introduction
I have been seeing fans for many years, I used to mix it up, saw Jiujiu released, and I felt angry and returned. I felt this way. I wrote this article and wrote it to myself. Welcome to discuss.
1. Classification of games
First of all, according to my understanding, the games of the chainsaw series can be divided into the following categories:
(1) Single person participation
The most basic, most game way, save yourself within the specified time. There are many examples, such as sawing 1 lamp oil password, sawing 2 eyeball keys, sawing 3 tearing angels and so on.
For game results, they can generally be divided into two categories:
① The games designed by Mr. Jigsaw himself (including those co-designed with Dr. Gordon and Saw 8 Logan) are basically alive, such as the first Amanda's veteran version of the jaw ripper. However, the difficulty of single-player games is basically at the ceiling level, and the water is too deep for ordinary people to grasp.
② The games designed by disciples such as Amanda and Hoffman (Second Uncle) are basically dead ends, such as the explosive chains at the beginning of the third part and the V-shaped pendulum at the beginning of the fifth part.
Of course, there are also people who were forced to survive by me, such as police officer Matthew who smashed his feet at the beginning of saw 3, Xiao Si who saw 5 water tanks and intubation tubes, and second uncle who saw 6 cracked mouths (I would like to call these three series series The strongest, chainsaw MVP. But it's not a game to be precise, it's just a joke).
(2) Double participation
Divided into support and confrontation.
Auxiliary: It is usually a link in the single-player big clearance game, mainly in Saw 3, Saw 4, Saw 6 and Saw 7. Usually, the protagonist of customs clearance helps the game object to get out of the game. The protagonist of customs clearance generally does not directly participate in the game, and does not bear the pain, such as sawing 3 Jeff's fresh juice pig pool, burning the child's relic to save the judge (crack).
Or bear the pain but not fatal, such as sawing 7 Bobbi to save the three-pronged female colleague.
But there are exceptions that are directly fatal, such as sawing 3 people and twisting the machine to take the key, and the judge was accidentally headshot (just fished out of the pig pool, it was really miserable).
Confrontation: Two people confrontation, typical life-and-death mode.
For example, at the beginning of Saw 4, you close your eyes and I will shut up, and Saw 6 begins with the Merchant of Venice. It feels that there are significantly more people who choose to survive than single-player games.
(3) Many people participate
Three-player game: There is only one in my mind, there are three tug-of-war in the window at the beginning of Saw 7, welcome to add.
multiplayer game:
The main game of Saw 5 focuses on teamwork. In the end, there are only two people left. In fact, all of them can survive.
The main game of Saw 2 and Saw 8, everyone must participate in each link, the single-player game collection version.
Saw 6 Shield Brother's Russian Roulette, the classic six-player game, the power of life and death is in the hands of Shield Brother.
Second, talk about the game design of Saw 9
Okay, after finishing the classification, let's talk about the game design of the film "Saw 9: Vortex".
There are a total of five mainline games in this film (the fresh skinned one should be disguised as a game according to the plot), three single-player games, and two double-player auxiliary games, which are:
Tongue pulling on rails, finger pulling in electric bath, broken ridge in oil, glass flying knife, humanoid doll
Let's talk about it separately.
(1) Pull out the tongue of the rail
A typical chainsaw appetizer with a strong sawn flavor. The game design is more reasonable, the educational significance is profound (mistaken), and it uses its own gravity to break or escape (thought it was bitten before the release?).
It's a pity that there was no cute little Billy on the TV before the game, and it was replaced with a pig's head mask. Because it was a pure imitation, the familiar voice was gone, and I missed the old man.
How to control the time when Bosch wakes up is a big problem. Generally, the interval between each subway is very short, and the installation of the device also takes time, so it may be the first train.
(2) Electric bath to pull fingers
The mouth bites to control the motor, and the ten fingers are pulled off, and the bath water continues to rise until it contacts the conductor and is electrified.
To be honest, this game is not very effective, and it reminds me of the body test sitting and forward bending.
According to the usual jigsaw mode, after waking up, you should find that your body can't move, your hands are already in a fixed state, then your body is soaked in water, then you start watching TV, and then the motor starts. It doesn't give you time to think at all, and Ollie will give it when you come up.
The foreplay of this game is too long, there is no thrill of direct start, and the game in the whole movie has no soul countdown, and the sense of urgency is less than a little bit.
BUG: Just mentioned, the hands and body are not fixed at the beginning, and it seems to be able to move flexibly. So you can just climb out of the water and climb to the edge of the bathtub without having to bite the starter motor at all.
(3) Oil stuffy broken ridge
The game borrows from waterboarding, except that the water is replaced with hot wax oil, and the spinal cord (spinal cord, spinal cord/spine) needs to be cut as soon as possible, otherwise it will suffocate.
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It feels like a dead end game. First of all, how do you judge whether the spinal cord is cut? Then even if it is cut off, the hot oil stops, and it will suffocate after it solidifies. Angie is miserable.
(4) Glass flying knife
Two-player assist game. Peter was hung on the table full of glass slag below (saw 2-pin pool felt coming), and behind it was the Internet celebrity smasher that smashed everything (saw 3 pig pool felt coming), and he needed to find the key as soon as possible to unlock the chain.
It can be seen in the video that the main hitting range of the glass throwing knife is on the back, and it is basically not within the hitting range below the buttocks and above the neck, so in this case, Peter turned sideways, Zeke stood in front of Peter and put the iron trash can. Blocking behind Peter should be able to effectively avoid the damage of glass fragments. However, Peter walked the world with thin blood, and in that case, it should be difficult for ordinary people to think of self-help methods (including the electric bath in front), basically doing what they say.
But having said that, the same police officers, Saw 5 Xiaosi and Saw 6 second uncle can save themselves in a very emergency situation, so the one in this part can't do it.
(5) Humanoid doll
It is also an auxiliary game, and it also comes with hidden levels (not about martial arts). This kind of game is over, and the laser watermelon head is counted as one at the end of the saw 8. You think it is over, but in fact hehehe.
Chief Majafak was hanged for bloodletting, which reminded me of the last game of Saw 5, where the bloodletting used gravity to press down the jar to clear the level. Here the chief is simply bled. The Tianjian Bureau should be angry to save people at this moment (mistakenly).
After being rescued by Zeke, the police officers assembled and turned around. The director saw the dagger and was manipulated to raise his right hand. The operation was as fierce as a tiger, which directly stimulated the effect of emptying the magazine.
Ah, this is a very distinctive feature... I won't comment too much here. However, this situation similar to the imminent game between the two sides also appeared at the end of Saw 3 and Saw 4.
(6) Saw 9 game summary
To make a summary of several games in this film, the overall lack of novelty, not amazing enough.
The film focuses more on the brutal and bloody details than on the portrayal of life and death games, such as the body block beside the railway track (can it really be broken by the train), the big tongue floating in the air and The skinning plot (it feels completely reduced to the plasma film style here, which is completely different from the dissection of the old man in the depressing tone of Saw 4).
3. Games with a sense of design in the series
Finally, let's take a look at the games that I think have a [design sense] in the whole series. Only a part of them are listed. Welcome to add them.
(1) Mosquito coil blade (saw 8)
The spiral blade that gradually tightens in the funnel shape is very scary, and even I think the spiral blade game fits the theme of Saw 9 more.
(2) Tear Angel (saw 3, saw 4)
Although it is a dead end game, it is really terrifying and amazing at first glance, and the whole device reveals an extremely strange beauty.
(3) Jaw ripper (saw 1, saw 6, saw 7)
The most classic device, divided into new and old, the new is small and flexible, and the old is classic and heavy. The effect is just now (saw sister RIP).
(4) Human body twisting machine (saw 3)
Nothing to say, I personally feel that the most uncomfortable game in the entire series, the level that I don't want to watch it a second time, screenwriter Rui Sibai.
Fourth, the end
It is said that Saw 10 is also starting to prepare, but to be honest, the more you go to the back, the less the original essence, and the more you go, constantly imitating crimes and making reversals, it seems that this is a series forcibly going down Shoot the results that will appear. In 2020, I was still looking forward to Saw 9, but it was later withdrawn and postponed to this year. After reading it, I felt that as a sawn powder for many years, I could still write something.
No matter what, the lord was still green. Because I thought of the brothers who huddled together in the bedroom in the middle of the night and watched the chainsaw with MP4s, it was really exciting.
over.
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