Chapter 402 What kind of game is this?
"This time... it should be really over, right?"
"It seems that this state is the final ending of the game "Heartbeat Dreamland"?"
Zhang Qifeng stroked his chin. He was not particularly sure about this guess.
Because the current state is indeed different from traditional games!
At the end of this game, there is no credit list like in regular games, nor is there a "THE END』 and other signs.
This made Zhang Qifeng a little puzzled. Was this considered a clearance? Or was it just a dead file, a stuck level, or a staged lock?
After all, if a guide like Alvette or Sakura won the final victory and the game became a chat simulator, the game would eventually enter a similar dead loop state, and that was obviously not the last step.
But to say that this is not the final ending?
Not really, because in terms of game content, basically all the playable content has been developed, and in the end the game even activated something like GM mode, which can freely adjust the frequency of horror content, and even most of the content in the game can be freely adjusted.
Although this is a stand-alone game, players can also choose to click or open a cheat to adjust these things, but it is still different to have it directly in the game.
At least in Zhang Qifeng's opinion, the game should be completely over at this point.
But more mysteries are also created because of this.
"So, what kind of game is this?"
"Or, what is its plot telling?"
Zhang Qifeng couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
For a game, when the player has completed the ending and experienced most of the content, it is almost time to make a final judgment.
Review all the game content provided to the player from the beginning to the end, and then combine your own experience to give a conclusion of "recommendation" or "not recommended".
The game experience of "Heartbeat Dreamland" can be said to be like peeling an onion, divided into many layers.
The first layer looks like a simple love game. Players invite girls to participate in various activities, collect CGs and illustrations, and experience sweet love.
Although the plot is not very outstanding, the modeling of "Heartbeat Dreamland" is exquisite and the art is excellent. The various interactive characters are eye-catching enough.
In addition, the "girl chasing mode" jokingly called the "science fiction mode" makes up for the shortcomings of the AI plot to a large extent, allowing players to find their favorite love content in the game.
But soon the game came to the second layer, began to unveil the veil of warmth, and exposed the horror content!
In fact, from the perspective of horror games afterwards, the horror content of "Heartbeat Dreamland" is still relatively excellent.
The game arranges different horror scenes for each character with different backgrounds.
Players have different ways to break through the levels. Some can only escape and are powerless to resist, while others can use weaker weapons to defeat powerful enemies.
The horror content is also remarkable in terms of atmosphere creation, music and sound effects, and monster art design.
Although it cannot be compared with the top horror games, it can also be called excellent.
More importantly, since the horror content appears without any signs, and there are many "beast-level transitions", the frightening effect of the horror content is greatly increased.
This also makes many horror game players who come here for the reputation of the game later call it addictive.
But the operation of turning a love game into a horror game is really too dark, and it also brought the first wave of criticism to "Heartbeat Dreamland".
The third level of the game begins to gradually reveal various meta elements.
First, various text documents repeatedly hinted to the players that the guide awakened his self-awareness, and then through the guidance in the game, the players were allowed to directly operate the root directory folder of the game, thereby affecting the game world.
It may be deleting someone, adding someone, or replacing someone else...
In short, at this stage, the dimensional wall between the game and the player seems to be broken. Players do not interact with the game characters through the in-game UI, but through the underlying folders on their computers.
In this link, the personality of each character seems to be more clearly displayed, and it seems to be clearer who is more soft-hearted and who really loves the player more.
The content of this layer will make people feel more horrified, as if there is really a ghost floating on their computer, or there is a two-dimensional AI who loves them deeply.
Especially when Ellios finally appeared, Zhang Qifeng felt a strange resonance.
He has never had any romantic interaction with Ellios, but after watching this plot, he can't help but have a special feeling for Ellios, and that image is even more lingering in his mind.
Obviously, after a deep experience, Zhang Qifeng is sure of one thing.
"Heartbeat Dreamland" is not a love game, nor a pure horror game. Should it be called a meta game? Actually, it is not particularly appropriate.
There has never been a similar game type before. It seems to be a mixture of these three elements, but it has something extra.
In addition to the normal horror content, it gives people a special psychological horror feeling.
In addition to the psychological horror, after the meta elements are displayed, it really makes people feel moved, which is a level higher than the general love simulation games.
At least, the players' memories and impressions of these female characters are far deeper than the characters in general love simulation games.
In contrast, the plot of this game is confusing and even a little anticlimactic.
So, what is the meaning of this apocalyptic background?
Who is the so-called savior? Is it the protagonist? But the protagonist is still on the island of Eden?
Is it the other female characters who have full favorability? It seems that after all, every female character will leave Eden after reaching the full value of the third stage, but this statement seems a bit far-fetched.
What's more, in the ending that Zhang Qifeng played at the end, after activating the GM mode, all female characters except Eleos can be invited and interacted by players again, and it seems that they are no longer restricted by "leaving when the favorability is full".
Coupled with the influence of meta elements, the plot of this game seems even stranger.
Zhang Qifeng is almost 100% sure that there will be many players on the Internet who will attack the plot of this game. After all, most players will feel that there is a problem after playing it.
"But... if we combine the entire game content, it seems that there is another way to explain the plot of the game?"
Zhang Qifeng vaguely feels that his article has been written!
Whether the reputation of the website can be restored may depend on this one move!