A melodious melody sounded.
This background music is neither cheerful nor sad, it can only be said that it is very smooth, as smooth as the narration read by the hero and the many shots that flash on the screen.
"My father is a philanthropist and the founder of luxury brand. He used to be a high-spirited person, often appearing on TV, and often in fashion magazines because of his handsome appearance."
"Until, the kidnapping incident before I was born."
"After that, my parents kept a low profile, and I was well protected by them and rarely mentioned in the media. Our daily life was unknown."
"Shortly after I was born, my mother quit her job to be a full-time wife in order to take better care of me. No matter how busy my father was, he would always find time to accompany me."
"My father once set his sights on a kindergarten, but it was far from home, and the pick-up and drop-off took 45 minutes. My father could choose to have the driver pick me up, but he still picked me up twice a week for three years, until I went to elementary school."
"My father would tell me bedtime stories, help me with my homework, participate in parent-child activities at school, and regularly organize family dinners..."
"So, I don't actually understand very well what some of my friends are saying: Their parents are so busy that they never have time to spend with them."
"Can you be busier than the president of a company?"
Along with the narration of the male protagonist, scenes flashed on the screen.
There is a scene where the male protagonist is born in a luxurious delivery room.
The whole space is very spacious, with long sofas and furniture, it looks like a hotel suite, with nurses, nutritionists, and nurses coming and going, and the table is filled with all kinds of nutritious meals, like a sumptuous dinner.
The male protagonist's parents hold the baby with a happy smile on their faces.
There are also scenes from the life of the male protagonist in his infancy.
In a mansion with a beach and a private dock, several servants are traveling to and fro, taking care of the baby boy's food and clothing, and the actor's mother is smiling and accompanying him.
And the scene of going to kindergarten.
The protagonist's father drives a luxury car, and the bustling city on the roadside flashes one by one. In a high-end private kindergarten, the protagonist is doing various studies, including language, mathematics, science, art and so on.
The teacher's teaching courses are rich and interesting. He will put eggs in an 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. Every month, the art theme will learn about some artists, and let the children imitate these paintings with their immature drawing skills. Whether they are beautiful or ugly, they will be praised and praised. Hang it on the wall.
Even the block toys to 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 7:30 in the morning. If I am ten minutes late, the school will be closed. If I am late, I will be fined and included in my grades."
"My dad never made me late. He always told me that there are only a few things in the world that money can't buy, and time is one of them. So, I have to cherish every second I have. This concept of time has always been in my heart.”
"My father didn't allow me to eat fast food, I wasn't allowed to wear an electronic watch, I wasn't allowed to use a mobile phone until I was 15, and there was a limit to how many hours a day I could use. Play computer games for no more than 40 minutes, can be increased on weekends to an hour."
"I've tried to get my mother to plead with him, but to no avail. But he'll spend all his time with me."
After a series of scenes at the beginning explained the rich protagonist's childhood background, He An found that he could finally control the protagonist to play the game.
This is the protagonist of childhood, still the same over-the-shoulder perspective as the prologue, and the first act of the game is to play and live in the parents' mansion.
He An quickly realized that this was a standard interactive movie game.
All the character modeling here is very detailed, and all the characters' dialogue expressions and body movements are obviously captured using motion capture, and the extremely beautiful pictures make everything look very real.
At the same time, all the ui in the game are hidden in the scene, or integrated with the scene, when guiding the player's behavior, it will not destroy the immersion of the game.
At the same time, the camera switching in the game is also very particular, using a lot of techniques that are only used in movies.
The only strange thing is that all the characters seem to have some facial expressions. For example, the faces of the rich and the rich father and the rich mother seem to be too good-looking, and the whole family looks like a star.
And the servants, housekeepers, and drivers at home really fit the stereotype.
This makes me feel a little awkward, but since all the characters are drawn like this, I quickly get used to it.
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, that is, some more advanced qte.
For example, in the mansion, players can play the protagonist of a rich young man and experience a lot of content:
Learn to paint under the guidance of a private teacher in a dedicated studio;
Learn various musical instruments such as piano and violin;
Go horseback riding at a private horse farm;
Shoot arrows and play with dogs on your lawn;
Participate in children's parties organized by other wealthy families, and play with other peers in the banquet hall with bouncy castles, ice cream machines, carousels, and miniature trains;
Celebrate birthdays with other kids on a private jet to a safari in Africa, and receive mountains of gifts from high-end malls…
In each scene, the player can control the protagonist to experience various interactive scenes, such as riding a horse, playing the piano, playing a small train and so on.
In addition to these small games, there are many more detailed elements in the scene, such as talking with various characters, checking the surrounding books and newspaper news, unpacking small gifts, and so on.
When switching scenes, many different switching methods are also used, which are somewhat similar to movie transitions. For example, the protagonist takes a photo after taking a group photo, and then this photo comes to the protagonist's bedside and starts the next scene at the same time.
In the middle of some transitions with a relatively large span, the narration of the protagonist will also be added, that is, the protagonist's memories of his childhood when he is an adult.
After the childhood is over, it is the youth. The protagonist begins to enter high school and college, but there is no scene of loose education and alcohol parties in the TV series. Instead, every minute of time is fully arranged.
Not only do you need to perform well in the SAT, but also in any test in the four years of high school. There are also Olympiads, sports, debates, social services... Any activity that can help you get to the Ivy League will be crowded with people. And to, full of competition.
The protagonist heard the news of a classmate's suicide and knew a term: "Stanford Duck Syndrome", everyone pretended to be super relaxed and perfect on the surface, but below the surface, they were kicking their legs desperately. When all you see are calm ducks, you feel like you are the only imperfect person.
There is also the so-called "4": 4 hours of sleep, 4 large cups of coffee, gpa 4.0.
In different game stages, He An has to make a lot of choices.
In childhood, although the protagonist's daily schedule is strictly arranged, he can choose different entertainment activities during the rest time, he can choose different hobbies, such as learning to paint or music, and he can also choose different entertainment modes during each holiday. .
And these choices appear to affect later youth experiences.
For example, learning equestrianism from a young age, then when you grow up, the protagonist's father will give the protagonist a private horse farm worth tens of millions of knives, and participating in equestrian competitions can get a lot of money, and it will have some impact on the future process.
This game has the concept of funds, and some specific options must have specific funds to choose, but this restriction does not exist for the rich protagonist, because no matter how much funds are spent, they will be replenished immediately.
…
One scene after another, quickly passed.
While immersed in the game, He An also lamented the waste of scenes and materials in the game.
Most of the scenes are used once and will no longer appear. For example, in the scene of the African safari park, the young protagonist went there to watch various precious animals, learned a lot of knowledge, and received gifts. After that, the zoo's The scene never happened again.
There are some large scenes that will be reused, such as the mansion of the protagonist's house, and the horse farm. As the story progresses, the things that can be done in the mansion and the horse farm will be gradually unlocked, and some new content will be experienced every so often.
But even so, in order to achieve this cinematic effect, it is quite extravagant.
He An can realize that President Pei has obviously made a choice in this extravagant approach: due to the low reuse rate and high precision of the scene, the duration of the entire game has been compressed.
Generally speaking, the domestic 3A game masterpieces will be cleared in 8-10 hours if they purely run the plot. Of course, some branch lines are very rich or the open world game time will be very 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, where many fragmented and fragmented scenes are all pieced together, and the whole picture of the protagonist's life is pieced together through these representative scenes.
Of course, this time may double again if all options are selected.
In the game, you can jump back to the previous scene and play repeatedly according to the progress line at any time. Similar games will have this function.
After graduating from university, the protagonist can choose to fall in love with different girls and get married, he can choose to work in his father's company, become a painter, musician or equestrian coach according to his hobbies, and start his own business.
When he got married, his father chartered an island in Italy for him. He spent 5 million dollars on two Boeing planes to transport the guests. All the guests booked a five-star hotel, rented 50 special cars to transport the guests, and delivered several meals of flowers by air from the Netherlands. , In the end, the wedding was chosen on the rocks of the sea, an entire international chef team was invited, and even the wedding dress cost 600,000 dollars...
At the wedding scene, players can control the protagonist to chat with the guests, everyone will send their sincere blessings, and they can personally experience the whole process of the wedding.
Of course, it's impossible to make the entire island in the game, but it just uses a movie perspective to give a bird's-eye view. The main scenes are concentrated in the small part of the wedding scene.
But all the finely crafted details are still jaw-dropping.
After the protagonist got married and had children, his career went smoothly. No matter which company you apply for, you will be admitted immediately, and you will be promoted step by step in your work.
His parents retired, enjoying their old age.
During school, the protagonist meets some poor friends and finds that his lifestyle is completely different. These poor friends don't seem to be motivated, idle, and don't cherish their time.
So, after the protagonist has achieved great success in his career, he tries to help others as much as possible.
"Like I said, my dad thinks the world is full of the law of the jungle, we are the ones on top, but there are also countless people staring at us and wanting to see us fall."
"He said that poor people are lazy, selfish, unreasonable, and never believe that you can be friends with those poor people."
"He said, stay away from them or you will get into trouble."
"I still don't agree with him."
"I know that my father's point of view stemmed 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 because I almost lost my life to the poor. All poor people."
"I have met some poor friends. In my opinion, they are no different from me. Maybe the reason why they are poor is that they lack a little bit of self-motivation and a little bit of fighting spirit. But I didn't have these from the beginning."
"So, I went to the university to give speeches and 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 doesn't fall from the sky, and only hard work is the only way to change fate. Only by not being satisfied with the status quo and not giving up any opportunities can life become better."
"I told them that I have been studying hard day in and day out, and I have never dared to slack off or waste any time."
"I tell them I never wear luxury clothes, not even my father's luxury brand, I don't buy luxury cars, throw pointless parties, and spend every second of my life meaningful. things."
"There is no doubt that my views have been ridiculed by many people online. Many people feel that I am not qualified to talk about 'struggle' because I was born into a rich family and never understood what 'struggle' means for the poor what."
"However, many people expressed their gratitude to me. My self-discipline for decades has touched them. They said that it was my father's hard work that gave me a better environment to grow up. these things."
"I'm very happy, it shows that everything I do is meaningful."
In the last scene, the protagonist came to a bookstore in a slum area to sign the sale.
People lined up in a long line, and they came to him one by one, handed over the books they had bought, received autographs, and then thanked the protagonist.
There are many people who sign. He An has to swipe the mouse every time to sign, and it repeats mechanically, but everyone's smiles and thanks are different, which makes people feel that this matter is meaningful.
A shabby, homeless man comes to the protagonist, his hands empty.
The protagonist bowed his head and prepared to sign, but found that the other party did not hand over the book, and was a little surprised.
When he raised his head, he found that the expression on the homeless man's face was hideous and depressed, as if with deep 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. He took out a sharp knife from his wide pocket numbly and without any emotion, and stabbed the protagonist's chest fiercely!
The screams resounded, and the scene became a mess, but these voices quickly moved away from the protagonist, and the picture was spinning and blurring quickly.
With a "pop", the blood-stained book fell down, just covering the protagonist's face, and the "Struggle and Get Rich" on the cover seemed inexplicably ironic.
Before the picture turned black, the protagonist heard a very slight but very clear sentence from the tramp.
"fraud."