Now is not the time when games are scarce and players value playing methods more than pictures. With the continuous improvement of mobile phone hardware configuration and the growing number of games in the market, players have increasingly high requirements for games. While playing methods are breaking through, pictures, UI The sound effect and game structure are all good. Therefore, many games on the market, especially those on the App Store, have made great efforts in the most basic part of the screen. The certain quality that can stand out from these games is very excellent. Recently, the most impressive thing for mushroom sauce is Smash Hit and Monument Valley, which has just been launched.
The name "Monument Valley" is somewhat artistic. The fresh style of opening the game is like a beautiful scenery in a bright spring day. The words "exquisite" and "beautiful" are not enough to describe the excellence of its pictures, beautiful foreign buildings, clean pictures with simple lines, and bright and fresh colors, It presents a picture with high visual comfort no matter what. No wonder developers are confident to let players set up screenshots at any time in the game, because any instant picture of the game can be used as mobile wallpaper.
Not only the pictures, but also the sound effect of Monument Valley is excellent. The elegant and ethereal background music, the raucous and deep crow singing, the sound of rough waves, and the metal collision sound of rotating mechanisms all bring a complete audio-visual enjoyment. You must bring headphones to join another parallel space.
At first, the mushroom sauce was really amazed at the picture of Monument Valley, but the puzzle solving method of the game surprised me again. When it comes to playing, I have to mention one person first: Escher, who was a famous Dutch master of scientific thinking printmaking in the 20th century. When it comes to thinking printmaking, many people may not be very familiar with it, but I believe that many people should have seen the wonder of the three-dimensional illusion on the plane. Escher is like a magician, placing objects that seem incompatible or cannot exist in the same space, such as plane mosaic, impossible structure, paradox, and cycle, in a plane in harmony.
Ken Wong, the designer of the game, said that after he had the concept of the game at first, he was worried about how to connect the architecture with the puzzle solving game. One day, he saw Escher's famous painting "Rise and Fall", so there are now games that skillfully use visual difference and ignore gravity.
Monument Valley is a good mix of physics, mathematics, psychology, logic and other disciplinary elements, but it does not give players too high threshold restrictions, nor too professional disciplinary knowledge. In many cases, players just need to follow the established route to move forward linearly, but the journey is not always smooth, and sometimes they will scratch their heads and think of no solutions, But for a game like art, the superfluous words or props are slightly vulgar, so the best way is to immerse yourself in the game and slowly explore the hidden mystery.
There are three common mechanism logos in the game. One is a protruding block on the ground, which will trigger the mechanism when the hero steps on it. The other is a rudder plate similar to the ship, which can trigger the rotation of some mechanisms through various rotations. However, when the princess steps on it, the mechanism will fail. So you should think carefully before you act. The third is a brick with a round hole that is somewhat like an octopus leg, They can all slide. Generally speaking, the sense of picture and charm of the game building itself are more than the fun of solving puzzles, just like a gorgeous journey through time and space.
Now back to the story of the game itself, the silent princess kept moving forward under the thick darkness, and no one knew where her destination was until she met a white haired old man: "The skeleton has been waiting for a long time in the dark. How far have you been wandering, silent princess?" We began to slowly understand the life of the princess: Princess Ada was afraid of crows, she had a good friend called "Totem", she could sometimes walk on the wall, and so on. Until the end, we learned the truth of the whole story. We didn't do spoilers here, but the game completely described a deep and attractive story with simple sentences.
From the perspective of mushroom sauce, the game itself is a tribute to the wonderful geometry, and also a satire on the self loss of people who steal other people's fruits. Of course, 100 people have 100 Hamlets. When immersed in this wonderful and gorgeous fantasy space, everyone will have ideas about their own life, However, all these things do not affect the value of this game in my mind. The only regret is that the chapters are too short, and there is still more to be said
