Author: NGA-hjyx01
Hong Kong Village Mystery is a Chinese translation name rather than an official translation name* This is a game that I was recommended in the quagmire.
Quickly understand the mystery of the human wolf village (Raging Loop)
The mystery of the human wolf village is a "reincarnation system" puzzle redemption story. Speaking of the possibility of the reincarnation system finding miracles in the infinite world line, it is a ancestral art of Japanese cultural works. Maybe everyone is familiar with it. From the girl who travels through time to the gate of the destiny stone, from the magic girl Koyuan to the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (that never-ending summer), although the story of the world line needs to be logically strict self-consistent to ensure the rationality of the story, properly handled this reincarnation setting similar to SL Dafa can undoubtedly add a lot of color to the wonderfulness of the story.
has so many pearls and jades in front, but the mystery of the Human Wolf Village is not very similar to these works. Its special lies in three points. First, this is a very cruel story of people who suspect each other and kill each other under high psychological pressure. Then, the more interesting story lies in the acquisition and reasoning of fragmented information. In a sense, these two points are more similar to those of the cicada in the reincarnation works. As a mysterious serial murder case in a closed environment, it also has some meaning of natural reasoning.
The last and most important thing: this story incorporates the rules of werewolf killing into the "real world" where the story takes place. The people in the story are assigned their own characters by the gods like a game of werewolf killing. werewolf will wake up at night to kill the villagers, and the villagers need to work together to find the werewolf at the next day's banquet to hang them. This process goes on and on until the winner is finally decided.
I have to say that this story has great ideas, but it is also accompanied by huge difficulty of realization. Because unlike the ease in the werewolf killing game , from the perspective of the mysterious character of the human wolf village, the characters really "dead". What's more, the game does not arrange a group of strangers to be together and start a story similar to battle royale. In addition to the male protagonist Fang Shi Yangming, who is a player who controls the character, two TV reporters Ma Gong and Hashimoto who happen to be interviewed, and a lost little girl Meko, most of the characters are neighbors who have lived together for many years, and there are also many unusual relationships such as classmates, friends, and mother and son. But the producer greatly alleviated this problem with his solid script skills and clever structural design. (The following will be discussed in detail without spoilers)
[release time]
ancient (90 years ago) old (90-00) recent (00-10) current (10-19) new (20-)
* This work was released on the steam platform on August 24, 2017.
[Game Type]
Visual Novel Werewolf Killing Role Playing Rich Story Psychological Horror
* Although some selection branches will bring different plot directions, it is closer to the experience of "watching" the werewolf Killing game.
[Game Price]
Fantasy girl The Road of Eden Horse Riding and Killing Overlord Cyberpunk 2077 Resident Evil RE3
*Original price is 88, -35% during the summer promotion period, priced at 57.
[Cost-performance ratio]
Buy the full amount on discount purchase, ordinary, return if you can, and give it for free.
* provides 20-30 hours of exciting (full voice) plot experience, which is absolutely worth the money for friends who are interested in werewolf killing.
[Player Group]
Children Everyone Casual Player Hardcore Boss Hang
* Because it is more of a process of "watching" the plot, you don't need to be proficient in the werewolf killing game. (Of course, if you are proficient, you will get more reading fun)
[Configuration Requirements]
Potato Shenzhou IBM Alien Tianhe 1
* No configuration Requirements
[Gameability]
Apprentice Assistant Craftsman Expert Master
*Reading fun is very good.
[difficulty]
Tetris Assassin's Creed Super Mary Dark Soul Sekiro
* Since you can backtrack (read files) at will in the plot icon without losing the plot key, it will not be difficult.
[duration]
ultra short (1 hour) short (1 day) Medium (1 week) long (January) Endless
* The main body has about 20-30 hours of plot duration, and it will be longer if you play the game exposure mode (extra information and dialogue, everyone's thoughts, etc.) and the next day talk (five short stories about the characters' subsequent)
[Plot]
Lao Roll 6 trial version Tiny Times Wonder Woman Batman Song of Ice and Fire
*The plot design for the first two weeks was very exciting.
[Screen]
Mosaic Chicken Eat Rice Picture Hundred Birds Paying Phoenix Picture Fuchun Mountain Residence Mona Lisa
*The character painting style is not the style I like, and the scene is also simple.
[Music]
Chicken You are so beautiful Youth Training Manual Confession Balloon In the name of father Moonlight Song
* has independent soundtrack and opening and ending song~, but the quality is mediocre.
[Others]
multiple player game single player game Continuous update Community support Creative Workshop
*Tianmiao Chinese transformation group provides complete Chinese transformation.
Raging Loop gameplay and game settings
Story introduction
Our male protagonist Fang Shi Yangming rode a motorcycle to drive on a self-driving tour on a dark night in the deserted countryside.
He was desperate and hungry and cold, and he was guided by the convenience store on the roadside to go to the nearest village: Xiushui.
This is a small settlement attached to Shang Fujira, and it seems to be a paradise that is invincible with the world.
As a result, the disaster never came singularly. His motorcycle overturned and damaged on the muddy mountain road. By chance, he came to the stream under the village. Fortunately, he was rescued by Qianzhishi, a college student in the village who had recently returned home.
even had some slight ambiguous feeling with her. Just when the player and the protagonist think "this is not bad," the endless nightmare just started:
It turns out that Xiushui was not an ordinary settlement, but an existence deeply bound by local beliefs: in ancient times, the jurisdiction of Ryana Akiko Utsuto, due to the many prey nearby, gradually human hunters settled here. Nakiko sent five relatives (wolf, snake, ape, crow, spider) to manage the local humans. But humans and other gods killed the wolf god, and thus achieved lasting prosperity. However, the wolf god was not willing to do so, but would bring the Huangquan people (who should go to the underworld but did not die) back to revenge: the stream next to the settlement is always considered to be the existence connecting the other side of the Huangquan. Whenever the blood fog rises, the local residents will have to engage in a life-and-death game of "real werewolf killing":
The first night after the blood mist begins is Christmas Eve. After completing the established ritual (locking the door, purifying the body, falling asleep), all residents will be assigned their respective roles the next morning.
*The role allocation here is slightly different from the werewolf killing we are used to. It is divided into snakes (you can check whether one person's identity is a wolf every night, which can be understood as a prophet), spiders (you can protect one person every night, but you cannot protect yourself, which can be understood as a guard, but there seems to be no setting that cannot continuously protect the same person), crows (you can check whether the dead person is a human), apes (there are two people, there is no special function, but you know the identity of the other party), wolf (you can sacrifice 1 person every night), a mysterious character (will not mention it when it comes to spoilers), villagers.
werewolf can kill one person every night.
At the Huangquan Banquet the next day, everyone can express their opinions and vote to execute one person: send it to the pine tree on the cliff above Huayong to hang it.
is different from the werewolf killing we are used to. In this game, westerly cannot win. Westerly need to kill all villagers or be absolutely ahead in votes to win. It seems to be very unfavorable to werewolf. However, since it is "westerly killing in the real world", there are a lot of rules that are destroyed: for example, westerly kills multiple people in one night regardless of the rules, such as anyone kills others through voting or blood sacrifice, such as someone going out at night regardless of the curfew.
These people who break the rules will be "contaminated" by the wolf god and turn into flesh and blood mud. There is no doubt that this kind of chaos is beneficial to wolves. When relatives and friends die one by one by one, people often fall into the quagmire of mutual suspicion and take extreme actions toward the end of destruction.
Gameplay
As a visual novel, the two most important concepts of this work are "roadmap chart" and "plot key". The ultimate goal of the game is to live and solve this puzzle. As the player makes choices in the game, they may go to various bad endings, or they may move towards the final outcome of this week.
Another key item that determines the different direction of the plot is key. Since this is a story of reincarnation, in some loops, the character may not successfully break through and die, but he will obtain more information for the next loop, and the information obtained will exist in the form of a key: the key can unlock more options possibilities, and will not be lost once it is obtained.
additional content
After the final round of the game is completed, you can play additional content of the game, including additional dialogue scenes and exposure modes with each character's psychological state, five subsequent talks about characters in the story, additional content to enjoy cutscenes & music & CG, etc.
Advantages and shortcomings of the Raging Loop
quite creative "broken circle design"
The rules of killing werewolf are reasonable and apply the realistic story in a story with a realistic background. The game achieves this well through detailed background settings of mythological beliefs and folk customs (all fictional, but it can be seen that the production team has a certain knowledge reserve in this regard) and excellent construction of the characters.
(1) The discussion on myths and folk customs is quite interesting
Borrowing the supernatural theme lover and real food writer Ma Gongyukou, the game has conducted many interesting discussions on deepening and folk customs, such as the verification of the source of gods.
For example, in the legend of Xiushui, the behavior of " God-killing " in myths and legends (the gods and humans are not equal in terms of setting), such as faith serving politics (which is misinterpreted as the content needed by the ruler to enslave the lower classes).
For example, the fusion of myths accompanied by population fusion (the beliefs of the conquered will be integrated into the beliefs of the conquered).
contents are not rigidly piled up the story background, but are integrated into the game's reasoning process, accompanying the process of players constantly approaching the truth from the perspective of the male protagonist.
(2) The male protagonist of the Double Business Online and the group of characters with distinct personalities like
It has been a long time since I saw such a quick-thinking and slutty male protagonist. Whether it is the judgment of the situation or the interpretation of the human heart, whether it is the communication skills or the will to implement the action, the male protagonist has always given me a feeling that "I probably can't do better under this situation." The description of the male protagonist's thinking process in the game is very detailed, and the analysis of intelligence in each decision is also one of the most exciting contents of the game.
*The story of the slut is not only the male protagonist, but also the attributes shared by many characters.
But the hero's quick thinking did not make him go all the way in this game: Xiushui people have a strong psychological resistance to outsiders, and the second is the extremely outstanding figure of supporting roles in the game. In this life-and-death game, although Yang Ming was extremely talented, he did not go all the way, but was always walking on thin ice and wandering on the edge of life and death. This high tension that follows the shadow has always accompanied the players, giving us a better sense of inclusion.
Whether it is the older Murobu (authoritative), the Mesozoic craftsman (responsibility), and the two-year-old Taichang (responsibility) all have very strong analytical skills and dominant desires, while the mysterious wolf grandpa, Meko and Wangzai (amazing insight) will bring uncontrollable changes to the situation at any time. Ma Miyako and Hashimoto, as outsiders, have amazing logical thinking ability and action ability. The two heroines Chiazhi and Ri Hanako both bear amazing secrets.The remaining loving mother Kaori, her irritable brother and Harumei (hers are also a little deliberate in the three emotional lines) are a little bit stereotyped.
Time and space logic self-consistent: it is not a static reincarnation
When the male protagonist tries to use the past reincarnation to obtain information to gain advantages, he often cannot step into the same river: the changes he brings to reincarnation will also lead to changes in the direction of things in the future, and the most important thing is that the allocation of "identity" will change. It seems that this is a disadvantage for the final breakthrough, but it is also this that allows the male protagonist to find that ray of light in desperate situations.
high-quality teaching of werewolf killing
Although the game method and the rules of werewolf killing were taught at the beginning in detail.
But this game actually does not require players to be proficient in the rules, just "understand". In many cycles, players can also appreciate the charm of werewolf killing from various perspectives through different identities.
is a little disappointed with the content of "breaking the deadlock"
The author's obsession with "decryption" and "reunion" led to an ending of "approaching science", but this ending is that it also recognizes the existence of gods (maybe the dream cycle cannot be explained by science), and attempts to use reasonable realistic logic to explain all the strange phenomena in the game (interpret everything as artificial control of the Sanshui family), but the final effect is less convincing than pure divine power or pure human beings. In fact, maintaining a little bit of Cthulhu's mysteriousness and giving the character a breakout, but not having to explain everything in such detail (and thus leading to a lot of logical irrationality) may be a better choice. Because the charm of this story itself lies in its ambiguous information and mystery. It is really a very detailed solution to puzzles, and not in a very convincing way, it will only backfire.
Another disappointment is that after the players have experienced the identities of "bystander", "priesthood" and "wolf", they are equivalent to a large-scale werewolf killing teaching explanation. In the end, they gave up the mechanism used by the werewolf killing game from beginning to end (the first three weeks tell you that you can't win in the game no matter what): they have turned into human conspiracy and strange powers.
actually introduces new characters (such as the salesperson lady), and finally decides the outcome with logic, will and strategy in the "game", which is undoubtedly a better choice (you can get the identity of a civilian: the least information, the most difficult start), which can bring a better gaming experience. After all, the layout is indeed in the game. This design similar to the original reasoning has been laid out at the beginning, but the forced elevation of the surrounding items has not logically achieved self-consistent (even as the best part: the male protagonist's thinking process is directly omitted).
The advantages and disadvantages of killing outside the rules
Due to the large number of people participating, if they really go round by round, the pace is really too slow, and people's emotional collapse in the game must be considered. However, the use of killing outside the rules is still too much in this work: although it will be punished, the benefits of breaking the rules are still too high, which leads to the competition in core logical thinking and becomes a vassal.
Summary: The masterpiece worth trying
Werewolf Village Mystery at the beginning reminded the player to "don't stay overnight", and the actual reading situation is indeed the case: under the plot structure of the reincarnation system, in the interlocking plot, in the moving performance of the characters in the play, and in the driven by the hard fight between the mind and the body but ultimately defeated, it is difficult for us to stop reading the Enter key. This is indeed a very exciting and unstoppable visual novel. Werewolf killers can get a good "watching experience" in the game, while players who have not been involved can also regard this game as a "large-scale tutorial" with slightly different rules. So this is a masterpiece that is worth trying for fans of this type of subject matter.
Overall evaluation
+ Cleverly apply the werewolf killing rules to the story
+ Double commerce online male protagonist
+ Excellent supporting role group portrait design
+ Male protagonist meticulous thinking and analysis process
+ Myth and folk background design
-Break the deadlock is disappointing
-Kill people outside the rules too frequently
+Full voice
-Relatively simple UI and painting style
Game rating
0 The mystery of the wolf village: Raging Loop
Author's score: 8.1/10
MC score: N/A
steam review: 97%
