Otherworldly Architect

Outside the Blue Star Building, in the lush green garden, stands a small bungalow.

Now this small building has been transformed into the first offline experience store, providing players with services such as trial play and release of new games and new versions.

Of course, because the building itself is not big, there are only six VR experience cabins that can be accommodated inside, which means that only six players can experience it at the same time.

And the enthusiasm of the players is particularly high. There is a need to queue up all year round to get a number. It is often three days in advance to reserve a seat, and each seat is only allowed to experience half an hour.

After a long time, scalpers began to wander outside the streets of the Blue Star Building.

As long as you are close to this block, a robot is likely to come up and ask: "Hello, sir, do you need help queuing at the Blue Star Experience Hall? The price is fair, and there is no deception. If you line up by yourself, it will take at least three days." oh."

Although people have repeatedly reported scalpers, one batch after another is always cleaned up, and it is difficult to completely cure them.

Later, the police station in the nearby streets had corresponding experience.

For example, this April 4th.

"Mortal Soul" was released at 12:[-] noon, and it was completely predictable that the scene would be very hot.

Therefore, the interstellar security office in charge of this area has seconded a security team from other brother units in other areas in advance, plus its own team, sent a total of more than 20 people to maintain order on this street.

I have to say that this move is indeed a rainy day.

Some of the players who came to snap up "Mortal Soul" in advance on the spot came as early as five o'clock in the morning;

Some want to bring more than a dozen copies of games for a family or company;

Others dragged their families along, simply moved a few small benches, and were still eating melon seeds, drinking tea and chatting while waiting for the release.

Thanks to the security team from the security station, together with Blue Star's staff and bodyguards, the scene was kept stable, and the players waiting in line were successfully turned around.

Of course, the number of offline sales is of course much lower than that of online sales, after all, it is all sold by the tellers manually.

The reason why these players still come to the offline experience store to snap up the purchases is, of course, because it will be released 2 hours in advance, and the second is because the experience store will simultaneously sell limited peripherals.

—— "Mortal Soul" limited edition bookmark for the first release!

On each bookmark, there is a BOSS image of a mortal soul, which can be said to be very unique.

Other games sell cute girls with thin clothes, but this game sells catfish monsters with eight tentacles, bat spirits with full eyes... and weird arthropods with long legs that run around?

But the blue star who designed this bookmark is not the most amazing.

The most amazing thing is that there is a soft spot for these bookmarks, the players who came to line up early in the morning.

Among those who bought the limited bookmarks, there was even someone who directly kissed the bat spirit excitedly!

Even the policeman on duty couldn't help but doubt life in his heart: Is this kind of thing really good-looking?Does Blue Star have any special skills that can hypnotize people?Why are people flocking to bookmarks like this!

Players who just bought the game were overjoyed and squeezed out, and while they were squeezed, they happily checked the outer packaging of the game.

For those who didn't play, many people stretched their necks like swans, wanting to see how much stock there is in the store.

Some people began to calculate in their minds how long it would take for the team to get their turn.

When the scene was in full swing, some people noticed that the big screen outside the towering Blue Star Building was also playing the trailer of "Mortal Soul" in rotation.

And on the balcony on the top floor, it seems that there are fireworks blooming.

In fact, Mingyan is releasing Kongming lanterns with employees.

"Mortal Soul" has finally been released, and one of its copyright owners, Ling Lingqi, is still in a deep coma.

Putting Kongming lanterns is to send greetings to him.

There is a word of blessing hidden in everyone's Kongming lantern, hoping that Ling Lingqi will get better soon.

The NPC Adam in "Mortal Soul" uses the AI ​​​​of "Redstone No. [-]", which simulates Ling Lingqi's personality in daily life. Now with the release of the game, he will also get to know Lanxing thousands million fans.

With the development of the game process, players will also know more about Adam's life, and will play a better ending step by step.

As another NPC said: May the heroes get what they want.

The aftermath of the release day of Mortal Soul is still spreading.

"Black Friday" suddenly appeared in the game world of Sixth Star Province——

Because this day happened to be Friday, and many people in the industry directly asked for leave. The reasons were all kinds of strange, but in fact everyone knew it well: they all went back to play "Mortal Soul".

People who do game design, generally speaking, really like playing games, so they choose to embark on the path of making games.

So once a very well-known sequel is released, many people will directly ask for leave and go back to "experience the game", which is called:

Understanding popular games is also a basic requirement for practitioners.

This Friday, all major companies were suddenly deserted.

Especially in the planning team, the absence of designers is the most obvious, and few people are still in the company.

Everyone is tacit to each other, chatting in the work group:

"Ah, you have a cold today? What a coincidence, I have a cold too."

"Yes, yes, the weather has been capricious recently, and it is easy to catch a cold~"

"Hey, why does Xiao Li ask for leave?"

"His son has a cold..."

After chatting, I opened the Bluestar official website, and saw that almost all of my friends were online, their statuses all showed "in game", and the game icons were all mortal souls.

Just pretending not to see each other, pretending that everyone has taken sick leave and personal leave in a serious manner, and played the soul of mortals silently.

On the day after the game was released, all values ​​skyrocketed.

Many forums opened directly. Some guessed that it would take several hours for Mortal Soul to reach the top of the paid game list. Will the best game be booked by Blue Star Studio again?

Of course, the most voices on the forum still come from players.

When it was just released, most of the players were showing off their game accounts, and some proudly showed off that they bought the game body offline an hour earlier.

The entire afternoon after the release, the entire forum was calm, almost no one spoke, and everyone was experiencing the game.

About an hour or two later, those players who had been abused by mobs began to come back to the forum in a daze.

【Ask the teacher how to fight this monster called Sisyphus?Is he the priest in the promo? 】

[Help!Can't pass the first level!Did I choose the wrong weapon?Please tell me which weapon is more powerful in this game! 】

【Doubt about life, am I the only one stuck at the second mob? 】

[I just rolled and left the church, and it actually showed "You have completed the teaching"! ! !Fuck, this shit is teaching? ? ?I thought I had amnesia, this level is the final boss level, I have used up all my strength to feed...]

[The tortoise shield regurgitates.The moment I saw the shield-wielding mob, I felt a line written on my face: Let us let each other go...]

A few hours later, when it was dinner time, the number of players who left messages gradually began to increase.

Then at night, most people's game experience time came to about 10 hours, and most people finally understood the essence of this game.

Don't call it "Mortal Soul" at all!

It would be nice to just call it "Battered Soul"!

Look at the mobs inside, each of them can kill the player directly, making the player feel that he has no dignity of the protagonist.

The boss inside is even more terrifying. If you are not careful, you will be recruited to death, and you can't even move a finger.

The most exaggerated thing is that there are a thousand ways for players to die in it, and it is not necessarily that they were killed by monsters!

Maybe there is an authentic "open door to kill" behind a certain door, and a crossbow arrow will send you back to the west.

Maybe a certain treasure chest is a trap. After climbing up and opening the chest, I found that I can't get down again, so I can only commit suicide and go back to the camp.

When encountering this kind of trap for the first time, everyone has a "WTF" expression on their faces.

But after encountering more times, it gradually became insensitive.

--What?Abused by the game?Isn't this a very normal thing?Do you have any misunderstandings about mortal souls?

After almost one night, most players finally passed the first level.

A small number of players who stay up late for liver games may progress a little further.

According to the achievement statistics on the official website, about one tenth of the players have successfully walked in front of the guarding boss on the second map.

[I was in a trance from the beating, as if I had been LJed, I couldn’t even walk steadily when I came out, I really wanted to roll forward. 】

[This game should be called Soul of Shaking S, the main line of the game is to train players to become Soul of Shaking M...]

【Masochist Training Simulator:)】

[It's so freaking ugly, I can't even beat a mob, but this corner has placed three for me to surround and beat me! !I'm just a jerk, why are you doing this to me! 】

Because of Mortal Soul's special mechanism, many bosses can run directly in front of it, and you can enter another map without killing the boss.

So on the first day of the game, many players started "running away" in this way.

Many people didn't even think about it when they saw the little monsters, they rolled over on the spot, crawled and left-hit!No!Pass!

Just look at the scenery!Don't have any thoughts that you shouldn't have!

At this time, many players finally recalled the fear and humiliation of being dominated by the leader's smiling face back then...

Then everyone dug up the clearly stated speeches at the carnival that year.

Host: "So, the new game is also an adventure mode? Is it like in my world, go out to fight monsters at night?"

Mingyan: "It may be a little bit more difficult than that. I have high expectations for our players."