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One picture of the day
Recently, Kim Hyung-tae, the producer of "Star Blade", and Taro Yokoo, the director of "NieR: Automata", were interviewed by IGN Japan, and the two contributed a very funny group photo. As a compliment to the joint interview, Yokoo Taro did not hesitate to praise him, and bluntly said: "Star Blade" is much better than "NieR: Automata"!"
Mainly praised the picture and character design, the source of the IGN official website
Nintendo is absent from Cologne
Today, a number of European and American media reported that Nintendo has confirmed to them that it will not participate in Gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, in August this year.
In Nintendo's response, they said that Gamescom was an excellent event, but after considering it from many angles, they still made the decision not to participate in the war, and players will have the opportunity to see the NS console's game lineup at other events this year.
Nintendo is not an avid participant in major exhibitions, having been absent from E3 since 2013 and never attending the Tokyo Game Show, returning to Cologne in 2023 after a four-year hiatus. Interestingly, it was at last year's Cologne show that there was grapevine that Nintendo secretly showed the follow-up model of the NS to some media and developers.
Mikasa Reviews:
Even if you exhibit, there won't be any big news, so let's wait for the meeting.
WBG changes the storm
In this year's LPL Spring Playoffs, WBG was swept out of the tournament by JDG 3-0 and stopped in the top six. Although WBG lost star top laner TheShy this season, this result did not satisfy the fans and viewers. Whether the WBG will make personnel changes in the offseason has become a big suspense.
Yesterday, blogger Han Yi broke the news that WBG will sign the new Ueno Breathe (Breathe Brother) and Tarzan, and Tarzan has already signed, and the probability of Breathe joining is also very high.
Today, it is also revealed on obgg that Brother Breath and Tarzan have joined the WBG.
Of course, until the announcement was made by the alliance and the teams on both sides, these rumors were still rumors. Tarzan is now a free man, and it's a good thing to get a job, and Brother Breath on the other side is currently the main top laner of RNG, so this deal also touches the hearts of RNG fans.
It just so happened that RNG recently recalled former executive Li Jieming as CEO, and is engaged in "live broadcast selling members to save themselves", and he himself responded to the transfer rumors on the side of Weibo, saying that RNG will not be bad, but the specific lineup cannot be revealed.
Mikasa Reviews:
Along the RNG thing, you can talk a little more. In 2018, I had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Lee, who was a media spokesperson at the time, and was actually a COO position internally (for a long time, maybe misremember). The title of the interview was "After the Triple Crown, RNG Would Rather Be Slow," and it's not hard to find online.
Although on the surface it is said to be "slower", everyone knows that the "S8 RNG" is on the fast track. The time I did the interview was in mid-2018, when RNG had already won the Spring, MSI, and German Cup, and then they won the Summer Tournament, and they were only one S Championship away from reaching the Grand Slam.
But the final story is known to everyone. Although RNG still has a good commercial value after being eliminated by G2 in the S game, the endless match-fixing, arrogance, and apologetic rhythm have gradually worn down the team's morale.
Looking back, in the interview six years ago, did Li Jieming have any problems with his judgment on e-sports training, landing at home, long-term brand planning, and fan operation? But it was the lack of the last champion that detonated the network effect, and when passers-by turned black, the traffic previously obtained also ushered in a backlash.
But if RNG had won the S Championship that year, would it have been completely different? After the acceleration of the alliance, the business and field performance of the LPL have been significantly improved, and the value and wages of the players have also risen, but on the club's side, the ceiling of realization has not been raised much - the home field that was blown loudly earlier has been diluted; copyright distribution tends to calm down with the end of the competition on the live broadcast platform; in order to grab the top players, the club sometimes has to give up the player's economic contract live broadcast...
Of course, you can say that due to objective factors such as the epidemic, the economic cycle, and the decrease in the number of players, e-sports as an entertainment industry cannot be left alone. But subjectively, the head players of LPL have also vacated the cage and changed birds, and after the entry of big capital and large companies, traditional giants like RNG actually account for the light of seniority (whether it is light or not), and the competition is just a mountain of debts and traffic that has nowhere to be converted.
At this time, there are too few things that individuals can change, and even if they see the truth clearly, they may not be able to resist the general trend. As the saying goes, when heaven and earth come together, heroes are not free. If you have limited space, let's stop here, and then you can have the opportunity to write a long article.
The president of "Phantom Beast Palu" commented
Today, Takuro Mizobe, the president of Pocketpair, the developer of "Phantom Beast Palu", posted an article on his personal X to comment on the production of Palu-like games by Tencent and Chinese manufacturers.
Shit machine flip
As far as he knows, Tencent is making a game like "Phantom Beast Palu", and a number of Chinese companies are also following up to develop a Palu-like mobile game, with a budget of about 10 billion yen, which is ten times the cost of "Phantom Beast Palu". There will likely be a large number of Palu games that will reach Genshin Impact quality next year. "What an amazing time!"
Previously, Bloomberg reported that a number of Tencent studios are producing the game "Phantom Beast Palu", and according to domestic media sources, NetEase also has a layout of Palu games. And some projects that have been established early are also trying to add ways to play similar to Palu.
Mikasa Reviews:
Takuro Mizobe has always been well aware that his team's expertise is imitation of sutures, and he has succeeded in following this path. So his attitude is still relatively optimistic, thinking that the more competitors there are, the better games will appear in the Palu-like category.
Game Recommendation
Today I recommend to you a suspenseful puzzle game with a local Chinese theme: "Joy and Funeral".
The game has been online for less than a week, and it currently has a 94% praise rate, which is a domestic Chinese horror game that has performed well this year.
Just like the title, the story of the game is that a little girl (囡囡) participates in her grandmother's 100-year-old funeral, discovers her grandmother's origin by mistake, and explores the hidden secrets behind this joyful funeral...
The game uses a very childlike hand-drawn style, and the protagonist is a cute little girl, but the game scenes and processes are also set up with carefully thoughtful and terrifying details that contrast with the picture. Players need to solve puzzles related to the story and uncover the truth of the matter.
"Happy Funeral" is still in the sale discount activity, only 17.6 yuan, interested in this kind of theme may wish to pay attention to it~
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