"The Wizard of Quint: The Fall of Kingship" review: The right of two evils, you choose one

CDPR who no longer need me to introduce, the player has won countless praise of the "Wizard Three: Wild Hunt" is the Polish game production company's best face, today to talk about the protagonist is not this won numerous awards and let producers earn a lot of money full of the game, but a card game also from CDPR.

Anyone who has played The Witcher Three knows the widely circulated meme "Let's play Quint". In the game, if the player chooses "Let's play Quint" in the dialogue, whether the NPC's daughter is missing or his family is about to be executed, the NPC will forget all the emergencies and start a tense and exciting game of Quint.

The Quint card mentioned here is a card game built in the Wizard Three. In the Wizard world, different NPCS may each have a very special Quint card. In order to obtain more cards, players have to choose to play cards with NPCS and win the game. This excellence is first built on the fun of the Quint card itself.

The card game first brings the impression of the player from the world view, thanks to the rich world view of the wizard, "Witcher three" in the Quint card does not need to redesign the world view, the camp has become an analogy to the Hearthstone game in the class. The Northern Realm, Niffgard, Squirrel Party, Monster and Skeleg after the launch of DLC Blood and Wine have become five optional camps for players, each camp has specific abilities, and can be subdivided into leaders with different abilities, plus exquisite card art, a time to get many players praise naturally is also a sure thing.

Since then, because of the small game "Kunte card" fire, can be limited to the nature of the single machine can not connect with people, but can not create income, CDPR designed a multiplayer card game from the "wizard three" Kunte card - "Wizard Kunte card". When the game was first launched, it was well received by many players, and its exquisite flash Kat effect, fuller wizard worldview and subtle rules derived from "Tian Ji Horse racing" made him separate from other card games in the world.

The monetization of online card games doesn't need me to explain much, but I can guess it by comparing it to Hearthstone's endless expansion packs. "Wizard of Quint Card" also uses this idea, making a single player mode similar to Hearthstone adventure mode, but unlike Hearthstone's adventure mode, CDPR produced a single player mode just like the "Quint card" independent from the "Wizard Three", also independent from the "Quint card", becoming a very rich content stand-alone card game. This is the Wizard of Quint: The Fall of Kingship.

The hero of the story is not Geralt, who has many fans, but the Queen Mivie, who is little known. The story takes place in the second Northern War of the wizarding world, the horn of Nyfgaard's attack on the northern territory echoed across the Yaruga River, Leiria and Livia were raided by the Black Army, the first to fall in this war, Queen Mivi began her long escape with the defeated soldiers, but the Queen never gave up to recapture the homeland, She crossed the swamps controlled by the Scarlet Lady, the snowy mountains of Mahakan, and the war-ravaged Aden, embarking on a great journey to regain her homeland...

It is difficult for me to describe this story without personal emotion. Out of my love for the Wizard of Quint and card games, I pre-ordered this work for the first time and experienced this magnificent epic for the first time. Like me, as long as I have experienced the whole course of this game, it is difficult for anyone not to give birth to a surge of "chest shaking and Stratocloud" at the end of the story. And by CDPR sophisticated sophisticated narrative techniques "attracted fans".

Talking back to the game itself, the overall gameplay of "the fall of the King's power" is based on card battles, but it is not only the size of the "Wizard three", in addition to the classic game, the game also has a large number of "puzzle games", these "puzzle games" are like the end of a traditional chess game, players need to find the right way to achieve conditions, rather than simply "beat big brother crushed to death".

What is more rare is not the excellent gameplay design of the game itself, but the clever combination of gameplay and plot. For example, in some games, the queen's insufficient forces are surrounded by the Niffgard army, then the goal of victory is how to make the queen trapped under the siege of the black army, the field is covered with cards on behalf of the fortifications, escape instead of fighting becomes the first goal, and there are dozens or even hundreds of similar levels, the richness of the game content can be imagined.

The excellent plot is another strength of the game. Thanks to CDPR's sophisticated narrative techniques, the plot of this game fully possesses the same excellence as "Wizard Three", and the most important thing in the plot is the design of "two evils, you take one".

"Wizard three" players may not be too unfamiliar with this concept, "wizard three" tasks are never black or white, players often need to make the most consistent with their own psychological choice in the tangled "law" and "love", rather than having a "most correct" dogmatic answer full of themes.

The same design also appears in this game, the queen will encounter many forces in the great journey, the farmers whose homes are destroyed, the citizens with money, the squirrel party that hates humans, the non-squirrel party and human business, and even the powerful and rare dragon, one side task is arranged in the communication with these roles. The excellent narrative, which includes the eternal conflict between "law" and "emotion" but goes beyond that, is given to every player in these exchanges.

If there is anything that can be compared to the merits of an appeal, it is art style. We often say that "the game is the ninth art", and playing this game will at least let the player understand how far the game can be "art" on the map, in addition to the old style of the old parchment map interface, whenever the player goes to a new scene, the camera will gradually pull away, so that the player can see the city swept by war, the moon on the mountain, the continuous wind and snow in Mahakan. The visual impact of these scenes is not great, but the attention to detail will make the attentive player feel comfortable.

In addition, the game also has excellent localization, in addition to the difficulty of the choice of "wind Xiao Xi easy water cold", and even the song has a quad version, when the dwarves of Mahakan sing "on the other side of the mountain and the other side of the sea", players can not help but laugh, and feel the CDPR's attention to the Chinese market and Chinese players.

I think some of my friends have noticed that only in the initial introduction did I use the name Mevie, and the rest of my character was called Queen, which of course was intentional. In fact, by the end of the game, the story that could be described as "The Resurrection of the Queen" became very human. The character of Mevie, the Queen of Leiria and Livia, The sense of play in the arrival of a large number of different endings of their own when the sublimation, into the player's heart for this game put a best full stop.

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Of course, this game is not perfect, although the puzzles are exquisite, but the difficulty is too low, the highest difficulty of the wind is too simple for players who know a little card games, and there are a lot of bugs in some cards, and there are some similar problems caused by too much resource Settings.

But so what, when the player accompanies the queen through this long journey, it is believed that they will shout "for the Queen of Leiria and Livia" or "Long live the Queen".

I can't wait to see the next "RPG from a Card game from an RPG game" from CDPR.