Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

Three days later, on the streets of Japan in the early morning, the workers began a busy day of work.

They get up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs. They are either at work or on the way to work every day.

However, this also pays off. Japan has just signed the Plaza Accord with Europe and the United States. The yen has appreciated wildly, which has greatly increased the purchasing power of the Japanese. Countless Japanese are spending money like water at this time.

Even an industrial worker can live a life of debauchery at this time.

On the road, you can occasionally see some drunk guys lying unconscious on the street.

But no one cared.

"Ozawa-san, this is your task this week, write down experience reports on these four games."

In the office of the Evaluation Department, the minister is assigning work tasks to his evaluation staff.

Ozawa Kenji received a total of four game evaluation tasks this time.

Magical Chamber of Secrets, Expert Thief, Exploding Balls and Contra

Four boxes of brand new cassettes were placed in front of Kenji Ozawa.

Ozawa frowned and picked up the four cassettes with some distress.

The packaging of these four cassettes is relatively simple, and the covers are actual scenes from the game, rather than original paintings drawn by a special person.

At first glance, it looks like a game made by a small company that can’t get on the market.

"Minister, can I switch to games from two big companies? I'm asked to play this kind of rubbish game every day. I feel like I'm about to lose the fun of the game."

The minister said with a cold face: "I'll just finish reviewing these games, and you can use the rest of the time as you wish. Isn't that okay?"

The person next to Kenji Ozawa smiled frivolously: "Yes, Ozawa-san, if you don't think it's interesting, don't review this game, just label it a trash game and don't play it, and then let's go drink it for a week How about the wine?"

Kenji Ozawa was a little excited, but he decided to play these four games first.

If he hurry up, he might be able to finish these four games in one night, and then it won't be too late to be lazy and fish for fun.

Back home, Ozawa Kenji turned on the NGS game console and took out the first game from the bag.

Magic chamber.

An adventure game with rough graphics and a single gameplay. The game ends after defeating a few fixed monsters along the way.

It's terrible, with three points at most.

The next one, the expert thief.

A game where you pretend to be a thief and steal stuff from a building.

This is a bit interesting, because no game company has ever made a game from the perspective of a thief before, but the gameplay is not even interesting.

I reluctantly give it five points, two points for the theme, one point for the game's soundtrack, and two points for the graphics.

Ozawa Kenji pulled out the cassette and threw it into the waste carton aside without hesitation, waiting to be thrown out on Thursday's waste recycling day.

The third explosive ball.

This name is really careless, so simple and straightforward, without any connotation.

The picture quality is terrible, the sound effects are garbage, and this is a game that is infinitely similar to Bomberman.

Whether it's the horizontal screen, or the explosive gameplay and special effects.

How did this kind of plagiarized work get onto the NGS game console platform?

No inside story?

No more two points!

He suspected that there must be some kind of interest transaction, and he decided to write from this perspective later.

Otherwise, there wouldn't even be a few people interested in reading his review article.

Okay, last one.

Contra?

Weird name.

The cover is of two tough guys from Pixel.

Kenji Ozawa couldn't help seeing the cover of this cassette.

This game has the NGS certification label on it.

This means that the game has been certified by the NGS professional department.

Generally speaking, this is a gold-lettered brand, and labels that can obtain NGS gold certification are good.

But there’s not even a company logo on this one.

Which means this probably isn't coming from one of those big gaming companies.

Most of them are games created by some game enthusiasts themselves.

He opened the box and read the description inside the box.

‘An exclusive work from Chinese game creator Zuo Zhen. ’

Game creator Zuo Zhen?

Never heard of it.

Kenji Ozawa shook his head in disappointment.

Is NGS about to fall?

It is actually allowed to use the golden certification label to guarantee this kind of game.

I'm afraid the exchange of interests in this game is even more serious!

How good can a game made by one person be?

With the rise of NGS in the gaming industry, a concept has begun to be ingrained in the minds of players.

Games produced by well-known game companies will have a guaranteed reputation.

Games produced by unknown game companies or even individuals are garbage and bad goods.

As for this, the company doesn't even have a decent LOGO. It just says that it is a game made by a creator. This game has covered almost all the poisonous points.

It seems that NGS, which changed the game industry three years ago, has also begun to degenerate and is digging its own grave.

Kenji Ozawa looked at the cover of the card box and didn't even have any interest in playing it. He wanted to give it a super negative review.

Only that gold certification mark deserves a point from him.

but……

This is his job after all.

And after all, it is NGS gold certified. Even if there is indeed insider trading, he feels that he should give a reasonable evaluation and severely criticize NGS.

If he could use his own words to wake up this gradually declining game company, he felt that he might still have done a great job.

Then have some fun.

Anyway, he has played with the three previous bastards, and this one is not bad either.

He estimated that it would only take him three to five minutes to determine the quality.

So he inserted the cartridge into the game console, and then the game entered the official screen.

The TV sounded a long, louder sound, and at the same time, the images of the two tough guys on the cover slowly fell from the top of the screen.

And as the two pixel tough guy images were frozen on the screen, the sound effects also made an explosion sound, which brought Kenji Ozawa back to his senses.

Well, mediocre soundtrack.

He wrote the first paragraph of his review in his notebook.

But he didn't know why he hesitated.

After writing the first review, he picked up the controller and saw two options for the game: PLAY1 and PLAY2.

Two player game?

Ozawa Kenji was a little surprised.

There are not many two-player games now. If this game can be played with two players, it will be worth one more point.

Two points, no more.

Next is the game start screen.

At the same time, Ozawa Kenji is also ready to quit the game at any time and start complaining.

He clicked on the single-player game option, and the game screen quickly switched to the beginning of the first level, the jungle level.

Simply, without any sloppiness, without any plot.

Okay, we can already determine the outcome of this game.

While he pressed the handle to control the character to start moving, he had already thought of various civilized words in his mind.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work, none of them work, it's just rubbish... huh? Wait.