Chapter 125: Father of Souls
The reason why I came to Platinum Studio is because Mao Yi took a fancy to its excellent production ability.
Of course, not easy.
Because at this time, RB had some intentions for the Chinese market, but no one wanted to enter the idea.
I forgot which big guy it was.
At the beginning, a Huaxia national machine was released, even if it was put ten years later, it was enough to be called a classic.
It not only includes a 64-in-one game collection, but also has a handheld machine that meets the preferences of Chinese people.
And then......
Hit the streets.
Two months after its release, it was directly pirated and deciphered, and the games in it were also reskinned into various mini-games.
It can be described as a heavy loss.
The sales volume is only a few tens of thousands of units.
Therefore, since then, the handheld of the National Bank has become an empty talk.
When Mao Yi was reborn, it was said that Penguin had cooperated with Nintendo to develop a national handheld machine, and even a product had already been released.
I don't know what the final sales will be.
And the reason why Mao Yi came to the platinum studio instead of going to Nintendo is also because the platinum studio does not have a masterpiece that can be mastered.
It doesn't matter if you don't talk about it, after all, Mao Yi is just here to negotiate, if you can buy it, then of course it's okay.
However, his real target is not anyone from Platinum Studios.
But......
Alone.
A round little fat man.
That's right, that is, Hidetaka Miyazaki, who is known as one of the masters of postmodern games.
The soul LIKE gameplay created by it has penetrated into nearly eighty percent of the follow-up games.
Among them, ACT and action-adventure games are the most popular.
But after all, Mao Yi has to take it step by step, he took a fancy to the content of "Bayonetta" and wanted to make an adaptation.
That is, the soul of "Bayonetta".
This is actually a very bold attempt.
Because even Mao Yi himself doesn't know if this can be better.
After all, the sales of this IP in the previous life were actually not good, if Nintendo hadn't taken over, I'm afraid it would have been stillborn.
And the reason why Mao Yi wants to be soul-like may be because most soul-like producers don't have this idea, or because the plot is not easy to complete.
Even in the fact that the protagonist is male, even before Mao Yi was reborn, he did not get any changes.
Of course, Mao Yi is not prejudiced against the fact that the protagonist is male.
But......
Doesn't a warm facial cleanser smell good?
The game is the heroine, although it is not conducive to the compilation of the plot.,But it's an unusual feeling.。
Especially the image of Sister Bei's personality that feels the extreme, is more suitable for soulification.
In fact, in the previous life, there were many reasons for the failure of "Bayonetta", and the picture was okay, but the problem was ......
Cumbersome game skill setting, if you want to score high, you need to repeatedly try a certain stage.
This type of traditional ACT model, to be honest, has been gradually replaced in this era.
This is also the reason why "Bayonetta" looks so sweet on the outside, but as of the end of 09, it only has 1.35 million global sales.
In fact, even the highly anticipated Devil May Cry Five, which was hailed as a turnaround, still had the dilemma of short popularity of the game.
Repeatedly brushing the monsters of a certain scene, just to improve the score, and then to memorize a large number of combos, is really ......
It's a headache.
Instead, it's better to cut it down and set each weapon's attack pattern into two fixed modes, and then let the player choose for themselves.
I have to say that the Souls series can be popular all over the world in the future, which is very reasonable.
In this way, the player does not need to memorize the cumbersome weapon types, attack methods, and combo methods, but to focus more attention on the monsters.
Then make the game even more interesting with a variety of new and dangerous monsters.
For Mao Yi's arrival, Platinum Studio showed great surprise.
Especially when I heard that Mao Yi actually came for "Bayonetta".
Yes, of course......
Refused.
Without hesitation.
Since the studio's inception, Platinum Studios has put too much effort into Bayonetta.
In such a situation, how could Mao Yi buy the game?
Mao Yi turned around and discussed with Shinji Mikami about the acquisition of Platinum Studio.
Rejected again.
He was even ridiculed as a bastard by Shinji Mikami.
Stopping Lin Zhiling, who was excited, Mao Yi left the platinum studio with a calm expression.
He wasn't surprised by what happened today.
"Boss ......" Lin Zhiling really didn't understand why Mao Yi still wanted to come to Platinum Studio even though he knew that the other party didn't like Huaxia's game dealers.
Mao Yi smiled and said nothing.
Then Mao Yi and Lin Zhiling went to FromSoftware.
Although the experience just now made Lin Zhiling frown very much, as a secretary, she had an agreement before, so although Lin Zhiling frowned, she still went hard.
Unexpectedly, this time Mao Yi was not looking for the boss of FromSoftware, but an ordinary programmer.
Soon, after the signal from the front desk, Mao Yi and Lin Zhiling saw the goal of Mao Yi's trip.
Hidetaka Miyazaki.
At the end of '08, Hidetaka Miyazaki was already 33 years old.
"Hello. Seeing Mao Yi and Lin Zhiling, Hidetaka Miyazaki was a little nervous.
He is just an ordinary social animal, and he has not yet become the godfather of the soul series in later generations, so he was inevitably a little nervous when he saw Mao Yi and Lin Zhiling, a pair of golden boys and girls.
However, soon, Hidetaka Miyazaki recognized the woman in front of him, and it seemed to look familiar.
Suddenly, a video that I saw by chance in a colleague's computer disk not long ago made Hidetaka Miyazaki recognize each other at once.
"Are you...... You're an actress?
Lin Zhiling is full of black lines.
Mao Yi laughed.
Yui Hatano, with the nickname of "Dark Ryashiba Suzu".
The two do look very similar, so it is normal for Hidetaka Miyazaki, who met for the first time, to admit his mistake at once.
Seeing Mao Yi's expression and Lin Zhiling's ugly face, Miyazaki Hidetaka didn't know where he was, and he was afraid that he had recognized the wrong person.
Blushing, Hidetaka Miyazaki apologized with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry...... Sorry......"
"This is Lin Zhiling, I'm Mao Yi, can I delay you for a few minutes to have a cup of coffee?" Mao Yi asked with a smile.
"Uh-yes. Although Hidetaka Miyazaki was embarrassed, he could only stop looking at Lin Zhiling.
The three of them went to the coffee shop next to them.
After ordering coffee, Mao Yi smiled and asked straight to the point: "Hello Mr. Miyazaki, we are from Huaxia, we are the person in charge of Bilibili, I am the boss, and she is my secretary." ”
Hidetaka Miyazaki solemnly apologized to Hayashi Shirizu.
On the contrary, it made Lin Zhiling embarrassed.