021 is expected to have sales of 300,000 and sales of 8.8 million (12th in the annual sales list of Guoyou). It currently receives 98% of the 24,409 reviews on steam. It was announced by the production company of "White Night Chasing" on September 10, 2021 Adapted into a film and television drama... These honors are all based on the horror and suspense puzzle game "Fireworks".
"Fireworks" has received countless praises from players as soon as it was released. In addition to the terrifying thoughts made people feel that people think about it carefully after they experience it, they are also moved by struggling to break free from the shackles of human nature. This game dressed in a Chinese horror cloak is full of thoughts on human nature and humanistic care. Perhaps like the hidden meaning of the game name, the blooming fireworks guide the direction for the soul who cannot find the way back. Today, UP wants to talk to you about the touching story behind this Chinese horror game with rave reviews.
main line explanation: "The secret that cannot be told"
The male protagonist of the game Lin Lixun has had the ability to communicate with others since childhood because of his pure yin birth date. His father was an excellent policeman who died on duty during a mission. The protagonist, who has always lived in the shadow of the children of martyrs, still resolutely embarked on the road to becoming a police officer.
On a quiet night, Lin Lixun and his colleagues were ordered to go to a funeral fire scene in Qingtan Town, Shancheng. The funeral was originally prepared for the owner of the convenience store, Wang Jincai, but Lin Lixun was trapped in a terrifying ghost-torn wall. As soon as he walked around, a coffin, a wreath, and even a notebook full of blood-word "debt". After fleeing from the scene in panic, a hearse appeared in front of him. He walked slowly towards the hearse that opened the door as if possessed...
was sent to the town clinic by his colleagues. Lin Lixun woke up and saw a TV. The news: "The head of the Tian family and his granddaughter died of rat poison, and their daughter-in-law hanged herself." At the door of the clinic, Lin Lixun was chatting with doctor Ye Jingshan about the massacre of the family, but a power outage suddenly occurred. Lin Lixun came to the power supply room with the candle taken out of the trunk of the doctor's car. After repairing it, he found Chen Qingsui, a teacher at Qingtan Primary School. She was looking for evidence that the murderer was not the daughter-in-law of the Tian family, Zhao Xiaojuan. The two found out that Zhao Xiaojuan had a phone message with Ye Jingshan half an hour before the incident.
The protagonist then investigated the official supermarket and morgue related to the incident. When he came out, he met Teacher Chen and learned that Tian Fangfang's father Tian Yu had epilepsy during his lifetime and was sent to the clinic Ye Jingshan for treatment. Tian Fangfang's grandfather Tian Xiangrong went to Ye Jingshan to make trouble, and even kicked the doctor's ribs. In the end, Ye Jingshan paid for the money and settled the matter. Lin Lixun, who gradually found the way of the case, went out, but was hit by a roaring black car...
Lin Lixun, who woke up in the room again, investigated at the scene of the Tian family murder case: Tian Yu had sudden epilepsy one day, Tian Jiaxuan The two elders of Ming Dynasty believed in earth-based treatment, which eventually made Tian Yu miss the best opportunity and died during the treatment in the health center. So, Tian Xiangrong, who took advantage of the situation, took people to the clinic and made a big fuss. Zhao Xiaojuan was deeply sorry and went to comfort Ye Jingshan on the hospital bed.
lost the economic pillar of the family. In addition, in the case of a layoff wave, Mr. Tian, who is a man of good face, had sex with the owner of the convenience store, Wang Jincai, and regained his old business and became a "gold-touching captain". Tian’s mother He Guilan, who was eager to be aware of her, found her witch, Sister Zhang, and believed that she could “bring” Tian Yu back and let her granddaughter Tian Fangfang meet her “father” who possessed Sister Zhang. At first, Tian Xiangrong didn't believe it, but he couldn't twist his thighs. After going to see Sister Zhang for the first time, he gradually began to believe it.
After the witch was arrested, Zhao Xiaojuan imitated Tian Yu's behavior during her lifetime--suffered from her physical disgust and ate the fish that her husband liked to eat during her lifetime, and even walked alone at night to borrow fire to light a cigarette from Wang Jincai. More and more people around began to believe that Tian Yu was "back"!
Looking at Zhao Xiaojuan who is more and more like Tian Yu, she believed that the Tian couple plotted to poison their daughter-in-law and let their son "come back" forever. So the crazy Tian couple threw the poison into their daughter-in-law's sleeping pills.After hearing that her mother said that sleeping pills were a drug that could make people "happy", she hoped that she would make her grandparents and mother happy forever, and put the poisoned sleeping pills into the meal... Zhao Xiaojuan looked at the tragic phenomenon in front of her, and the last spiritual pillar in her heart was also broken. She chose to hang herself with a loss of thought.
After everything was revealed, the protagonist also learned that Teacher Chen was originally a reporter of Qingtan Daily. She was ordered to investigate Tian Xiangrong's tomb robbery, but the water inside was too deep. When Teacher Chen sent out the account book that Tian Xiangrong sold the stolen goods, he disappeared.
woke up again, but Lin Lixun's boss and colleagues said that they were closely related to the Ye Jingshan case. But Ye Jingshan's car caught fire, and the police also found a body from it. The protagonist thinks that Dr. Ye’s death is strange. He went to the morgue and the forensic doctor to restore it and found that the deceased was not Ye Jingshan!
Then, Lin Lixun found Ye Jingshan next to the train station and learned that Dr. Ye was abducted to Qingtan Town since childhood. When he grew up, he passed the forensic examination, but because his adoptive parents disliked the profession that it was too "unlucky", he could only end up with the end Go back to the town to be a little doctor. Perhaps out of the same "comfortable mutual appreciation" as her, Ye Jingshan arranged for Zhao Xiaojuan and her daughter to leave Qingtan Town. What made him dissatisfied and even angry was that after his death, Zhao Xiaojuan was attributed to the real murderer of the Tian family's massacre. Therefore, he not only burned Wang Jincai's body, but even took the initiative to "ignite the fire" to divert attention. In the end, Dr. Ye was prosecuted for insulting the body, setting fire, and forging evidence.
The prosperity is gone, and the night is over dawn. Walking on the fields in the countryside and looking at the gorgeous fireworks blooming in the distance, Lin Lixun finally felt relieved and let go of the pressure of the halo of the martyrs' families. He set out again alone.
dark line explanation: "Eating blood steamed buns" have repeatedly appeared in
era, and every grain of dust from the age is a mountain when it falls on an individual. I think it is the best interpretation of every character in the game "Fireworks". In addition to the main line of Lin Lixun restoring the truth of the Tian family's murder case, there are three hidden lines about Ye Jingshan's revenge, the Tian family's tragedy, and Chen Qingsui's death. Below, UP will analyze and explain this in-depth.
First of all, Ye Jingshan's revenge
Children's disappearance is a social problem and has serious social hidden dangers. According to statistics, from 1930 to 2015, the number of abducted people across the country fluctuated greatly, and generally showed a "spoon-shaped" change. Among them, from 1985 to 2000, the "inverted V-shaped" high incidence trend first rose sharply and then decreased fluctuations (this is the most frequent period of child trafficking in China, of which 1989 was the peak year). Ye Jingshan may be in such a dimension of abducted time.
As a kidnapped child, Ye Jingshan's character image when he grew up is complex, and Ye Jingshan's strength is far beyond our imagination. He is both an innocent victim and a cruel perpetrator. After learning that he was abducted and sold to his adoptive parents, on the one hand, he was grateful for his parents' grace for raising them, and on the other hand, he hated this behavior of separating his wife and children. Until he met Zhao Xiaojuan. Perhaps it was the mutual appreciation of the weak, or perhaps it was the vague feelings between men and women. In order to save Zhao Xiaojuan, who was also "lost in prison" in Qingtan Town, he carried all the infamous and rumors just to put his name behind him. The family glory represented vented silent accusations.
Did you see the mountains in front? They pile up like burning ashes. As I stared at them, I felt an indescribable confusion and fear. Maybe they are just a ball of dead ashes, or maybe there are still flames burning inside. I seemed to see my biological parents, their figures were blurry, wandering among the mountains like lonely ghosts. They opened their mouths and called for something. Maybe I was calling my name, but I had long forgotten my original name. It wasn't until then that I realized that I was a homeless person. Where can I sit in the world? The once warm home and the people who can accompany me have been buried in this mountainous ashes.
Perhaps, Ye Jingyamamoto deserves a better youth. The traffickers who abducted Ye Jingshan are certainly hateful, but Ye Jingshan's adoptive parents who paid for the feudal poisoning of "unfilial piety and no descendants are the greatest". Ye Jingshan's heart was scarred in the end, but in such a huge world, his personal soul had nowhere to be placed. The mountains in the distance in the town were surrounded by endless white mist, blocking the direction of his progress and forever imprisoning his life.
Secondly, the tragedy of the Tian family
French writer Voltaire said: "Superstition is the result of a fool meeting a liar." Scientific development is changing with each passing day, but in Qingtan Town, on the one hand, there is the six-character motto of "talking science and breaking superstitions" Hanging high above, on one side, various feudal superstitions are prevalent, witchcraft is sensational, fortune-telling, fortune-telling and fate-making. No matter how much verbal publicity is made in public, feudal superstition is increasingly engraved into the hearts of some people. In the rural areas of the 190s, batches of hard-working farmers washed their feet and went to the fields. Some people go to the city to make a fortune by trading stocks, some people go into business and make their first pot of gold, and some people stay in the village to lead their fellow villagers to get rich. But under the prosperous and calm waters, the feudal superstition that has been passed down for thousands of years is still poisoning and corroding people's hearts.
As a common disease in neurology, epilepsy has a higher treatment rate. Faced with Tian Yu's sudden epilepsy, He Guilan chose the first choice of folk quack doctors due to feudal superstition, but she ended up using folk prescriptions to directly cure her son. After being laid off, Tian Xiangrong actually started to rob the tomb in order to maintain his former dignity and glory. After his son passed away, He Guilan chose to go to send money to the witch Zhang, hoping to learn about it by asking for help. The "good recipe" for the son to resurrect. Later, the two of them wanted to harm their daughter-in-law Zhao Xiaojuan and put rat poison into the sleeping pills she helped to sleep every day, so that the dead Tian Yu could come back.
Tian Xiangrong and He Guilan, who experienced the white-haired man, were pitiful, but they were even more hateful. They are like ghosts and monsters wearing human skins, like bottomless black holes that swallow up all their loved ones.
Zhao Xiaojuan originally had her own studio business to run. But for the sake of love and family, she gave up her ideals and career, and was willing to turn into dust and soil, silently nourishing every flower in her family. Her husband's death did not defeat her. She buried this heartbreak and pain in her heart and tried hard to raise her daughter.
However, the hemp rope is broken in detail, and bad luck always entangles people. God gave Zhao Xiaojuan four boat tickets to give her the opportunity to take her daughter to the city. But fate played the cruelest joke with her, and the family of three was at the desk. This tragic situation also tore Zhao Xiaojuan's courage to survive. On that evening, she chose to fly freely in the sky and leave this rotten land forever. Her last words said: My body will not rot in the soil, I will die in the sky like a bird.
Tian Fangfang is the most moving existence in the entire game among adult calculations and intrigues. In the innocent and romantic flower season, she is sensible, well-behaved, and innocent, and she hopes to make everyone happy. What impressed UP most was that in the game exploration of the little tadpole in search of mothers, the little tadpole traveled through cheering notes in the hands of the players, playing the music of youth, and expressing the words they liked for the teaching teacher. , as if he came alive. But at the end of the story, the beating stars flew in a flash like meteors, and they reached out and hid in the darkness.
Finally, talk about Chen Qingsui's death
Teacher Chen is the person with the most lines except the protagonist. She is often there where the protagonist is. She was like a beacon, guiding Lin Lixun to find the truth step by step. As a teaching teacher, she illuminates the darkness in the hearts of children like stars, nourishes the dry hearts of children like a cold spring, and burns herself like a candle, illuminating others.As a reporter, she hopes to "uproot" the evil forces behind the tomb robbers through her own subtle power. But she didn't expect that she would be ruthlessly abandoned just because she read more of the content in her diary.
The most intriguing point in "Fireworks" is: Is Teacher Chen still alive? Since at the end of the game, a photo of Lin Lixun and Chen Qingsui will be posted on the big head, so many players are convinced that this is an open ending. For the beautiful and kind teacher Chen, many people hope that she will have a perfect ending. But the UP owner may want to pour a basin of cold water for everyone.
First of all, the end of the story, there is a radio broadcast saying: I would like to remind everyone that there is a lot of rainfall this season and the riverside is slippery. Be careful when rushing. Secondly, the red umbrella that appears every time Teacher Chen appears in the game. According to the "Records of the Records of the Collection of Forensic Medicine" by Southern Song Ci , the red umbrella is allowed to cover the corpse under the sun, and the long-wave infrared rays shine on the corpse through the umbrella to reveal blood. The Red Umbrella Autopsy was used to test cases many times in ancient times, and the game production team also used the metaphor for the death of Teacher Chen here.
and the underground conversation that makes players cry. "The children here are like me trapped in a well. They can only see a narrow starry sky through the wellhead. So, I want to be the person who throws the rope." Lin Lixun, who found Teacher Chen in the well, climbed out of the narrow one first. When he turned around and wanted to pull Teacher Chen, he turned around and found that Teacher Chen was no longer there.
There are also the obituary that the game forest theory saw in the village notice board at the beginning, the resignation letter of Teacher Chen who was soaked by the river, and even the "Farewell" sang by the children at the end... These are true or false, or Deep or shallow details are all pointing toward Mr. Chen being bought by the newspaper to murder, and was brutally killed at a certain time of heavy rain, throwing his body into a deserted well in the wild.
Conclusion: Chinese horror games have a long way to go
Finally, UP wants to talk to you about the popular Chinese horror games in recent years. What exactly is Chinese horror? Perhaps it is the traditional three elements of "paper man + coffin + talisman", which are the cultural symbols of the mutual generation of yin and yang, the mutual restraint of the five elements, and the cultural symbols of Yijing Bagua , or the classic background elements of the countryside, mansion, and graves. There is nothing new under the sun. In UP's opinion, the Chinese terrifying core is the terrifying heart that makes people feel after they experience it.
In recent years, with the rapid progress of domestic stand-alone games, Chinese horror games are also "prominent". However, since horror games have always been a "self-loved" niche in the game category, the disastrous "what is so popular" cannot be changed behind the breaking circle.
Capital is profit-seeking.
seems to smell the bloody smell of "Chinese horror". Many domestic horror games have been launched this year. However, the result of blindly following the trend and shoddy production is that "The Insect" has only 68% praise, and "The Mountain Ghost" has only 47% mixed reviews. The general feedback from players is cheap plasma, stiff control feel, and inexplicable plots, which all dispel Chinese people's enthusiasm and confidence in domestic horror games to varying degrees. In addition to the policy of version number , many domestic horror games can only choose to log in to steam or launch mobile games in the form of "beta", and their revenue sources are mainly in-game advertising or selling copies. But the new round of anti-addiction policy has affected this part of the income to some extent.
"Insects" Steam review
"Mountain Ghost" Steam review
Such a steam praise rate is very scary in itself
The future is bright and the road is tortuous. After all, a blacksmith must be strong himself. In the era of "content is king", the quality of the game itself is the fundamental reason why players are willing to pay for Chinese horror games.
Many Chinese horror games have been released one after another, and they all tell the production team that as long as they create and make well-made games, there will still be many players willing to "suffer them all".I believe that with the inspiration of a group of aspiring people, Chinese horror games will also find their own exclusive spring.
Finally, UP master wants to talk about the metaphor of fireworks. Fireworks are a combination of contradictions, and they bloom in an instant, as brilliant as stars but are broken into pieces. However, this extremely gorgeous fall actually contains huge power, and the dead embers are often built with hope for new life. After fireworks and under ashes, sparks can also spread to the prairie.
So, dear friend, no matter where you are, no matter what difficulties you face, please don’t give up hope, because in our time, hope is really as precious as diamonds. I wish you, who are walking alone in the dark night, the fireworks towards the stars, and all your wishes come true.
