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Zhang He, 34 years old, is an ordinary JRPG player.

Zhang He’s family conditions were quite good when he was a child, and the good family conditions also allowed him to come into contact with the novelty of games since he was a child, and he was also an old player in the 16bit golden age. At that time, he was limited by game consoles and Due to the limitation of computer functions, almost all games are in pixel style, and JRPG was the best display theme at that time due to the limitation of technical means.

It can be said that pixel and JRPG games have run through Zhang He's entire childhood entertainment career. After school, after finishing his homework, sitting in front of the computer and game console, opening a JRPG to experience the touching and shocking stories, that is the most exciting thing in his day. It's time to be happy.

When he grows up, he is still a player, but there are fewer and fewer games that allow him to experience the joy of games.

The shocking scenes and realistic 3A pictures are indeed amazing, but it can't give him the feeling he used to. He gets tired of playing for an hour or two at most. He even doesn't even finish the ending of many games, so he directly becomes Happy to add one.

And the interesting multiplayer mode, let alone the competitive type of games against confrontation, are already 34-year-old 'old people', and they don't usually play the kind that belongs to leisure and elderly care, and the operation response can't keep up at all. Isn't playing this kind of game looking for abuse?

It's not bad to be aggrieved and autistic without being abused, but still happy?

Happy chicken neck!

Compared with these games, he prefers some stand-alone games that can be played by himself, especially turn-based and strategy games that don’t require too much technology, but there are really few such games, especially No one does JRPG anymore.

Now at most, he just plays those 3A masterpieces in his spare time, and then still waits for the new game to be released. After playing for several hours, sometimes the ending does not get through, so he just puts it in the inventory to eat ashes.

The old games from his childhood, he has been baptized by the 3A game screen, and he can't play it again.

Those games that used to be great in memory now seem to be tears of abandonment by the times after all, and those good memories are only good memories after all.

Perhaps what I miss is not only the game, but also the memory of that period of youth.

It might be interesting to see what this Octopath Traveler looks like?

If it really doesn't work, it's a big deal as Xijiayi, anyway, there are no games to buy recently.

Sighing, Zhang He opened the search engine, typed the words "Octopath Traveler" and searched.

Soon Zhang He found the official website of Octopath Traveler, as well as the promotional trailer.

Simple concept art and promotional video.

Along with the LOGO of Nebula Studio, the LOGO of Galaxy Network as the publisher flashed.

The exquisite standing drawing of the characters emerges, and when entering the game, accompanied by the brisk BGM, the snow scene, city, and wilderness in the game emerge in front of his eyes. The clever combination of 2D pixel characters and 3D scenes makes Zhang He instantly lift up his spirits.

'Eight adventures, eight protagonists, play the role of eight different travelers, inheriting their strengths, troubles and dreams. '

'Olbelik Eisenberg was originally a subjugated swordsman who lived in seclusion in a small mountain village until a chance meeting made him set out to find his former companion who killed the king and treason...he will find the reason to wield the sword again what? '

Accompanied by the introduction of characters one by one, and the appearance of standing paintings next to them, the ingenious fusion of 2D pixel characters and 3D scenes, as well as the excellent light and shadow and particle effects, made Zhang He sitting on the chair feel as if there was a A current flows through the body.

looks good? Zhang He, who has experienced the baptism of 3A pictures, can clearly say that this kind of pixel is not good-looking.

But is it ugly? Zhang He, who has experienced the golden age of pixel RPG, can clearly say,

This pixel-style game simply blows him away.

But this is not the most critical, the most critical is a familiar feeling.

When Zhang He saw the clever combination of 2D characters and 3D scenes, Zhang He felt that all the memories of the past popped up in his mind.

The pixel games I remember playing when I was young, don’t they look like this in my mind?

The indescribable feeling is obviously a pixel style, but the vision of this kind of picture even made his scalp tingle.

But the only thing he can understand is that this may be the game he wants!

Eight characters, eight different theme songs, and excellent voice actor romances, these are the feelings that those JRPGs never brought him.

Primrose was able to survive the worst of the situation with her innate wit and spirit. After a full ten years of waiting and observation, she seized the opportunity to avenge the murder of her father... the group of people with crow tattoos people. '

'I don't need your stage anymore...now...I'm going to dance for myself. '

With the appearance of the last traveler dancer and the amazing BGM, Zhang He's whole spirit was excited.

He wanted to figure out a little bit, there would be those stories behind these characters.

For example, why did the swordsman's former companion treason, and who killed the dancer's father?

During the development of the story, will the eight characters shown in the promotional trailer get together because of some things and stage an epic story with ups and downs?

These things made Zhang He very curious.

Without much hesitation, Zhang He opened the official game platform with some expectation, searched for the game "Octopath Traveler", and then added it to the shopping cart.

The only regret is that although the price of the game has been announced, the pre-sale has not been opened and you can only buy it on the day it goes online.

But soon he thought of something, and logged on to the JRPG game forum. This feeling is like when I was a child, after school, my friends gathered in groups to discuss which game strategy, If anyone discovers details and strategies that others have not discovered, they will show off and say the same.

This is how Zhang He feels now.

But when he logged into the JRPG game forum, he was stunned when he saw the forum that was about to be wiped out.

The official navy?

Zhang He subconsciously thought about it, but soon after he saw a few IDs he was familiar with among the posters, he dismissed the idea.

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News about "Octopath Traveler", under the operation of Galaxy Network, is full of websites such as JRPG forums and game starry sky. The Galaxy Network is still relatively targeted for advertising, and most of them are "Octopath Traveler" Areas with a large audience, such as the group of nostalgic old players who have experienced the golden age of pixels.

Although Yang Chen said that this is a commercial game, the target group is not simply positioned on those nostalgic old players, but the retro pixel style production still has obvious characteristics.

Of course, in addition to targeting, the most important thing for this kind of publicity is that there is no money to spread the publicity across the Internet.

As the early publicity time passed by a little bit, I had a good handover with the employees of Galaxy Network responsible for the game community, and at the same time contacted the main person in charge of the outsourcing project of Chasing Dream.

Yang Chen, Wang Ye, and Chen Shu are in the company, paying close attention to the development of the game. Although it is a stand-alone game, if there are some major bugs, they must be fixed as soon as possible.

Ordinary entries such as wrong entries, or some hidden branch bugs have problems, then the repair time can be slowed down, but if it involves a vicious bug that cannot be continued in the main storyline, then the first time is to eliminate it.

Even if a dedicated testing team has been asked to conduct internal testing in advance, things like BUG never mean that they have been tested, and there will be no more.

Many, many factors can lead to the emergence of game bugs.

Wang Ye, Li Ran, and Ye Bin are used to this. When they used to make games, not to mention working overtime at the beginning of the game's release, it was common to stay in the office for a whole day.

If you are really sleepy, lie down on the workstation and sleep for a while, then get up and continue to fix the bugs in the game.

Why does 27-year-old Wang Ye look like 37? Isn't that how it's made?

Amidst the attention of the industry and players, "Octopath Traveler" has officially launched on all platforms.