The CrossCode games website measures the perfect experience in virtual reality

Introduction:

What is the perfect form of a game? Many friends have thought about this question. Playing a game made by others, there was a time when I also fantasized that I could become a role in the game.

This time for you to bring the game, is a real and virtual intersection of the game world.

CrossCode is an ARPG game with retro graphics and sci-fi elements. Developed by Radical Fish Games.

The game uses a 2D plane view, has interesting action combat, and slightly complex puzzle elements.

In this game you can see the future in our real life will appear such a game.

Players who know the game know that the producer has released a trial version of the game since 2015, which has lasted nearly two years. It is to let the player experience the fun of the game in the pilot version.

Be able to give timely feedback to manufacturers about bugs in the game. In order to fix problems and bring new content during development.

In the latest version 0.9.2, the producers are very thoughtful to add simplified Chinese. In the official notes, the current version is about 70% complete.

The degree of completion is not high, but the content is very substantial. The official version of the game will be released this summer or fall.

Overall score: 8.5

Full of suspense

In this game, we need to control a virtual character that is generated in the game world. A lovely girl named Leah. The heroine's image design is too cute.

For unknown reasons, the protagonist loses all of his memories in the game. In order to help Leah find her memories, with the help of software engineer Sergey, Leah returns to the game world to find lost memories.

Since the game is still in the playable stage, the full story is not yet known. But the basic story right now is the search for memories.

What is the true identity of the protagonist? What causes the heroine to lose her memory? What is the plot behind it? There is no doubt that they create suspense for the player.

▲ Sudden memory loss

Game world view

In the game's setting, there is a world called CrossWorld, which is similar to a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).

The character we control is a player, and they are remotely connected to this environment by embodiments of avatars in a special way, with the difference that this CrossWorld is real.

The story of CrossWorld is set on a moon orbiting a gas giant planet that the universe does not understand, and these virtual characters have physical forms.

In other words, the protagonist connects his avatar to this real CrossWorld through something called instant matter.

In this world, you can see many players, team up with other players to generate avatars to brush copies, fight monsters and upgrade. Enjoy the game together.

The game world known as CrossWorld reality

At first, when I played this game, I thought that its game setting was very similar to an anime "Sword God Domain" many years ago.

Nothing more than connecting your avatar to the same virtual game world and teaming up with other players to copy it.

▲ "Sword God Domain" - virtual reality display

However, after seeing the explanation of the world view in this game, I found that this game is only partially similar.

The gaming environment described in the Crossover Code is more like the mixed reality (MR) technology that the gaming industry has been studying in recent years.

This is the kind of gaming experience every player needs. But the game will be more advanced.

Mixed reality technology is still in the research stage

Visual and sound performance

Three-dimensional dynamic 2D picture:

The graphics of the game are designed in a classic FC pixel style with a 2D flat view. When I first entered the game, I felt like I was dreaming back to the FC era.

Not only is this pixelated scene design, but also the addition of the plane Angle commonly used by FC red and white machines, which makes this game attach a strong retro style.

▲ Vintage picture

▲ Full three-dimensional sense

Although the picture details of this game are not the most exquisite in pixel level games, but the game details are very good.

In the game, the surrounding plants are added to the physical dynamic effect, when the game character passes by the plant, the plant will move.

▲ Dynamic effects of plants

There are also slowly moving clouds in the sky, and sometimes the shadows of the clouds can be seen floating overhead on the road.

In addition, the blue ocean, swept by the breeze rippling blue waves, visually give this pixel game a strong sense of three-dimensional.

▲ The green waves rippling

The game's combat scenes, of course, are pretty good in 2D.

When the protagonist releases his skills, it is followed by a variety of skill effects flying across the screen. Skills have excellent physical effects.

▲ Add special effects

Charming background music

As a retro style 2D mini-game, sound details are also part of the quality of the work.

Due to the large scope of the map, the places crossed on the way are deserts, forests, mines, snow, etc., walking on the road in different scenes will issue different sound effects. It also makes noise as it moves through the vegetation.

There are also distinctive background music in the game, with different styles. Usually in the non-combat state, you can hear a lot of tracks, scene switching will also bring different BGM.

There is science fiction electronic music that complements the theme, or classical music that highlights the Chinese style. More playful and cute music.

Sometimes even let the author travel to the love game. It's not an RPG, it's a GALGAME(laughs).

In short, the game's sound details and background music are handled very well. More light background music, so that the player in the process of playing the mood has also been relaxed.

▲ The soundtrack of this map is very Chinese

Game features

Highly simulated game environment:

Previously introduced to you the game stage setting of this game is a large-scale multiplayer game, in the process of playing, you will find that the official in the restoration of a player's own really play an online game environment.

When playing with fellow NPCS, you'll find them chatting from time to time, just like your friends in the lower left corner of the screen.

In addition, in the game, through the character status bar, you can have a connection session with a teammate NPC and invite them to join the team to do tasks.

▲ Chat with teammates NPC online

Humanized teaching tips:

In the course of the game, when encountering various game tasks for the first time, the system will pop up teaching prompts in time to give the player detailed graphic instructions.

A "Do you want to state again" message will be displayed at the end. I have to say that for newcomers, this instruction manual is very human.

▲ Humanized teaching tips

Dual upgrade system:

The upgrade system of this game can be divided into two systems: character level upgrade and skill point upgrade.

Character level upgrade: It is the experience points obtained through spawning and completing tasks. After meeting the upgrade requirements, the character level will be upgraded, and the four points of level, CP point, maximum health and focus will be upgraded.

▲ Character upgrade

Skill Plus Upgrade: Skill upgrades are called circuits in the character status bar. The system provides a rich skill tree for players to level up. Pass the CP points gained after the character level upgrade, and upgrade the skills.

Each upgrade costs CP points. After the upgrade will unlock the corresponding combat skills, in the battle process, the use of combat skills can improve the attack force, which is a combat skill.

Unlocked battle skills can be activated with CP points, and the surrounding skills can be converted at will after success, and do not consume CP points.

▲ Five forms of skill points

Main and side quests intertwine:

In the game, the player can do main and side quests. The main task is a person to copy. The main content of the replica mission consists of puzzle unlocking and combat.

Each copy of the content is very rich, and the organs are heavy, the enemy level is high, the difficulty is high. The main quest is the key to understanding the story of the game.

Side quests can be picked up with NPCS at any time during exploration, and side quests are generally simple spawning, collecting items, and getting rewards after completing tasks. The side content has no story to speak of, compared to the main line, the gameplay is a little monotonous.

Character attribute system:

In this game, in addition to the normal form of the game character, there are four other forms.

The elements are fire, ice, electricity and wave. In order to obtain these attributes, you need to complete the corresponding main task.

After acquiring these abilities, through the shortcut key, the player can switch the character's attack mode, which has a huge attack damage to the enemy with different attributes.

▲ Ice attribute attack

gameplay

In addition to the core fighting elements in the game, there are also puzzle elements that are essential. Since the game has no difficulty choice, the default difficulty is somewhat high.

As a retro style of traditional ARPG game, the difficulty of the game can be described as sweet and bitter, and the difficulty can be adapted to the level teaching before the formal start of the game task and the initial task.

But when you start the game, you will find that the difficulty of the game is somewhat different, and as the progress of the game progresses, the more difficult the game becomes.

In the later period, an obvious problem will be found, that is, the character upgrade is slow, and the continuous upgrading of the wild feels some waste of time.

In terms of combat:

The combat system of this game adopts the real-time combat setting, the main character's attack mode is melee attack and remote output, melee attack can be equipped with two melee weapons, the combat rhythm is fast, and the striking sense is strong.

The long-range output is to launch projectiles, which can continue to fire projectiles to attack the enemy, and can also fire projectiles with high output damage.

▲ Remote attack

For enemies with conflicting attributes, the player can match the character's attribute state and choose the corresponding mode to deal with the enemy.

Attack key Settings are very reasonable, in addition to fighting, there are dodging, this dodging action is very funny.

In addition, the enemy will appear in a period of time, the physical state of the red situation, then attack, will cause the other side to break the defense, there is a brief hard straight, the player can continue to output during this period of time.

▲ Dodge operation - rotate it! Snow moon flower!

Variety of tactical options:

The four element modes plus the normal mode bring a variety of skill combinations, and the skill release will be different according to the different modes.

In the battle, the rational combination of general attack and combat skills can reduce the damage of mistakes.

For puzzle solving:

The puzzle elements are slightly more difficult, and the puzzle elements of this game also occupy an important part, and there are many types of puzzle elements in the game.

Most of them use long-range projectiles to unlock mechanisms, and use surrounding items to solve puzzles and so on.

In the main quest, solving the room is one of the necessary content, and each room of the puzzle difficulty is increased one by one.

To get through the room, you have to solve the puzzle. For novice players, the difficulty of solving the puzzle is too large, and it is easy to cause the situation of card closure.

▲ This game is difficult to solve puzzles

Platform jumps "have personality"

This game's platform jumping can be said to be the most difficult in the game, but also the most skilled.

Because of the flat perspective, the position of the characters on some platforms is difficult to judge. Sometimes it will "mislead" the player and jump to the wrong position.

Map transfer:

This game has added the setting of map transmission, in each map level, will set 2-3 transfer points, by viewing the map, players can transmit at these transfer points.

Due to the large scope of the map, if there is no teleport point, the player will get tired of running each map back and forth. It also compromises gameplay.

In SUMMARY:

As mentioned at the beginning, it has been two years since the demo version of Cross Code was released, during which time the producers have been actively listening to the opinions of all parties, revising and improving the game.

As a DEMO, it can persist for such a long time, and the sincerity of the producer itself should be encouraged.

"Cross Code" allows players to return to the FC childhood time once again, the combination of retro style and science fiction style, three-dimensional 2D graphics, charming music.

As well as fast-paced percussion and hardcore puzzle solving bring players a real and virtual interactive online game experience.

The addition of simplified Chinese localization also shows the importance of the producer to the Chinese player group.

The official description for the current progress of the game can provide 15-20 hours, but in my experience to explore all the scenes carefully, it will take much longer. I can say that the game is very substantial.

As the old saying goes, this ARPG game is suitable for old drivers who have played similar games. In the game you can experience Zelda-like puzzle levels.

As a new player, I do not recommend it because of the overall difficulty of the game, especially the puzzle design. If you just want to experience the graphics, music and fighting elements of the game, you can give it a try.

Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, I wish you a happy holiday, enjoy the holiday at the same time, may wish to play a play this adventure game.