Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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"What kind of lunatic would revive a deleted character?!"

"Does the penguin not know how Girls' Frontline died back then?"

"What kind of plane is this?"

Huang Wenfeng complained several times in a row.

Then he saw that Del on the screen was addressing the player with polite formalities, such as "What's wrong with you?" or "Are you alright?"

It looks incredibly strange and awkward to watch.

Huang Wenfeng, frowning, continued watching the plot.

Because a name appears in this side quest: Northland Island.

"...International version? They actually released this?"

The North Lan Island incident in Girls' Frontline is a typical example of a domestic cultural creator wanting to express their dual attributes of "public intellectual + literary youth".

This is rarely seen in the original game.

It basically only exists in the setting set.

The general setting is 2030, when a collapse liquid explosion occurred on Beilan Island in China, resulting in the near-total destruction of coastal cities.

The country launched a full-scale rescue operation, and top leaders held their ground for a long time in the underground fortress in the capital.

After confirming that there was no hope of survivors in the red zone, they were transferred to the interior using vehicles that could shield against EILD radiation.

The North Lantau Island incident resulted in the deaths of approximately 870 million people in the country and caused the loss of the vast majority of Pacific coastal cities.

Meanwhile, due to this explosion, countries around the world were affected to varying degrees, ultimately resulting in the worldview of Girls' Frontline.

How should I put this setting?

Although the setting also depicts the country's response and unity during the great disaster...

but...

It still feels a bit awkward.

Huang Wenfeng was one of the few people who knew about this setting, so he was well aware of the awkwardness of it.

The awkwardness mainly lies in two aspects.

on the one hand.

It's so real.

All the simulations and scenarios are virtual simulations conducted within the existing international political and systemic framework.

The explosion occurred within China, not in some fictional Earth called China.

Following the explosion, there were also real-world simulations involving various global forces.

In such a situation, even if it's just a setting.

The sudden killing of so many Chinese people is naturally unsettling.

But that's not the point.

After all, people dying is all too common in disaster movies.

There are countless post-apocalyptic stories, some of which feature only one person left alive.

What's really unsettling is that Yu Zhong's setting isn't abstract, and the explosion is set in China.

It also gave character to the explosion, stating that the collapse of the world order in Girls' Frontline originated from an explosion within the country.

Furthermore, due to the casualties in the country after the explosion, the story forces the characters to become invisible.

That's a bit...

That thing.

The gist of it is that a Japanese person wrote a novel, and more than ten years later, an unexplained nuclear explosion occurred in Japan, killing eight-tenths of the Japanese population and sinking more than half of the country.

Or perhaps an American wrote a novel describing how the United States experienced a nuclear explosion, lost its global hegemony, and became a marginalized nation.

It's not that you can't write it this way.

After all, some novels even feature stories about giving away daughters or wives, which are disgusting.

But obviously.

This is not a rational, mass-market service-oriented, entertainment game.

If you still don't understand the awkwardness of this setting by now...

You can look at the Battlefront Girls from the opposite perspective.

In Battlefront Girls, the setting of the Omnic Crisis is also that the country suffered heavy losses, but this setting is a general setting and it ends with a sentence without going into details about how the losses were.

The Wandering Earth, in a single sentence, describes the world's population problem.

Even EA's Battlefield series doesn't go into too much detail when describing the background of modern warfare games, focusing mainly on campaigns and battles.

Furthermore, writing such details in too much detail in the country carries hidden risks.

Yu Zhong actually knew this in his previous life as well.

Therefore, these settings and personal touches only appear in the setting collection and are published on a small scale.

However, in the international version...

Yu Zhong considered that since this version wasn't being operated in China anyway, and he himself really liked the Northland Island setting—otherwise, the official Girls' Frontline radio program wouldn't have been named Northland Island Shelter.

Due to domestic policies, Beilan Island did not appear in the game, which has always been a source of regret for Yu Zhong.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with his own setup.

Rather, it was because he felt his environment was unsuitable.

Now that the game is being released internationally and doesn't have a license abroad, it's natural to let loose and express the creator's desire for self-expression.

If this version of the game had only been released overseas, it might have gotten away with it.

But...

Wang Guang brought the game to China and promoted it extensively...

Chapter 405 Is it useful to scold penguins?

Huang Wenfeng, who watched the Beilan Island episode with a frown, was disgusted again at the end.

The entire Girls' Frontline Northland Island branch.

The story is roughly about the Frostfall Squad, also known as the modified 95 and 97 Squads, who receive a mission to explore a research institute in the Red Zone.

I learned about the North Lantau Island incident, which was sealed off by the government, and that even after the North Lantau Island incident, some organizations were still researching liquid collapse bombs.

During this process, the Frostfall Squad accidentally activated the device, restarting the collapse fluid device in the research institute, which ultimately triggered a small explosion.

The core of the story is actually a typical adventure story.

But it doesn't feel right when I write it down.

On one hand, Del, as a mechanic, goes out on missions with the squad. Although Del addresses the commander repeatedly in the story, ...

The writing style, especially for players who have played the original Girls' Frontline, gives off a sarcastic and unsettling feeling.

Secondly, throughout the entire branch.

Some of the texts are even direct copies of the daily life scenes from Battlefront Girls. The problem is that not only do you copy them, but you also change them, and the changes are disgusting.

For example, the last section of the Beilan Island branch line.

In the obviously plagiarized Starfire AR Squad, after the AR Squad is surrounded, the story uses details such as collecting ingredients in the wild and cooking to express the AR Squad's longing for their commander.

In the international version of Girls' Frontline, this part of the story was cut off and moved to the end of the Northland Island side story.

The brilliant Girls' Frontline copywriting team also wrote almost the exact same plot when the Frostfall Squad was on the run.

"No! Big sister, there's a research institute behind you that's about to be nuclear-exploded!"

"You didn't report it, fine, but why did you even have a picnic?!"

"Huh? You're reminiscing about the Commander? What's wrong? Is the Commander dead?! Why are you reminiscing about this now?"

"You haven't lost communication, can you please report this before you eat?"

When going through this part of the story.

Even though Huang Wenfeng had prepared himself mentally.

However, I was still disgusted by the Girls' Frontline copywriting team's work.

The key is.

At the end of this story.

Yu Zhong plagiarized a classic mini-game from Battlefront Girls as the ending of the entire side story.

"No, I have to go and have a go at the penguins."

If the only issue in this version of Girls' Frontline is the Northland Island problem, Huang Wenfeng might just grumble a bit in the video, but he wouldn't try to stir up trouble.

After all, this matter seems quite significant, but if we really escalate it, it won't benefit anyone, and there's not much need for it.

But Girls' Frontline International is no longer just about the Northland Island issue.

The entire game has a problem.

Huang Wenfeng acted on his idea immediately, without even turning off the live stream, and started the online battle mode right away.

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Just like Huang Wenfeng.

There are quite a few players of Girls' Frontline, as well as a small number of players who experienced Girls' Frontline back then.

They all felt a surge of anger rising within them.

Huang Wenfeng first went to the official Bilibili account of Girls' Frontline and found that many people were already cursing it, but this account was actually a Girls' Frontline Chinese server account from two years ago.

It hasn't been running for a long time.

The last post was a server shutdown announcement from a year ago.

Huang Wenfeng then contacted the official Bilibili account for Girls' Frontline 2 and discovered that Girls' Frontline 2 had not been updated for a long time since the last test.

This is really quite speechless.

Aside from launching on WEGAME and doing some promotion, Girls' Frontline International didn't register an official account in China.

There is a topic about Girls' Frontline International on Weibo, and there is also a forum on Tieba.

But these are not official organizations after all.

There's always something missing when you start to criticize.

It felt like punching cotton; the air only got heavier afterward.

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It stands to reason.

At this point, if the penguins adopt a cold treatment approach...

At this point in time.

It is possible to escape this calamity.

On the one hand, players are unaware that Tencent's game license has issues.

On the other hand, although most players felt that the description of Yuzhong Beilan Island was problematic, it hadn't reached the point of reporting it.

at this time.

The players were relatively restrained, knowing that attracting lightning would not benefit anyone.

Plus.

Lin Li hadn't contributed yet at this point. Of course, Lin Li wasn't contributing purely because of Tencent's involvement in this matter.

Although it is plagiarism, objectively speaking, it is indeed using Tencent's own channels and resources to drive traffic to the entire domestic ACG game market.