Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

The mysterious old man in front of him said slowly.

It turned out that the true identity of this mysterious old man was actually the last king of the Hyrule Kingdom.

It's just that he died in the disaster 100 years ago, and now all that remains is his soul.

Facing the somewhat confused Link, King Hyrule explained what happened 100 years ago.

The Calamity Ganon who destroyed the Hyrule Kingdom's true identity is the Demon Lord who was born in this country in ancient times and resurrected as a resentment.

This story has been handed down as a legend in the Hyrule Kingdom.

Everyone has always thought that this is a legend, but until one day, the fortune-teller of the kingdom made a prediction: 'There is a sign of the calamity of Ganon's resurrection on the earth...and the power to resist Ganon is also in the earth. Sleeping...'

The people of Hyrule Kingdom dubiously based on the prophecy, and found several ancient artifacts made by distant ancestors.

Mythical Beasts: Four giant mechanical artifacts built in imitation of beasts and manipulated by powerful warriors.

Guardian: A puppet soldier who can fight the enemy with his own consciousness.

These things are completely consistent with the legends that have been circulated in the Hyrule Kingdom for a long time. In addition, there are royal princesses with sealing power and knights selected by the sword of exorcism.

They sealed the real Ganon with these antiquities in the distant ancient times.

And just 100 years ago, a princess who inherited the power of the ancestors and a talented knight appeared in the kingdom, they were Zelda and Link.

Therefore, the Hyrule Kingdom also followed the practice of its ancestors to prepare for the war at that time, and selected four people with outstanding abilities from the land of Hyrule, gave them the divine beasts to manipulate, and called them heroes to deepen them. feelings between each other.

With the princess, the knight and the four heroes, it should have been able to seal the disaster smoothly.

However, the cunning Ganon was resurrected with a trick they could not imagine. It appeared directly in the depths of the castle of Hyrule Kingdom, and controlled the guardians and the four beasts with his own evil energy, and launched a sudden attack on them. attack.

The countless residents in the castle and the heroes in the beast all lost their lives.

The knight Link, who was selected by the sword of exorcism, also fell wounded to protect the princess Zelda.

In this way, the Kingdom of Hyrule was destroyed by the Calamity Ganon.

However, the surviving princess Zelda is still alone against Ganon and has been sealed in the castle for a hundred years.

On the day when the disaster happened a hundred years ago, Link's fate was exhausted, but he was transported by Princess Zelda to the temple of recovery on this initial platform.

After 100 years, Link gradually woke up, but he also lost some memories and the powerful power of the past.

Now Princess Zelda in the royal city, after 100 years, her power is about to be exhausted. If Ganon is not sealed by then, the entire Hyrule will be destroyed.

"So... Link! I failed to protect this country and this land, but even so, I still have to ask you... Please defeat Ganon, save this country and this land, and save my daughter..."

The old king handed the paraglider to Link, and at the same time showed him the way forward.

In the next words, he needs to go to a village and find a person from Impa, and then the other party will also give Link's guidance.

The plot is easy to understand, very simple.

As guessed before, the knight of justice defeated the big devil to save the princess, which is the main line of the game.

The next step should be to go to Impa to accept the guidance, then go to defeat the four mythical beasts controlled by Ganon one after another and go to the castle to kill Ganon to save Princess Zelda. Finally, the princess and the knight live together without shame and impatience.

But at this time, Zhang Yi didn't pay too much attention to advancing the main line of the game, because at this time he was full of curiosity about new toys.

"Finally got the paraglider, so that's how it is used!" Zhang Yi stood at the top of the temple, found another 'ahhaha', and jumped down to open the paraglider.

Gliding in the sky, this gives Zhang Yi the feeling of two words happiness!

"Let's go here and explore."

Zhang Yi looked at the map of the initial platform and marked a point.

After getting the paraglider, he was in no hurry to continue to the village to save the princess.

Because of this initial stage, he felt that there was still some content that had not been explored.

He wanted to explore a little more, and then leave.

In addition, he also wanted to find the guardian he met before.

This time, he will use the shield to kill the opponent in return. The bombs of more than an hour before can't be thrown in vain.

As for Princess Zelda.

Anyway, it has been adhered to for 100 years, and it is estimated that it should not be a big problem if it persists for a while.

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The player who thinks like Zhang Yi is not the only one.

After getting the paraglider, many players did not choose to leave the initial land, but continued to explore in the initial land.

The main thing is that there is so much to explore, just like when playing "Super Mario: Odyssey", it always feels like there is nowhere to go, and there must be a moon hidden there.

Although it is an open world, many players have found the feeling of surprises everywhere when playing "Super Mario: Odyssey"

For example, after climbing a big tree, in addition to apples, sometimes you can also find bird's nests, and there will be eggs left in them.

If you are at the lake, use a bomb to blow up the fish in the lake.

Also, after mastering the power of time, he locked the sloping trees to constantly attack and adjust the orientation, and then climbed up and hugged the trees.

After the time stagnation is over, you can experience the feeling of flying, and then open the paraglider.

Two words: happy!

In other games, trees, grass, fruits, bird nests, many are just scene models or textures without any interactive functions.

But in The Legend of Zelda, almost everything you can see on the map is interactive.

There is also the most amazing climbing system for players. Almost any place that can be seen can theoretically be reached as long as you have enough energy.

This is completely different from all other open worlds. Even if it is simply to find a route to climb to the top of the mountain, such a simple gameplay makes many players feel happy.

Compared with ordinary players who are addicted to Hyrule, some game industry designers who are concerned about the performance of "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" on the switch machine are all shocked at this time. When they arrived, they all turned into dumb beasts.

There is more content in the follow-up, and they don't have much feeling yet, because the game has just been launched.

But just the content shown in the early stage has already made it difficult for them to restrain their surprise.

Because the level design of the initial stage in the early stage is completely textbook-like existence!