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For many players, a large part of the topic animation "Uncle returned from another World" in July this year comes from the identity of Uncle Shijia fans. In the original cartoon, the author just made his uncle's understanding of the game stay in the age of Sega Saturn, the era when Sega in Japan had the most fans.

In this work, Saturn's game stalks are everywhere. An OP of the animation allows Uncle Cosplay to show many famous works, but the most famous one is Guardian Hero, which is written directly in the title of the second episode.

In my uncle's words, "it perfectly integrated the combat system into the clear version of the action type, with a high degree of innovation and completion," but the word-of-mouth of "Guardian Hero" at that time was far inferior to the popular pretty girl game on Saturn.

Today, let's talk about this "guardian hero" who was born at the wrong time, but deeply shocked the players.

"Guardian Hero" and MD players are most familiar with "Youyou White Book: magic strong United War", both belong to Sega's ten-thousand-year-old younger brother-Caibao Society developer, the production staff have a great overlap. Although it has become a clear version of the action game, but there are many similarities in the system.

It is different from the general cleaning action class, which can move up and down freely, but uses a system with three axes in which the character can jump and switch. In this way, the protagonist and the enemy remain on the same axis, and the fighting game can be played. Characters can prevent squatting, can beat the enemy from the ground to the sky, and then float in the air, and each character is equipped with a large number of must-kill skills, the fight is very lively.

The main actor of Guardian Heroes is a typical fantasy adventure team. The members are Hahn, a warrior with a big sword, Randy, a magic guide with a stick and a pet, Nicolai, a natural monk who attacks the enemy with a flat fall, and the unsmiling squinting ninja Eunjiro. With the plot will also add an average type of red armor female knight Serena, Dan, milk, output are all.

Such RPG elements are not superficial. The game not only has the experience value setting, but also can upgrade, but also can match points, especially the increase of intelligence can enhance the scope of magic, so that people want to click into a glass cannon every time. When it comes to magic, this is the most important feature of the Guardian Hero. With the exception of warrior Hahn, who is a Muggle who can only shoot small fireballs, the magic of other characters is very powerful, such as Randy's thunder fall can be enhanced directly beyond the screen; Eunjiro's lightning palm can hold the enemy motionless, and the Hit counts directly over a hundred.

The most special is the monk Nicolai, whose magic has healing, a completely invincible shield, and a smiley meme that falls from the sky. It's the only auxiliary profession among the five. In order to highlight the characteristics of natural stupidity, the types of healing spells are random, there are all small recovery, ground open recovery array and all large recovery.

Because of her weak attack power, playing alone seems to be a prison profession, but the strongest attack magic is hidden in her shield. As long as the intelligence is high enough, the shield will become so huge that the Boss will be sandwiched to the edge of the plate and the blood strips will be cleared at once.

Of course, the magic in the game also needs to consume the character's MP, and the means to supplement MP in the game are also very simple and rough, which can be returned by hitting the enemy with an ordinary attack. In a word, physical attack-magic attack is used back and forth, in addition to attack or attack, it can be said that between life and death, wealth is obtained from risk. However, players who are familiar with the game absolutely disdain to use the way of choosing magic, but directly rub to attract instant, can pick up the whirlwind of →←↓↑ + Z every time, even if it is a master.

The fight is cool enough, the moves and systems are rich enough to prop up the facade of an action game, while Guardian Hero is not sloppy in the plot.

A large number of branch routes, 30 levels, and finally lead to a total of seven different outcomes. The story has twists and turns, every level can be reversed, each force appears as if it is a Luoshengmen, players often do not know who to believe in the game, only through all the levels and routes to see the full picture of the event.

At the beginning of the game, the main corner got a legendary sword after some adventure. Before the four people reached a consensus, there was a fire in the hotel where they stayed. Serena, a red knight, rolled in in the posture of Contra, indicating that their party had been hunted by the kingdom, and what the other party was asking for was the legendary sword.

The soldiers watched them fight without saying a word, and the party had to flee to a tomb to take refuge. Unexpectedly, a thick-skinned magic guide machine armour blocked in front of them. When helpless, Hahn raised the legendary sword, but accidentally resonated with the tomb, awakened an undead warrior, and wiped out the mecha. What is the origin of this man?

Originally, the female knight Serena is the real royal princess, and now the royal family is just a false puppet. Her royal family was slaughtered by the treacherous minister Canon a long time ago, and the undead warrior was the last brave man to guard the royal family. Now that Canon is in power behind the scenes, he is turning the country into a demon country, causing a lot of public complaints. So Canon should be the big Boss behind the scenes?

No. Canon saw the protagonist and his party murderous, but also threw out his own difficulties: in ancient times, there were two hostile forces in the world-Heaven and the Great Man, who fought endlessly, while the weak human beings in the gap could only watch the play. However, the heavenly people saw that human beings were the key to this war, so they taught human magic and sealed the great people in the dark.

The Heavenly Man, who solved his old enemies, had a hard time on human beings, and those who had magic posed a great threat to them, so they sealed magic and magical guides again, leading mankind to open the age of swords. Canon was the magic guide who survived at that time. He revived the magic age of mankind, cleaned up the royal family of the sword age, and established the magic guide country in order to take revenge on the heavenly people.

But at the same time, the king of the kingdom who was supported by Canon also had an inside story. His real identity was actually a great man. Her cooperation with Canon was only temporary, and she held a grudge against the humans who sealed her. At the right time, she would kick off Canon and lead the army to take revenge. As for the heaven and man side, will also render to the players the earth talent is all the culprit, is the leader of the devil, defeat her will achieve permanent peace. Players through a variety of branch routes, the final Boss to be defeated are Earth God, Heavenly Man and Canon's out-of-control artificial soldiers, and so on, but it can be called the real ending, there is no doubt that the culprit will be eradicated "ideal Land" and "Knight of Light" these two endings.

In these routes, players will learn from the Heavenly Man that whether it is Canon's seizure of power, the undead warriors, or the emergence of the legendary sword, it is actually the result of the Creator's control. In front of it, the world is just an experimental ground. And the purpose of arranging all this is to let the player go through many trials and eventually give birth to an extreme warrior. The heavenly man is his lackey, while the big man is the failure in the process of training extreme soldiers. At the end of the story, the main actor will eventually create the Lord to destroy, ushering in a new chapter for mankind.

That's not what Guardian Hero is all about.

After customs clearance, the battle mode that supports up to 6 players is still waiting for players to dig. In this mode, you can choose all the characters in the game, such as the god of heaven, the god of earth, the golden man-made soldier and other final BOSS characters are available, and there is a lot of performance. The most outrageous thing is that even the villager NPC who acts as the background board in the game can be used, and it is divided into thin villagers, fat villagers, female villagers, child villagers and old villagers. Of course, these characters are purely funny, combat effectiveness is not even 5, balance, rigor does not exist at all, but can not stand it lively, six players together, it is difficult not to play.

Speaking of which, you must be sympathetic to your uncle's roar in the second episode. Such a good game is one of the best among Saturn's thousands of games, but the players at that time did not give a corresponding evaluation, and only ranked 197th in the votes of Saturn magazine readers.

However, the sales of "Guardian Hero" is not low, as time goes by, its reputation also rises. After the second episode of Uncle in another World was broadcast, many players took the opportunity to play Amway on Twitter, and Youfu Yamanrun even made the sound of "I vote for the guardian hero."

Over the years, Guardian Hero has also released some spiritual sequels, such as Phantom Destroyer: battle Paradise and Princess Code, but you may not know that these games are more or less related. It can even be traced back to Guardian Hero and an unknown small company.

There are only 197, Guardian Heroes lying in a small corner. In 1987, a game company called Team Cross Wonder was founded in Tokyo's Banqiao District and later renamed Fill in Cafe.

At first, the company did 3D shooting games such as the arcade "Space Harry", but the platform X68000 computer did not have much response. But in 1994, the company finally ushered in two games that could be called popular styles. One is the fighting game "Flying Bird 120% Burning Festival". All the available characters are female high school students, and the person is set as seven wrasse sunflower, which can be said to have pioneered the cute fighting game. more importantly, as a computer game manufacturer's works, the feel is not bad at all, there are unique moves to kill the system and gorgeous floating segments.

The other game is the clear version of the action game "Mad Stalker", the protagonist is a robot, but it is still a fighting game, because this game does not have the concept of moving up and down, the enemy and I are on the same axis. At this point, you may have guessed that the frequent killing of each other and floating segments are the characteristics of "powerful United War" and "Guardian Hero".

This is because a program and planner of "Mad Stalker", Youjing Yasheng, immediately went to the treasure house after finishing the game and became the main program of "Magic United War" as well as the general director of "Guardian Heroes".

On the other hand, another planner of "Mad Stalker", the main project of "120% Flying Bird", Imaizumi Ishizumi, stayed at Fill in Cafe and embarked on a different trajectory. Right Jing Yasheng is like a fish in water on this side of the treasure, and together with elites from Kelamili, such as Chrysanthemum, Yasuhiko, the game is polished very exquisite, and its quality far exceeds that of the Fill in Cafe era.

But Koizumi also did the best he could, making several sequels to the "120% Flying Bird" series for PS and strengthening the transplant of "Mad Stalker".

In 1997, a clear version of the game "Mecha Hot Battle", which is very similar to Guardian Hero, was sold on PS. When I was young, I thought it was a fake product made by an eyeglass factory. In fact, this game was developed by Fill in Cafe's Jinquan, a sequel to the spirit of "Mad Stalker" and perhaps his response to "Guardian Hero".

To be fair, there is still a big gap between the quality of "Mechine War" and the works of Caibao Society, and the biggest problem is that the richness of the game is not enough and it is easy to be aesthetically tired. But the advantages are also obvious, as in the past, the refreshing feel and dynamic picture performance all reflect the serious attitude of Jinquan in making games, you know, it is only a few months before Fill in Cafe goes bankrupt.

With the passage of time, Advance Guardian Hero, the sequel of Guardian Heroes, abandoned the original system and became a traditional clear version, but received mixed reviews. The Princess Code, which was jointly developed by Yoshihiko Judi and Yasheng Youjing after they left the treasure, can not reproduce the glory of that year.

On the other hand, Jinquan Masaharu once again came out of the mountain to lead the "Phantom Destroyer: battle Paradise" also only handed over a salty not light answer, in this game, you can also see the help of right Jingyasheng. These developers seem to be challenging "guardian heroes" again and again.

But sometimes a classic means it's perfect enough. No matter how many ideas, and then the pursuit of breakthrough, may also be away from its original charm; at that time, no member of the gold team that fought together can be replaced.

Some people may lament the end of the era, but I prefer to open Saturn and stuff it into a "guardian hero", laughing like my uncle in a different world. I will also recall the memories related to the game and my grandmother who has passed away. at that time, I looked at my impatient expression when I rolled around, recalled the shock of the first guardian hero, and recalled the arduous process of saving money to buy Saturn. That is my unique game memory.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: travel Research Agency

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