Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 349 253. Pokeni is like a magician

When Masaharu Yamada went to the game store, he was shocked. There was a long queue in front of the store, all the way around the corner.

It’s enough to show how popular today’s game is.

"very scary."

Fortunately, he participated in the school's baseball team when he was in high school, so he was quite fast.

Not long after Yamada Shoji arrived, Wu Yangyang was followed by a group of office workers in black suits.

"Ah~ Damn it, there are so many people!"

……

After finally squeezing into the store, a cold light flashed under the store manager's glasses.

"Hey, brother, why are you alone today?"

"Well... they entrusted me to come over to help with purchasing, so they didn't come over." Yamada Masaharu said.

Everyone is an old acquaintance. Although the store manager never knows their names, it is not uncommon for them to act together.

"Oh, the one with glasses and a high hairline, doesn't he come by himself every time?"

The store manager is talking about Hirosawa Furukawa.

More often, he saw Furukawa acting alone.

Moreover, Furukawa is a die-hard fan of P Club. The store manager thought that Furukawa would rush here as soon as possible, but he did not expect that the first one to come would be this young man.

"Wearing glasses?"

Yamada took the game from the shelf while thinking about who the store manager was talking about.

"Yes, he is the one who always comes over to buy pokeni games as soon as possible. He is often alone."

"Ah, you mean Furukawa-senpai."

The store manager thought to himself, ah, so his name is Furukawa.

Yamada nodded, "He has a date with a girl, so he can't come for the time being."

Speaking of Furukawa-senpai, Yamada Masaharu got angry.

When you have a woman, you forget about your brothers.

However, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Yamada himself is still single. Some time ago, he confessed to his first love and was ruthlessly rejected. The reason for the rejection was that he was not aware that he was liked by Yamada at all.

My self-esteem was shattered.

"Eh?!"

The store manager let out a surprise when he heard Yamada's words.

Didn't you expect that girls would like such a dead house?

It has been so many years. The store manager calculated it for himself. Furukawa has been buying games here for almost 7 or 8 years, and he has never seen this guy bring a girl here.

Sometimes I have two or three same-sex friends, but they are definitely not girls.

I originally thought that such a person would live alone forever, but didn't expect that he could actually date a girl? !
Sad to lose an excellent customer.

The store manager felt bitter and sad, but there was an inexplicable touch in his heart, and he silently blessed Furukawa Hirose.

Once such customers are gone, they will be gone. I wish you can find true love.

It's really not easy.

……

After Yamada bought the game CD, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening when he rushed home.

I was tired and hungry, and I felt bad all over.

However, Yamada gave priority to calling his brothers and telling them that he had purchased the game disc.

"Furukawa-senpai, I have already bought the CD of "Princess Mononoke" that you requested."

"Ah, thank you very much. Can you bring it over on Monday? I have a date with Miss Xuezhu tomorrow."

"Okay, it's okay. You guys go and have fun. I will finish the game by myself." Yamada said.

"Then please, enjoy this weekend."

As he said that, the other party hung up the phone.

hateful!

Furukawa-senpai, can't you hear that I'm speaking sarcastically?

Forget it.

Then after notifying Kinoshita-senpai and Hayamigawa-senpai that they would bring the game CDs together on Monday, Yamada started to cook instant noodles to fill his stomach.

Although it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, Yamada decided to experience "Princess Mononoke"

Otherwise it would be too frustrating.

What makes me feel aggrieved is not only that I have been waiting in line for such a long time, but also that my favorite senior suddenly broke away from the crowd and became a high-ranking current person.

This hurt Yamada.

"hateful."

"Forget it, this is not good for Furukawa-senpai. I hope Furukawa-senpai can get along well with Miss Xuezhu, and introduce me to a beautiful lady in the future."

Yamada comforted himself while turning on the TV, opening the game box and putting the disc into the game console.

Everything is ready, just waiting to have a good time.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.

Eh?
Yamada suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with endless doubts.

He looked at the clock on the wall. It was already 11:10 pm.

It's so late, who will come?
When he opened the door, he saw Furukawa Hirose standing outside.

"Eh? Furukawa-senpai, how come you are here?" Yamada asked differently.

"I couldn't help but come here. I heard that I had bought the DVD of "Princess Mononoke"."

Furukawa Hirose said with a smile.

"Ah, so you came here specifically to get the CD?"

"Well, I'm going to take Junna with me to experience it tomorrow."

Uh……

Yamada didn't know what to say for a moment.

Furukawa-senpai came over in person, and he was definitely very happy, but he still felt that he smelled the sour smell of love.

"Haven't you already watched the movie "Princess Mononoke"? Do you want to experience the game?"

"Well, it's just because I've seen it that I want to know what's different about the game." Hirosawa Furukawa said with a smile, "Besides, you can also play the game while deepening your relationship with Junna."

Furukawa Haoze's face was filled with a happy smile.

For this man, there is probably nothing happier than being able to play games with the girl he likes, right?
……

Ah... Damn it, Furukawa-senpai has tricked me again.

After sending Furukawa Hirosawa away, Yamada sat back down.

I just feel that the house is filled with the sour smell of love.

However, my mood was inexplicably completely different from before.

Ever since Furukawa-senpai came in person and took away the game.

Yamada Masaharu's whole world became brighter.

"Ah~ As expected, Furukawa-senpai is Furukawa-senpai, even if he has a girlfriend..."

Hmm&...should be considered a girlfriend, right?
I don’t know if Furukawa-senpai has confessed to Miss Xuezhu.

"But even so, Furukawa-senpai still loves games."

I originally thought that after he had Miss Xuezhu, he would lose the reason to play games. I didn't expect that his true love for games was not just an ordinary toy to relieve loneliness and make himself more comfortable.

This makes Yamada Masaharu feel extremely gratified.

The moonlight is hazy, which is a good time to play games.

If you don't play games, are you still waiting for a young lady to throw herself into your arms?
So Yamada happily started playing the game.

……

"Princess Mononoke"!start up!

As soon as the screen went dark, the familiar pokeni logo appeared on the screen.

Here are the iconic slogans:
【Game is life】

[Here, start an unprecedented journey of life]

But something slightly different from previous games is——

This time the prompt words are presented in ink style.

It's like the ink floating on the water, or the curling smoke burning in the sky.

After the words appear, they slowly disappear. This feeling is really artistic.

Masaharu Yamada just saw this beginning and even before entering the game, he already sighed endlessly.

pokeni is really attentive.

In order to fit "Princess Mononoke", I adopted such an artistic expression, which is antique.

In fact, what he didn't know was that Qing Zhiyuan, as a Chinese in his previous life, played more ink and wash style games than he imagined. Qing Zhiyuan was even very persistent in the ink and wash style.

It’s just that there are no Chinese-style classical games that I’m particularly familiar with.

It’s hard to get a “Princess Mononoke” game, so of course it has to be implemented.

The screen lit up again, just like the sun was breaking through the dark clouds at dawn, and the brightness of the screen was constantly changing, getting brighter little by little.

At the same time, the sound of birds and running water came from the picture...

In the picture, there is a large green forest, and the distant peaks are hidden in the sea of ​​clouds.

Nearby is a small black stone walled city, with smoke rising from the roof.

An idyllic scenery is in full view.

Hisaishi Joe's music sounded slowly and beautifully, and in Yamada's mind, there was a bright moon.

Below is a green forest with mountains and mountains.

Infinite vastness and beauty.It was as if some mysterious power had impacted Yamada's mind.

It makes people fascinated.

Ah, as expected of master Joe Hisaishi's score, it's so nice.

Combined with the starting interface in front of you, it is simply perfect.

If there is such a place in reality, no, there should be such a place in reality, Yamada Shoji thought to himself.

He had seen reports on the filming of "Princess Mononoke" before, and he remembered that in order to play Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki also took Hisaishi Joe and Qing Zhiyuan out for filming.

Ah, if all this is true, then this place must be very beautiful in reality.

He also wanted to experience it.

Press the button and select [New Game]

The game officially begins.

……

The camera barely switches, but the fonts in the main interface are hidden, and then the entire game start interface slowly floats.

Just then, Yamada Masaharu was surprised to find——

He originally thought the initial interface was a 2D picture, but he didn't expect it to be a real 3D scene.

The camera slowly advances and then continues to zoom in, just like your eyes, floating in the air, leading you to witness the world.

The subtitles slowly emerge from the bottom, and it really feels like watching a movie in a cinema.

【long, long ago】

[This country is covered by a large forest]

【In this land】

【Inhabited by gods that have existed since ancient times】

The camera slowly lowered, and then there was a transition. From the original distant view, the vast mountains gradually changed to the ground.

Skimming through the dense treetops, sliding across the tree trunks, and slowly landing on the ground.

Masaharu Yamada was surprised for a moment and became a little confused. Is this a 3D scene or a 2D picture, or is the animation made by Hayao Miyazaki directly put into the game?

I don't understand it at all.

Judging from the lens language of the entrance just now, it seems to be a 3D effect, but when the lens transitions into the forest and the details are slowly presented, it gives him the illusion of watching a 2D animation.

How exactly is this done?
Although Masaharu Yamada is not a gamer, he is extremely curious about this due to his instinct as a programmer.

In fact, the production process of this section is spliced ​​through two animations.

The first paragraph is indeed what Masaharu Yamada saw, a 3D world scene built by pokeni, but this scene cannot run people and can only be used for CG.

Through the lens performance of this section, a transition was made. Because the entire game uses animation rendering debugged by Qing Zhiyuan, from the entire facade, it is like watching a movie.

When the lens moves down, it can maintain a stable 2D feeling inside.

Then when it comes to the connection from 3D to 2D, it is very easy to do. The connection part in the second half is completed by Makoto Shinjin through computer rendering.

Proper 2D animation.

In other words, from the beginning of the game, it is a veritable combination of 3D + 2D.

Even though this is an animation, it still shows pokeni's extremely superb game development technology and wisdom beyond ordinary people's imagination.

If it weren't for Qing Zhiyuan, no one in the entire era would have thought of using such a splicing transition method to complete the opening animation.

As for friends and businessmen, they probably won’t be able to figure out the mystery even if they try hard enough.

……

The following parts are all 2D interpretations, shown through actual scenes from some animated movies:
In the dense woods, the camera keeps zooming in, and you can see the lush variety of plants.

There was a stream flowing in the distance, glowing with bright lights, as if someone had broken the light into pieces and spread it into the river.

And nearby, a little squirrel jumped up along the tree trunk.

Birds spread their wings and fly high along the branches.

Everything is a beautiful sight.

But at this moment, something suddenly happened——

Trees fell down one after another, and at the same time, a huge monster whose body was covered with countless terrible cursed insects walked through the woods.

Wherever it passed, the flowers and trees quickly withered and turned into a puddle of mud.

The monster's body is covered with curses. These bugs look terrifying and inexplicable, like earthworms, except they are completely black.

The monster overall takes on the appearance of an orb spider.

On the road where it crawled, it left a long black track that looked like corroded mud.

……

"horrible."

Seeing this, Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but hugged his arms and rubbed them to make himself warmer.

At the same time, goosebumps broke out all over his body.

……

The picture stopped suddenly, the music became louder, and a few big words were written in the center of the TV -

"Princess Mononoke"

The camera changed, and a large green jungle appeared, as well as villages hidden among the mountains.

Some man-made watchtowers stand on the road outside, and behind them are some earthen houses, which are well-proportioned and look particularly classically beautiful.

Unlike "Onmyoji", "Princess Mononoke" gives Masaharu Yamada a more ancient feel.

To be precise, it is quaint.

The subtitles read:

[In a quiet town in the east]

【People live a peaceful life without fighting against the world】

[However, all of this will change dramatically due to the arrival of something. 】

Then the camera switched again, this time standing in the middle of the screen was a young man wearing a blue shirt with a bulging bun on the back of his head.

The camera is a rear chase shot, which is a third-person perspective, but it is from behind and above the male protagonist.

The boy was walking in the green jungle, and a khaki mountain road twisted and stretched into the distance.

At this point, the game truly puts the right to action and operation into the hands of the player.

The next section is a teaching piece.

It's actually very simple. First, teach Yamada Masaharu how to use the joystick to walk, run, jump, turn, etc...

……

Looking at the game screen in front of him, Yamada Masaharu still doubted his eyes.

Because no matter how you look at it, this game is like watching an animated movie.

It truly feels like sitting in a movie theater and experiencing "Princess Mononoke" produced by Hayao Miyazaki.

The color of the picture, the overall style of the painting, and the structure of the characters all give people a very 2D illusion.

The outlines are very obvious, the normal lines are also very prominent, and the brightness is very soft and harmonious, but it lacks realism.

It's like being in an animated world.

"Can this be called a 3D game?"

And it's action-oriented.

Why doesn’t Masaharu Yamada believe it?
In fact, until now, Masaharu Yamada doesn't quite understand what this 3D action game is all about.

In his imagination, a 3D real-time action game should be like Pokémon 3D World.

But when it comes to single-player RPGs, I don’t really know.

However, now that he is teaching novices, he has a little bit of understanding——

The so-called 3D action games probably simulate the feeling of real people playing games in a 3D world, right?

But this picture prevented him from connecting it with 3D.

……

But this doubt lasted for less than 1 minute.

When Masaharu Yamada followed the novice instructions and moved the right joystick, the entire game scene also rotated.

To be precise, he was turning from the perspective of the male protagonist Ashitaka, looking at every place in his sight.

As the field of view changes, the scene changes, but it's all very continuous and natural.

It was as if Masaharu Yamada had taken a full circle in the real world.

"Wow, it's really 3D!"

Yamada Masaharu couldn't help but sigh.

A beautiful animated world full of fantasy and color described by Hayao Miyazaki that is constantly changing.

I came alive all of a sudden.

Start an adventure in this world.

Omg.

Isn’t that so interesting? !

pokeni is like magic.

Yamada Masaharu was conquered by this game at once. All his previous doubts disappeared, and he had unlimited expectations for the next adventure.

……

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There should be another chapter tonight

It's the author's birthday today, and he may be celebrating it tonight, but this chapter may not be included. If you haven't seen it after 11 o'clock, don't wait any longer.

thank you all.

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