Brothers and sisters, here I come! I remember when I was squatting at my neighbor's house playing with my red and white machine, plugging in the cassette and having to blow my breath. The picture was as rough as a mosaic, but we were so good at it. Fast forward more than thirty years, and now you can play "The Legend of Pipi Shrimp" by clicking on your mobile phone. In this world, tsk tsk tsk...
To be honest, I enjoyed this game as soon as I started playing it. You want me to be the CEO of Dongtucun Spiritual Beast Factory? I wonder if this is the same virtue as farming in "Harvest Moon"! But when I played it again, the taste was completely wrong - I fed a spirit beast and actually said to me, "Boss, I want to eat skewers today." In the middle of the answer, a "Shrimp Kun War" suddenly popped up, and even the secret recipe of Zuixianlou could be treated as a suspense drama. This idea would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.
How pure were the games at that time? Contra was just tug tug tug, Tetris was just piles and piles, plot? Doesn't exist. Now it's better, a game about hanging up and raising shrimps is packed with jokes, puzzles, and even competitions. You say it's a business simulation? It's funnier than cross talk. Are you saying it's nonsense? But people are confused by the reality of "it's not easy to be a factory director". My daughter watched me play and asked: "Dad, how does this game sound like listening to a radio drama?" I said, what do you know? This is called "game industrialization and full media integration"! In fact, I was just pretending to be cool, and what I was thinking was: Did the planner of this game come from the crew of "Wulin Gaiden"?
What makes me most emotional? This is the free idle mode of this game. I think back then we had to fight wits and courage with the boss for our lives, but now we just "hang up offline and collect food online". Times have changed! In the past, games were luxuries, and you had to save money to buy cassettes and strategy books; now games are daily necessities, and the fun ones are free, for fear that you will not enjoy the game. The name of the developer Wuhu Lehaha is also unique - Lehaha, isn't it just the gaming attitude of our generation?
But having said that, the game has changed, but the core is still the same. What impressed me most in The Legend of Pipi Shrimp was not the funny dialogues, but the sense of accomplishment that you get from starting from scratch and slowly raising a bunch of weird and weird beasts. This is actually the same joy I had when I spent thirty lives to clear "Tank Battle". The technology has been upgraded from pixels to 4K, the platform has been upgraded from cassettes to mobile phones, and the gameplay has been upgraded from stand-alone to full-network competitions - but the fire in our players' hearts has never been extinguished.
Okay, no more chatting, I have to go sign up for the Xi Kun Competition. This generation of young people are so lucky. They can experience the plus version of my happiness with just one mobile phone. One final message to everyone: No matter how the game changes, remember that we are here to have fun. Pipi shrimp is on its way! 🦐🦐🦐