Chapter 239 - Forbidden City
Many players who didn’t care about Minecraft clicked on the video filled with doubt.
And they were completely stunned by it.
“This is real gameplay?”
“It looks so good, how could it be real gameplay? Where are the mosaics?”
“What’s the difference between this and high quality cinematics? Are you lying to me again Chen Mo?”
The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City was the first shot in the video.
The camera went under the gates, over the Jinshui Bridge, arriving at Taihe Gate.
The camera Zoomed in to reveal a stone lion was built using blocks. Although it was mosaic-like, it looked exactly like a stone lion.
Many educational shows have tried rendering Yuanmingyuan Park in perfect condition. However, fully recreating took a lot of money for not a lot of profit, which show would make such a terrible financial decision?
It’d be a few images at most, but images will never be as realistic as a video.
Everyone knew how incredible Yuanmingyuan Park was as it was known as the park of the parks. Everybody had to imagine what it looked like, and nobody had any idea what it originally looked like.
But Chen Mo recreated the whole thing in Minecraft!
This got the players even more riled up as they couldn’t wait to watch the video.
The video started with some text.
“There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this wonder was called the Summer Palace.
“Imagine some inexpressible construction, something like a lunar building, and you will have the Summer Palace
“Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it
“Have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks.
“Suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building.
— Victor Hugo.
This was written by the French poet Victor Hugo to Captain Butler to denounce the destruction of the Old Summer Palace by the British and French forces. This description about the Old Summer Palace in this passage became a classic piece of classic description, remembered by countless people.
The text faded away to reveal the map of Yuanmingyuan Park.
The camera panned upwards to reveal Minecraft characters. It was only now that the players released the map they were looking at was in Minecraft.
The character walked to the ruins of the Old Summer Palace and found a special portal.
They jumped into the portal and were transported to another world.