Once upon a time, martial arts RPG still occupied an absolute dominant position in the domestic game market. In that era, excellent products of domestic martial arts RPG emerged one after another. While explaining the story core through gameplay and narrative means, some works have also begun to try to show players a "more three-dimensional world" by adding more free play.
Today, Mi Youjun would like to list a few classic martial arts RPGs that "has high freedom design".
Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes
The pioneering work of "Legend of the Heroes" from Heluo Studio was born in . It has been sought after by countless players for its extremely high degree of freedom and wild ideas. It has a huge fan base to this day. Especially in that era, the big IPs that gathered 14 masterpieces of Mr. Jin Yong were unprecedented, and of course they were never born. Now that the price of Jin Yong's IP authorization has risen, it is impossible for anyone to reproduce such a classic. This is the even more rare thing about "The Legend of Jin Yong".
Of course, in addition to pioneering the open world in China in the 1990s, the contribution of "The Legend of Jin Yong" to Chinese games is also the impact it has brought to later generations. To this day, players are no longer satisfied with exploring the world of Jin Yong in the original work, but instead add their own ideas to the game through the development of MOD. At present, there are many well-known MODs derived from "The Legend of Jin Yong", including "The Legend of the Sun", "The Book of Jin Shu Qun Fang", "The Record of the Red Beauty of the Golden Book", "People in the Jianghu", "Preface to the Legend of Jin Yong", "The Legend of Jin Gu Qun Xia", etc.
Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes 2/Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes 3
Of course, the 2nd and 3rd generations of the "Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes" series of fan games based on Flash, developed by the internet celebrities in the game industry. Compared with the orthodox "The Legend of Jin Yong" under Heluo Studio, this fan series adopts a more concise operation and expression method. Players can complete the operation in the game by simply clicking the mouse and a few simple buttons, and there is no need to remember the complex Jin Yong world map. All locations and events are intuitively displayed on the map. Players can re-experience the charm of Jin Yong world in this sketch game with relatively easy access. What is more charming than the original is that in this game, players can also hunt, mine, practice and even exercise in the deep sea, with a more wonderful imagination.
Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes X
"Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes X" is another independent game masterpiece in this field after half a bottle of fan games of immortals and jealousy. Due to the birth time, this game must have been influenced by the original work, many MODs and fan-likes in terms of its feeling and ideas, but this does not prevent "The Legend of Jin Yong" from becoming an excellent high-degree martial arts game. Independent studio Hanjia Squirrel has added more elements of high playability to this game: more than 50 special teammates that can be joined, 250 special martial arts, more than 300 types of items; 8 special sects that can be joined. In addition, the open map, high degree of freedom and multi-line endings inherited from the "Golden" series are also very interesting. It is admirable that the Han Squirrel provides this game completely free from beginning to end, and has never made any profit through it. It is known as "completely free, no ads, no in-app purchases, just for the ideals and justice in my heart!"
Gu Long Group of Heroes
From the perspective of design and quality, this game looks more like an accompanying work after being influenced by "Jin Yong Group of Heroes". Although the game includes "The Passionate Swordsman's Relentless Sword", "The World, the Moon, the Sword", "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng", "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", "The Legend of the Peerless Sword", "The Legend of the Sword", "The Legend of the Martial Arts", etc., the overall feeling is that it has not fully reproduced the romance and excitement of the Gu Long martial arts world, but it has only put a lot of effort into the strangeness. In addition, in comparison, the game does not have very high freedom, but it only has a multi-line plot and ending.
Martial Arts and Legends / Martial Arts and Legends
This is probably familiar to martial arts fans. "The Martial Arts and Legends" is one of the trilogy of "The Martial Arts and Legends" in Heluo Studio back then, and "The Martial Arts and Legends" is a replica of the feelings later. Overall, as players gradually get used to high-degree free play, the surprises brought by these two games are no longer as many as "The Legend of Jin Yong", but the original plot and simulation development combined with RPG role-playing gameplay still have a lot of fun.
Hero Hall Say
Regarding "Hero Hall Say", I don't know how many friends remember that the "Wenquxing" that they bought when they deceived parents to learn English, or to be more precise, we may call it MUD. In "Heroes' Hall", the 14-year-old protagonist starts his journey from Ping An Town. There are many real elements in the game. The protagonist will be thirsty, hungry, and injured. At the same time, he needs to learn martial arts, make money through tasks, etc. After seriously investing in this game, you will find that you feel like you have traveled to a virtual ancient world full of martial arts. Later, this field also spawned such as "GMUD's Heroes' Hall", "New Heroes' Hall", "Golden Heroes' Hall", "Platinum Heroes' Hall", etc., each with its own wonderful features and is also a classic IP with great influence and spontaneous creative enthusiasm among the people.
In addition, mobile game players can also pay attention to several more names, such as various variants of "The Legend of Jin Yong" magical revisions, half-bottle fairy vinegar version of "The Legend of Jin Yong" transplanted version, various replicas of "The Legend of Heroes", including "The So-called Jianghu", "Jianghu X", "Hanjia Jianghu", etc., which can be downloaded and played on your mobile phone very easily.
