Brothers, I don't know if you feel this way. Now when you open the app store, any game starts with a few G. Even a elimination game can give you an entire high-definition texture pack. When I was playing "Super Mario", the entire game was only a few dozen KB, so I had to play it several times throughout the night? 😅 As a result, I now have three masterpieces installed on my phone, and the memory is almost full, but every time I click to play them for ten minutes, I want to delete them - the picture is fine, but the energy of "I can't put it down after playing" has gone somewhere.
Until last week, my little niece who was born in 2000 gave me Amway's "Traveling Frog·Journey to China". I even laughed at it at the time, saying that the painting style was too "Buddhist", right? As a result, I clicked open with my stupid hand, and, good guy, I went straight to the head. 🤨
This game, to put it bluntly, is very simple: you have a little frog, it reads, eats, and cuts wood at home, and then leaves as soon as possible, carrying a small backpack and going on a trip. All you can do is pack his luggage, plant some clovers for food, and wait for him to send a postcard back. There are no battles, no upgrades, no leaderboards, not even a win or loss. But it's this thing that makes me, a veteran player who has played on red and white consoles and then moved to mobile games, the first thing I do when I get up every day is to see if my “frog son” is back and what photos he has sent. 📮
What impresses me the most is how big is the installation package of this game? I took a look and saw that there were over a hundred trillion, not even a fraction. But the simple happiness inside, the feeling of growing radishes and raising chickens while playing "Hard Moon", came back immediately. From the specialties brought back by the frogs, you can recognize cakes from Suzhou, roast duck from Beijing, and even mountains from Zhangjiajie - this is much more flavorful than those gorgeous but empty "open worlds". 😌
Sometimes I think about it, today's game technology is so good, the picture can be like a movie, but the fun has shrunk. Maybe what we lack is not faster rendering, but the patience and surprise of "waiting for a letter". This frog game is so innocent that it reminds me of the afternoon when I pressed the start button of the NES for the first time 36 years ago. If you are tired of playing with those "Big Macs", you might as well come and have a rest here with this little frog. 🐸