Video Game Designer

A week later...

In the Shibuya district of Tokyo, the building of Square Enix’s headquarters, Chu River, Tako Kyu, Kamiya Hideki and others visited.

The nearby Kamiya Hideki and Tian Pugui couldn't help but feel emotionally. You have to know that they came once a few weeks ago, but that time they came to discuss about OEM matters.

But now I'm buying money with money, and I suddenly changed from a wage earner to a big boss. This change of identity can't help but make people sigh with emotion.

About the cavalry on the dragon's back, and Neal's copyright acquisition was very smooth.

In itself, this is not an explosive IP. In addition, SE has been losing money in the game industry in recent years. Last year, SE lost as much as 2 billion yen. Although today's SE is still producing 3A games.

But he intends to enter the mobile game industry in a big way, including the Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, a series of familiar IPs, copyright authorization authorization, and the ability to make your own out of it, which is very hard in the mobile market. A momentum of hot money.

Regarding the cavalry on the dragon's back and the Neil series, at first SE only intended to authorize the game, but in the price negotiation later, Tianhe Network still won the copyright of the series at a price of 4 million US dollars.

Of course, in addition to the copyright issue, the current president of SE also talked to Chu He about some possible cooperation aspects, such as mobile game authorization.

The two parties jointly developed a mobile game in China and the neon market with the copyright of SE games, such as Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.

Well, the current SE has been cancelled due to the loss on the 3A stand-alone for several years in a row, and even two consecutive games about Final Fantasy have been cancelled, and the original fantasy fantasy online game encountered Waterloo failure. The profit is up, and the mobile game project is clearly the next major strategic focus of SE.

Compared with these, the IP of the series of Neil and the Cavalry on the Dragon's Back is not a little worthy of nostalgia at all, especially the Cavalry on the Dragon's Back has some fans, but it is still black powder, because this game There are not many people who hate SE and the main producer Taro Yokoo.

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"Chu, does the new director of the Neil series, Platinum Studio, have an ideal candidate? Maybe I can recommend a person." In the cafe of the SE building, Yosuke Sato and Chu He also need the gods of Hideki and Tianpu Guijiu. Personally sitting together and talking about some things in the game world, Yosuke Sato then said to Chu He.

"It should be Mr. Yokoo Taro, but I'm sorry, his game style may have a great conflict with our established." Hearing Saito Yosuke, Chuhe rejected Saito Yosuke without thinking.

Invite Taro Yokoo to serve as Neil's director?

Chuhe never thought about this kind of thing. As a game producer, Taro Yokoo is undoubtedly a weird person. The DOD series he served as the cavalry on the back of the dragon are almost all on the dark side, similar to suicide, slaughter, Cannibalism, and even some taboo scenes, are common.

At the same time, after the dissolution of the cavia department that produced the DOD series, Taro Yokoo also left SE as a freelancer, but although he is a freelancer, because of the relationship between Yosuke Saito, he continues to work for SE.

I have to say that Say Yosuke Saito and Taro Yokoo are good friends. It’s not groundless. In the neon of the workplace hierarchy, Taro Yokoo can play games according to his own wishes. There is no doubt that this is the same as Saito. The protection of Yosuke is inseparable.

Even when he was working on the DOD series, due to the conflict between SE executives and Taro Yokoo, Yosuke Sato, the chief producer of SE, threatened to protect Taro Yokoo by threatening to resign from SE. To say that the two are not good friends, you believe What?

As a game producer, there is no doubt that Taro Yokoo is a ghost. His unbridled ideas and strange behaviors can be regarded as a wonderful thing among game producers.

At least Chu He hasn't seen any game producer, he can openly say in the media interview that he wants to shoot AV.

Hearing Chu He’s words, Yosuke Saito showed a regretful expression. In his mind, this was obviously the most suitable project for Taro Yokoo. When I originally mentioned in the Platinum Studio that I wanted to make the sequel to Neil, Sato Sato had It started to work actively in SE, after all, almost on the DOD and Neil series, it has already been named Yokoo Taro.

But who knows that a Cheng Biaojin was suddenly killed halfway, Tianhe Network not only bought Platinum Studio, but also directly found SE to buy Neal's copyright, which was far from what Yosuke Saito thought.

It was originally planned to see if I could find a new job for Taro Yokoo. After all, the worldview and plot of DOD and Neal can be said to be created by Taro Yokoo.

But who knows, he was resolutely rejected by the other party just after speaking.

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Chu He didn't intend to stay in Neon for a long time, but in Platinum Studio, after acquiring the relevant copyrights, the entire studio immediately began to work efficiently after the relevant funds were received, which made Chu He feel Some accidents.

"Regarding the Neil series, Taro Yokoo is actually the one who knows best and is the best producer for this series of plots." Tian Pugui, a loyal fan of Neil, suggested to Chuhe in the Platinum Studio.

Of course, this is back to the platinum studio. When he was in SE, Chuhe had already expressed his opinion. Of course, he could not have the opposite opinion on the outside.

"I don't like the narrative style that is too dark, as if the whole world is hopeless." Chu He waved his hand and said.

There is nothing Yokoo Taro's style is not suitable for Neil, simply simply do not like the dark to extreme style of Yokoo Taro, there are not so many excuses for being very honest.

"If you were to be Neil, what would you do? Will you continue to make traditional ACT games like the Angel Witch Hunter?" Chu He looked at Kamiya Hideki and asked the three men.

"No, we need to change the style, open, no... It should be the ARPG mode to be precise." Kamiya Eki said seriously.

The failure of several consecutive games has made him see the current trend.

There is no doubt that ACT elements are flowing in the blood of Platinum Studio.

Especially the collection of ACT and TPS, like the original Devil May Cry and the Angel Hunter from the standing portal.

After two defeats of the Angel Witch Hunting, Kamiya Hideki clearly saw the development trend of ACT games today.

Purely linear, the ACT of the level has gradually been declining. This is undoubtedly a thing that came out of Capcom in two or three years, and a devil crying, and like the Angel Witch Hunter, it is well-received and even sold. Only one-third of the previous work.

To the God of War produced by Sony, the success of taking the ARPG route, and the original slaughter of Tianhe Network not long ago, all proved that an ACT type game needs to be reformed.

And with today's technology, it is completely possible to put the style of ACT on a semi-open map.

"People's Name~www.NovelMTL.com~ The shadow of the tree, Platinum Studio is famous for its excellent creation of action games, the free combination of skills and fighting, the combination of equipment and skills, this is the biggest feature of Platinum Games , And the story tells the truth. The excellent plot really can make a game extra points, even as a god, but for a game to succeed or not, it is still sales." Chu He said very positively.

For example, Yinggu Yingshu, Inaba Inashi and others are all big names in the industry, and even older than Chuhe’s qualifications. They are naturally very clear about these things. Just as a game producer, there will always be some private goods that want to be mixed in. In the game, these private goods are the style of various gamers.

"Of course, in addition to the change in style, human design is undoubtedly very important for the game. Although the sales of Angel Witch are not high, if the human design is a bit worse, maybe his sales will be lower." Chu He looked at Shengu Yingshu and said.

The expressions of Kamiya Hideki and others are slightly embarrassing, but this is also the truth. If you change the witch Beijie to the rough man Zhang Fei, what is the final sales?

"Neil, will be a **** female robot as the protagonist."

Tian Puguijiu, who realized the essence of Chuhe's words, immediately added.