Chapter 159 63 Is Surprisingly Good

Chapter 159 63. Surprisingly good

In June, Tokyo is extremely hot.

Qing Zhiyuan and Tsuda Nao were eating ice cream in a cold drink shop. While Tsuda Nao was savoring the sweet taste, she looked at the man in front of her with a fox-eyed smile.

"Isn't this something to be expected? I thought you had already prepared for it."

When hearing about pokeni’s new work “The Witcher”, Nao Tsuda naturally asked.

Qing Zhiyuan's brows furrowed severely, "Ah, hey, please don't say such things, okay?"

Who would have thought that it would have such a negative impact?

"So, even if many famous directors no longer make movies, in order to train new talents and let the company continue to make money, they will be hired as supervisors or something." Tsuda Nao sighed and looked at Qing Zhiyuan, thinking this guy was funny and quite pitiful. , “I didn’t expect you to retreat so completely.

At least Furuhara Chunqiu can be a supervisor in the new work.

Or let Furuhara Chunqiu come out to support Shinji Mikami, cheer him up, etc., which can restore some popularity. "

Qing Zhiyuan frowned and said nothing.

Gu Yuan Chunqiu retreated quite completely, which could be considered as his inexperience.

The main reason is that the operating methods of Chinese companies and Neon in the previous life were completely different. The [producer] effect did not exist at all. Players just followed the company. Who would know who the producer of "Genshin Impact" was?

Not to mention the penguin series.

The producer also found it embarrassing to have his name out there.

So whether the game makes money or is famous, it all belongs to the company.

But Neon's game environment means that the influence of the producer is very important. Players do not follow the company itself. Without this producer, the popularity will basically decrease.

It was the inertial thinking that led Qing Zhiyuan to let [Gu Yuan Chunqiu] retire too early and too completely, and it is useless to take regret medicine now.

And he had nothing to regret. Gu Yuan Chunqiu was a vest that Qing Zhiyuan wanted to discard a long time ago.

"But having said that, when do you want Furuhara Chunqiu to return?" Nao Tsuda asked curiously.

She took out a small mouthful of ice cream with a spoon and put it in her mouth to sip, her eyes twinkling.

"I...I have no such plan." Qing Zhiyuan said.

I'm not Hayao Miyazaki, how could Furuhara Chunqiu have such a big influence?

"Tsk, tsk."

Tsuda Nao said she didn’t believe it.

"It's really not easy to train a famous producer." She curled her lips, "Why don't we let Chunqiu Furuhara come to work at DUN?"

"ha?"

"Have you forgotten that you promised me before that you would be our consultant and guide?" Tsuda Nao's eyes curled into crescent moons. She really sounded a bit like the [Miss Moon] in Qing Zhiyuan's mouth, "The team is fast The formation is completed.

I think this is just right, since Furuhara Chunqiu is no longer in pokeni.

Why can't I just hire him? "

"Ah hey!" Qing Zhiyuan's face froze, "Please don't say such terrible things, okay?"

I just abandoned Gu Yuan Chunqiu because I didn’t want to be thrown into the sea. Didn’t you just drag Gu Yuan Chunqiu into the sea by doing this?

Can we still get ashore properly?

…

"meet on Monday."

"meet on Monday."

"If you have bought "The Witcher", please be sure to tell me your experience so that I can decide whether to buy it or not."

"Hey, why aren't you the one experiencing it?"

"Haha, just kidding. Anyway, everyone has a good weekend. See you on Monday."

"on Monday."

After get off work, Furukawa Haoze exchanged greetings with his colleagues and walked home with his briefcase.

Before I knew it, three years had passed.

And he has worked in this company for nearly 8 years.

It stands to reason that Furukawa Hirose should be in a management position now, or his salary should be doubled, and he should be sent to Europe or more developed countries to develop markets.

But……

Nothing at all.

Everyone lives a repetitive life every day.

Get up in the morning, go to the company from home, grab a croissant and black coffee from the breakfast shop downstairs, go to the mail room to pick up a newspaper, take it to your workstation, and then start your day's schedule.

Stay up until you get home from get off work and continue the cycle.

There has been no change in his position. Furukawa is still a civilian employee, doing data statistics and printing common reports, including information about his partners and customers. Until now, there has been no change in the past three years.

Furukawa can almost memorize these contents.

The same goes for printed things. Just change the title and date and you can use them again.

In this era of gradual solidification of social classes, especially after the bursting of the bubble economy, young people can hardly see any hope of rising. It is already very good to be alive.

In some newspapers, experts call this phenomenon [stagnation]

Neon has entered an era of stagnation, just like a pool of stagnant water, unable to make any waves.

However, no one knows how long this stagnation period will last and what the meaning of our existence is.

In such an era, what is the meaning of life?

…

Ah~

Can't think.

Furukawa Hirose shook his head. Once he thinks about the "meaning of existence", he really loses the "meaning of existence".

This is a very terrible contradiction.

Just like what the president often says -

When you seriously want to make money and think about the meaning of making money, you will not make money.

The direction of making money and what you want to do are contradictory things.

Furukawa couldn't understand this sentence before, but now he finally has some understanding.

But……

There is another paradox here, that is -

The less you want to think about it, the more it will pop into your mind.

For example, the meaning of life.

Why do we live and work like this every day?

How hopeless life must be when you can see the end of it at a glance.

At least among our parents’ generation, no, not to mention the previous generation, even in the bubble economy era five years ago, everyone would feel that every day in the future is a brand new day.

Have great vision for the future.

Live a very practical and happy life every day, even if it is as false as a bubble.

Unfortunately, that dream was too short-lived.

Arriving at the door of the game store on the corner, Furukawa Hirose stopped.

I stared at the sign for a long time.

There is a large poster posted on the glass door of the store.

It's pokeni's new work "The Witcher"

He finally realized something -

Games are the biggest changes that have occurred in this world and in established life.

He can experience different lives, different stories and different futures in the game.

Only the moment he held the game controller did he feel alive.

It’s not that Furukawa Hirosawa is a complete nihilist, but because of the coldness and order of reality, he can only seek change and comfort in other places.

This is caused by the general environment of the times. If you have no way to change your life and destiny, why not get a new experience in the game.

What about a chance to do it again?

In life, the most fearful thing is the lack of change and the possibility of change. Once the future is certain, then this person will live to the end.

After leaving Gu Yuan Chunqiu's game, there was not even that single change in his life.

Furukawa Haoze hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to go in.

who cares.

Furukawa Hirose thought.

I also want to give pokeni a chance.

It would be too cruel to lose confidence in pokeni just because Chunqiu Furuhara is no longer around.

It’s not too late to spray again after you’ve finished the experience.

…

When he saw Furukawa Hirose, a look of surprise flashed on the store manager's face.

He adjusted his glasses with his hands and smiled.

"Huh? You came a little late this time."

The store manager is also an old acquaintance. He has a certain understanding of Furukawa Hirose, at least in terms of games.

This person has never missed a pokeni game in the past three years. Even if he didn't get Pokémon at the beginning, he later paid for it.

However, this time "The Witcher" has been released for a while, and I haven't seen Furukawa Hirosawa, which is really strange.

"Feel sorry."

Furukawa Haoze nodded slightly.

“I haven’t been able to make up my mind whether to buy The Witcher or not.”

"OK, I understand."

The store manager nodded.

"But, I can guarantee it."

He raised his right hand and said with a smile, "The Witcher is definitely worth buying. You won't be disappointed."

"Huh? Really?"

Furukawa Haoze suddenly became interested.

…

After returning home with the game box in his arms, Furukawa Haoze took out the game console from the cabinet, reinstalled it, and inserted the cassette.

The packaging of "The Witcher" is very exquisite.

Opening it is like opening a very expensive gift.

Although it was not produced by Chunqiu Furuhara, it was still written by Gen Urobuchi.

Maybe there will be a surprise?

…

When the game started, the pokeni logo that he was very familiar with appeared on the TV.

When Qing Zhiyuan designed it, he probably never thought that one day he would break up with Rentian Tiantang, so he used red and white designs, and it looked very friendly.

Now that I have gotten used to it, the font has been changed several times, but the color has remained fixed.

After pokeni appeared, the entire scene went dark.

A pair of scarlet eyes suddenly opened.

Followed by a bloody mouth.

Furukawa Haoze was almost shocked.

My fingers trembled.

The entire interface suddenly changed. The background was a city full of futuristic technology. To the right of the center was the silhouette of a girl with a graceful figure.

Corresponding to it is a young man wearing a leather jacket back to back.

The connecting line between the two people forms a zigzag S-shaped outline, which is outlined to become a dividing interface.

The left part is the big "The Witcher" LOGO.

A line of small characters at the bottom reads: pokeni/1993

Although it was originally a dark game for Hirosawa Furukawa, the initial interface was not as dark as expected.

On the contrary, in the entire interface, except for the black clothes worn by the male and female protagonists, the background is brightly colored.

I have to say that pokeni’s original painting designers really have two brushes.

Horrible things, or things that can really shock people in the heart, should not be expressed through the conventional dark tones. The bright background contrast will leave a deeper impression on other elements.

It's like a big tree suddenly appears in the desert, and the whole world becomes full of life.

And all your eyes and focus will be focused on that big green tree.

This is game psychology.

Qing Zhiyuan has already studied it thoroughly.

…

Choose a new game and start.

The opening animation started playing on the screen.

Strictly speaking, it is far from the level of cartoons. It can only be regarded as similar to the way of dynamic pictures and text in Pokeni Diablo 1.

This set of pokeni has been used quite skillfully.

Hirokawa Furukawa has played so many galgames and now he accepts this way of expression.

[This is a world where vampires and humans coexist.

Two creatures, the wolf and the sheep, fight each other to survive.

The vampires possess powerful physical strength, even beyond the limits of human imagination.

Although humans are still lingering, they have also developed their own weapons.

Use technology to counterattack the Vampires.

Both sides are fighting for it.

time continues

Demon hunters, on the other hand, are special beings who naturally fight against vampires. 】

These parts are all displayed through hand-drawn static pictures. The pictures are slightly sloppy, but inexplicably full of epic feeling and desolation...

After the credits, the heroine appears in the center of the screen.

She has long silver hair, delicate facial features, and a long bright red scarf around her neck, which contrasts sharply with the long silver hair.

There are very few clothes on the upper body, like a pair of leather bikini armor that only covers the key parts.

The waist is slender, and the lower body has an asymmetric skirt. The back is similar to a tuxedo, but the two back hems are very long.

The two thighs are straight and slender, each wearing a pair of white boots full of technology.

In addition to the 2D characters walking on the large map, a vertical drawing of the character will also appear on the right side of the entire screen during dialogue.

The vertical painting is a pure refined painting, which looks very attractive and the details are also in place.

Tsk tsk.

The original artist of pokeni is really excellent as always.

You know players too well, right?

These girls are getting more and more sophisticated.

Furukawa Haoze only took one look and felt that this game was not simple.

In terms of style, "The Witcher" is different from all pokeni's games, whether it is the dark European and American style "Diablo", or the beautiful and fresh two-dimensional game like "Your Name"...

neither.

The Witcher is more like a product created out of thin air, somewhere between Diablo and Your Name.

Or rather a fusion of them.

And what is integrated is each other’s strengths.

Aesthetically, it is closer to Orientals, with delicate faces, rich colors, and a two-dimensional comic style.

However, in terms of the elements used and the world background, it is biased towards the West.

It has both Western mythology and futuristic urban science and technology.

This thing is like a suture monster. Once the suture is not done well, it can easily become a terrifying monster.

But pokeni has done a very good job, and the game style is well integrated. It can even be said to be unique. It directly creates a unique style, and it is so natural that you will not think carefully about what it has. Gene】

How did it come about.

"Huh? It's surprisingly good."

Furukawa Hirose thought.

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