I still remember the days when I was a child, hiding under the covers and playing "Fire Emblem" on GBA. Every character drawing was an art of stacked pixels. Every battle had to be repeated SL to find the optimal path🔥At that time, we could hold the handheld device all day long for a hidden prop or an exclusive dialogue.
Recently, a friend gave me the Amway version of "The Legend of Concubine Xi", saying that the new version would have greatly enhanced the red general Ying Zheng. I refused at first. After all, I am still the old antique holding a PSP at my core😅. But I couldn't resist my curiosity and downloaded the 4.0 platform version. After playing this game, ah, all the ancient memories of my youth were awakened.
To be honest, compared with the development strategy games on classic handheld consoles, the operation of this mobile game has been simplified too much: back then, we had to manually click on each NPC to trigger the plot in "Distant Space and Time". Now it is basically automatic advancement + one-click upgrade. It is indeed more "exhilarating" in terms of senses, but it always feels like it lacks the ritual feeling of rubbing the guide book.
But the picture does evolve amazingly. The set of vertical paintings of the red general Ying Zheng, the light and shadow texture can be used as wallpaper, which is much higher than the meager number of hair colors on the GBA back then. The amount of text is also large, the plot branches are richer than many stand-alone handheld games, and you can connect to the Internet at any time to arm-wrestle with other "little masters". This kind of social gameplay was unimaginable on handheld consoles back then.
The charging model... It was painful to pay for a cassette in one go. Now this free download + in-app purchase model, I know intellectually that it is a pitfall, but when I saw the streamer effect on the Hongjiang upgrade interface, I clicked on it with a swipe of my hand... Alas, the "gold finger" in youth has become the "recharge" now, which can be regarded as the tears of the times.
In general, if you miss the immersion of the handheld era like me and are willing to accept the convenience and speed of modern mobile games, "The Legend of Concubine Xi" can be regarded as a good "soul-reviving pill". At least, when I controlled Ying Zheng's "imperial power" on the Demonic Battlefield, I felt like I was back to the days when I plugged in the charging cable late at night and puzzled through levels of puzzles under the weak backlight of my handheld device🥹
Brothers who feel the same way, please come to the comment area to talk about the ancient masterpieces you played on the handheld console and see whose youth is more hardcore!