I remember back then, when I was still a little kid, I would go to the arcade to play "The King of Fighters" with 50 cents in hand. At that time, even the pixels were blurred into a blur, but hitting a sure kill would keep me excited all day long. Later, I got a Pentium computer at home and installed "Legend of Sword and Fairy" with four floppy disks. The scene of Li Xiaoyao flying with his sword is still unforgettable. Later, smartphones came on the scene, and you could play brick-breaking games until your phone ran out of battery... More than thirty years have passed, from red and white consoles to mobile games. As a veteran, I have transformed the gaming industry from the Stone Age to the 5G era.
Recently I discovered a game called "Rumo Jianghu". To be honest, as soon as I opened it, it reminded me of the days when I was squatting in bed and playing "Jianghu Fengyunlu". This game inherits the pure martial arts flavor. The character painting style is not the greasy Internet celebrity face, but a bit of ink style and freehand brushwork, which makes it comfortable to look at. The dialogue in the plot is humorous, with modern jokes popping up at every turn, making you laugh and fall into the drama. The key is free! It's free, comrades! Back then, we had to save up money to buy a CD to play a stand-alone RPG. Now, we can search for free on our mobile phones. This kind of treatment would have been unimaginable 20 years ago.
What impresses me most is the gameplay design of this game. Remember when you played "Jin Yong's Legend of Heroes", but you couldn't practice boxing if you chose swordsmanship, and you wanted to change jobs midway? Reopen the file! Now "Rumo Jianghu" directly changes your profession and retakes it. Did you choose the wrong profession? Don't be afraid, you can wash points with one click, and you can recover some resources even after your followers are eliminated. You don't have to cry all over the world to find modifiers like before. There is also the Tower of Babel, an infinite climbing tower, which reminds me of the ghost-catching missions I used to stay up late playing "Fantasy Westward Journey", but now I don't have that much energy. I can stop climbing the tower at any time to take care of us "old comrades" with families.
The home system is also quite interesting. You can raise servants and decorate your own nest. This reminds me of my old addiction to building houses in "SimCity", but now it's in a martial arts style. In the single-player mode, you don't have to team up with elementary school students to get pissed off, and you don't have to worry about a krypton-dollar boss killing you in an instant. You can just quietly be a lone ranger. How great.
Looking back at the game industry over the years, from pixels to 4K, from stand-alone to online games to mobile games, the gameplay has become more and more fancy, but sometimes I still miss the simple joy of getting a new cartridge and having fun for a long time. A work like "Rumo Jianghu" is like a warm hug for old players - it retains the purity of the classic stand-alone game and adds some little surprises of the new era. No need to spend money or socialize, just go home from work, make a cup of tea, click on the game, and be your own world.
If you have also experienced the era of using floppy disks to install games and using phone lines to access the Internet, or simply want to find a reliable transition to a martial arts mobile game, you might as well give this a try. Anyway, it's free. If you don't want to suffer losses or be fooled, just remember your youth with me, brother 😎