+65535啊. HoMM4是咱第一个,也可能会是唯一一个文本一字不漏看完的游戏. 文笔洗练和耐人寻味程度简直突破天际. 单说和平的代价,女王和老索的心路历程都令人感同身受. 比如老索,几百年来奉行自己对马格纳斯"I shall serve you for as long as your feet walk this planet"的誓言,直到因反对"精神控制带来绝对和平"与主人分道扬镳了,还在心里拼命给主人开脱,说主人活得太长,看到人世太多纷争(灯神长寿,马格纳斯不朽永生)才会走向极端:
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Will there ever be peace? For as long as I have lived, and for as long as anyone knows, there have been wars. Even the gods fight each other. Conflict, anger, murder, hate. They are all as much a part of us as love and kindness. So, I ask you, is any price too high to obtain everlasting peace?
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(这就是点题"和平的代价":为了和平,真有过高的代价吗?)
而到大战结束,女王替老索中了一剑而瘫痪,马格纳斯因水晶被炸而脑残之后,老索满怀复杂感情写下的记录:
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Even as I write this I sit in Gavin Magnus's warm cell. He stares out the window without seeing, without even knowing where or who he is. Catatonic - for all eternity. I hope, at least, that he is at peace.
As for me, I am left with picking up the pieces and recording all that happened. I am a free man now, and it feels wonderful! May all who read my words know what it is like to be your own person, to make your own decisions.
And may you have the strength of will to find peace as well, but at a much lesser cost.
Your humble friend,
Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
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当时看到这结语,回想游戏全过程,简直感慨万千瞬间飙泪
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