207. A wonderful sense of déjà vu

"Come on here!"

Just the day after Bomi released the PV of "Shan Hai Jing", a major earthquake occurred on the island country.

Capcom's "Monster Hunter" production team was like being blown away by thunder.

When one of the employees discovered the promotional video of "Shan Hai Jing" launched simultaneously in the island country, they recorded the promotional video as soon as possible and sent it back to the company.

Because this thing is so shocking and too incredible.

It is not just because it is well-made, very high quality, and shocking enough in the picture. The most important thing is-

The employee vaguely noticed something strange.

I don't know why, but I feel familiar.

Later he suddenly discovered-

Nani!

Isn't this the Monster Hunter we are working on?

A group of people sat in front of the TV and watched the promotional video of "Shan Hai Jing".

These include the game planner Tan Nakagawa, the producer Teng Gangyao, and the world view and system architect Fujiki Funamizu...

More than a minute later.

The promotional video of "Shan Hai Jing" has been played.

The entire conference room fell into silence.

Everyone's face was extremely stiff, and no one said a word for a long time.

After a while, Tanaka had just turned his eyes slightly.

"Nani! What did I see? This thing...is too similar to the monster hunter we are going to make, right?"

Ki Tokiki Funmizu had a face, "It can't be said to be like this, at least there are obvious differences in the picture, scene and related worldview settings."

One is the classics of mountains and seas, and the other is the world of monsters covered by ships and water.

Of course, the difference is quite big, the game style is different.

But everyone was still shuddering, and they felt deep fear.

"This is not a question of whether it looks similar or not, it is a similarity in the soul..." Producer Teng Gangyao said with his hands holding his face.

It was at this moment that everyone realized that something terrible was a matter-

A game that looks similar to his soul and looks similar in gameplay, completely crushes the Monster Hunter they did in terms of graphics and originality. So how terrible is this?

Just a day ago, the Monster Hunter production team was still full of confidence.

Including Takura Tanaka and Kitakashi Shinmizu, they all think that this game will definitely be a masterpiece once it comes out. It is really excellent. It has a complete monster ecology, a brand new world view, endless fun of exploration, and pictures combined with Chinese and Western aesthetics, it will definitely be a big hit.

result.

Just today.

It's at this moment.

Everyone was hit hard by a game promotional video produced by a Chinese game company.

They felt deep fear and helplessness.

"How can I repair it! Could it be that this company copied us?" an employee said with gritted teeth.

Otherwise, I really can't figure out why someone can still crash with the Monster Hunter with such a powerful and novel design?

"Impossible..." Teng Gangyao shook his head.

Unless there is an insider in the company, Bomi has no reason to get the settings of the monster hunter.

not to mention……

Others’ PVs are posted in front of you. If you want to say plagiarism, you may also be said that they copied the “Shan Hai Jing”

But no one can say what the specific is.

If it is really similar, then Teng Gangyao is more inclined to-

coincide.

There is an old Chinese saying that "heroes have similar opinions."

Genius' creativity is often the same.

And many times when you think your genius idea is unique and unique, you will find that it has been done by someone.

It is very likely that this is the case now.

We are developing in two places, different countries, different languages, and around the same time, and there is no reason for us to be plagiarized.

and……

"Maybe we are too concerned? This is just a promotional video after all." Teng Gangyao held his hand and shook his head, "What can you tell from a promotional video? The amount of information about this thing is too small. At most, you can learn that this game is probably a game of hunting monsters. That's all, there are some characters' weapon systems, which are very common.

It is possible to fight monsters or something like us...

But the gameplay in the game may be far apart or even a little different.”

yes……

After hearing what the producer said, everyone thought about the taste. It seems that this is true. Everyone’s first sense feels like it. It is possible that this game also has a monster ecology, but it is completely different from the world view or the picture style.

Even though there are different weapons and actions displayed in the game, most ACT games on the market have them. You can't force yourself to say that they are the same as us just because of these, right?

"Yeah... It's true that the real situation in the game is completely different."

"Well, don't worry too much." Tanaka Takashi said with a smile, "But our PV should be released earlier, it's almost time to release it."

The production of Monster Hunter is coming to an end, and it is normal to play PV at this time.

and……

If you don’t play PV, you may be stolen by games that come from somewhere.

Now it's an arrow that has to be fired on the string. We have worked hard for a year, so it's time to see how the results are.

...

Just as Monster Hunter was about to release PV, "Shan Hai Jing" had already begun to prepare for the official release.

The release of the PV of "Shan Hai Jing" means that the game is not far from being released.

As expected, with the release of the promotional video, Bomi Company increased its publicity efforts on "Shan Hai Jing".

The advertisements of Shanhaijing are overwhelming in China and Dongdao, and their posters and advertisements can be seen all over the streets.

At the same time, the island country is carrying out intense localization work.

Because the development time is relatively tight, basically, if Bomi completes a test version a few months ago, it will synchronize a test version with the Xingyue Company, and then the localization work in the island country is about one month different from Bomi.

It was not until December that the first complete version of "Shan Hai Jing" was considered to be completed. It took about one month to go to the side of the Moon to perform a wave of localization, translate the language inside into Japanese, and at the same time, you have to find a special voice actor to dub.

It can be said that time is quite fast.

Fortunately, the voice actors in the island country are very powerful. They only took two days to record the same. The next week was urgently conducting post-production.

It was almost early January that the game preparation work in the two places was completed and reached the release standard.

...

"It's so powerful."

When Cao Yang saw the sample sent back by the island country, he really praised it and his mouth was slighted.

It is already quite amazing to be able to complete the localization work in such a short time. Cao Yang is a little worried that if the localization on the Moon cannot keep up, the issuance date of the island country may need to be moved back.

It seems to be fine now.

But it is normal to think about it. One month before the movie "Son of Weather" was launched, the dubbing actors started recording in the studio. In the end, they were able to make it online and had such a good dubbing effect. It was really amazing.

Think about it, the dubbing industry chain of the island country is already quite mature.

So the speed is naturally very fast.

I don’t know when there will be such a mature dubbing industry chain in China, so that it will save a lot of time in the later stage of making games.

However, the domestic animation industry is still in its infancy, and it is estimated that it will be in the past 10 years until it is really achieved.

Cao Yang was wondering whether he would take time to make anime and buff the domestic animation industry.

...

The localization work of the island country is completed, so the specific release time can be determined.

After Cao Yang reviewed the sample, the operations on both sides were warmed up simultaneously the next day.

Soon, players who follow Bomi will know-

"Shan Hai Jing" will meet you on February 1, 2004.
To be continued...