I still remember the night when I was hiding in bed playing "Castlevania" on the GBA. The dark-style pixel graphics made the handle feel hot when I pressed it. All I could think about was how to defeat the boss. Later, when I went to college, I played "Dynasty Warriors" and "Monster Hunter" on the PSP. The immersion brought by the handheld game makes me smile slightly when I think about it now.
As soon as I opened "Sword to Sealing Demons", the dark martial arts style of painting took me back to that era. It's not the kind of cool light pollution, but a depressing feeling of Chinese ink painting. In the background are the gloomy temples, dilapidated Jianghu inns, and the knights who have been corrupted by mysterious forces. The gameplay is to place cards, but the advantage is that the plot is suspenseful enough, just like the tension of "solving a case" when I read Jin Yong's novels when I was a child.
What touches me the most is its 0.1% off event, and the best knights can actually choose it directly! Back then, it was hard to save gold coins for half a day on GBA to buy equipment, but now your dream can come true with just a snap of your fingers. And this game is completely carefree, unlike some mobile games that ask you to check in at a fixed time like going to work every day. I click a little bit on my commute every day, watching the knights automatically fight monsters, and occasionally a boss battle, and the memories of "doing justice for heaven" in the second grade come back to me.
I still remember the exhilaration of leading Kui Ye through the God of God world when I played "God of War" on the PSP; now I am leading the Cleansing Master to solve these strange cases, and what I am thinking about is still the same sentence: "When the mountains and rivers are in trouble, we must stand up!" Although the platform has changed, the original intention has not changed.
If you also miss the simple happiness of the handheld era, but don't want to be dissuaded by the krypton gold routine of modern mobile games, try this. At least for me, it allowed me to regain the little bit of my dream of being in the world of youth. 🌙