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“Playing games like Jelly Bean Man is still open?” In the past few days, this is almost the unanimous reaction of various anchors when they met the plug-in in “Jelly Bean Man: Ultimate Knockout”: first raise your voice to Feitian The “fairy” in the escape shows the respect that mortal players should have, and then the confusion overwhelms the anger-because they can’t understand why playing a humorous and not too competitive party game should be played hang?
In the discussion of the open-link mentality, we usually think that what the open-linker wants is pay to win, pursuing the superiority of using economic power to overwhelm everything.
But “pay to win” seems to be incompatible with the character of “Jelly Bean”. The latter is similar to “Between Cities” and “Boys and Girls Charge Forward” and other variety shows. An endless stream of random fun when breaking through, contributed the most laughter outside the game.
So opening and hanging in “Jelly Bean”, which has no ladder and no leaderboard, is actually tantamount to missing the most attractive part of the game.
Of course, the idea of a “fairy” is beyond mere mortals. However, the techniques of the “fairies” grew visible to the naked eye, and some of them jumped up, giving justice to heaven.
Some teleported from the starting point, and the Flash possessed.
Although it looks outrageous, it’s actually accompanied by the cartoon and sand sculpture style of “Jelly Bean Man”. It seems that there is no sense of contradiction.
The external merchants on a certain fish and a certain treasure also provide the gods with a high-quality consumer experience including after-sales tutorials.
For now, these peopleThe chaotic farce may come to an end temporarily.
Yesterday at noon, the official blog of “Jelly Bean” issued a statement stating that the developer Mediatonic has added a plug-in monitoring system to the game, and the cheating of the game has been gradually controlled.
As for the follow-up, whether the plug-in disappeared under official sanctions, or the two sides are caught in a protracted tug of war between you and me… I hope it is the former. But in short, it is obvious that some operational flaws have shown that the popularity of “Jelly Bean” has far exceeded Mediatonic’s expectations.
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It even said that it might be the most successful indie game this year. Officials say that the game has sold more than 2 million copies in a week on Steam. At the time of writing, the peak number of people online on Steam exceeded 130,000.
On Twitch, the popularity of “Jelly Bean” has also surpassed the fist “VALORANT” and “League of Legends”, becoming the most popular game category. For a game that didn’t have much topicality before its release, this performance was already eye-catching enough.
Of course, this popularity is not without reason.
“The gameplay is between the’Mario Party’ and the’Battle Royale'”, this is the producer’s positioning of “Jelly Bean”.
In a game, 60 cute and cute jellybeans shook their awkward bodies, and they had to go through four or five rounds of challenges like variety shows to decide the only winner.
These challenges are full of fun, with obstacles such as turntables, pendulums, and crossbars that are common in variety shows. Rendered in a cartoon style, these facilities look like a giant playground full of innocence, which is extremely lively and nonsense.
From the experience point of view, these gameplays are significantly different. Different levels cover multiple types such as racing, puzzle, and grab collection.
For example, in the level of “Perfect Match”, the jelly beans are concentrated in a 4×4 grid. The floor will briefly flash the pattern that they represent, and the jelly beans with the corresponding pattern can be stepped on to prevent falling. Obviously, the operation doesn’t matter here, maybe you can use a little bit of care like the picture below to be effective.
In addition to fighting separately, some gameplays are divided into camps, such as pushing the ball, grabbing eggs, grabbing the tail.(Tear the famous brand). In these modes, the tacit understanding between team members is always subtle and detached, and it is common to be self-defeating to make funny scenes.
But after a difficult victory, the sense of collective honor attached to it is always particularly strong.
However, there is nothing in “Jelly Bean Man” that is more effective than proper luck compared to scheming and manipulation. For example, as shown in the picture below, when the mysterious force is recommended to be the first, the dramatic effect is directly full.
So you can see that although “Jelly Bean” is a chicken-eating style, its cartoon style and juggling humor completely dispel the sense of confrontation of chicken-eating.
In fact, after the excellent results of “Jelly Bean”, the game producer was asked in an interview whether he would consider getting involved in e-sports, because the voice of forming a “Jelly Bean” team was already on the Internet.
But Megan Ralph, the designer of the game, said: When designing the level initially, it did not specifically consider adding e-sports elements. Now facts have also proved that if you deliberately fit e-sports, the level design is likely to fail. Up to the present level.
In other words, this is just like what I have experienced in the game. The purpose of playing “Jelly Bean” is not to blindly “point up”, but to really enjoy the “process” of the game. Just like the reason it can sweep the live broadcast platform: Watching the anchor in the crappy operation, frantically eating.
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The gameplay of “Jelly Bean” is light and innovative, and many players put it in the ranks of “casual games”.
Generally speaking, this type of casual game with low cost of copying will inevitably experience a process of plagiarism after it emerges in the market. Nowadays, in the related news of “Jelly Bean Man”, you can often see players ridicule: “Which manufacturer will copy a mobile game first this time?”
In fact, looking at the App Store, you can already find a lot of mobile games in the name of “Jelly Bean Man”, and the icons have also borrowed the bright colors and cartoon style of “Jelly Bean Man”.
Out of curiosity, I also downloaded a few of them to test the water, to see what kind of daunting spirit of blessing, I can catch up with this wave of craze within two weeks.
The most popular one is called “Jelly Bean Final Knockout”. The age limit of 9+ made me a little flustered. I quickly lowered the brightness of the screen for fear of jumping out of something good.
Entering the game, 6 “Jelly Bean Players xxx” charged towards the top of the mountain against the colored balls thrown from the mountain, a bit of a variety show. But according to my observation, the remaining 5 naive players are most likely to be low-intelligence AI.
When you rush to the top of the mountain, the player can control the machine to launch cannonballs down the mountain, and hit other players to add points. But as you might have guessed, it’s really not fun to fight with AI, and that’s the whole content of the game. I didn’t see the “Jelly Bean Man” in the icon. I only saw buttons constantly inducing me to click on ads.
The next paragraph, “Jelly Bean: The Ultimate Arena”, I already think something is wrong when I see the “Racing” tag.
It allows me to control “Ellie”… It seems that the author is still a fan of “The Last of Us 2” (the host of “The Last Of Us 2” It’s called “Allie”). Reminiscent of the bad reviews of “The Last of Us 2”, I deeply regret what happened to the author.
But I decided to take back my regrets, because I found that choosing “Ellie” would cost money… After entering the game, this is a “bumper car” game where 10 players compete in the same field and squeeze the opponent off the cliff Even score.
Obviously, apart from the name, the rest of the game is too lazy to change. After uninstalling, I handily gave a bad review.
The third paragraph, “Jelly Beans Breakthrough”, looking at the cover, I have smelled uneasy. For the first time, I felt so afraid of the two-dimensional character of “Pouch”. Yes, I would like to get rid of this picture. House.
Unfortunately, compared with the previous two, this game has zero playability. As long as I slide and touch, the cone-shaped cutie is stuck in place and motionless. The corresponding App Store page also wrote the version update record 1 day ago: “Modify known issues”, and the emotional bugs are fixed more and more.
The last one, “Jelly Bean: The Ultimate Knockout!” “, a completely undisguised work of selling dog meat, using the usual ultra-casual mini-games that rely on clicking on ads to make a living. It can be said to be the most insincere one, there is nothing to explain, uninstall.
It seems that the achievements of “Jelly Bean Man” in the past two weeks have not only overwhelmed its developers-server instability, plug-in management, and all kinds of people with bad ideas outside the game have also been in panic.
It’s just that, for a game that has won the love of countless players, I hope that these disturbances outside the game can affect the developer and its players to the least extent.
This article is from the official account: BB Ji (ID: bibiji300) , author: Chun Xi
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