Family members, I, a senior two-dimensional painting and risk control person, must talk about the game "Heroes of Might and Magic: Dynasty" today. Do you know that feeling? It's like when you open a new show on Station B and see your wife's (husband's) portrait at first sight, you take a quick glance at it and follow it decisively. But when you watch the third episode, you find that the plot is as addictive as eating fungi, but you have to bite the bullet and watch it for the sake of your wife's face - yes, that's the feeling!
The style of this game is really awesome! 😭 You said a European and American magical IP, but it was made into a Japanese otaku ecstatic cartoon style like me. The heroes' portraits are all as handsome as the servants who came out of Fate. The armor is reflective, the eyes are melancholy, and...the elf girl's ears, I will just social security (cross them out)! At that time, I came across a vertical painting of a front-row hero on the forum. The light, shadow, and details made me abandon the ship girl I had been obsessed with for a few months and download it. When I entered the game and took a look, wow, the arms and the little skeletons on the map were all drawn so cutely, the castle buildings were also glittering with gold, and even the haystacks looked like they had a girly comic filter. I thought to myself at that time: This wave is stable, this style of painting, even if the gameplay is messy, I can still play it as a collection of electronic figures until I reach the server level!
Then...how to play...🤡
How can I put it this way? I am a star person who is not sensitive to the combat system. When I play war games, I am always a "who cares about this, I will fall in love with whoever I like" player. But I have heard of the name of the "Invincible Heroes" series! Classic battle! Strategy depth! Terrain kill! Arms restraint! As a result, after playing the game, I felt that the painting style and gameplay were... two world lines. It's the kind of plot where you think it's "Violet Evergarden", but it turns out to be "The Lost Family". The battle interface looks quite similar, with a hexagonal grid and queues to fight. But as I was doing this, I found that the system prompted me with "insufficient troops" and "insufficient resources". Then I had to go to the city construction interface and click on it, and wait for a few hours for the upgrade. I am a salty fish who wants to lick stand-up paintings and watch plots. You want me to be the production captain? It felt like when I was watching a show, when the OP rang, I was excited to watch the main character turn on the big screen, but everything went wrong on the screen, and a public service announcement "How to Breed Slime" started playing! 😅
The most amazing thing is the plot. I originally thought I could relive the grand epic of the world of Ashan, but it turned out that the main plot was like... "Oh, you are the chosen one, help me fight the nearby wild monsters" "Oh, you have upgraded, go build a warehouse"... Hey! Where is my royal blood? Where is my fateful showdown? Where is my beautiful girl teammate? Forget it, anyway, the vertical paintings of heroes and troops are still good.
But the problem is, if you play like this, how do you want me to benefit my comrades who have "gameplay first"? I told them: "This game has amazing graphics. Look at the cloak of the Light Feather Archer, fluttering in the wind!" They replied to me: "Oh, how about the combat balance?"... Me: "... Look at this castle, the lights are on at night!" They: "Is there a PVP arena? What about the season mechanism?" Me: "... Look at the main city upgrade animation, how smooth it is!" Them: "Ah? Is it the one that fills up the construction queue again?"
Okay, I admit it, I go online every day just to look at my heroes and put them in formation as electronic figures. Then play a dozen of those "automatically skipped" battles just to see the win rate numbers. You say it sucks, its painting style is so beautiful that I can't let it go; you say it's good, the gameplay is just... it's a "power generation with love" level of tolerance. 😇
In short, if you are also a fan of painting style and don't care about strategy, balance, or the signature of “Invincible Heroes”, then this game's vertical graphics are enough for you to lick the screen. But if you want to play "classic war chess style", don't think about it, just go to sleep, you can have everything in your dreams. As a two-spined newt who has been kidnapped by the style of painting, I can only say one sentence with tears: vertical painting will always be magical! The gameplay is always dripping! Let's think of this as crowdfunding wages for the art team! 🙏
Finally, are there any fans who can share ideas about which hero has the most fanart? fighting? What battle? Isn't that the stage for the vertical painting display? 😏