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 gaplay?”
“It looks so good, how could it be real gaplay? Where are the mosaics?”
“What’s the difference between this and high quality cinematics? Are you lying to again Chen Mo?”
The ridian Gate of the Forbidden City was the first shot in the video.
The cara went under the gates, over the Jinshui Bridge, arriving at Taihe Gate.
The cara Zood in to reveal a stone lion was built using blocks. Although it was mosaic-like, it looked exactly like a stone lion.
The cara went over white jade stairs. Although the dragon sculpture on the middle of the stairs wasn’t perfectly recreated, the general shape of it was there.
Many cuts followed to show details of the buildings.
Glorious roof tiles.
The plaque in the centre.
Lanterns on the side.
Serene forest and pavilions.
As well as the interior of the palace.
Beds, desks, cushions, incense burner, bonsai...
The cara panned to the Hall of Supre Harmony, with the nine dragon screen, and the golden throne was in the middle of the screen.
Many different cuts from different angels followed alongside a Chinese background music to reveal many more details of the Forbidden City.
Finally, the cara banned backwards, the doors to the city closed, and the music fades out.
But the cinematic hadn’t ended.
There was a smaller scene at the end revealing a tilapse of the build.
From the foundations, to the red pillars, shiny glass tiles... showing the entire build process.
The players watching had their eyes and mouth wide open the entire ti.
Chen Mo’s Weibo was also shared countless tis, with more and more comnts under it.
“Get this docuntary out of my face...”
“Was this really built in Minecraft?”
“My mom asked why I was watching a video on my knees.”
“Chen Mo’s an architectural genius! Have my knees!”
“I heard there’s a palace in real life that recreated this pretty well.”
“I’m interested in this ga now! Can you really recreate the entire Forbidden City? That ans it’s going to work for other buildings too?”
“It’s so detailed! Although you could tell it’s made of blocks, it looks so good I might just lick the screen!”
“Is this hard to make? I imagine if you gave ... a hundred thousand years I could do it to.”
“It’s probably quite difficult, but it’s only fun if it is!”
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It wasn’t so special large scaled promotion, but just from one Weibo and video, the hashtags #Minecraft and #ForbiddenCity was now trending!”
The video also gained more and more views.
And the way this gained popularity was not the sa as Gokuraku Jodo.
Gokuraku Jodo gained popularity from the ACG community, then slowly spread to everyone else.
But this Forbidden City video gained its popularity though the recomndation algorithm and news outlets.
This was treated as the biggest news of the day in the gaming section of news outlets, as they were shared everywhere.
It was even read out on the news. Many who weren’t into videogas heard about Minecraft and how soone built the forbidden city in ga.
This wasn’t like the usual advertisents. The video caught the eyes of many and was filled with Chinese culture. This tickled the fancy of many traditional dia as it piqued the interest of many non-gars.
And the na Minecraft beca a familiar word among the people.
“Chen Mo made Forbidden City in Minecraft” was a topic that was gone over and over again. It even looked like it could overtake Thousand Hells.
It was a trending topic for a whole week.
Just as the buzz was dying out after two weeks, Chen Mo released another Weibo.
“Minecraft: Recreated Yuanmingyuan Park (Sumr Palace). Note: Still actual gaplay.”
Another one?
It has only been two weeks since the release or Forbidden City, and you release another one already? It’s Yuanmingyuan Park at that!
The video gained even more popularity with the help of Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was an actual building, but Yuanmingyuan Park had been destroyed agest ago with only a stretch of wall left.
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 so text.
“There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this wonder was called the Sumr Palace.
“Imagine so inexpressible construction, sothing like a lunar building, and you will have the Sumr Palace
“Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze and porcelain, fra 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, enal 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 Sumr Palace by the British and French forces. This description about the Old Sumr Palace in this passage beca a classic piece of classic description, rembered by countless people.
The text faded away to reveal the map of Yuanmingyuan Park.
The cara 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 Sumr Palace and found a special portal.
They jumped into the portal and were transported to another world.
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