After much thought, Jester still rejected the idea of creating a new series.

Because it's really not necessary.

The golden sign of Balotelli has been in business for more than 10 years since its birth, and the total sales of games in the series, including Balotelli racing cars, have exceeded 180 million units combined.

This is currently the most famous video game brand in the world, and at its peak, it was even more widely known than Mickey Mouse.

Especially in the eyes of children and children, there is no other game that can be compared, there is such an extremely suitable game brand not to use, and want to create one again, it simply does not make any sense, and, more importantly, if the somatosensory game can represent the future, then it is also good to create a somatosensory series.

However, Jester, who knows the history of game development, knows that the popularity of somatosensory games is only temporary, and after players have passed the shock brought by the somatosensory game when it was just launched, this game genre will be rapidly declining, just like the original WII, when it first came out, relying on the incomparably novel gameplay, players have never seen it, and the gameplay that has not been experienced has obtained the effect of crushing.

But only half of the time of the whole generation has passed, and the sales of WII have begun to plummet - although Nintendo has sold machines that other game console manufacturers can't sell in the entire generation in half of the time, but it still can't change the somatosensory game, in fact, because of the single gameplay, it is easy to make players lose interest.

But this is not a disadvantage for Mars Entertainment now, for Jester or even for the entire gaming industry.

In this era, as long as it appears, it will inevitably be sensational.

During this period of time, the information about a piece of information circulating from within Mars Entertainment has attracted particularly attention, whether it is the major game forums. Or all kinds of game media, are discussing this matter.

During the period of development of Monster Hunter, Jester had several top-secret long talks with Balotelli's development team, especially almost all of the level designers, at the top secret level - everyone involved in this long conversation signed a new contract with strict confidentiality conditions in advance, which is not particularly new in Martian Entertainment.

Whenever they do this before the game is developed, there is only one reason to do such a new contract signing.

That is, there will be a very high level of secrecy project waiting to be launched, and, judging by Jester himself, he has participated in long talks, and several times. This new project, it is very likely that Jester's, and judging by the people who called, it is very likely that this time Jester's new work will be the Balotelli series?

This has excited countless players.

Balotelli has basically become a symbol of Mars entertainment, and Mars entertainment is a symbol of video games, so many people see Balotelli as a symbol of video games.

But Balotelli's gameplay has been relatively fixed, although the playability of each level is beyond the sky, which is extremely fun. But the gameplay is very fixed, and although countless players are excited about this speculation, there are actually some who don't have much expectations.

Because Jester's development philosophy is very quirky, he will only do things that can bring new ideas to the player. It makes players feel different - I've never played a game like this dick, like the Balotelli series, and although each game is extremely good, his gameplay is really nothing new. After all, as the origin of side-scrolling games, Balotelli has been through so much.

There is another very important reason.

Although the Balotelli series was produced with Jester's involvement. Even the levels, settings, and gameplay of the entire game were all completed by Jester at the beginning, but Jester was not the producer of this game, and Jester only served as a supervisor at that time because he was in charge of other games.

Therefore, there are also many people who do not put the name of Balotelli's father on Jester's head.

Moreover, Jester has never taken over the series personally.

In general, the number of people who want Jester to do the new Balotelli series, and think that Jester is unlikely to take over the Balotelli series, is still about the same.

It is also controversial on the forum.

Fortunately, there is no scolding war like before, of course, there is a small contradiction between the two sides and the reason is also very big, no one will think that Jester can't do the Balotelli series, in fact, the Balotelli series to this day, is no longer relying on the personal wisdom of a certain designer to design the level, but relying on the best game level team of the entire Mars Entertainment.

This huge team is capable enough to guarantee the best levels for the designers.

There are even a lot of players who are ashamed to say on the forums that even if he had his grandmother as the producer of Balotelli, he would be able to make a game that sold 10 million copies.

Although this statement is somewhat nonsensical, there are still many people who recognize it. Because that's how Balotelli is made now, the wisdom of one person is small, but the wisdom of the collective is great.

However, there is a concern on both sides, and that is that Jester is likely to not do well in the Balotelli series - not that the game is bad, with the current level team, the possibility of making Balotelli bad is extremely small, not to mention the outrageously demanding quality of Jester.

It's just that from the perspective of Jester's development philosophy, how would he make a game that has been stereotyped by countless people in the depths of their minds - what the Super Balotelli series should do? As we all know, it is not Jester's style at all to copy the old ways, and according to Jester himself, it is better to retire than to develop games that will not give him the passion to create something new.

So what do you do with games?

However, if you don't do the Super Bar series according to the current model, then is it still Super Balotelli?

It's almost an unsolvable puzzle.

In the face of different opinions from the outside world, Mars Entertainment did not come forward to explain, which just shows that the possibility of this matter is very high, and it has even entered the discussion stage.

Finally, after a little over a month, a member of the former Balotelli development team finally gave an interview to the gaming press. He was asked this question by the reporter he interviewed, and after some hesitation, he gave the following explanation.

"All I can say right now is that there's a new game, Mr. Jester's new game, a very special new game." When he said this, the reporter could clearly see the excited look on the face of the development team member, as if he was talking about a very remarkable thing.

This surprised the reporter very much, because the development of Super Balotelli is actually very industrial, although the playability of the game is unparalleled, but the entire development process is fixed. Therefore, such an expression of excitement and disbelief is unlikely to appear on the faces of the designers in this project.

"Is it a Balotelli series?"

He then immediately followed up, although he had already guessed in his heart that the new game was most likely not related to Balotelli.

However, the design team's answer once again rejects his idea.

"Yes, it's the latest Balotelli series, but it's a brand new series of Superhorses, and I can't say too much about it, I can only say it. When this game came out, it was sure to blow the world away! ”

This is really not shocking.

In the history of video games, there have been games that shocked the world as soon as they came out, and this was the case with Quake, which took Jester five years to do. The same is true of "Heroes", which has a total investment of 300 million dollars, but the Balotelli series, yes, this is indeed the most profitable in the entire history of games. The most fun, the most popular, and the most sold game. When he appeared, the effect of 2D scrolling animation really broke new ground for game developers.

However, this is not more than a decade ago.

How can an old game series still shock the world?

This reporter can't believe it no matter what, could it be that this time Jester has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build a super project smashed with money?

"Is the investment in this game as amazing as 'Heroes'?" The reporter immediately asked his own questions.

If there is enough money, it is not impossible to smash out a news that shocks the world, although in the heart of this reporter, the recognition of this idea is not high, and sure enough, the members of the development team who took over the interview immediately denied it.

"No, no, no, it's not a project like "Heroes", the boss said in an internal meeting before that it is not a very wise thing to start the "Heroes" project, and the funds invested are still a small amount, and the biggest loss is that the "Heroes" project almost included the entire company's general business developers, which made the company's internal manpower stretched at that time, and many games had to extend the development cycle, such a project is actually very cost-effective."

"Of course, the "Heroes" project has indeed cultivated a group of absolutely outstanding developers, which is also the biggest gain of this project, as for the crazy explosion of console sales driven by this game, it is not very important, because whether there is "Heroes" or not, Dreambox3 will be a big success, "Heroes" just sped up the process a little, not contributed to this result."

"This is the original words of the boss at that time, so I can say with certainty that the new game of the boss will definitely not be a new project like "Hero", but it is certain that it will be bigger than our previous Balotelli project."

This is the answer of the interviewee.

After that, the reporter asked a few more irrelevant questions, not that the reporter didn't want to ask about other more important news, but other news that the interviewed development members would not disclose at all, but to be able to get so much news first-hand is also great news for this reporter.

However, at the end of the interview, the reporter who was interviewed inadvertently said a very shocking news.

He didn't say anything specific, but he said that at next year's GDC conference, when Jester attends and gives a talk, he will announce the status of his new game, and there is also a very important news for her to announce, which is about Jester's entire career.

"Career?"

Although I was disturbed by this sentence~ itching, no matter how the reporter asked, the interviewee did not reveal half a sentence, but only vaguely mentioned that this will be a news that will make many people sad.

After the release of this report, it immediately caused an uproar~ wave.

The initiator was the interviewee's big news about Jester's career, and it would be sad news.

As soon as this news was launched, it quickly occupied the headlines on the major game forums, and many people speculated whether this game would be Jester's last game, and Jester would retire after this game? After all, Jester has said several times in previous interviews that he will retire when he is not inspired to make a different game.

Isn't this the last game he thinks will be?

The end of the legend?

Soon, the world's largest gaming website, the website of the magazine GAME, published the news with a very scary headline.

Although it was all speculation, it still made many players have a very bad feeling - they even came up with an idea, if Jester stopped making games, then who else could play games? Many people even said that he grew up playing Jester's games, he played all of Jester's works, and he didn't want Jester to retire, but wanted him to make games forever.

Because the games he makes are the best.

The heat caused by this incident also burned to the player community forum of Mars Entertainment, and the entire forum was boiling, and many people jointly posted to Jester to ask if this matter was true.

Jester didn't reply, though, until the night before Christmas.

One player posted that his Christmas wish was for Jester to tell him that the previous news about his retirement was fake.

The post received a lot of responses, thousands of people in just half a day, and they all had almost the same content, just hoping that Jester would come out and say that what was being said was fake.

Finally, at the moment when Christmas came.

A little more in the early hours of the morning.

A new reply in this post instantly made countless people excited.

Because the respondent is none other than the long-awaited Jester. Plum. (To be continued......)