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Folding paper has "all sides" and martial arts has "thousand appearances".

Folding paper has finally made a big move.

At 10: 00 this morning, a martial arts open world game called "thousand faces" released PV, which has caused a heated discussion on various social media platforms. What is most surprising is that such a game full of action elements is actually developed and produced by a paper-folding game.

In the consistent impression of most players, paper folding seems to have been bound with labels such as change and female orientation, even if the previously exposed "Love and Deep Space" and "backlight sneaking" are still close to past products in art style.

This time, paper folding shows us a completely different tone product, from which we can also see the determination of paper folding to expand multiple categories and break impressions.

The fusion of chivalry and drama from PV and official introduction, the world view of "all faces" is set in a fantasy overhead world, but from "Datang" and "Liang" in the character dialogue, the game background is inspired by the stories of the five dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

As for "play," one of the core setting elements of the game, some players who are familiar with history will easily think of Li Cunfu, the founder of the late Tang Dynasty, who spent 15 years wiping out the Liang Dynasty and unifying the Central Plains. But later, because of his love of singing, actors and eunuchs, the later Tang Dynasty declined rapidly.

At present, it seems that "Thousand faces" draws some inspiration from this story and determines the goal of the protagonist "restoring the country" and the characteristics of his love of opera.

In the game, the mask in the opera is a very core design point, and the "hundred noodles" in the game name also refers to the mask. From the real machine demonstration section in PV, we can see that the protagonist can switch appearance and combat mode by changing different masks.

In most states, the protagonist wears "the face of a play", which is consistent with the image of the character presented to us in CG. When switching to "guarding the Blade side", the character's wardrobe and combat style have changed, and it has faster blocking and jumping and splitting moves than "the side of the play".

Considering that the game will log on to multiple platforms such as PS5, PC and mobile phones, many players speculate that masks will also be the core payment point of the game, and get more character appearance and combat mode by extracting different masks.

In particular, the last part of the PV shows a very rapid mask form switch battle, indicating that this will be one of the main ways to play the game. At the same time, the emergence of images not only with a long gun silver general, but also tall and valiant female assassins, but also highlights the strong strength of folded paper in image shaping and clothing design.

In addition to the mask, the idea presents a high-speed, smooth and coherent fighting style, and the design of the sword collision also makes many players express in the barrage that there is a "wolf" and "the soul of the Falklands". Even argue about which is more like.

At the same time, some players pointed out in the comments section that the action design of "thousand faces" was led by a bilibili ID boss named "eating onions will die", who released a martial arts-style animated demo work in 2017, and has since participated in the action design of "Battle double Palmish".

On the contrary, it shows that Thousand faces has made some creative combat movements by integrating Chinese martial arts elements, especially the design of Tang Dao and Yinjia spear is very Chinese martial arts style.

Towards the end of PV, officials also showed a very silky parkour effect, which may also indicate that the maze design will be part of the game.

On the whole, it is difficult for you to hook up the overall style of the game with the quality of completion and the folding of paper, especially since "sparkling warmth". The product line of paper folding has also entered a period of silence, and the announcement of "Thousand faces" has indeed refreshed the image of paper folding in the minds of many players.

Break the shackles of a single category, all-round and diversified development, in fact, since the announcement of "Love and Deep Space" and "sneaking into the backlight", many people have realized that paper folding is developing towards a more diverse category, especially after the acquisition of Tipworks, the producer of the Pascal contract last year, the determination to fold paper towards the general direction has become apparent.

Because of the consistent impression of paper folding, even many players thought that "thousand faces" was a new work of Tipworks at first, but in fact, "thousand faces" was made by a 17-fold studio, which was called X7 inside the paper fold, while Tipworks was X12.

It is understood that the chief beauty and executive producer of "thousand faces" is suspected to be the former expert in the original painting of NetEase scene, and the main planner and battle planner comes from NetEase "against the cold" and has more mature project experience.

A project circulated on the Internet in the research map, the projects currently under research are "Love and Deep Space", "sneaking into the backlight", warming the IP Open World, "all faces" and the works of the Tipworks team.

As for the "indefinitely lost", which was previously circulated as a new work of paper folding, the author learned from practitioners close to paper folding that the two sides do have business contacts, but there is no financial cooperation and affiliation at present.

The warm and Open World project in charge of X6 seems to be on the verge of being cut, and it was reported in September that the battle planning of a core project group had been completely cut.

After the announcement of today's "all aspects" PV, we can see from the folded paper recruitment information that there is no urgent need for battle planning in the "all aspects" project. Combined with previous staff complaining on the pulse of X6 project management confusion, lack of production experience, production of more than 3 years of basic play has not yet taken shape, it can be seen that the prospect of the warm and open world project is not optimistic.

In other words, except for backlight sneaking and sneaking into games, the rest of the products are 3D ARPG, but they also involve multiple tracks such as female orientation, open world, hard core movements and so on. From it, it is not difficult to see the vision of folding paper with action elements to stabilize women to the track, general and male to the track.

3A martial arts open world becomes a new trend from the new projects announced by various manufacturers, action games and the open world seem to have become the direction of the next generation of domestic games, and have also become a springboard for many manufacturers to test the waters of 3A production and enter the mainframe market.

From "Black Myth: Wukong" to "original God", to Tencent's "Arena of Valor World", "Code name: to Jin Yong", NetEase's "Sixteen sounds of Yan Yun" and "all aspects of Paper", 3D, massive, long-period, cross-platform, ARPG. This series of tags seem to outline the appearance of the next generation of domestic games.

A producer of the four Little Dragons in Shanghai once told me that "Black Myth: Wukong" and "the original God" have brought tremendous impact and conceptual change to the industry. the former proves that as long as you have enough product quality and potential, enough distinct style and tonality, you can get enough sound without channels, buying volume and so on. The latter proves that even mobile games can achieve commercial success with high quality, large volume and cross-platform.

In particular, the success of "original God" has made many manufacturers focus on the two-dimensional open world for a time, but after more than a year of efforts, manufacturers have found that the success of "original God" can not be achieved by "copying." it is not as long as it is a two-dimensional, as long as it is an open world, it can be recognized by players.

After disassembling and imitating the original God for a period of time, some people may attribute the success of the original God to the open world, others think it is the work of two dimensions, and some people recognize that it is 3D modeling and action elements. so start from a certain aspect, but finally found that it is not satisfactory.

As a result, after taking a short "detour", domestic manufacturers began to focus back on what they are good at-Chinese style martial arts. After all, secondary genes are not available in every company.

But the Chinese style of martial arts is different, chivalrous culture is a cultural symbol engraved in the bones of Chinese people, and almost every Chinese player resonates with the spirit of martial arts.

At the same time, the two giants Tencent and NetEase have rich experience in making martial arts MMORPG, and it is much easier to create a chivalrous world than to build a two-dimensional fantasy world.

In essence, part of the reason for the success of "original God" is that it raises the content production quality and internal capacity of the mobile game industry, while bringing the relatively mild and fragmented mobile game experience to the PC and host, which not only meets the players' requirements for the quality of the game, but also adapts to the game rhythm of the current market.

After recognizing this, manufacturers understand that this is a "war" for quality, strength and creativity, especially for game manufacturers standing at the front of the industry, there are no shortcuts, and the final product quality is the hardest card.

Although the current domestic game industry has entered a trough affected by various factors, in the next two to three years, a number of full-platform games based on 3A standards may come out. At that time, China's game market is very likely to usher in a "top war" between quality.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:Coreesports, author: Qian Hongyan

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