To be honest, I recently flipped through the photo album on my phone and saw a screenshot of the game "Jianghu Fengyunlu" that I had captured before, and I suddenly felt a little emotional. I'm not going to brag about it, but this 2017 mobile game is, in my mind, a small peak for domestic martial arts mobile games after the Saipan era. 😌
At that time, the machine with Android 4.4 system could still run smoothly, but now I guess I have to use an old mobile phone to run it normally. I remember when I first downloaded it, as soon as I opened the game, it felt like a very pure martial arts game. There were no messy recharge pop-ups or fancy automatic pathfinding. The plot is linear, but has a high degree of freedom. Different dialogue choices you make will affect the people you meet later, and you can even enter hidden branches. The setting of "if you choose the wrong one, you will never see a certain confidante again" really bothered me for a long time.
Although I haven't collected all of the more than 120 martial arts secrets, it took me less than half a month just to research and match them. Some skills need to be triggered by specific internal skills, and some weapons need to be dropped from specific dungeons. That kind of willing feeling is rarely found in mobile games nowadays. 😅
I also have to mention the confidante group. To be honest, the characters in the game are very carefully created, and they are not the kind of reskinned and drawn paintings. For example, "Shuang Yue", every word she speaks has a bit of the free and easy attitude of a Jianghu woman. Later, the plot development is still dependent on your life and death. Looking back now, the characters are more flesh and blood than some of the characters in some fairy tale dramas nowadays.
The operating model was 0 yuan payment, which was really good at the time. You could basically play well by watching ads and doing daily tasks. The developer, Beijing Luoting Technology, seems to have transitioned to other types of games later on, and I miss their serious enthusiasm for making martial arts.
If you can still find a compatible Android device or use an emulator, I recommend giving it a try. Anyway, good games are not afraid of aging, just like old wine, the longer it ages, the better it tastes. 😊