A month after Laon's first anniversary was over. On the third floor of Yongsan Station and directly following the terminal, there is a new in-house gaming shop run by Mantra.
Soyeon took a picture of the new store and sent it to me by international mail.
Among them, I saw some employees from Mantra, but I was glad to see them again in this picture.
Similar to the Pentagon in Japan, the Mantra Shop was crowded on its first day. Does the photograph give you a vivid sense of what the scene was like?
Due to the fact that the market was too small to open a dedicated shop for Raon in Korea, the title of Mantra also became a gaming-specific multishop. (Of course, I was interested in official domestic ticketing titles…)
After handing over Soyeon's photos one by one, a smile was drawn on her mouth naturally.
Then Hayashi spoke to me.
"Are these pictures from Korea? You look happy. "
"I've met a lot of good people. "
"I heard there are many beautiful people in Korea, and Yuki's mother is also Korean. If I had known this, I would have followed you when you went to Korea, but I'm sorry. "
Morita, sitting at the opposite desk, tilts her head and asks Hayashi.
"Isn't it going well with Kaori on the design team? "
"Kaori feels like a sister... Young..."
"I never had a brother like you either!"
Kaori from the design team, who came in through the door of the development room without knocking, smiled at me without even looking at Hayashi. Immediately, Hayashi's voice came from behind her.
"What are you, a six-million-dollar man, and our office noise barrier so fragile? "
"I have good hearing. Director Kang Jun-hyuk, it's time for your meeting. "
"Oh, is it time already? Then why are you here, Kaori? "
"Well, Mr. Kawaguchi has included me and a few other teams of Tamago-based monsters in the new monster design. "
"Really?"
"Maybe the new Final Frontier series that you're planning this time is a little special. "
With Kaori's anticipated voice, the team in the second development room tilted their heads.
&
The new Final Frontier series she mentioned did not mean the next five.
In fact, this story goes back to Final Frontier 4, which was simultaneously released with Raon last year, when there was a disagreement within the first development team during the planning phase of Final Frontier 4 as a new generation.
When progressive opinions were compatible with conservative opinions of maintaining the RPG format of the existing Final Frontier and trying to make everything new in time for the launch of the new generation.
The main director, Kawaguchi, raised his hand in the process of a typical JRPG by a traditional Final Frontier, whose work covered the story of courage.
However, seeing these meetings separately, it was also very unfortunate that the plans for the new Final Frontier.
"Today's meeting is about the derivative work of the Final Frontier series, as I mentioned earlier. "
The meeting room was comprised of employees who had originally issued an agenda from the first development team, including me.
The Kawaguchi representative made a brief eye contact with me and then pressed the projector's switch to project the design on the white screen.
"First of all, let them know that this agenda was created based on last year's plans for the new Final Frontier. At the time, Nomura, who was part of the first development team, announced an action RPG plan to fight the characters themselves in the field, and at the time it was one of the conflicting works because it hurt the atmosphere of the Final Frontier. But given the title Final Frontier, this game designed by Nomura has a pretty unique way of gaming. I thought it would be a bit of a waste to let this go. "
I opened a new game planner on the table.
And looking at the title of the game in the first chapter, I smiled unconsciously.
'I was just wondering, was it like this? '
In addition to the Final Frontier series, it was one of the most fun games I've ever known...
"For now, I've decided to put a title separately because I can't continue to use the name Final Frontier. The title of the new project is New Sword Legend 2 - Secret of Mana-. "
Then Kaori, who was next to me, lifted his hand and opened his mouth.
"Huh? Two? So what's a one? Jules?"
"Kaori, I don't know, actually, I once created an action RPG game at the Pentagon. "
"Really? Did you come to Raon? "
Next to Kaori's question, I opened my mouth.
"You mean the legend of the new sword made for Mintendo's portable gambler. "
"Yes, it is. It was one of the most successful IPs in portable gamblers, which lacked RPGs at the time. Ironically, it was also originally derived from the Final Frontier. So we decided to call the new game Legend 2: New Sword. "
The people in the meeting room nodded and agreed to the detailed description by Kawaguchi.
Recently, Japan's RPG game market has made some subtle changes.
Unlike traditional RPGs like the old Dragon Warrior or the Final Frontier, new RPG games were ranked as expected.
Among them, the top class was a game called 'Tails of Illusion' produced by Tripos.
A remarkable response to the NEGA production announcement was recently announced that it had abandoned development into a platform for NEGA drives.
For reasons of development, the NEGA drive was interposed as lacking in performance to achieve additional graphics improvements, but in fact it was just an excuse for anyone to see.
Since Christmas last year, the penetration rate of the NEGA drive has definitely increased, but it has not naturally been connected to purchases of the NEGA CD.
The NEGA, which had barely made it to the console market, was having a very difficult day because of the NEGA CD that was too far ahead of its time.
However, this led Mintendo to become even more stubborn because he declared that the cartridge system was the best medium for home console devices and became a 'Lom cartridge believer' after carefully observing the failure of the NEGA CD.
Well, Mintendo has no reason to give up cartridge production. The loyalty he receives is enormous.
Anyway, Tripos left the NEGA and returned to a 'presumed' state of issuance, and rumors were circulating in the industry that he was talking to the mintendo side, considering equipment penetration and sales volume.
In fact, there was a reason that the new game became so popular.
The Tales of Illusion has shown an ideal that any player who has ever played RPG has ever dreamed of…
'RPG games where fighting is fun. '
This was the trend in RPG gaming today.
In NEGA, which lacks RPG games relatively compared to super families and Raons, we announced a new action RPG game after losing the Tales of Illusion, which is the 'Story of Thor', the most famous of all the games for NEGA drives.
A NEGA that is already producing new Action RPGs for minten and vengeance with a diverse RPG fleet.
Our Pentagon could not sit idly by while flooding the RPG. But here's the question.
'Why am I here? '
The new IP, the Legend of the New Testament, was not something I had to get involved with as the Head of Development.
However, my curiosity was completely solved by Kawaguchi's words.
"I wanted to give this new action RPG a try. And in order to do that, I felt I really needed Joon-Hyuk's help. "
Mr.Kawaguchi, are you...?
The moment I opened my mouth to Kawaguchi because I felt ominous. He smiles calmly in his mouth and loses his luck first.
"I want Joon-Hyuk, the main director of the Neo-sword legend, to take over. "
At that moment, the faces of the members of the first development team gathered in the conference room froze cold at the same time.
Haha... These people must have heard about me to the rest of my team. In response to people's reactions, I smiled and asked the Kawaguchi Representative.
"Why did you choose me? Here we have Nomura, our original planner. Wouldn't it be better to choose him? "
"Actually, this was Nomura's personal request. He wants to work on the project together under Joon-Hyuk. "
"Yes?"
Workra, who was sitting across the table from me, looked me in the eye and politely bowed her head.
"Sir, please do the same for me. "
Hmm... A new sword legend.
I also loved the New Sword Legendary Series as a child, which made me feel the most fun I could not find in Action RPG at the time.
Especially in the case of the subsequent release of 3, I could confidently say that it is the best masterpiece for the whole super family to put on five fingers.
"And this is an opportunity for me to create those games myself..."
Looking at the faces of the development team members gathered in the sliding conference room, I opened my mouth with a smile.
"I'm sorry, Jules. I don't think I can afford to be the chief director of the New Testament. Mr. Nomura is already a thick planner in the Pentagon, and I think he'd better be in charge this time. "
&
Eventually, I spoke with the Kawaguchi Representative in the representative room after the meeting with Nomura as the main development team for a new project.
"I was hoping Joon-Hyuk would take over as the main director of Labour, but is there a project you are working on separately? "
When Kawaguchi asked, I moved the cup of coffee to my mouth.
"Minten and Sensoni's movements have been unusual lately. And rumor has it that the NEGA is also launching a new project based on the NEGA CD that was released as a peripheral. "
"What new movement of console companies...? "
"Jules would have noticed something. because a new console doesn't just happen overnight. Maybe it's already begun. "
I put the coffee mug on the table and put it next to the horse.
"The specs of the next-generation console and the invisible neurological warfare of the media to be used..."
Five years have passed since the launch of the NEGA drive in late 1988 when the 16-bit gaming market opened.
And now, in the fall of 1992,
The leadership of the home console industry has been completely transformed into Japan.
The current generation of home consoles are the super family of mintenso and the NEGA drive of the NEGA because no foreign company has ever created a new gaming device at the risk of failure again.
And the Pentagon's Raon. It's holding its own for three rivers.
Of course, there was also a console device with an extrinsic component, which was a very expensive console created by SMK called "Gio Neo."
Launched in 1990, Gio Neo jumped into the console business with the aim of a business or home lease, but the battle between the brawl rights and the legendary Erie fight game was more than anticipated and demand for the home has been somewhat recent.
The 16-bit Motorola 6800 CPU and 8-bit Zylog CPU are also lacking in two CPUs, the video chipset is designed to display 380 sprites in 4096 colors at the same time.
In addition to that, the sound chips embedded in the device used Yahama products that support a total of 15 sound channels, including up to seven digital channels, which in short boasted about four to five times the performance of the super family.
However, the 'Gio Neo', which is made of a system that plugs almost the entire entertainment room substrate itself, was priced beyond imagination per cartridge.
The price of the game cartridge was around 30,000 yen in the case of the recently issued and highly acclaimed dragon ticket.
Although it was originally developed for home and not for commercial use, Gio Neo was one of the hardest to find consoles at home except for a wealthy young master who could afford it.
Following the popularity of the widely opened 2D fighting game market since Street Fire2, SMK was highly loved by users for the prestigious price of fighting games, but the sale of home consoles was so expensive that only games created by SMK were remembered as unlucky gaming machines that were released.
The first company to discover that they were building a new console at this time was NEGA, just like before.
Ironically, the release of the new species is ahead of schedule, as we were planning to launch the NEGA CD a little bit more competitively in today's world, but because of the volume crashing below expectations?
"Again, the NEGA is on the move. "
During a meal near the headquarters, the Kawaguchi representative spoke to me.
I swallowed a sip of warm leafy tea and opened my mouth.
"Did the new model's name sound like this NEGA Saturn? "
"Yes, it is. The specs we just announced will create a monster machine with immense 2D sprite performance. "
As Kawaguchi said, the first issue concept of the NEGA Saturn was aimed at the best 2D graphics.
And it was probably a natural choice.
When the development of NEGA Saturn began, 3D gaming was still very poor.
At the time, the NEGA wanted to create the best console that could be transplanted into a growing arcade of fighting games for home use.
The SMK's fighting game or Capco's game required quite high 2D graphics performance. But I never thought such a prudent choice would hold Saturn's ankle to the end...
"It's also said that Sensoni has been having frequent interactions with Minten recently. Mintendo admitted it, but Sensoni first announced that the next generation of the superfamily's gaming media was CD. "
"Gear Station project..."
"Yes?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Soliloquy."
Mintendo's silence in Sensoni's presentation is proof that a new project is shaking from the start.
I smiled slowly in the coming 32-bit era when I heard that Sensoni's Kurakagi Kentaro, who designs sound chips for the super family and has established friendliness with Minten, recently visited the Mintendo headquarters.
However, on the contrary, Kawaguchi appeared anxious.
"If this is the case, shouldn't our Pentagon be prepared? Any word from Rob or Ellis in the United States yet? "
"Don't worry too much. Raon has only been a newborn for over a year now, but sales are increasing at almost the same rate compared to the launch of the Super Family in 1989. At the moment, it would be better to focus more on Laon's marketing and game releases. "
"Well, the next generation of warfare is only the beginning, so you'd better not think about it too deeply. "
Kawaguchi finally let out a small sigh with a sad expression.
&
Unlike Kawaguchi's concerns, the New Sword Legend 2, created by Nomura Director, was completed with a very low quality in August.
In particular, the cooperative play mode, where three people play games together, using Raon's data cable, was very popular, and his idea of being able to play RPG games with friends began to coincide with Raon's concept and became quite popular.
"Joon-Hyuk, I think this game is really fun. "
With RPG games, Yuki, who can't use his clan, used to ask me to play New Sword Legend 2 together whenever I had time to finish it once a weekend.
Last year, when Dragon Warrior 5 and Final Frontier 5 launched in a row, it was quiet for months, and now it's a new sword legend...
In fact, the game of this period was not very impressive for me.
Even though he had already enjoyed the works of the past, he could not think that he was enjoying them more than stimulating the fragrance of the early days.
Besides, does that perfume seem lighter than the '80s games these days?
Sometimes we used to go out on weekends together to explore game shops and Tokyo's food scene in Akiba, but Yuki always smiled as she looked around the store to see what was so amazing.
"Ah!! The price of the figure Uchimura made has gone up again!! "
"Really? How much this time? "
"190,000 yen."
" · · · · · ·. "
They already know each other in the industry.
It's so amazing to see an expensive figure being sold, even though the scalpel is a constant recession every year...
While buying a drink from the convenience store, Miyuki rushed to me and asked me.
"How much would the Miyuki Kimono version in my living room sell here? "
"It almost cost me 800,000 yen at one time. "
"Will it still cost that much? "
"Well, it was a little bit of a subtle competition back then, but wouldn't you take more than 300,000 yen if you gave it to me now? Recently, there have been a lot of spectacles, so I feel like the popularity of the streets without me is fading..."
"Well, it's been three years since the street without me was published. Does that mean you're not planning on making a follow-up to a street that I don't have? Director Kang Jun-hyuk."
She glanced at me with a fist like an interview.
"I can't do that. To be honest, I'm not sure I can be more inspiring than I was before, and now the trend in the mind-blowing game is a little bit strange…"
"Ahhh!! I know. Rumor has it!! Urgh!! Urgh!! "
"Hey, there are people around..."
After a while, we moved to the workshop where Chendra used to work, and we were amazed at the tall building because of the bright sunshine.
"There's a building in here. It used to be an alley where Chendra made copy packs for the family..."
"Oh, did Mr. Chendra do something like that? "
"Huh? Didn't I tell you? "
"Yes, I've never heard of it. "
I stood on the side of the road for a while and told Yuki about the day I met Chendra.
"Wow, that's where we ended up, and that's where we are now. "
"Well, to Chendra, to me, at the time, we were win-win. "
"That's how the dragon emblem was created, so I met Joon-Hyuk. "
"Oh, is that how it goes again? "
I glanced at the tall building above Chendra's workshop and smiled.
"I never thought there would be a softmap building here that specializes in game software…"
The software map, representing the Japanese gaming distribution industry, was the store that sold the contents of the game in a single building from the first floor to the fifth floor.
Normally, the first floor of the new open softmap was occupied by the Mintendo superfamily because it specialized in selling the most popular type in the current generation.
"Wow, this store is huge. Other than the Pentagon, I never thought I'd find a store like this..."
"Yeah, it's been open recently. Shall we go in? "
Yuki nodded as if he was waiting. I took a stroll inside the store and looked around inside, and it looked very neat and neat like a newly created store.
Usually when we think of a game store as a cramped store, we come up with an image of a whole bunch of game cartridges, but this place was like a department store with all sorts of categories.
I also had a professional feeling that I was accepting bookings with my own ranking and expectations.
The image in the store, along with the sign, gave a unified sense of blue. It seems to be a big store, and there were a lot of people in the store.
"The first floor is only minten. Where's Raon? "
Then the temple passing by kindly replied to Yuki's solitude.
"Sir, Raon products from the Pentagon are ready on the second floor. You can use the escalator or the elevator you see over there.
"Oh, yes. Thank you."
"Have fun shopping. "
"It's like a department store that specializes in gaming here. There's an escalator, and the staff is nice..."
Yuki seemed very fond of the first softmap she visited.
After a while, when Yuki and I arrived on the second floor, there were so many Raon devices everywhere that it felt like a dedicated floor for Raon.
Among them are many users who are enjoying the most popular new sword legend 2.
It seems like an RPG game that can be played together. Among the Raon users, New Sword Legend 2 felt like it was becoming a must-have item for Raon users like Spa 2.
"Sure, it's fun, but bitter on the one hand..."
Yuki and I went on a tour of the Laon floor on the second floor and looked around the games with bitter taste again.
"The launch of Raon must have changed the past I knew..."
Changes in the game market as a result of the response are subtle.
Every game was released almost exactly the same as I knew it would be, and the content of the game did not change much.
In fact, I had asked Nomura to produce the Legendary Sword 2, hoping that it would make a difference in the game I used to know using the platform called Raon, but the results were a little more convenient and not much different.
Usually a great game is created, and the synergy of it leads to a new game being derived, but I have never released a different game that will make my heart beat.
Did I lack my stimuli? Or is it that we don't have enough talent to bring out the content of today's games? '
While looking at the ground, Yuki's footsteps, which were walking with arms crossed next to me, stopped in front of a large TV.
"Huh? What's wrong with you? "
"Joon-Hyuk... What kind of game is that? "
Turning to Yuki's voice, the world of dark fantasies unfolded on the TV screen. And it caught my eye at once.
The Devil of Foxsoft? No... what is it? '
- When the red moonlight seeps through the broken tube. A corrupt king who sacrificed his people...
" · · · · · ·. "
I feel like I'm grabbing her heart from the opening.
- When the red moonlight seeps through the broken tube. A corrupt king who sacrificed his people...
" · · · · · ·. "
I feel like I'm grabbing her heart from the opening.
Every branch that comes out of the giant tree is slowly shaken by the icy breeze of the corpse, and momentarily after. An old woman who lit a lantern in a dark room opened her mouth, staring straight at me across the screen.
- Yeah, that's Rodrik. Home to the firewood kings who followed the will of the flames...
The sentence that followed, I swallowed dry saliva without even knowing it, and I felt the strength of my hands holding Yuki by myself.
- That's why pilgrims head north, to find the meaning of the prophecy...
- But the flames are gone, and the king can no longer sit on the throne...
- When the succession lights out. When the bell rings in the dark, the kings who lost their thrones will rise again in their coffins...
- Deep Saint... mode rich. -
Pearlon's Immortal Guards of Darkness. -
- And the lonely king who sacrificed all his people to the Abyss...
- But in the end, kings will never find their throne...
- Now there's just less ash. -
- Cursed immortal body without a name. -
♪ But ashes like yours always crave a little fire... ♪
♪ Waiting for the day when it burns again... ♪
When Yuki and I heard the old woman's story about how frustrating the opening was, we watched the video standing still.
'There is something different about it. It's not the same game as before. '
Soon, the short demonstration ended with the title in red on the black background.
- Bloody soul.
Bloody soul. I've never heard of it. Was there a game like this in this era?
With an opening of this quality, I'm sure I'll have something to remember, otherwise...
'A new game. '
Of course, I haven't played every game in my childhood as a super family, so I can't be sure...
Bloody Soul was an action game set against a dark fantasy world view created by Japan's Phantom Soft.
I was very excited all the time to watch the demonstration video in a dark atmosphere that reminded me of a cartoon called 'Berserk'.
Maybe after '83. It's the first time you've seen a game made by another company, and it's exciting.
After that day. I couldn't wait for the Bloody Soul to be released on Front Soft.
I could have visited the Phantom Soft myself, but I didn't want to do that.
I wanted to play as a pure gamer, one step away from being a developer.
The Bloody Soul Phantom Soft did not get much attention in the gaming industry initially, but as the issue day approached, rumors began to rise in the rankings of high speed marches for users.
And in the winter of 1993, when the cold wind blew,
The Bloody Soul title was released at 7pm when darkness fell.
On the way home from work... I stopped by Shinjuku's big shopping center and saw a lot of users carrying the same game cartridge in the corner of the game.
Sometimes it's not so bad to feel like a gamer. '
Yuki also fell in love with the gloomy atmosphere of Bloody Soul, so she asked to buy one with her, so she stopped at the stand and there were only two cartridges left.
You don't seem to be having a bad reaction. I'm glad there are still two left. '
It's easy to download with Raon Sharer, but I also like that I still own the cartridge because of my old gamer tendency.
I didn't see any explosive sales compared to the series that had built up their reputation as a new IP game, but was it because of its unique atmosphere? The atmosphere on the first day of prom isn't so bad.
On the way down, the escalator raised his head to the voice calling out to me, and Hayashi and Kaori were coming up from the other side.
"Huh? What are you doing here? "
"I'm on my way back to Bloody Soul. "
"Unh!! Did you leave any on top of that? "
"No. I'm on my way to the last one. "
"Ahhh!! Dammit. I never should have come home after dinner!! "
"Yes!! "
I turned my head and looked back, looking at the distressed Hayashi and Kaori who had passed through the escalator.
"When did you say you didn't want to be like your sister, and you had dinner with her? I have something to mock when I go to work tomorrow. '
I leaned out of the mall with a bleeding smile and headed to the stall where I had parked my car.
&
When I got home and pressed the bell, Yuki, who was preparing dinner, smiled and welcomed me.
I think this is the moment when I think of all the good things about marrying Yuki. There was no need to turn on the fluorescent lights in the dark living room, and the aroma of boiling broiled miso stew filled the living room instead of the cold air in the house.
"Miss Neeyang!"
Since I started living with Yuki, the cat "A day" started to look at the shopping bag I was holding, and I turned to disappointment with a face that was lighter than I thought.
"Joon-Hyuk!! Did you buy it?"
"Of course!"
When Yuki lifted her shopping bag in her apron, holding the ladle in her hand, she jumped out of the living room in a cheerful look.
Usually shortcakes or women's reactions to sweet desserts were still glamorous to show on a slightly different item called Yuki's game.
One day, he crouched on a single-serving couch, scratching his head with his hind legs and looking at Yuki.
After a while, after finishing dinner a little sooner than usual, we leaned against each other's single-seat couches and took out Laon each other.
Yuki, who put his leg on my knee as usual, said, putting the game cartridge into Raon.
"Don't you get a little excited when you plug a new game into a cartridge? "
Soon after the logo of the Phantom Soft came to light with a scattered wind sound, BGM felt nervous and she twitched her toes and touched my abdomen.
"Joon-Hyuk, I think you've lost weight lately. "
"Is that so? The fortress is almost office only, so it looks like you're stretching a bit. "
"Miss Neeyang!"
"Oh my, we've been here all day!"
I think Yuki's arms are so good at sitting on Yuki's thighs one day in perfect bread pose. Yuki also often uses her wrist brace and day when playing Raon (?) so they could be seen as a perfect symbiotic relationship.
After a while, after finishing setting up a simple character and entering the game, the knight showed up on the screen with quite a heavy feeling.
Bloody Soul's overall game style was a side-by-side scroll, and what was unique was that the character's equipment was overwhelmingly detailed.
The movement of the character, according to the heavy worldview flowing throughout the game, was also expressing the feeling of wearing real armor.
I sprinkled my sword through the air a few times, reading the timing of the operation, and slowly stepped forward.
There is no blatant explanation for saving the world like the Dragon Warrior or the Final Frontier.
Like a vagrant thrown alone into the desert, you walk through a disapproved cliff with no clear purpose, and you see an enemy standing in front of you with a shield and a torch.
Is that a Hunting Monster? '
I roughly measured the distance from him and swung my sword with my light heart.
At that moment, Tae-in!! A seemingly trivial wooden shield flicked my sword and struck the torch straight away.
What!? Surprised, I hurriedly opened my distance to the monsters with the roll button, but the monsters even read the timing of my roll, narrowing the distance, and rushed straight in.
I can't help but pick up my shield and stop his torch attack before I can draw my sword.
Another monster that didn't exist just now came over my back.
"Ugh!! "
I started to move the directional key in a frenzy to catch the two monsters that just appeared in the beginning. The Bloody Soul has a Stamina Gauge, which uses a system that shears the gauge every time it swings a sword, which gives the player subtle stress.
If you just used it too recently, your shield couldn't bounce off or hit the final blow because you didn't have enough power to stop the enemy's attack. Once you used all the Stamina Gauge, you couldn't roll or swing your sword until it kicked back. It felt very stuffy.
While she was at a distance with the enemy, she looked at Yuki and saw that she was also struggling with extreme game difficulties.
'Dammit, what's so hard...'
If the Devil Castle or Mahjong Village stressed players with non-striking monsters from left to right, a Hunting Monster like Bloody Soul was usually set on the mid-boss difficulty level of the game.
"YOU DIED. "
As I was halfway through stage 1, Yuki's speaker at Raon continued to hear a eerie voice that meant the death of the player.
"Ahhh!! He's dead again... Hehe..."
"Meow!"
A long, drowsy day above her knees, she scrapes her yawn and moves to the other couch.
That night.
Yuki had a total of 16 deaths until I completed the first stage, and I had five deaths on the first stage as well.
Crazy and jumping was a way to gain experience in this game, but the experience gained by killing monsters became unusable until it reached a level up point.
If a character dies before reaching a level up point, all of the experience points he collected will be dropped to the ground, and in order to recover them, he or she must successfully reach the point of death.
But it's another exhausting way to recover your EXP, so if a character dies while you're at it, the EXP will all be blown away, so the pressure will be enormous...
&
The next day.
After going to work at the company, word of Bloody Soul was spreading in the mouth of the development room staff who were playing a little game.
Even Hayashi, who was so greedy about third-party games, poured out so much praise for Bloody Soul, not to mention his remarks about the game in the magazine. And that atmosphere has played a big role in reinforcing my desire for development, which has been quiet and sleeping.
'The release of Dragon Emblem 2, the second episode of Dragon Grave, is almost here.
The time has come to prepare a production announcement for the next one. '
I looked at the poster on the wall of the development room of the 'street without me'. Then I naturally remembered the story Yuki told me in Akihabara.
"Do you have any plans to make a sequel to a street that I'm not in? '
"Hmm, the sequel..."
Of course, I do not intend to create a follow-up to the village name of Street 2 without me. Borrowing the title of the masterpiece can bring some excitement, but it can't be more inspiring.
If you took tears out of a Japanese gamer's eyes like a flood, you'd have to let them shed tears this time. What good would that do?
I had a strange smile on my mouth that I had been thinking about for a while.