Chapter 178 You Are the Life-Saving Straw (Fourth Update)

This is the first time for Komura Xiong to set foot on the land of China.

Here he had to lament the vastness of China.

At the same time, he could vaguely feel the prosperity of China as a whole.

Even though the people here generally dress simply, the city buildings also look a bit simple, just like they did in Japan thirty or forty years ago.

But the radiance of each of these pedestrians and the energy to work hard at any time made him vaguely feel that China would rise sooner or later.

It's just a matter of time.

The obstacle to a country's development is never technical, but people.

As long as people work hard and are ambitious, he feels that the country's development will never be slow.

This time Komura Xiong came to China for only one purpose.

Find Zuo Zhen.

He himself came to a solution at the board meeting.

That is to find Zuo Zhen and let him help him develop more games.

He has regarded Zuo Zhen as a life-saving straw.

Other members of the board had some doubts about his idea.

How much influence do they think just one game developer can have?

Even they must admit that Zuo Zhen has strong game production capabilities.

But NGS is not vegetarian.

Take the few games they have released recently, they are all hits.

Super Mario series.

The third part has even been booked in advance as the best movie of the year.

Needless to say about other games.

There are a few that have sold millions, and there are even a few that have sold five million.

And they, Sega, didn't even dare to think about it.

How does this compare?

But Komura doesn't think so.

Zuo Zhen alone may really have the strength to fight against NGS.

Anyway, at least he has never seen in his life that only a few people can develop several high-quality games within a year.

This efficiency has far exceeded all peers.

Zuo Zhen alone may really have the ability to turn the tide.

He did not inform Zuo Zhen before coming to the land of China.

Mainly because it was too late.

He now needs to see Zuo Zhen as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Zuo Zhen left him an address before.

Accompanying Gao Cunxiong was a Chinese person in the company.

The other party happened to want to go home, so he took on the role of translator.

He didn't need to translate when communicating with Zuo Zhen, he just needed help taking Gao Cunxiong to Zuo Zhen's city.

After getting off the plane, he immediately took the train and finally arrived in Qingshan City, Sichuan Province after a day and a half.

"Director Takamura, this is where the real game company is located."

Takamura Yu was brought to the gate of the real game by his own employees.

"This building is so unique. I thought Mr. Zuo Zhen's company would have a seven or eight-story office building."

"This should be a temporary building. With the capabilities of the real game, you can build your own building."

"Well, that's probably why there are so few of them."

Gao Cunxiong nodded and then prepared to enter.

After some questioning, the gatekeeper let them in.

But when he put it in, the gatekeeper was also a little curious.

"It's really strange that a little Japanese came here."

He muttered, feeling very strange.

"In some specific levels, we need to set up some content that cannot be unlocked in advance. As players get some specific props in the later stages of playing, they can go to some specific levels to solve the puzzles again and get rewards."

"Boss, what's the use of doing this? It feels like it's a bit unnecessary. Wouldn't it be more fun to just give out all the content that can be rewarded in the game?"

"This is a kind of delayed reward, a kind of delayed enjoyment. Not everyone likes that kind of timely feedback. Sometimes some things need to be foreshadowed in advance, and when these foreshadowings are rewarded through their own efforts and exploration, they will be better than The general strategy and reward process can bring more excitement."

"I see... Then how should I design this kind of game? I don't think I've ever designed this kind of gameplay before. I can't figure it out."

"I won't show you the code of the finished product directly. Have you ever played Metroid? I remember that there was this delayed reward mechanism in that game."

"Oh yes! I've played it before! It turns out that's the delayed reward you mentioned, boss. No wonder I felt so good at the time. When you said that, boss, I had a clue!"

Everyone was buzzing about how to use this new mechanism to bring more fun to Mega Man 2.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Zuo Zhen here?"

A Japanese voice came from outside the door.

Everyone present suddenly became quiet and looked at the door in confusion.

Zuo Zhen naturally listened to this voice.

No one except him has learned Japanese. When the Japanese version of the game was originally made, he translated and wrote the lines in the game himself.

As for the future language optimization of the game, Zuo Zhen is also considering adding more manpower to handle it.

At this moment, only Zuo Zhen could understand the meaning outside the door.

"Why is there a little Japanese at the door?"

"Shhh, try not to say the word "小日本" in front of Xiao Japanese. What if people can understand it? That would be so embarrassing."

"Haha, that's right, but I don't have a good impression of Japan either. Just listen to it if you hear it."

"Gao Cun? Why are you here?"

Komura opened the door and walked into the discussion room.

Before that, Komura and his employees searched around the floor, and finally found the location where the sound was heard before coming in to ask.

"Zuo Zhen-san, it's really you, you're really here!"

Gao Cunxiong was slightly excited after seeing Zuo Zhen.

"I had a hard time looking for you!"

"It's so hard to find me? What's the matter with you?"

"Of course there is something, and it is a very important matter. It is related to the future survival of our Sega. I will come here to seek your help."

"Life or death... Okay, just wait for me for a moment and we'll talk alone."

Zuo Zhen looked at the other employees and said, "Let's discuss how to play Mega Man first, and then talk to me later. I have something to talk about here."

Afterwards, Zuo Zhen took Takamura Xiong to find an unoccupied room, found chairs, and asked people to help prepare tea.

"Takamura, did you come all the way from Japan?"

"Yes, and there is almost no pause. The matter is very urgent now and time waits for no one."

Zuo Zhen pondered for a moment and then asked: "Tell me, what makes you so anxious."

"Can you increase the number of game developments in the next period of time? The more the better. Now NGS is putting more and more pressure on us. We have to find a way to resist, otherwise NGS may annex us. .”