In fact, if it were produced normally based on previous games, Dragon Quest 3 should have been the first game in the world where the main character was a female.
Dragon Quest 3's own hero Lott was gender selectable in previous games.
However, Zhu Youxing deleted the option to change gender after modification.
In fact, he just wanted to hand over the title of the first female main character in a video game to Metroid again.
Moreover, Metroid's own character characteristics are obviously more obvious than those of Dragon Quest. It is more appropriate for Samus to be the first playable female main character in a video game.
On the day Metroid was officially released, perhaps because of the final revised star rating of the game by Yinan Game Network, more people lined up to buy it than expected.
In the first five days of release, the trial period of the game has also been extended. This time, players can finally experience the fun of Metroid itself in advance.
The people queuing up now to buy are almost all people who are fully interested in the game itself.
This time, in order to avoid the recurrence of the last fights, some major sales locations even hired several temporary security guards to maintain order.
This time, the people queuing up were much more honest, and there was no recurrence of the chaos like last time.
Customers purchase games in an orderly manner, and then those who have purchased happily take the game home and start playing it officially.
According to normal rules, it will take at least a day for these people to truly reach the ending of Metroid.
By then there should be another wave of craze.
And tomorrow happens to be the day when the first video game show is broadcast.
For this reason, Zhu Youxing also revealed the secret of Metroid to the employees of the TV station in advance, so that they can plan the program in advance.
This actually made those TV station employees quite depressed.
This is passive acceptance of spoilers.
But there's nothing you can do about it, it's their job.
At the same time, various promotional materials were also arranged.
One day after Metroid was officially released, Metroid, which had been promoted on billboards, on the subway, and on TV stations, also took off her helmet, revealing her true face.
It was a blond woman with sharp eyes and heroic appearance.
In the video game business section of the Japanese economic news newspaper that day, Samus's female image also occupied the entire page.
The world's first female video game hero, a controllable female hero!
Independent, powerful, handsome and eye-catching female hero!
Tian Chong, who was in the newspaper office, looked at the page he had edited with satisfaction.
At the same time, he secretly sighed in his heart.
This image of Samus is really beautiful.
That heroic feeling, coupled with her identity as a woman, fully reflects the strong side of women.
Although the status of women in Japan is very low, this does not prevent people from yearning for such an image of a strong woman.
What is this? This is pure political correctness.
People who saw the ad were also wide-eyed.
Almost every advertisement emphasizes that this is the world's first video game heroine, which has a very special symbolic meaning.
The most powerful bounty hunter in the universe is a woman. This means that women also have their own powerful side, right?
Before, people who were not interested in Metroid immediately decided to buy it.
Regardless of whether to play it or not, the unique meaning of this game alone is worth buying a box.
This also resulted in more players buying on the second and third days than on the first day.
The publicity effect this time was outstanding, and some people even started to praise Zhuyouxing.
I think he is a person who has the courage to make innovations and breakthroughs, and he is also a person who has the courage to confront tradition.
The first episode of TV Tokyo’s video game program was also very effective.
The host played Metroid in front of the TV with an employee of Yuxing Company's publicity team.
Show the most charming side of Metroid in front of the audience.
At the same time, this employee still cleared the customs as quickly as possible so that people could see Samus in a bikini.
Then the publicity team employee explained in front of the camera how the game's ending is triggered.
Only now did people finally realize that different clearance times will affect the ending.
If you're a skilled enough player, you can actually see a Bikini Samus in person.
Oops, my LSP soul has to explode. I have to clear the level quickly no matter what.
Even though the pixel-like picture is actually nothing interesting to watch, its curiosity and curiosity still make many players who are not part of the audience actively come into contact with this game.
And this also allows the charm of Galaxy City games to be carried forward.
Faced with the new tricks promoted by Youxing Company many times, Surui Electronics and other companies seem to have calmed down for a long time.
You can't be calm, they can't surpass them anyway, so you can only look up.
But that doesn't mean they will give up the chase.
Not long afterward, several game companies immediately announced that they would develop a female hero game to fully demonstrate the beauty of strong women.
Women cannot truly achieve equal rights in real society, so let's show it in the game.
The craze for the heroine Samus lasted for more than half a month, and then the popularity slowly subsided, and Metroid's first week sales data were also calculated.
Sales volume reached 230,000 in the first week.
At present, it is a high-quality game that belongs to the upper reaches.
Nowadays, a game that is above the pass mark on the Famicom can sell around 100,000 to 150,000 in its first week.
High-quality games can range around 150,000 to 200,000 yuan.
The first two hundred and thirty thousand is already the level of high-quality games.
However, part of this should be the bonus of the first female hero, which once again attracts many non-target players.
Zhuyouxing is quite satisfied with this result.
The sales volume of Metroid in its previous life was in the millions, and on average each volume was just over a million.
And this is probably the potential of Galaxy City games. Unless there are some lucky coincidences, it may be possible to achieve sales of three to four million, but that will require a certain amount of luck.
As a participant, Aya Tsukino liked Metroid very much.
Because she feels that the heroine Samus is very similar to herself.
He will wear thick clothes or armor to wrap himself up tightly, and then take off the thick clothes and armor when no one is around, so that he can have a chance to relax.
She even felt that this was a character deliberately created by President Takeyusei and based on her.
No, probably not. After all, it is impossible for the president to know what he looks like at home. It is also impossible for him to know that he will take off most of his clothes to relax as soon as he returns home.