I saved up three months of breakfast money for a cassette, but when I plugged it into the GBA, I had to find an angle toward the sun just to see clearly the mosaic pixels of the elves on the screen. How do new players today understand this kind of romance? You can play it as soon as you turn it on, hatch it with one click, and even evolve it for you.
The "Elf Cute Baby" I'm going to talk about today, I sneered at first - hum, which small factory is taking advantage of the elf popularity? As a result, I went in and played for ten minutes. Hey, there is something really good!
You could say it looks like "Pokemon", but it doesn't. I think back then we had to run around the map to catch elves, and the probability of encountering monsters in the grass was comparable to winning the lottery. Now this game directly gives you a garden, and the elf eggs pop out by themselves. You just hatch and combine them, and they heal like raising succulents. But if you want to call it easy, it also hides a lot of tricks that veteran players are familiar with - attribute restraint, evolutionary chain, and hidden elves. Playing with it reminds me of the legend of "Flash Magikarp" back then.
The most amazing thing is this "fusion" system. Old players all know that in the past, if you wanted to make a powerful elf, you had to either brush up individual values until you were blind, or rely on cheats to change the data. Now, once the two elves merge, the new race will directly inherit the skills of both parties, and can also unlock the ancient mysterious form. Yesterday, I combined Charmander and Pichu to create an electrified Charmander. It was a blast! In the screenshot sharing group, young people born in 1995 asked me which version it was, and I laughed and said nothing - this is the accumulation of time.
Of course, the style of painting is definitely incomparable to that of the past. At that time it was Mosaic, but now the Q-version is so cute that my daughter even grabs her phone to play with it. But despite its cuteness, there are also hard-core levels such as "Cursed Garden" and "Legendary Challenge". I was stuck on the eighth level for a long time and almost dropped my phone. Later I discovered that I need to use a combination of mutually exclusive attributes. Isn't this what veteran players are best at?
In the final analysis, this game is like "an old friend with new clothes" - incubation, fusion, and evolution. At its core, it is still the collection and development logic that we were obsessed with back then, but the operation is smoother, the feedback is more direct, and there is no need to buy a cassette (free!). The charging mode says 0. I played it for three days and it didn't cost me a penny. Not many domestic games dare to do this these days.
I think back then we could wander around the elf tower all day just to catch a Mewtwo, but now there are also all kinds of adventures and easter eggs hidden in this game. If you are also an old guy who came from the GBA era, you might as well come here to find some youth; if you are young, it is just a good time to catch up on lessons - look at how the things your parents played back then have evolved!
Okay, let's not talk anymore. I have to hatch my 37th egg. It is said that it can produce a legendary little guy. This game really makes me, a 35-year-old man, regain my old addiction of "playing for five more minutes before falling asleep". 😂