This is the 343rd original article of the Old Boy Game Box. Author @Xiao Lei
Chinese players who are familiar with " Swallowing the World " should know that this game is definitely one of the typical JRPGs of "flowering inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall". Although this series is from the famous CAPCOM, CAPCOM at that time has quite a "pit king" style. It has dug many excellent pits but is well received in the Japanese market.
On the contrary, like "Swallowing the World", because of its early Chineseization, it has become a classic in the minds of a generation of post-80s and post-90s in China on the other side of the ocean. Even if there is no official sequel, the folk fan game "Swallowing the World" has never stopped since the new millennium, and the "Swallowing the World" circle has also created its own unique paid game culture. The scale of its size has amazed some so-called "hard-core players" groups.
In fact, whether a fan circle is hard-core depends on how well their works restore the original work. As for the quality of the fan game "Swallows the World", Xiao Lei thinks that most of them are unqualified, and basically they just imitate the superficiality of "Swallows". Many details are extremely intricate, and they are quite like a skin-changing online game.
Give a simple example. The picture below is a screenshot of the battle of a Japanese fan "Swallowing the World 2 Complete Edition". We will find that Zhang Fei's blood strips are yellow in color, while the others on our side are red in color.
In fact, this color is not a mess. Here we are actually restoring the impact of terrain factors on military generals "Devouring the World 2 Biography of Zhuge Kongming". Due to the Chinese technology limitations of Pioneer Cartoons back then, a lot of data in the so-called "Swallowing World 2 Deluxe Chinese Version" cannot be displayed normally in the interface. For example, the favorable terrain of each general, some Swallowing players may not know that there is such a thing still there.
According to the original setting of "Swallowing 2", Zhang Fei's expertise in terrain is mountainous. When we encounter enemies in the mountains, Zhang Fei's blood bar will automatically turn yellow, and in this case his attack power will increase by 20%.
In addition to mountains, there are also plains, lakes, hills, forests, caves, cities, and villages. However, the terrain that can bring BUFF to generals is only mountain, plain, and lakes. Judging from the blood bars of Zhou Tai and Huang Gai in the Battle of Chibi below, most of Sun Quan's troops are known for water battles, and this setting is also more in line with history.
only judging from the impact of terrain on the color of blood bars, the above mentioned "Swallowing the World 2 Complete Edition" restored the details of the original work quite well. As for some domestic paid fan of "Swallowing World", Xiao Lei will not give many examples. The main reason is that the author who sells the game brings fans to me...
"Swallowing World 2" Zhuge Kongming's Biography" is an old game that has been released for nearly 30 years, and its popularity among the old players born in the 1980s and 1990s in China is quite popular. However, many details in this game are not well known to the majority of players, such as Blood Bar - Let's continue to talk about the blood bar settings of the original "Swallowing 2". I wonder how many players have noticed that the blood bars in the early stage of the game are red, and will turn orange in the middle stage, and will turn brown in the later stage. Some players have encountered five generals who are all yellow with "profitable terrain".
To answer this question, you need to dig deep into the game "Swallowing the World 2". In fact, if you are an old reader of @Old Boy Game Box, you should remember that we posted an article about the naming password of the Japanese version of "Swallowing the World 2", which contains five passwords corresponding to the progress of the game's six chapters.
Some players must have thought, will the progress of the chapter of "Swallowing the World 2" affect the color of the blood bar?
After actual testing, the answer is no. We randomly built a level 1 account and used our gold finger to upgrade the account to level 48. We found that the blood bar had completely become the color of the final battle with Sima Yi, which shows that the color of the blood bar has nothing to do with the plot progress, and it is likely to be related to our level.
So what is the relationship between blood bars and rank? Xiao Lei did not have a detailed test here, but only talked about the roughly measured conclusion: before level 8, our blood bars were pink, the enemy was blue, and each blood bar represented a very small number of troops. At this stage, there were about 1,000 troops to fill the screen.
In order to prevent the blood bar from overflowing the screen, when we reach about level 8, the scale bar of the length of the blood bar will be recalculated. At this stage, our blood bar will turn orange-red and the enemy will turn dark blue. At this stage, the blood bar will be about 2,000 troops can fill the screen.
The third stage is the stage that most players can reach. At about level 35, the blood bars will change color again, our side will turn yellow brown, and the enemy will be purple. At this time, it will take about 5,000 troops to make the blood bars fill the screen.
The fourth stage is only suitable for the extreme leveling party or the gold finger party. It is about level 60 to 70. The blood bar will usher in the fourth evolution. After the evolution, our blood bar will turn yellow (the color is exactly the same as the "favorable terrain"), and the enemy will be pink, and the color of the blood bar will not change until level 99.
It’s a pity that at this stage it is impossible to tell which general is in the "advantageous terrain". Considering that it is difficult for normal players to reach such a high level, it may be that the production team of "Swallowing the World 2" was considered to be rushing to work in the past, otherwise changing a color should be relatively simple for them.
Today, I symbolically dig into the details of the game in the episode "Devouring the World 2 Biography of Zhuge Kongming". I don't know if these knowledge points have been dug up by other great gods. If it can be helpful to everyone, I hope you will like and collect and encourage Xiao Lei to continue hydrology. Thank you here~
Author of this article: Xiao Lei
Editor: Xiao Lei
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