Game Development Giant

In a sushi restaurant in Osaka, Yuji Tsui, Koichi Sugiyama, Koichi Nakamura and others gathered together.

There was a trace of flushing on their faces, obviously they had drunk a little alcohol. Although the alcohol content of Japanese soju is not high and it tastes mild, it still has a lot of stamina.

Has the release time been set? These people are not very old, especially Nakamura Koichi, who is only a sophomore in college. He is not an employee of Enix, but his chunsoft is Fukushima The president funded the establishment for him, so he and Yuuji Tsui are considered to be part of the same family.

Otherwise, he would not have become the main programmer of Dragon Quest.

After swallowing a tuna sashimi in his hand, Yuuji Tsui took another sip of soju, and then said with some lingering thoughts: It will be about the 20th of next month. This time Mr. Yamauchi attaches great importance to our game. Come on...let's eat sushi, it's rare to see tuna of this quality nowadays... Apparently, he had drunk a little too much wine before, and he was only halfway through his words when he started to invite everyone to eat the sushi on the table again.

After hearing Yuji Tsui's answer, Nakamura Koichi also nodded. Now that he sees Nintendo using this formation to promote Dragon Quest, he knows that Nintendo is serious this time. If this time Dragon Quest If he messes up after the release, he will basically be blacklisted by Nintendo and will never cooperate. Nakamura Koichi obviously knew about this, and he nodded in agreement: I've heard about it too, and I also have a friend who is also at the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment and is very familiar with their company's new game. The producer is Hironobu Sakaguchi. He went to the United States for a while with Mr. Jester Lee and developed Fire Emblem together. This time he returned to Japan to form the development department of the Japanese branch.

Hearing Koichi Nakamura mention that the producer of Final Fantasy was once a development member of Fire Emblem, the eyes of those present could not help but flash a look of admiration. After all, they, game practitioners, Especially those who are engaged in RPG game production, they admire Jester's work even more.

And there is also a story circulating among them that Yuuji Tsui came to Japan because of playing Fire Emblem. I felt that the plan I wrote for Dragon Quest was too low-level for this game, so I burned it. However, Yuji Tsui said at this time: It's just a script plan within the Fire Emblem development team, and there are several such characters in the Fire Emblem development team. Except for Sakaguchi Hironobu, I only know them. There is also a young man named Matsuno Yasumi, who is now working in a branch of Mars Entertainment, and the game Fire Emblem is more of a reflection of Mr. Jester Lee's talent. Others are just It’s just green leaves.”

The people present also agreed with Yuji Tsui's point of view. In fact, this is the biggest difference between Japanese and American design teams. In Japan. The soul of a design team is the producer. If the producer leaves, then the team will basically be close to being scrapped, which is why Yuji Tsui said what he said before.

But the game development team in the United States is completely different. It’s not that the producer is unimportant, it’s just that it’s not as important as the Japanese development team, and the main producer left. It will definitely have a great impact on the development team, but through automatic metabolism within the team, a completely suitable replacement can be found. Such examples are common among European and American game companies.

Of course, there are some characters who are indispensable to a development team, but in the European and American game circles, such examples are very rare.

Although that is said, I heard from my friend that in their company's internal white box test, the game Final Fantasy also caused a certain sensation, but all those who participated in the test signed a contract with the company There is a confidentiality agreement, and the cassette of the game cannot be taken out of the company, but he still revealed it to me a little bit, saying that this game is a game that is not inferior to Mr. Jester Lee’s Jumpin!

Nakamura Koichi continued to speak, and his words were like a hammer hitting everyone's hearts for a quarter of an hour.

It’s a game that’s not inferior to “Heavy Soldiers”!

Even Yuji Tsui, the person who has the most confidence in Dragon Quest and the producer of this game, can't help but look worried. Even he himself dare not say that Dragon Quest is better than Dragon Quest. Juggernaut is excellent, but only between the two at best.

However, this was only said by a friend of Nakamura Koichi. Everyone naturally has a sense of superiority towards their own company's games. Such words are not credible, but it still makes him a little worried.

After all, in terms of time, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest happened to be released at the same time, and looking at the current posture of Mars Entertainment and Nintendo, they really plan to use these two games to make a positive impact. The showdown.

The release of games is just like the release of movies. If games of the same category are released at the same time, their sales will definitely not be as much as if they were released separately.

However, this kind of worry didn't seem to be something he should consider, so Yuuji Tsui simply drank the rest of the soju in the bottomed cup in front of him in one gulp, and then said to the owner of the store: Uncle Yoshino, give us some more real tuna sashimi!

Then, he said to everyone: What are you doing with these unhappy things? In any case, our game this time has been very successful. Mr. Miyamoto Shigeru told me privately that we can even sell one million this time. That’s it, I’m treating you this time because my uncle Yoshino brought a real tuna here. Such tuna is rarely available even in Japan.”

The best sashimi is tuna, and the Japanese call tuna tuna. The best tuna is called real tuna. Only some tuna produced near Japan can be called real tuna, which is the so-called maguro in Japanese sushi restaurants. .

However, now the real tuna has been almost completely hunted by the Japanese, and only a small number can still be produced. It is basically rare to encounter one in a hundred.

Although this store is in Osaka, what it sells is not Osaka sushi or Kyoto sushi, but Edomae sushi, which is very famous in the Japanese sushi world. This was the first creation of Tokyo people and it also impressed Kansai people. A type of sushi, which is why the best sushi restaurants in Japan are in Tokyo.

The owner of this sushi restaurant called Yoshinoya, Yoshino Ryōnagisa, once served as an apprentice to Kyubei in Ginza for more than ten years, and he can be regarded as having obtained the true inheritance of Edomae sushi, and he was once a close friend of Yuji Tsui's father. , otherwise, it would be impossible for such precious ingredients as tuna to be messed up by friends like Yuuji Tsui who don’t know much about food.

There are many types of sushi. In addition to the most famous nigiri sushi, which is skillfully shaped with vinegar rice, sashimi, seafood or other ingredients, which is Edomae sushi, there are also maki sushi that is rolled into a tube shape and then sliced. , oshizushi made by stacking and pressing wooden boxes, and chirashi sushi, which places sashimi and other ingredients directly on rice. However, the most mainstream and exquisite is nigiri sushi.

The best fish for nigiri sushi is tuna, and salmon is considered inferior. Even the Atlantic salmon from the deep sea of ​​Norway or Tasmania is not considered top-notch when compared to tuna.

The meat of tuna tastes sweet and plump, especially the part on the front belly of the tuna called toro. The oil has beautiful frost-like parts. There is an indescribable aroma after entering the mouth. It is the most favored by gourmets. Yes, because eating raw fish is one of the most particular ways to eat raw materials, just like the ancient Chinese saying 荍. Wang Wei has a poem that talks about the way Chinese people eat raw fish in ancient times.

This poem is called The good man Yule rides on the horse, the maid eats the carp on the golden plate. The 荍 here is what Confucius said, You never tire of fine food, and you never tire of fine food. It also means to eat it raw, especially in this poem When it comes to eating carp raw, you must know that the meat of ordinary carp has a peculiar smell, which is generally called earthy smell, and eating it raw is a way of eating it without any other cooking methods except cutting it. , if the ingredients are not good enough, no matter what kind of celebrity chef, it is impossible to satisfy the diners.

The Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment is also located in Osaka. Just when Yuji and others were eating delicious real tuna sashimi in a sushi restaurant, they were chatting about their own games and other people's games. , Hironobu Sakaguchi’s development team is still working intensively on the final revisions of “Final Fantasy.”

These are the loopholes and problems of the game that were found out from hundreds of feedbacks after participating in white box testing. Time is running out now. Jester told him that the planned release time is before the 20th of next month. He must hand over the official version of the game to the head office before the end of this month so that the head office can start burning the game cartridges and then distribute the burned cartridges to distributors everywhere.

Therefore, time is also extremely tight.