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In the game, Chen Xu manipulated Ezio to experience the game. Compared with the "Assassin's Creed" in the dream memory, Yang Chen added a lot of interaction in this "Assassin's Creed" of Nebula Games.

For example, NPC has more lines, and also has more interactions with the player protagonist Ezio. At the same time, it is not a purely linear gameplay. After accepting the task, the player can wander around the city of Florence.

Including some follow-up maps, players can freely walk around the street.

At the same time, there are some small games unique to this period in the game and so on.

Of course, Chen Xu hasn't had time to experience these elements yet or doesn't want to experience them. His main experience is still on the main game plot.

Before he became an assassin, Ezio was just a rebellious dude who made trouble in Florence all day long. Fighting, climbing over walls and climbing trees, and flirting with girls were commonplace for him.

Compete with the brothers to climb to the top of the church, facing the wind and overlooking the whole city, full of vigor.

But soon everything changed, and Ezio's fate was changed.

On a certain day, Ezio's father and two brothers were arrested and imprisoned by Rodrigo Borgia, the mastermind behind Utor's alliance, and he avoided this disaster because of sending a letter.

The night before his execution, Ezio contacted his father, and at the same time he was informed of their family's secrets, as well as evidence of their innocence.

Ezio, who opened the treasure chest there, inherited his father's former assassin's suit, but he was still not an assassin even though he wore the assassin's suit, so he could not save the lives of his relatives, and could only watch the execution of his persecuted father and brother die, and Ezio vows to avenge his family.

Even though he is wanted by the whole city, there is still a place for Ezio in Florence. In one of the fireworks venues he frequents, the owner there told him how to get the assassin's equipment and taught him how to It is better to hide in the crowd to avoid being discovered by the guards.

"Oh my god, although it sounds reasonable, is it really impossible to be discovered like this? This white assassin is too eye-catching!"

According to the instructions of the tutorial, Chen Xu manipulated Ezio, who was wearing an assassin costume, to mix in the crowd, avoiding the guards on the street, and was a little speechless.

Of course, this is just a rant.

In fact, if it is really realistic, it is not difficult to make the NPC's AI look very high with the ability of the Nebula game.

But the point is that in that case, the game will be too hardcore, and many gameplays that sound very interesting are not necessarily so interesting to play.

For example, a game hypes up to players how fun and realistic their game is before they play it, but do players really need that kind of complicated simulation when playing it?

In reality, people will die if they don’t shit, but in the game, do we have to manipulate our characters to shit and pee?

Imagine you're in the midst of a fight and suddenly your character in the game tells you that his stomach starts hurting and he's going to take a shit.

For the audience, this may be a very interesting program effect, but for the players themselves, this is definitely a painful experience.

It's not that it can't be done, but a trade-off is required.

The game is still going on, and Chen Xu is gradually getting involved in the following plot.

Having learned the art of stealth from the hostess of the fireworks site, Ezio is now up for revenge.

First of all, Ezio found his good friend Da Vinci and helped him improve the Hidden Blade equipment.

Then the player needs to use the skills Ezio just learned and the equipment he just got to get into a party where Utor is and assassinate him.

"It's finally time for the main show! Assassination, I'm proficient at this. Back then in "Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain", I sneaked into the enemy's base camp to carry out assassinations."

Looking at the latest character prompts given, Chen Xu in front of the computer showed a very happy smile.

"Damn it! Why did you find me just now? Miss and sister didn't fascinate you?" Before arriving at the destination, Chen Xu watched as the alert bar suddenly went up and several guards were walking towards him. A little panicked.

This is also a change in the game. Some skill settings made after the addition of "Assassin's Creed", but it is not the same as the RPG skill tree setting.

RPG can make players have enough motivation to play repeatedly, but it will also lead to a thing that happens, that is, the rewards of the branch quests are too high. It made the players feel boring during the sideline process, and at the same time, the main storyline was fragmented, which gave the player the feeling that "the main storyline of this game is too weak".

This is true for many games of the game manufacturer "Assassin's Creed" in Dream Memory.

This kind of behavior can be understood as "leveling" in RPG - boring and boring, but the reward is enough to make the main line crush; but the open world is like a magnifying glass, repeating monotonous side tasks will make this boring feeling expand rapidly , which is the so-called formulaic sandbox game.

Of course, the solution is also very simple, that is, like another witcher game in which the protagonist is the white wolf, create rich plots for the various branch lines and link them with the main line. They are not part of the main line. The other has nothing to do with the tool that only provides rewards for players.

They themselves are part of the plot, but the cost of the game will be too high.

In addition to these, Yang Chen also canceled the setting of losing synchronization when the mission failed when the enemy discovered it.

Sneak in and assassinate step by step, or go in recklessly to open Wushuang, this kind of more open freedom of choice, Yang Chen and the others decided to give it to the players.

So Chen Xu in front of the computer decisively chose hard anal!

It's just a small team of guards. In the previous CG animation, the white-robed assassin is an awesome existence who can assassinate the enemy in front of thousands of troops. Does his future great assassin have a few guards right?

With such thoughts in mind, Chen Xu rushed up confidently.

A minute later, he lost sync.

"As you can see, although the assassin's costume in this game is quite arrogant, it is still very practical. Basically, it is difficult to fight a few. Assassination is the main method. After all, this game is called "Assassin's Creed."

He found two reasons for his failure. As for the barrage that the audience made fun of in the live broadcast room? Pretend not to see it.

After this failure, Chen Xu didn't make any fuss anymore. Instead, he carefully promoted the game's main line according to the system's prompts.

The weak RPG elements in the game allow players to fully experience this harvest feedback when promoting the main storyline.

Sneaking into the party where Utor was, Ezio rushed forward and grabbed the opponent's neck with one hand, and pressed the other hand on the opponent's chest. The Hidden Blade modified by Da Vinci popped out and assassinated the opponent.

Then Ezio shouted his first and last name to the panicked crowd—the Auditore family is not dead, I'm still here! I! Ezio Auditore!

But after hearing the news, the guards came so that Ezio could only escape. He climbed to the roof and stood on the high platform for a leap of faith, and then escaped from the enemy and took his mother and sister out of the city. On the way to Giuni, Ezio was plotted against by Vieri, another enemy who murdered his father.

Thanks to the support of his uncle Mario, Ezio and the others were able to escape, and Ezio also followed his uncle Mario to Monteriggioni's manor to learn the fighting skills of the assassin.

But at this time, Ezio still doesn't understand the Assassin's Creed and philosophy. Revenge is his only motivation in the Assassin Organization, and he has indeed done this.

In the early assassination of the Pazzi family, the thrill of revenge dominated Ezio, and he would ruthlessly grab the enemy's corpse and accuse the other party of his crimes.

But under the guidance of his uncle, as well as the guidance of other people in the Assassin Organization, and some things Ezio himself saw, he slowly accepted his identity and gradually understood the meaning of an assassin.

Revenge is no longer his only purpose. After killing his target, he will gently close his eyes for the target, and at the same time pray in his heart 'may death bring you peace, rest in peace'.

From Spain back to Florence, and then to Venice, the battles with the Templars made Ezio grow up.

He once fought out of hatred and anger, accusing crimes against the corpses of his enemies, and now he knows how to respect life——in the face of death, any crime is no longer so important.

He began to bear the belief of an assassin——

When others blindly pursue the truth, remember that everything is false;

When others are bound by morality and law, remember that all things are allowed.

Working in the dark and serving the light, we are assassins.

Now he can be counted as a master assassin.

But the story is just beginning.

In Venice, Ezio was once again framed by the Templars and forced to flee the city.

The following year, Ezio returned to Venice again during the Carnival, and among the crowd, Ezio successfully assassinated Marc Barbarigo using the Hidden Gun, a new weapon that Leonardo da Vinci had researched through the Altaïr Scrolls.

But he was just a puppet supported by the Templars. The assassins began to look for the traces of other Templar leaders. Ezio broke into the Sistine Chapel alone to face the Pope, but the victorious Ezio did not kill him. he.

Then Ezio put the golden apple and the religious cross together, opened the hidden passage in the basement, and a phantom who called himself "Minerva" sent a message to the future through him: a major disaster will happen to mankind.

But Ezio was at a loss at this time.

Ezio, who returned to his manor in Monteriggioni from Rome, told the story of Italy with the Assassins.

However, the enemy from Rome soon arrived. The Pope's son, the historical "Duke of Poison" Caesar Borgia attacked the manor, killed Uncle Mario, and captured Ezio's lover Caitlina. Ao was seriously injured and escaped by chance.

When Ezio was seriously injured and unconscious, he was rescued by the Assassin Machiavelli. After healed his injuries, he and the local Assassins in Rome began their revenge against the Borgia family and the Templars.

Ezio understood at this moment that with the decline of the Assassins, more power was needed to fight against the Templars—and these forces must be opposed to the Templars represented by the powerful.

So Da decided to start with the people at the bottom, rebuild the Brotherhood, pass on the assassin's skills and beliefs to more people, and join hands to fight against the brutal rule of the Templars.

In the end, Ezio successfully led the grown-up brotherhood to complete the revenge, and chased Caesar all the way to Spain according to the guidance of the golden apple, and killed Caesar on the battlefield surrounded by fire.

The activities in Rome gave Ezio the reputation of "Assassin Mentor", which was also the most glorious moment of his Assassin career.

Later, when Ezio was sorting out Uncle Mario's belongings, he found a letter from his father.

In the letter, his father mentioned a secret library hidden in the hometown of Altaïr, the ancestor of the Assassins.

It is said that in that library, there are more secrets about the assassins and even the world.

Out of curiosity and seeking knowledge, Ezio embarked on a journey to find the truth. After ten months of trekking, Ezio, who was over half a century old, arrived in Masyaf.

However, this former Assassin's sanctuary is already under the control of the Templars at this moment. Ezio, who just arrived, was immediately captured by the Templars, and when he was about to be executed, he received Altaïr's "revelation" ", finally escaped from birth.

Later, Ezio discovered that the purpose of these Templars was also to find Altaïr's secret library, but the "key" to open this library has not yet been found.

So Ezio kept searching for the key, and by the way, he was involved in the internal struggle of the Byzantine royal family in Constantinople, and met a woman there, his future wife.

Even though Ezio is now over half a century old, he still does not lose his true nature.

‘Sir, who are you? ’ The woman looked at Ezio strangely and asked.

'I? Just the funniest people you meet in your life. ’ Ezio, who was wearing assassin clothes, turned his head and said with a smile.

Along the way, Ezio got many "little yellow discs", and these "little yellow discs" are also the keys to the library.

In these "little yellow discs", Ezio was able to see the magnificent life of his predecessor Altaïr. Ezio understood and yearned for this senior more and more, and looked forward to the moment when the library was opened.

Eventually Ezio collected the keys and arrived at the door of Altaïr's library with Sofia.

But after entering the library, unlike what he had imagined, there were no so-called books and knowledge there, only the remains of Altaïr, the predecessor of the assassin, sitting peacefully in the center wearing an assassin suit.

Hundreds of years of time condensed in the blink of an eye between two generations of master assassins

Here Ezio found the golden apple owned by Altaïr three hundred years ago, which was not the same as the one he had before... At this moment, he thought of the memory of Altaïr he saw during his execution, At this moment, Ezio realized something.

‘Found another holy object? '

'No, you stay here. '

Ezio didn't reach out to touch it, but kept retreating towards the back.

‘I’ve seen one in my life and that’s enough. '

At this time, the golden apple burst into a ray of light, and Ezio understood everything.

'Desmond? I've heard your name, Desmond, a long time ago. Now the name haunts me like a distant dream. '

'I don't know where you are, or how on earth you hear me, but I know you're listening. '

Ezio looked at the surrounding scene affected by the power of the golden apple, and then he slowly removed the equipment on his body.

'I used to just try to live, I didn't know what the point was, just like a moth kept flying to the distant moon. '

‘I finally discovered the strange truth that I was just a message passing, a message I couldn’t understand. '

‘Who are we and who are so lucky to share our stories like this? And pass it on for hundreds of years? '

‘Maybe you can answer my question, maybe you can make all this suffering worth something at last. '

'Now, listen up...'

A conversation across time and space, watching the final ending, Chen Xu's live broadcast room was filled with bullet screens of the ending.

And Chen Xu himself has not recovered yet, he is still immersed in the assassin's world.

The game time is long and not that long, but the shortage is definitely not short.

Along the way, Chen Xu didn't do any collection, or other branch lines, these ways of playing.

He was purely following a main line, but even with the live broadcast for about twelve hours a day, it took him three or four full days to finish the game.

From a street gangster to a legendary master assassin, Ezio's life is really magnificent.

When Ezio was young, he embarked on the path of an assassin because of hatred. At that time, he only thought of revenge.

But when Ezio was middle-aged, he saw enough people and things, he became mature and wise, and he understood what an assassin meant.

And in his old age, in order to seek the truth, he went to the Assassin's Holy Land without hesitation, looking for the secrets left by Altaïr, and finally understood his identity, and had a battle with Desmond across time and space dialogue.

In addition, the background in the game is even more amazing, such as Christina on the window sill, the gorgeous fireworks at the Venetian masquerade, Ezio's flight in the night sky, a quiet garden in San Gimignano in the afternoon, and so on.

The combination of history and fantasy, although the existence of the pioneers made Chen Xu feel a little confused, but the atmosphere of the whole game, including the restoration and atmosphere of the city, gave him a feeling that that era should be expressed in the game. .

Although he has already cleared the main mission, he feels that he should still spend a lot of time on this game.

To experience something other than the main plot.

Go and see the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, gallop in the fields of Tuscany, walk in the streets and alleys of Rome, take a look at the closed gate of the Vatican, and see the magnificent arena.

Of course, apart from these, Chen Xu still has a lot of doubts, the same doubts that exist in the minds of all players.