Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

It's not just Zhang Yi who feels this way, many players who have experienced God of War before have such a feeling.

That's because I'm afraid that I'm not playing a fake God of War, and the real one is my son who has no health bar.

Especially as Atreus's skills are getting stronger and stronger, and after learning more skills, he feels that the effect is much greater than Kratos.

Of course, this is mainly because the skills of most players have not grown to the level that can tyrannize monsters.

In addition, there is the most crucial point, that is, the game experience of the new God of War is very coherent with the previous trilogy.

Even most players are not mentally prepared.

Taking the God of War with the background of Greece as an example, after killing Hydra, the player soon came into contact with Athena and determined the main plot.

Defeat Ares, the **** of war, mortals kill gods!

Then came the end of the content of the first chapter, which made players look forward to it, because it was only the beginning to beat Ares, and in the end they had to do Zeus.

In the content of the next two chapters, Lord Kui killed Olympus from hell, and finally destroyed the Greek mythology.

What about in northern Europe?

Lord Kui is old and has a baby, let alone talk about it, let alone turn the blade of chaos into an axe for chopping wood.

After all, the axe with the GPS automatic navigation system is really fun to play.

But the main storyline is to take the child to climb the mountain and raise the ashes, which makes the player a little unacceptable at first, and the psychological gap is too great.

Coupled with the addition of RPG elements, Kui Ye's health bar is very shameful even on normal difficulty, not to mention that minions in God of War difficulty can tyrannize Kui Ye.

This made many players completely dumbfounded, and felt that it was more difficult than playing soul-based games.

However, after being a little confused in the early stage, with the advancement of the game experience content, players quickly threw themselves into the game.

On the one hand, the game itself is good enough, and on the other hand, this time God of War is more inclined to tell the story well.

This is also where the new God of War is completely different from the previous trilogy.

There is also a plot in the trilogy.

But most players are more concerned about what kind of means Kui should use to tyrannize the Greek gods than to know about the past and experience of Lord Kui.

So being able to see the Lord Kui in Greek mythology can be said to be extremely violent.

But when Kui Ye came to Northern Europe, the style of the whole game was completely different.

Of course, in his bones, the God of War is still the God of War.

After the dullness in the early stage, after Kratos embarked on the journey of the Nine Realms, the game story began to be compact.

All kinds of big scenes are also on the stage, so that players can still experience extremely impactful battle scenes and extremely violent killings.

But when facing the enemy, Kui Ye can still feel the kind of violence that penetrated through Greek mythology.

Especially when Atreus was in danger, Lord Kui who unleashed Sparta's wrath was even more terrifying.

But because of the changes in the narrative structure, the player's focus is not only on these big scenes.

The interaction between Lord Kui and Atreus, as well as their journey experience, these have also become the focus of players' attention.

Today's Master Kui is old and has a baby, and he will never play QTE's little game of squeezing red souls with beauties.

In addition, this work has raised the player's feelings for Lord Kui to a new level.

With the act of Zhang Kuiye committing suicide at the end of the trilogy to release the power of hope, after coming to Northern Europe, Master Kui is more like a person.

The previous Kratos could be a **** or a monster, but he was not alone.

He will watch the flood flood the world for vengeance and ignore the consequences of killing the main gods such as Poseidon, but he can also give fate to mankind in the end.

And Kui Ye, who arrived in Northern Europe, has a different identity, that is, his father.

This is the change that has enriched the character of Kratos and made his personality more outstanding.

Like Ezio in Assassin's Creed, Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption.

The reason why countless players like it is because they give players the feeling of being complete.

Arthur started his journey of redemption when the extrajudicial fanatic finally got sick. On the one hand, he was still extremely loyal to Dutch to the gang. Even if he had countless opportunities to escape, he did not leave but hoped to be able to. Rescue the gang from the quagmire.

Ezio was blinded by hatred after the family changed, and under the guidance of Uncle Mario, he gradually understood the true meaning of assassins, and established a brotherhood and finally became the master assassin.

In the same way, Lord Kui went from a Spartan warrior to a Spartan soul to a **** of war, and that he broke through Olympus and destroyed the Greek mythology. After coming to Northern Europe, he became a father.

Just like the phoenix pattern before, it symbolizes that the 'monster'-like Lord Kui in the past has died, and the Lord Kui who came to Northern Europe has started a new life. This kind of contrast also makes Kratos even more plump.

Especially when he came to the cellar of the northern dock in the game, Kratos was attacked by Odin's son Modi.

In desperation, Atreus launched an attack on Modi in order to rescue his father, but accidentally collapsed and fell into a coma because of his own strength, which triggered a plot that made all players extremely excited.

As Atreus' power collapsed and fell into a coma, Kratos, who was restrained by Modi's magic, was completely angered, and he turned on Spartan's wrath to break the magic **** forcefully, frightening Modi and fleeing. .

But in the face of the fleeing Modi, Kratos did not pursue him, and now he has more important things.

It made all the players who played God of War excited.

Under the guidance of Mimir, who carried the word tuberculosis with him, Kratos learned that only Freya, the former forest witch, could know how to save Atreus.

Previously, through Mimir's notification, Zhang Yi already knew the true identity of the forest witch, that is Odin's wife and Princess Freya of the Warner Protoss.

But Kratos's life experience was caused by God, so naturally Kratos did not trust God at all, not to mention that Freya was Odin's wife, although the other party was equivalent to being imprisoned by Odin.

But now that Atreus is ill, Kratos still decides to pull his face down to see Freya for help.

Taking Atreus to Freya's house, the other party did not have other emotions because of Kratos' relationship, but was very concerned about Atreus.

From Freya's mouth, Kratos also learned the real reason why Atreus was frail and ill since childhood.

That is, if a **** firmly believes that he is a mortal, the cognitive confusion of unconsciously suppressing his divine power will cause his body to appear abnormal.

Now Atreus' symptoms are very serious, and if you want to treat it, you can only treat it with the heart of the guardian of the cursed bridge.

The Bridge of the Damned is located in Helheim, the realm of death in the Nine Realms.

But Helheim is an extremely cold place, and any ice attribute attack will not pose a threat to the creatures there. Kratos, as an ice attribute battle axe, has no effect there.

So if you want to go to Helheim, the country of death, then Kratos has to find another weapon.

A fire-type weapon.

Seeing this, Zhang Yi's whole body got goosebumps.

Because something came to mind in his mind!

And what Kratos said next confirmed this.

After getting the news about the kingdom of death and Helheim from Freya.

Kratos was silent for a while, gently stroking the bandage wrapped around his arm.

'Then I have to go home...'

‘Dig up the past I swore to bury forever. ’

Freya, who was taking care of Atreus in a coma, heard the words and shook her head: 'It doesn't matter what you were like before. ’

'This child is not your past, he is your son and he needs a father. ’

Looking at Atreus who was in a coma, Kratos's eyes gradually became firm.

Taking a deep breath, Kratos turned and left Freya's house.