Hello everyone, here is Dr. X.
Since Capcom released its first generation on PS2 in 2004, the IP of "Monster Hunter" has gone through 18 years, and its deep action system and knife to meat refreshing blow sense have made players around the world quickly immersed in it, coupled with a song throughout the series of "Proof of Heroes", on the other hand, "Monster Hunter" is destined to be a classic that is difficult to be surpassed.
Strange hunting signature BGM "Certificate of Heroes" appeared at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games
Classics have never lacked imitators, and recently Dr. X has found a "strange hunting like" mobile game, let's take a look at this game, in the end, have you learned the essence of monster hunters.
Key point 1: strange hunting game mode, Devil Cry action system, Hanyou cultivation system
Yeager is a sci-fi alien-style hunting and fighting game developed by IGG, where players play as an elite hunter of the alien race Vydran, using weapons such as knives, swords, and bows to hunt monsters on the way to retrieve the stolen Vydran relics.
Speaking of IGG, their most famous is the SLG game "Kingdom Era", with this evergreen game IGG also made 6.05 billion Hong Kong dollars overseas in 2021, about 4.91 billion yuan. Therefore, if the rich IGG does mobile games, the research and development funds are absolutely enough.
At present, "Yeager" has been tested overseas for many rounds, in the game players can choose to kill the hunting knife, the hammer, the plastic gun, the blood rage blade and the spirit gun five weapons, from the basic characteristics of the "Monster Hunter" in the big sword, hammer, light crossbow, double knife and heavy crossbow.
"Yeager" adopts a similar game mode to "Monster Hunter", the basic process is to repeatedly take tasks in the village into the copy map to fight monsters, from the current point of view in "Yeager" monsters' dragon car and tail flick and other basic skills damage is not very high, but if you hit the monster's trick, it is still possible to be killed by a move.
Weapons in the Yeager game have a "genre" system similar to talent points, which can be changed at any time in the village, which is equivalent to adding a skill to the weapon, and different button connections between the weapon's general attack and skill can derive different combos.
In addition, in "Yeager", players can even equip two weapons, different weapons in the battle can be switched at any time with one button, hunters can choose the right equipment according to different situations, and the combination of one near and one far can meet most combat situations.
Although ranged weapons have clips and bullet change restrictions, the number of bullets for the player's ranged weapons is unlimited, so in Yeager, it is not necessary to personally find materials for each special crossbow arrow in Monster Hunter.
Long-range locking allows you to shoot directly without manual aiming
Initially, Yeager is a less difficult hunting and fighting mobile game, the game has been greatly simplified on the basis of Monster Hunter, compared to the more agile movements of the characters in Yeager, and the game's attack method is more like playing Devil May Cry than Monster Hunter. However, compared to the complex and varied moves in Devil May Cry, the skills and changes in Yeager are slightly bland.
This GEARSCORE is the character's overall combat effectiveness
At the same time, Dr. X also found in "Yeager" similar to the Korean MMORPG game combat power system, the player can upgrade or strengthen the equipment and other measures after the combat power value can be enhanced, Dr. X has faintly smelled the taste of the kimchi national online game, the future team when shouting visual inspection is "XXX copy, combat strength below 10,000 do not come" state.
According to reports, "Yeager" is expected to be officially launched in the third quarter of this year, and Dr. X is skeptical about whether this mobile game under the banner of "strange hunting like" can go far.
However, in several tests overseas, the feedback from players is still relatively positive, and if players accept this novel gameplay, Yeager still has some potential.
Key point two: NetEase Tencent Qi down, "strange hunting like" game is really so fragrant?
Excellent classics have never lacked imitators, and the "strange hunting like" co-combat hunting mobile game is not only this one, Dr. X has come to take you to see how several other games are.
WildBorn is developed by South Korean company Rock Square Inc., the game is published by So-net, a Taiwanese subsidiary of Sony Corporation in Japan, and the game has been launched on both iOS and Android.
WildBorn Wildborn is a hunting and fighting game that combines the elements of card cultivation, and after continuously attacking enemies, a certain number of points can be accumulated to summon a partner named "Hottle" to help the battle, and the high rarity "Hottle" needs to be obtained by krypton gold draw cards.
WildBorn Reborn still has the old problem of insufficient sense of blows, and because the game combat is relatively simple and there are many bugs in the game, players will feel bored after playing for a long time. At present, the ranking of game desktop services in the iOS free list is also very poor, and it has almost fallen to the bottom.
Next, let's take a look at the "Soul Hunting Awakening" developed by NetEase, which was publicly tested on January 24, 2018, and has been linked to famous action games such as "Ghost Hunting" and "Ren Wang" during operation.
The actual gameplay of Soul Hunter Awakening is more similar to that of traditional MMORPG brush dungeons, and there is even a class like a mage in the game. Coupled with the plot of various dog blood and the krypton gold enhancement system, "Soul Hunting Awakening" is not so much a "strange hunting like" game, but rather a kryptonite online game that sells dog meat in a strange hunting skin and hangs a sheep's head.
Soul Hunter Awakening's free list ranking on iOS has fallen to 762, while the best-seller list ranks only 241, which is really cold.
NetEase has started, and Tencent will naturally not be idle.
Let's take a look at "Hunting Moment" developed by Zhejiang Ten Warriors Network Technology Co., Ltd., which is partly owned by Tencent, this game is a two-dimensional style hunting and fighting game, in addition to restoring the "Monster Hunter" collection, forging and cat rice and other elements, the game also added a heroic soul system that requires card drawing.
"Hunting Moment" is still in the internal testing stage, from the current test situation, although the operation of the game is simple, but there are many moves that can be derived, and Krypton gold has little impact on the balance of the game, coupled with the fine cartoon rendering style, Dr. X feels that this game is still very potential in the future.
Fearless, which captured 10 million players in three weeks of launch
Taken together, the above games have tried to simplify the combat and action elements in the game framework of Monster Hunter, and at the same time, in order to ensure gameplay, elements such as skills and talents have been crammed into the game.
Although this idea deviates from the basic concept of "monster hunter", "masters rely purely on slashing", after all, there is a precedent for the success of a skilled co-combat game like "Dauntless" on the PC side, so it cannot be said that this road is not feasible.
Post-lesson summary:
In order to move the successful model of "Monster Hunter" to the mobile phone, major manufacturers such as IGG have shown their magic. However, monster hunter, which is biased towards hardcore and challenging, is destined to be difficult to fit with the mobile environment with more casual players, so the operation of the game is essential.
In addition, in order to ensure the game's revenue, adding new kryptonite points to the original game framework of Strange Hunt has also become the choice of most manufacturers, but Dr. X feels that manufacturers still have to grasp the balance between them, if in order to encourage players krypton gold to make the game into a lawn mowing game that relies on numerical crushing, "Strange Hunt Like" will eventually become an empty slogan.