The so-called hardcore game basically means insulating from the vast majority of players. It's not easy to make a hardcore game have a wider audience.

But Wanhu's new work of "Tower of Magic", "Tower of Magic - Threesome", learned Konami's method of reducing the difficulty of his own hardcore games, that is, built-in cheats.

In the history of video games, there are a lot of legends that sound very good. Kona's cheats are even one of them, "up and down, left and right, left and right, BA". This cheat is familiar, and even in the days when I ate by feelings in the future, there were special cultural shirts.

Most Chinese players know this cheat, mostly by word of mouth.

Contra is a game that is an unavoidable topic in the history of video game piracy in China. And the popularity of "Contra", in addition to its own excellent game quality, is also inseparable from the cheats of "up and down, left and right, left and right".

"This game is too hard!"

"Don't steal me!"

"It seems that you can adjust people in the place where you choose the level!"

"How?"

"Up and down, left and right, right AB?"

"How can you tune?"

"That's up and down, right, right, left, left, BA! Anyway, I heard that it's just these buttons, let's try them!"

After a series of permutations and combinations, children who play compatible with red and white machines can finally steal people happily in the hot summer with the sound of cicadas.

And many Chinese gamers believe that Contra is the source of this cheat. Many children living in first-tier cities, children who were able to play super red and white machines, and later were able to come into contact with other games of Konami, such as "Castlevania", "Heartbeat Memories" and other series of players. When you try it once in a while, you will find that in these difficult games, this cheats can be used!

Over time, this became one of the most recognizable cheats in the history of video games. It has also become a business card of Konami.

As for the red-and-white version of "Space Cruiser" that first appeared in this cheat, in the end, it was transplanted programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto who felt that the game was too difficult and couldn't complete the test work by himself, so he had to open the back door for himself. After the game test, I forgot to close the back door.

Or is this a marketing campaign by Konami, a small means used to make a hardcore game as difficult as "Space Cruise" sell more copies.

You must know that the action games of Wanhu, when testing, the most common use is invincible or countless cheating methods. Rather than adopting a somewhat subtle number of people like thirty people.

Of course, it can be less shady and really think that this is a mistake by the programmers of Konami, and this mistake is still carried on as a tradition.

As the name suggests, the maximum number of characters that a player can control in a battle in the game is only three people.

The reason why it's three people instead of more is not because Takahashi's level design and character design skills are not good. However, due to the function of the GG handheld, if you put too many of your own characters and local characters in a battle, it will cause obvious stuttering and frame drops, which will affect the game experience.

Before finding the right optimization method to be able to squeeze more GG function. "Tower of Magic - Threesome" can be said to have paid as much attention to the complexity of the game as possible on the premise of ensuring the smoothness of the game.

Of course, the complex game mechanics emphasize tactics and strategy while also being difficult. And, because this game is designed with multiple characters.

Any single player who controls a character will die if they have zero HP in this game. When a character dies, the difficulty of the game becomes even harder. When the last player-controlled character dies, the entire game ends and the game is reloaded at a sparsely set save point.

This kind of punishment mechanism will make the player more thoughtful about the lack of action.

However, this has turned more players away.

Therefore, Takahashi has also added a cheat to this game. After this cheat is entered, the player's quest will not die after the health is cleared, but will enter a near-death state and temporarily leave the field. As long as this battle can still be won. After exiting the battle screen, the character can be resurrected with full vitality as long as he takes (harmony) medicine.

However, in order to distinguish it from normal players.

Players who use cheats will be punished by the word "cheater" when pausing the screen and when clearing the most popular level.

Players who are confident in their abilities, or who are ashamed, will choose to play normally when they see the words "cheater" after trying the cheats, maintaining an authentic gaming experience. Experience the kind of gaming experience that overcomes the odds and produces a huge thrill impact.

And most of the remaining gamers, players who choose to play this game because they know the fame of this game. In this mode, you can also clear the level. Although the game production team, which is led by Takahashi, was nailed to the pillar of shame. As the difficulties decrease, the pleasure of overcoming them also decreases.

However, it also avoids giving up on choosing this game because it is too difficult to get started.

Perhaps, after clearing the customs a few times with cheats, there will really be previous hard-working players who choose to clear the customs in normal mode.

The appearance of cheats allows more players to enjoy the joy of the game. The main reason why cheats are becoming fewer and fewer in video games in the 21st century is that game makers have found a simpler and more crumbling existence than cheats - simple mode.

In this way, except for Komi's cheats that are like spiritual totems, there are fewer and fewer shopping malls that use cheats, and they are gradually disappearing.

The use of cheats by 10,000 households is good for reference, or plagiarism. The progress of the video game industry is inseparable from the reference and learning of peers.

In the beginning, people's learning skills may be too violent. It may be crude plagiarism and handling.

But when everyone finds their own way of making games, and finds their own way to make games. Everyone's game is like a mess carved out of a mold before it ends.

Even if it's the same game type, each has its own characteristics.

Some people pay attention to the picture performance, some people pay attention to the game plot, and some people pay attention to the level design.

In short, after more than 20 years of development, the video game market has gradually become a relatively mature industry. While the threshold for making games has been greatly improved, the quality of games has also been guaranteed.

On July 1, 1991, "Tower of Magic - Threesome" was released "Global Synchronization".