Seven days after the Chinese New Year, as people returned to work from their homes and resumed work, Hatsune Games' steam platform also announced the winners of the previous Indie Game Awards.

Among them, "100 Days of Love in the College Entrance Examination" won the award for the best text adventure work by virtue of its excellent reviews and good sales, and the prize money was quite high.

Other games, such as Dark Dungeon and Azure Hills, have also won awards in their respective fields.

In this indie game awards, at least three games with more than one million sales were discovered, dozens of games with sales of half a million yuan, and countless more than 100,000 games, and all of these are independent games.

Because of this, many game-related media have dubbed it the title of "the first year of Chinese independent games" when reporting on this award.

At the awards ceremony, Xu Rui announced two things in addition to announcing that he would continue to hold the Independent Game Awards this year.

The first is that the Lunar New Year special discount on the Steam platform will be extended by a week to the Lantern Festival, and in the following week, some of the winning titles of this indie game will also be added to the ranks of discounted works.

The second is the release time of "Monster Hunter".

In fact, some media have already had a premonition about this matter.

According to the habits of Hatsune games,The announcement of a game must be accompanied by the approaching release date,They won't do that kind of thing that doesn't give you food.,Plus the seven days of the Spring Festival.,The popularity of the trial version of "Monster Hunter", I believe that the release of the game itself will not have to run this year.

Many people speculate that this year's summer vacation to winter stage coincides with the year-end business war, which is also suitable in terms of production cycle.

However, Xu Rui's words still surprised them.

“...... I'm honored to share that Monster Hunter will be released on June 16 of this year, which is exactly two years after the release of Breath of the Wild, but in reality, we've spent a lot longer designing and polishing the game, and I hope you will have fun in this new land. ”

June 16th!

The moment Xu Rui said this, the flash lights in the audience began to click non-stop.

The game, which I thought would not be released until at least the summer vacation of August, was able to play in early summer in June.

Hatsune Games is really ready to do it this time!

"In addition, before the official launch of the game, we will have two tests to test the load of the server, of course, the millions of people online at the same time during the Spring Festival are equivalent to testing in advance, but we will still conduct two tests in March and May in a rigorous attitude, of which, the March test version will be updated to add two additional tasks, so that everyone can experience this complex and wonderful world in advance."

The online feature of the demo version of Monster Hunter is not always open, but only lasts for a week, that is, until today, after that, although it is still possible to use the demo version to defeat all the dragons, the online function is no longer available.

The test Xu Rui said is mainly for the online function.

After these seven days of playing, many people have discovered that "Monster Hunter" is an extremely hardcore, very test of the level of operation and mentality of the action game if played alone, and if played by multiple people, not only will the difficulty be reduced a lot, but also more joyful, similar to the feeling of smash brawl.

At this time, people noticed that "Monster Hunter" was originally a "multiplayer battle" type of action game, and online is the complete body of the game.

This time, "Monster Hunter" released three trials in a row, which is really surprising.

In general, games try their best to hide the content before the official release of the game, and some games even keep the gameplay secret, but it is extremely rare to see a demo like "Monster Hunter", which is open for players to play by themselves.

According to the idea of a regular game company, it will probably provide the use of two or three weapons, and it will face weaker monsters, rather than the exterminating dragon that appears on the cover of the game.

But Hatsune Games is not afraid, it opens up all 14 weapons of the game for players to use, and also introduces the powerful Slayer Dragon, which makes people feel the core charm of the game in just 15 minutes of hunting.

Shen Gushu of the hardcore software Dragoon Studio was quite surprised when he saw this demo version.

He tried a few games, and in Shen Gushu's opinion, the completion of this exterminating dragon is quite high, whether it is the interaction with the environment, the interaction with the player, and the entire battle process, even if it is the final boss of the game, it does not feel abrupt at all.

How many bosses of the level of the Dragon Slayer will there be in the Hatsune game?

Shen Gushu feels that eight bosses of this difficulty are already the limit, unless most of them are skeletons that remain unchanged and only have different appearances, otherwise it will take at least two to three years to design eight monsters with rich elements of this kind.

For example, Shen Gushu's own game "Astral Witch", this game has six big bosses with different mechanics, ten middle bosses with a certain connection with mobs, plus many mobs and decryption levels, which has taken them more than three years of development time, and some of them are skin-changing monsters.

"Astral Witch" will be released in May this year, and Shin Gushu is always relieved to see the release date of "Monster Hunter", at least for more than a month, "Astral Witch" does not have to be compared with "Monster Hunter".

For a single-player game like "Astral Witch", the first month of the game's release is the highest sales, and even the sales in the first week of its debut may be more than 70% of the sales of this month, after that, unless it is a discount or the game content has caused some hot spots on the Internet, the growth of sales is generally extremely slow.

"It's bad luck for Sozhin's gang."

Shen Gushu laughed, the release time of the action game "Wind and Rain Swordsman" of the second development department of Suoren Mutual Entertainment is August, and if the quality is not up to par, it is likely to be hammered by "Monster Hunter".

Due to the addition of the online function,If the content of "Monster Hunter" has the level of "Breath of the Wild",No,Even if it is only seventy percent level,It's enough to firmly occupy the player's game time in half a year,It can be said that Hatsune Games was released in June,It means that the first half a year is left for other manufacturers.,The remaining half a year.,I want it all.。

Thinking of this, Shen Gushu, who was still laughing at his competitors, suddenly felt a little helpless.

He's already tacitly assumed that Monster Hunter will take the game by storm and beat their titles.