Chapter 7 Another Billion
The game opens.
A main interface that couldn't be more ordinary pops up.
The background is exactly the tall tower that appears in the CG animation and the red clouds floating in the sky.
Old E slid the mouse skillfully, clicked to start the game, and then three career options popped up.
"Ah? Only three professions? That's it? I've written more code than him!"
Compared to other games.
Slay the Spire's interface isn't great.
It can even be said to be very simple.
Old E, who had been holding high expectations, immediately fell into a frown with an expression of disgust written all over his face, and the viewers in the live broadcast room also laughed like crazy.
"Just tell me whether you want to play or not."
“Designer: If I can give you three free games when you buy CG, I’d be lucky.”
"Just for the quality of the animation, at least pretend to play it and don't make the designer sad."
"This interface is too crude. It looks like it's from the same family as CG."
“It does seem like there is a bit less content.”
"I'm starting to doubt the designer's mental state."
Amidst the laughter and joy, Old E was not idle either.
I took a quick look at the career introduction and finally chose the most reliable warrior as the starting player.
[Occupation: Armored Warrior]
[Life: 80/80]
【Money: 99】
[Burning Blood: At the end of the battle, restore 6 health points.]
[Introduction: The remaining soldiers of the Iron Legion sold their souls and gained the power of the devil, but were also cursed forever by the spire.]
Role selection.
A giant whale NPC appears, giving two initial abilities.
[Initial armor at the beginning of the battle +3]
[Increases damage caused by 1 point]
One is more defensive, the other more offensive.
"I'm familiar with this. It's just about choosing a school."
Old E had a confident look on his face: "I'll just choose damage, and the warrior will be done if he can recover!"
After confirmation, a map like a treasure map appeared, with several routes and different icons marked on it.
There are monsters, elites, treasures, merchants, events, and rest areas scattered randomly everywhere, connecting from the bottom to the boss at the top, looking like layers of high towers.
The Warrior's starting deck is simple.
There are only a few attack and block cards, and there are no skill effects.
"Oh my god, just a few broken cards, how can this be played?"
Looking at the warrior's extremely simple initial deck, Lao E couldn't help but complain.
You should know that most card games on the market now come with built-in attack and defense attributes and skill effects.
And the higher the star quality, the stronger the skill attributes.
The gameplay mainly focuses on destroying cards and killing enemy heroes.
To put it bluntly, it depends on the degree of krypton in the deck.
The more money you spend, the more powerful the deck will be. Those who don’t spend money are worse than dogs.
It can be said that in order to force players to spend money, those game manufacturers have tried every possible means, otherwise they would not have been boycotted by so many players.
And this game.
But I didn't see any krypton gold entrance.
It seems that even the gameplay is different from mainstream card games, which makes Old E's eyes light up and he begins to operate it patiently.
The first level.
The monster he encountered was the lowest level one at the bottom of the tower.
Following the prompts, he dragged an attack card to attack the monsters, and used a defense card to increase his own armor to resist damage.
It's obviously just the simplest operation.
But after several rounds of fighting, he gradually became interested.
Because this was the first time he had seen this kind of gameplay.
It turns out that it is not a simple competition of card attributes, but a competition between cards.
There are very detailed considerations on when to attack and when to defend and wait for opportunities.
And as the levels continue to advance, he obtains more and more cards, and the effects become richer and richer.
Even these cards can form various linkages and cooperation with each other, producing unexpected effects.
"Why do I feel like... this game isn't that simple?"
At this time, someone in the live broadcast room finally noticed something unusual.
As soon as these words were spoken, others reacted immediately.
"You know what, it looks quite interesting."
“I didn’t expect this game to be so good?”
“Although the art style is a bit crude, the card types are very rich, and it feels like they can be combined to form many schools of thought.”
"And those relics with special effects are different every time. There are at least dozens of ways to play!"
“This is just one of the professions!”
Shocked.
After understanding the core gameplay of Slay the Spire, the audience was completely shocked.
I thought it was just a crudely made game, but I didn't expect that under this ordinary style of painting, there are such rich and interesting gameplay.
It completely refreshed their inherent understanding of card games.
It turns out that card games can be played like this!
"What the hell! What the hell is this!"
Suddenly, an exclamation interrupted everyone's discussion.
In the live broadcast, Lao E clicked on the skull icon marked with an elite on the map and encountered a green slime monster.
He was just about to attack with the powerful card he drew like before.
The monster directly inflicted more than ten layers of poison on it, and then stacked up armor as hard as it could. The attack cards were like tickles to it.
It was not easy.
Finally, I killed the monster with little health left and entered the next level of question mark event.
【You fell into a puddle.】
[But the pit is full of slime! ]
[You feel as if the slime will burn you, and you try desperately to get out of the pit.]
[After climbing out, you found that your gold coins seemed to have decreased. You looked back and saw that there were not only the money you dropped in the puddle, but also many gold coins .]
[Collect gold coins: Gain 66 gold coins, lose 22 life points. ]
[Crossing the puddle: Lose 5 health points. ]
???
Seeing that he only had 3 points of life left, Old E was filled with questions.
So he'll die no matter what choice he makes, right?
“Hahahaha…this game is too ridiculous!”
"With 3 health points, I'll die no matter which one I choose. How can it be like this?"
"He could have killed you, but he still let you choose. He's so gentle. I'm crying."
“Old E: Watch me show you a speedrun!”
"Game designer gets a second kill! Let's see who dares to talk about speedrunning again."
This time the audience really laughed.
Especially after seeing Old E's confused expression, I was so happy. This game is too bad.
"Shit! I don't believe it. Come on, one more time!"
At this time, Old E was like a child addicted to toys. He immediately quit the game and started again, without any disgust at all.
But when he re-selected his initial talents and came to the bottom of the tower again.
But I found that the map route had changed!
Even the distribution of monster events has changed!
"Huh? The maps and monsters are random?"
The audience's eyes lit up and their attention was once again drawn to the game.
Watch the host play one game after another, encounter various monsters and events, and try all kinds of new routines.
Armor stacking, curse, burst, infinite, acupuncture...
By the time they came to their senses, more than three hours had passed, and they didn't feel bored at all.
It was only then that they came to their senses.
This isn't some kind of bonus game.
The game is well-made and has many ways to play, the quality is in no way inferior to the outrageous promotional CG, and is even better!
"I can't stand it anymore, I want to download it and play with it too!"
Seeing Lao E having so much fun, the audience in the live broadcast room finally couldn't wait to download the game and experience it for themselves.
