Chapter 656 560pokeni Strikes Hard! ! !
If we say that pokeni in 2001 was a dormant and forbearing first half, just for the sake of hungry marketing.
Then the pokeni in 2002 hit hard.
Especially when the shadow of 1211 has not been dispelled and the world is still in the panic of the economic crisis, pokeni's combination punches are one after another.
Fully utilize the lipstick effect to the extreme.
As soon as 2002 started, Pokémon Twins' Rainbow Kingdom launched a fierce attack, harvesting the New Year's money from countless players.
Immediately afterwards, "Insect Master 2" was also launched on the Dandelion game platform.
This game, famous all over the world for its "Slow" and "Healing", has once again demonstrated its unique charm.
There are obviously no fierce battles or ups and downs in the plot. The game is more about collecting clues, catching insects, and solving puzzles...
However, it is such an open world game. You can wander back and forth in the world of people and insects, unravel the bonds between various insects and people, and people, and then experience and feel each different story. Come story game.
But it can give people the most real and soul-touching touch.
In Mushishi 1, players will be moved by the companionship of their grandmother across time in the Green Seat.
You will be moved by the fact that in Threads from the End, the male protagonist finally wakes up and remembers his wife.
Among the visitors from the sea, Daozi gradually faded away in Bai Yu's arms... and was moved by the difficult choice he made between the past he couldn't let go and the future full of hope.
All these give players the illusion that [the world of the insect master is real].
So after experiencing the baptism of Mushi Master, these players will naturally be able to gain the same touch and shock in "Mushi Master 2".
Further understanding of Mushishi’s worldview:
Humans and insects are just a part of nature. Different creatures have their own ways of survival. Even if those strange insects have different appearances and functions, they may even cause problems when they interact with humans. Strange events.
But be it insects or humans, they all strive to survive and move forward in accordance with the laws of nature.
The idea of "Heaven and Earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs" is even more expressed in the Insect Master.
This unkindness does not mean being unkind or cruel, but the opposite -
Treat everything fairly.
In a fair and natural environment, there seems to be a touch of coldness.
However, this bit of coldness has become warm because of people's hearts.
Insect Master 2 continues this theme, allowing players to be moved while still being saved. When they realize that all things are equal and the sky is indifferent, they can still feel the bond between people, and they can still feel the bond between people in this way. environment to be healed.
Maybe this is the power of the insect master.
Players, as [Yingu], experienced various aspects of life in the world of insect masters, learned about a complicated world of insects and humans, and were still moved to tears in the end.
There is no other game like this in the world.
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So Mushishi, released in February, quickly exceeded 1 million sales in the first week.
This number is still rising.
At the same time, it also attracted a wave of new users to the Dandelion gaming platform.
This is actually quite natural:
When you have enough types of games, you will naturally reach more and more people. The reason why players didn't come in before is not necessarily because they really don't like games, but maybe there just isn't enough to make them transfer. A platforming game.
Or maybe, I haven’t encountered such a Destiny-exclusive game yet.
So in this world, there will always be a group of players who exist for slow games and games like Mushi Master.
This group of players was naturally attracted.
Just like a slow variety show, no one expected that it would have such a large audience before it was made.
What pokeni has to do is nothing more than what Qing Zhiyuan envisioned——
Discover enough possibilities, and then let P Club's game tentacles continue to extend until it takes care of every different kind of game players.
It is certainly impossible for one game to satisfy all people, but as long as there are enough types of games, the number is large enough, and the themes are rich enough, there will always be one that can reach the invisible corners of players.
Just like light, pouring in slowly, making the world brighter.
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At the same time, Makoto Shinkai's new movie "Voice of the Stars" was also released in February.
It caused a huge response when it was released.
The main reason is that the pictures are so beautiful, and after Qing Zhiyuan's transformation, coupled with pokeni's technical support, Shinkai Makoto's animation has made a qualitative leap in terms of plot, narrative structure and special effects performance.
It is much fuller than the "Voice of the Stars" in the previous life.
In Voice of the Stars:
Nagamine Mikako and her classmate Terao Noboru are lovers. Every time after school, Mikako always rides Noboru's bicycle home and talks about their future on the road.
Later, Mikako was selected as the pilot of the humanoid fighter "Stalker" and set out to pursue the Tarsians with the super large mothership "Lysiteia" as the flagship.
The 14-year-old Mikako embarked on a space journey. After receiving intense and short training on Mars, she went into the battle against Tarsian.
In addition to the intense battle, using text messages to express her feelings to Asheng became a compulsory course for Mikako.
But as the pursuit distance increased, it took longer and longer to send emails, and both of them fell into a lonely wait.
Fortunately, the current Makoto Shinkai is not the Makoto Shinkai of the previous life. He does not make animations entirely for the pursuit of pictures. The experience of the past few years in Paradox has allowed him to calm down and polish the story.
So this time, "Voices of a Distant Star" is not as empty and poor as the 24-minute movie in the previous life, and it is not just about pictures.
The continuous enrichment of details, coupled with many delicate expressions and interesting plot developments, all make this work more perfect.
The 1.5-hour duration makes the audience have endless aftertastes. While being shocked by the vastness of the galaxy, they are also moved by the love between the two.
After the fierce battle of the Oort Nebula, the Earth Army, regardless of its own technical disadvantages, transferred a large range of space and time to the Sirius α and β galaxies 8.6 light years away from the Earth to pursue the remnants of the defeated Tarsian troops.
On the beautiful grassland of Sirius, the main force of Tarsian appeared above the planet and besieged the Earth Army. Mikako threw away all her emotional burdens and joined the battle.
She ignored the fact that her plane was already scarred, braved the crazy interception of the enemy's small fighters, and tried her best to engage in close combat with the enemy's warships, and finally seriously damaged the enemy's mothership.
The fragmented and powerless hunter disappeared in the universe. Mikako smiled at Sheng in tears: "Sheng, I'm here."
8 years later, the battle situation of the space expeditionary force was transmitted to the earth: the other fighters and warships involved in the melee were all destroyed and no one survived. The only "surviving" Lysithea also disappeared when it was out of energy to get rid of the pursuit.
And on this day, Asheng, who had joined the Earth Army and was about to go to the battlefield, also received a text message sent by Mikako 8 years ago.
He looked up at the blue sky and responded to his invisible lover: "Mikako, I'm here."
...
The faint touching sadness, the love across time and space, and the gorgeous galaxy are all presented to the audience.
Every frame of "Voices of a Distant Star" is so beautiful that it can be used as a desktop HD wallpaper.
It is so beautiful that it doesn't even look like an animation.
This time, not only does it continue the aesthetic style of "Your Name", but it even goes a step further, presenting the entire magnificent sea of stars in a shocking manner.
The air battle part is also quite intense and exciting, very delicate, ruthless artillery fire, strong light stimulation that penetrates the screen...
These are all done to the extreme.
Many people even think that this is almost the Star Wars in the second dimension, right?
Beautiful, magnificent, vast sea of stars...
These are the main labels of "Voices of a Distant Star".
And the love between the male and female protagonists is also very touching and yearning.
Even if they cross mountains and seas, and cross time and space, they are closely connected by relying on each other's hearts.
Then he made the most affectionate call.
The last scene made the audience cry.
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After the release of "Voices of a Distant Star", due to the influence and foreshadowing of the previous work "Your Name", the box office performance this time was quite good, and it exceeded 600 million yen in the first week.
And this number is still rising.
Many people predicted that the final landing point would be around 3 billion yen. In the history of Japanese animation, it is definitely not a particularly good result, but it is definitely not bad.
Although it did not break through the terrible box office of 20 billion yen like "Your Name", it was enough for the world to remember the name [Makoto Shinkai].
Shortly after the movie was released, many media were discussing that [Makoto Shinkai could become the successor of Hayao Miyazaki]
Miyazaki's attitude towards this was not very clear.
Considering that the movie was produced and distributed by Yuehe, he could only praise it for being well done and worthy of recognition.
He turned around and called Qing Zhiyuan.
"Yuehe's movie this time is good, but it's still far from being better than mine. You can't just stick to the expression of love.
The Voice of the Stars has such a magnificent background and a great and broad setting, but the final ending is love. Isn't it too petty?"
"Huh?"
Qing Zhiyuan said, I am so innocent, I was scolded like this.
"I see, your opinion is quite good, next time I will remind Shinkai Makoto to think more about it when making it.
Think deeply and raise the intention."
"Yes, yes!
The vision can be broader, the intention, the intention, it can be higher.
You are in the interstellar war, flying into space, can't your vision be higher?
This is not like you, Qingsang."
I...
Qing Zhiyuan said that he was speechless.
"It's really not me, Miyazaki senior," Qing Zhiyuan explained with a wry smile, "This time it was indeed produced by Shinkai Makoto himself, I just provided some opinions for reference at most."
Although it seems that there is nothing wrong with using Star Wars to express the pure love between men and women, transcending time and space, and caring about each other.
However, Qing Zhiyuan agrees with Miyazaki's statement.
You have risen to the fate of all mankind, but in the end you go to fall in love, which is a bit of a waste of talent.
Qing Zhiyuan said that we will definitely make more amazing works in the future.
Miyazaki Hayao didn't believe that this was Makoto Shinkai's work until the end, but he seemed very satisfied to hear Qing Zhiyuan's answer.
"Come on, the future of Neon animation depends on you."
Ah this...
"Senior, do you think too highly of me? What can I do?"
"Come on, I'm optimistic about you."
After that, the other party hung up the phone.
Qing Zhiyuan looked down at the phone, feeling a little amused.
But after putting down the phone, Qing Zhiyuan was shocked to find that his back was already sweating.
Oh, it seems that Makoto Shinkai still has a long way to go.
Thinking about it, maybe during the time he worked at Pokeni, he was exposed to too many galgames, which led to his path dependence on love.
Thinking also has inertia.
I should have transferred Makoto Shinkai to the Demon Hunter project team earlier.
...
"Voices of a Distant Star" is a small punch in the combination punch.
In sharp contrast,
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released worldwide in just over two weeks.
Soon, it achieved an incredible result of 160 million US dollars, and it was heading towards 300 million, 500 million, and even 1 billion US dollars.
This wave of Harry Potter movies has once again made Yuehe famous.
Aunt Rowling's books actually broke through 1 billion copies worldwide as early as last year, especially among middle school students. Almost every child in Europe and the United States has a copy.
Primary and secondary school students in China have not escaped. "Harry Potter" is definitely one of the most popular youth books at the moment.
Based on such a huge base, the live-action movie almost invited the entire cast of the previous life to shoot, and almost restored all the details in Harry Potter.
The male lead Daniel Radcliffe directly brought Harry Potter to life. According to the audience, this is exactly the same as the Harry I imagined.
It's basically Harry Potter himself.
And Emma Watson successfully attracted a large number of fans by playing Hermione. Little Emma is beautiful and smart, and is loved by countless audiences.
Under such circumstances, it would be a miracle if it didn't become a big hit.
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As soon as Yuehe's Harry Potter movie came out, Pokeni announced that the corresponding game would be available to everyone around May this year.
Harry Potter fans were overjoyed and exclaimed that it was impossible.
"Pokeni and Yuehe really understand us."
"Wow, the thought of being able to experience magic in Harry Potter's magical world, flying in the sky on a broomstick, playing Quidditch, and defeating Voldemort...
I'm so excited."
"Please put it on the shelves as soon as possible, I can't wait!"
… Before the Harry Potter game was released, Pokeni promoted another game called "Violet Evergarden".
"Violet Evergarden? What is this?"
"Isn't it a farming simulation game?"
"It's possible, the name sounds quite similar."
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… (End of this chapter)