Veterans, first of all, I have to admit that for a nostalgic person like me, the most memories of my youth are the pirated cassettes I bought with my pocket money in those years. GBA, PSP, and even NDS, which one has not been harmed by the "xx in 1" pirated cassette? I still remember that kind of flash card. After plugging it in, the screen froze and it took a long time to load. Then I went in and found that it was a hack version of "Final Fantasy" that was stuck in the first five minutes... But even so, when I was hiding under the quilt with my handheld machine in my hand, I still felt that it was worth playing it forever.
Back to the topic, I recently found an old mobile game "Jianghu Fengyunlu" from 2017 on my mobile phone, and I actually felt like my youth was back. This game is free to download, and there are no in-app purchases to force krypton gold. This is already a few blocks away from the current pile of "Miracle Nuannuan" style martial arts mobile games. And its open plot reminds me of the feeling I had when I played the pirated cassette of "Dynasty Warriors" on the GBA. Although it was a lawn mowing game, when I was a kid, I didn't care about the copyright, as long as it was fun.
There are more than 120 martial arts secrets in "Jianghu Fengyunlu", which is comparable to the hidden levels in the pile of pirated cassettes I accumulated back then. I remember playing a pirated copy of "Golden Sun" when I was a kid. The save file that came with the cartridge was actually full level + all props. As a result, it crashed halfway through the game, and I was so angry that I smashed the handheld device... Now this mobile game replica is much more stable, and the save files are synchronized with the cloud, so I no longer have to worry about losing files due to battery failure. And the picture quality, although it is the 2D pixel style of the 4.4 era, the ink feeling is more interesting than many pseudo-3D martial arts nowadays, just like playing "The Gate of Heaven and Earth" on the PSP back then - no light effects and no particles, but I just feel that this is how the world should be.
In addition, you can also recruit confidante in the game. This reminds me of when I was playing a pirated copy of "Fire Emblem" and repeatedly reloading files to chase a character. As a result, I used the golden finger on the cassette crookedly, which directly caused everyone's favorability to drop to zero... Now the development system of the mobile game version is much more reasonable. There is no need to look at the face to brush the probability, but there are many romantic interactions that should be possible. By the way, the developer is Beijing Luoting. I saw this name on the Saipan forum back then, and it can be considered an old-fashioned sentiment factory.
One final comment: How can today's children have the "pirated cassette culture" we had back then? They would only shout "This BGM is copied from XXX" in the barrage, but they didn't know that in order to save a pirated cassette, we could save two or three breakfasts, and then bargained with the boss at the canteen at the school gate, and finally got it and felt that we made a lot of money. The 0-yuan free tour of "Jianghu Fengyunlu" made me feel that the real Jianghu is not made with money, but with memories and feelings.
If you want to find a dream of Jianghu, you can try this. At least, it reminds me of that night when I took my GBA and pretended to go to the bathroom while secretly playing a pirated copy of Red Dead Redemption. 😭