Although many settings of "Ink and Wash 2" come from "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", the story background is different and the beginning must not be the same.

The protagonist in "Ink and Wash 2" is not a warrior who has lost his memory for a hundred years, but a fledgling scholar. Therefore, the game will not wake up in the shrine at the beginning. In this way, the opening cg needs to briefly introduce the story background to the players and connect it with the opening of the game.

The content of cg is the one that everyone is very familiar with. The nightmare beast entrenches over Yangmeng City to create nightmare to absorb negative emotions. The scholar wants to defeat the nightmare beast to save the world.

However, compared with previous cgs, especially the previous work of "Ink and Wash Clouds and Smoke", there are two differences:

First of all, the content of the four saint beasts is added, including the Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Xuanwu. These four saint beasts are introduced in the opening CG, allowing players to better understand the main line of the entire game: after defeating the four saint beasts, then challenge the nightmare beasts.

Secondly, the cg of holographic projection is very different from the traditional cg.

Traditional cgs are still flat in their expression form, while cgs on full-view displays are holographic projections, and cgs can be viewed from different angles, just like there is a miniature small world in front of them.

In CG, the huge nightmare beast, the green dragon circling in the clouds, the white tiger roaring in the forest, the vermilion bird flying in the volcano, and the black trunk rolling in the North Sea... These huge creatures form a sharp contrast with the tiny scholars. In the holographic projection mode, you can intuitively feel the disparity in power, leaving a deep impression on the players.

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

Tang Ying found that she could control the scholar now.

On the projection of the full-view display, some related operation prompts began to appear, all of which were very conventional content, such as movement, perspective rotation, attack, jumping, climbing, etc.

In the early stages of the game, players are mainly familiar with these basic operations, and the entire teaching process is completed in the valley. Players can climb to the top of the mountain as long as they follow the tutorial.

Tang Ying noticed that the scholar could almost be said to be unarmed at the beginning. He was wearing the most ordinary scholar's uniform, with very low defense. There was only the most basic ink in the scroll and the brush. The scroll can only be used for very basic defense, and the brush can only be used for basic attacks in the form of a knife, and both defense and attack power can be almost negligible.

His calligraphy and painting skills are still inactive and cannot be created or erased.

However, scholars can perform some special movement operations, such as climbing, sliding, etc., which do not require unlocking. However, these special movements require consumption of ink intention, and scholars now have very little ink intention, so they will disappear after using them casually.

Tang Ying climbed up the mountain, and the camera automatically moved away, and the beautiful scenery of the entire game world was unobstructed.

In the distance is a plain with green grass, with small animals playing and full of vitality; a little farther away you can see a magnificent Chinese city, which is Yangmeng City, with thick black shadows entrenched above it, and the power of the nightmare beast invades the surrounding land; looking north, you can vaguely see the continuous snow-capped mountains; on the towering Kunlun Mountain in the west, clouds and mists are shrouded in the red of large maple leaves in the clouds; and on the coast of the east, thunder appears in the clouds, as if a giant dragon is hovering in the clouds.

Of course, if Tang Ying controls the scholar to look back, then you can see the volcano in the south. However, from Tang Ying's perspective, you can only see three sides at most at the same time.

"The scenery is so beautiful! Sure enough, the world of ink and wash style is beautiful."

Tang Ying couldn't help but sigh.

"Such a beautiful scenery should be painted in the painting."

The scholar took out the scroll and began to paint at the beautiful scenery in front of him.

He drew it very quickly, and it was finished in a moment. When he expanded the scroll, he saw that all the scenes around him were drawn in and turned into a map.

However, this map is not a downward perspective, but a scholar's perspective on the mountain. This kind of map may not look so accurate, but it is also a painting that reproduces the surrounding scenery well.

[Climbing up the mountain, you can draw the surrounding scenery. While recording footprints, you can also use it as a map.]

[Similar locations will be marked on the map in the form of "sighted scenery". Some "sighted scenery" locations are hidden, and you can find out the specific location when you look at the surrounding indigenous people.]

This is the map system of "Ink and Wash 2".

As an open world game, players must all need a map that is detailed enough. The format 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 some of the accuracy of the map, but it has greatly improved both artistic and aesthetics. When players look at this kind of map, they may need to guess a little if they want to find the exact location of the place they want to go, but this also makes the sense of exploration stronger.

The way to open a map in the game is that the scholar climbs to a nearby high place and overlooks the beautiful scenery nearby, and the painting becomes a map of this area.

Different scenic spots, due to different heights and surrounding veils, the range of sight is different. The big map of the whole world is made up through such small maps.

Walking from the hillside to the right, you can meet a woodcutter who is chopping wood. After the conversation, you can obtain some basic information:

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

Trees in the forest can be cut down to obtain firewood, and can also obtain some wild fruits and herbs;

Firewood can make fire, and after baking wild fruits, it can be eaten as food to restore life, or cooked, but it needs to be done in a place with a pot;

After the conversation, the woodcutter was very enthusiastic about giving the scholar a scythe.

The ignition tool is an ignition tool. From the appearance, it is composed of flint, tinder and tinder steel. The impact of the tinder and flint produces Mars to ignite the tinder, thereby creating flames.

However, the scythe is a consumable and will be damaged after using it for a certain number of times.

Of course, for players, this thing is only needed in the early stage of the game, because after the scholar can use the fire-attribute ink, he can set fire at will.

Tang Ying tried to press the ordinary attack button at a tree. A layer of knife-shaped ink attached to the brush in the scholar's hand. He cut it several times before cutting off the tree.

Different ink intentions can be divided into levels, and the higher the level, the higher the damage. The ink intentions dropped on these little monsters that have been defeated at present are relatively terrible, so it is difficult to cut trees.

The cut-off tree trunk collapsed, and Tang Ying went up and cut two more knives, turning into a bundle of firewood, picked it up and put it into his own scroll.

The scholar's painting can store ink and paintings, use creation or erasing painting skills, and can also be used as a large storage space.

According to the woodcutter, Tang Ying found the location of the village on the map he had drawn before and began to head towards the small village.

On the way, Tang Ying encountered some monsters.

The types of monsters are different, some are wild animals, such as wild boars, wolves, foxes, etc. These beasts have different habits. Some will flee when they hear sounds, while others will take the initiative to attack the scholar. Most of the materials obtained after the killing are from the bodies of the beasts, such as animal flesh, skin, minions, etc.

There are also some monsters that are affected by nightmare beasts. These monsters can see the original wild beasts. For example, the appearance of the fox monster can basically be seen as a fox that can walk upright, but these monsters can basically use simple weapons.

Monsters of different levels have different intelligences and use different weapons. For example, most of the monsters that scholars encounter now use wooden weapons, and they will encounter bone or even metal weapons later.

These weapons are of no use to scholars. They cannot be used directly, but they can use brushes to turn these weapons into ink. For example, after using wooden spears to supplement ink, scholars can use brushes to attack the spear. However, this kind of attack is also limited, and if the ink is used up, it needs to be supplemented.

The bows, five elements sticks or other long-range weapons used by monsters can supplement the ink intention of long-range attacks. Some special attribute weapons can supplement the ink intention of the five elements attributes, so that the five elements attributes can be attached to the brush to produce a restraining effect.

Although it was just a few simple monsters, Tang Ying enjoyed it.

There are many ways of fighting for scholars. You can use the settings of sneak attacks behind you with extremely high damage, sneaking through grass and solving these monsters one by one; you can also use attribute restraint to burn these monsters by using bonfires or chandeliers in monster camps; you can also use attribute restraint and technical frontal hard steel.

After defeating the monsters in the camp, the scholar can get some special rewards from the treasure chests stored by the monsters, which may be the ink meaning of some attributes, some special materials, or some money.

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

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 or used for cooking, and they will have various effects. There will be some insects in the jungle, such as dragonflies, butterflies, unicorn fairies, etc. You must be carefully approached to catch them. Mixed with the materials dropped by the monsters to make medicine.

In addition, you can encounter various scattered weapons in the wild, and these weapons can be transformed into Mo Yi and stored by Shusheng. There are not many monster camps, but there will be one at a distance. The types of monsters in these monster camps are different and the layout is also different. When fighting each monster camp, there are basically opportunistic methods. In the early stage, the scholar's combat power is not high, so he must use his brain to defeat all the monsters. Once he is besieged by a group of monsters, it will be bad.

Moreover, the environment of the whole world is almost interactive, with trees being cut, grass being mowed, and arson being set on fire...

This is also the difference between "Ink and Wash 2" and most current games. In other games, the trees and grasses in the scene are basically arranged. The characters in the game cannot interact with trees, grass and stones. At most, some props are hidden through these scenes, and that's all.

However, most of the environmental elements in "Ink and Wash 2" can be interacted with. With the five elements attributes, players can make some incredible and magical operations.

"Hmm? What is this?"

Tang Ying came to a big tree. She originally planned to climb the tree to pick fruits, but when she jumped down, she found a pile of withered leaves under the tree. She lit the pile of fallen leaves with the fire attribute Moyi she had just obtained, and unexpectedly found that there was a square stone slab underneath.

The scholar squatted in front of the stone slab: "This...is this the handwriting left by the saint of calligraphy?"

The scholar picked up the stone slab with an ancient seal script engraved on it: "Heaven". He took out his brush and described it along the word "Heaven".

"So that's it... It's true that the calligraphy saints are circulating in the world. Copying these calligraphy will be of great benefit to my calligraphy!"

After the scholar finished drawing, he waved his brush and used ink to describe the seal character "Tian" on the stone slab. The stone tablet became part of the scene and left it in place.

At this time, a prompt appears on the screen: [Rumor, the Painting Saint and the Calligraphy Saint travel around, leaving behind many authentic works. Copying the calligraphy of the Saint can improve your understanding of calligraphy, enhance the effect of calligraphy skills, and at the same time increase the storage of ink meaning.]

"Sure enough, hide the collection elements!"

Tang Ying was very happy: "I found it so well hidden. I am simply a genius!"

But she doesn't know yet that there are a thousand calligraphy writings in the game, and the content is a thousand-character text: "The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast and vast". After all, she can form a complete thousand-character text. If she knows it now, she may fall into despair.

Finally, the scholar who was almost overjoyed came to a small village.

The village is not big, but there are quite a few NPCs inside. There are merchants, some selling clothes, weapons, materials, and some NPCs that cannot directly trade with scholars but will trigger side tasks, such as farming, chopping wood, cooking, hunting, etc.

These special NPCs mainly introduce some basic gameplay in the game. For example, the NPCs that chop wood will ask the player to chop wood. After giving him a certain amount of firewood, he will give the scholar an axe and some special wood that may be obtained by chopping wood.

This axe can supplement a lot of metallic ink intentions, and the level is higher than that of scholars today. It can be used as a weapon or quickly cut down trees; and these special firewood can be used as materials.

In the game, the wood obtained after cutting down by different trees is also different. The most common material is firewood, mainly for burning fire, but there are also higher-end ones such as mahogany, rosewood, rosewood, etc., which can be used as materials to make some special props or can be sold to merchants for money.

For example, the hunter will ask the scholar to hunt some small wild beasts, wild boars, etc. After hunting, he can get some bows and arrows, and will teach the players some hunting experience. For example, you cannot run quickly during hunting, will alarm the prey, you must crouch forward to successfully hunt, etc.

In addition, there are some NPCs in the village who are neither businessmen nor tasks, such as running kids, sleepy drunkards, etc. Some of them trigger tasks under specific conditions, while others simply want to improve the ecology of the entire village.
Chapter completed!