Dai Wenquan sighed heavily, not for anything else but for "Ghost Hunter", the eleventh chapter of the game that will be launched in August - "Abyss Mode".
Mu Jijian announced his resignation as deputy director of ghost hunting after launching "Phantom Mode", citing some mental problems.
This is not a lie. The hospital determined that Mu Jijiang was suffering from mild depression. It was probably related to the long-term stress in the past few months and his willful "Corpse Bird".
Thinking of this, Dai Wenguan was too embarrassed to say anything, so he could only ask Mu Jijian to resign from the position of deputy director. Of course, he would retain the title of creative director, but he would just go out to recuperate and officially marry his boyfriend.
Since Mu Jijian couldn't do it anymore and left, other members of the planning team have worked hard for a long time, but they haven't been able to come up with a game model that can match the quality of Mu Jijian's three chapters.
Therefore, under Dai Wenguan's decision, regardless of the quality, as long as Chapter 11 can be completed, it will be considered a victory.
Obviously, it is impossible to count on the quality of such an urgent project. Although Dai Wenguan has put his hope of word-of-mouth in the 12th chapter to be released later, this is doomed to have a hit in terms of word-of-mouth for Chapter 11. .
In fact, if Ren Jiafu had always been in charge, Chapter 11 would not be particularly ugly in terms of the quality of the games he launched.
But the question is, isn’t this Ren Jiafu rolling the ball? Today's "Ghost Hunter" players, after three chapters of training by Mu Jijian, have already developed very demanding appetites and expectations.
Now we have suddenly returned to the Ren Jiafu era. Even in that era, Chapter 11 was still at the lower-middle level. How could the players tolerate it?
Therefore, Dai Wenquan could already predict that after the players finished experiencing Chapter 11, they would have the burning urge to curse in their hearts.
But what can be done about this? If you can't think of a good enough idea, you just can't think of it, so you have to make do with it like this.
What should I do if there is a public outcry later? Then just follow the example of other big companies and just lie down and play dead. Qingyu is also a mature offensive company now.
Chapter 11 actually also carries a function, that is, it is the final battle of the game "Ghost Hunter" in a practical sense.
But now that the specific gameplay of Abyss Mode has been finalized, Dai Wenquan looked around. In addition to the title of the decisive battle, the most bragging thing about "Abyss Mode" is probably... he used the last song inventory?
Among the three songs that Zhong Shanze brought to Dai Wenquan, "Walk Away" and "Corpse Bird" have been used, and the last "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" has been used here.
This song is said to be the earliest horror ballad. However, it really became popular after it was selected and adapted for "Resident Evil 7". Zhong Shanze brought this version.
It is now being used in the promotional video for Chapter 11. Although the quality of "Abyss Mode" is not good, it still has to trick players into killing it.
Of course, when "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" was used in the promotional video, it was also Chineseized like the previous "Walk Away". The literal translation of the original song title was "Tell Aunt Rhody".
If it were abbreviated directly, it could be called "Shu Aunt", but this name sounded strange no matter how you heard it. Therefore, when promoting the soundtrack in the end, the song was named "Please Tell Her".
A promotional video blares into the darkness: "Tell Auntie Lottie, tell Auntie Lottie, tell Auntie Lottie, everyone around you is dead."
Accompanied by this slightly childish voice, the scene sometimes moves forward in a laboratory full of science and technology, and sometimes crawls in a dark and deep cave, with the two constantly flashing back and intertwining.
"I was kept in a dark cave, as if I was a prisoner; my shoulders were pierced by chains, and my soul longing for freedom was constantly corroded."
At this time, the screen has entered the center of the laboratory. In a tightly sealed test bed, a young girl was huddled under a glass shield.
She was wearing dirty white clothes, and her messy hair looked like it hadn't been washed for a long time, but it couldn't stop her weird eyes, which seemed to penetrate all obstacles and stare straight at the screen.
When the song reaches this point, the style also changes. From the original tone full of resentment, it suddenly takes on a ferocious tone.
"I called the man and he would come, he was the one she missed day and night; he would come to her with open arms and be torn to pieces by me!"
At this time, the scene shifted to the hunters again. Their tightly armed bodies were carefully moving forward in the abandoned laboratory with no light.
After a flash of lightning and thunder, the picture turned into a pale man walking on the clean and white floor of the scientific research room, where two time and space intersected.
At this point, the players who are watching have roughly understood that the content stated in this CG is the true origin of the fierce ghost's destruction of the world decades ago.
However, when the truth was revealed, there were not many shocked comments. After all, many players on the forum had speculated on the setting behind it.
In the world of "Ghost Hunter", the reason why the ghost apocalypse occurred was probably not because the Costamund instrument could not be shut down, but in fact because of an accident during the experiment.
At the same time, accompanied by the ferocious song, the pale man in the picture continued to move forward. He seemed to be a puppet on strings, being guided forward by some mysterious force.
Finally he pushed open the last door, and the white light in the laboratory slowly seeped out, shrouding his body little by little.
At this point the song reaches its final part: "Tell Aunt Lottie, tell Aunt Lottie, tell Aunt Lottie, all, all, everyone is dead."
As the song ends, the new game mode of Chapter 11 also officially appears. Just like the dark caves that constantly appear on the screen, the new game mode that will be launched in August is called "Abyss Mode".
The plot of Chapter 11 continues Chapter 10. After the hunters broke out of the phantom's obstruction, they were finally able to open the door to the headquarters of the Costamund Company.
However, to their surprise, what was behind the gate was not the ruins of a dilapidated laboratory, but a bottomless, seemingly endless abyss.
At this time, this group of players did not realize the seriousness of the matter. They were still happy to hear the third song and felt that this eleventh chapter would continue the glory of the Mu Jijian era.
Although some players have felt from the news of Mu Jijian's resignation that things may not be that simple.
But even if the quality of "Ghost Hunter" drops, to what extent can it drop? What's more, this is already the penultimate chapter, and the final battle of "Ghost Hunter" is about to begin.
According to the current speculation on the forum, Chapter 11 is probably just a formality, to walk through this deep tunnel, and then the decisive battle in Chapter 12 will be held at the bottom of the tunnel.
Looking at these lively discussions on the forum, Dai Wenguan shrank unnaturally. He had already anticipated the public opinion storm that would erupt in the future.
