Graphic evaluation of ＂Two in a Row＂： the best cooperative game in recent years

　　Two-for-two is a two-person platform adventure game created by Hazelight Studio, an independent game studio in Stockholm, Sweden, which has created Brothers: The Legend of Gemini and the first third-person action adventure cooperative game in history. On TGA, I said, "I am very happy to be here. I want to tell you that interactive games are the future and Oscar is shit!" " JosefFares, the founder and game director of the studio, once put down the rhetoric before the release of "Two in a Row", saying that if the game is not fun, it will cost 1,000 yuan. So can "Two in a Row" be as interesting as the grumpy brother JosefFares said? Let’s take a look together.

　　The story of "Two in a Row" takes place in a family that is about to split up. After Cody, the male host, and Xiaomei, the female host, told their daughter that they were going to divorce, their daughter Ross pretended to be calm and went to her room with two dolls and a book. In the warehouse, the little girl Ross asked Dr. Harkin, the author of Book of Love, to help her parents become "friends" again and shed a few tears on the doll. Then Cody and Xiaomei woke up and found themselves as dolls.

　　Dr. Harkin appeared and told them that he was a best-selling author and had helped thousands of couples. Now he will help them rekindle their love. When Cody and Xiaomei heard this, they said that they had made a decision to divorce, leaving only Dr. Harkin to talk on his own. After they learned that they were turned into dolls because of their daughter’s tears, they decided to ask her for help, so Cody and Xiaomei embarked on a wonderful adventure to find their daughter to restore her body.

　　In fact, "Two in a Row" is a kind of "conventional" story that you can guess the end when you see the beginning, but the full plot and the blunt turning point make the whole story interesting and three-dimensional. In addition, the portrayal of characters in the game is equally excellent. Cody, the strong woman Xiaomei, the overly sensible Ross, the cute bumblebee, and Dr. Harkin, who is bent on Ross’s space weather and smelly fart, all the characters are fresh in people’s minds after customs clearance. In fact, what impressed me most was the tool beetle that didn’t eat nectar in the end (laughs).

　　▲ Tool Man (Beetle)

　　The game size of 50G makes this work have a sub-era picture level. Compared with the realistic picture of the previous work Escape from Birth, this work is more cartoon-like. If you play with a girl, I believe she will fall in love with this painting style at first sight. The only unfriendly thing may be the light pollution in the kaleidoscope level.

　　▲ Light pollution under kaleidoscope.

　　Cody and Xiaomei have to go through seven checkpoints, such as their own warehouse, the big trees in the courtyard, the corroded garden and the snow ball of their first love, on the way to find their bodies. In addition to different themes, players have different abilities in these levels. For example, in the early stage of the game, Xiaomei has the ability of hammerhead, and Cody can throw nails. If she wants to pass the far platform, Xiaomei needs Cody’s nail ability.

　　Among many abilities, the most creative one is the soldier’s armor and magic hat in the toy house. When Xiaomei puts on the armor and Cody puts on the magic hat, the game instantly becomes a bird’s-eye view RPG. Xiaomei becomes a warrior who can chop in a whirlwind, Cody becomes a mage who can teleport, and at the same time, the damage suffered by the enemy becomes a numerical expression. At that time, I was shocked. I called this game. Can it still be played like this?

　　In addition to the design of the BOSS battle in the level game, it is also very distinctive. For example, the easiest BOSS vacuum tower in the first level requires one person to inhale the weight emitted by the vacuum tower through a pipe, so that one person can control the trajectory to cause harm to BOSS. In the naval battle of the toy house, BOSS needs two people to control the direction of the toy boat and fire shells at the same time. It’s a two-person cooperative game. One person can’t handle BOSS.

　　Although the game has so many changeable abilities and level designs, it can be said that it is very close to the people in terms of difficulty. When one player dies, the game won’t end, and the dead player can be resurrected by pressing the Y key, and there are many archive points in the game, just one archive point in each stage of the BOSS war, so as long as the teammates have some game basics, they can pass the customs. To say that some difficult levels in the game are to escape from the squirrel by plane, because the direction is the opposite when controlling the plane.

　　Under the excellent level design, there are many interactive elements, such as the power supply in the shed can be used to pit each other. After one person enters the cannon in the toy house, another person can shoot it at the stars. Besides, you can also break Ross’s piggy bank in the toy house. When the snow ball is skating, you can also have a snowball fight with your friends in the game.

　　▲ The previous egg "Escape from Birth".

　　In the game, there is no common collection to embarrass everyone, instead, there are small games hidden in various chapters. These small games cover pixel games, music games, chess and other fields, among which the small game of swinging and long jump in the garden checkpoint reminds me that my childhood friends also had the same operation. Compared with other games that need to find collectibles, this design makes players less boring when playing two-week watch.

　　▲ The action is dangerous, so do not imitate it.

　　Are there any shortcomings in such a good game? If you want to insist, there is still some. This shortcoming is that the game itself does not provide AI teammates, but only two people can play. The game not only supports local two-person online, but also supports online remote fun. Different from other cooperative games, as long as one person buys the game, another person can play it in Bai Piao, but players in Bai Piao can’t unlock the achievements.

　　On the whole, "Two in a Row" is the best two-person cooperative game in recent years. With its unique levels and rich content, this game has a high praise of 95% on steam. In the world of "Two in a Row", you can pit each other with your lover, or Qi Xin can work together to tide over the difficulties. I believe that at the end of the game, besides the relationship between Xiaomei and Cody being repaired, the relationship between you and your lover will also heat up. What? You don’t have a girlfriend? Then here I sincerely hope that you can find a playmate soon.