Brothers, seeing this "Legend of the Brave 2: Darkness Rises" really made me break my defense in a second. I still remember when I was a kid, I saved up my breakfast money for a month and rushed to a video game store. The boss mysteriously took out a yellow cassette tape from under the counter. The cover was a crooked sticker that read "Legend of the Brave 2". When I got home and plugged in the GBA, the sizzling sound of electricity made everyone's blood boil.
To be honest, that cassette back then is probably the past life memory of today's game. I remember that what I was most afraid of at that time was losing my save file. Halfway through the level, I turned on the computer the next day and found that "the record has disappeared." The feeling of collapse was even worse than failing the final exam. Now it's better. The mobile game can be saved directly in the cloud, and monsters can be killed automatically when idle. The magic dragon equipment and fantasy beast contracts that I wanted so much back then can now be collected with just a snap of a finger.
What surprises me most about this game is that it recreates the feeling of "one person and one beast conquering the world" back then, and directly upgraded it to "one person and three beasts PK side by side". I still remember that in the pirated cassettes I played back then, the Phantom Beast system was reduced to a pixelated chicken. Now the screen is filled with the Phantom Beast's glare special effects. When I look at it, it reminds me of myself when I was a kid, imagining battle scenes on the screen of a flip phone.
And the operation of crossing three screens really understands me. I use my mobile phone to do some fishing at work, and hang up my computer when I get home. The feeling of hiding that I felt when my mother caught me playing games and I unplugged it is gone. Now I am openly nostalgic.
Looking at the current version, XP skills, contract gameplay, BOSS challenges, legion battles, and ladder matches are all so rich that even an old player like me is a bit dazzled. But there is still a familiar taste in my bones - it is still the continent of Ater, and it is still the dragon that I want to fight.
In those years when we played pirated cassettes, we would blow a breath when the card couldn't be inserted into the machine. When the save battery ran out, we would replace it with a coin-sized battery to keep the life alive. Thinking about it now makes us feel young. Now I play "Legend of the Brave 2: Darkness Rises" for no other reason than to get back to myself on that summer vacation afternoon, facing the small screen, blowing the fan, and fighting side by side with my friends.
Youth is back, and this time we don't have to pick out the battery.