Chapter 305: Keigo Higashino

"Reversal of the Judge" is a very suitable game for the handheld,According to Jester's memory,The series of this game,The sales on the handheld are also very good,To Jester before the rebirth,This series of games has a total of five,Not including the mobile version,These five "Reversal Judge" are all out of the Nintendo series of consoles,From GBA to WII,Everything。

The company is Capcom, which is nicknamed the card, and the person who makes the zuò is Atsushi Inaba is also known as the most classic in the GBA The first three generations of the people who made the zuò, and the next two generations changed the system of the people, but Jester has only played the GBA above, and he doesn't know much about the back.

And Atsushi Inaba hasn't gone to Capcom to work yet, and even Jester doesn't know which pimple to take with him now, but the maker of this kind of game is not the key, the key is the writing of the script, and the scripts of the series "Reversal Judge" from the first generation to the second generation are all written by Qiaozhou, and even, Qiaozhou is the soul of this development team.

However, as far as Jester knows, he joined Capcom in '94 just after graduating from college, and it is impossible for Jester to find him now.

"Are you confident that you can finish a great script? You must know that in reasoning games, the quality of the script accounts for almost 90% of the success or failure of this game. Still a little unsure, Jester focused on his concerns once more.

Michael. Staniff also had an uncertain look on his face when he heard Jester say this, after all, it wasn't a big problem to ask him to write a few reasoning puzzles, and he had such experience. But if he wants to rely on reasoning to complete a rigorous, progressive, and interesting reasoning script, he is also a little worried about whether he can be the best.

"Either I'll write one first, and if it doesn't work, you can change people."

So, Michael. Staniv had no choice but to say this.

"That's not necessary." Jester shook his head, he frowned and thought for a while, and then said, "That's it, you write a copy yourself according to the structure I just said and I'll take a look at it first, but I'm afraid it's difficult for me to add anything to you in terms of specific content, after all, I'm not very good at reasoning, but I'll still look at it, if you can meet my requirements, I can't meet the requirements of the game, then I still have to let you be the maker of this people." ”

This makes Michael. Staniff wondered why he couldn't meet the requirements of the game, and instead had to act as the producer himself.

Faced with the other party's question, Jester also explained simply: "You have worked in the company for so long, you should understand this truth, the maker of a game is not necessarily the plot planner of this game, and the same is true for detective games, the maker of a detective game is not necessary to be the copywriter of this detective game." ”

Meet Michael. Staniff's face showed a look of sudden realization, and Jester continued to add: "But if you have the ability, see if there are any talents in this area among your friends who love to read detective novels, if not, I have a candidate to recommend, but it is Japanese, his name is Keigo Higashino." ”

Saying that, Jester hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Forget it, whether you have a candidate or not, I plan to invite Keigo Higashino, he is really a very good detective novelist." ”

As a lover of detective fiction, Michael. Staniv not only likes European and American detective novels, but also loves Japanese reasoning that attaches great importance to the original reasoning. Staniff had heard of the name, but he hadn't seen it.

It's not that I'm not interested, after all, Keigo Higashino's debut novel was also the winner of the Edogawa Ranbu Award, the highest in Japan's mystery world, three years ago, and it's unlikely that a fan of detective fiction hasn't heard of it. Staniv has a few Japanese friends, and they have said that this work by Keigo Higashino is very good, and besides, Keigo Higashino is not very old and very talented.

Keigo Higashino is just thirty years old this year, and after his work "After School" three years ago won the Edogawa Ranbu Award and sold more than 100,000 copies, he officially resigned from the position of an engineer and became a full-time writer, but although he has also written several works in the past three years, the results are still far behind his first book, both in terms of sales and word-of-mouth and evaluation.

The achievement of more than 100,000 copies of "After School" is indeed remarkable, but if you add an Edogawa Ranpo Award, it is not a big deal, because almost every work that wins the Edogawa Ranpo Award cannot sell less than 100,000 copies.

Therefore, during this time, Keigo Higashino is also seeking change, although his just-published "Murder in Student Street" has also been selected as a candidate for the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award and the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award (long editor) candidate, but these honors are still far inferior to his after school that won the Edogawa Ranbu Award.

Keigo Higashino is not an unknown person, and the writer always has a kind of arrogance, when Jester asks people to be invited, it is naturally impossible to send an ordinary business person as casually as Hatta Hideaki who invited KyoAni, this time, Jester specially instructed Tamahide Yoshiro to make sure he must go in person.

Coincidentally, Tamahide Yoshiro himself is also a lover of mystery novels, and he is naturally very familiar with Keigo Higashino, who has become famous in recent years, and after hearing Jester's words, he immediately agreed.

Keigo Higashino lives in Osaka, and when he received a call from Tamahide Yoshiro, he was a little strange, how could it be a game company, in fact, when he heard the name Mars Entertainment, he thought it was a film and television company, after all, with the word entertainment.

If it's a film and television company, he's not so surprised, because he recently had a work that Fuji TV took a fancy to and planned to buy the rights to make it into a TV series.

Could it be that these game companies also want to buy his work to make zuò games?

With this in mind, Keigo Higashino met with Tamahideyoshiro at a coffee shop he frequented, and Keigo Higashino was very familiar with this coffee shop, and whenever he was uninspired, he liked to come here for a while, have a cup of coffee, and then think about it for a while, and if he was inspired, he would start writing on the spot.

The waiter here is very familiar with Keigo Higashino, and as soon as he came in, someone immediately said to him, "Mr. Higashino, someone is waiting for you over there." ”

Looking in the direction of the waiter's finger, Keigo Higashino saw a middle-aged man in his thirties dressed in casual clothes, as a writer of mystery novels, he always looked at a stranger seriously, so as to find some of the person's personality and characteristics from some casual details.

However, when Keigo Higashino saw Tamahide Yoshiro, Tamahide Yoshiro also stood up almost at the same time, walked forward quickly, and when he arrived in front of Higashino Keigo, he bowed slightly, and said politely: "I have admired Mr. Higashino's name for a long time." ”

And Keigo Higashino didn't dare to hold it up, he also bowed and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

The two sat down, Tamahide Yoshiro went straight to the point, when Keigo Higashino heard that he was not going to buy the rights to his novel to develop the game, his face still showed a hint of disappointment, but when he continued to listen, he heard that the other party seemed to want to invite him to write a script for a game that they were going to develop, and this mention made Keigo Higashino's eyes light up.

As we all know, Keigo Higashino has been seeking change recently, he won the Edogawa Ranbu Award because he relied on the campus youth reasoning "After School", that is to say, his style was set in the style of campus youth reasoning at the beginning, but the development prospects of this style are not very good, after writing a few books on youth campus reasoning, Keigo Higashino also discovered this, so, during this period of time, he is always seeking change, wanting to completely change his style.

It's a pity that it's not easy to change the style, at least for Keigo Higashino, whenever he wants to change his style, there will always be a feeling that he can't write a word anyway, so for him now, a qiē common sense is worth it.

It's like this invitation that Tamahideyoshiro said to him.

But before that, Keigo Higashino still had to ask what the specific content was, whether it could still be a campus mystery story, so it didn't make the slightest sense to him, but when he heard Tamahide Yoshiro say that the protagonist of this game is a prosecutor who upholds justice, his eyes lit up.

Of course, he knows that it is very novel to use a prosecutor as the protagonist of a mystery novel, and most of the most widely circulated novels on the market now remain high school students, policemen, detectives and even lawyers, but instead use the prosecutor as the opposite of a lawyer to play the protagonist, which he has rarely seen.

"Am I the sole responsibility for writing the script?"

However, Keigo Higashino has always disliked the interference of others in his creative thinking, and this is how he writes novels, so although he is very interested in this mention of Tamahide Yoshiro, he still asks like this.

Sure enough, as Keigo Higashino expected, after Tamahide Yoshiro heard this question, a somewhat embarrassed look appeared on his face.

"Mr. Higashino, the script writing of the game is still very different from the writing of the novel, as for the question you asked, I personally have no way to answer you, because the person who proposed this game is my boss, that is, Jester. Lee, before I came to meet you, he told me that if you are interested, you can go to the United States to get to know him in depth. ”

After hesitating for a second or two, Tamahide Yoshiro said. R1152