Until yesterday when I casually opened "The Legend of Concubine Xi", I suddenly felt a little confused - this game actually only has a 5.0 installation package? Nowadays, which mobile game can't be like a small system update and ask you to clear eight gigabytes of memory first? But "The Legend of Concubine Xi" is so easy, it crams the entire ancient world into a slender body, and it's quite full.
In fact, when I first saw this name, a straight man like me rejected it. I wonder if this is not a palace fight? A group of girls having sex in the Forbidden City? But I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I clicked in and played for two hours. Ouch, that's really not the case. This game is about how ancient women managed to live a wonderful life in a deep house and compound, growing flowers and fish, arranging furniture, and chatting with their girlfriends. They were completely different from those coquettish bitches who frequently "save the world" and "slay dragons and dominate the industry".
If you want to say that its world view is grand, it cannot compare to those open world games. But if you want to say that it is boring, it can make the three words "living life" interesting. I am an old man, and I was actually thinking about how to arrange the screen in my mansion to look attractive, and even spent a long time studying the tea recipe... I don't think I was so interested in playing "Farming Simulator" back then.
There are many games these days, and the maps are made to look like the entire continent, but if you run around for a long time, you won't even come across an NPC that can speak human language. They are all marked with "!" and "?" quest marks. On the other hand, in "The Legend of Concubine Xi", the dialogues between the characters are full of human touch. It doesn't force you to spend money to catch up, but allows you to keep it slowly, just like the "Three Kingdoms" that you could play for an afternoon by throwing a coin in the arcade at that time. It was simple, but the joy was pure.
There were no smartphones at that time, so we would hide in bed with our GB and play "Pokemon" just to catch a Pikachu so we could squat all afternoon. Nowadays, mobile phone screens are bigger, the picture quality is better, and there are more games, but we often click on the icon and exit, because we know that there are endless daily tasks and rankings. To put it bluntly, it's not that we don't like playing anymore, it's that games make the word "fun" too complicated.
"The Legend of Concubine Xi" is better, it directly restores the ancient days for you. Don't compete with anyone for combat power, don't worry about ranking, just help the character live this life comfortably. I thought, this is probably a return to nature. The game is getting bigger and bigger, but the fun we want has actually never changed. It's like squatting down at the entrance of an alley to play marbles when I was a kid. Can you say that those marbles were worse than today's 3A masterpieces? cannot. A good game is one that can make you laugh out loud.
Anyway, I am planning to renew my relationship for ten more lifetimes, and take a look at how ancient women lived their lives into poetry. It's worth it. If you are tired of those “big and empty” games, you might as well come to this quiet and quiet place, make a cup of tea, raise a flower, and find the simplest happiness of the past. 🍵