Although "Ink and Smoke 2" comes from "The Legend of Zelda: The Return of the Wilderness" in many settings, but the story background is different, and it must not be the same at the beginning.

The protagonist of "Ink and Smoke 2" is not a warrior with a memory of 100 years, but a fledgling student, so the game will not wake up in the shrine at first, so you need to open CG to the player to briefly introduce the background of the story and make a connection with the opening of the game.

The content of CG is also a very familiar set, the mavegets are in the Yangmeng City to create nightmares to absorb negative emotions, and the students want to defeat the wild animals to save the world.

However, this CG has two differences compared with the previous CG, especially the previous work of "Ink and Smoke":

The first is to add the content of the four holy beasts, green dragon, white tiger, suzuk, basalt, these four holy beasts in the opening CG have been introduced, so that players can more clearly understand the main line of the whole game: after defeating the four holy beasts to challenge the mave.

Secondly, holographic projection CG is very different from traditional CG.

The traditional CG is still flat in terms of expression, while the CG on the all-view display is a holographic projection, which can view the CG at different angles, as if there is a miniature small world in front of it.

In the CG, the huge wild beast, the green dragons circling in the clouds, the roaring white tigers in the mountains, the suzuks flying in the volcanoes, the surging basalt in the North Sea... These huge creatures are in stark contrast to the small books, and in the holographic projection mode, they can intuitively feel the disparity of this power, leaving a deep impression on the players.

At the end of CG, the student appeared alone in a small valley, and the CG seamlessly connected to the game screen.

Tang Ying found that he could now control the book.

On the projection of the all-view display, some related operational tips begin to appear, all of which are very regular content, such as mobile, viewing angle, attack, jump, climbing and so on.

In the early days of the game, the player is mainly familiar with these basic operations, and the entire teaching process is done in the valley.As long as the player follows the tutorial, he can climb to the top of the mountain.

Tang Ying noticed that the book student could hardly be said to be unarmed at first.His body is wearing the most ordinary book clothes, the defense is very low, the painting and the brush only have the most basic ink, the picture can only be used for very basic defense, the brush can only be used for the basic attack of the knife, whether it is defensive or offensive.

His writing and painting skills are still not activated and cannot be created or erased.

However, the student can perform some special mobile operations, such as climbing, gliding, etc., which do not need to be unlocked.It is just that these special movements need to consume ink, and the book student's ink is very small now, just use it.

Tang Ying climbed the mountain, the camera automatically pulled away, and the beauty of the entire game world was unobstructed.

In the distance is a plain of green grass, and the small animals play on it, full of life; a little farther away can see a magnificent Huaxia city, that is, the city of Yang Meng, the thick black shadow coils are above it, and the power of the beast is infesting the surrounding land; looking to the north, you can vaguely see the snowy mountains in the east; the clouds in the west can be seen in the clouds.It was as if there was another dragon hovering in the clouds.

Of course, if Tang Ying controls the book student, then you can see the volcano in the south, but after all, from Tang Ying's point of view, you can only see three sides at the same time.

“The view is beautiful!The world of ink is beautiful.”

Soup can't help but feel sad.

"It's so beautiful, so be it to draw."

The student took out the picture and began to paint the beauty in front of him.

He painted it quickly, and a moment later it was finished.When you open the picture, all the surrounding scenes are painted and turned into a map.

It’s just that the map isn’t looking down at the angle of view, but the view of the book on the mountain, which may look less accurate, but it’s also a painting that reproduces the surrounding landscape well.

If you climb the mountain, you can draw the surrounding scenery.While recording footprints, it can also be used as a map.

Similar locations will be marked on the map in a "despicable" way.Some of the "outrageous" locations are hidden, and the specific location can be known to the surrounding indigenous people.

This is the map system of Ink and Smoke 2.

As an open-world game, players will need a sufficiently detailed map.The form of the map and the way to open the map are different from other games.

The form of the map is similar to the landscape paintings in traditional Chinese paintings, which sacrifices the accuracy of some maps, but has been greatly improved in terms of artistry and aesthetics.When players look at this map, they may need to guess the exact location where they are going, but this also makes the sense of exploration stronger.

The way to open the map in the game is to climb the nearby high places, overlooking the nearby beauty can draw a painting, the painting has become a map of this area.

Different scenic spots, because the height is different, the surrounding cover is different, so the range of sight is not the same.The big map of the whole world is put together by such a small map.

From the hillside to the right, you can meet a woodcutter who is cutting wood, and after the dialogue, you can get some basic information:

There is a small village nearby, where to find the village chief can ask about the situation and routes around;

Trees in the mountains can be cut down to get firewood, and some wild fruits and herbs can be obtained;

Firewood can make fire, baked wild fruit can be eaten as food to restore life, but also can be cooked, but it needs to be carried out in a pot place;

After the dialogue, the Woodman also gave the book a fire scythe very enthusiastically.

Fire scythe is a ignition tool, from the outside, composed of flint, velvet and fire steel, which produces Mars through the impact of fire steel and flint to ignite ignite ignite ignition, thus creating flames.

However, fire scalp is a consumable, and it will be damaged after a certain number of uses.

Of course, for players, only in the early stage of the game will need this thing, because after the book student can use the fire attribute ink, you can set fire at will.

Tang Ying tried to press the ordinary attack key on a tree, and the brush in the hand of the book was attached to the ink in the shape of a knife, and he cut the tree several times before cutting the tree.

Different ink meanings have a grade, the higher the level, the higher the damage.At present, the ink that has fallen on these little monsters is more scum, so it is difficult to cut down trees.

The cut trunk collapsed, and Tang Ying went up and cut two knives, became a bundle of firewood, and picked it up and put it in his own picture.

The books can store ink, store paintings, use the painting skills created or erased, and can also be used as a large storage space.

According to the Woodman, Tang Ying found the location of the village on the previously drawn map and began to move towards the small village.

On the way, Tang Ying encountered some strange things.

Some of the different types of monsters are different, some are beasts, such as wild boar, wolves, foxes, etc. The habits of these beasts are different, some will escape when they hear the sound, and some will take the initiative to attack the students, and most of the materials obtained after killing are beasts, such as animal meat, animal skins, and minions.

There are also some monsters that are affected by the mave, and these monsters can see the appearance of the original beast, such as the appearance of the fox demon can basically be regarded as a fox that can walk upright, but these monsters can basically use simple weapons.

Different levels of monsters have different intelligence, the weapons used are not the same, for example, most of the monsters encountered by the students now use wooden weapons, and then they will encounter bone and even metal weapons.

These weapons are of little use to the students, and he cannot use them directly, but they can be turned into ink with a brush.For example, after supplementing the ink with a wooden spear, the student can use a brush to attack the spear.However, this kind of attack is also limited, and the use of ink needs to be supplemented.

The monster uses a bow and arrow, five-line stick or other long-range weapons, which can supplement the ink of long-range attack, and some special attribute weapons can supplement the ink of the five-line attribute, so that you can attach five lines of attributes to the brush, resulting in a restraining effect.

Although it is just a few simple little things, Tang Ying has fun.

There are many ways to fight, you can use the back of the attack extremely high damage settings, drill the grass to solve these small monsters one by one; you can also use the property to restrain, the use of bonfires or chandeliers in the monster camp to burn these stranges; you can also use the property to restrain and technical front hard steel.

After defeating the monsters in the camp, the student can get some special rewards from the treasure chest of the monster hoarding, which may be the ink of some attribute, maybe some special material, or some money.

Heading along the established route towards a nearby village, Tang Ying is like a child who is curious about the world, exploring around.

There are many interesting things in the jungle, such as wild fruits that can be seen everywhere, different wild fruits can be eaten after collection, can also be used for cooking, and there will be various effects; there will be some insects in the jungle, such as dragonflies, butterflies, single-cornered fairy, etc., must be carefully approached to catch, mixed with the material of the monster drop to make medicine.

In addition, the wild can also encounter a variety of scattered weapons, these weapons can also be stored in the book biochemical ink.Monster camps are not many, but every other distance there will be one, these monster camps in the monster species are different, the layout is also different, playing each monster camp when there is basically a opportunistic way, the early book student's combat power is not high, so you must use the brain to defeat all the monsters, once besieged by a group of monsters is not good.

Moreover, the environment of the whole world can be almost interactive, can cut down trees, can cut grass, can set fire...

This is also "ink and ink 2" and most of the current game is different, other games, the scene of the trees, grass is basically furnishings, the game's characters can not interact with trees, grass and stones, at most through these scenes to hide some props, that is all.

However, most of the environmental elements in Ink and Smoke 2 can be interactive, and with the five lines of attributes, the player can make some strange magical operations.

"Huh?"What is this?”

Tang Ying came to a big tree, originally intended to go up to the tree to pick fruit, but when he jumped down, he found a pile of dead yellow leaves under the tree.She used the fire properties she had just got to light the leaves, and unexpectedly found that there was a square slate below.

The student squatted in front of the slate: “This... is this the handwriting left by the book?”

The student picked up this slate and engraved it with the words “Heaven.”He took out his pen and painted it along the word “heaven.”

"So it is... indeed, the writings of the holy books in the world, and copying these handwriting will be of great benefit to my calligraphy!"

After the student finished painting, waving the brush and using ink to describe the manface "heaven" on the slate, the stone monument became part of the scene and remained in place.

At this time, a prompt appeared on the screen: rumors, painting saints and books and holy travel, leaving a lot of real deeds.The copy of the book can enhance the understanding of calligraphy, enhance the effect of calligraphy skills, and increase the storage of ink.

“Hide the collection of elements!”

Tang Ying was very happy: "Hidden so well I found, I am a genius!" 」

But she does not know that there are a thousand holy handwritings in the game, and the content is a thousand words: "the heavens and the earth are yellow, the universe is wild", all can form a complete thousand words after all, if she knows now, may fall into despair.

Finally, the students who were almost happy to go all the way to the small village.

The village is small, but there are a lot of NPCs in it.There are merchants in the village, those who sell clothes, those who sell weapons, who sell materials, and some NPCs who do not trade directly with the books but will trigger side tasks, such as planting fields, wood-cuts, cooking, hunting, and so on.

These special NPCs mainly introduce some basic gameplay in the game, such as wood chopping NPCs will let the player go to chop wood, give him a certain amount of wood, he will give the book an axe and some special wood that may be obtained by chopping wood.

This axe can supplement a large amount of metallic ink, and the grade is higher than the current book student ink, can be used as a weapon, but also can quickly cut down trees; these special firewood can be used as materials.

In the game, different trees after the felling of the wood is also different, the most common material is firewood, mainly for fire, but there are some advanced such as peach wood, pear wood, sandalwood, etc., can be used as a material to make some special props, can also be sold to merchants for money.

For example, the hunter will let the bookmaker hunt some small beasts, wild boars, etc. After the hunt, the meat is handed over to him, you can get some bows and arrows, and will teach the player some hunting experience.For example, you can't run fast during hunting, you will start the prey, you must crouch and move forward to successfully hunt, and so on.

In addition, there are some NPCs in the village who are neither businessmen nor tasks, such as running little ass, dozing drunks, etc., they have the task under certain conditions, and some are simply to improve the ecology of the whole village.

Tang Ying walked around the village for a long time, and then finally came to the village chief's house.