Chapter 492: Keep going!
The release of Sherlock Holmes is imminent.
Related topics continue to gain popularity.
This is the case both overseas and domestically.
After all, Detective Di Renjie is a good example.
The name of this game simply points out that it has detective elements and is of the same type as Detective Di Renjie.
Two games of the same type... Players even thought that Linmu Studio was going to transform.
Of course, most of those who think so are overseas players.
Domestic players have been very annoyed by the professor surnamed You recently, and their attention to the game has not been so high.
Of course, there are also trolls overseas. After the emergence of "political correctness" in the next few years, the environment is expected to be more exaggerated and worse...
It's just that it's not as fierce as in China.
After all, Linmu Studio is now an absolute benchmark in China, unlike overseas where there are other big companies to help share the firepower.
Players' focus is relatively concentrated, and the impact caused is also great.
However.
The game will not give up the plan of publicity and release because of these off-site factors. Publicity and promotion will continue
as usual.
The release date is also set for March 15.
That is, every time Linmu Studio promotes and releases, the professor surnamed You will come out and say something weird.
It's really annoying.
Domestic players now feel their blood pressure rises when they see it.
As for overseas, it's better.
Facing the work "Sherlock Holmes", most players who played the previous work "Di Renjie" are very happy. After all, the barrier of cultural differences is still there. Although they also like "Di Renjie", they are faced with a new game with a background that is more in line with their own culture, and it seems to be of the same type as Di Renjie. Of course, they are happy.
For example.
... I played "Di Renjie" before and said that I like bikinis. The anchor was very excited.
March 15.
"Good afternoon."
The anchor named Xie Ge started the live broadcast, greeted, while lifting his bangs, put one leg on the chair, and then comfortably held the mouse.
He is also considered the top anchor of the platform. Because of his foul mouth, casualness, and the atmosphere like a zoo... He has always been quite popular.
So soon after he started the live broadcast, a group of viewers came in.
While looking for the Vaporwave game platform on the messy desktop, Xie Ge read the comments of the audience and answered their questions.
"What are we playing today? Of course, Linmu Studio's Sherlock Holmes. You may have forgotten... I'm also British."
"I almost forgot you're British. Your spoken English is very American... The room manager! Block him!"
"I heard that Linmu Studio's last game encountered some problems in their own country? I haven't heard about it. Wasn't their last game pretty good?"
"Can it be live-streamed? To be honest, I'm also worried. After all, it's not a local company, so I sent an email to Linmu Studio. They are quite open-minded and said that live-streaming is welcome both overseas and in their country. Of course, they also added that it would be best if players could buy the game to experience it in person, so..."
"If you are interested, you'd better buy the game."
"The game may contain offensive elements?... Then I smashed the switch next to me on the spot. I'll keep my word, and you can witness it."
"..."
While Xie Ge was talking nonsense with the audience, he finally found the Vaporwave game platform and opened the Sherlock Holmes that had just been unlocked.
Then, the game started!
Xie Ge also changed the control method and turned around to pick up the controller.
"Sometimes, the benefit of playing Linmu Studio's games is that they have perfectly adapted their own switch PRO controllers for all PC games, which is very easy to use."
Xie Ge sighed, and then quickly glanced at the logo before the game started. Generally speaking, there was not much change, except that it changed from Dragon Studio to the logo of Xihan Studio.
As the last logo disappeared.
Then.
The initial page of the game appeared.
Two men who looked like British gentlemen stood beside the start page, lowering their hat brims and making it difficult to see their faces.
"Wuhu~"
Xie Ge couldn't help but whistled when he saw the start page.
After all, he saw a familiar culture in the game.
Although he himself would never wear this, culture is something engraved in the hearts of every aboriginal.
Choose to start the game.
The start page paused, then gradually burned, and finally turned into a page of paper on an antique typewriter.
Ta-ta-ta.
The sound of the mechanical keyboard of the typewriter being tapped came.
A man with a beard and a friendly look sat in front of the typewriter, typing characters quickly.
"The first time I met Sherlock Holmes, I was worried about renting an apartment in London. At that time, I had just retired from Afghanistan due to injury..."
As the sound of typing continued, letters continued to appear.
The camera slowly moved forward and focused on the paper where characters kept popping up.
Then, the picture gradually blurred, and the clacking sound of typing turned into the loud noise of the axle wheels of the steam locomotive rolling wildly.
It was like traveling through time.
Woo.
Accompanied by a huge amount of steam spewing out from the locomotive.
The camera zoomed up, and all players had a panoramic view of the entire Victorian London in England.
"Cool."
Xie Ge smiled when he saw this.
In fact, any big-budget game will generally have such a link at the beginning.
Simply put, it is to show the picture quality.
If you pay a little attention, you should be able to find that many 3A games have a long-range view at the beginning.
At this time, the texture of the game screen is often the most delicate and the optimization is the best.
Because the player's perception of the picture of a game, or more accurately, the game skin,
is the most concentrated time. It is the time when the player just opens the game.
At this time, the player has not yet played the game, and he is very concerned about these external things.
Even "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" has such a link.
As a PC work.
"Sherlock Holmes" certainly took this into consideration.
The camera that slowly rises from the steam locomotive directly takes in the whole picture of London.
At the same time, the picture highlights some iconic buildings as much as possible, such as the Tower of London, the London Bridge under construction, Piccadilly Circus as an entertainment center, and the Houses of Parliament.
These buildings that still exist today instantly eliminate the unfamiliarity of players when they first enter the game.
Instead, it created a feeling of time travel.
The effect is pretty good.
After leaving a deep impression on the players, "Sherlock Holmes" did not let the camera linger too much, thinking that the players would appreciate the results of their efforts, but directly pulled the camera down to Watson's perspective.
After all, waiting for the player to press skip impatiently is different from wanting to see the scenery again...
For example, at this moment.
Many viewers who watched the live broadcast were dissatisfied and questioned why Sheger skipped when the scenery was obviously good.
"I didn't skip it. The game is so fast. What can I do? If you want to watch it again, go buy the game."
Sheger left a sentence and began to control Watson to turn around.
However,
after all, it is not an open world game, so running around is definitely impossible.
So in the end, he still honestly followed the game prompts and went to a bar called Cletillian.
Next.
It's a familiar plot.
At the door of the bar, Watson met Stanford, an assistant who was working at the Barts Hospital at the time.
The two met unexpectedly, and of course they were very surprised, so they sat down and chatted. Watson told the other party about his experiences during this period, and said that he was looking for a house recently.
"I want to find a cheap and comfortable house to live in, but I don't know if I can find one. It's too expensive."
"Maybe you can find someone to share the rent with?"
"Come on, who would be willing to be my roommate?"
"...You are the second person who said this to me today."
The assistant heard Watson's words and suddenly smiled and said this.
"Who is the first person?" Watson was a little surprised.
Then.
Sherlock Holmes officially appeared.
And the first appearance of this Holmes, whose name appeared in the title of the game, did not leave a deep impression on the players.
After all, the place of appearance was in a laboratory in a hospital, and this Holmes was standing in front of a pile of distiller, test tubes and Bunsen burners with blue flames, concentrating on studying something, and mumbling in his mouth.
It looks quite weird.
But.
Soon.
The player was deeply impressed by him...
Stanford brought Watson in, pushed the door open, and then greeted them and began to introduce the two parties: "This is Dr. Watson, and this is Mr. Holmes."
Holmes looked up and almost instantly saw Watson's identity as a soldier.
Watson was very surprised and even asked the assistant next to him if he had introduced him before.
The assistant shook his head and smiled without saying anything.
And Holmes also spoke...
Accompanied by a cool performance, the details of Watson were magnified, and then appeared one by one as Holmes explained.
Well, the elementary deduction method.
Although the possibility of implementing it in reality is relatively low.
But in the game, it is really bluffing, connecting all the analysis through clues, and finally reaching a certain conclusion.
It looks very handsome! Very detective-like!
In the game, Watson listened to the other party's words, with a face full of doubts about life, and at the same time glanced at the assistant next to him.
The assistant shrugged and continued to smile without saying anything.
At this time.
A policeman rushed in in a panic.
The game brought a message that another girl was killed.
The main plot of the game was officially released, the serial murder of girls!
Holmes was very calm when he heard the news. He just picked up the hat beside him and put it on his head, then turned around and said to Watson: "Are you here to discuss sharing a house? If you can, we can talk on the way, Mr. Watson."
Watson was silent for a moment and agreed.
Then, the game started from Watson's perspective.
Players cannot control Holmes, but they can observe closely and help him find clues.
When looking for clues, they will encounter obstacles.
For example, gangsters, unidentified thugs, and unreasonable strong men.
For the sake of gameplay, Xihan Studio added a lot of action segments to the game.
The action segments were very enjoyable to play, and did not disappoint the players at all.
However, the excellent action system cannot cover up the fun of the plot itself.
The feeling of players playing "Detective Dee" and "Call of Duty" is back in this game.
In short, it is... a film and television plot.
Whether it is the performance, lines, or plot, it is standard film and television.
Watson, controlled by the player, does not seem to be playing, but more like participating in a movie.
And since it is a movie, and most of the time, the player's perspective is focused on Holmes.
So of course, his image is the most profound.
As for the evaluation of him.
How to say it.
This is a... real genius!
"Damn it! Does someone who doesn't know any astronomy knowledge, and even doesn't know that the earth revolves around the sun, really exist?"
Two hours later.
Sheger controlled Watson and heard his conversation with Holmes, and couldn't help but complain.
Then he looked back at the comments of the audience.
"Indeed, he can even distinguish tobacco by its ash, but he doesn't know that the earth revolves around the sun..."
"Interesting person, weird, but maybe this is genius."
"By the way, the basic deduction method proposed in this game is very interesting. Can it be done in reality?"
"It should be possible, right?"
Some viewers agreed with him.
But only a small part.
Because most of the audience's comments were...
"Who asked you to sigh? Hurry up and continue the game! We want to know the follow-up!"
"Yes! Keep going!"
"I want to see the follow-up of the plot! How will Holmes identify the murderer! I don't want to hear your nonsense!" "
..."
Xie Ge saw the audience's words and felt a little amused, and then suddenly an idea came to his mind. If
he went off the air at this time, would these people want to kill him?
Well... probably not.
But he should have a strong desire to buy the game.
Even if not, he should immediately find the anchor who is broadcasting the same game.
Because this game is really attractive. For those who play it, every excellent action scene is a great pleasure.
And for the audience, enjoying the story seems to be a good pleasure.
Maybe this is the reason why Linmu Studio can rise so quickly?
Sheg continued playing the game while thinking about other things.
And the game... after all, it is a game.
There are not many big scenes in the beginning of the game. Most of the time, you investigate a case, then get new clues, interact with Holmes, get more information, and then advance the plot and investigate again.
The game screens in the first few hours of the game are mostly dark in tone, and more focus is placed on the case and character creation.
The biggest attraction for players is Holmes's "elementary deduction method" of reasoning from the details...
But as the game progresses slowly.
Big scenes begin to increase.
For example, it is finally determined that the murderer is the Duke of Blackwood, and he must be brought to justice.
Players must deal with enemies in an entire church.
You can choose how to play.
You can sneak in, or you can fight your way in with Holmes.
There are also explosion scenes.
Anyway, as long as you stop the other party before the victim dies, it will be fine.
After the real murderer, the Duke of Blackwood, is brought to justice, the game does not end, but develops in a fantasy direction.
Watson, the player, personally confirmed his death.
But just after the burial, the gravekeeper saw him crawling out of the grave...
The game once again entered a new chapter.
At this time,
Sheger had been playing for more than five hours.
The game started with a small case, while explaining the context of the entire serial murder case, and then came to the stage of identifying and catching the real murderer.
After catching the real murderer, just when the player was relieved.
This is not the end, but another beginning. It
is really one thing after another.
There is no time for players to rest. As the game progresses, both Holmes and Watson, played by the player, begin to become three-dimensional...
and the murderer is resurrected.
Holmes and Watson, as well as the player, can only go to the cemetery again to open the autopsy.
At this time, the atmosphere of the game changed a little. When the police took out the coffin and opened the lid, they found that the person lying inside was not the real murderer, Duke Lakewood, but an unknown dead person. The gravekeeper also said that Duke Lakewood knew witchcraft. When a dead person left, a living person would be put into the coffin. It was really a bit dark and scary.
The player's emotions also experienced a turning point at this time.
He became very interested in the case again.
In the game.
Holmes and Watson have cooperated seamlessly after the previous game.
One observed the scene, and the other determined the time of death of the unknown dead person.
Sheger controlled the character to complete the above actions, and then followed Holmes to the exit of the cemetery.
"Do you really believe that he will come back from the dead?" Watson, played by the player, asked.
"It's not a question of whether you believe it or not, but how he came back to life. The game begins, Watson."
Holmes put on his hat.
Then, the camera slowly pulled up.
"Follow your heart and take responsibility."
"Shout... God bless Harry, England and St. George."
As Holmes and Watson read the lines side by side
, the screen pulled up again, and then the crow swooped down to the camera.
This chapter is over.
"Okay, brothers, I'm going to have a meal later..."
Seeing this, Sheg slowly breathed a sigh of relief and put down the controller.
Although he also wanted to know the follow-up of the case, he was indeed a little hungry, and he wanted to have a meal...
But he hadn't finished speaking.
The real-time comments began to jump wildly...
"What are you eating!? Keep going!! I want to see the follow-up!"
"It feels like the most exciting part is coming! You're going to have a meal!? I disagree!"
"Keep going, keep going!"
"I want to watch the game!"
"The movie hasn't finished yet!"
The crowd was in turmoil.
Even words like watching a movie were said.
Xie Ge: "..."
There is one more chapter, but it will be very late. I will finish writing this plot. You can read it tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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