Recently, the official article of the domestic single-player action adventure game "Gui Tang" has been released, explaining why a "suicide" theme was chosen.Interestingly, many players in the comment area still hope that the official can "talk less and get on the actual phone as soon as possible."
"Returning to Tang" officially explains why we should choose the theme "Shazhou Returning to Tang" which is not well-known.During the first player symposium, only 2 out of 60 players knew the story.At that time, someone pessimistically asserted that doing this subject is equivalent to suicide.
An European and American employee from NetEase Overseas Studio asked a question about the story of "Gui Tang": "Why do they run so far? Shouldn't they go to a closer place to seek assistance?" This moment made the studio realize that Gui Tang was the subject they were looking for."You see, he understood the incident of 'returning to Tang' as a more utilitarian 'seeking for help', but he couldn't understand that going home itself is of great significance to the Chinese."
The official said: "Gui Tang tells a story about going home. How tens of thousands of Shazhou people fight with their lives and return to their spiritual hometown - the Tang Dynasty. Through this story, we want players all over the world to understand why Chinese people are persistent in going home and why peace and unity are the common wishes of the Chinese people."
Officials say that going home is a big deal for Chinese people.Qu Yuan, more than two thousand years ago, had already written the poem "Birds fly back to their hometown, and foxes will die at the hill"; Li Bai also "looked up at the bright moon and thought of his hometown" in confusion; he was as heroic as a great man, when he returned to Shaoshan after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he couldn't help but write emotionally, "Don't dream of vaguely cursing the passing of the river, his hometown was thirty-two years ago."Except for us, no civilization in the world has left such a rich literary work on the theme of missing his hometown.So much so that we have all written on the Chinese paper “expressing the author’s homesickness”…
Even now, it is still our social consensus to have money or not to go home for the New Year. The Spring Festival travel rush that everyone has experienced is actually another way of writing about going home.Going home is a word that is unswerving in Chinese, and it is also a word that contains all the beautiful emotions.The home I want to go back may not be rich, and the house has been disrepaired for a long time.But at the moment of home, a huge sense of stability, satisfaction and happiness fills my body, because this is the starting point and end point of all journeys.
"Looking at the sun, looking at Wuhui in the clouds." The distant home can support people in trouble to persevere. If you have no home to go back, there will be only a huge hole in your life.The liberated people of Shazhou may not need most, military aid, but emotional sustenance.After being enslaved by nomadic peoples for sixty years, the question of "Who are we? Why do we fight?" can only be answered through "Returning to Tang and returning home".
Because we are people from the Tang Dynasty, we must bring the peace and prosperity represented by the Tang Dynasty back to the deserts and oasis in Hexi.This is why we chose the niche theme of "Gui Tang" that "equals suicide", because it is something worth doing, because it is our responsibility.Even if it may not be so successful in business.
Generation after generation, so many Chinese people sacrifice themselves for this responsibility. As game developers, what is the point of sacrificing just a little career opportunity?We want to tell players all over the world through "Return to Tang":
The Chinese people’s obsession with going home comes from our yearning for a simple and peaceful life, from our desire for a harmonious world and a family in all over the world, and from our recognition of the Tang Dynasty spirit that is inclusive and inclusive.After a thousand years of experience, but the background remains unchanged, we are still such people and nations. We fight with our lives just to go home, and we also hope that the separated brothers will find the way home as soon as possible.World peace is our dream, but if the world is not peaceful and some people deliberately prevent us from going home, then the protagonist of "Returning to Tang" also happens to have a horizontal knife and a stone hammer hanging around his waist.
