Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

For Song Ren, the biggest point that Final Fantasy brings to him is the richness of the characters.

The previous "Xenoblade Chronicles" gave him the feeling that it was a group drama that was actually more like a one-man show between Lex and Guangyan.

Men's mother-in-law Meleff, Fat Otaku, the second prince of middle school, and Nia, who is always liked, are actually not as many as imagined if they have a role.

But in "Final Fantasy", it is completely different, with a richer group portrait performance.

Not only Claude as the protagonist, including Alice, Tifa and even Sephiroth, have very detailed descriptions and excellent scenes.

Especially Sephiroth, although he has only appeared in his memories so far, but with the content in Midgar, it brings a very strong sense of oppression.

The stories of other characters are equally impressive.

For example, Barrett has a hot personality and hates Shinra's use of magic, and he talks about saving the planet mother all day.

It makes people feel that this is a pure idealist with a great desire to save the planet.

But when Claude and his party came to Barrett's hometown of North Collier, they understood what happened to Barrett.

It was different from Barrett who hated Shinra and shouted to save Mother Planet.

The former Barrett, on the contrary, believed in Shinra very much, and he even promoted the construction of a magic furnace in his phantom North Clair.

He even persuaded his good friend to give up the coal mine in his hometown and embrace Shinra's magic energy.

It can be said that the former Barrett was a person who was close to Shinra.

But then what Shinra did gave Barrett a painful memory.

In order to cover up the safety problems of the magic furnace, Shinra carried out a silence operation on the local town.

Not only did Barrett's wife die in this disaster, but he himself lost his right hand to protect his friend Dane.

Then he installed a machine gunner for himself for Barrett of Avenging Shinra.

As for what he said about saving the planet, it was actually just an excuse to seek revenge from Shinra and make him feel better.

"So, the members of this Avalanche organization are really all made up of the characters of the blood avalanche!

Seeing Barrett reveal his heart, Song Ren couldn't help but sigh.

Think about these people who joined the Avalanche organization. Jesse's father has become a vegetative person, Tifa's hometown was destroyed and his parents were killed, and Barrett's wife was gone.

As for Biggs and Wei Ji who received the lunch, although there is no detailed description in the game, Song Ren estimates that it is not much better.

But what makes Song Ren more interesting is that it is not the story behind Barrett in this episode.

It's the unique amusement park scene of the Golden Disc Amusement Park. Compared with the previous Midgar, the Golden Disc Amusement Park can be said to be very interesting.

The box garden-style map design, as well as a variety of small games, especially the chocobos inside are very interesting, and there is a new member Cathy Doraemon to join here.

As the story of the game progressed all the way, when we reached a place called Gongga, a question that had puzzled Song Ren before was also answered, and of course deeper doubts followed.

In this abandoned town because of the magic, Claude and the others met an elderly couple. Through dialogue, they learned that they have a son named Zack who is also a Shinra special soldier, but he has not returned for many years. I have been to my hometown and asked Claude if he has seen it.

Then, through the dialogue with Alice, I learned that this special soldier named Zack is the same as Claude, the 1st special soldier and Alice's first love.

‘He is very popular with girls, maybe he has found another one? ' Alice stood beside the rock, looking a little lonely.

Alice's first love, Zack?

Song Ren was a little stunned when he saw this scene.

Who is Zack? new role?

Such a face! ? The identity setting turned out to be Alice's ex-boyfriend, and the more critical point is that from the performance point of view, not only Alice, but even Tifa knows the role of Zacks.

Although Tifa said she didn't know her, her expression said it all, she did know Zack.

"So Zack, this is a very important role? It's related to the two heroines, maybe even Sephiroth and Cloud? But why doesn't Cloud know each other?"

Looking at the plot of this scene, Song Ren's heart was filled with countless confusions.

One question has been answered, but more questions have emerged. He can only say that he is digging a hole, and Nebula games are absolutely amazing!

Like Song Ren, Cloud in the game also has a lot of confusion at this time, but it is more important than these confusions to continue to search for the whereabouts of Sephiroth.

What they saw and heard along the way allowed Claude and the others to meet ordinary people who were harmed by Shinra's hegemony and Mako.

And the experiences of characters such as Crimson Thirteen, Cathy and Yuffie are also revealed little by little during this journey.

The Crimson Thirteen who can speak human language, their race is the holy beast that guards the planet, whose real name is Nanazi.

As for Crimson Thirteen, it's just a codename written by Baotiao for him.

Crimson Thirteen, who once left the clan, always thought that his father was a coward who abandoned his mother and left the clan in the battle with the mortal enemy. understand everything.

That is, his father Set is not a coward, but a hero. He has been fighting against the base tribe, even if his body is turned into stone due to poisonous arrows, and even if he has to bear the name of a coward, he is still waiting in the cosmic canyon.

With the tears falling from the incarnation of Stone Seth, Scarlet Thirteen stood beside his father's body and screamed in the sky. Song Ren was also touched by this scene. Except for the scene of Sephiroth disappearing into the sea of ​​fire, this is the second scene. It made him feel shocked.

There is also a lively and lovely sunny girl from Wutai, Yuffie who calls herself a magic spar hunter.

She is the daughter of the lord of Wutai, because Wutai was developed into a tourist destination after losing the war with Shinra.

Yuffie is unwilling to be ruled by Shinra in her hometown and considers it a coward to obey Shinra's father.

So she started traveling around the world in order to collect enough magic spar to revive her hometown.

Riding in Fat Moogle's weird robot cat, who calls himself a divination machine, Cathy joins the team on the pretext of witnessing Cloud's fate.

But in fact, he is a high-performance robot that can be manipulated from a distance. His real identity is the undercover agent Shinra sent to Claude's team. After their approach, they simply acted as double spies.

The portrayal of different characters makes Song Ren feel that the entire protagonist team has become alive.

Everyone has an unbearable and sad past, but there are more liveliness and jokes during the journey, which makes them happy.

Until I came to the map of Sleeping Forest.