This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

The time has come for Qingming Festival.

While everyone was enjoying the rare Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, Tianba Studio’s official Weibo account, WeChat official account, and Pili Pili official account released a promotional video for the new game “The Past in the Village” without any warning.

This move did not attract the players' attention at first.

After all, if you want to post a promotional video, just post it. The official account of Tianba Studio always posts abstract videos, so it’s reasonable to be serious about it occasionally.

Moreover.

Brother Ba has been silent for several months, and there are no posts from him popping up in the community. Everyone has long guessed that he is going to make a new game.

Just warm it up in advance...

ah? Isn't this a warm-up promotion?

Players who mistakenly thought that this video was just a warm-up promotion for the new game by Tianba Studio suddenly realized that something was wrong.

It's not a pre-publicity, why did you start selling it directly?

And this time, even the "early trial version" was not opened, and the official version of the new game "Once Upon a Time in the Village" was directly released.

Such an unconventional scene will be difficult for the players to deal with.

I have known Brother Ba for so long and have played so many Tianba games. This is the first game to be released directly to the official version without any pre-publicity or pre-emptive play test.

Hey Hey hey!

Isn't this inappropriate? You guys don't even know what the game is about. Do you think anyone would do this?

Whether players are surprised or complaining, none of this changes the fact that the official version of "Once Upon a Time in the Village" was released online quietly.

I also saw Ice Coke.

In fact, he was one of the few people who knew about this in advance, knowing it two months ago.

However, he did not expect that Tianba Studio would move so quickly. It just received the news two months ago, and it was released directly two months later.

Looking at the price, it’s 68 yuan!

There are no discounts, and there is no distinction between versions. There is only one version to choose from, and there is no accompanying DLC ​​for the game. The page is quite simple.

Game introduction: Your adoptive father dies of illness. You return to the village to take care of the funeral affairs, but unexpectedly find that there seems to be some problems in the familiar village. The cause of your adoptive father's death is also shrouded in a fog...

Game terms: horror, suspense, puzzle, plot, first-person shooting, action!

Ice Coke chose the Nobug platform. On this platform, there is very little game introduction content about "Once Upon a Time in the Village" and only four or five pictures.

In fact, these four or five promotional pictures don't reveal much about it. Apart from knowing that this is a horror game, nothing else is known about it.

"Forget it, just buy it."

I have been looking forward to this game for so long, and paying with iced Coke is quite refreshing. It’s only 68 yuan. Even if the game relies on the defense and it’s not fun, it’s a good deal to make a video based on the popularity.

With this idea in mind, Bing Cola purchased and downloaded the game "Mountain Village Past" and turned on the screen capture recording function in advance.

"This isn't scary!"

After looking at the game icon and the UI screen that was displayed after the game was loaded after entering the game, Bing Cola was a little puzzled.

Aren't you talking about a horror game?

Since it is a horror game, why does the game interface look so warm and peaceful to him, without any sense of horror at all?

oh!

It turns out that the plot hasn’t started yet?

After being awkward for a moment, Ice Coke scratched his head and quickly clicked on the mouse to skip the plot.

The protagonist’s name is Hu Xi!

He comes from a small mountain village in the remote southwest region. His adoptive father is named Hu Zhibing. He is the only doctor in the village who has interacted with the outside world and has also gone to school.

Old Hu is dead.

When the news came from his hometown, Hu Xi was so sad that he didn't even have time to pack his luggage. He quickly bought a ticket and went straight to his hometown with his belongings.

"Why is it so remote?"

Ice Coke is very strange. In modern society, how come there are such remote villages that don’t even have roads?

The background in the game is probably what it looked like in the 2000s, but even in the 2000s, Ice Coke didn't have the impression that this kind of "isolated" place existed.

No joke!

According to the performance in the game, the Sandong Village where the protagonist Hu Xi goes is indeed isolated from the world. Some people believe it is a real-life "Peach Blossom Spring".

Why do you say that?

Because after Hu Xi got off the bus, he walked on a dirt road for an hour, and then started climbing mountains and drilling into the woods.

Until it gets dark, there is no so-called "road" in the mountains and forests. Only by pulling branches and weeds, and exploring bit by bit with the help of memory, can we reach Sandong Village deep in the mountains by climbing over mountains.

The first exciting and exciting place is probably walking into the forest after dark with a flashlight.

There is no map guidance or task highlighting in this process of exploring the path, and it is entirely up to the players to explore on their own.

Fortunately, the protagonist is not mute.

When going in the wrong direction, the protagonist Hu Xi will remind himself: "This is not the direction back to the village!"

With the reminder and help of the protagonist Hu Xi, Bing Cola finally walked out of the forest and arrived at Sandong Village at 8:30 in the evening.

"Damn it! Is it so dark?"

I thought that Sandong Village would be brightly lit at this time, and I could see the lights on the villagers' homes from a distance.

Unexpectedly, what he saw when Bing Cola walked to the entrance of the village almost scared him out of his wits.

Brightly lit?

Laughing to death! There were no lights at all in this shabby place, and the few lights turned out to be erratic candlelight.

Do you rely on this for lighting?

Ice Coke was greatly surprised, but she didn't think much about it. Regardless of whether it was candlelight or lights, we finally arrived at the place. There were a few elders and aunties chatting under the tree in front.

It should trigger a conversation, right?

Based on past game experience, Bing Cola realized that the figures under the trees in the distance were probably the key NPCs that triggered the second phase of the mission, so he planned to go over to communicate.

But when he got closer and saw the true faces of those figures through the weak and flickering candlelight, he instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Blanch!

Who is so immoral about riding a horse and putting a few paper figures here to scare people? A few white candles were also lit, and various tributes were placed on the table?

The Dream Engine is too powerful.

The light and shadow were rendered just right. I don’t know if the protagonist Hu Xi was frightened or not. Anyway, the ice coke in front of the screen was so frightened by this weird scene that he almost lost his grip on the wireless mouse and dropped it to the ground.

"I almost forgot, this is a horror game!"

Taking a deep breath, I finally remembered what kind of iced coke "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" was about, and now I became nervous.

If he hadn't been startled by these paper figures and candlelight, he would have forgotten the fact that this was a horror game. Now that he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous and frightened.

There seems to be something wrong with this village?

Will he be greeted by so-called monsters and ghosts later? Are the weird things in this game half as good-looking as Jiahui?

"Let's go. All the old people in the village go to bed early. Let's go home first!"

The voice of the protagonist Hu Xi temporarily gave Bing Cola courage, so he set up a flashlight and walked slowly towards a wooden house not far away.

Because of the inconvenient transportation, Hu Xi has not been back for many years.

Therefore, only Lao Hu lives in his home, and the layout is quite simple. The furniture is purely handmade, and there are no modern industrial products in sight.

The protagonist Hu Xi, who returned home, quickly triggered the first mission and the first puzzle level: Lao Hu's relics!

Lao Hu died. Hu Xi only knew that he died of illness, but he didn't know the specific illness, so Bing Cola needed to search for clues at home to see if he could find some things left by Lao Hu.

This is simple!

Ice Coke is gearing up. He is a man who often plays in secret rooms. Solving puzzles like this is a piece of cake for him.

Let’s rummage through the boxes first…

You don't need to think about it to know that useful clues or props are most likely hidden in various boxes or cabinets and cannot be thrown on the ground casually.

However, things on the ground or in corners cannot be ignored. What if this game goes off the beaten track and important clues are stepped on on the ground?

"Get the clue: the mysterious copper coin!"

When Bing Cola rummaged through the cabinet next to Lao Hu's bed and found a few strange copper coins, the system prompted him that the divination system had been unlocked and he could use the copper coins and compass for divination.

"Oh? Does it still have this function?"

The first time he unlocked the new function, Ice Coke clicked on the details and took a look.

According to his experience, this function should not be added randomly, it will definitely have miraculous effects and will be of great use in subsequent game processes.

But is there any use in divination?

You have nothing to do, just do some fortune-telling for yourself, right? Iced Coke, who was amused by this idea, clicked "Start Divination" with the mouse.

The copper coin was tossed upwards in the hand, and then landed steadily on the compass shaped like the Eight Diagrams. The Eight Diagrams showed a small evil, and he would be in danger.

I tried the ice coke a few more times.

Obviously, this hexagram is fixed. He tried it several times and it was still a small evil, with no other changes.

"Interpretation of this hexagram..."

To be honest, as a top 100 UP owner, Bing Cola's knowledge reserve must be above the passing line, but he knows nothing about fortune telling and divination.

Do not misunderstand!

He knew every word and could read them together, but interpreting the hexagrams was really difficult for him.

He has never studied this aspect, so he definitely doesn't understand what this hexagram actually means, let alone what the so-called divination is used for.

Forget it, forget about it for now!

After trying several ice cokes with no results, I decided to focus on the mission first, find as many relics left by Old Hu as possible, and find out the cause of his death.

There is a pack of Chinese medicine in the drawer.

After opening the ice coke, the system prompts that these medicinal materials are all "tonics" used to make up for the body's deficiencies!

This should have nothing to do with the cause of Lao Hu's death. After all, a thick layer of ash fell on the wooden box containing the medicinal materials, which meant that the medicinal materials had been available for a long time and were not obtained recently.

But Lao Hu has always been in better health, so why do he need so many supplements?

Could it be that he has found a partner?

As a player, Bing Cola didn't have that much respect for Lao Hu. After seeing these tonic Chinese medicines, the first thing that came to his mind was that Lao Hu had kidney deficiency.

If you don’t have kidney deficiency, why do you need so many supplements? A bachelor with kidney deficiency must have been secretly hooking up with someone's widow.

"Keep looking!"

"This is Lao Hu's personal money. He actually has two large yellow croakers. It's really amazing. Where did he get the large yellow croakers?"

The so-called large yellow croaker refers to gold bars that have been roughly processed but not yet purified.

The ice coke was put away.

Since Lao Hu is dead, these inheritances cannot be taken away. They must be left to his adopted son Hu Xi. It would be a pity not to take them away.

While rummaging through various boxes and cabinets, the sound of breathing and footsteps suddenly came from the ice-coke headphones.

"Who's coming?"

"Well, there's no one?"

When he turned his perspective to look behind him, he found that there was no one behind him. The sound of footsteps and breathing seemed to be an auditory hallucination.

But he was very sure that this was not an auditory hallucination!

Are you kidding? He can still not distinguish auditory hallucinations while playing games? The sounds of breathing and footsteps were definitely real, and they were very close to him, but he couldn't see them.

"Something weird is coming!"

After thinking for a moment, Bing Cola realized that he seemed to have encountered a strange thing in the game. He had to pause his exploration and find a cupboard or curtain to hide.

Why hide in the closet?

This is Bing Cola's personal experience in playing horror games in the past. No matter what kind of strange things you encounter in the game, if you hide in a closet or locker, the strange things will naturally leave.

No doubt, this is true!

There is a law in horror games, that is, strange and dirty things will never take the initiative to open the cabinet!

Although they look ferocious and scary, they can even bite people to death with one mouth and scratch people to death with one claw, but they just can't open the cabinet and can't see the people in the cabinet.

This is amazing!

Even when playing a certain horror game, Ice Coke got into the cabinet in front of the strange thing, and the strange thing didn't bother him.

Maybe he is blind!

The players were clearly trying to get into the cabinet in front of them, but they seemed invisible and simply bypassed the cabinet, allowing the players to escape.

Having experience in this area, Ice Coke naturally followed suit this time.

It just so happened that there was a wooden cabinet in front of him that he could fit in and hide in.

"Sure, let's go!"

Bing Cola said speechlessly: "You think you guys, apart from making all kinds of noises to scare players, what else can you do? You can't even open a cabinet, it's just... ah?"

I really like what a player of "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" said: Huh? Can you open a cabinet?

No!

They are all horror and horror monsters, so why would you open the cabinet to find someone, but the weird things in other games cannot open the cabinet?

【you are dead! 】

Looking at the text displayed on the screen, the frightened Ice Coke took a deep breath and fell into deep thought.

That thing just now was really scary, wasn’t it?

That face, even if it was bloody and bloody, actually still had maggots crawling on it, and the eyes were popping out. Just looking at it would give you nightmares at night.

This is not the point. The point is why does that thing open the cabinet? Where did it come from?

At this time, Ice Coke seemed to have thought of something.

That hexagram!

Did the hexagram just predict this situation in advance, so it showed "little evil"?

"its not right!"

"It's useless to talk about good or bad luck, but you can give me some hints on how to pass this level! If you don't give me some hints, I can't... huh?"

Ice Coke suddenly woke up.

If he can't afford to offend him, shouldn't he run away? The door is unlocked, and the only way is to get through the cabinet!