I still remember when I was a student, playing GBA's "Ace Attorney" with a flashlight under the covers. The twists and turns in each unsolved case made my heart beat faster. Later, "God of Pop" on PSP also had this kind of Chinese style + supernatural + reasoning flavor. Now when I open "Eternal Life Sacrifice" on my mobile phone, the murder case in the Yamen during the Tianbao period begins. The cold wind blows in my face, which makes me trance back to that night when I was hiding under the quilt and holding my breath.
This game really feels like an old handheld game. The scenes are hand-painted in Chinese style, with yamen, houses, and underground palaces, and layers of hidden agencies. Solving the puzzles is not just a matter of brainless bits and pieces, but requires careful thinking. The circumstances of the case have been reversed several times, and there seems to be an invisible hand behind my back. The creepy and unstoppable feeling is the same as when I played "Twilight Hotel" back then.
What I am not used to is that the touch screen operation lacks the feedback of physical buttons. The feeling of pressing the LR button for continuous typing cannot be regained. But the advantage is that the picture is much higher definition, so you don't have to look at the pixels close to your face, and the music has also been remade, giving it a full sense of weirdness.
This game is still free and will be launched on April 29th. To me, it is like the afterglow of Youth. The teenagers who used to play with handheld consoles are now holding mobile phones, but their addiction to solving puzzles is still there, and their desire for reasoning has not changed. When I opened it, my youth came back. 🔍🕯️