accepting the invitation to board the Horizon with the remaining 13 crew sailing fishing, But I do not know that the whirlpool of humanity has been waiting in the Pacific Ocean ahead for a long time... As a game adapted from real events, it is also an AVG game, a little careless, all bets are off. What things can not be used, can not be written, what things can be used, can be written, you have to handle well. In this way, the player can agree, and the handling is not good, it is not just a question of identification. At this point, the planners of the work know the chest, not only that, the breakthrough in the plot is a bright moment.

We say that the adaptation is not nonsense, the adaptation of the plot and characters can be described as clever. "One-way Ticket" appearance of a total of 14 characters, except for three appearances of the female bud Yi safe and sound, the remaining 13 people's lives are closely linked with the Horizon. A fishing boat, carrying the hope of thirteen people, the ocean, the blue sky, the white clouds, money and joy... However, when the interests began to roll on the sea, the homeless filled with them, and the law was not written, everything began to develop in the direction of the original author: journalists, detectives, sailors, students, otoku, rich kids, murderers, children... Different identities and different groups; Anger, greed, dreams, mediocrity, confusion, arrogance, paranoia, helplessness... Different people have different attitudes. Brothers, love, principles are pouring in, and when a lot of blood flows out, people of all colors begin to change their behavior, tear their masks, and let suspicion dominate the body. The tree of Heaven and Earth is clearly visible as Death drapes him or her with a burial garment and watches the horizon from the Horizon ship. Can I get a one-way ticket back... Quiet Marine environment, small fishing boat space, different identities of people, when these three gather, time conditions are no longer important, only money and humanity open the way, order collapse, the story is presented.

The story is in place, the music and the graphics are being finalised. Aside from the series of sound effects such as strikes and action, "One Way Ticket" uses Japanese voice acting in the narration and voice actor selection of key characters, which directly caters to a large audience. Speaking of the accompaniment of AVG games, because most of them are standard quadratic painting style, the selection is mostly cheerful. For the suspense category, especially the AVG game with a realistic painting style like "One Way Ticket", in the twists and turns of the plot, the accompaniment is mostly slow, low singing and intermittent rhythm. In the selection and processing of accompanying music, sometimes long sounds set off the atmosphere, and sometimes low light brings a sense of relaxation, when the two combine, more let the auditory nerve expand, the visual center high-power output, the author believes that the performance of accompanying music is slightly greater than the processing of part of the plot.

With a large number of domestic animation production, illustration, original painting, storyboard and other requirements, the skills of the artists have been improved year by year, and some of them have even been comparable to well-known Japanese manga groups such as CLAMP, but due to the plot content, story creation, dialogue level and skills, they have not been well developed. Therefore, as a reason, most of the major Japanese anime, such as: One Piece, Naruto, OVERLOAD, Alchemy of Steel, Death Note, Silver Soul, etc., send part of the animation to domestic studios to complete, that is, we call outsourcing. (For the picture and the artist's skills, here is no longer a detailed discussion) So the skills of domestic artists are beyond doubt, and therefore "One-way Ticket" as a domestic independent studio production of AVG game works, whether CG or character modeling Settings, from the author's personal point of view fully qualified.

The inner expression and meaning of "One-way Ticket" in my eyes

Speaking of AVG games, in addition to the charm of the plot, it is the emotion and even social significance expressed by the characters, especially in the suspense and detective categories. "One-way Ticket" to undertake the tone of Lu Rongyu 2862 incident, in the rich plot, characters, music and other elements at the same time, committed to the character and emotion of the internal expression, social significance of the performance, not only did, and do very well. When love, brothers, and principles are added, the entanglement of humanity and interests becomes more "wonderful". Some friends after customs clearance should talk about humanity and interests. How should we look at human nature and interests? Through the ages, too many scholars and masters have repeatedly crashed into the door of humanity with giant wood, and after opening it, they found that humanity is a psychological attribute and a psychological problem, and the psychological problem hidden in "One-way Ticket" is a problem of order on the surface. Combined with the cause of the problem, we have to talk about Mr. Wang Xuetai's "nomadic culture".

Nomads are not the youth of society, but those who are out of the social order in which they live. When the knifler on the fishing boat wields the knife to the authority for his interests, the authority is lost, the order collapses, and the consciousness of law disappears along with the population density and economic development that do not exist on the vast ocean. So when the organization was formed, they seemed to become nomads in the true sense of the word. Why is it a nomad? Here we need to state the four characteristics summed up by Mr. Wang Xuetai to nomads: distinct antisociality (" there is oppression, there is resistance "), terrible active aggression (" the first strike is strong, and the second hand suffers "), irrational gang consciousness (" only talk about the enemy and me, not right and wrong; Only speak of interests, not right and wrong "), lack of role consciousness (" to kill for a good man "). Therefore, when the nomads become nomads, everything seems quite reasonable, and the dark side of human nature that is exposed, the meaning and value of 3.2 million yen a year, is also given by their own subjective, which cannot be verified outside the subjective. As Mr. Jing Kaixuan put it, "In the face of reason and science, human nature is limited: it can only swing between transcendence and experience." Therefore, when the pendulum of human nature swings in the limitations of the shell of the floor clock, there will be bursts of interest from time to time, and as we live in such an order, we also have limitations.

Conclusion

It's time for the conclusion again, and what you want to talk about is almost done, and the clearance time is shorter, but the momentum is full. As a suspenseful text adventure game adapted from real events in China, it is worth playing both from the surface and the depth.