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If you like games, you may have one or two, your favorite software, or one that feels like a masterpiece. This time, I'm talking about a game software that is the greatest masterpiece in the history of games, and I think that no matter how interesting the game will come out in the future, "Nothing will exceed this ...".
The recommended game I would like to introduce is the PS software "Oddworld" series. I already feel it when I'm typing. 99.9% of people who read this sentence will think "Well, I don't know"! !! (Crying) If you are interested, please try it.
I think this game is really a masterpiece and a stupid work, but it's never been real to someone I know in Japan, it's not really, and this "I've never met someone I know" is Oddworld. Aside from the joke that there is, I'm still strangely not well known in Japan, so I'd like to talk about this game while feeling a little lonely. (By the way, this work is recorded as a masterpiece software in the North American version of PS Classic, it's amazing!)
↑ The main character "Ave" of this work, the visual is intense!
story
The main character is the Madkan tribe "Ave", who looks like an alien living on the strange planet "Oddworld". He is one of the workers in a food processing factory run by the Graccon tribe of the ruling class, and one day he eavesdrops on the plot of the factory executives. "Genki extract" of the Tatsu Madkan tribe is used
In order to improve the production volume, the workers were deceived as a health check every day and sucked the extract by ignoring human life. Feeling the danger of his life, Ave decides to escape from the factory with 99 colleagues working in the same factory.
↑ The state of the dark meeting of the owners of the black company "Graccon" where Ave works, it looks bad to see w
In short, the content is " A company slave who was working in a dark matter company beyond black will escape from the company with all his colleagues!"
The basic game is to find fellow employees working in each area, give instructions such as "follow me" and "wait here", and guide them to the gate to escape. It is a typical flow.
It sounds simple if it's just letters, but on the way there are countless vicious traps and first sight killings, a stupid but cruel enemy guard "Srig" is on the lookout, and the tutorial is shallow from the beginning, so it's pretty It is a high difficulty level. (Retry can be ∞)
I think there are many people who are frustrated by this difficulty level. This work is often introduced as a high-difficulty 2D stealth action game with the theme of labor issues, which is often debated even in modern times, but why is it so difficult? Why does Ave look so uncomfortable (a compliment)? Actually, the more you do, the more you will understand the hidden themes, so I would like to introduce the charms one by one in the matter.
Unique game system
Currently, there are about 4 Oddworld series, but each has a unique and innovative game system. Talk to your friends and let them follow you, or in another FPS shooter work "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath", the bullets you shoot are small creatures that live on the field, catching them and turning them into bullets ...・
It's a treasure trove of ideas every time, but the most notable thing is Ave's prayer action "Chant" . This is a magical chant-like "prayer" that allows the player to take over the enemy's body and move it. At that time, I had no choice but to think that the enemy was defeated in action games, and I was amazed at this novel system of "manipulating the enemy."
There may be games that control such enemies now, but were there any other games like that in 1997? By the way, after possession, the possession is released by the death of the enemy, so it can only be restored by exploding the enemy from the inside or causing suicide, it's ugly but interesting!
Things about the revolution
It's a so-called "death game" where you die instantly if you make a mistake, but this difficult gameplay makes the story and theme brilliantly experienced by the player. Even if you look at the history of the French Revolution, there are sacrifices associated with the revolution, and it is only possible to overcome the corpses of your fellow countrymen. By then, we will have to work hard.
In other words , by doing "the difficulty of trying and repeating actions if you die over and over again in the game" , the mechanism is that the player gradually experiences the experience of being in the middle of a revolution like Ave. That's why it's so difficult that the production of dying game has passed the conviction and dropped about 100 scales from the eyes, and I'm impressed many times in the ending after helping all my friends.
The horror of being a slave
Ave can talk to fellow employees with the △ and □ buttons and give various instructions, and the fellows will act accordingly, but this obedience is surprisingly obedient and stupid, for example Ave and its Even if there is a land mine among your friends, if you say "come here", it will come and explode and die, and even if the crusher comes down from directly above, if you say "wait here", it will stop there. It will shatter as it is (hey ...).
Seeing that scene, the first one is stupid! At the same time, I realize the horror of being too obedient to slaves. (I'm afraid I'm not aware that I'm a slave)
The fact that this dominated side is pure and a little stupid is reminiscent of Ghibli's "Heisei Tanuki Battle Pompoko" raccoon dogs, but while pure and stupid is attractive, there is a danger that it will be easily manipulated by others. Having it, oddworld ironically portrayed the horror of being manipulated and at the same time taught me the horror of being a slave, yeah, head-on.
The true identity of the Aves "Madokan"
Looking at the Madkan tribe, including Ave, I recently thought, "The character's habit is too strong when I look at it now!", With a poor body, a loincloth, ultra-realistic skin and skeleton, and a weak face. When I first encountered this game, I didn't really care about the character's discomfort, but now that I see it, it is essential that I don't get angry with Japanese people.
But that's good! I mean, even though I'm talking about the liberation of slaves from the front, if it's a strangely beautiful character, it's a lie or it doesn't match the world view, isn't it? I was drawn in by a character, but I realized something serious about this Ave ...
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