I don’t know why, I can always find some old games on the Internet recently. The parkour game "Speed ​​Chameleon" has become a good companion on my commute. However, when I searched a few days ago, I even found "Graffiti God" :Lightning"——You know, the last time I played this game, I was still using a 3GS mobile phone. I didn’t expect that 11 years later I would be able to play this game that I used to secretly play a few key points in class. I feel more nostalgic than happy.

As one of the representative works of puzzle games, "Graffiti God: Lightning" has a simple gameplay and rich content. With the launch of the Chinese version, players can finally experience the world creation experience on their mobile phones. The game is charming.

If you happen to be looking for a short game to kill your time, then the Android version of "Graffiti God: Lightning" exclusively launched on the platform this time may be worth a try.

What is "Graffiti God"?

The predecessor of "Doodle God: Lightning" is "Doodle God" (God), which is a puzzle game originally released on the Android and iPod Touch platforms. I did a little research and found out that this game was inspired by the 1997 DOS game "".

In the game "", players have to combine several basic elements with each other to synthesize new elements, and continue over and over again. "Graffiti God" is also based on this kind of gameplay, but it takes a different approach in the combination of elements – it is not limited to elements, but extends it to concepts, culture and other aspects.

As soon as the game was launched, it took the first place in the paid download list in Russia, Argentina, New Zealand and Austria, and then appeared on various platforms, including but not limited to Steam, PS3, PS4, NS… The success of "Graffiti God" The developers then released a series of works such as "Graffiti Kingdom", "Graffiti Tank", and "Graffiti Farm".

"Graffiti Tank" is also a very fun work

The "Graffiti God: Lightning" launched this time has actually been launched on the mobile platform as early as 2015. As an enhanced version of "Graffiti God", "Graffiti God: Lightning" adds more gameplay and new elements, and also adds With the generation of elements, the visual universe is constantly changing.

In a sense, "Graffiti God: Lightning" can be regarded as the culmination of the series, and it is naturally expected that a serious national version will be released.

Click your fingers to create the world

The theme of "creation myth" is one of the indispensable foundations of many religions or traditions. It lays down the most basic concepts of human origin, biological origin or the birth of the universe. In Chinese mythology, Pangu created the world and Nuwa rolled loess to make humans; while the Jews believe that God created light, atmosphere, dry land, plants, celestial bodies and animals in six days. , and created man from clay, and then created woman from man’s rib… In these concepts, everything in the world was created by God, and the method of creation was to use the most basic elements in the world like images. It is built like building blocks.

"Graffiti God: Lightning" has keenly found the most basic part of "creation", which is the "combination of elements". Therefore, the core of the gameplay is naturally "combination". In this game, players will play the role of God, who created all things, to add various biological or environmental elements to the bare earth.

"Graffiti God: Lightning" gives players four basic elements at the beginning of the game: "Water", "Fire", "Earth", and "Wind". This comes from the ancient Greek theory of world composition, commonly known as the "Four Four". Elements said”. The theory of four elements is the basis of Western mystical theory, and it can also be regarded as a progress in humankind's recognition of "materiality". As the saying goes, two gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. When I combine "earth" and "fire", the most basic materials in this world, they will become "magma", and when I combine "wind" and "water", they will be born. "Steam".

The elements that were born appeared one after another on the earth that was still bare at first. The originally desolate land gradually became full of life. In this way, earth + water = swamp, wind + fire = energy. There are more and more elements in my hands, and the things that can be synthesized become more and more abundant.

Until I combined energy and swamp, the system prompted me to obtain an achievement – "Life Creator" (there are various achievements in the game). In other words, I got the element of "life". Life + water = weeds, life + swamp = bacteria, these birth formulas are still in my logic. As a result, after trying to combine elements such as seeds, trees, and reeds, I found that I was stuck.

No matter what I try, no new elements are generated. This gave me a dilemma, "Is there something else I haven't found?" I thought, while sliding my hand wildly on the screen – fortunately, I only have a dozen or so elements on hand, and I used the "exhaustive method" to "If so, we might be able to find a new breakthrough, right?

Next, something beyond my expectation happened: when I combined "life" and "tree", the system told me that a new element "tree man" was generated.

Wait a moment? Why is there such a thing as a "tree man"? I immediately combined "earth" and "life" with each other, and sure enough, another "mud figure" was born. Now I finally understood that "Graffiti God: Lightning" is not serious at all, but requires players to use their imaginations, rack their brains, and try various seemingly nonsensical but actually logical attempts.

So I thought about it and combined "mud figure" and "life", and sure enough, "human being" was born. It is true that humans are made of soil.

So "person" + "energy" can become a "wizard", "swamp" + "worm" can become a "snake", "person" + "fire" can become a "corpse"… the most interesting thing Well, when I combined "corpse" and "wizard", the result was two elements: "human" and "wizard". It turns out that wizards can also resurrect corpses. It's a bit humorous to think about it.

Sometimes it’s really hard to predict what new stuff will be generated

"Graffiti God: Lightning" is a puzzle game that seems to have rules and regulations, but in fact it is an unconstrained and creative puzzle game. The entire process of enriching this world is just a matter of clicking your fingers, dragging or clicking on several elements, and merging them together.

So on the whole, the core gameplay of "Graffiti God: Lightning" is so simple that it can be summarized in just three words – that is "pair-pair-punch".

There are so many tricks that can be created with just one "pair-pair" game. It's no wonder that this game has more than 100 million downloads.

From drifting on the island to rescuing the princess, you can play whatever you want.

In fact, "creating the world" is just the main story of the game. "Graffiti God: Lightning" also includes mini-game systems called "Quests" and "Guessing". The gameplay of these two mini-games is also consistent with the main line. Some require synthesizing a sufficient number of elements to pass the level, while others require synthesizing specific target elements to pass the level.

The elements provided by the mini-games are also closely related to their own themes. For example, the theme of the "Survivor" level is escaping from the island, so the elements provided by the game are related to "people" and "trees"; in "Devils and In the "God" level, players are required to synthesize three "virtue" elements; in the peace-themed level, players are required to synthesize the "flower" element step by step from the "atomic bomb" element, which is really interesting and requires a lot of effort. some thoughts.

As players continue to advance through the levels, comic-like cutscene illustrations will appear in the mini-games. Since some levels contain multiple endings, players can choose to reset the level and experience it again after completing the level, which is very considerate.

At the same time, the game also provides a child lock function. Some "sex"-related entries will be locked and will no longer appear. Even if it is played for children, it can be at ease.

What’s interesting is that when the player synthesizes elements, the game will also give the player a few famous quotes or catchphrases: for example, when synthesizing “snow”, the game will give the player a line from the poet Liu Zongyuan’s “Jiang Xue” One sentence: "A man in a boat with a coir hat, fishing alone in the cold mountain snow"; when I synthesized the "trap", the game prompted a sentence from the Bible: Isaiah 8:15, "Many people will be on it." He stumbled and fell and was broken to pieces; he fell into a snare and was entangled.”

This is my favorite part of "Treasure Island"

Famous quotes are a feature of the series. Although they will not have any impact on the game itself, it is not a bad thing to read them occasionally to change your mood.

However, there are still some strange things in the game: some translations are not accurate enough, such as "metal" + "energy", the generated should be "lightning", but I don't know why it is translated as "priest"; in addition, although the game provides The prompt function is added, but the prompt function does not directly throw the answer in front of the player's eyes, but prompts the player that a certain element can still be synthesized, or there are unsynthesized pairs in which group; some recipes are a bit too nonsensical. For example, I really can’t figure out how the equation “water” + “glass” = “ice” comes from.

Therefore, when a player is in a situation where he cannot find a new pairing, if he does not check the guide, the only way to find a new pairing is the "exhaustive method". But once the number of element groups increases in the later stage, the workload of the exhaustive method will increase rapidly by dozens of times, eventually making such a trick useless. For players who can't bear it, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. A very exciting gaming experience.

Conclusion

"Graffiti God: Lightning" will be exclusively launched today. It is a buyout system and can be purchased for only 6 yuan. The current discount price is 3 yuan, so there is no need to worry about factors such as in-app purchases or advertisements that affect the game experience. .

Although the current game still has some translation problems, and because of its age, it cannot bring players a gorgeous visual experience. However, the substantial content of the game itself and the simple and easy-to-understand rules make "Graffiti God: Lightning" still a "good quality" casual game.

If you prefer puzzle games, "Graffiti God: Lightning" will definitely be a good companion that you can't help but pick up your phone and click on it a few times on your way to and from get off work.