Dear friends, I am not going to talk about those 3A masterpieces today. I just want to talk about a game I just discovered - Worms! Don't think this is some new IP. Back then, this thing was a ruthless character that could compete with Red Alert and StarCraft for camera slots on PC! There were no smartphones at that time. There were a row of large monitors in the Internet cafe, and several buddies crowded together to see whose bugs would squeal when the holy water was poured on them. 😂
To be honest, my eyes lit up as soon as I entered this new version of the mobile game. It still tastes the same! In the hand-drawn 2D graphics, the bug still looks like he needs to be beaten, but the details are much more refined than before. I think back then we were playing with pixel worms, each one of which looked like a mosaic. Now you can even see the stubble of the worm (well, the worm doesn't seem to have a beard). The key is that all classic weapons are back! As soon as the "holy grenade" was thrown out, a circle of light fell in the sky, and the bugs exploded into pieces - back then we called this "God throwing cigarette butts", but it's still so joyful now. 💥
What excites me the most? It's a "stone donkey"! Brothers, you may not know that this stone donkey was a god-level prop in those days, specially used to suppress those obscene opponents hiding behind bunkers. As soon as the donkey gets off, the whole world becomes pure. Think about how many bottles of Coke I won in the Internet cafe with this skill! Now it is actually retained in the mobile game. My hands feel itchy when I touch the screen. 😎
However, today's young people may not understand that the essence of this game is not in marksmanship, but in "anticipation" and "scheming". Do you think you are hiding deep? A "banana bomb" bounces around and it still makes you doubt your life. I think back then we studied parabolas more seriously than we studied mathematics in school. No matter what the angle, wind force, or terrain bounce, it was all the experience of blood and tears gained in actual combat! Now the mobile game has training levels, and there are 20 campaign missions. I am so envious - how could we have any teaching back then? It all depends on being tortured by masters, and you will get better at it. 😭
Speaking of changes, the biggest one is the ability to drive vehicles! I remember when we squatted behind the mound and threw grenades, how could we get such treatment? Now you can still drive a tank to fight in the face, or fly around in the sky to carry out air strikes. I tried it, and it felt like the old man who rode a 28-inch bar suddenly drove a sports car. It was great, but it was still a bit uncomfortable - after all, we old players are used to using our brains to calculate. Once this vehicle came on stage, the battlefield became more chaotic, but it was also more exciting! 🎮
What impresses me the most is that this game can actually be played online! Back then, we were playing offline Mortal Kombat. If we won, we would eat spicy noodles, and if we lost, we would call daddy. Nowadays, you can take out your mobile phone anytime, anywhere and find someone to date around the world, but how do those young people know the story of our "Bug Wars" back then? Things like "shrinking your shell to hide from grenades" and "digging holes until the end" are all slang words we shouted in Internet cafes back then! If I get matched with a primary school student one day, I really want to ask via voice: Do you know what "Bugs" is? Do you know how to hum the magical theme song in "Worms: War of the Worlds"? 🤣
After all, this game has actually not changed. It is still the same style of using the cutest painting style, the toughest fights, and making you laugh until you cry. All that has changed is our age. I remember when I was still a young boy, I saved up my breakfast money for a week to go to an Internet cafe just to play bugs for two hours. Now I can start a war at any time while sitting at home using my mobile phone, but the group of friends who grab keyboards around me have long been scattered all over the world. Alas, let's not talk anymore. I'm going to throw two more rounds of “Concrete Sledgehammer” to relieve my boredom. Do you have any old friends with me? Let's see through wormholes! 🐛💪