Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 581 485 Oh no, it’s a heart-pounding feeling

The TV screen suddenly went black.

Immediately afterwards, the large pokeni company LOGO, which Masaharu Yamada was already very familiar with, appeared.

【Game is life】

[Here, start an unprecedented journey of life]

After the font disappeared, the screen fell into darkness.

The light suddenly brightened up, it was really bright and blinding.

Probably in order to echo the name of the game "AIR", the opening credits of the game show a blue sky.

After a brief two seconds of silence, a piece of music played that moved Yamada Masaharu's heart.

The melody of the piano, against the background of the picture, suddenly became rich and three-dimensional.

It was the "Bird Poem" that became popular during this period.

Eh? !

This is the first time Masaharu Yamada has seen a galgame put music into the op.

Or to be precise, it was the production level that gave him the wonderful illusion of watching animation.

However, Yamada Masaharu felt unreasonably happy to be able to hear "Bird Poetry" sung by Hamasaki Ayumi, and at such an early stage.

Over this period of time, the promotion of this song and Hamasaki Ayumi's own influence have made Bird Poems popular outside the circle. It is obviously not the first time I have heard it.

But Masaharu Yamada was still touched.

I just feel wet in my heart.

Ah...is this the strength of the national female singer?

Or is it because pokeni's game music is so well produced?

He recalled how when he played CLANNAD and LIFE-LINE, his eyes filled with tears whenever he heard the BGM, and he thought, would the same be true for "air"?

…

As the white clouds go away, the ending of the op falls on the long embankment by the sea. Although there is no one there, there are two small shovels and red plastic buckets placed on the edge of the beach, coupled with the afterglow of the setting sun at dusk, It gives people the feeling that someone has been to this place and stories have happened there.

There is not much rendering, but you already feel that time has passed.

This is probably the strength of pokeni's painters. In the 4 minutes since the OP, there is not even a human face. The whole process is basically scenes, from the sky to the mountain road to the long embankment at the seaside...

There is only scenery, but it seems to have told a complete story.

It gives people the illusion that time is passing by.

But, the story is just about to begin.

At this point, the game op ends and you enter the start menu.

A big "AIR" appeared on the white screen

Next to this English logo, there is a very interesting silhouette:

There is an image of a girl in a long skirt, holding another hand with one hand, but the silhouette of the person next to her has been cut off in half. It can only be seen that it is a hand, but it is impossible to know what it really looks like.

Under the LOGO, there is a line of text description:

[These times, wrapped in the blue of summer, flow slowly]

[Girls repeat the cycle like summer]

【Summer continues】

【She is waiting in the sky】

The blue sea is spread on the top of the screen, and the white clouds are blooming. Everything is so beautiful.

pokeni's camera movements and picture colors are really amazing. Yamada Masaharu finally discovered that there are two different light effects in P agency.

The first type is like Demon Hunter and Diablo, where the tone of the whole picture is darker.

As for the other kind, like CL and AIR, the overall picture is bright and soft.

It’s almost like some directors have two completely different styles of making movies. One is that they want to light up the entire scene brightly, with large exposure and slow shutter speed. They want to be as white as possible and as bright as they want. Bright.

The other one is extremely dark, with all kinds of shadows intertwined. I wish I could only turn on one light in the whole room, or that dim small desk lamp.

However, the results of these two styles are very good and have high texture.

The only thing that scares Yamada Masaharu is——

A pokeni game, the brighter and warmer the picture, the sadder the final ending, which makes people want to send a razor blade to the producer.

Is "AIR" the same?

…

After clicking [New Game], Masaharu Yamada entered the prologue.

On the large pure white screen, a line of text appeared:

【My child...

You listened carefully. 】

[What I want to tell you now... is very important.

I have forgotten when it started...

Passed down from generation to generation...

A story about a rather long... journey...]

…

The painting begins with the silhouette of a mother and child, followed by clouds that are blown away by the wind and dissipate in the middle of the painting.

The game screen flashes white.

The TV switched to a seaside bus stop.

The actor seemed to have trekked from a very far away place. As soon as he stepped out of the car, he was immediately enveloped in the steaming heat and the remaining exhaust fumes from the bus.

The male protagonist [Kunizaki Miuto] felt dizzy and couldn't help but close his eyes.

As the bus went further and further away, the sound of the engine became less audible, replaced by the noisier chirping of cicadas.

Kunizaki took a deep breath——

It's the smell of the sea.

The hot sunlight shone on his face, making him feel inexplicably anxious.

Kunizaki Miuto slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw were the mountains and the blue sea in the hot summer.

The seaside road winds up along the distant mountain peaks, and the sunflowers next to it are in full bloom.

Even though it is early spring when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, Masaharu Yamada, who is sitting at home playing games, still feels the burning atmosphere.

It's as if you are really at the seaside in the hot summer, and even your skin feels like it is being burned.

Summer...

Yamada Masaharu sighed.

Speaking of which, since Jun Asae joined pokeni, several games related to seasons have been released.

For example, "CLANNAD" in spring, "LIFE-LINE" in winter, and now it's summer again.

I wonder if there will be a game set in autumn in the future?

Oh, by the way, when did "My Future Girlfriend" by Jun Asae take place?

It seems like it’s summer too, or is it spring?

Yamada Masaharu can no longer remember clearly.

But what impressed him most was the wish of his daughter Miyazaki Narai in Lifeline——

I want to swim with my dad in the summer.

Could it be that it was to fulfill this wish that Ma Zhizhun produced "AIR"?

Thinking of this, thinking of that cute little girl, Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but feel a sore nose.

I almost had the urge to cry.

He quickly picked up the beer from the side and poured it down his throat, finally suppressing it.

Damn...

Why do you have so many sad associations just after playing a game?

Damn, I was almost tortured into PTSD by Furuhara Chunqiu and Ma Zhizhun.

Yamada Masaharu took a deep breath and continued the game.

【What a remote and remote place】

The male protagonist Kunisaki sighed.

Midorikawa Hikari's voice is so magnetic that it sounds like you're about to get pregnant.

Yes, Midorikawa's voice is so recognizable that you can recognize it as soon as you hear it. This guy is the popular voice actor who dubbed Rukawa Kaede in Slam Dunk. In "AIR", Midorikawa The voice is obviously much softer.

…

The male protagonist Kunisaki Miuto is a wandering traveler. To put it bluntly, he is a ronin who wanders around and makes do with his life.

As soon as I got off the bus, I inevitably felt hungry.

Seeing the children walking in the distance, Kunizaki took out a worn-out doll and started performing for them, hoping that the children would give him some pocket money.

The doll is a palm-sized guy wearing a red hat and a pair of small wings behind his back. He looks funny, a bit like Pinocchio.

Kunizaki Miuto has a very special magic that can make the little doll move and perform various difficult actions on the ground.

This is also a very important part of his performance.

However, it didn't look as exaggerated and exciting as he said. The children didn't believe in his magic at all, and they just thought that the big brother's performance was really bad.

In the midst of the commotion, a child kicked the doll out and left noisily.

…

【So hot】

On the way to pick up the doll, Kunizaki Minato fell down due to heat stroke after just a few steps.

When he opened his eyes again, a girl appeared in his field of vision.

A beautiful golden ponytail, the ponytail is very long, reaching to the ankle.

She has big bright eyes, wearing a long skirt, and a big white bow tied on the back of her head.

The girl looked unusually lively. She jumped slightly and stood next to Xiang Ren. As she moved, her ponytail also swayed.

The breeze blew across her face, gently tossing her long hair as if mischievously, and her knee-length skirt fluttered slightly, clinging to her thighs.

She stretched a lot, then turned around and smiled brightly at the person in front of her.

The smile is so bright and moving.

On this day, the hero Kunizaki Miuto met the heroine Kansuzu Kamio.

Ah, what a cute girl.

Oops……

Yamada Masaharu clutched his chest.

It's a heart-pounding feeling.

…

Damn, pokeni is so good at drawing girls, right?

Even though he is a two-dimensional producer, Masaharu Yamada can still make him feel cute, so cute that you can hardly have any interest in real girls in three dimensions.

Oops, if this continues, how can I find a girlfriend? !

…

Kansuzu Kamio took the initiative to say hello to the male protagonist. Although she instinctively thought that this guy looked suspicious, she still communicated with her politely.

In order to take care of the male protagonist, Guan Ling took the initiative to buy a bottle of drink from the vending machine nearby.

This guy seems to be a little too enthusiastic, right?

Is this love at first sight?

Previous game heroines had to be conquered, but I feel that the heroine in the game of "AIR" is more similar, which made Masaharu Yamada a little uncomfortable.

"Do I still need to pretend to work hard?"

Yamada Masaharu was puzzled.

"I want to play with you." Guan Ling said.

"I'm not in the mood. All the people eating are gone." Kunizaki said to others.

He fumbled around again, but the doll was gone.

"Ah...is it such an important thing?"

Guan Ling then proposed to help him find the doll together.

Guan Ling first searched in the bushes and placed a large beetle in front of the male protagonist.

"Ah, that's amazing. Why do you think this is what I'm looking for?!" Xiangren mocked.

"I thought it was your friend." Guan Ling tilted her head and said with a squinted smile.

ah……

Really a natural idiot.

The two people were looking around in the grass on the beach. A crow suddenly appeared in the field of vision, playing with the puppet on the ground with its sharp beak.

"Ah! Found it!" Kunizaki pointed at the doll and said.

Guan Ling rushed forward immediately.

"Crow, crow!"

Actually...

What I want to catch is the crow.

Kunisaki covered his face in pain.

"It's a doll, a doll!"

"Ah...sorry, I thought it was a crow."

"How can a crow be the important eater?!"

"Maybe he's your important partner?" Guan Ling said with a smile.

Kunizaki's temper was gone.

"Thank you, help me find the doll."