"Salt and Sanctuary" is a world rated as 2D Dark Souls. To be precise, it is a Castlevania-like Souls game. It has an impressive gloomy style and what Hongcheng said is "Gnostic".
the core of the "socialist world".
Lu Zhengkang frowned and recalled his gaming experience. He had completed more than 20 rounds of this crappy game "Salt and Sanctuary" in his previous life, and the map was more familiar to him than his own. However, it was only in this lifetime that he truly understood this game.
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The narrative of Souls games is obscure. For example, the game "Dark Souls" can be briefly described as: Passing Fire. The game "Salt and Sanctuary" is simply about escaping from the deadly island.
The player plays the role of a member of the ship escorting Kazuchika's team. He is attacked by a pirate group and the sea monster Silent Abyss at sea. The ship sinks. Then the protagonist wakes up on the coast of an unnamed island. The island is full of resurrected dead, and the island stands
Buildings from all over the world, various biographies, and legendary monsters reside here. All players have to do is kill monsters and upgrade them all the way. The experience value in the game is "salt", and the safe house in the game is a "shelter"
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The creatures on the island are all made of salt, including the game character played by the player. Killing the creatures will drop salt. Being killed by the enemy will also drop all the salt carried by the enemy, and it will be picked up by the monster that kills you.
Only by returning from the map and killing the murderer can you get your salt back. This huge punishment mechanism is also one of the "inner flavors" of Souls games.
In the sanctuary, players can worship idols and sacrifice with salt to obtain black pearls, and then use black pearls to unlock skill trees and upgrade character attributes and skills.
The skill tree in the game is very complex and very flexible. The main professions can be divided into warrior, priest, mage, thief and hunter.
Warriors can be subdivided into: one-handed swordsmen, great swordsmen, one-handed hammer warriors, giant hammer warriors, hand ax berserkers, giant ax warriors, and shield warriors.
The priest is an auxiliary profession, which can restore life, bless weapons, holy strikes, etc., and is a panacea.
Mages are divided into elemental mages and dark magic mages. Elemental mages, also known as skyfire mages, master the power of thunder and fire. Dark magic mages use corrupted arcane spells. Although they are powerful, they will extremely weaken their own resistance. It is very difficult to face the enemy.
Easy to die suddenly.
The thief has a flexible body, uses daggers as weapons, and combined with fire guns, the output is considerable and the movements are cool, but the operation is slightly difficult.
Hunters use whips, crossbows, muskets, bows, etc., and their presence is very low. They overlap greatly with thieves, so there is nothing to say.
According to the matching of different professional branches and the different beliefs enshrined, many schools can be produced. The most famous one is naturally the Great Sword and Giant Hammer style. After all, this game is also known as "Big Sword and Golden Wine". Reasonable selection of weapons can greatly reduce the cost of the game.
Game difficulty.
No matter which angle you look at it, players who know Dark Souls will have a strong sense of familiarity with Salt and Sanctuary.
However, the spiritual core of the two games is different. Dark Souls expresses more of a spiral decline process: in the first generation, the fire can be said to be for the continuation of the world, but in the second generation, the flames have become more and more intense.
Weak, by the third generation, the first fire is dying, and the world is inevitably falling into darkness.
Salt and Sanctuary embody very profound, so-called Gnostic thought.
Although Lu Zhengkang no longer has a system, the knowledge and skills he developed in the study space have not disappeared. He originally consulted a large number of metaphysical and philosophical documents in order to explore the unscientific mysterious alchemy, so he was very interested in Gnosticism.
Theories with deep historical roots are not unfamiliar to the West.
Gnosticism, also known as Nusticism, people of this school believe in a kind of secret wisdom called "Gnoss" that is related to salvation, a kind of spiritual intuitive gnosis, unknowable and unspeakable, different from
Logos of reason.
Regarding the true origin of Gnosticism, it is relatively certain that it originated from Christianity and has been a relatively heretical doctrine for a long time. "The Gospel of Thomas" writes: "He took Thomas aside and told him two things.
When he returned to his companions, they asked him, 'What did Jesus say to you?'
"Thomas answered and said to him, If I tell you one of the things that the Lord has told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me, and fire will come out of the stones and consume you."
This story is similar to the origin of Zen Buddhism, which is the famous "Buddha picked up flowers and Kasyapa smiled". The wonderful method of Zen Buddhism is to impress the heart with the heart and not to be transmitted orally. Gnostic theory also advocates this kind of wonder.
Ineffable divinity.
In their dualistic worldview, the present world where all things exist and evolve is a prison, and the so-called Creator is the lord of the prison, the evil god who imprisons the "true self", and everyone in the world comes from the other side, the world of light, the other side.
There is the true ultimate God, origin and belonging, The Unkhe Alion God, The Nameless...
All souls in the world have been abandoned in this vicious, lonely, hopeless and twisted prison world. This despicable attitude towards the world is so strong that even grand creations like stars have been abandoned by North.
Substitutionism believes that humans are lower-level creatures than humans. Although they deserve respect, they are nothing more than tyrants.
In this world, the first dilemma is the body of flesh and blood, which binds the gnosis, spirit, soul, and true self. After entering the body, it will be bound by time, space and suffering in the world, causing the true self to slowly forget its hometown and eternity.
Reincarnation in this prison. Therefore, Enos must overcome all obstacles and return to his hometown.
In Gnostic teachings, the body withers, the spirit dissipates, and falls into nothingness is not considered death. It believes that we are trapped in the body, and our existence in this world itself is "death". Only by breaking away from the duality of the body and the world
Prison, returning to the home world of light is "life". The death of the body will not bring about the release of the soul, but the soul will immediately be put into the cage of another body, and the reincarnation will never end.
, unless you suddenly realize that North is practicing and break away from it.
This is also similar to the idea of suffering in the human world and reincarnation proposed by Buddhism.
In the cage world, it is not just the body that prevents the true soul from returning home, but also the obstacles of time and space, as well as the malice in the cage. Those evil spirits and even the prison lord Demiurge himself are also obstacles.
In the game "Salt and Sanctuary", the player is trapped on an unnamed island, which symbolizes being trapped in a prison. The body is born of salt, and is a descendant of salt. It is the spirit from the outside world that is imprisoned in the body of salt.
, the salt people are all remnants of dying, which also means that they have been trapped in the island and will eventually be assimilated by the island and enter true and complete death.
The island lacks color and is mostly gloomy, close to black and white. The world outside the island is vivid and real. The final BOSS is the nameless Demuge, the prison lord. The characters in the game rely on their devout faith to
After receiving salvation, dedicating salt, and obtaining the black pearl may be a symbol of Noth.