The melodious melody sounded.
This background music cannot be said to be cheerful or sad. It can only be said that it is very smooth, as smooth as the narration read by the male protagonist and the many shots that flash on the screen.
“My father is a philanthropist and the founder of the luxury brand. He used to be a high-spirited man who often appeared on TV and often appeared in fashion because of his handsome appearance. Magazine."
"Until the kidnapping incident before I was born."
"After that, my parents became low-key and I was very protected by them. Well, it is rarely mentioned in the media. No one knows about our daily life."
"Shortly after I was born, my mother quit her job to be my full-time housewife. No matter how busy my father is, he will always take time to accompany me."
"My father once liked a kindergarten, but it was far away from home and it took 45 minutes to drive to and from it. My father could choose to go there. The driver went to drop me off, but he still picked me up twice a week for three years until I entered elementary school."
"My father would tell me bedtime stories after work. Tutoring homework, participating in parent-child activities at school, organizing regular family dinners..."
"So, I actually can’t quite understand what some friends said: Their parents are too busy so they never have time to talk to them. Get along."
"Can it be busier than the president of a company?"
Accompanied by the actor's narration, scenes flashed on the screen.
There is a scene where the male protagonist is born in a luxurious delivery room.
The entire space is very spacious, with couches and furniture. It looks like a hotel suite. Nurses, nutritionists, and nurses shuttle back and forth. The table is filled with various nutritious meals, just like... A sumptuous dinner.
The male protagonist’s parents held the baby in their arms with happy smiles on their faces.
There are also scenes of the male protagonist's life as a baby.
In a mansion with a beach and a private pier, several servants were shuttled back and forth, taking care of the food, clothing, and daily life of the infant male protagonist. The male protagonist's mother was also accompanying him with a smile.
There is also the scene when I went to kindergarten.
The father of the male protagonist drives a luxury car, and the prosperity of the city flashes by one by one on the roadside. In a high-end private kindergarten, the protagonist is conducting various studies, including language, mathematics, science, art, etc.
The teacher’s teaching courses are rich and interesting. You will put eggs in the incubator to hatch chicks, and you can also witness the whole process of caterpillars turning into beautiful butterflies.
Here, there are dedicated teachers to teach all children to draw. Each month’s art theme will learn about some artists, and let the children use immature painting skills to imitate these paintings, whether they are beautiful or beautiful. No matter how ugly you are, you will be praised and hung on the wall.
Even the building block toys you play with during breaks look very expensive.
"When I was in kindergarten, my father established a clear concept of time for me. The class time is at 7:30 in the morning. If you arrive ten minutes late, the school will be closed. If you are late, you will be fined and included in the calculation. Grades."
"My father never lets me be late. He always tells me that there are only a few things in the world that money can't buy, and time is one of them. I must cherish every second of my time. I always keep this concept in mind."
"My father did not allow me to eat fast food or wear an electronic watch until I was 15 years old. He is only allowed to use mobile phones when he is young, and the time for playing computer games is limited to 40 minutes per day, and can be increased to one hour on weekends."
"I tried to ask my mother to plead with him. , but it’s no use. But he will spend all his time to accompany me.”
After a series of scenes at the beginning explained the childhood background of the rich protagonist, He An found that he could finally control the protagonist in the game. .
This is the protagonist in his childhood, still from the same over-the-shoulder perspective as in the prologue, and the first act of the game is about playing and living in his parents' mansion.
He An quickly realized that this was a standard interactive movie game.
All the character models here are very detailed. All the characters’ dialogue expressions and body movements are obviously motion captured. The extremely exquisite pictures make everything look very real.
At the same time, all UI in the game is hidden in the scene, or integrated with the scene, guiding the player's behavior without destroying the immersion of the game.
At the same time, the camera switching in the game is also very particular, using many techniques that are only used in movies.
The only strange thing is that all the characters seem to have facial makeup styles. For example, the appearance of the rich man, the rich father, and the rich mother seem to be too good-looking. They all look like stars.
The servants, housekeepers, and drivers at home really fit the stereotype.
This makes people feel a little awkward, but since all the characters are drawn in this style, they get used to it quickly.
As an interactive movie game, there are not many operations that can be performed, mainly walking and pressing specific cases when specific options are triggered, which are some relatively advanced QTEs.
For example, in a mansion, players can play the role of a young rich protagonist and experience many contents:
Learn painting under the guidance of a private teacher in a special studio;
Learn various musical instruments such as piano and violin;
Go horse riding at a private horse farm;
Arrow and play with dogs on your lawn;
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Participate in children’s parties organized by other wealthy families, and play with other peers in the banquet hall with inflatable castles, ice cream machines, carousels, and small trains;
Take a private jet with other children to a safari park in Africa to celebrate their birthday, and receive mountains of gifts from high-end shopping malls...
In each scene, players can Control the protagonist to experience various interactive scenes, such as riding a horse, playing the piano, playing with a small train, etc.
In addition to these mini-games, there are also many more detailed elements in the scene, such as talking to various characters, checking the surrounding books, newspapers and news, opening small gifts, etc.
When switching scenes, many different switching methods are used, which are somewhat similar to the transitions in movies. For example, the protagonist takes a photo after completing a certain group photo, and then the photo comes to the bedside of the protagonist. , while starting the next scene.
In the middle of some relatively long transitions, the protagonist's narration will also be added, which is the protagonist's memories of his childhood as an adult.
After childhood comes youth. The protagonist begins to enter high school and college. However, there is no such loose education and alcohol party scene as in the TV series. Instead, every minute is arranged. Very full.
Not only do you have to perform well in exams like SAT, but you also have to not relax in any test during the four years of high school. There are also Olympiads, sports, debates, social services... anything that can help. People flock to any Ivy League event and it's full of competition.
The protagonist heard about the suicide of a classmate and learned a term: "Stanford Duck Syndrome". On the surface, everyone pretends to be super relaxed and perfect, but under the water, they are ignoring Kick your legs like crazy. When all you see are calm ducks, you feel like you're the only imperfect one.
There is also the so-called "4": 4 hours of sleep, 4 large cups of coffee, and GPA 4.0.
At different game stages, He An has to make a lot of choices.
In his childhood, although the protagonist’s daily schedule was strictly arranged, he could choose different entertainment activities during his breaks, and he could choose different hobbies, such as learning painting or music, and he could also choose to play music every day. Choose different entertainment modes for each holiday.
And these choices appear to influence subsequent experiences in young adulthood.
For example, if you learn equestrian skills from a young age, then when you grow up, the protagonist’s father will give you a private horse farm worth tens of millions of dollars, and you can get a lot of bonuses by participating in equestrian competitions, which will also have a positive impact on the future process. have some impact.
This game has the concept of funds. Some specific options require specific funds to choose. However, for the rich protagonist, this restriction does not exist, because no matter how much money is spent, it will Get replenished immediately.
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Scenes passed quickly.
While He An was immersed in the game, he also lamented the waste of scenes and materials in the game.
Most scenes never appear again after being used once, such asIn the scene at the African Safari Zoo, the young protagonist went there to see various rare animals, learned a lot of knowledge, and received gifts, but after that, the scene in this zoo never appeared again.
Some large-scale scenes will be reused, such as the protagonist’s mansion and the racecourse. As the plot progresses, things that can be done in the mansion and the horse farm will gradually be unlocked, and you will experience some new content every once in a while.
But even so, in order to achieve this kind of cinematic effect, it is quite luxurious.
He An could realize that Mr. Pei had obviously made a choice in this extravagant approach: due to the low reuse rate and high precision of the scenes, the duration of the entire game was compressed.
Generally speaking, domestic 3A game masterpieces can be completed in 8-10 hours if you just run through the story. Of course, some branch lines are particularly rich or the open world game will be particularly long.
The rich version of "Struggle" is only about three hours long, and the poor version should be about the same.
It is like a movie that puts together many scattered fragmented scenes, and uses these representative scenes to piece together the whole picture of the protagonist's life.
Of course, if you select all options again, this time may double again.
In the game, you can jump back to the previous scene at any time according to the progress line and play it repeatedly. Similar games will have this function.
After graduating from college, the protagonist can choose to fall in love and marry different girls, work in his father's company, become a painter, musician or equestrian instructor according to his hobbies, start his own business, etc.
When he got married, his father chartered an island in Italy for him and spent 5 million dollars to charter two Boeing planes to transport the guests. All the guests booked five-star hotels and rented 50 special cars to transport the guests. , several meals of flowers were flown in from the Netherlands, and finally the wedding was held on a rock on the sea. A whole team of international chefs were hired, and even the wedding dress cost 600,000 U.S. dollars...
At the wedding scene, players can control As the protagonist chats with the guests, everyone will send their heartfelt blessings, and you can personally experience the whole process of the wedding.
Of course, it is impossible to build the entire island in the game. It only uses a movie perspective to give an overlooking perspective. The main scenes are concentrated in the small area of the wedding scene.
But the various carefully crafted details are still jaw-dropping.
After the protagonist gets married and has children, his career goes smoothly. No matter which company I apply for, I will be accepted immediately, and I will be promoted step by step at work.
His parents retired and enjoyed their old age.
While in school, the protagonist met some poor friends and found that his lifestyle was completely different. These poor friends seem to be unmotivated, idle and do not value their time.
So, after the protagonist has achieved great success in his career, he tries to help others as much as possible.
"As I said, my father believed that this world is full of jungle laws. We are the ones who are aloof, but there are countless people staring at us and wanting to see us fall."
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“He said that poor people are lazy, selfish, and unreasonable. Never believe that you can be friends with those poor people.”
“He said, stay away from them, otherwise you will get into trouble. Upper body."
"I still don't agree with his view."
"I know that my father's view stems from the kidnapping incident before I was born. But I still think that the madman does not represent the poor, and I will not hate all poor people just because I almost died at the hands of the poor."
"I have met some poor friends, and in my opinion. , There is no difference between them and me. Maybe the reason why they are poor is that they lack a little ambition and a little fighting spirit."
"So, I went to the university to give a speech. , and also wrote a book, "Struggle and Get Rich", hoping that my lifestyle and outlook on wealth will have some positive influence on them."
"I want to tell them that money will not fall from the sky. Only hard work is the only way to change your destiny. Only if you are not satisfied with the status quo and do not give up any opportunities, can your life get better."
"I told them that I have been improving day by day. I study hard day by day, never daring to slack off or waste any time."
"I told them that I never wear luxury clothes, even those from my father's house. Luxury brands, I don’t buy luxury cars or hold meaningless parties. I spend every second on meaningful things.”
“There is no doubt that my point of view is. It attracted many people’s ridicule on the Internet. Many people felt that I was not qualified to talk about ‘struggle’ because I was born into a wealthy family and never understood what ‘struggle’ meant to the poor.”
"However, many people expressed their gratitude to me. They were impressed by my decades of self-discipline. They said that it was my father's hard work that gave me a better growth environment, and they also hoped that they could provide themselves with it through hard work. "Children."
"I am very happy, this shows that everything I do is meaningful."
The last scene is when the protagonist comes to a slum. Book signing.
People lined up in a long queue, came to him one by one, handed over the books they bought, received autographs, and then expressed their gratitude to the protagonist.
There are many people signing, and He An has to slide the mouse every time he signs, and repeats it mechanically, but everyone's smile and thanks are different, which makes people feel that this matter has something to do. meaningful.
A man in shabby clothes and a homeless appearance comes to the protagonist, his hands are empty.
The protagonist lowered his head to sign, but was a little surprised to find that the other party did not hand over the book.
Raise your headOnly then did I realize that the expression on this homeless man's face was ferocious and depressing, as if he had deep-seated hatred.
He An was stunned for a moment, because the face of this homeless man was very different from the poor man who kidnapped the protagonist's mother at the beginning, but the expression on his face felt very familiar.
The figure of the tramp seemed to block the light. Numbly and without any emotion, he took out a sharp knife from his large pocket and stabbed the protagonist's chest fiercely!
Screams resounded and the scene was in chaos. However, these sounds quickly moved away from the protagonist, and the picture spun and blurred quickly.
With a "pop" sound, the blood-stained book fell down and happened to cover the protagonist's face. The "Struggle and Get Rich" on the cover seemed inexplicably ironic.
Before the screen faded to black, the protagonist heard a very slight but clear sentence from the homeless man.
"Liar."