It’s finally time for the white album again. During this time when the Baixue is full of breath, I suddenly had a whim to find a suitable GAL/AVG on Steam. I came across this lightweight AVG game released in 2017 - " Fanggens Shujian ". The familiar style of the cover made me very interested in it. I bought it as a Christmas Eve pastime.
"Shu Jian of Fangren" is the first mystery game launched by Kadokawa Games. With the title of "Kaorikawa Reasoning" as the first shot and the gimmick of the "Love Plus" painter, many players are full of expectations for it. The background of the game is that the protagonist (can be named by himself) discovered a letter from a strange pen pal fifteen years ago at home. The content of the last letter was too weird, so he decided to go to Shimane Prefecture, where the pen pal is located, looking for the truth, which is quite suspenseful. But the ending after passing the level made me feel mixed and I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
16 Xiayu's "Letter of Schrödinger"
"Fang Gen Shu Jian" is nicknamed "Letter of Schrödinger" by players. As an item that can determine the ending branch, the letter is indeed worthy of this title.
painter effect
What attracted me at first was the familiar style of painting in "Fang Gen Shu Jian". This reminds me of the late 1960s and mid-1970s, Hollywood in the United States set off a trend of commercial movie creation. There is one system called the star system. The purpose is to package and create a star effect so that the audience can pay for the star because of it. The same concepts include the producer system and the director system.
This effect also works in game production. For artists, personalization allows the audience to recognize their works from the flowers at a glance, and realizing this matter itself requires deep knowledge.
(Leonardo DiCaprio)
For example: The responsible artist of Japan Type-moon Club is Takeuchi Tsu . The Moon Man (Style Moon Fan) has turned a series of characters with Takeuchi Tsu sty style into Takeuchi's face.
(Takeuchi face)
For example: Japan's Kyoani Animation Company also has more extreme personalized facial features. Basically, you only need to change your hairstyle and pupil color to generate another character.
(Kyoani face)
Komatsuzaki, a painter of the first and second generation of "Danwan Lunpo". His thick and heavy coloring method directly fills his personalization, so even if you jump into other games, you can recognize his artistic style at a glance.
(Two people with similar styles in Komatsu Qi's paintings, namely 娱娱娱娱娱正娱正娱 and Edmund, the king of rock cave)
The character drawn by the artist Phantom Black Rabbit, the Chinese two-dimensional mobile game " Ark of Tomorrow ", also has its own style and characteristics.
This is the artist effect. Compared with ordinary audiences, painter fans are more likely to accept the games their favorite painters participate in the production. The same is true for "Fang Gen Book Blank".
(The work of the illusion of Black Rabbit in "Ark of Tomorrow")
The painter of "Kaogen Shu Jian" is Taro Ji, who represents "Love Plus". The characters of the two works are very similar. The characters drawn by Taro Mishi Sei-Taro all have the so-called "first love" atmosphere. The character of "Love plus" is also known as the national level girlfriend. Each of them is full of youthful and cute, simple and innocent personality. It's hard to dislike.
(Female character of Love plus)
Aesthetic presentation of the integration of music and picture
The characters in "Fang Gen Shu Jian" have their own dubbings. It is very suitable for matching music corresponding to the text. The animations interspersed in each chapter make people reluctant to skip them. But it has to be said that the quantity is really too small and some are not satisfactory.If an animation can be set after each ending, it may be able to further improve the evaluation of this work.
Fang Root Book Shop has obvious highlights, but its shortcomings are equally fatal.
The regrettable branch ending
"Fang Gen Shu Jian" has five ending lines, but what is surprising is that except for HE's ending, which is better foreshadows and gives a relatively satisfactory ending, the other endings are somewhat criticized. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to describe it as a sudden stop and a tiger’s head and a tiger’s head and a tiger’s tail. In addition, the plot has many times seen content related to 7, such as the seven partners, the seven incredible strange stories, and the seven deadly sins corresponding to the seven partners. In my opinion, they are clues that can be described in depth, but they have not explained and discussed too much. They always feel mysterious and deliberately show off.
The embarrassing positioning "Fanggen Book Shop"
In terms of chapter arrangement, "Fanggen Book Shop" adopts a linear model of 8+2. Chapter 8 public plot + Chapter 2 branch ending plot. The option to determine the branch is just the option to reply to the previous few chapters. After this, the plot will not change, which is far from what I remember from AVG and GAL. If the positioning is AVG, the previous series "Bao Lunpo" and "Reversal Referee" will pale in suspense reasoning. There is almost no link in "Fang Gen Book Shop" that makes players spend brain cells reasoning.
If the positioning is GAL, then there is even more no comparison. Neither the plot nor the strategy is enough to support it to become a GAL game. What's more, in the game, except for HE's last time being with the heroine, the heroine in other story lines basically lives in other people's memories, and there is no way to talk about the strategy.
AVG puzzle game (×) Shimae tourism promotion game (√)
Kadokawa Games president Yoshimi Yasuda was born in Shimae. Perhaps because she wanted to promote her hometown Shimae, she launched the "Fang Ke" series, which consists of three works: "Fang Ke's Book Shop", "Fang Ke's Film" and "Fang Ke's Last Answer", among which "Fang Ke's Last answer" is the live version of "Fang Ke's Book Shop".
A large number of Shimae's cultural landscapes and local customs appear in the game. However, excessive advertising implantation and promotion can easily cause discomfort among players. And apart from simply mentioning the location, the introduction to local customs and humanities is not profound enough. It's hard to impress me. However, the Japanese restaurant in the game gave me a good impression, such as the Qizhen cuisine of 华华华华机 (including silverfish , clams, eel , perch , carp , etc.).
2 "Fang Gen Shu Jian" in my heart
I have talked about the advantages and disadvantages of "Fang Gen Shu Jian", and I want to talk about my feelings next. Because it is relatively scattered, it is not easy to classify it among the advantages or disadvantages.
From the rain, Shimae's rain shizuku complex
has mentioned the concept of "rain shizuku (na three tones)" many times in the game, referring to the fate that we met on rainy days. In my opinion, it has a very romanticism atmosphere. Therefore, whenever the scene rains, I will carefully read the plot of the text, hoping to have a beautiful love story (unfortunately).
The monkey who dreamed of returning to junior high school recalled
In my impression, when I was in junior high school and high school, there were always a few naughty children imitating bad boys. And almost every bad teenager in school has a code name called "monkey". He may not be the boss, but he must be the one who fights the most. Therefore, when I saw the past of the monkey in "Fang Gen Shu Jian", I couldn't help but recall my junior high school. It is inevitable that we will sigh at the wasted time. Gone are the time. The youth at that time seemed as dazzling as the sun now.
Greetings from between the gaps
What surprised me more was that the production played oriental memes in the creation of scripts. The meme that appeared in this conversation with the boatman made me feel the gaze in a flash.
The eternal 17-year-old meme comes from the famous plot of Yakumo Zi character in "Oriental Project". No one knows how old she is, but she always claims to be 17 years old. No matter where you are, as long as you question her age, the surrounding space will create gaps and then let your face roll on the keyboard.
3 Summary
From the comparison of the second work of the "Fang Root" series, "Fang Root Film" and "Fang Root Book Shop", there are still some progress. The themes and style of letters can attract me. In this fast-paced life, being able to communicate with letters is actually an enviable way of making friends. It has a sense of ritual and literary atmosphere. The more restless you are, the more you need a dose of slow medicine.
To be honest, I still look forward to the next work in the Fanggen series that will have outstanding performance. After all, it is temporary whether the plot is good or not, and it is a lifetime for my wife to be good-looking.
