Leaf Zhi clicked continue.
“This is a game review video.
First, the conclusion: It’s a cross-century game that should have been born hundreds of years later!”
“The greatest game, the God of games… None of these can describe 《Beneath the Divine》, nor express the shock in my heart!”
“So, this is also a recommendation video. Due to insufficient material, Old Show won’t argue or justify too much.”
“I’ll just talk about the 14-hour experience on the first day of the closed beta from my own perspective!”
“Since the creation of the concept, virtual reality games have been the holy land dreamed of by many game fans, carrying too many mature and grand expectations.”
“So after the advent of brainwave reading technology, VR games marketed as ‘virtual reality’ were resisted by so many players!”
“But I guarantee, no matter what expectations you have for virtual reality games, 《Beneath the Divine》 delivers!”
“At the start of the game, players wake up in a dilapidated Church.”
“Below the spawn point is a huge Magic Array, about the size of a small living room or bedroom, so you don’t see other players immediately.”
“The game does an excellent job in detailing, down to the point where I had to lie on the ground to see the Magic Array clearly!”
“I can’t imagine how long the art lady spent drawing such a starting point.”
“Praise the art team! [Pray]”
“Then comes the game opening. Although players wake up in the Church, surprise, we’re on the anti-God faction! [Laugh]”
“I haven’t figured out the specific background yet, so let’s put that aside. I want to talk about the NPC system and art style.”
“When I saw the NPC push open the Church door, to be honest, Old Show was scared for a moment.”
“Because the art style is so realistic, even top AAA games with realistic graphics don’t look as real as Beneath the Divine! It’s like another world!”
“The advantage of this art style is obvious: it immerses players deeply.”
“The downside is even clearer: the more delicious a cake is, the more glaring the mouse droppings on it become.”
“In an extremely realistic art style, even a slightly unrealistic element feels jarring!”
“When humans see animals performing human-like actions, they often find them cute, like dogs using pillows or chinchillas eating with spoons.”
“But if something is too human-like, it induces fear, like certain dolls.”
“This is the famous uncanny valley effect.”
“Old Show was afraid of this when I saw the NPC, especially one NPC who looked exactly like a Knight out of the Middle Ages!”
“If they spoke with a completely electronic AI voice, or reacted in ways unlike real people…”
“That feeling would definitely be as terrifying as seeing fake people running everywhere!”
“In the end, my worries were completely unnecessary!
Of the three NPCs, one can’t speak, the other two can but aren’t talkative.”
“But based on their reactions, their intelligence level is so high it’s indistinguishable from real!”
“At the same time, the NPCs’ personalities are very different.”
“Our Faction Leader, Leaf Zhi, is an Undead—in short, a skeleton man. The setting is that he’s a fellow villager of the players,”
“So no matter how the other two closed beta players and I acted, he always wore that Undead smile, just like a major villain! [Shivering]”
“Another Knight NPC, Edegar, is a pure native and interacts with players the most, so he’s always giving us complex looks.”
“Hahaha, too bad you can’t take screenshots in the game, or I’d make a nine-square meme of [Edegar Frowning] for everyone!”
“His character illustration is also available. Here, this one!”
A promotional image from the game appears on the video.
“After the opening, we received the quest and quest items according to the process, and finally saw the outside of the Church.”
“The Novice Village is located on the edge of the Forest, surrounded by greenery, while inside the Novice Village is gray-toned.”
“I said the Church was abandoned before, but compared to the other buildings in town, it’s practically a palace!”
“It even has a roof! The walls don’t crumble at a touch either!”
“The streets of the Novice Village are full of potholes and undecomposed trash, like a landfill abandoned for many years.”
“It’s said this was a town destroyed by the Monster Tide, and judging by all the luggage and debris left behind, the power of the Monster Tide is truly terrifying! [Thumbs up]”
“Faction Leader Old Ye says the Monster Tide is coming soon, but no one knows when. Hiss, so scary!”
“We spent the whole day chopping trees and completing quests to collect supplies needed to resist the Monster Tide.”
“Old Show really likes this gameplay, where every player action can influence the main story. This is what it means to truly participate in the narrative!”
“Unfortunately, such gameplay is too complex and uncontrollable, so most games don’t do it…”
“The tree-chopping tool in the game is unique, too—it’s a plant leaf called Kuangjing Leaf, sharp as a blade plus!”
“Chopping trees in the game feels amazing, and the sound of the blade rubbing against the trunk is even more soothing than ASMR!”
“In real life, Old Show is a fat homebody who hardly ever exercises, but with stamina restored by occasional EXP gains, I still spent the whole day chopping trees!”
“Looking at a row of tree stumps and the manually expanded field of view, the sense of accomplishment is overwhelming!”
“Why did I mention Kuangjing Leaf is sharp as a blade earlier? Because I used it soon after. [Smile]”
“In the evening, it started raining heavily in the game. The three of us players encountered our first monster—a giant Red Giant Earthworm big enough to be a bio-disaster boss!”
“At that moment, I took a step back, twisted my body, and charged at it…”
“Cough cough, got carried away with the description.”
“In short, the three of us teamed up to chop a giant earthworm at least as thick as two people holding hands into two pieces!”
“With just the Kuangjing Leaf in our hands, which is as thick as a thumb and half an arm long!”
“If recording was allowed, I’d download the video and save it on a magnetic card for collection!”
“But the earthworm was still alive, and split into two different worms. If not for the timely arrival of the NPCs, my first character death would have been thanks to it! [Shy]”
“Old Ye’s Magic Fireball was super cool! It felt like standing on a 5D movie set!”
“After the character leveled up, I chose Magic Fireball as my starting skill too. New players, come find me and let’s burn some earthworms together!”
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