Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

The popularity of "Final Fantasy" and "The Advent of the Son" is still burning.

In the Nebula game, Chen Xu also conducted the final test of "Final Fantasy" with his team.

"Mr. Chen, this story..." Inside the office, Yang Xin, Ruan Ningxue and the others all had pain in their faces.

Before the Son of God came, everyone involved did not feel anything special.

When entering the official game development, you can look at the series of character backgrounds and the story of the main line.

Everyone felt a familiar, familiar knife coming again, and compared to the past, this time the knife was fast, accurate and ruthless.

From the main role to the important supporting role, none of them ran.

What's even more frustrating is that these seem to be only supporting characters, and there are special DLCs that make them the protagonists.

This naturally allows players to further feel the tragedy in them.

"Although the players may feel a little uncomfortable at that time, isn't this a change?" Chen Xu, who was leaning on the chair, clapped his hands lightly.

In terms of the plot, Chen Xu also made a lot of changes.

In the past life, Final Fantasy 7 is actually a tragic story, including Zack in the core crisis.

But in the later remake of Final Fantasy 7, the plot was changed and a setting called Fira was added.

Can be understood as fate, Fila's existence is to make history correct to what it should be.

But the appearance of Sephiroth, and the appearance of Alice, brought a singularity to fate.

If there is no such a setting, the previous "Final Fantasy 7" is actually just a normal remake based on the original content.

But with the addition of a unique setting like Fira, I have to say that it can be said to represent the ambition of the entire game, and it is also a connection for player interaction.

So for this part, Chen Xu also made a decision to let players experience the original plot first.

Because of this kind of setting about Fila, in fact, players still need to understand the original storyline before they can have a stronger sense of substitution.

At the same time, there is also the urge to want to change the regret.

Although from the perspective of so-called art, tragedy must be more touching and memorable.

But as a player, who doesn't want a real happy ending?

So Chen Xu is going to divide the game into two versions. In the second version, the original fate will be rewritten by the player.

At the same time, in the content of the first version of the game itself, Chen Xu also enriched it, tending to the final fantasy performance of the remake of the previous life, which aggravated the performance of many supporting characters in the game.

For example, the original Biggs, Jesse, and Wedge in the game are basically the same as passers-by, but they are greatly enriched in the remake, especially Jesse, who is a female character. Lauder couldn't resist a little.

Of course, in the end, why Biggs and Wedge all knew that they were not dead, but Jesse was the only one who didn't know, this was obviously the bad idea of ​​the game manufacturer in the previous life.

If the popularity is high, then live; if the popularity is low, then die.

Therefore, in the plots of these different roles, Chen Xu is also preparing to use the AB double-line mode.

In version A, players will face various oppressive situations in the early stage of the game, including experiencing the encounters of DLC Chinese Center, Zack and other characters.

The introduction of the B version of Fira will bring new hope to players.

"It's just that this new hope may be a little late." Yang Xin on the side complained.

"Cough cough... It's not too late, it's already under development, and let the players experience the A version first. After all, the players are already waiting." Chen Xu said with a slight cough.

After all, if you add the Fira setting, even if most of the art and combat systems can be used, the performance and content of the details are too much in one version, although it is not as exaggerated as remaking a game, but But it's not a small project.

So let the first version meet the player first, and let the player accumulate their inner emotions by the way, so that the power released at that time will be stronger.

As for Chen Xu's arrangement, ordinary players and players who are interested in the game because of the "Descendence of the Holy Son" are still completely unclear.

At this time, they are still happily looking forward to the arrival of the game's launch day.

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"Come, come, it's finally time!"

At 12 noon, Song Ren looked at the game icon unlocked from gray in Nebula World, with a look of excitement.

Today is the day Final Fantasy goes live.

God knows how long he waited.

Especially after watching the CG movie of "The Advent of the Son" and the promotional video of the following game, and seeing the two main characters of Tifa and Alice, his expectations for this game are simply full.

The last time he looked forward to it was when he watched the promotional trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles and saw the appearance of the Holy Grail of Heaven (Flame).

With excitement, Song Ren entered the game for the first time.

After a brief period of darkness, the prologue cutscene appears.

Modern cities are all machines powered by steam engines.

The trains on the highway are galloping, the children's cars and bicycles on the street are small, and the staff are carrying out the maintenance work on the street.

Then, in the brisk melody of Crystal Overture, the game screen switched to the starry sky background.

The next shot came to the streets of Midgar at night.

A Alice in a dark red dress with a red jacket buttoned on it, a metal cuff on her wrist, brown boots and a pink butterfly ribbon on her long light brown hair holding a flower basket above the street Sell ​​flowers.

But then, as if she saw something in the crowd, she stood on tiptoe trying to pass through the crowd and cast her eyes behind.

It seemed like there was someone important there, someone she had been waiting for.

But the next moment, Alice, who didn't notice the crowd, was accidentally bumped by someone in the crowd.

The flowers in the basket fell to the ground, so she crouched down to put the flowers that fell on the ground back into the basket.

But when the last yellow flower was left, a passerby with a box in his hand to block his sight stepped on the yellow flower.

Looking at the yellow flower on the ground, Alice carefully picked it up, and then looked at the flower basket she was holding, wondering what she was thinking.

Slowly, Alice put the flower close to her chest, and then slowly looked towards the sky.

At the same time, the lens of the picture is slowly pulled into the distance.

The title name of the 'Final Fantasy' game appeared in Song Ren's field of vision.

"It's really shocking! Although I've seen it in the promotional trailer and the Advent of the Son of God, it's still shocking to experience the immersive game experience!"

Song Ren's mind reverberated with the image of Midgar just now, and he couldn't help but sigh.

This city alone is a little too shocking, an alternative industrial beauty.

In fact, there are many places where Midgar cannot be seen in the Advent of the Son.

And Midgar in the promotional video is just a glimpse.

But now entering the game, although it is only a prologue, it has an unobstructed view of Midgar's high-altitude perspective.

The huge pillar supports Midgar, and the Midgar dung is made into two floors, the upper floor is the headquarters of Shinra Corporation, the lower floor is a slum, and there is a spiral railway connection between the upper and lower floors. 8 blocks, the train cemetery, and the church are all on the lower level.

As the magic furnace that provides the entire city, it extracts magic to provide energy for the city day and night, and the entire Midgar is like a huge pizza.

Shocked, this is the first impression of all players after seeing this city.

With the skipping of the prologue, the perspective in the game quickly moved towards a certain part of Midgar.

With the sound of woo woo, the train galloped on the track.

Claude, who was carrying the Great Sword of Destruction, was standing on a carriage in the middle of the train.

Song Ren was not so excited when he looked at Claude who appeared on the screen.

Although it can only be seen in the Advent of the Son, now it can finally be manipulated in the game!

But this is not what he wants!

What about Tifa! ? And that girl in red called Alice!

That's what he wants to focus on!

With the sparks of the wheels on the rails, the train heading for the terminal began to slow down.

At the same time, the UI interface of the game also appeared in front of Song Ren, and the name of the area was displayed in the upper right corner: No. 1 Magic Furnace.

As the train stopped, a valiant girl, and a fat man and a thin man appeared on the screen, the three of them joined forces to easily get rid of the guard.

Who are these three people?

Looking at the trio, Song Ren was a little stunned. After all, these three characters have never appeared in 'The Son of God'.

But Barrett, who appeared later, was an old acquaintance.

Although he is only a supporting role in "The Advent of the Son" and is a member of the cheerleading team, he and his daughter Marlene are still very impressive.

And judging from Barrett's performance, it's enough to be called a tough guy.

"Go, new comer."

Stopping, Barrett waved in the direction of the train.

The voice fell, and the camera switched.

A 360-degree flip in the air, and Claude, holding the Great Sword of Destruction in his hand, jumped out of the carriage of the train.

Kneeling down on one knee, his right foot slanted at a 45-degree angle, his right hand holding the sabotage sword was parallel to his body, and the other hand was pressed to the ground, his head lowered.

Then he slowly got up, and the Destruction Sword in his hand waved towards the air, as if pulling a sword flower, put it upside down behind his back and slowly raised his head.

"Fuck! It's too pretentious!" Song Ren couldn't help but exclaimed.

But he also has to admit that this action is matched with Claude's appearance, so handsome!