EP. 11: Case by Case (4)
“Twirl the cross and press B. ”
“Th-the cross? ”
Yes, the Psychic Battle was the first command-input shooter.
As soon as Jun Pyo finishes typing his comment with my advice. PAANG!! With a cheerful sound, the bluish barrier created around the character begins to block the enemy’s shell.
“Wow!! ”
Elasticity flowed from the mouths of those who were watching the game in a performance that exceeded expectations. Jun Fei sighed for a moment and quickly rushed out into the empty space and began to immerse himself in the game again.
However, for a moment… surrounded by another impenetrable shell, Junpei starts dodging the shell with a strange groan.
The shell of the first stage of the Psychic Battle was rounded and thin and long with two different speeds directed at the player. Jun Fei was also unable to avoid all of the projectiles for the first time, so the flying parts of the projectiles were being extracted into his body.
Then an employee who was watching the game said.
“An enemy attack doesn’t kill you easily, does it? Is that a health sign at the top of the screen? ”
“Unlike other shooter games, the Psychic Battle does not fire an enemy attack once. Like a fighting game, you have HP, and you have SP gauges that use special attacks. The SP Gauge can be recovered by shooting down enemies or by eating items. Go forwards and backwards on Jun Pyo’s cross and press the B button. ”
Jun Fei followed my advice and pushed the B button while moving the character back and forth. Then, around the character, multiple laser beams snap at strange angles and obliterate the enemies in an instant.
“Oh!!! Cool!?”
“Next up and down B button”
Phew!!! With the light emanating from the character, the screen filled with grenades disappeared in an instant, and the people watching Junpei play sighed for relief.
Jun Fei, who had mastered the sense of play to some degree, then skillfully filled up the SP and became opposed to the stage’s first gigantic insect-shaped boss.
It was unbelievable compared to the overwhelming game offered by a giant boss in a shooter game that needed to be avoided. Since the boss has grown in size, there is less room for players to avoid.
Especially since this boss is so evil…
“Cough!! What the hell!!! ”
Missiles don’t know what to do.
At first, the giant shell, which slowly squeezed the player’s breath, was designed to spread from point to point.
And that moment. The demo computer CPU took an enormous widow and began to slow down rapidly.
Because there was a decision to set a flying trajectory and cut the damage if it came into contact with a player, the expression of a lot of ammunition gave a huge swarm to the system.
Jun Fei slowly begins to pass through the shell while holding his grip. I felt frustrated by what I saw, but I was approaching a thrill.
“Oh, it’s like slow motion.”
And when the expression of the number of shells is no longer possible, I have a device in case it goes beyond the number of projectiles that can be expressed. The mouth of the giant insect boss was stolen and flattened.
“What!? ”
Kwaow!!! The giant laser gun, which swallows more than half of the screen, completely obliterates the shell, and the character of Shompei, who maintains some HP in the process, also disappears without a trace. With his screams.
“Grrrgh!! ”
Phew!!! GAME OVER. Jun Fei eventually failed to clear the first boss, and the game ended. This game was over once you lost your life instead of having HP.
“I… couldn’t even clear the first stage of the shooter game.”
Jun Fei stared at the TV with a devastating look on his face. I tapped Jun Fei’s shoulder and smiled.
“Well done. Honestly, I was kind of in trouble when you woke up the boss. It was only the first stage of development, so I thought I was going to finish it. ”
Then why are you so quiet after the demonstration? I thought there’d be applause or cheer, but I turned my head slightly and looked at the attendees, all expressing a blank expression.
“Well, that concludes the announcement of the psychic battle.”
“Whoa!!!!!!! ”
An enormous cheer erupted as if the time had stopped. Jun Fei, who was sitting in front of the demonstration, was also applauding with a proud expression.
“I can’t believe this is my first game ever!! ”
“It was like watching a whole new shooter game!! ”
Even Gunpei, who was looking at society, approached me and tapped my shoulder.
“If it was made by the Gang, I knew there’d be a big one. Amazing. Surprised!! ”
“Haha… Thank you. Gunpei.”
However, not one person smiled while everyone was cheering. Leaning against the chair, Shigeru stared at me with a blunt expression. After a while, Shigeru left the presentation chair.
Mintendo’s announcement of the new game was a great success. Kamauchi was very pleased with the success of his attendees who had seen the Super Maridge 3 and Psychic Battles.
Later on, attendees had the freedom to demonstrate a new game, and what was interesting was that more demonstrators were gathering in the Psychic Battle than in the early days of Super Maridge 3.
Apparently, the rainy bullet shot stimulated the participants’ challenging consciousness.
However, most participants were less than halfway through the first stage of the psychic battle and could be over-gamed.
“Look at this!! I didn’t fail you. It’s a dirty game.”
Jun Fei approached me with pride, looking at the collapsing players and being against the boss.
“That’s why I asked you to demonstrate. If the player dies too easily, the atmosphere ends before it warms up. ”
“You. You used me!! ”
“Friends help each other out. You think you used it again? You had a good time. ”
“Well, to be honest, it was thrilling. People are reacting well… I think it’s more entertaining than the original Super Maridge 3… ”
Then some of the Mintendo employees nearby turned their eyes to Jun Fei. He would be, too, because for developers in Mintendo today, Kumamoto Shigeru was practically a god.
Jun Fei turned his head and said to me, struggling with his cold eyes.
“D-do you want me to go outside for a bit? Why don’t you have a cigarette? ”
“Yes, let’s have a cup of coffee. ”
After a while, when he left the headquarters building, Jun Fei sighed for a long time.
“Phuha! It’s quite a vibe. ”
“Why did you say that? Kick-kick!”
“No, tell me the truth. I don’t have a nostril in my eye, and it looks like it’s gonna stain like this. ”
“Stop it. Someone will listen.”
Give Vending Coffee. Jun Fei grumbled and asked for a cigarette.
“By the way, Joon-Hyuk. The psychic battle you invented, when you introduced it, you said it was an act of war. But your style of play is not that different from your typical shooter. The comment element was curious…”
“Oh, well, it’s… it’s still implemented, but we’re going to be able to make it invulnerable for two characters.”
“Oh, right. But isn’t that too few characters? It’s only three people.”
“Starting from stage two, if you clear a Boss character as a Superpower, you will have up to six more to use. ”
“More manipulative characters are clear!!! That’s amazing.”
Jun Fei nodded and smiled to see if my answer was satisfactory. I hear a familiar voice behind the vending machine. The protagonist of the voice was Shigei.
“Strong forces. Game developers shouldn’t lie to users. ”
“There you are. Shigei, but I lied to you? ”
“The Psychic Battle you’ve created… There’s no way that kind of shell implementation is going back to current family performance. Isn’t that right?”
Jun Fei suddenly appeared, covering his mouth with his hands, and was surprised by the cigarette fire. See, the old saying, “Birds listen in the daytime, rats listen in the night.”
Unlike usual, Mr. Shigere had a very distinctive expression. It seems that attendees’ reactions in the demonstration hall were a little awkward.
“I can make it. ”
“What…? ”
“It’s going to take a while, but we can make it. ”
“In what way..? ”
“Well, I can’t tell you that right now, but I’ll make it look like it’s from a family machine. ”
“Yeah? Let’s make a bet, shall we? ”
“What bet? ”
“Which of the two psychic battles you created or the Super Maridge 3 I created will sell more? ”
Ugh… What’s this family fight about?
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