Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

The troll is back. The troll is in seconds. As of today, I have experienced the "God of War: the Gods of Twilight" several hours in advance (hereinafter referred to as "God of War 5").

Limited to the requirements of confidentiality, we can not talk about any plot and process for the time being, and the way we play can only reveal part of the beginning of the game. But even such a section with limited content can still give us a glimpse of the overall quality of Ares 5.

As a game that dates back to 4 years ago, when I started the first year of junior high school, I worried about whether I could remember the plot of the previous work and pick up the original mood. Fortunately, Ares 5 also takes this situation into account, adding an "previously on" option to the "New Game" button on the main interface, bringing the player to an official version of "Ares IV" in a few minutes.

This time, the mirror operation method of "God of War 5" still follows the previous widely acclaimed mirror to the end. Including a fast-paced action performance a few minutes after entering the game, the shock brought by the mirror suddenly brought me back to the familiar feeling of playing Ares 4.

It's just that this familiarity is the same in the picture. Perhaps limited by the intergenerational game identity, the picture of "Ares 5" is not much better than the optimized version of "Ares 4" of PS5. In terms of modeling accuracy and facial expressions and other details, we can see that "Ares 5" has taken another step forward, but the overall picture level is still "Ares IV", which may also be to take care of the compromise that PS4 players have to make.

On PS5, Ares 5 can stabilize 60 frames at 4K resolution when performance first is turned on, but it can barely reach 4K60 frames and can only be maintained at the visual level of 45 frames under picture priority.

As for the combat system, which is also a continuous line in the past, there have been a lot of changes in the combat feel of Ares 5.

Almost from the beginning of the game process, Ares 5 gave the player the choice of chaos Blade and Leviathan Axe. The combat styles of the two weapons are similar to those of the previous one, and the matching of weapon accessories and gems gives players room to build their own routines.

The difference is that the battle of "God of War 5" gives me a stronger sense of rhythm.

In the past, it can block the omnipotent shield that can bounce back, but this time there are two shapes: the small shield that emphasizes the shield and the big shield that emphasizes the shield. There are more uninterruptible bully movements in monster attacks, which allows me to use shields more frequently than the brainless output of weapons.

A shield in the form of a large shield, especially in the talent of two weapons, has a branch that can use the abnormal state of one weapon to increase damage to another weapon. For example, when I ignite the enemy with the blade of chaos, I can do more damage by cutting out the axe and vice versa. Compared with the previous setting of switching weapons according to enemy attributes, players are more encouraged to fight with two weapons, frequently switch to make more profits, but also play more tricks.

"Ares 4" widely criticized monster skin change problem, according to my current progress has completely ceased to exist, at least so far has not encountered the skin change BOSS. Last season's "Best supporting role" troll appeared only once in "God of War 5". But when I shouted, "is it finally here?" at the same time, it was killed for a second because of the plot.

Presumably, the production team knows that the players are extremely afraid of the reappearance of the troll skin change tragedy, so when the production resources are more abundant, take it to sacrifice the flag for the players to vent their anger.

When it comes to solving puzzles, Ares 5 still maintains the consistent high standard of the series.

Although I got two weapons in the early stage, there are still a lot of puzzles and rewards in the initial map that require unknown unlocking methods, waiting for players to re-explore at a later stage. Some of the collection in Ares IV, which is only related to achievement, also has substantial prop rewards in this work, which should make non-achievement players also bring up the interest of collecting them.

But unfortunately, that's all I can talk about. In addition to the steady upgrade of addition to the basic combat system, there are actually a lot of new things in the game, including new forms that completely break through the framework of Ares IV. "Ares 5" in the fight and play, it seems that there is no need to worry.

On the contrary, it was the BUG problem that I didn't expect before, which caused a little bit of worry in this beta version. In less than 10 hours of progress, I had already encountered three BUG that forced me to quit the game.

In addition to one problem that directly leads to error flicker, the other two BUG put together remind me of the famous "dark dream" BUG in Cyberpunk 2077.

I don't know if it's because I use the standby function of PS5 too frequently, after a certain standby to open the game, the screen is dark except for the UI in the upper left corner. Reading to other progress will not solve the problem, but the operations, sounds and subtitles in the game will not return to normal until PS5 is restarted.

The other BUG is that the interactive button in the plot does not appear. Coincidentally, the plot here also told me not to act on my own, so I stood by and waited for a NPC to play an instrument, thinking that his performance would be over, and then listened silently for five minutes with the idea of "this plot is really experimental." it was only after five minutes that I woke up to solve the problem by reading the file.

Even considering that the current version is a beta, the frequency of BUG in Ares 5 is not low. It is hoped that these problems can be solved as soon as possible after the release of the patch on the first day. After all, the impact of "Black Dream" on the play experience has always been irreversible.

Finally, I have to mention the amazing performance of the PS5 handle in Ares 5. Anyone who has experienced the PS5 built-in game "Space Robot Wireless Controller Guide" is well aware of the adaptive vibration potential of the PS5 handle, and Ares 5 has made good use of this potential.

Different weapons in the game can "cut" different hands, the strength of some movements can be reflected in the feedback of adaptive trigger, and the jingle collision of the chain when holding a sleigh is also very clear, even touching some props and talking. The handle can give varying degrees of feedback. It can be said that this is the best "PS5 handle promotion game" I have experienced since "Space Robot".

Generally speaking, "Ares 5" still maintains the ultra-high standard of "Ares IV" in terms of play, picture and performance, and has tried to make some breakthroughs in play on this basis. As for the plot and narrative that also determine the quality of the game, let's save it for our later articles to talk about Kui Yeh's last trip in Northern Europe.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: sleep with algae

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