Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

It's not just Song Ren alone, in fact, there are many players who are attracted by various elements after entering the game.

After all, the narrative rhythm of The Witcher: Wild Hunt itself is slow, just like Red Dead Redemption: Redemption.

But there is another difference, that is, although "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" is also an open world mode, it is still a game built under the RPG framework.

Missions, map exploration, and the main storyline are still unavoidable.

Although players in the early stage can also go to Novigrad, and the Skellige Islands, they can be limited by the level of the characters in the game, which still limits some of the players’ exploration content.

However, in addition to the special small gameplay of the Gwent card, what actually makes players more amazed is the shaping of the world view in the game.

From the tasks connected with each other in White Orchard, players can have a simple understanding of the political situation.

Obviously this is what Chen Xu wants to achieve, that is, to create a real chaotic era.

This is an era of frequent wars, and the northern kingdom and the southern empire are competing for the status of unified hegemony.

Under such a social tone, the game chooses to let the player play Geralt, and the main quest is not to directly participate in political changes, but to let the player find his beloved daughter.

But it is such a neutral angle from the side, but it allows players to feel a sense of reality in the depiction of the world in The Witcher: Wild Hunt.

In the opening scene to Willen, there is no exaggerated big scene in the middle, and there is nothing as thrilling as a blockbuster.

Except for the Griffin battle, it can be said to be very calm.

But it unexpectedly gives people a sense of reality. This sense of reality permeates every detail in the game environment, permeates the side quests, and the dialogue of the characters' lines, so that players can feel this The world is full of energy.

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With the completion of some side missions in Willun, Song Ren also began to touch the main storyline of the game and felt the charm of the game.

According to the previous plan, the white wolf went to a village in Willen to prepare to connect with the imperial spy and inquire about the news about Ciri.

But when White Wolf arrived, he realized that he was already a step too late. The secret agent of the empire had been tortured to death by the Wild Hunt, but in the ledger in the cellar, White Wolf found the ledger hidden by the secret agent, which contained Ciri. message related clues.

The clues point to two people, one is the witch in the local village, and the other is the leader of the Temeria deserter who was king in Mount Velenzhan, who was called the 'Bloody Baron' by the local people

Song Ren led the way to the witch before, but when he arrived at the place, he found out that the witch was not a so-called village witch, but an old acquaintance he knew, a member of the sorcerer's assembly: Kayla.

At the same time, from Kayla's mouth, Song Ren also further understood the relevant background in the game.

Under the rule of Emperor Emhyr, the southern empire Nilfgaard invaded aggressively, and the only northern country capable of competing with the empire was Redania, ruled by Radovid.

When Nilfgaard attacked Temeria, Redania launched a blitzkrieg and devoured its neighbors, and cooperated with the church called Eternal Fire to reorganize the church's armed force 'Witch Hunters'. The persecution of the warlock group and the non-human races, in order to confiscate the property under their name, support the high military expenses, and withstand the attack of Nilfgaard.

As a sorceress, Kayla, in order to avoid being persecuted by witch hunters of the Church of Eternal Fire, came to live in seclusion in the countryside of Velen, and pretended to be a witch to live temporarily through her magic power.

However, since they are acquaintances, it is much more convenient to communicate. Facing Geralt's question, Kayla did not hide it, and told White Wolf what she knew generously. There were indeed strange people who had contacted her, but it was not Ciri. It's an elf mage wearing a mask.

Next, she took the white wolf to the underground ruins where the elf mage was hiding, where she also collided with Wild Hunt, and the two sides had a big fight.

Although it was an ordinary difficulty, Song Ren still felt a pressure.

He has always relied on the gourmet to recover his blood, but in the face of the Wild Hunt soldiers, his health bar could not recover at all.

"This Wild Hunt is so fierce! This is just a small soldier. If the last Wild Hunt boss, how fierce will this be!?" Song Ren thought of the Lich King-like Wild Hunt leader in Geralt's dream at the beginning, Expressed emotion.

After some battle, it was discovered that the elf mage was no longer here, and only a video message was left that seemed to remind Ciri, telling him that the witch in the hunchback swamp could not be trusted.

So Kayla's clue was interrupted, but Song Ren also received a side quest on the sorceress's side to go to the middle of the lake to relieve the curse in the mouse tower.

And this side story also made Song Ren sigh with emotion. The side story is not very long, but it shows a dark and beautiful feeling.

In order to resist the invasion of the Nilfgaardians, the former lord of Velen abandoned the crow's nest and came to the island in the middle of the lake, and reached an agreement with the mage to study the plague virus.

But the lord's daughter, Annabelle, fell in love with Graham, a peddler who often brought fish to the island. Later, a group of robbers bewitched Graham to bring them to the island, and then these people took all the people on the island. The slaughter was empty, but by mistake, the plague spread.

At that time, Annabei drank a potion of the mage and put herself into a state of suspended animation, but when she woke up, the plague virus had killed everyone, leaving only countless mice and she was lucky enough to be killed The mouse was bitten to death, obviously she was still alive but her lover Graham disappeared, and her powerful resentment made her a plague banshee.

As for the solution to her is also very simple, that is to find the source Graham.

After the white wolf told the whole story, Graham chose to go to the mouse tower with the white wolf.

Graham didn't hesitate when asked by Annabelle if he still loved her and would kiss her.

"Damn it! This..." Looking at the image of Graham and the long-tongue skull in the game, no less than the brain-sucking Plague Banshee in the Bloodborne Curse, who gave his life to lift the curse with an affectionate kiss, Song Ren was immediately shocked, but at the same time he was also sighed.

But what surprised him even more was the follow-up to Keira's plot.

Helped Keira get in touch with the curse of the Mouse Tower, but Keira reluctantly asked Geralt to help her collect some messy things.

After completing the task, Keira invited Geralt to have a unique candlelight red wine dinner in the woods late at night.

Of course, dinner is not the focus, the real focus is the after-dinner activities.

'romantic? I thought it was just a gathering of friends. ' Geralt looked at Keira and shook his head slightly.

‘Friends… but with a little extra, how about that? ' Keira said meaningfully.

At the same time, a selectable UI appeared in front of Song Ren.

【No need to ask me twice】

【Not interested in】

[Sorry, I have someone else]

Is it! Is it!

As an old driver, Song Ren understood it in seconds.

But he still chose the third option with difficulty.

"Don't be like this, Geralt is a good man, I already have Yennefer." Song Ren said in his mouth.

'so what? Geralt, Geralt, are you too old-fashioned? Otherwise, at least lie down with me and watch the stars, right? ' Kayla smiled.

'Well...that's fine. ' Geralt smiled a little too.

'real? Then close your eyes and count to ten...' Keira smiled and put down her glass, and Geralt did the same.

After the ten counts, Song Ren could no longer see Kayla's shadow in front of his eyes.

Following the system's prompt, Song Ren turned on the demon hunter's vision, followed the footprints on the ground and walked forward for a while, and then what did he see?

'skirt? It looks like we're going to play the game of Big Wild Wolf catching Little Red Riding Hood, not hide and seek. ’

'Corset? Okay, so there's no need to unbutton it. ’

'shoe? Oops, bad, she should have left her shoes. ’

Controlling Geralt to move forward, Song Ren looked at the clues on the ground and listened to Geralt's lines, and the whole person was dumbfounded.

What is this scenario! ? What a terrible line!

Geralt, how did you become like this!

Is this your nature! ?

Soon Geralt found Kyra by the lake.

‘I have nothing on me now, but I will definitely give you a prize. ’

Following Keira's words, Geralt in the game slowly stepped forward.

"Fuck! This... there really is this plot!?"

"Geralt! You're a witcher, not a sorceress hunter!"

Song Ren's eyes widened.

Although it was only after editing the scene, it was enough to surprise him.

He can now understand why this game needs real-name authentication!