"Is this a demo?"

For Animic, the last big thing of the year was probably the demo version of the Sword Witch.

The sword envoy is Miyazaki's latest work. However, unlike the tumbling dodge of the previous Souls series, the sword makes the shrine maiden pay more attention to the competition between swords.

This is a category that is very rare in this field of action games.

One of the biggest difficulties in making a game of this mode is the decision. If the judgment is too small, it is very difficult to block and compete in itself, but if the judgment is too large, it is easy to be brainless, and it affects the refreshment. Yes, the judgment is too big, and sometimes it is too much, making the game itself less enjoyable.

After Ichiro Kuroshima mentioned Ryutaro, he turned his head and came into contact with the sword envoy shrine maiden. Because Ichiro Kuroshima is also in charge of the game department's trial activities. The organization depends on him.

However, organizing the trial is also a matter of later. As for now, it's actually an early version of the game.

"The girl in the sailor suit slashed with a sword, this wonderful scenery is really unstoppable~" Kuroshima Ichiro's face was full of admiration.

Nothing else, at least visually, they're as good as ever. The girl in the sailor suit is even better than the ninjas before her when her skills have advanced further.

Of course, it can't be compared with animation, and the gap between 3D technology and hand-drawn is still huge in these years.

But when it comes to modeling and rendering, it's absolutely unparalleled in the world. The rendering technology, in particular, is exclusive.

In fact, there are a lot of people who can do modeling or something, and the main part in this aspect is actually the optimization of the game itself.

But the rendering can be different, a small parameter difference, may be able to appear close to the copycat picture, but it will directly make the whole picture "tasteless".

That's the key factor.

The same model, Animic's side, can make the character look good, but if it is replaced by a copycat manufacturer, the picture may not bear to look at it directly.

What's more, Animic now uses its own engine, and it is not enough to know how to render, and the problem of the engine also needs to be considered in depth.

But that's not the point.

The point is, this girl can lick.

"It feels really good. ”

Ichiro Kuroshima controls the demo version of the sailor suit girl and is hanging out in the game.

This character is a character used for testing, not a character in the plot, but the developers of the test gave this character a name called "Mei Yi".

Mei Yi, the Taidao girl of the sailor suit, is fighting against Kanami at this time.

As a popular character in the anime, Kanami will also appear, and when it comes to action design, Kanami's side is also a priority.

And the reason why Kanami was used for the demonstration is actually another reason, and that is because Kanami's battle is very enjoyable.

In the game, Kanami's movements are based on animations and the real world as templates, and then created to match the characteristics of the game.

When blocking, a parry bar will appear on both sides, and when the parry bar is full, a "flaw" will appear, and if the "flaw" is broken, the character's "write" state will end.

"Writing" is equivalent to a life, and if it is broken, it is equivalent to one life missing.

This approach is very close to "Wolves" in another world line, but this is not proposed by Mori Xia, but Miyazaki himself came up with it.

Not to mention, this resurrected design is really a perfect fit with the original.

However, the game's AI is obviously not tuned yet, but although Nami looks great when fighting, and every attack is "clanging" with a very rhythmic sense, but she will pause twice. What's more, the judgment is still there when this move is paused, so the difficulty is increased in disguise.

Although there are still some small shortcomings, the game of "Sword Witch" has shown a creativity that is also different from the previous "Soul Series".

On the basis of inheriting the Souls series, this game is even more developed and innovative.

If "Demon's Souls" is strengthened on the original Souls series, then "Sword Messenger Witch" is looking for another path at this time.

To be more specific, this game has actually begun to segment the market. The characters of the previous Souls series were all more realistic (ignoring the player's mods), but the current "Sword Messenger Shrine Maiden" itself is more two-dimensional.

This completely different style from the original, with hardcore combat, is really unique.

"Sure enough, the girl × monster is the best. Ichiro Kuroshima sighed.

“…… Didn't you say yesterday that a girl × a robot is the best?" Miyazaki said coldly.

"Ahem – yesterday was yesterday – yesterday I was not who I am now. ”

Yesterday day, Ichiro Kuroshima was communicating with Ryutaro over there about AZ, because it was a relationship based on robot combat, and the two of them chatted, and suddenly they talked about letting the girl go to the mecha.

At that time, Miyazaki had just returned from North America, and when he was entertained for dinner, Ichiro Kuroshima said this at the time.

"But I find it kind of funny. I didn't pay attention to it before, but after being complained about by Miyazaki, Ichiro Kuroshima suddenly discovered a wonderful place.

"What?"

"I found that if we replace those male protagonists with female protagonists, it's unexpectedly funny. By the way, Boss Senxia seems to have done just that!"

Hearing Ichiro Kuroshima's statement, Miyazaki didn't think about it at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he was surprised to find that it seemed to be the case.

In MUV, players can drive Titans or march on their own, but the biggest feature of this game is that most of these soldiers are sisters.

The same is true for the later Tsushima Ninja.

The current sword makes the shrine maiden still do the same.

These games are not mentioned in other aspects, but at least in terms of visual perception, they are the best games in their genre.

Try to think about it, when a person is in the game, does he want to see more sister paper, or more Chinese paper?

Even if it's a girl, I'm afraid there will be no fewer people who choose big-eyed cute girls.

It's an amazing blind spot!

Uh-huh.

"And don't we have statistics, in those games where you can pinch your face, the number of women has approached eighty percent. ”

This is not bragging.

In the game "Sword Art Online", the number of female characters and the number of male characters have reached eighty-two at this moment.

It's not that there are really so many cute girls in the real world, but the number of characters in the game. If you really talk about the gender of the player, then I'm afraid the ratio will be reversed.

Not only did Ichiro Kuroshima know this statistic, but he also made a wonderful discovery, and that was that many players who created a male character would choose a female character for the second character, and even the third and fourth characters would be the same......

Miyazaki doesn't really have much of an opinion on this, but Ichiro Kuroshima is clearly very interested in it.

Speaking of which, Ichiro Kuroshima is a little strange.

"But the strange thing is that according to the market research we did, people like female characters, but if they can build a character, they still want to have a male character......"

Yes, although everyone likes cute girls, when building characters, they all want the game to allow players to create male characters when building characters.

"I don't have to, can't you do without?" Miyazaki thought of what Mori Xia had said, or rather, it was a complaint that Mori Xia had complained.

"I see. The function is there for players to see, in fact, this is also a kind of operation. Ichiro Kuroshima nodded, indicating that it was interesting.

"Probably. ”

"By the way, when will this game be a little better?" Ichiro Kuroshima finally returned to the game itself.

"After the New Year, we will have a demo version and the E3 will definitely be fine. But whether it will be in time for Christmas or not, it's hard to say. ”

It's definitely not going to be a Christmas this year, but maybe it's going to be next Christmas...... If you don't experience a delay.

"In the first half of the year, I can also start organizing manpower. Kuroshima nodded.

"Hmm. Miyazaki nodded and continued, "I'll optimize the content here and show it to Mori Xia before Christmas." ”

"Okay. ”

……

"Hmm...... It's a lot of people. ”

Mori Xia doesn't know the news of "Sword Messenger Shrine Maiden" yet.

In fact, Sen Xia was in "Sword Art Online" at this time.

Although they are all cold weapon battles, the former is more realistic, and the latter is more freehand.

However, as an online game, "Sword Art Online" actually captures the hearts of teenagers and girls. Especially in a large eastern country next door, because of this cool move, it is really surprising.

Speaking of which, this is also an interesting place, that is, in Mud Bombardment and a certain large eastern country, the age group of players is obviously larger than the former and the latter is smaller, the latter has weak spending power but has more people, and the former has fewer people but has money.

However, Senxia went online not for this, but because of Qianjia's reminder, Senxia thought of the poetry here.

Sure enough, when he came back from climbing the mountain to surf the Internet, Sen Xia saw Shiyin who was brushing up.

"In the next book?" Senxia sent a message to Shion.

However, after Senxia had just sent a message to the past, Shiyin over there suddenly went offline.

What's the situation, I'm already leaving when I first arrived?

After a long while, the poetry here was online again. It's just that this time she changed her number.

"Oh, I think I'm practicing my trumpet just now. Senxia understood.

"What's the matter?"

It opened up.

"Are you doing an activity?"

Senxia asked.

"Not yet. ”

Hey, aren't you always online?

Mori Xia had strong doubts.

Shiyin should have been online before, but at this time, Shiyin said that she hadn't done any activities on her side?

"Could it be that he is losing his temper? ”

"It's possible. Sen Xia just complained casually, and Qianjia next to him opened his mouth coldly. The one who knows her sister better than her sister," she deliberately pretends to be indifferent to talk to you now, but in fact, she must be happy. But don't show it, or Shiyin might really get angry. ”

Qianjia will sell her sister without hesitation.

"Well, don't mention that we're out on vacation this time?" asked Senxia.

"Yes, you still know how to draw inferences, Sen Xiajun, it's not bad. Qianjia looked at Senxia in surprise.

"It's average.,Although the time we spend together is not as good as that of the senior sister.,But I barely know a little bit about poetry.。 ”

Mori Xia is not very familiar with Shiyin's affairs, but it is impossible to say that it is completely unclear. After all, the two have had many in-depth exchanges.

Qianjia poked Senxia again.

"Do an activity together?" Mori Xia tapped on the keyboard.

It seemed that he was stunned for a long time, and after a long while, Shiyin replied: "Okay." ”

A very simple word.

Sen Xia smiled dumbly, and then directly invited Shiyin to form a team.

After forming a team, Senxia saw where Shiyin was.

"She's in the lower districts?"

The opponent's icon flashed, and it didn't take long for it to appear in front of Sen Xia, which was a team teleportation function.

"Let's go together. "Mori Xia invited Shion.

"Hmm. Shiyin's answer was concise and to the point.

It's obviously the appearance of Miku (Hatsune), but it has the same three-no expression as Black Rock, and Shion looks like the current situation is really delicate.

There are a lot of Christmas dungeons, many of which have been modified from the original map, but a lot of interesting content has been added.

BGM is a classic Christmas song, and the enemies are special monsters in Q version of Christmas costumes, and after being defeated, these monsters will also drop Christmas gift boxes and banquet ingredients.

The copy itself is not difficult, but I don't know why, Shiyin here seems to be a little absent-minded.

In the dungeon, she was holding a bow and arrow, and instinctively shooting.

"Senxia. Qianjia spoke.

"What?"

"Ask her out. You're free tomorrow, right?"

Tomorrow is the end of the hot spring trip home.

"Yes, yes. But now that she invites Shion out, will she agree?" Senxia felt that something was not quite right with Shion's condition. At this time, if Shiyin is invited, God knows if it will succeed.

"That's why I'm my sister~" Qianjia poked Senxia again.

"Okay. ”

Senxia began typing.

"Shiyin, are you free tomorrow, do you want to come out together?"

Shine stopped.

She didn't move for a long time.

"Shion?" Mori Xia tried to get in touch with Shion again.

And then......

She's offline.

Senxia: "???"

He turned his head to look at Qianjia, but Qianjia was expressionless.

Then, Sen Xia suddenly received the news.

Shiyin is online again, and the interval is much shorter than the first time it went offline.

"Good. ”

She actually agreed......