The graphics of Stardew Valley are definitely typical of low-quality games, but this kind of game is also very easy to get addicted to.
But for those who have played this game, not many can resist the temptation of farming like crazy every day.
Every day is a node, which makes people subconsciously think that it is perfect only after finishing today. If you give up halfway, it will be like giving up halfway.
In this way, the work of farming and mining is repeated day by day. It is almost harder than going to work, but people still enjoy it.
Of course, it is absolutely impossible for these people to be so fascinated by just farming and mining, let alone to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. This game has some additional gameplay besides farming.
Hold festivals and increase your favorability with people around you. When a certain favorability is reached, different characters will begin to bring some help to the protagonist or advance the plot.
In Tokyo, at the game review company founded by Kazuo Murakami, it was already 11 o'clock in the morning, but the office was very deserted. There was only a building cleaner who looked to be fifty years old cleaning the company.
"It's already the third day. Is this company preparing to close down?"
The cleaner stood in the aisle of the office area and looked around in confusion.
About three days ago, the employees of this company suddenly arrived very late. A normal company boss would definitely be furious and let these employees understand the laws of society.
But the boss of this company is a young man. Instead of scolding these employees who arrived late, he took the lead in not coming to work and directly gave the employees a day off. This was the first time this cleaner had seen such a thing in his life.
However, after one day's holiday, these employees still did not come.
Then came the third day, and today these employees have not come yet.
This made the cleaners suspect that the company was ready to close down.
It’s no wonder that this company usually doesn’t look as serious as a company should. Instead, it is very casual. The employees do not dress uniformly, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is very harmonious. The boss does not have the airs of a boss, and the employees do not have any employees.
Self-awareness, such a very undisciplined company will definitely not survive long.
The cleaner sighed, then simply cleaned the office area and prepared to go to the next company office area.
In fact, not only does this company show no signs of bankruptcy, but it is getting better and better as the game industry grows.
With the support of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, the professionalism of this evaluation media has always been highly recognized. Perhaps its growth rate will be very slow, and its performance and profitability will not be as high as those evaluation agencies that casually accept advertisements, but it can support more than a dozen
It’s definitely no problem for editors to make a small profit.
Murakami Kazuo is not the kind of person who is very ambitious about asset expansion, which makes his employees not even look like employees, but like jobless vagrants.
And why has no one come from the company in the past two or three days?
For no other reason than that they were all playing Stardew Valley.
These people who are often exposed to the cutting-edge content of video games are also the group of people who are most likely to be captured by video games.
When they recognize a game from the bottom of their hearts, they will be out of control.
It was not until the fifth day, when the old janitor in charge of the building's cleaning almost thought that the company was going bankrupt, that he finally saw a few young employees dragging their bodies to the company.
"You...what did you do?"
The old cleaner was very surprised. None of these people came to work, but they all looked very bad. What on earth were they doing?
Could it be that they have found new jobs and are working very hard?
"Ah, good morning, uncle, we have come to work. I have been really exhausted these past two days. If I don't come to work, I am worried that I will die suddenly."
An employee next to him who also came to work nodded in approval and said, "Yes, these are probably the craziest days of my life. I even feel like I can keep playing like this forever."
Naturally, the old cleaner didn't understand what was going on, but from what these young people said, it seemed that the company had not closed down. It was at this time that Murakami Kazuo finally showed up.
Even though Kazuo Murakami is young enough, he looks a lot more haggard at this moment, but there is still excitement in his eyes.
"Good morning to you."
"Good morning Murakami-senpai...Ah, Murakami-senpai, you don't seem to be in particularly good condition."
Kazuo Murakami turned his head and glanced at the other person, smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you look the same?"
In almost ten years of playing games, Murakami Kazuo has not been so addicted to a game for a long time.
Obviously this game doesn't have very good graphics, and it should be more of a garbage quality game that was eliminated a few years ago, but it still has a different kind of charm.
And when he saw that several of his employees were able to play Stardew Valley for several days in a row just like him, he finally confirmed one thing.
That is because my previous views on video games were probably a bit superficial.
Perhaps video games do not rely entirely on graphics to win, nor do they rely entirely on so-called big productions. Look at this video game released by only one mysterious person. He suddenly found the long-lost joy in this poor-quality game. fun of.
I never thought that farming and mining every day could be so interesting.
But after all, games are just something that makes me happy, but they are definitely not everything in life. After staying up late and playing Stardew Valley for a few days, he decided to return to the company, and he was contacted by phone. My own employees are ready to officially start their new jobs.
A few days later, he had already figured out what his first job should be, which was to write a review article for Stardew Valley.
This time he will write it himself.
At the same time, he also became more interested in his former mysterious benefactor, Nintendo, who was known as the master of the world.
After so many years, he no longer has any channels to contact this mysterious benefactor. So what has the other party gone through over the years and what thoughts did he have in developing such a game.
It can be said that this game is almost impeccable except for its retro-looking graphics.
Along the way in the company, he greeted employees who looked a little haggard like him, then came to his desk and opened the text editing software.
In the past, when he wrote some game review articles, he would use some conventional words and then make some simple judgments.
But this time, he didn't have any of the conventional words and sentences that he was used to before. All he thought about was his love for Stardew Valley.
So, he couldn't help but type a series of titles: 'An electronic farm that makes people forget to leave, a video game that you will definitely not regret'