Do you still remember when did you last touched this little thing?
is very interesting to say. According to current research, the earliest dice appeared in ancient Egypt. In the days when there was no computer, people in the past have survived for thousands of years with the various simple gameplay derived from this small prop. With the continuous development of the electronic game industry and the improvement of technology, the dice prop has slowly retreated from a specific gameplay itself in just a few decades.
Of course, in the classic table games such as "Flying Chess", " Monopoly ", " Cold War Hot Fight ", etc., dice still plays an indispensable and unique role. As the easiest random number generator we can get, dice also retains its own place in electronic games. Last year, the first test "Bodd's Gate 3" was launched, and it also stubbornly retained the dice detection mechanism. For example, the game I want to talk about today has almost eaten up all my rest time last weekend, and the "Dice Elemental Master" scored 8.9 on tapap.
Speaking of which, I just saw "Dice Elemental Master" in the app store, and I instantly thought of another game series - "Professor Layton". It’s not that the styles of the two are very similar. Although their art styles choose to outline vivid images with simple lines, Professor Layton goes with a more steady English old-fashioned animation style.
, the overall style full of hand-painted texture, and some exaggerated character design make "Dice Elemental Master" look more like a fairy tale book.
But if you compare the main gameplay of "Professor Layton" - looking for puzzles, gold coins, and clues from the map, "Dice Elemental Master" is also full of details that can be explored. When choosing the interface to start the game, the arrangement of scenes and props is complex and not messy. Every character in the tavern can interact. Click the spider to open the settings bar, click the TV on the table and automatically jump to join the official QQ group/taptap official community.
Of course, even if it is a fairy tale, "Dice Elemental Master" is also a very "deep&dark&fantasy" fairy tale.
I can also summarize the gameplay of "Dice Elemental Master" in a simple sentence - this is a stand-alone game of "Rogue+DBG". At the beginning of the game, you need to choose a character to embark on a brand new adventure. There are various rooms in the "Dungeon". You need to face a group of monsters, monsters that are common in fantasy backgrounds such as goblins and slimes. You will also see indescribable things like onions + tentacles, one-eyed starfish full of ancient gods' whispers;
Some just-in-one memes can always make adult players like me smile knowingly, and the only way to defeat monsters is to fight through dice. This is the most core combat part of "Dice Elemental Master".
, however, the 6 sides of the dice in "Dice Elemental Master" are not numbers, but six elements: "wind, water, fire, earth, light, and dark". There are more than 100 magic cards in the game. Each magic has the corresponding dice requirement. Generally, each character can throw 5 dices per turn. The magic of each element corresponds to a different BUFF/DEBUFF. Fire magic often gives the opponent a burning abnormality, which will spread to the opponent's hand. When he uses the corresponding hand, "hot" it. The ice magic corresponds to the freezing effect, which can freeze the opponent's dice, and cannot be re-dumped.
The dice here is not the cost in traditional card games, but more like the cost limit. If the elements of the dice meet all your card needs, you can pour out all the magic in one turn.
This design undoubtedly reduces the hesitation when not knowing how to choose the optimal solution, and also increases the refreshingness in disguise, making "Dice Elemental Master" almost no entry threshold. You can completely leave the victory or defeat to your luck. However, the game of "Dice Elemental Master" actually starts from the deck construction. It is a group of magic with multiple attributes, ensuring that you have cards to play in each round, or believing in your luck to form a solid color team and take a try. You may be able to all in the next round. Its basic gameplay design also brings me something worth pondering.
▲But I still choose all in
It doesn’t matter if I fail once. Anyway, the level of the Meat Pigeon Game is piled up with the bodies of brave men. Every time I fail, I can bring out a lot of resources from the dungeon. Players can use these resources to strengthen their roles and increase the success rate of the next reopening of the game.
. On top of such simple and easy-to-understand basic rules, the production team made a lot of additions in "Dice Elemental Master", so that its fun was not missing because of the simple gameplay.
There are 6 professions in "Dice Elemental Master", each profession has its own positioning and skill design, and they all have certain extensions and breakthroughs in the basic gameplay of dice rolling.
is more humane. Although they are all dice rolling, the setting of the profession of "Dice Elemental Master" is also moving closer to the traditional impression of players. The obvious style tendency also makes the experience of each profession very different.
The most basic profession "Dreadnought" is like the initial warriors in most games. They can throw 5 dices in one round and can also dice twice. The skills are simple and unpretentious to cause a certain amount of damage, which is very suitable for novices to experience;
"Stalker" is a bit like an assassin who "takes critical hits". He no longer has the opportunity to re-die the initial dice, but automatically re-dializes the order of the card in turn every time he uses the card, which makes the card order less important, greatly improving the impact of luck (critical hit rate) on the battle. However, the skill designed by the production team for him is that it can directly move out the use needs of a card, making up for a certain amount of luck increase/debuff. He can play a better role in the hands of players who already have a certain understanding of the card combination in the game.
and "Singer". She cannot dice the dice like other characters, and there are only 4 dices in the initial dice. In contrast, the production team gave her the ability of "re-dice = creation". Clicking the heavy dice can create 3 dices. The singer can choose an element from it and add her own dice. After counting, there are actually 6 dices. She is much freer than the previous two. Speaking of which, she is more in line with the image of the title "Elemental Master".
plus various powerful "artifacts" bonuses, "Dice Elemental Master" did a good job in the meat pigeon part. Characters, cards, and artifacts can combine many routines and gameplay. When encountering monsters with different mechanisms, the same routine can often bring very wonderful chemical reactions, which can enhance the freshness of reopening each game.
For example, there is a lord "Spyker" in the second level. Just like his name, he will peek at your hand and copy it as his hand. It can be said that he is a very difficult opponent who is strong when facing a strong one. I easily killed him at the first sight. The reason is very simple. In that game, I happened to form a set of sets of hands or a wave of big explosions of pure face-fighting decks. In the end, the battle became a tug-of-war that I often have no cards to play. It copied my cards and was completely useless, and I was better with my strong luck.
In addition to the traditional card gameplay, there are some mini-games in "Dice Elemental Master" that use dice as the basic gameplay. For example, during the exploration process, you will encounter some events. When encountering events, you can also determine whether you succeed or not is also a dice roll. Its rules basically pay tribute to the very classic dice game "yahtzee", which uses the same element's pairs as the winning and losing judgment condition. Both sides have two chances to roll dice. After the pitch, the party with a purer color on both sides will win. If 2 wins in 3 games will be rewarded.
There is also a special "lottery" store in the game. Shopping does not consume gold coins, but depends on whether the dice you throw can match the prizes provided by the boss.
Perhaps because luck runs through the entire game, "Dice Elemental Master" does not reopen if it fails like the traditional meat pigeon game, but gives players the option to fight again if they are not convinced. Before returning to this room, you can choose other enemies to challenge, or be more stern and conceal a small probability event. After repeated reopening, there will be "hidden benefits" buried by the production team.
To be honest, "Dice Elemental Master" is definitely not a game that attracts players by relying on his skin. During the promotion, the production team also made self-deprecating "the style is ugly and cute." Otherwise, under the general trend of cute girls, there are obviously no other girls in the game, but they still choose to use the most...the impressive old man as " billboard lady ".
▲However, its "contrast cuteness" is really eye-catching in the app store
. Under its somewhat "ugly and cute" appearance, it hides a dice element that combines classic dice elements, but it makes very interesting extensions and explorations in this kind of gameplay, and also fills with a kernel that is playable and detailed. Two weeks after its release, more than 3,300 players on tapap have already scored 8.9 for him, which is the best proof.
Finally, let’s talk about some issues that everyone is very concerned about - as a mobile game, does "Dice Elemental Master" cheat krypton?
Like many independent stand-alone mobile games, "Dice Elemental Master" also chose to download the main body for free and has a small number of in-app purchases built-in payment mode.
and the payment point are nothing more than 4 advanced professions with clear price tags that need to be purchased. Each one costs less than 6 yuan. If you don’t want to pay, you can completely unlock the resources you get in the level. Apart from buying characters, there are almost no other in-app purchases. The functions you can buy are all "liver-saving options". The game experience will not be deficient, and there is no need to draw cards, nor the combat effectiveness. The production team is honestly labeled the diamond gift package with a maximum price of 60 yuan on the recharge page.
If you are willing to spend dozens of megabytes of traffic and use a free character to hit a few levels, you should be able to feel the fun of this "ugly and cute game". At that time, you will probably know whether it is worth paying the most simple and unpretentious four-season milk green money.
