I still remember that when I was in junior high school, I took the breakfast money I saved and secretly went to an Internet cafe to buy a GBA flash card. Apart from Pokemon, the one I'm most obsessed with is the "Age of Discovery" - although the graphics are as rough as a mosaic puzzle, the feeling of controlling a fleet on an adventure on the sea really makes my blood boil. Every time I play on the simulator until midnight and pretend to be doing homework after being discovered by my parents, that kind of sneaky happiness is probably what I feel when I am young.
Until a few days ago, I happened to find "Ship Points to the Pacific" on the mobile game simulator. The moment I clicked on it, I was really in a trance. It's the same naval battle, and it's the same collection of warships, but the graphics have changed from 8-bit pixels to high-definition modeling. Cross-server battles can also be played against players from all over the country in real time. Even the “real naval battle special effects” that were only dreamed of on handheld consoles are now available. As a veteran player, this kind of comparison across eras is really touching.
And the most touching thing is that this game is actually free! The paid mode is marked with 0, and even in-app purchases are rarely mandatory - I remember that in order to play the hidden ship on GBA, I had to read through the strategy book and even secretly buy pirated cassettes (boo). Now you can download it directly and play, and you can compete with people on different servers. Isn't this the "online battle" that I fantasized about in the handheld forum back then?
The recently released new expansion pack "Peak King" focuses on cross-server battles. I remember that when I used to play "Fleet Commander" on the NDS, I could only meet friends face-to-face. Now I can match up with commanders from all over the country at any time, build a team and play cross-server together, and I feel that the regrets of my youth have been restored. Even if you just draw an SSR battleship, the nostalgia in your heart will be exciting for a long time.
As you get older, you may not have the energy to stay up all night playing games like you did when you were a kid, but occasionally opening "Ship to the Pacific", listening to the familiar sound of gunfire, and watching the ripples of ships on the sea, it really feels like traveling back in time to the boy who giggled in front of the handheld device. If you also like classic naval battles, or want to get back to the feeling of the handheld era, you might as well try this one - at least, it allowed me to find that kind of pure happiness again in my busy adult life. 💪