Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 124 28. Satisfied by one book

June 1, 1992.

This day is the day when pokeni's "New Onmyoji" will be released on the MD platform.

Although June 1st is called International Children's Day, Neon, a country that does not respect this custom, instead celebrates three unique Children's Days of their own.

You read that right, it’s Three Children’s Day!

They are "Girls' Day" on March 3, "Boys' Day" on May 5 and "Seven-Five-Three" on November 15, but only Children's Day on May 5 will be a holiday.

From the side, it also reflects that Neon is indeed a society where men are superior to women.

…

Koji Hirai is the store manager of a game store in Akihabara Street, Tokyo.

In the 1990s, Akihabara Street had not yet developed into a holy place for future otakus. In addition to selling electronic products, there were many grocery stores and restaurants, which was no different from some ordinary neighborhoods.

Without cosplayers standing on the street, there will always be a lack of flavor.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, he dragged his tired body out of his home and went to the store to prepare to open the door.

Although his name is a store manager, Hirai is no different from an ordinary worker. He only gets a slightly higher salary than store clerks, but he has much more responsibility.

In addition to the store manager, a game store only employs at most one clerk, who can take turns looking after the store when the other party has something to do.

There are even some game stores where the store manager is just a polished commander.

The game store he runs is one of Dongrun's Goldfinger game sales chain stores.

When Koji Hirai walked around the corner and saw his game store, he couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

"Nani?! Real or fake, what's going on?"

In front of the shop, there was a whole queue, and the crowd was densely packed, standing all the way to the end of the street...

Moreover, it is still the kind with no end in sight.

"Isn't it?"

To be honest, this is the first time he has seen this situation in the four years he has been a store manager.

What's going on today?

…

As soon as he reached the door, he was surrounded by a group of people.

"Brother, are you cutting in line? That's not okay. I've been waiting in line here for more than three hours. Please obey the rules and wait in line at the back, okay?"

said the young man at the head of the team.

"That's right, can you please be a quality person?"

"It's not easy for everyone. I've been queuing here for a long time just to buy a game cartridge. Please respect everyone's hard work." An elderly uncle came out to persuade.

People in the queue raised their heads one after another and looked at this [queue-jumper] with disdain.

When everyone looked at him like this, Hirai Koji took a step back with a guilty conscience.

But when he turned around and thought, that was wrong.

Without me, what can you buy?

It really made me look like a queue jumper.

The store manager was pushed back by people, looking extremely helpless and innocent.

"You! Are you all here to buy "Final Fantasy 5"?" the store manager asked loudly.

The surrounding air suddenly became quiet.

Everyone fell into silence for a moment.

It is also very interesting to say that within this month, in addition to the release of Pokeni's new Onmyoji, there is also a new popular game, which is "Final Fantasy 5" developed by Square on the SFC platform.

Square Enix during this period can be described as a model worker. Since the release of Final Fantasy 1 in 1987, the company has continued to release the latest works at the rate of one Final Fantasy per year.

So players are looking forward to it once a year.

Final Fantasy 5 can only be considered average in the entire Final Fantasy series. It has an average plot and average graphics. It is far from the reputation of 6 and 7. It is not as groundbreaking as 123 in the sense of the times, and its reputation is not as good as 4.

However, the system itself is relatively innovative. Dozens of professions and hundreds of skills greatly enhance the playability of the game. You can freely assemble your own team according to your preferences. It can also be regarded as a work that connects the past and the future during the transitional period of Final Fantasy.

So there are still a lot of people buying.

However, it is obvious that the people who come to buy games today are not here for Final Fantasy 5.

"Of course not, I'm here to buy a new Onmyoji."

A thin young boy answered bravely and confidently.

"New Onmyoji?" Store manager Hirai Koji was stunned for a moment.

He suddenly remembered, yes, today is the release date of the new version of Onmyoji on MD.

This craze comes not only from the "Onmyoji" cartoon, but also from Pokeni's promotion in the magazine that there will be a new branch line.

No wonder there are so many people today.

but……

These people are really confident.

Hirai Koji looked at everyone and couldn't help but sigh——

Two years ago, customers were very secretive about purchasing galgame.

Even after entering the store, I acted like a thief. After shopping around for several times, I selected several relatively normal games for all ages. Just before I wanted to pay, I suddenly pulled out the galgame I had been eyeing for a long time from the shelf and stuffed it. I got into a pile of cassettes, trying to get by without letting anyone discover my little hobby.

But now, these guys can express their preferences very confidently and blatantly.

What happened in the middle?

Has the galgame changed?

Or have the players changed?

Hirai Koji thought for a moment and suddenly felt——

It’s all so blame pokeni.

This gave galgame a new category and a new definition.

As a result, the current galgame has a lot of love and all-age orientations, and there is even a faint trend of deviating from the original definition.

…

Once a person accepts his own weakness.

Just invincible.

After taking off their guard and tearing off their disguise, people became calm.

It is also a kind of happiness and joy to be able to gather with like-minded people in such a place.

You may originally think that galgame is a bit difficult to talk about, but when it comes to "New Onmyoji", there is no sense of shame at all, and it is even very calm.

After all, although this game is a galgame, it is a very classic turn-based RPG.

So everyone started chatting with each other.

"Ah~ I really miss you, Onmyoji. I didn't expect it has been almost 2 years."

"Yeah, looking back now, it's like it was yesterday."

"But when I saw that..." A middle-aged man raised his chin, and everyone followed his gaze and saw a large poster posted on the glass door at the entrance of the store.

On the poster, the middle is cut by a light and divided into two parts: left and right.

On the left is Asakura Haruka, the male protagonist of Onmyoji, and on the right is Yuuki Rei, the heroine in a red and white miko costume.

There are mountains on the left and the sea on the right.

The distant sunlight shines through, and after processing, renders the picture into two different colors.

The mountain peaks on the left are majestic and golden in color.

The sea on the right is blue and sparkling, making it look cooler.

Asakura Yuan and Yumuling each stretched out their hands and held them together at the center line of the screen.

Let people produce a kind of——

The illusion that these two people will be together no matter how hard they try.

Or maybe the old thief Gu Yuan continued to be a human being and wanted to express his thoughts. Although the two people could be together, they were still separated in the end due to some force majeure.

In short, there are different interpretations depending on your thinking direction.

It is true that the pictures are more refined than two years ago.

Especially Youmuling's image in everyone's mind has become more three-dimensional.

"It's so beautiful, Ling." The middle-aged man praised, "But when I see this, my heart aches."

His words immediately awakened everyone's memories. Everyone seemed to have been hit by a bullet, as if they were mourning, and there was a sense of pain and regret in their eyes.

"The revenge for killing my wife is irreconcilable, the old thief from Guyuan, Xi Nei!"

"Yes, when we reached the finale, I wanted to kill the old thief Gu Yuan."

"But being able to experience the new plot in the new version today makes up for the regret, right?"

"Yeah, the key is whether this news is true or not. Pokeni has no credibility with me anymore, since the last time [he will never issue a knife]."

"Hahaha, [I definitely won't be able to use the knife]. I feel like it would be better to use the knife directly. People with reverse degrees are still upset when I think about it."

"Damn it, if P Club still releases false news this time, then I will be rude to Gu Yuan Chunqiu."

After cursing, everyone looked at each other and laughed meaningfully.

At this moment, a man raised his watch and took a look, "It's already 9:20. I see that the business hours written on the door of the store start at 9 a.m. Why haven't you opened the door yet?"

"What do you think?"

The store manager glanced at him with a resentful look.

"Give me, let me."

The store manager pushed through the crowd and walked inside.

However, his strength was relatively weak and he was stopped halfway.

"What are you doing? Don't you understand what I just said? Get in line!"

"hateful!"

After feeling the charm of queuing, the store manager became more confident, bolder and no longer timid.

"If you don't let me pass, who will open the door for you?!"

"Nani?! Are you the store manager?!"

The crowd shuddered and quickly got out of his way.

Hirai Koji quickly straightened his body and walked over to meet everyone's gaze.

Just these few steps made my blood boil.

As soon as the rolling shutter door opened, the crowd immediately poured in.

"Hmm~ So awesome! Is this the charm of Onmyoji!?"

Hirai Koji sighed.

…

Hirosawa Furukawa immediately bought the newly released "New Onmyoji" on MD

Insert the card, turn on the TV, and start the game.

After entering the game, the first reaction is——

The graphics of this game are indeed much more refined.

After all, this is already an MD, a 16-bit machine, and the performance of the original red and white machine is definitely incomparable.

However, plot-wise, it seems to be no different from the original version.

When everyone plays the game repeatedly, having a certain amount of experience will naturally speed up the progress. The first time I played Onmyoji took 10 hours, this time it only took half the time.

Yuuki Rei fulfilled her mission to the Izanagi clan and died together with Yamata no Orochi.

It was extremely difficult to move forward in the wind and snow.

In confusion, I saw a familiar figure waiting silently under a big tree in the snow from a distance. It turned out that Kurai Yue was holding an umbrella in his hand, holding the baby in his arms, looking at Asakura Yuan affectionately, waiting for his return.

…

Very good, I experienced the feeling of being depressed again after my heart was broken.

Furukawa Haoze closed his eyes and sneered twice.

The laughter was not because of happiness, but because of extreme anger.

asshole!

I knew Gu Yuan Chunqiu would not be so kind!

I have completely been fooled by the old thief!

This time I must send the blade to the old thief Gu Yuan!

At this moment, a line of words appeared on the screen——

[What if I could predict everything at that time? 】

【if……】

Um?

Furukawa Haoze raised his head and found that after returning to the main interface, there was an additional option in the menu——

【Hypothetical start】

What is this?

His eyes suddenly lit up, and at this moment, Furukawa Hirose realized that this thing must have been discovered by pokeni's conscience.

Click [Hypothetical Start]

The game is restarted, but this time it is similar to the second game. You can inherit some of the props and equipment from the first game.

It will be much easier to defeat monsters.

After entering the game, there is a line of small words [IF] in the upper right corner of the screen.

"IF?"

Oh, Furukawa Hirose reacted, this is what if.

During this game, when the male protagonist first landed on Fairy Island, he did not choose to go to the lake to peek. Instead, he noticed that someone was following him, so he repelled the malicious Moon Country people.

Although there was no Peeping Ling, grandma still felt that the two were a good match and hoped that Asakura Haruka could be with Yuuki Ling.

Only this time, Asakura Yuan didn't do anything strange with her on their wedding day.

Along the way, I still met Kurai Yue and Kazekage Luo from the Moon Country.

This time, the male protagonist, who already knew that the Land of Infernal Affairs would collapse, took the lead in taking precautions to protect Yue Kurai and Yuuki Ling.

So there is no need to look for phoenix eggs and unicorn horns.

This time, we still went back to the past. Although the hero still failed to save the Witch Queen (that is, Yuuki Rei's mother), he inflicted heavy damage on Yamata no Orochi.

After sending Yumuling back to Fairy Island, Asakura Yuan returned to reality.

Several people were intact and entered the final battle with 100% strength.

In this battle, the hero's strength improved a lot. At the same time, Yue Kurai and Yu Muling were both in full condition. Together with Feng Yingluo, the four of them joined forces to attack and easily eliminated the leader Li Tian.

After the defeat, Li Tian summoned the Yamata no Orochi again and merged with it.

Yamata no Orochi was severely damaged ten years ago, and his strength is not as good as before, but he is still very powerful.

Everyone was beaten to the ground and seriously injured.

At the critical moment, Yumuling still stood up and rushed towards Yamata no Orochi with his ten-fist sword.

boom!

A burst of light exploded.

The flood receded, but only ruins remained in the Yue Kingdom after the disaster.

The sky cleared, and under the golden sunshine, the Ten Fist Sword slowly fell.

The Ten Fist Sword gleamed in the sun, but Yumu Ling did not return for a long time, and Asakura Yuan was heartbroken.

Furukawa Haoze's heart was troubled to the extreme.

Isn't it?

Where is the spirit?

Or did they die together?

Just when his heart sank to the bottom of the sea, he saw the sea water rippling slightly, and a glow appeared on the water.

A slender girl rose from the bottom of the water.

Youmuling smiled miserably, with traces of blood remaining on his lips, but he was still alive.

Seeing this, Furukawa Haosawa followed Asakura Yuan on the TV, with a happy smile on his face.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Finally, I have waited for this day."

Although I know that this is an IF line, which is equivalent to something in parallel time and space. It is what happened after the hero made other choices, and is not the reality of the main line.

But at this moment, Furukawa Haoze couldn't help but burst into tears.

He had been waiting for this day for too long.

That feeling of wounds being healed and regrets being made up for.

"Furuhara Chunqiu! Awesome!"

…

Qing Zhiyuan felt his eyebrows jump suddenly, and then sneezed heavily.

The little HR sitting at the door saw this and said with a smile, "President, you must have done all kinds of bad things. The players are cursing you."

"Ah, bah, bah, bah, please don't say such terrible things, okay?!"

Qing Zhiyuan frowned and glared at her fiercely.

This guy is becoming more and more lawless.

"But..." Akane Ayase covered her mouth and smiled, "Maybe someone is missing you."

"Um?"

…