"He is as calm as a pine, and he is a solid bell of five thousand years;He is swift as the wind, and he is an infinite dragon that blows through the rise and fall of glory and disgrace. ”
This year's Naraka: Bladepoint sword fighting conference brought an unusual old friend to us – traditional martial arts. After seeing many clowns swindle and deceive in the name of tradition over the years, I can't help but suspect that this is another set of "lightning five whips" trick.
However, after half an hour of high-intensity oral broadcasts, I found that Naraka: Bladepoint is not just talking, nor is it an embarrassing job, and they maintain the highest respect for the traditional martial arts that have been passed down for thousands of years.
With this respect, Naraka: Bladepoint wants to be the leader of the martial arts league in the video game world.
"Old friends".
Some people may remember that as early as October, NetEase 24 Studio joined forces with the five traditional martial arts schools of Wudang, Shaolin, Xingyi, Wing Chun, and Xingyi, and jointly released a cultural inheritance plan called "Martial Arts Infinity" with various intangible cultural heritage inheritors, university scholars, and local **, and played the slogan of "No jokes, linkage of the entire martial arts".
Now, the follow-up is finally here.
Different from the regular linkage activities, "Martial Arts Infinity", as an activity based on traditional martial arts, of course, must first "show a hand". The new "Martial Arts" series of soul jade is the highlight of this linkage event.
These new soul jades, ** are the exclusive mastery of various sects in reality that have been tested in actual combat, and are personally captured and guided by martial arts masters, and finally presented in front of players with character animation. When actually used in the game, with the blessing of ink style special effects, the moves are deadly, and there is no lack of traditional style.
Of course, beautiful new fashion, new *** must be indispensable, the event for the five schools mentioned above to choose their most suitable heroes as "disciples", and based on this element to design new clothes.
The design of the fashion maintains the high-level design style of Naraka: Bladepoint as always, drawing on the move style and geographical location of each martial arts school, and after integrating it, it jumps on the game screen, forming a deep and distinct theme impression. Shaolin's Songshan rock, Wing Chun's free and easy, and the shape of the crane feather fox tail, classic elements and modern tailoring are combined to complement each other.
In fact, in my impression, "Naraka: Bladepoint" has always wanted to be the leader of the martial arts alliance. This can be seen from the content of their game: eighteen blades come together;Heroes with elements such as Taoism, Buddha, chivalry, Western Regions, and Eastern Ying compete with each other;The moves taken from real martial arts should also be taught at the same time.
If the fledgling "Naraka: Infinite" is still shallow and can only make a fictional picture of the leader of the martial arts alliance for himself, then today they undoubtedly have the ability to take practical actions, and they are walking on this road.
"New friends".
After expressing full "repect" to the old friend of traditional martial arts, in the second part of the press conference, "Naraka: Bladepoint" brought a new friend - a new hero, Wei Qing.
Although we were only able to see some initial character concepts and skill sets at the press conference, it didn't affect the impression that the character was already alive.
Wei Qing's identity is the capital of the Wuji Empire, which is the capital of Jinwei, and can be understood as the first female head catcher in the world. Dressed in standard armor, wearing an official hat, and holding a Tang-style horizontal knife, compared with many "reckless heroes" in "Naraka: Bladepoint", it shows the characteristics of the temple.
Not only the appearance of the dress, but also her skills also reveal the professional style of Zhi Jinwei. Xuanwu Shield is Wei Qing's exclusive **, which can be attacked and defended, with infinite changes, and her skills come from the diverse forms of this "artifact".
When Wei Qing unleashes the Mystery Shield, she gains the Xuanwu Shield's auto-block ability, which helps her defend against several enemy attacks, and can tie up enemies after successfully blocking them to add combos and execute them. The derivative ability of the Arcane can also teleport behind the attacker after successfully blocking the attack and launch a sneak attack. It is foreseeable that she will play a powerful main C in the game, and she has a special advantage in terms of single three rows. However, the rest of the skills have not yet been disclosed, and more details will have to wait until the official launch.
In addition to the new heroes, this press conference also brought a new **, that is, the horizontal knife in Wei Qing's hand.
As a standard weapon in the Tang Dynasty, the horizontal knife was mostly worn by officers and soldiers in history. In the game, Wei Qing was launched at the same time as this **, which can be said to be a bit elegant.
From the actual demonstration, it can be seen that this will probably be a similar to the sword and the sword**, which is biased towards the positioning of the golden oil**, and the shooting speed and lethality are at a medium level. However, the demo also shows a variety of powerful soul jades, and the heads-up ability may be a good improvement after obtaining the soul jade.
In addition, there was no more explanation of the horizontal knife at the press conference, after all, a new ** involves too many combos and soul jade, and it is not appropriate to write a big book on this occasion. Fortunately, only half a month later, on January 4th, the game will be launched**, and we can experience it in the game for ourselves.
More friends
I have to say that in addition to high production, vigorous and resolute, refusing nonsense is also the consistent style of "Naraka: Bladepoint", after introducing the above content, the press conference entered the express link, and various news were broadcast one after another, filling the remaining gaps.
The most eye-catching thing is the traditional performance of "Naraka: Bladepoint", linkage. In addition to the large-scale project of "Infinite Martial Arts", various traditional linkages have not been left behind.
This time, a generation of youth memories "Douluo Continent" has become the protagonist of the linkage. Mu Fengchun, the original author of the "Douluo Continent" comics, was the image director, and two sets of fashions Tang San and Xiao Wu were launched, which not only restored the classic image in the comics, but also made some improvements to the realistic painting style of "Naraka: Bladepoint", which is more in line with the overall art characteristics of the game.
However, it will depend on the outcome of the voting campaign on which two heroes will be awarded to these two fashions, and now that the voting campaign has begun, interested players can already start casting their first vote.
In addition to the linkage of "Douluo Continent", another linkage is also in the green years of many players. If you're a fan of robot animation, you've probably heard of Kunio Ogawara's name, and as a veteran designer of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, many famous Gundams, including the RX-78 Gentag Gundam and the Freedom Gundam, were created by him. NetEase 24 Studio invited Mr. Ogawara to collaborate to design a mecha-style transformation fashion for Yue Shan. The preliminary design manuscript and the bust rendering in the hangar can already be seen at the press conference, which can be said to be quite internal and worth looking forward to.
What's even more surprising is that after the setting of this, followed by the news that the same assembled model will be released next summer, this linkage event really understands too well.
In addition, the press conference also released the theme figure of the linkage with the trendy brand box egg "Meow Meow Universe", previewing the joint name of Pizza Hut**, the next ethnic minority linkage direction planned by the Golden Crow Ji Project, and some year-end activities in the game. The half-hour press conference, the amount of information is huge, the ecstatic explosion points are constant, and all kinds of highlights are unseeable, if you want me to evaluate, I just want to say, please have more.
Conclusion
To be honest, I haven't seen such an enjoyable press conference for a long time, compared to other domestic game conferences that like to "talk nonsense", today's Yongwu Sword Fighting Conference of "Naraka: Infinite" is very informative, from traditional martial arts, to "Douluo Continent", and then to Gundam, these may be familiar images in the youth memories of 40 million players in "Naraka: Infinite", but it is an unexpected surprise to appear in the linkage event.
Looking back at the past of Naraka: Bladepoint, they have always broken through themselves in areas that others think are "far away", and have brought players the fun of "vibrating the knife" again and again, perhaps Naraka: Bladepoint has long become a multicultural carrier, carrying the past, present and future inside and outside the game. Of course, what gave them the confidence to make so many risky decisions was the support of the players, and until then, what gave them the support of 40 million players was the dedication and soul in everything.
This kind of intention and soul may have planted the seeds when the theme of "I am unrestrained" was set.