Brothers, I walked around the "Happy Paradise" today, and suddenly I wanted to talk about the handheld consoles we all loved together over the years. I still remember secretly hiding the GBA under my textbook when I was in elementary school, just to play "Golden Sun" or "Final Fantasy Tactics" for a while during recess. The screens at that time were luminous, but our eyes were also luminous😄 Later, when I entered junior high school and switched to PSP, I played "Gate of Heaven and Earth" and "Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core" under the quilt in the dormitory. While hiding from the dormitory supervisor, I sighed, "This is the fairy"... Now think about it, those pixel villains and those laggy cutscenes have become the most shining fragments of youth.
So when I opened "Proud Sword Immortal" for the first time, I was a little confused to be honest. As soon as the next-generation high-definition picture came out, the first thought in my mind was: "With this picture quality, if the PSP could run back then, I would have been able to hold it and sleep for three years!" 🌌 The light and shadow of the flying sword in the game, and the layered sense of the fairy mountains and seas of clouds, really brought the dream of "once you have mastered the Tao, and you can ride the sword freely" to the extreme. I still remember that when I played handheld RPGs, I had to rely on my brain to make up the plot. Now it's better. Every corner of the character's clothes is clearly floating, and even the pores have their own fairy spirit. This time, it's the Ye Qinghui plus version!
But to be honest, feelings are feelings, and what touches me most is the "old flavor" in its bones. If you look at the current Xianxia mobile games, they automatically find paths and hang up with one click. Playing them is like watching short videos. But "Proud Sword Immortal" actually retains the "manual exploration and plot substitution" energy of the handheld games back then. The experience of cultivating immortals in the main line, solving puzzles in the dungeon, and even the timing of teaming up to fight the boss all reminded me of the tacit understanding of "you help me increase my blood, and I will help you block the knife" when I used to play GBA online with my friends. Moreover, the love system of real-person social networking is not the kind of cold matching. It will really make you feel that having a Taoist companion who can chat with you on the road to immortality is like the brothers who skipped class and went to the game arcade together. It is the most rare fate in youth💘
Of course, as an old player, I can't help but compare the differences between the original version and the reissued version. In the past, Xianxia games on handheld consoles were limited by functionality, and the special effects of skills were basically fooled by "light pollution". However, they were better because of the solid gameplay. A maze can keep us stuck for half a month. Nowadays, the graphics of "Proud Sword Immortal" are high-definition and beautiful, and the skill release is also gorgeous. However, the tension of "startling every step and saving repeatedly" has become a kind of nostalgic benefit - fortunately, it has not lost the core plot and development depth. The choice of sect, the refining of magic weapons, and the transcendence of tribulations and ascension. Every link can make me feel the shadow of staying up late to grind materials. Do you want to say it is a complete replica? That's not right, it's more like a love letter to old players, recreating an old dream with a new engine, and adding a little bit of the refreshing feeling of a modern MMO.
Finally, I want to say something to you guys: Nowadays, we may not have so much time to sit with a handheld device all day long, but occasionally we open "The Sword Immortal" on our mobile phones, listen to the familiar fairy music, and watch the sword fly across the sea of clouds. The feeling is like - rushing out of school after school, taking out that hot GBA from your pocket, the whole world belongs to us. 🌈 Youth has not really gone far, it just changed the screen and continued to accompany us to cultivate immortality. Are there any together? Sign up in the comment area, old handheld players form a team, and we'll see you on the cloud! 🚀