Original title: “Crayon Shin-chan’s Summer Vacation with the Doctor” review: a magical holiday extravaganza
As a “Crayon Shin-chan” that can almost be called a “national-level” IP, his influence has always been one of the best, and there are not a few video games born on this basis, but looking at the IP game “Crayon Shin-chan” In the long stream of works, this “Crayon Shin-chan and the Doctor’s Summer Vacation ~Never-Ending Seven-Day Journey~” published on “Nintendo Direct” in early 2021 is one of the works that I am most concerned regarding. With the healing system and the country leisure style that Millennium Kitchen has always been good at, it is hard not to be full of yearning for a Crayon Xiaoxin version of “My Summer Vacation”.
About a year (less than) following the Japanese version was launched, the Chinese version of this work finally met us. The newly added Chinese dubbing directly brought the emotional elements of the past to the apex, although it does not have the same limitations as it used to. “My Summer Vacation” is too open, but spending a pleasant holiday with Xiaoxin is enough to meet the expectations of a fan. Next, let’s briefly talk regarding this “Crayon Xiaoxin’s Summer Vacation with Dr. ~Never” The end of the seven-day trip~”.
Crayon Shin-chan “Ora and Dr. Summer Vacation” -A Seven-day Journey That Never Ends-
Publisher: Justdan International Co., Ltd.
Whether it’s “My Summer Vacation” or “Dongsen” or other works of the same type, you can always feel a different kind of “peace of mind” outside of its own extremely creative system. ”, it is difficult for you to deliberately focus on these “stills”, but it will condense in all aspects of the game. Under the foundation of a main line that has been laid in this work, you can choose many actions by yourself. You can try to slow down when you are walking on the country road, listen to the cicadas around you at night, or you can After the happy morning exercise time, go to the river to catch fish for a morning. You don’t have to think regarding too many messy trivial matters when you are playing. For people who are busy in reality, I think this kind of “quiet” returning to the countryside “Maybe it is the pure land that the heart is longing to find.
A core main story runs through the entire process of “Crayon Shin-chan”. Unlike “My Summer Vacation” in the past, at least some purposes and limitations of this work will be relatively obvious. At first, the main story will start with a chance encounter with Doctor Who at the beginning, until one day, the mysterious Doctor appeared in front of Xiaoxin with a huge dinosaur. He used the time machine to transmit the ancient dinosaurs to the present, accompanied by As time advances, when the time comes to the seventh day as indicated by the title, everything will be reset at the time point of the first day, and all you have to do is to find the motivation of the doctor in repeated cycles from Xiaoxin’s perspective, Unravel the secrets behind it all.
The main gameplay of the game is to spend a short vacation in this countryside, pick up the scattered things in the spare time, and play games with some friends in the same model and color-changing version of the main story, as well as the “growing vegetables” of the origin of all things. ”, there are many other events that will be encountered during the completion of these daily lives, it may be to let you help the restaurant at home to replenish some ingredients, or it may be to entrust you to shoot some new things and film these special events encountered in life. , and eventually they will be made into a painting diary by Xiaoxin to record what you have seen and heard in these days.
As a modifier for the whole vacation, a series of additional activities such as “fishing and catching insects” have also been expanded in every corner of the process. You can always take out your fishing rod and insect net from a different dimension, and face those The little guy with the shining point throws out these tools, and uses this simple operation mode to continuously expand his collection book. What is more interesting is that whether it is in the collection book or the occasional narration, all the introductions in the game are one and the same. A very childlike style of narrative, combined with the level of Xiaoxin’s own kindergarten, it can be regarded as a way to make players “infancy” themselves, accustomed to taking everything seriously, and it is quite interesting to be childish occasionally. , both of which can also make you feel personally that you are integrating into it as Xiaoxin.
If you are a fan of “Crayon Shin-chan”, I think that Xiao-xin’s own strange thoughts from children must be one of the reasons why this IP has impressed you. This seemingly nonsensical question and answer , when you put the source of all this on a kindergarten child, there will be no contradiction. Similar to the reason why Xiaoxin is responsible for providing photos to the publishing house, the beauty child of the publishing house promises him that if he does a good job, he will be with him. He went on a date; at first, the limit of the exploration area was a dentist billboard, because Xiaoxin was afraid of the dentist, so he might not move forward; another example was the overwhelming homophonic stalk from Xiaoxin’s mouth…
There is a more interesting detail, which was also mentioned in the interview when the Japanese version was launched. You can often see some bamboo tubes standing in the water in the river of the game. According to the setting, this is because Xiaoxin himself is It would be very dangerous for a young child to come to places such as the river alone, but there is always someone protecting him in the dark. Although it will feel a little scary if you think regarding it carefully, it is precisely because of this setting. Let the player freely roam this rural idyllic village as Xiaoxin himself, and explore the stories that happened here.
Such “animation” works that once entered the domestic market with the Chinese version often encounter an embarrassing point when gamifying. As a domestic player (and only a part of it), you can indeed get I found the original feeling in terms of picture, music, etc., but the dubbing that is not quite equivalent to that when I watched the show will directly weaken a certain sense of substitution (just like the previous “Little X Page”). The addition of the middle dub this time is indeed a very unexpected surprise (the dubbing of Xiaoxin in the game is performed by Mr. Zeng Yunfan, who took over in 2019). The fully restored dubbing effect allows every player who has been in the pit because of the middle dub to play in this game. In the work, I can find the taste of the past when I chased following it.
This work uses several scene splicing methods. At the beginning, the places that can be visited are very limited, and other areas will be gradually unlocked with the progress of the game, but the overall movable space is still not small. In the whole process, you often need to shuttle between these scenes repeatedly, but every time the scene is switched, the game will have an obvious freeze, and sometimes a short-distance errand task requires you to pass through two or three scenes This also means that you may be stuck 2-3 times during this process. Although this does not have a fatal impact on the game experience, it will still feel quite uncomfortable frequently.
“Crayon Xiaoxin’s Summer Vacation with Doctor” is a very interesting work at first sight. When you first enter the game, you can’t wait to operate Xiaoxin and twist your butt all the way to explore everything you can touch. With the deepening of play time , a variety of new events will appear every day, and they will give you a reasonable goal. It’s just a pity that these tasks are not too much every day. Most of them can be completed in one morning, and the next plot can only be played until the next day. What you can do that day is to explore the open ones. area, as well as regular activities such as catching bugs and fishing. Although the main purpose of the game is to hope that you can enjoy your leisure time, this kind of narrative that tells a little every time will make the experience somewhat fragmented.
The performance of this task makes the experience of this game like a parabola. After the process reaches a certain peak in the mid-term, the participation in the game will show a feeling of decline, and the freshness of the gameplay will also be It is becoming more and more shallow, similar to the subsequent unlocking of vegetables, all you can do is go to a fixed location to water the vegetables every day, and other tasks such as sowing do not give any room for operation, even the last one. The collection can be done by dinosaurs for you, so that in the later stage, a large part of the content in the game is relatively mechanical repetitive work, and it is difficult to find the desire to actively explore at the beginning.
As mentioned before, “Crayon Shinchan’s Summer Vacation with the Doctor” is not a work that can be played for a long time. On the premise that you don’t know much regarding the mechanism, you can complete the game flow for a week in regarding 7~10 hours. , if you want it to bring you a volume that is enough to support the game’s empty window, then obviously it does not have such strength. And in the self-justification of the plot, it also chose the most direct method of “hard explanation” or no explanation at all, just like the villagers accepted the setting of a dinosaur wandering in the village without any explanation, combined with ” Crayon Shin-chan’s own label, this narrative method is not a big problem, but for players who are accustomed to the depth of the current plot or must grasp the rationality, the confusion caused by this work may There will be a lot more answers than you can find here.
A9VG Experience Summary
Playing this game is like watching a theatrical version of “Crayon Shin-chan”. The very simple and easy-to-understand plot construction, as well as the dubbing performances full of emotions, can directly bring you back to your childhood. some followingnoon. It is like a small dream, but it contains great surprises in its simplicity. It’s just a pity that this kind of surprise will gradually fade over time, until it extends from a carefree holiday life to a story to break the cycle, if you are a fan of the IP “Crayon Shin-chan” , then I think this work must have reasons for you to start from all aspects, but if you want to have a permanent summer vacation, then this “Crayon Shinchan’s Summer Vacation with the Doctor” may be difficult to satisfy this mission.
A9VG is ” Crayon Shin-chan’s Summer Vacation with the Doctor ~Never Ending Seven-Day Trip~》Score: 7.0/10, the full score is as follows:
