Let me first state that I am the kind of single-player veteran who gets sick of seeing "first recharge", "monthly card" and "combat power list". I came across this game last night when I was bored in bed. It's free, free, and doesn't even have in-app purchases. The developer, Qingdao Feiming Interactive Entertainment, sounds like a serious game developer, but it turns out it's just for nothing.
The gameplay is the same as those "jump to the bottom" sadistic mini-games: control a round cute creature to fly up and avoid lightning. The higher the score, the more exciting it is. It only takes two operations, and there is no threshold to get started, but it will be shattered into pieces with a shake of the hand. It is the kind of thing that makes people curse and restart it at the same time. Before I went to bed, I said "play one more time", but at 2:30 in the morning I was still fighting against the first lightning bolt🤯
Let's focus on the difference between stand-alone and online games.
This kind of mini-games are already in the hands of online game companies, and they have already been filled with stamina points, resurrection cards, and acceleration packs. The only question is whether to pay for them out of your pocket or use your liver to exchange them. But "Meng Meng Da Chong" doesn't play that trick. If you die, you have to start over. There is no price or punishment. It is purely your own handicap and you have no one to blame. This kind of frustration of "just practice more" is much more lasting than the feeling of satisfaction brought by getting stronger.
The most enjoyable thing about stand-alone games is that there are no "others". You don't have to see those V15 bosses on the leaderboard, you don't have to be humiliated by the top lineup in the arena, and you don't have to get up in the middle of the night to check in for the guild war. Your opponent is just the person you were a second ago. The skins are given away for free, and you can wear whatever you like, just to have fun, instead of paying money and sticking it on the profile picture frame like a dog-skin plaster to tell the world that "I am crazy".
Online games always find ways to make you anxious. If you sign in and stop playing for a day, you will lose money. If you miss a limited-time event, you will be out of print. Your friend list is full of gamers who are more aggressive than you. Playing a game is like working. The leader is the system and KPI is the combat power. In "Meng Meng Da Chong", your only KPI is to fly a little higher than before. If you lose, you won't lose meat. If you win, you will be happy.
The picture is indeed crude, and the music is just that, but it is clean. Like that old machine in the arcade where no one has a queue, you just put in a coin and you can play, no matter how many skins you have. Recommended to friends who are fed up with card drawing, crooked pools, and social kidnapping, come back and experience "the original game" - purely for fun. 🙃
Of course, if you think it's not exciting without the krypton gold system and you have to spend money to buy the experience, then just pretend I didn't say that. Anyway, an old man like me likes to find some peace and quiet in this kind of little game.