Game Market 1983

- When the red moonlight seeps through the broken tube. A corrupt king who sacrificed his people...

“ · · · · · ·. ”

I feel like I'm grabbing her heart from the opening.

Every branch that comes out of the giant tree is slowly shaken by the icy breeze of the corpse, and momentarily after. An old woman who lit a lantern in a dark room opened her mouth, staring straight at me across the screen.

- Yeah, that's Rodrik. Home to the firewood kings who followed the will of the flames...

The sentence that followed, I swallowed dry saliva without even knowing it, and I felt the strength of my hands holding Yuki by myself.

- That's why pilgrims head north, to find the meaning of the prophecy...

- But the flames are gone, and the king can no longer sit on the throne...

- When the succession lights out. When the bell rings in the dark, the kings who lost their thrones will rise again in their coffins...

- Deep Saint... mode rich. -

Pearlon's Immortal Guards of Darkness. -

- And the lonely king who sacrificed all his people to the Abyss...

- But in the end, kings will never find their throne...

- Now there's just less ash. -

- Cursed immortal body without a name. -

♪ But ashes like yours always crave a little fire... ♪

♪ Waiting for the day when it burns again... ♪

When Yuki and I heard the old woman's story about how frustrating the opening was, we watched the video standing still.

‘There is something different about it. It's not the same game as before. ’

Soon, the short demonstration ended with the title in red on the black background.

- Bloody soul.

Bloody soul. I've never heard of it. Was there a game like this in this era?

With an opening of this quality, I'm sure I'll have something to remember, otherwise...

‘A new game. ’

Of course, I haven't played every game in my childhood as a super family, so I can't be sure...

Bloody Soul was an action game set against a dark fantasy world view created by Japan's Phantom Soft.

I was very excited all the time to watch the demonstration video in a dark atmosphere that reminded me of a cartoon called 'Berserk’.

Maybe after '83. It's the first time you've seen a game made by another company, and it's exciting.

After that day. I couldn't wait for the Bloody Soul to be released on Front Soft.

I could have visited the Phantom Soft myself, but I didn't want to do that.

I wanted to play as a pure gamer, one step away from being a developer.

The Bloody Soul Phantom Soft did not get much attention in the gaming industry initially, but as the issue day approached, rumors began to rise in the rankings of high speed marches for users.

And in the winter of 1993, when the cold wind blew,

The Bloody Soul title was released at 7pm when darkness fell.

On the way home from work... I stopped by Shinjuku's big shopping center and saw a lot of users carrying the same game cartridge in the corner of the game.

Sometimes it's not so bad to feel like a gamer. ’

Yuki also fell in love with the gloomy atmosphere of Bloody Soul, so she asked to buy one with her, so she stopped at the stand and there were only two cartridges left.

You don't seem to be having a bad reaction. I'm glad there are still two left. ’

It's easy to download with Raon Sharer, but I also like that I still own the cartridge because of my old gamer tendency.

I didn't see any explosive sales compared to the series that had built up their reputation as a new IP game, but was it because of its unique atmosphere? The atmosphere on the first day of prom isn't so bad.

On the way down, the escalator raised his head to the voice calling out to me, and Hayashi and Kaori were coming up from the other side.

“Huh? What are you doing here? ”

“I'm on my way back to Bloody Soul. ”

“Unh!! Did you leave any on top of that? ”

“No. I'm on my way to the last one. ”

“Ahhh!! Dammit. I never should have come home after dinner!! ”

“Yes!! ”

I turned my head and looked back, looking at the distressed Hayashi and Kaori who had passed through the escalator.

"When did you say you didn't want to be like your sister, and you had dinner with her? I have something to mock when I go to work tomorrow. ’

I leaned out of the mall with a bleeding smile and headed to the stall where I had parked my car.

&

When I got home and pressed the bell, Yuki, who was preparing dinner, smiled and welcomed me.

I think this is the moment when I think of all the good things about marrying Yuki. There was no need to turn on the fluorescent lights in the dark living room, and the aroma of boiling broiled miso stew filled the living room instead of the cold air in the house.

“Miss Neeyang!”

Since I started living with Yuki, the cat "A day" started to look at the shopping bag I was holding, and I turned to disappointment with a face that was lighter than I thought.

“Joon-Hyuk!! Did you buy it?”

“Of course!”

When Yuki lifted her shopping bag in her apron, holding the ladle in her hand, she jumped out of the living room in a cheerful look.

Usually shortcakes or women's reactions to sweet desserts were still glamorous to show on a slightly different item called Yuki's game.

One day, he crouched on a single-serving couch, scratching his head with his hind legs and looking at Yuki.

After a while, after finishing dinner a little sooner than usual, we leaned against each other's single-seat couches and took out Laon each other.

Yuki, who put his leg on my knee as usual, said, putting the game cartridge into Raon.

“Don't you get a little excited when you plug a new game into a cartridge? ”

Soon after the logo of the Phantom Soft came to light with a scattered wind sound, BGM felt nervous and she twitched her toes and touched my abdomen.

“Joon-Hyuk, I think you've lost weight lately. ”

“Is that so? The fortress is almost office only, so it looks like you're stretching a bit. ”

“Miss Neeyang!”

“Oh my, we've been here all day!”

I think Yuki's arms are so good at sitting on Yuki's thighs one day in perfect bread pose. Yuki also often uses her wrist brace and day when playing Raon (?) so they could be seen as a perfect symbiotic relationship.

After a while, after finishing setting up a simple character and entering the game, the knight showed up on the screen with quite a heavy feeling.

Bloody Soul's overall game style was a side-by-side scroll, and what was unique was that the character's equipment was overwhelmingly detailed.

The movement of the character, according to the heavy worldview flowing throughout the game, was also expressing the feeling of wearing real armor.

I sprinkled my sword through the air a few times, reading the timing of the operation, and slowly stepped forward.

There is no blatant explanation for saving the world like the Dragon Warrior or the Final Frontier.

Like a vagrant thrown alone into the desert, you walk through a disapproved cliff with no clear purpose, and you see an enemy standing in front of you with a shield and a torch.

Is that a Hunting Monster? ’

I roughly measured the distance from him and swung my sword with my light heart.

At that moment, Tae-in!! A seemingly trivial wooden shield flicked my sword and struck the torch straight away.

What!? Surprised, I hurriedly opened my distance to the monsters with the roll button, but the monsters even read the timing of my roll, narrowing the distance, and rushed straight in.

I can't help but pick up my shield and stop his torch attack before I can draw my sword.

Another monster that didn't exist just now came over my back.

“Ugh!! ”

I started to move the directional key in a frenzy to catch the two monsters that just appeared in the beginning. The Bloody Soul has a Stamina Gauge, which uses a system that shears the gauge every time it swings a sword, which gives the player subtle stress.

If you just used it too recently, your shield couldn't bounce off or hit the final blow because you didn't have enough power to stop the enemy's attack. Once you used all the Stamina Gauge, you couldn't roll or swing your sword until it kicked back. It felt very stuffy.

While she was at a distance with the enemy, she looked at Yuki and saw that she was also struggling with extreme game difficulties.

‘Dammit, what's so hard...’

If the Devil Castle or Mahjong Village stressed players with non-striking monsters from left to right, a Hunting Monster like Bloody Soul was usually set on the mid-boss difficulty level of the game.

“YOU DIED. ”

As I was halfway through stage 1, Yuki's speaker at Raon continued to hear a eerie voice that meant the death of the player.

“Ahhh!! He's dead again... Hehe...”

“Meow!”

A long, drowsy day above her knees, she scrapes her yawn and moves to the other couch.

That night.

Yuki had a total of 16 deaths until I completed the first stage, and I had five deaths on the first stage as well.

Crazy and jumping was a way to gain experience in this game, but the experience gained by killing monsters became unusable until it reached a level up point.

If a character dies before reaching a level up point, all of the experience points he collected will be dropped to the ground, and in order to recover them, he or she must successfully reach the point of death.

But it's another exhausting way to recover your EXP, so if a character dies while you're at it, the EXP will all be blown away, so the pressure will be enormous...

&

The next day.

After going to work at the company, word of Bloody Soul was spreading in the mouth of the development room staff who were playing a little game.

Even Hayashi, who was so greedy about third-party games, poured out so much praise for Bloody Soul, not to mention his remarks about the game in the magazine. And that atmosphere has played a big role in reinforcing my desire for development, which has been quiet and sleeping.

'The release of Dragon Emblem 2, the second episode of Dragon Grave, is almost here.

The time has come to prepare a production announcement for the next one. ’

I looked at the poster on the wall of the development room of the 'street without me'. Then I naturally remembered the story Yuki told me in Akihabara.

"Do you have any plans to make a sequel to a street that I'm not in? ’

“Hmm, the sequel...”

Of course, I do not intend to create a follow-up to the village name of Street 2 without me. Borrowing the title of the masterpiece can bring some excitement, but it can't be more inspiring.

If you took tears out of a Japanese gamer's eyes like a flood, you'd have to let them shed tears this time. What good would that do?

I had a strange smile on my mouth that I had been thinking about for a while.