National Game Producer

In the afternoon, Li Nansheng did not choose to go to the gym to exercise, but stayed at home and browsed Weibo.

When he saw "Firebringer" announcing the launch of a new game, he immediately put on the [Editor Resonator], logged into the official game platform, and bought the other party's new game.

Naturally, he also read the other party’s last Weibo update.

His reaction at the time was disdain, and his thoughts are still disdain now.

After all, although the games he made are old-fashioned and tacky, they are classic routines that have been tested by the market for a long time. In addition, he will make micro-innovations in settings from time to time. How can he be a person who has never been in love?

Can gamers challenge it?

It’s okay to feel inferior in new types of games. If he’s not confident in love games and can’t even stabilize his fundamentals, then there’s really no need for him to continue being a game producer and he can just change careers.

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Within a few moments, the game is downloaded.

He immediately clicked to open it.

The game is called "The Binding of Isaac".

Li Nansheng's knowledge reserve is not bad. He knows that Isaac is a character in the Bible. When he was young, his father used him as a sacrifice to God, but he was finally stopped by an angel.

After the game starts, there is a black and white cutscene that looks like a child's graffiti.

There is a child in the picture...probably the protagonist Isaac, who is sitting on the ground happily playing with toys. His mother is also watching TV with a smile, and the family is enjoying themselves.

At this time, God's voice suddenly came from the sky, asking his mother to forbid Isaac from playing.

As a devout believer, the mother followed the instructions without hesitation and confiscated all the toys of little Isaac.

Soon, the voice of God came again, asking his mother to forbid Isaac to move outside.

The mother did as she was told and shut little Isaac into the room.

Then, God sent a final order...for the mother to kill little Isaac.

Finally, the mother picked up the kitchen knife and stepped towards the room where little Isaac was.

Little Isaac saw everything through the crack in the door and was so frightened that he ran around in the room. Finally he found the entrance to the cellar on the ground and jumped in.

…

The opening animation ends and the game screen comes to the initial interface.

Li Nansheng couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Is this the new game of "Firebringer"?

It’s just a cut-scene like this, and the art design is even more childlike. Isn’t it too funny?

If you say this is a game played by primary school students, he might still believe it.

Who dares to believe that this is a new game produced by the "Fire Bearer" who made "The World in Pictures", "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and "The Invisible Guardian"?

But soon, he suppressed the smile on his face again.

Rather than believing that "Firebringer" was scribbling, he preferred to believe that there was something wrong with the game.

...The game that the opponent has been preparing for so long cannot be as simple as it looks on the surface!

‘Another new type of game with unique gameplay?’

In doubt, Li Nansheng opened a new save file and officially entered the game.

After the game started, little Isaac appeared in a light brown basement room with tears in his eyes.

On the floor of the room, a novice tutorial for the game is displayed.

There are three red hearts in the upper left corner of the screen, and below the red hearts there are three small icons: gold coins, bombs, and keys.

Except for the bomb icon, which has 01 behind it, the other two icons have 00 behind it.

As for the upper right corner... it's probably a map?

Looking at this top-down view, which is similar to "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Stardew Valley," Li Nansheng quickly understood the general gameplay of this game.

There's no problem with moving it, it's very smooth.

The attack... actually shoots tears?

Then plant the bomb...

"boom--"

Damn it!

Li Nansheng watched helplessly as little Isaac was blown back a few steps by the bomb, let out a scream, and his body flashed twice in a row.

At the same time, the red heart in the upper left corner of the screen was also empty, leaving only an empty container in its original position.

This is one bar less blood...

Li Nansheng narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to awkwardly adapt to the operation of the game.

Perhaps it was because he had never played a similar game before. Even though the style of the game was very childish, he was still attracted by the idea of ​​using tears as an attack method, which aroused some of his emotions, and he started playing seriously without realizing it.

In the game, there is a door on each wall of the room. After passing through the door, little Isaac will enter a different room.

There may be ugly monsters in the new room, there may be strange obstacle terrain, and there may also be reward chests.

After passing several rooms, Li Nansheng slowly realized that this was not actually a "children's" game.

Because in this game, everything is filled with bloody, vulgar, and bizarre elements.

gloomy basement atmosphere;

Ugly and twisted monsters;

bloody enemies and ground;

If it is destroyed, prop poop may appear.

Can a healthy child play a game that combines so many strange elements?

How did the official game platform allow such a game to pass review?

Why would he be ordered to revise it if he described certain behaviors of the hero and heroine in a little more detail?

Isn’t this differential treatment?

Damn, that's so unfair!

Li Nansheng was angry in his heart while continuing to play the game.

At this time, he happened to walk into a room with a gold-plated door frame and saw a prop stored inside.

[Wooden Spoon: Movement speed increases]

Huh?

Can movement speed be increased?

He was slightly happy and immediately stepped forward to pick up the props.

The props that were picked up were immediately blurred and displayed below the map on the screen.

He controlled Little Isaac to take a few steps, and you could clearly feel that the character's movement speed had indeed become faster.

'So I've become stronger too!'

Li Nansheng's heart swelled subconsciously for two seconds, and then he felt something was wrong.

Why the hell am I so excited?

Aren't I here to investigate the enemy's situation?

I should seriously review the quality of the game!

Thinking of this, he quickly adjusted his mentality, controlled little Isaac with an expressionless face, and walked into the next unknown room.

The next second, a bunch of self-destructing monsters quickly surrounded him, and before he could react, there was a "bang" and the remaining half of little Isaac's red heart was blown away.

game over.

The cause of little Isaac's death appeared on the screen.

The lower left corner says "Exit" and the lower right corner says "Reopen".

What about archiving? Is there no automatic archiving?

Li Nansheng subconsciously clicked [Reopen].

Then, the game really starts from the beginning!

The gold coins, bombs, keys, and [Wooden Spoon] he picked up before all disappeared!

Even the map in the upper right corner seems to have been replaced with another one!

this……

What is this?

What about my wooden spoon that moves faster?

Is there a bug in this game?!

Li Nansheng's blood pressure rose slightly, and he almost became furious.

But the next second, he suddenly remembered the Weibo post of "The Fire Bearer".

[Don’t pay too much attention to the death of the game character, you will find the fun after trying it a few times...]

He repeated it silently in his mind, then thoughtfully controlled little Isaac and embarked on an adventure again.

He is not playing the game, but looking for faults in the game to prepare for critical reviews later.

Well, he was sure of it!

…

Five hours later.

Li Nansheng took off his VR glasses and looked at the dark night outside the window with a confused look on his face.

What the hell did I do this whole afternoon?!

How is this game more toxic than Stardew Valley?

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Thanks to "Wanzhao丷" for the 500 point reward, thank you~

I just checked on Steam and found that I have played Isaac for 356 hours!

The key point is that I still haven’t bought the DLC. If I do, I’ll probably waste a lot of time...