Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 158 62. You will have to pay back sooner or later
At noon the next day, when chatting on the company's rooftop, Gu Chuan Haoze seemed a little hesitant, but there was a discussion next door.

"Ah...Qing Zhiyuan likes to make some fancy things, which are full of gimmicks, but it's hard to say whether they really have any effect.

Especially now that [Guyuan Chunqiu] is gone, the influence and appeal of pokeni's new game must be discounted. "

He glanced up and saw that the speaker was a guy he had never seen before.

He must be a newcomer to the company.

It's just that he didn't expect that this person's thinking was quite similar to his own.

It is estimated that they are all fans of Guyuan Chunqiu.

Since Guyuan Chunqiu retired, the games produced by pokeni seem to have lost their luster.

Although Furukawa Haoze also watched the advertisement of "The Witcher", he couldn't get excited.

"Well, is that the name of "The Witcher"? Pokeni's new work, do you want to start?" Hayamigawa's voice pulled Furukawa Haoze back from his contemplation.

Furukawa Haoze hesitated for a moment, but did not speak.

Do you want to start?

To be honest, without Gu Yuan Chunqiu, the impact would be greater than he imagined.

Because it's hard to imagine what pokeni's new game can do after leaving the ancient original thief, and whether it can still maintain a high level as always?

The quality of the work is not good enough, whether it is in terms of script, camera language, and the advancement process of the entire story line, can it still achieve the height of previous games?
These are all question marks.

Furukawa Haoze didn't have the courage to explore.

But if you say no to it...

It always feels like one person has denied the entire company.

……

Kinoshita lit a cigarette and curled his lips, "Didn't you listen to the discussion over there? Furuhara Chunqiu is gone, so what new work can Pokeni have? I saw the advertisement, and to be honest, it's pretty good. It's a pity. , I wouldn't play it if it wasn't the producer of Guyuan Chunqiu.

What the hell is Shinji Mikami? "

"Yeah, what the hell is Shinji Mikami?" Hayamigawa asked suspiciously.

"Mikami seems to be planning the level battles of Diablo." Relying on his love for P Club, Furukawa Haoze spoke out some little knowledge that people didn't pay attention to.

Few people usually notice the list of production staff that appears when the game is cleared, but Furukawa Haoze can memorize it back and forth.

Especially when he hated his teeth itching and wanted a swordsman before, Gu Chuan directly wrote down everyone's name and responsible module.

For example, Guyuan Chunqiu, who deserves to die, is the producer, the heart-wrenching script was written by Urobuchi Gen, and the original painting was Niijincheng...

In short, this group of people in pokeni are actually very distinctive, and they are easy to remember, it just depends on whether you have intentions.

"No wonder, "The Witcher" is so similar to Diablo, it can be seen from the advertisement that it is an action game. After a long time, it turned out that the producer was from Diablo."

Kinoshita chuckled and said, "Then I don't want to play this game anymore."

"Guyuan Chunqiu is gone, do you want to give up pokeni?" asked the new friend Yamada.

"You don't use it right? It's because Guyuan Chunqiu is gone that you have to give up pokeni." Kinoshita gave Gu Chuan a look, "Gu Chuan, you think the same way, right?"

"Hmm...maybe...?"

Furukawa Haoze himself couldn't say well.

In fact, he thinks that Diablo has done a good job. Although the script and story are not the style of the ancient original thief, it is better in the gameplay, and it is the first plane ARPG game from the top view.

The fighting experience alone is good enough, and the others don't seem to be necessary.

"Urobuchi Gen is also okay?" Yamada-kun persuaded, ""The Man of Reverse Degree" is written by Lao Xu, although it is the producer of Furuhara Chunqiu, but Urobuchi Gen's script is really good.

Originally, Guyuan Chunqiu has retired, so if you don't cherish Xu Yuanxuan, do you want pokeni to stop playing games in the future? "

"Um……"

Everyone fell into silence for a while.

What Yamada-kun said makes sense.

After Guyuan Chunqiu left, Urobuchi is the only one on Pokeni's side, right?
The script of "The Witcher" was written by Lao Xu, and the plot is guaranteed.

Although there is no Guyuan Chunqiu, at least there is Xu Yuanxuan!

Uh-huh.

Everyone nodded one after another, as if there was a little sign of wavering.

Urobuchi Gen is probably the greatest wealth left to pokeni by the old thief Guyuan, right?
At this moment, Kinoshita shook his head slowly.

"Did you get the point wrong? Xu Yuanxuan is good, but it can only show that the script is guaranteed, but the soul of a game is the producer.

Whether the game is well done or not depends mainly on the level of the producer.

No matter how good the script is, it may be ruined by a crappy producer. "

"This is equivalent to the production of a movie. The director has to bear 90% of the responsibility. If you encounter a bad director, no matter how good the script is, it is possible to make a bad movie."

"Hmm... that seems to be the case."

Everyone is not firm again.

……

After the news of the upcoming release of "The Witcher" came out, many players expressed similar concerns.

The main reason is that I am afraid that Shinji Mikami will not be able to hold, and it may smash the signboard of P Club.

There have also been incidents in the industry where the company began to decline after the producer left the company.

Since Furuhara Chunqiu is the pioneer of pokeni games, his disappearance will naturally affect the future of pokeni.

"Shinji Mikami, I've never heard of this producer, can he really do it?"

"I don't know, but I think, after all, pokeni is a small company, and it can get to where it is today entirely because of the strength of a god-level producer like Gu Yuan Chunqiu.

Now that Gu Yuan Chunqiu is gone, it is really possible that he will be beaten back to his original form. "

"Isn't Qing Zhiyuan okay? Diablo and Pokémon are doing pretty well."

"But he is not Guyuan Chunqiu, Guyuan Chunqiu is the only one. And when Guyuan Chunqiu was around, everyone felt as if they had been reassured, so everyone would think of other types of games produced by P Club. Give it a try.

It's different now, without Guyuan Chunqiu's pokeni, it's hard for players to have confidence in it. "

"Well... what should I do, I really wanted to play "The Witcher", but after you said that, I was a little hesitant."

……

In fact, it’s not just that the players are not very optimistic about P’s new work "The Demon Hunter"

Colleagues have expressed similar concerns.

The members of the Elven Club, who have always used pokeni as a benchmark, and Gu Yuan Chunqiu as their mentor, shook their heads at this moment.

"This time "The Witcher" is more than good."

"Yeah, I feel sorry for this new producer named [Shinji Mikami]. I blame the poor guy. The main reason is that he was unlucky, and he became the successor of the P company after Guyuan Chunqiu retired. .

But the influence and height of the old thief Guyuan are there, even Qing Zhiyuan will be compared to him.

It's hard to say what kind of scolding players will be for a newcomer like Shinji Mikami who comes up directly. "

"This game doesn't seem to be a galgame route. Will there be such a problem?" an artist from the Spirit Club asked.

In his opinion, the painting style is different.

Guyuan Chunqiu is good at making galgames. He is known for his beautiful and healing painting style. He guides the player's emotional experience to a peak through pictures and text, plus a good plot control.

Obviously, "The Witcher" doesn't follow this route. It's obviously an action RPG game, so as long as the combat is good enough, won't it be enough?
"It's not like that. In other words, it should have been treated separately like this. But the players don't think so.

Guyuan Chunqiu is too dazzling. When pokeni takes away the sun, no matter what game is released in the future, players will subconsciously compare Guyuan Chunqiu with Guyuan Chunqiu.

Even for different types of games.

Gamers place extremely high standards on new games.

As long as there is a little flaw, it will be infinitely magnified. "

"Tsk tsk, that's right, so Shinji Mikami is really miserable, as long as the game fails to meet the standards in the minds of the players, he will be criticized to pieces.

I can't stand it just thinking about it..."

"Ah~ That's right, it's really too miserable to be Mikami."

"However, it is also possible that Mikami will become a god. As long as the game has enough quality to convince the players, Shinji Mikami will be promoted to the sky.

This is also a huge opportunity. "

"Haha, but the possibility is too small, isn't it?"

"If you can become a god, this is really a miracle."

……

Tokyo.

Pokeni Co., Ltd.

The pressure on Shinji Mikami here is very, very high.

Haven't slept well for days.

The closer the game's release date got, the more uneasy Mikami became.

When Qing Zhiyuan went to the company in the morning, he found that this guy had two big dark circles under his eyes, and he looked like he was insomnia.

Qing Zhiyuan called him to the office with some distress, and then closed the door.

"Mikami-san, you have heavy dark circles under your eyes."

"It's too much pressure." Shinji Mikami confessed.

He was sitting on the sofa, rubbing the space between his eyebrows with his hands, obviously his body and mind were exhausted, but once he lay down on the bed, he couldn't fall asleep.

Qing Zhiyuan sighed and said, "This is all normal, and it was the same when I was a producer for the first time."

"Huh? Is the president too?" Mikami asked in surprise.

"When you first became a producer, was it before or after you became Guyuan Chunqiu?"

"Well……"

Qing Zhiyuan thought for a while, "It should be before?"

From the timeline, when he served as a game producer was in 2020 in his previous life.

But in this timeline, Qing Zhiyuan's first game after time travel was indeed made as Gu Yuan Chunqiu.

"I used the identity of Gu Yuan Chunqiu to make games, but I was also nervous." Qing Zhiyuan sat down and handed a glass of boiled water to Mikami Shinji.

There are only plain water, coffee and tea in the company, and it is not appropriate to drink anything else at this moment.

"The company was going bankrupt at the time, and if the game didn't succeed, pokeni wouldn't exist either."

"Ah~ so tragic..." Shinji Mikami exclaimed holding the hot water.

"Yeah, so Mikami, you don't have to worry about anything." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "I let you be the producer of "The Demon Hunter" because I have confidence in your ability.

You've done pretty well.

And even if the game fails completely, so what if there are no sales?
Pokeni has now amassed capital to afford such a failure.

And the next game will be even better.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. "

Ok.

Shinji Mikami nodded, thinking about Qing Zhiyuan's words.

【Anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger】

"What's more, I think such a good game, there is no possibility of failure."

When Qing Zhiyuan said this, he raised a finger.

Shinji Mikami looked at him suspiciously, not understanding what he meant.

"100."

Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "There are at least 100 million copies of the results. The combination of Neon and Europe and the United States will not lose."

"Although it's not a matter of winning or losing, trust me, you won't lose."

The gameplay and painting style of "The Witcher" are really unique in this era.

In this game, Qing Zhiyuan has already seen the shadow of the future "Devil May Cry".

The Japanese fantasy style combines neon and European and American aesthetics, and combines Eastern and Western cultures. More importantly, the fusion is quite good. There are both the style of Shinji Mikami and the shadow of Gen Urobuchi.

It was completely in line with Qing Zhiyuan's imagination.

If it is not limited by the hardware, Qing Zhiyuan has reason to believe that this game can become an epoch-making product.

No.

Even in this era, the graphics are not so exquisite, and there are no 3D actions, but this game is still an epoch-making product.

"Thank you, President." Shinji Mikami nodded, trying to squeeze out a smile, "I feel much more comfortable now."

Mikami received some comfort, and after his mind relaxed, sleepiness swept over him like a tide.

The two eyelids began to fight.

Qing Zhiyuan saw it and said with a smile, "Misami-san, you can sleep with me for a while, no one will disturb you."

"Is this okay, President?" Mikami was surprised.

"Anyway, the game has already been finished. It's useless to worry about it now. Just wait for the results to come out, and everything will be fine."

Give it a try.

"Then I'll sleep for a while, I'm sorry for letting you see me looking so ugly."

……

A week later, "The Witcher" was officially released.

But the actual sales performance was far from meeting Qing Zhiyuan's expectations.

Even if the quality of this game is very high, within a week, it only sold less than 1 copies.

Might be fine for some small companies, but this is pokeni.

When you are used to each game being able to maintain at least hundreds of thousands of sales, it will be difficult for you to return to the era when the total sales volume was only tens of thousands.

Teeth white.

Qing Zhiyuan finally realized that the problem was more serious than he imagined.

When [Guyuan Chunqiu] retired back then, it can be said that pokeni completely reaped a wave of dividends, which led to the unprecedented sales of more than 300 million copies of "Your Name".

How can a galgame He De be able to do this?
And Qing Zhiyuan can lose the vest of [Guyuan Chunqiu], and he feels very happy.

I originally thought that in the future, I could use Qing Zhiyuan's real name to make the entire game world tremble, but now he also feels the [Sequelae of Retirement]

If you come out to hang out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.

How strong was the positive effect brought about when he retired back then, so how severe is the negative effect brought about by Gu Yuan Chunqiu's disappearance now.

……

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