Game Development Giant

Jack Roddy is a loyal reader of "Game" magazine. When the first issue of "Game" magazine came out, he bought a copy as soon as possible. At that time, he was just for the demo of Mars Entertainment. Edition of "City of Battle", but what he didn't expect was that this game magazine was also very beautifully produced, and many of the news were things he had never heard of. Therefore, after buying a few issues, he directly I became a fan of this magazine and immediately ordered a year.

Since "Game" launched the game rating project at the beginning of this year, he will always turn to this section immediately every time he gets the magazine, because the editors of "Game" will always select several games worthy of review. Reviews, he also found many good games that he had never heard of before.

And he is not just a fan of Mars Entertainment. As long as the game is good, that's fine in his opinion.

So when "Game" rated "The Legend of Zelda" at 39 points compared to "Avengers" and "Balotelli's Adventures in Another World", he, who has always trusted "Game", immediately So I went to buy a NES and a cassette of "The Legend of Zelda". Jack didn't like DND's running group very much. Although some of his friends were very enthusiastic about it, he thought it was too complicated and troublesome. Far worse than these video games he plays. He just flipped through the catalog page, looking for the game rating page, and then he saw the name "Fire Emblem" on it - of course he knew this game, and he had read it frequently in the past six months. He got information about this game, and it was from the "game" magazine that he trusted. Mars Entertainment, which has never disappointed players, keeps saying that this is an epoch-making game.

But for Jack, the "Legend of Zelda" he played before was already extremely good. He couldn't even imagine any other game that could compare to this one, especially one of the same type. Able to be better than this game, he feels that "The Legend of Zelda" has no other shortcomings except having to play it from scratch every time.

In fact, although he has not seen "Fire Emblem", he does not think this game can be better than "The Legend of Zelda", at most it is only on the same level.

But when he turned to the page of game ratings and saw the rating printed in bright red font that the review editor of "Game" added at the end of the game, Jack Roddy's eyes widened instantly. Involuntarily, he reached out and wiped his eyes. He felt as if there was something wrong with his eyes, but when he opened them again, the number he saw was still the same one he saw before. Forty-one points.

This is the final score given by "Game" magazine to "Fire Emblem".

"...We can't even make an accurate evaluation of this game in the end, because it is so outstanding, so outstanding. In this game, Jester, as the producer of this game, expressed his feelings about this game. The understanding of various types of games. Far beyond our imagination, even we can't keep up with his thinking. Although we have experienced this game again and again. But we still have never felt it before not only getting from it Moreover, in this game, Jester and his team have also made a very, very outstanding innovation. This innovation will make any player who likes this genre worship them... …”…

"...So, in the end, all of us on the review team have come to the conclusion that forty points is no longer enough for this game, especially when we've reviewed a forty-point game before... So. We rated him at 41 points, which means that his level of excellence has exceeded our evaluation system, which means that this is a game that is perfect in every aspect."

After reading this article, Jack Roddy understood why "Fire Emblem" was evaluated with such a surprising score. After all, the full score of "Game"'s evaluation system is only forty points.

"Is this game really better than The Legend of Zelda?"

Although he saw the evaluation score of "Game" and the reasons why it was given this score, Jack Roddy still didn't believe it, because as someone who had played "The Legend of Zelda", he only knew that this game was How outstanding it is, and the evaluation given by "Game" of thirty-nine points, Jack Roddy also believes that it is well-deserved.

In fact, not only Jack Roddy, but anyone who saw this article in "Game" magazine had the same question. How good is "Fire Emblem" that made them make such an evaluation?

Nintendo people were very angry when they saw this issue of "Game". Originally, "Game" gave "The Legend of Zelda" a thirty-nine point rating. Although they were a little dissatisfied because just now "Game" "Magazine gave "Dawn" a perfect score of 40 points. In their opinion, although "Dawn" is excellent, their "Legend of Zelda" is not bad at all, but it is not the same type of game. Under the circumstances, they didn't care much about it, but this time, when "game" gave a score to "Fire Emblem" and added the reason for the score, the Nintendo people were completely intolerable.

"This is so unreasonable! What do you mean by other games of the same type that cannot be compared at all? What do you mean by a game that is so good that it cannot be evaluated at all? Is our "Legend of Zelda" a game that can be easily evaluated?" Many Nintendo Intelligence and Development Headquarters participated. People who developed "The Legend of Zelda" complained like this without exception. It may not be accurate to say that they complained. To be precise, they were cursing.

Within Mars Entertainment, they were overjoyed by the score of "Game". In their opinion, if "The Legend of Zelda" can give a score of 39 points, theirs will be better than "The Legend of Zelda" The much better "Fire Emblem" is qualified to get 41 points. Needless to say, just the creative saveable cartridge is enough to increase the playability several times compared to "The Legend of Zelda" more than.

What's more, the content in this game is much richer than that of "The Legend of Zelda". As an RPG game, the rich content is one of the most important conditions for determining whether the game is fun or not. Only if you have enough RPG games that can explore elements are good games.

Although there are different opinions about the rating of "Game". There are some who are doubters, some who are angry, some who are disdainful, and some who take it for granted. However, everyone knows that these evaluations and other things are false. Games that can really sell well are games that are truly worthy of bragging. Moreover, when two game console manufacturers are beginning to have a bloody battle, one failure may cause a rout and destroy the game. All the advantages established before were ruined.

The success caused by "The Legend of Zelda" is now obvious. Nintendo has not only consolidated its advantages in the Japanese market with this game, but has also begun a counterattack in the North American market. It will change in almost a week. This sudden market share has made all those interested in entering the video game industry, which was once almost dead, but now has a new lease of life, tremble with fear.

Even Jester is no exception. He knows that this time, he absolutely cannot fail.

The release time of "Fire Emblem" is very close, so there is no way around it. The current situation is too passive for Martian Entertainment, so Jester has to make such a decision, but Because of the more than half a year of research and development time, Mars Entertainment has not reduced the promotion of this game, and it is simply not worried that the game has not exploded to the maximum purchase potential due to insufficient hype.

Jester is not worried about the launch of his game because Mars Entertainment has enough fans.

At the launch event of "Fire Emblem", the scene was several times more lively than when Nintendo released "The Legend of Zelda". Not only were the number of people far outnumbered, but even if the police were invited to maintain the scene, the scene was still very crowded. It is extremely congested and water-blocked, which cannot be accurately described.

The success of the first day of release is exciting for everyone at Mars Entertainment. A total of 400,000 copies were sold in more than a dozen launch locations across the United States.

Although Jester was full of confidence in his game, the result of selling 400,000 copies in one day was still too amazing. You must know that not many games in later generations can achieve this result.

However, for Mars Entertainment, they are not worried about the results of the first launch. What they are concerned about is the subsequent progress of the game.

According to Jester's experience, if a game is good enough, similar to his own "Balotelli's Adventure" or Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda", their sales will be very good. According to the law, it shows a long-term sales curve with very little volatility, which is completely different from the game sales curve of later generations.

However, when "Fire Emblem" announced its first-day sales on the second day after its release, everyone was still in an uproar.