What happened was that that day I was browsing the card pool of a certain mobile game, and an advertisement popped up, which was a stand-alone version of Fallout Shelter. To be honest, I have no interest in strategy games, but the character icon in that advertisement...ahhh, I was stunned on the spot! They are the kind of 2D villains. They are obviously the classic retro style of the Fallout series, but they are inexplicably "contrastingly cute", like Q-version characters popping out of old game consoles. Each one has a unique expression and movement. Some are lighting up cigarettes, some are sleeping, and some are holding a big gun, with "Wasteland Survival Guide" written in their eyes. I instantly figured out that they were actually the set-up of some apocalyptic idol group. Who could resist this! 🤩
After getting into the trap, I discovered that this game is tailor-made for those of us who are "face-controllers + story addicts". Although the vertical paintings are not the kind of animation with fine strokes, each picture is like a small hand-painted easter egg, such as the strong man in the training room carrying dumbbells, whose cheeks are as bulging as a puffer fish, and the scientist wearing glasses in the laboratory, with steam rising from his head, and it feels like a "Pip-Boy" joke will break out in the next second. I secretly gave each resident a secondary name, like "Wasteland Pharaoh" or "Quantum Lemonade", and then watched them go from picking up garbage to making nuclear bombs. This feeling of cultivation is even better than smoking an SSR! 🧪
And you know, even if the combat system is just a little bit, every time I open the shelter and see those villains busy generating electricity, farming, and even secretly falling in love (I will stare at the hearts in the bubbles in a daze), I feel like I am the real "supervisor", supporting them a home in the apocalypse. This kind of immersion is like suddenly discovering an unpopular masterpiece while chasing a series, and you can't help but want to show it to the whole world! Now I have been addicted to it for three days and three nights, and I have even forgotten about the card drawing pool. Sure enough, the real two-dimensional never looks at the painting style, only the "soul vertical painting"~👾