Friends who are familiar with domestic stand-alone games may have heard of the name Yujun Aoting. Its four most well-known game series are the "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" series, the "Fantasy World" series, the "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" series, and the "New Peerless Two Pride" series to be discussed in this issue.

In the eleven years from 1999 to 2010, excluding online games, a total of six stand-alone games were released in the "New Peerless Twins" series.

These six games include "The New Peerless Twins", "The New Peerless Twins 2", "The New Peerless Twins 3" (expansion pack "Ming Yue Lone Star") and "The New Peerless Twins Prequel" (the expansion pack "The Sea of ​​Clouds") produced by Yujun "Wonderland"), and later "Fish in the Rivers and Lakes" and "The World is Perfect" completed by Beijing Entertainment Channel.

It’s hard to imagine that Gu Long’s martial arts novel “Peerless Two Prides” could actually spawn such a long game series.

Players have basically heard of the general plot of the original work through novels or film and television dramas, so it is still somewhat difficult to make six games out of such a well-known script.

However, the fact is that this game series was still very popular at the time. You can see it in Internet cafes and the game disc market.

Although these six games have received mixed reviews from generation to generation, they generally maintain a high quality. They were once hailed as the ceiling of domestic games, even compared with the most popular fairy sword at the time.

"New Peerless Twins"

"New Peerless Twins" is the first work of the series, produced in 1999. Many players may be deeply impressed by the CG in the game, which was very stunning from the perspective of the time. It is hard to imagine that the CG level of domestic games at the end of the 20th century could reach such a level.

This game mainly uses Xiao Yu'er as the first perspective, and the plot basically restores the original work, but it is only halfway through, and the game ends abruptly after Jiang Biehe's true identity is revealed.

The overall text level of the game is very high, and it can be called the best in the series. Some dialogues are very interesting even if I think about it now. It is a pity that the process is a bit short. The big boss invites the Lord of the Moon Palace to not appear in the final battle, which also foreshadows the sequel. The birth of the work.

"New Peerless Twins 2"

If the first generation is regarded as the first part of "New Peerless Two Prides", then the second generation is the second part of the game. It takes over the plot of the previous game and exposes Yao Yue’s conspiracy, and the identities of the two brothers are finally revealed.

This time, "New Peerless Twins 2" adopts the dual protagonist mode, which allows you to control Jiang Xiaoyu and Hua Wuque to pass the game separately. I have to say that this attempt is quite bold, because you need to play through it twice to appreciate the essence of the plot.

In terms of combat system, you can choose turn-based, semi-real-time, or real-time systems, and the difficulty becomes more and more difficult as you go forward. The cartoon style of the picture is more vivid than that of the previous game, and you can see the shadow of the future "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" in it.

What's more interesting about this work is that it has many endings. It is said that there are more than twenty? Tie Xinlan, Su Ying, and Zhang Qing can choose one of the three. Of course, if you follow the guide, you can also get the ending of "I want them all."

"New Peerless Twins 3"

The third generation is the most classic game in the series in the minds of many players. It is also a domestic stand-alone masterpiece that I personally like very much. I will take it out and review it almost every once in a while.

The plot of this generation mainly tells the story of the descendants of Jiang Xiaoyu and Hua Wuque, and most of the characters are original characters. The game can inherit the archives of the second generation. Depending on the ending of the second generation, some of the relationships between the two protagonists will also change. This is a very huge workload.

In terms of characters, there are many teammates who can play, and each character has a very distinct personality, completely leaning towards the Xianxia style.

As for why this generation is very classic, I think the main reason is that the game music and scene graphics are very well done. The theme song "Waiting" sung by Xu Beilei still has a familiar melody in my mind. With the blessing of these wonderful BGM, the game scenes also become vivid.

Perhaps because of the good sales of the third generation, the production team later released an expansion pack called "Mingyue Lone Star", which was almost two hours long. Our old acquaintance Aunt Yaoyue ran out again and was hurt by two generations of the Jiang family. Damn, no one else gets this kind of treatment.

"Prequel to the New Peerless Two Prides"

This is the last series of works by Yujun Aoting. Contrary to the previous work, this time it mainly tells the story of Jiang Feng and Yan Nantian, and it still follows the route of two protagonists.

How do you evaluate "New Peerless Two Prides Prequel"? Personally, I feel that there is basically no big difference between this game and "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 3" released in the same year by Yujun Aoting, except for the story, whether it is combat, painting style and system. The settings are very similar.

In fact, starting from the second generation, the styles of the two series "New Peerless Twins" and "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" began to converge, and you can even see the use of materials. The relationship between the two series is somewhat similar to that of Guangrong The brotherly relationship of "Dynasty Warriors" and "Warring States Warriors".

Generally speaking, this work is very good, but because I got into the trap of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" first, there is always a feeling of being in the same game.

"The New Peerless Two Prides Playing in the Jianghu" and "The World Is Perfect"

After Yujun Aoting stopped producing sequels, Beijing Entertainment Network began to take over the IP of "New Peerless Twins" and successively produced two stand-alone games "New Peerless Twins: Fish Playing in Jianghu" and "The World is Perfect" after 2009. game.

These two domestic stand-alone games completely abandon the fairy tale elements and reproduce the plot of the novel very faithfully. Even some of the dialogues are the original words in the novel, which can be said to be the closest to the original work.

Of course, players who are familiar with these two games may be deeply impressed by the combat system, which is also the soul of the game. They adopt a real-time action mode, which is somewhat similar to "Diablo", and the playability is greatly improved.

Its "instant kill system" is very challenging, and the various "swipe and swipe" elements seem very interesting now.

As for why these two games should be discussed together, the reason is that they are basically the same game.

The game company took it apart, with Jiang Xiaoyu and Hua Wuque as the protagonists, and each produced a game and sold them separately. This is the origin of "Yu Xi Jiang Hu" and "The World is Perfect".

Perhaps to avoid suspicion, all the characters in "The World" had their names changed, but the power of netizens is infinite. They specially made a "removal patch" and changed their names back.

Haha, do you think I won’t recognize you if you wear a vest?

Summarize

I have to say that "New Peerless Twins" was really popular at the time, and it once had the strength to compete with the Fairy Sword series. It's a pity that after "The World is Perfect", we can no longer see any games in this series.

I think the main reason for this is that the game is still too restricted by the settings of the original work. The plot cannot get rid of the constraints of characters such as Jiang Xiaoyu and Hua Wuque. There is still not enough room for the production team to play, and players are gradually becoming more and more aware of this. The freshness is lost.

It can only be said that the success is "Peerless Two Prides" and the failure is "Peerless Two Prides".