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At the end of last year, "I'm Surrounded by Beautiful Women!" (hereinafter referred to as "Finished!"), a full-motion live-action interactive video game that simulates love, was launched on Steam, and became a phenomenal hit in one fell swoop, leaving countless people amazed.
Although live-action film and television interaction has formed a unique ecological chain and audience group in the buyout game market, it is still a relatively niche game category.
And the popular "It's Over!" single-handedly pulled domestic film games into the public eye. The wind of "finished like" has blown into the domestic game circle, and games of the same type have sprung up like mushrooms.
A small number of them have good casting, and there is some discussion about it, and most of the rest are basically not the extent of this tour.
It's just that I didn't expect that there would be a "finished like" game with a sexual transition......
On April 2nd, "Oops! What to Do If They Love Me Too Much" (hereinafter referred to as "Bad Love") was officially launched on Steam, and players met four male protagonists with different personalities through the first perspective and started a relationship.
Needless to say, this is a live-action film and television interactive game, female-oriented game. I can understand these two words alone, but when they are combined, they give me a strong sense of separation.
(It was even scolded on the hot search)
Originally, I thought that this game was probably a small studio that wanted to gamble.,With the help of the huge market of otome games, the strange operation of pushing the stream for itself.,Just complain about two sentences and cross it away.。
As a result, the next day, the game's creator released a video.
After watching the video, my mood became even more mixed.
The main creative team of the game is actually two girls, and the original intention of making the game was because after experiencing "It's Over!", he had a whim and decided to make a sex transfer for girls to play.
After that, the two hit it off, took out a start-up capital of 30,000 yuan (and finally spent 50,000 yuan because they exceeded the budget), and officially started the entire project.
Throughout the process, they have shown amazing execution. The script was written by themselves, the actors were found by themselves, the venue was rented by themselves, and the engine, UI design, and post-production color grading needed for game production were all figured out step by step by the two of them.
In Steam, the two producers also made announcements
Seriously, I admire their resolute and imperative attitude. But it turns out that the result of such a single-minded action, without sufficient market research, without a large number of competitive product analysis, without complete project management, the final result is that the original target audience is scolded......
I feel the strong dissatisfaction of the players, and there are not a few such comments
Let's talk a little bit about the game itself. Putting aside the sense of cheapness caused by lack of funds, there is no background music in the game for a long time to set off the atmosphere, there is a mismatch between the dubbing and the actor's image, and of course, there are several male protagonists.
Under the expression of the main creator, they put forward several feasible characters based on their emotional appeals to the male protagonist - a cold boss, a gentle neighbor, and a cute milk dog......
These characters are indeed common formulaic characters in B games in recent years. But if you dig deeper, you will find that these are just the most superficial labels, which are the hooks that attract players.
Nowadays, most of the male protagonists of Yiyou have long said goodbye to this kind of flat role, but through the hidden personality contrast, as well as the male protagonist's double-standard behavior towards the female protagonist and others, he shapes the character façade.
Fu Rong of "Codename Kite" is considered to be my favorite character creation in recent years, with enough complexity and contrast
On the other hand, after the overall process experience, while the male protagonist is rigid in design, the standard of increasing favorability towards "me" is also extremely strange. For example, when attacking a cold boss, what is the option to increase his favorability? Is "I" staying and working overtime......
The picture source watermark, in the upper right corner, you can see that the boss found out that you were working overtime and improved your favorability......
With such a character design, coupled with the mode of live-action shooting, I think the production team will change the track and shoot short dramas with more audiences.
Of course, the creative team itself is a novice, and the original intention was to broaden the market for female-oriented games and promote the diversity of female-oriented games, so I still can't bear to be too harsh on them. After all, the price is 18 yuan, which is not expensive compared to the price of other games of the same type, which is often thirty or forty.
When it comes to live-action otome games, there is another one that I still remember vividly - "Codename Sea", the predecessor of "Bad Love".
As a live-action otome mobile game,How did the B game on the market come about?,It can basically be reproduced seventy-seven-eighty-eight.,It's just that the male protagonist is replaced by a real person.。
After the trailer of "Codename Sea" was released at the end of 2022, two of the male actors were quickly dug up to have a girlfriend who was dating in real life, and the game was quickly detonated and finally died violently.
So for a long time, everyone gave this game a very apt name - "Little Three Simulator".
It turns out that sometimes the gap in the market does not mean that it still has a huge room to excavate, because it is also likely to be a minefield for the masses.
So, why is the otome game not suitable for making real people? There are many dimensions that can be answered, and the comments of many netizens are also very pointed.
And through my observation of the domestic B game player circle, I found that most players have a tendency to turn the otome game into an authoritarian love game, and single-mindedness is the minimum requirement for many girls to have a relationship.
So in the case of a live actor, how can players convince themselves that the man in front of him, who may talk about a three-dimensional three-dimensional girlfriend, and the game character he likes and works hard to draw cards in exchange for a dating plot, are two people?
The idols in the entertainment industry who rely on girlfriend fans to achieve traffic conversion still have an iron rule that they are not allowed to fall in love, but there are not a few people who are revealed to be in love, let alone the live-action actors of Yiyou?
Moreover, there are not many ways for women to obtain three-dimensional emotional needs, star chasing is the most typical example, and even these fans will make their own fan-oriented games for celebrities, such as the orange light game live-action area, in recent years, there are not a few interactive games made around some three-dimensional stars.
EXO live fan-oriented game on Orange Light
The second is entertainment works such as film and television dramas and short dramas.
However, even with so many lessons from the past, there will still be studios who insist on hitting the south wall. No, another live-action interactive video game - "Oh my God! It's a Heartbeat!" is also coming to Steam.
Familiar recipes, familiar tastes. As for the final performance, all I can say is that it's hard to judge, so I wish it success.
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