Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 323 227. The beast calling for love in the center of the world

March 28, 1996.

Qing Zhiyuan and Tsuda Nao were lying on the sofa, eating fruit leisurely and watching TV.

The TV is playing the animated film "Neon Genesis Evangelion" directed by Hideaki Anno.

This cartoon tells the story of the earth where the "Second Impact" disaster occurred. It mainly tells the story of the 14-year-old boy Shinji Ikari driving the giant humanoid robot called "EVA" left behind by his father Ikari Gendo and its origins. The story of the unknown "apostles" fighting.

Now we have come to the last chapter of EVA. The name is simple and crude but very meaningful, called——

【Call the beast of love in the center of the world】

When she saw this title, Tsuda Nao laughed.

"The beast of love is really interesting."

The two seem contradictory and inconsistent, but when put together they give people an infinite tension.

Among the TV sets, a candle appeared on the black screen, burning with a faint light.

The male protagonist Shinji Ikari’s monologue sounded:

【I am going to disappear】

[However, it doesn’t matter if I disappear like this]

Ayanami Rei: "Why?"

Hearing Ayanami Rei's voice, the corners of Qing Zhiyuan's mouth raised slightly.

Ah~ Teacher Emi Hayashihara's voice is really pleasant, that kind of cooling and infinitely pitiful voice is like a kitten scratching her heart.

It was precisely because Hayashihara and Kotono Mitsuishi agreed to dub this EVA that they declined the job of "To the Moon".

Thinking of this, Qing Zhiyuan still felt a little itchy.

"Because I am the unwanted child."

"No one cares what I become."

Shinji Ikari roared.

In the final chapter of "Neon Genesis Evangelion", the focus of the plot turns to Shinji Ikari.

Director Hideaki Anno used a stream of consciousness technique to use others as mirrors to reflect a different image of a person in everyone's eyes. In the last episode, he focused on depicting the portrait of Shinji Ikari in the hearts of others.

In addition, the ending arranged by director Hideaki Anno is that Shinji completes the characters in the play one by one with sincerity, piloting Unit 1 against his father who drives Unit 13, one holding Cassius, the gun of hope, and the other holding the God-killing weapon. Gun Longinus.

This ending is a sublimation of the theme of the entire story.

"Why did you suddenly start to have a stream of consciousness?" Tsuda Nao laughed.

His eyes were filled with endless doubts.

To be honest, anyone else would have the same doubts.

At the end of last year, when "Neon Genesis Evangelion" was launched, countless viewers saw several important labels on it -

【Science fiction】【Mecha】【Battle】【Hot-blooded】

Everyone will think that this cartoon must be a very exciting and hot-blooded mecha series.

Before you watch: Sci-fi, mecha, fighting! Great! ! !

After watching: Is this really for children?

Since the beginning of the Human Completion Project, Nao Tsuda has fallen into deep self-doubt.

Does this cartoon need to be so profound?

Qing Zhiyuan blinked his eyes maliciously and said silently, "Maybe it's because there's not enough funds?"

It is one of the very early mecha anime.

It has great influence, but the ratings are not very good.

At least sorry for its big production cost.

Maybe it's because the theme of this cartoon is a bit too profound, and Anno Hideaki's stream-of-consciousness shooting technique really made the audience confused.

But in the future, when people look back at this animation and pull out the various details and analyze and interpret them, EVA will stand on the altar in one fell swoop and become a masterpiece in the career of director Hideaki Anno.

A blockbuster piece.

Qing Zhiyuan, who had already seen it several times in his previous life, still watched it with gusto this time.

There is even a very new viewing experience.

"Why live?"

"What are you living for?"

"For yourself?"

After watching this episode, Nao Tsuda's mind was filled with these questions.

"It's too scary. Director Hideaki Anno succeeded in making me not want to cooperate with him." Nao Tsuda said, hugging her legs.

My mind is buzzing.

This proposition is simply not suitable for children to think about, right?

Even after thousands of years, there is still no answer to it.

"But the result is good, right?"

Qing Zhiyuan looked at the desperate expression on Tsuda Nao's face and laughed, "Human beings are great because of their complexity. What is imperfect is perfect. The future needs to be created by everyone together.

Even in despair there is still hope.

This is probably what director Hideaki Anno wants to tell us. "

Tsuda Nao rolled her eyes silently, "Thank you for thinking of so many things."

No matter what Qing Zhiyuan said, Tsuda Nao felt that she wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight.

…

"So you men just like mechas, right?" Nao Tsuda said with a smirk.

"Um."

Qing Zhiyuan nodded silently, "It's not just mechas, we also like others."

"What about?" Tsuda Nao looked at him with a smile.

"For example, guns," Qing Zhiyuan said, "Mechas, guns, artillery, and the universe, these are all men's romance."

"Hey, what you guys like is really a bit cold." Tsuda mocked with his eyes narrowed.

"Of course, and you." Qing Zhiyuan laughed.

Tsuda Nao chuckled and waved her hand, "No, I'm not cold at all."

"It's really weird to put me together with mechas, guns, the universe and so on."

Qing Zhiyuan was also amused.

It's a little strange.

However, he didn't lie at all.

War and women are themes and elements that are constantly used in animation, film and television works, and even games.

"But seriously, are these things engraved in human DNA, killing, war, etc." Nao Tsuda asked doubtfully.

Qing Zhiyuan thought for a moment and shook his head slowly.

“Isn’t the purpose of war just for peace?”

"On the other hand, human beings actually like peace, tranquility, happiness and beauty deep down."

"Emm..." Nao Tsuda held her chin, thinking silently.

That seems right.

"Ah! Speaking of mechas, guns and women..."

A ray of light came from the sky and flickered in Qing Zhiyuan's brain.

Qing Zhiyuan suddenly stood up from the sofa.

He suddenly remembered something.

"Thank you, wife!"

Qing Zhiyuan quickly kissed Tsuda Nao on the lips, and then jumped into the study.

Tsuda was left sitting there with a stunned look on his face.

"I……"

What happened?

She touched her mouth silently, and her cheeks became hot.

…

Qing Zhiyuan thought of a very interesting anime masterpiece full of iron-blooded and anti-war elements.

And now he wants to make it into a game.

The name of this masterpiece is——

"86"

…

"86?"

Ishino Mika looked surprised.

The name of this game sounds really strange.

Is 86 a year?

Will the children born in 1986 thank you?

"Yes." Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

86 - The Non-Existent War Zone is a cartoon that will be broadcast on April 10, 2021.

It tells the story that in an imaginary world with highly developed technology, humans can already make combat weapons for fighting.

The Empire developed a series of war weapons, the Robot Corps.

then--

In response to the invasion of the "Legion", a completely independent unmanned combat weapon developed by Giadi, its neighboring Republic of Saint Gnoria developed the power of unmanned combat weapon Destruction.

However, the unmanned fighter jets are just in name. They are actually flown by people who are not recognized as "human beings" - 86 - and are used as props.

The empire does use a group of cold mechanical warfare without flesh and blood, while the Republic of Saint Gnolia lets this group of humans in Area 86 drive mechas and fight against each other with flesh and blood.

Because of this, these soldiers in Area 86 are collectively called 86.

In 1986, the war was extremely cruel.

And those in power don't take the people at the bottom seriously at all.

Especially the humans living in the 86 area were forcibly recruited by them to become death squads on the battlefield, but they lied internally that 86 were all robots and there were no living people.

In the eyes of the higher-ups, 86 is indeed not a human being, just a group of ants seeking death.

…

After reading the setting and script outline, Ishino Mika was a little surprised.

"Huh? Is it actually a war-themed game?"

To be honest, apart from the initial Onmyoji series which had a little bit of combat, she had never been exposed to such a bloody war game.

No matter how you look at it, it’s strange that the president actually entrusted her with the production of such a game.

"Do you want to make it a war chess game?"

Ishino Mika was not feeling well.

"President, I have never made a war chess game before."

"Don't talk about you, I don't either." Qing Zhiyuan comforted.

Ah this...

Ishino Mika has nothing to say.

Neither I nor you, the president, have experience, isn’t it even worse?

I originally wanted to say this, but Ishino Mika thought about it carefully. Since the company was founded, it seems that it has made many games that it has never experienced before.

For example, Diablo, for example, the Pokémon series.

She and the president had no experience when they first started tinkering with Onmyoji.

But Qing Zhiyuan feels that if you have never eaten pork, have you never seen a pig running?

Compared with games like Diablo and 3D Pokémon, which need to be made completely from scratch, turning 86 into a war chess game is not too simple.

There are too many war chess games on the market now.

The most typical one is the "Fire Emblem" series.

It's a pity that Kaga Shozo has not resigned from Rentendo, otherwise Qing Zhiyuan would really like to recruit him.

After thinking about it, Qing Zhiyuan finally decided to make 86 into a war chess game, and then interspersed CG to fill in the plot, because only in this way can the essence of the entire animation be clearly expressed.

Moreover, as Ishino Mika said, the war chess genre is an area that pokeni has not yet entered.

We need to drive a nail into this field to open up new territory.

So 86 is more strategic.

"Why a war chess game?" Ishino Mika said thoughtfully, "Isn't this game more suitable for Mikami and others to make a shooting game? I think Nvidia's 3D graphics card is coming out soon."

"Well, I've actually thought about this problem a long time ago."

Qing Zhiyuan thought about it and decided that it would be best to play a chess game.

"Make it a shooting game. You can only highlight one male protagonist, and the roles of other people in the corps will be greatly diluted.

There are many characters in 86. Although there are male and female protagonists, in terms of narrative elements and on the battlefield, 86 fights in the form of corps cooperation.

But 86 is a very anti-war game. Once the description of the friends is missing, when they are destroyed by the ruthless fire of war, the experience the players will get will be much weakened. "

Oh my god...

Ishino Mika was completely shocked.

What on earth did I hear?

She quickly flipped through the project in her hand...

As expected, there are a lot of [sacrifice] in it

President, can you be a human being? !

In the past, the male and female protagonists were ignored. After all, the number of people was still relatively small. This wave, almost every character that will appear in the game is directly given to the sword.

Yes, the project plan that Qing Zhiyuan showed to Ishino Mika only contained the first part of 86.

Finally, the protagonists leave the battlefield and embark on a casual journey, choosing their favorite place to die.

This kind of death is tragic and gorgeous, but because it is the self-willed choice of the protagonists, it is full of infinite romance.

Ishino Mika covered her face with her hands, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"I don't dare to accept this game..."

Qing Zhiyuan's eyes widened, "Take it, you must take it!"

If you don't answer, I won't have anyone left.

"President..."

"But "Proposal Battle" hasn't been released yet." Ishino Mika felt bitter.

In the past, new projects were started only after the game was completed.

Now it is about to open a new pit before it is even released.

"But it's done, isn't it?" Qing Zhiyuan asked.

"Proposal Battle" has been completed and is just waiting for release. In the next period of time, the development team will be under much less pressure and there will be almost no workload.

The pressure is on the operations team.

Ishino, are you using this as an excuse because you think the president doesn't understand games?

"Hmm... That's right." Ishino Mika nodded obediently.

"Find a planner who is good at numerical values ​​to help." Qing Zhiyuan said, "Be the producer yourself and let him be your executive director."

"Oh, okay. This is no problem."

Ishino Mika suddenly became happy.

"You have been a producer for so long, haven't you ever thought about being promoted to a supervisor?"

"Huh?" Ishino Mika raised her head in horror.

Supervisors are at a higher level than producers. They are equivalent to the boss of the studio group. They can open their own studios and initiate projects.

As for producers, they are basically responsible for the game. They are equivalent to directors and need to control the overall quality and progress of each game.

Supervision does not need to spend a lot of time on this.

…

"After 86 is completed, there will be more game projects that need to be developed," Qing Zhiyuan said. "When the time comes, you can be the supervisor and then train a few more new people."

Otherwise, there really won’t be enough producers.

"Okay, okay, President."

Ishino Mika's cheeks were red, which was caused by excitement.

She never thought that one day she would be promoted to supervisor.

…

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There is another chapter tonight