Game Development Giant

Enix has not officially become a contract company under Nintendo's power money, but due to personal relationships, coupled with Yuji's recommendation and persistence, Enix is ​​now basically in cahoots with Nintendo. This is why Jester couldn't impress them.

To be honest, for Enix now, video game development is not their main business, and even if it is video game development, they currently focus on developing PC games. Although Enix is ​​not short of money, their current main profit Income still comes from their main business of real estate appraisal and the production of automatic street cameras. As for electronic games, the only thing worthy of praise is a chess game they released some time ago called Morita Shogi, which is a PC The game has sold a total of 80,000 copies. Although this number is not worth mentioning in terms of game sales on FC, it is already a very outstanding result in PC games.

Recently, Yuji Minui is thinking about a new game. He wants the company to come up with a game worthy of bragging immediately after officially joining Nintendo's royalty camp. In addition to being a game producer, Yuji Minui He is also an excellent playwright. Unlike traditional Japanese playwrights, he has a special liking for Western fantasy works. His favorite book is Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Then, there was Nintendo with their The Legend of Zelda.

As a supporter of Nintendo, Yuji Takui undoubtedly bought the game cartridge at the first opportunity. When he played the game, he was attracted by the kind of character that Shigeru Miyamoto embodied in this game. He was shocked by his understanding of the game. After spending a day and a night to complete it, he instantly made a new decision - this is the game I want to make.

So, Yuji Tsui started writing the plot and settings of his own game.

This kind of work lasted for nearly two months. When Mars Entertainment released their RPG game Fire Emblem, although Yuuji Tsui didn't like a non-Japanese company like Mars Entertainment, for Mars Entertainment or... He was full of praise for the games produced by Jester. In his eyes, if purely based on the ability to produce games, the entire Japan may not be able to compete with Mars Entertainment, but the United States is only one Mars Entertainment. Just entertainment.

And his friends lived up to their expectations.

If after clearing The Legend of Zelda, what Yuji Tsui felt was Shigeru Miyamoto's unparalleled talent in this game, his unique childlike innocence, and the game itself. If it shocked him, then the game Fire Emblem completely silenced him.

He just held the controller and stared blankly at the TV screen that already showed the end of the game. He didn't know what he was thinking. Almost half an hour passed like this.

Then, Yuuji Sakai sighed, and threw aside the Dreambox in his hand, which was completely different in shape from the FC, but had a more comfortable half-moon shape that fit the hand. Then, he stood up suddenly, There was a look of determination in his eyes.

…He came to the room where he was studying and working, and stopped at his desk.

On his desk, there was a thick bound book in the center. Yuuji dugi picked up the book with some hesitation, opened it, and looked at it carefully page by page.

This is not a printed book bought in an outside bookstore. Every page inside is handwritten, and the handwriting is different. Some are very neat, but most of them are very sloppy. Obviously, the writing is in Words are written on these papers in different states.

On the cover of this book, let’s call it a number, there is a line of English written on it, which is probably the title of the book.

This line is very short in English, with only two words, and the subtitles are all in capital letters - dragon-quest. Dragon means dragon, and quest means exploration. The combined meaning is probably to explore the dragon.

Of course, these two words later had special Chinese translations. It may be that the translator played the game and translated it into a more understandable name based on his own understanding of the game, which is still used today. It's Dragon Quest, and many game fans don't often call him by his Chinese name, just like they rarely call ff by Final Fantasy. They often use the two English abbreviations, dq.

Yuuji Tsui read slowly at first, but as time went by, he turned the pages faster and faster, until he reached about the end of the first page of the handwritten DQ book. He closed it and sighed again.

He took the book and came to the balcony. It was late at night, and the stars were twinkling in the sky. Although it was summer, there was still a bit of chill in the early morning.

There was an iron bucket on the balcony, with nothing in it. Yuuji Tsui glanced at the iron bucket, then at the handwritten DQ in his hand, then closed his eyes and took it out from his arms. A zippo lighter made a ding sound, flicked out a flame, and then ignited the DQ handbook in his hand.

In the end, Yuuji Tsui threw the DQ that he had set on fire directly into the iron bucket, but he turned around and returned to the house without any nostalgia.

Yuuji Tsui curled up on the chair behind the desk. The lights in the room had been turned off by him, but the faint moonlight and starlight that came from the window couldn't be called blind. He could barely see. Just now The fire ignited by dq's collection of creations that was lit and thrown into the iron bucket has been completely extinguished, and may have been completely burned into a pile of black ash.

Yuuji Tsui felt his heart ached as if it had been torn out. After all, the setting book, which had nearly a hundred pages, was his hard work over a long period of time, and it was all he had for RPG games. He understood, and he immediately reported it to the president. After officially joining the royalties, he was about to start producing the games. It was impossible not to feel sad if he burned them down now.

But what makes it even more difficult for him to accept is that if he can still see the gap between himself and the opponent in Shigeru Miyamoto's The Legend of Zelda and develop a desire to catch up, then in Fire Emblem The game made him unable to see the gap between him and Jester at all.

The invisible gap here does not mean that he and Jester are on the same level, but that the gap is so big that he cannot understand the other party at all and can never see the gap. Fire Emblem 》This game is perfect in his eyes, without any flaws. Everywhere in it is flawless.

After reading the article in Game that rated Fire Emblem at 41 points, he also scoffed a little. As a game producer and playwright who has played The Legend of Zelda In other words, compared with such an excellent work as The Legend of Zelda, what other RPG games can make some professional game editors feel that they cannot evaluate it.

...But after he played Fire Emblem himself, he knew what these review editors thought when they experienced the game, because he felt exactly the same. When a game is so good that it cannot be described, use An unconventional way to evaluate may be the best and easiest way.

Compared with this game, the dq he is currently designing is like a child who has just learned to walk comparing a majestic giant. There is no comparison at all - even every time I look at it, I feel... The painful feeling of a steel needle pricking my face.

Yuuji Tsui was not shocked. He burned the previous DQ setting collection not because he lost confidence. He has never been this kind of person. When he burned his previous hard work, it was a statement, which represented that he had cut off his own His own way out, he has to start from the beginning and create a better dq.

Not inferior to DQ from Fire Emblem.

Just sitting there in the darkness, Yuuji Tsui kept his eyes wide open. His bright eyes looked a little strange in the darkness.

As time went by, a hint of white fish belly appeared in the distance of the sky.

Yuuji Tsukii, who had been sitting like this all night, suddenly stood up. Because he had maintained one movement for too long, when he just stood up from the chair, his feet were a little unsteady and he almost fell to the ground. However, he Not taking it seriously, he walked straight to the phone, then picked up the receiver and dialed a number.

The call was quickly connected, and a lazy voice that sounded slightly sleepy came from the other end.

Hello? I'm Koichi Nakamura, who are you? Maybe the phone the person on the other end of the line used didn't have a caller ID function, so he didn't know that the call was made by Yuuji Tsui.

And Yuuji Tsui didn't take it seriously. He spoke immediately as soon as the other party finished speaking. He spoke very quickly: It's me, Tsui, Nakamura. I have some ideas about my new game and I want to talk to you. You talk. r1152