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莫拉夫的世界
Moraff's World

Moraffware, 1991
MS-DOS

Moraffware, 1991
MS-DOS

90 年代能接触到网络的 CRPG 粉丝可能对史蒂夫・莫拉夫(Steve Moraff)制作的某款游戏有所印象:《莫拉夫的复仇》(Moraff's Revenge,1988)、《莫拉夫的世界》(Moraff's World,1991)或《莫拉夫的无情地牢》(Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven,1993)——这三款都是当时以共享软件的方式流传甚广的地牢探险游戏。

《莫拉夫的世界》是其中最为著名的一款游戏,但其实这三款游戏的玩法都相差无几,只是画质得到了逐步提升。说是这么说,这个系列的上限也就是画图板风格的简陋美术了。

CRPG fans that had access to the Internet in the 90s might have seen one of Steve Moraff's games: Moraff's Revenge (1988), Moraff's World (1991) and Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven (1993), a trio of widely distributed shareware dungeon crawlers.

Moraff's World is the best-known, but they all offer basically the same gameplay, with incremental graphical upgrades. Regardless, the series never goes beyond a crude Microsoft Paint-like art style.

《莫拉夫的世界》的罕见特色之一就是它支持 12 种不同的图像模式,从 4 色的 CGA 模式到 256 色的 SVGA 模式应有尽有,因此游戏几乎可以在任何电脑上运行。

Moraff's World has a rare trait: it supports 12 different video modes, from 4 colour CGA all the way to 256 colour SVGA, which made it easy to run in any computer.

战斗是回合制的,非常简单。战士只能攻击,但魔法师就有超过 100 种咒语可供选用。

Combat is turn-based and very simple. Fighters can only attack, but magic users have over 100 spells at their disposal.

地牢的地图是随机生成的,特别巨大。游戏有时候会提示特殊的怪物在什么位置,但找到方向是一项异常艰巨的任务。

Dungeon floors are random and massive. The game gives tips on the location of special enemies, but navigating towards them is a big challenge.

莫拉夫出品的游戏最大的特色在于它同时展现了四个方向的第一人称画面:你随时都能查看自己东、南、西、北方的情况。没有所谓的“朝向”——你可以朝任意方向攻击,按下左键会让你的角色向左走而不是转向左边。

游戏的玩法差不多是 rougelike 游戏和《巫术(Wizardry)》的融合。首先是创建角色,有八个种族和七个职业可供选择,然后你就能一头扎进巨大的随机生成地牢去探险了。战斗会获得经验,回城则可以治疗、升级、购买更好的装备。

道具和怪物的种类寥寥无几,但随着你逐步尝试深入地牢,努力平衡风险和收益,你会发现这游戏竟然意外地令人上瘾。游戏本身也没有什么剧情或者目的,但有些楼层会有简单的提示,比如“向东走”或者“向北走”,跟着指示可以去狩猎持有财宝的怪物。

整个游戏里设计得最精妙的正是这些楼层。每一层的地图都太大了,还有无数的隐藏坑洞,踩上去就会一掉几层,种种原因导致你很难去辨别方向。你得转换成三维的思路,借助上一层和下一层的构造,一步一步找到目标。《莫拉夫的世界》的共享软件版本中一共有四个这样的任务,分别在第四层、第八层、第十二层和第十六层。

而在正式版中,竟一共有 200 个这样的任务楼层!这不仅让游戏变得重复性极强,还在某种程度上破坏了游戏平衡。角色发展因此停滞不前,战斗系职业变得完全没用了,因为只有依靠咒语才能快速上下楼层、传送、治疗、施法,从会吸取等级的怪物手中保护自己。

在那个电脑还是新奇事物,像是《创世纪(Ultima)》那样零售贩卖的 RPG 游戏还很昂贵的年代,莫拉夫的游戏门槛很低、关卡仿佛无穷无尽。也许,正确看待这类游戏(以及许多类似的 90 年代以共享软件传播的游戏)的方式是把它们比作现在的手游或者页游——有人可能会说这些根本不是“真正”的游戏,但它们确实受众广泛。可能比起那些所谓的经典之作,玩过这些游戏的人还要更多一些。

What really stands out in Moraff's games is the four-way first-person view: you constantly see what's North, South, East and West of you. There's no “facing” – you can attack in any direction, and pressing the left arrow key moves you left, instead of turning.

Gameplay is a blend of roguelikes and Wizardry. You create a character, choosing from eight races and seven classes, then delve into an enormous, randomly generated dungeon. You battle, gather XP and return to town to heal, level up and buy better equipment.

There's little variety in items or monsters, but it still makes for a surprisingly addictive loop, as you try to go as deep as possible, balancing risk and reward. There's no real story or goal either, but there are floors where you can hunt a monster that holds a treasure, following simple hints like “Go East” or “Go North”.

These floors are the game at its best. The sheer size of each floor and the countless hidden pits that drop you a few floors make navigation very tricky. You'll have to think three-dimensionally, using the floors above and below to move towards your goal. The shareware version of Moraff's World offers four of these hunts, on the 4th, 8th, 12th and 16th floors.

The registered version, however, has 200 floors! Not only does this become insanely repetitive, but it breaks parts of the game. Character progression stagnates and Fighters becomes useless, as spells are mandatory to quickly ascend and descent floors, teleport, heal, enchant and protect yourself from level-draining monsters.

In an age when computers were still novel and retail RPGs like Ultima were expensive, Moraff's games were accessible and seemingly endless. Perhaps the best way to understand them (and many 90s sharewares) is to compare them with mobile or browser-based games – some discard them as not “real” games, yet they are widely played, often more than acclaimed classics.

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