tkworld #356 - The game was praised by the whole network, and Mr. Lu is worthy of being the dark horse of th
#356 - The game was praised by the whole network, and Mr. Lu is worthy of being the dark horse of th
At this moment, the live stream chat exploded with comments:
“Holy crap, this ending is absolutely mind-blowing! So unexpected, I can't believe it!”
“The true ending is pretty good, Officer Kitahara finally got what he wanted.”
“The game's plot pacing is so gripping, every twist and turn had me guessing, so thrilling!”
After the live stream ended that day, the popularity of the channel soared to nearly 16 million.
After going offline, G-chan, still excited, released a game review video late into the night.
“Hey everyone, I'm here! I'm super excited today because I just finished a game I've been addicted to recently—'Final Line of Defense'!”
“Taking advantage of finishing the game, I want to carefully review this game.”
“First of all, the storyline of this game is extremely captivating!”
“From Kitahara Kensuke's marital crisis at the beginning to the arrival of the apocalypse, to the final life-and-death struggle, every step is full of tension and excitement, and those reversals are just non-stop!”
“It can be said that the plot from the beginning of the game until the end has no dull moments, and I played it with boiling blood.”
“And the imagination of the game production team is amazing, every doomsday scene is so realistic and so shocking!”
“Since boarding the Shinkansen train, I have seen Japan's famous landmarks at many stations. Fighting zombies in such a scene is just too awesome!”
“The shooting system, which combines a roguelike random bullet mode with FPS gameplay, is also very addictive!”
“The feel of the controller is also great, and you can switch to knife mode. It can be said that I have never experienced such a novel game mode in recent years. I strongly recommend this to everyone!”
Many players flocked to the video comment section to rave about it:
“The freedom of the random bullets is indeed high. I remember some experts summarized that there are already hundreds of bullet trajectory effects that can be counted!”
“I think the most fun is the level where you defend the tower against zombies at Tenshukaku, it's a bit like a level in 'StarCraft' that I used to like, where you defend the fortress from the Zerg!”
“I'm different from you, I played the game for the sake of my wife Emi, mature women are just too awesome!”
Of course, plot enthusiasts also joined the discussion:
“I think that in a situation where domestic games are almost playing martial arts and cultivation to death, Taoyuan Village's ability to challenge the apocalyptic zombie theme is very bold, and the final presentation is also very good, I'm blown away!”
“Indeed, the part where zombies attack the city is more enjoyable, the structure of the script is also very online,”
“Kitahara Kensuke and Ueda Yusaku appeared in the interrogation room at the beginning of the game, and in the end, these two people were having a fateful duel on the train. Many supporting characters were also very tear-jerking when they sacrificed themselves. Overall, it's a very good story!”
G-chan's review video made the online discussion even hotter!
Various related terms began to appear on the hot searches of D Station and Weibo:
#Streamer G-chan Successfully Played the True Ending of 'Final Line of Defense'#
#Kitahara Kensuke's Final Destiny#
#In the Zombie-Infested Apocalypse, How Can You Improve Your Extreme Survival Record?#
Many players who were attracted by these discussions and hot searches, out of curiosity, searched for G-chan's zombie-killing live stream clips, and were instantly attracted to the game!
……
A large influx of new players began to frantically buy game bundled sets!
And the intensity of this buying spree shocked the FPS game industry again!
Everyone flocked to the Peach Garden Illusory Realm game platform to snap up the bundled set priced at 2599 yuan online.
Because this level of set is more cost-effective, it includes the game, the gun controller, and the other-dimensional tactile latex suit.
Soon, news came from the disc pressing plant and the OEM production line that the inventory of major cities was sold out!
Originally, the production coordinator of Little Confused Immortal Toy Company was not optimistic about his own game, and the controller was also in a state of giving up, but he didn't expect it to be so popular!
Peach Garden Illusory Realm Mall restocks at 0:00 every day, but the purchase is snapped up in less than 30 seconds.
This time, the official adopted a real-name limited purchase, which also restricted scalpers from using scripts to snap up purchases.
Therefore, those who can grab it are the real lucky ones. Social media is full of players sharing screenshots and experiences of their game purchases!
More players who couldn't grab it called on the official on Weibo to increase the purchase channels to meet the demand!
……
And in the offline channels of various cities, the competition is more intense than the previous "My Wife is the Savior"!
After all, the previous game was Peach Garden's first VR masterpiece, and many players were still waiting and watching. Now, Peach Garden's reputation has long been established, and the purchasing behavior is even more crazy!
In major chain appliance stores and franchise stores, the crowds waiting to buy the game lined up in long lines, and the scene was extremely hot!
Every day when the store opened, players who snapped up the game scrambled to squeeze into the store, and the buying frenzy reached its peak. In order to prevent stampede incidents, the police were urgently dispatched to many places.
Soon, the shelves of game stores were empty, and all versions of the game were sold out!
Now, not only the game stores in provincial capitals, but even the computer cities in third- and fourth-tier small counties have become treasure hunting targets for hungry players. Once someone reports that there is still inventory in a certain county, players within a hundred miles around will drive over!
Because the game is hard to grab, the spot price has also risen.
The original price of the 2599 three-in-one bundled set has reached more than 50,000 on Xianyu!
……
On the game sales charts of major game platforms, "Final Line of Defense" is currently ranked first, with a peak of 400,000 sets per hour and a single-day sales of more than 3.8 million sets, breaking several sales speed records in the domestic game industry!
At the same time, "Final Line of Defense" has also soared to 22 million sets in total sales, officially surpassing "Wilderness Survival: Redemption"!
Not only the game itself is a hit, but also the peripherals.
The official peripheral development department of Peach Garden Township keenly smelled the business opportunity and began to develop various derivative products.
"Final Line of Defense" T-shirts printed with characters, bullets, zombies and other themes have topped the best-selling fashion list and become a street fashion!
Among them, the best-selling one is the Akihabara Maid Zombie Culture Shirt. There is no doubt that the zombie girl also hit the XP of many people.
The limited edition "Final Line of Defense" gun mobile phone case is sold out in just a few minutes of each replenishment. Anyone who takes this mobile phone case to work will definitely be the focus of the company recently.
Many players found that the controller was produced by Xiaohutuxian Company, and the other toy guns produced by this company are also surprisingly similar to the peripheral of this game's controller, so they placed orders to buy them as souvenirs.
While buying, they also analyzed it seriously on the Internet:
“Everyone, guess why Xiaohutuxian Company made the peripherals of the new game controller exactly the same as their old products?”
Soon a passerby replied below:
“Didn't they just take their old products and directly put a shell on it and modify it, and then sell it as a new controller?”
The poster decisively replied:
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!
If you think so, you really underestimate Peach Garden. President Lu has the nickname of 'God of Management'. Do you think he would allow his subsidiaries to be so perfunctory?
This must be President Lu deliberately letting the subsidiary design the product in this way, in order not to interfere with the product culture of the subsidiary, and now, the facts prove that President Lu's strategy is very successful, and even drove the sales of old products!"
Everyone suddenly realized: “So that's how it is. President Lu is worthy of being a dark horse in the new era of entrepreneurship, even so many steps can be counted in such details!”
In addition to peripherals, the game's original OST has also become the champion of the music charts of major music software, and has been collected by countless players!
Many players have left messages in the music comment area,
The comment with the highest number of likes reads:
“Listening to these BGM that are sometimes exciting and sometimes soothing, I can't help but think of the Shinkansen train traveling in the sunset. It shuttles through the zombie tide, guarding the final line of defense for human survival.
I think I will remember the afternoon when I escaped with my wife in many moments.”
Some people also sighed:
“Zhang Qiqi's progress is simply visible to the naked eye. She is worthy of being the music producer of Taoyuan Township!”
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As more and more players get started with Final Line of Defense, a new round of online praise has appeared in the game review area:
“The recent masterpiece, none of them. As we all know, many FPS games focus on the theme and gameplay, but I didn't expect the plot of this game to be so captivating! Much better than the other two competing products in the same period!”
“This game has completely broken the circle recently. The FPS player groups I joined have all thrown away the games in their hands and went to fight zombies.”
“After wearing the VR headset, from the picture to the sound effects, it's simply comparable to foreign FPS masterpieces on consoles!”
“Upstairs, the moon in foreign countries is not necessarily round. This game is much better than other FPS masterpieces, okay?
Have you ever seen a game with a transformable gun controller?
What's even more outrageous is that this controller can also realistically simulate the recoil of a gun when shooting zombies. The output feeling is so cool!”
In addition to rigorously discussing the feel of FPS, some players also commented on the hot gameplay:
“Let me talk about a point that you haven't paid much attention to, that is, the clapping plot between Kensuke and Emi in the train toilet.
The official Taoyuan Township has released a small benefit. As long as you play a true ending, you can return to the train toilet through the [Memories of Love] function and continue to clap with Emi.
And the official also unlocked the [Fantasy of Love] mode, adding several new clapping scenes, namely 'Emi's Room', 'Tenshukaku's Exhibition Cabinet', 'Akihabara's Prostitution Shop', and 'Dongda's Biochemical Laboratory'"
“Don't say it, I played all four of these newly unlocked scenes yesterday, and I couldn't stop at all. Now I can't straighten my waist, so I had to skip work and ask for leave at home and crazily eat nutritional express.”
“Other-dimensional tactile belt technology, YYDS!”
Many zombie parties also expressed amazement at the game:
“As an apocalyptic science fiction fan and horror game lover, I can only say that this game depicts the big cities in the apocalypse too beautifully.”
“The monster settings of various zombies are also quite good, such as sumo zombies, samurai zombies, fat house zombies, maid zombies...”
As the game sales soared, more and more anchors and UP masters joined the secondary creation.
Many creators have published editing videos, fan fictions, music and other works with the theme of how to survive in the apocalypse.
The game is so popular that as long as a UP master's tag has "Final Line of Defense", it can instantly attract traffic and increase fans by thousands!
In Baidu Post Bar, someone even created a post bar called "Final Line of Defense Organization", where a group of old brothers are role-playing every day, simulating various identities of people on the apocalyptic train, and enjoying it.
……
Before the release of "Final Line of Defense", many game media decided not to participate in this FPS flagship war between the three domestic console giants.
The reason is very simple. Whether it is Tenghui or Youyi, they are all gold masters who cannot be provoked. If you say good things about one family, you will offend the other.
However, the extent to which "Final Line of Defense" broke the circle exceeded all their expectations.
The latest novel is first published in the sixth 9 books bar!
In this day and age, whoever takes advantage of the popularity of popular games first can earn a lot of traffic. The media can't help but come down and end——
Kane Camp:
[Global First Review of 'Final Line of Defense']
The settings of "Random Bullets" and "Charging" seem like a BUG, but they are an innovation that subverts the traditional FPS.
Especially in the closed train, while conducting a tense zombie escape, players can experience the rougelike gameplay of resource allocation. Taoyuan Township has reached a new height in game design ideas.
Video Games and Computer Games:
[Peach Garden Township's New Game Early Experience, A Unique Doomsday Shooting Blockbuster]
In this game, players can personally experience the grand scene of a city from orderly to completely out of control.
The continuous evolution of the Peach Garden Kaiwu engine on light and shadow and texture details, as well as the real environment simulation of VR glasses, undoubtedly allowed me to experience unprecedented stimulation.
Of course, there is also a special welfare plot that can only be understood but cannot be expressed. I can only say that compared with previous works, the progress of Taoyuan Township in other-dimensional technology is also quite rapid.
Geek Bay:
[The Hardware Revolution of Game Peripherals, Is It Coming Soon?]
As a hardware technology media, we are more concerned about the new gun controller brought by Taoyuan Township this time.
The special and strange structure of this controller should be for the setting of random bullets in the game.
But I prefer the transformation process from pistol to battle knife. This innovative technology makes the boundary between players and the virtual world more blurred.
We hope that Taoyuan Township can launch more interesting and fun peripherals!
IGN:
[What Peach Garden Township Brings Is Not Just A Good Story]
Unlike the previous love theme, Taoyuan Township wrote a zombie theme story that seems not mainstream enough.
Compared with the great, glorious and righteous heroic protagonists in domestic and foreign FPS masterpieces, in "Final Line of Defense", from Kitahara Kensuke, Emi, to Hanada Jiro and other supporting characters, most of them boarded the train with their own dark history or personality defects.
In this way, facing the danger and fear directly and fighting the zombies desperately has become an opportunity to correct the defects.
For example, Ueda once said that Kitahara is a twisted person, and there is an irreconcilable contradiction between his behavior and his police ideals.
I believe that what truly touches players' hearts is definitely not the crazy slaughter from zombies, but the weaknesses of human nature between each other, which are constantly deconstructed and amplified in the closed carriages of the doomsday.
And what shocked me was that the reason why the Self-Defense Force soldiers saved Emi in the end was because they were carrying the most valued property of the Arasaka Prime Minister—the research terminal containing the vaccine.
It turns out that the Arasaka councilor who really caused this disaster has successfully become the new head of the interim government. After he gets the vaccine, does he really plan to redeem the world? I have to put a question mark on that.
Like many low-level figures, Kitahara Kensuke cannot escape the top-level design of large consortiums and their planned fate, even if he fights zombies all the way to the point of being bruised and bloodied.
The Chief Cabinet Secretary who kept bowing and apologizing with 'Sumimasen' is the best satire of this scene.
And this masterpiece still highlights the spiritual core of the Peach Garden Township game—
Anti-involution!
Kitahara Kensuke accepted bribes due to the involution and competitive pressure of being a corporate slave, which led to a crisis in his marriage with Emi.
Ueda Yusaku became a pawn of the Arasaka family in Tokyo due to his parents' Alzheimer's disease.
But unlike the decadent Ueda, Kitahara ultimately stood firm on the 'final defense line' of his inner sense of justice.
I think that for a considerable period of time, this game will become the best 'genre film' in the China game circle, bar none!".
With IGN's explosive praise of the game's plot, the game also began to break into other fields.
On Weibo, there were even foreign disaster film directors who remotely called out to Peach Garden Township, hoping to adapt the game into a disaster movie.
Under this director's Weibo post, some players also left messages: "Begging for TV animation, live-action movie!".
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At this time, the headquarters of Little Confused Immortal Toy Company.
In the evening office area, the lights were brightly lit, and the production coordination center was stepping up the rush to arrange the production of gun handles.
Looking at the detailed shipment volume on the production order, Hu Tu, the founder of Little Confused Immortal, couldn't believe his eyes.
Within half a month of the game's release,
The cumulative shipment volume of various channels exceeded 20 million sets, but it was still in short supply!
According to information from agents at all levels, the new demand gap far exceeds 15 million.
This is only the result of just half a month on the market!
An employee reported:
"General Manager, we are coordinating with toy factories we have worked with before to increase production orders, but... it's a bit strange."
Hu Tu was excited and quickly asked: "What's strange?"
"Our old products that used to be criticized to the point of no return have recently become hot commodities, and many players are snapping them up.
The old inventory that no one was willing to accept even at a 70% discount is now being requested for resupply by those downstream suppliers, who are not only willing to restore the original price but also willing to pay a premium. Why do you think this is?"
Hu Tu paced back and forth thinking,
In fact, since Little Confused Immortal was acquired, he had been secretly rejoicing, thinking that he had found a sucker investor and wanted to start a life of slacking off,
But what happened recently has really subverted his understanding,
If the popularity of the handle is due to the light of the game, why are the old products suddenly popular?
Unless... unless President Lu had foreseen this scene.
Thinking of this, he suddenly patted his head excitedly:
"I understand, I understand everything, these are all within President Lu's calculations!"