I don't know if any of you have had this kind of experience. During the lunch break, people were supposed to be resting, but instead, everyone was scrolling through their mobile phones. They were all doing their own thing and paying no attention to anyone else. The atmosphere was as awkward as a meeting. Last week, several senior guys in our department suddenly started chattering excitedly together. I thought it was the leader giving out red envelopes, but when I came over to see them, I saw that they were all playing an old game called "Feng Yun Lu".
Let me give you some background first. We are the kind of veterans who can gather together for lunch, but we really don't have much time to get together to play kings or chickens. It takes at least ten minutes to play with that thing, and we have to prepare for various team formations. The lunch break is really not enough time, and we might be called back to check bugs right after the game starts. But Jianghu Fengyunlu perfectly solves this problem. It is a relatively free martial arts RPG. Everyone plays at their own progress, but they can chat with each other about the plot and share hidden items. The lunch time is enough, and there is no delay in putting down the mobile phone to work at any time.
The game is quite old, but this is the first time I know about it. I saw it was from 2017, and I was still in college, hahaha. But as I've come back to you, the content is really great. It has the flavor of a martial arts novel as soon as you enter it. It's not a mindless, idle, one-money-for-999 kind of thing. It focuses on a plot and a degree of freedom. The plot is very open. It doesn't mean that there is only one way to get to the dark side, but it really feels like you can travel to the end of the world with your sword. You can go to whichever sect you want to become a disciple, and you can practice whatever martial arts you want in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. Anyway, you can basically do anything you can think of in the world.
What irritates me the most is that there are more than 120 kinds of martial arts secrets in this game! It's really not an exaggeration. There are all classic martial arts themes such as fists, feet, swords, internal skills, and Nine Yin and Nine Yang Sunflower. One of my colleagues has been playing for a month. He shows off to us every day that he has learned the ultimate move. He showed off to us at noon today and said that he blasted a magic weapon yesterday when he finished the dungeon. His strength made our teeth itch. However, we new entrants are not at a loss, just take your time. Anyway, there are so many martial arts routines that no one has the energy to learn them all. Everyone has his own way, this is the world.
Another thing to mention is that there is a confidante system in this game. It's the spiritual food of the workers, you understand! Usually you are tortured to death by Party A's father, and you have to face the daily necessities of real life when you get home from get off work. But in the game, you are that elegant young knight, be it a gentle senior sister or a tsundere young lady. They all have story lines with you to develop relationships with. One time, I was working on a branch line during my lunch break. A colleague next to me glanced at it and said softly, "Oh, there's something wrong." This made me, a grown-up man, very embarrassed, haha.
To be honest, it's really hard to find the kind of mobile game that allows me to calm down and immerse myself in the story after work. The good thing about this game is that it is not a tiring mobile game that forces you to go online and do tasks every day. When you want to play, you can go for a walk in the world, and you can put it down at any time when you are busy. There will be no burden. And because it is mainly a single player, there is no moment of breaking the defense when being pressed to the ground and rubbed by some kryptonite boss. You can really enjoy the joy of the game itself. The key is that it's free, and you can experience a huge world of martial arts without spending a penny. How rare this is these days!
Anyway, the style of lunch break in our office has changed now. From each working in his own way to a group of brothers and sisters from the same sect, they will also shout to each other, "It's time to take medicine" and "Should we go to the blacksmith shop to repair equipment?" Sometimes when I'm tired after working overtime, I lie on the bed and open the game for a while. Listening to the background music and looking at the moonlight in the game, I feel that the fatigue of the day is much lighter.
If you are also looking for a mobile game that you can play in your spare time and have a taste of the world, you can really give this a try. After all, who doesn't have a martial arts dream? Even if it's just during lunch break, it's good, right?