To be honest, in today's mobile game market where the screen is full of cards, money, and automatic battles, it is indeed a bit surprising and a bit emotional to encounter a work like "The Legend of Heroes of the Three Kingdoms". 😊
I am an old player who has been playing since the Symbian era. Back then, I played the Java versions of Cao Cao and Yingjie on Nokia. The joy of walking the grid, calculating damage, and repeating SL may be difficult for children today to understand. At that time, there were no physical limitations or VIP levels. You could play one level for an entire afternoon, and by the end of the game you could even memorize the movement patterns of enemy soldiers. So when I saw this "Three Kingdoms Heroes", my first reaction was - hey, this sounds right.
The game follows the classic war chess route, incorporating turn-based systems, conflicting arms, terrain effects, and even a weather system. The pixel-style characters and battlefields are very detailed, not the kind of inferior material that fools people. The plot begins with Liu Bei weaving a mat, all the way to the three visits to thatched cottage and the Battle of Red Cliff. It is basically based on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Some fans of the original work can pick out some details of the adaptation, but the overall restoration is good. The charging mode is directly written with 0, and there is indeed no compulsory consumption after playing now. This is considered clear in current mobile games.
Let's talk about mobile game trends. The most obvious change in the industry in the past few years is "lightweight" and "socialization". Most new games want to make the user's first ten minutes into an automatic movie + one-click pass, for fear that you will lose it by using your brain. War chess, a type that requires thinking, patience, and a game that can take half an hour or even an hour, has almost been eliminated in the mainstream market. But on the other hand, a group of old players began to miss this pure strategic experience after being tortured by various card drawing routines. Products such as "The Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" actually capture this segmented demand - they do not pursue daily activity and turnover, but rely on emotions and hard-core gameplay to retain core users. Don't brag or be negative, this small but beautiful positioning may be a way to survive in the mobile game market in the future.
Of course, there are also disadvantages. For example, the UI design is relatively retro and not friendly to novices. The AI logic of enemy soldiers in some levels is relatively rigid. Old players who are used to playing difficult war games may find it not challenging enough. But considering the size of the development team, being able to achieve this degree of completion is worthy of recognition.
If you are an old war chess player or still have feelings for the Three Kingdoms theme, you might as well give it a try. At least it reminds me of the golden age when you didn't need to connect to the Internet, didn't need to clock in, and could play for an afternoon purely by relying on your brain. 🎮