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Chapter 265 Multiple Endings
Seeing these lines of subtitles, the bullet screen was stunned.

"What do you mean? Except for the part of the red light, all are adapted from real cases?"

"Is there a real case? What nonsense, does this kind of place really exist?"

"Fuck, what a shitty ending, I didn't say what happened to Professor Yang at the end!"

"Yeah, I just escaped in the end. Shouldn't this kind of scum be cut to pieces?"

"Damn it, I don't believe there is such a place in this world!"

The barrage was too noisy.

Noisy, actually quite normal.

Because this ending is really not a good ending.

I didn't explain clearly what happened in the end!

The main page of the game is all about depicting the unimaginable depressive life of the students in the Technology Defense Academy. Of course, this game is indeed scary enough, but it is more depressive.

After being suppressed for such a long time, at the end Zeng Yu and Gao Yongzhou successfully obtained the video evidence of Professor Yang's electrotherapy under the cooperation of each other, and then escaped successfully. This should be a link to release the suppressed emotions, but many viewers found that, Emotions did release, but only half.

How did Professor Yang end up?Why should he be sentenced?
Gao Yongzhou's manuscript was published, what was the response?
Has the Technical Defense Academy been banned?Are the children here free?
After so much, how is the relationship between Zeng Yu and his father?

These are all questions from the audience and players, but none of them are answered in the game.

At the end of the game, Zeng Yu just escaped from this place in a speeding car, and then left behind a random sentence: "The devil is still at large."

How can this make people feel aggrieved? ?
……

Not only Tang Ying, but other anchors also had different endings.

After a little research on the Internet, you will find that although the game "Devil in the World" is not long, and the plot of the game is basically concentrated in the very narrow area of ​​the Technology Defense Academy, there are pits everywhere , There are also many branching plots.

Strictly speaking, the type of this game should be regarded as an interactive movie game, because the main gameplay of the game is to let the player take the identity of Zeng Yu and choose some correct options in the Technology Defense Academy. will act on its own.

(In simple terms, this genre is "Detroit: Become Human" from Zhong Ming's previous life.)
Of course, there are also some other game elements in "The Devil in the World", such as the relatively large stealth/horror element. When Zeng Yu was escaping, he saw many scary monsters under the red light and had to sneak out carefully. Only in order to promote the development of the plot, this is a challenge for players.

But in general, the most important thing in the game is to make the right choices.

And depending on the player's choice, there will be multiple endings in the game, and most of these endings are bad endings.

The first is two key data, stress value and health value.If these two key data exceed the warning line for a certain period of time, the plot will be terminated directly and a bad ending will occur.

[Sudden death outcome]: If you keep making mistakes and get electrocuted all the time, resulting in low health, you will die suddenly while running or being electrocuted, and you will die if rescue fails.Zeng Yu's father was angrily asking for explanations and suing the Institute of Science and Technology Defense, but it was meaningless because Zeng Yu was dead.

[Psychopathic ending]: Being electrocuted, or being caught by monsters many times while fleeing at night, will greatly increase the stress value.When the pressure level is too high, Zeng Yu will completely collapse, and was transferred from the Academy of Science and Technology Defense to a mental hospital. Inside, Zeng Yu's eyes are dull like a walking dead, and he can hardly communicate with others normally.And Zeng Yu's father insisted that he was right, saying that he did not regret sending Zeng Yu to the Technical Defense College.

Many anchors discovered by accident that Zeng Yu actually had a certain chance of escaping without the help of reporters, but this ending is obviously not the official one.

During Professor Yang's treatment of the students, there is a certain probability that the entire Academy of Science and Technology Defense will be powered off. At this time, the power grid will lose its effectiveness, and Zeng Yu can directly climb out of the fence.But this behavior is extremely dangerous. Even if it succeeds, there are only three possibilities:
The first is that the rangers quickly caught him back, and then held a "special session" and was shocked overnight, his health value dropped sharply, and his stress value rose sharply.

The second is to die in the wilderness. In order to avoid being captured by the rangers, Zeng Yu hid in the wilderness. He was hungry and cold, and there was no one to respond. He could not reach the nearby cities with only two legs. Suburban Ridge.

The third is a successful escape with a very low probability. Zeng Yu successfully avoided the arrest of the Rangers and arrived in a nearby city.But at the end of the ending, both Professor Yang and Zeng Yu's father reported Zeng Yu as a missing person to the Public Security Department, and the result after that can be imagined.

Besides these endings, there are some other endings.

The key turning point of the game is whether Zeng Yu chooses to go out with Han Tao.

If you go out, although you will be electrocuted, you can unlock the plot of Han Tao as a class committee member, then Zeng Yu can live in a room alone.

If Zeng Yu hadn't gone out, Han Tao would have discovered and reported Zeng Yu if he tried to escape at night, and it was almost impossible to escape successfully.

As a result, Zeng Yu could only continue to stay in the Science and Technology Defense Academy until the end of the two months, and was "released upon expiration."

At this time, the game will determine the next ending based on Zeng Yu's various values.

[The Walking Dead Ending]: Obedience is high, resistance is low, and pressure is high.Zeng Yu lived like a walking dead. After he came out, he still retained deep-seated fear of the Academy of Science and Technology Defense and Professor Yang. In the eyes of his father, he became an extremely "sensible" and "obedient" child. Looking at Zeng Yu , the father showed a satisfied smile.Later, Zeng Yu's father sent a pennant to Professor Yang, and everyone he met praised Professor Yang, saying that Professor Yang was a "reborn genius doctor" and "reinvented with kindness".

[Paricide ending]: Low obedience, high resistance, high pressure.After coming out of the Technical Defense Academy, Zeng Yu seemed to be a different person, taciturn, but at least he would no longer quarrel with his father.But just after his father happily took Zeng Yu home, Zeng Yu went directly to the kitchen to get a table knife and stabbed his father more than [-] times, stabbing his father to death in a pool of blood.

At the end of this ending, there is a picture of Zeng Yu in prison.A reporter was interviewing him, asking him why he killed his father and whether he regretted it.

Zeng Yu replied: "I don't regret it. I endured it for so long, just for the few knives after I came out."

[Cycle ending]: High obedience, low resistance, low pressure.After graduating from the Science and Technology Defense College, Zeng Yu seemed to be on the right track. In the eyes of his father, he became an obedient and good boy, and like the monitor Wang Rui, he became what Professor Yang called a "boutique".Zeng Yu often returns to the Institute of Science and Technology Defense, and goes to the commentary class and the psychological lecture hall to tell the children there about his mental journey. He sincerely thanks Professor Yang for his kindness and reinvention.

A few years later, Zeng Yu's children didn't study hard, and Zeng Yu sent them to the Science and Technology Defense Academy.

[Camouflage ending]: Low obedience, high resistance, low pressure.After graduating from the Science and Technology Defense College, Zeng Yu seemed to be on the right track, studying hard, honoring his parents, and becoming a "child of other people" among relatives and friends. Zeng Yu's father bragged about how correct his decision was at that time, How successful Professor Yang is in disciplining children.

Several years later, Zeng Yu sent his father to a nursing home because of his busy schedule.It's just that the phenomenon of elder abuse in that nursing home is very serious...

……

After watching these endings, players have only one thought.

Insane, this is it!
The bell is going crazy!

There are so many endings, but all of them are bad endings!

Some endings look good on the surface, but after playing the game, you will know that these endings are downright sad.

For example, in the loop ending, Zeng Yu suffered all the inhuman tortures, and he actually agreed with Professor Yang's approach, becoming a "good boy" in his father's eyes, and even sent his own child in.This ending is even more unacceptable than the ending of patricide!

Of course, the gratifying point is that there is finally a true ending.

Although the triggering conditions for the true ending are extremely harsh, it is an ending that everyone can accept.

At the end of the true ending, Zeng Yu got the key evidence that Professor Yang abused the students, and escaped from the Technology Defense Academy with the help of Gao Yongzhou. Although the subsequent plot was not clearly stated, the players can roughly imagine it.

It is nothing more than Gao Yongzhou's exposure of this video, which caused an uproar on the Internet. Under the attention and condemnation of netizens, some official agencies intervened in the investigation. Professor Yang and the main person in charge of the agency were arrested, detained, and handed over to the court for trial ; and the children here have finally escaped from the cage and gained freedom...

Of course, these are all made up by enthusiastic players. The final ending of the game "Devil in the World" is an open ending, and these contents are not mentioned in the end.

……

After the official release of "The Devil in the World", a large number of players flooded in.

In Weiguang Studio's own channels, many players entered the pit from "Taiwu Painted Scroll" or earlier, diverting some people; on the MGC2 handheld platform, Lin Xiaoguang gave a lot of recommended positions, A group of players have also flowed back; the promotion of the anchors and the spontaneous discussion and spread of some players on the Internet have also brought a certain amount of heat to the game.

Soon, the first criticism scores came out.

6.5 points!
Many players who haven't played the game think that they have read it wrong, the score is so low?

Unreasonable!

When did Shimmer Studios make a game with a score lower than 9?

The previous games, whether it was a simple text adventure game "Latent Red Path", or "Guardian of the Zodiac", which can directly compete with world-wide masterpieces, were basically all well-received and entered the game after they went online. You can get a high score of 9 points or more.

Many people even felt that for Zhong Ming, getting a high score was really as simple as drinking water and urinating.

But looking at the ratings of the new work, the word of mouth...

collapsed? ?
Click on the negative review page, it is not difficult to find out where the players are dissatisfied with this game:

"This game has no beginning or end? After being suppressed for so long, I finally escaped, and my emotions were released, but in the end, it was gone halfway! What about the latter? You cut it off like this, could it be that Professor Yang's imprisonment has made the whole thing more difficult?" Players brainstorm??? You can give 8 points if there is an ending, but only 6 points if there is no ending!"

"I entered the pit of "Guardian of the Zodiac". After playing this game, I was very disappointed, very, very disappointed! What is the meaning of this game? Is it purely for the purpose of abusing players and making them suffer? Indeed, this is very well done. In place, the game gave me a serious sense of discomfort from the beginning to the end, but I just play the game for fun, not to be abused!"

"The label has 'horror', and it does have horror elements, but it's obviously not the same way as ordinary horror games. How should I put it, it feels nondescript."

"I think the most unacceptable thing is the rationality of this game. It's so nonsense! How can such a sick institution exist under the eyes of the Public Security Department for so long? So many parents keep sending their children there, Send a pennant??? Does the game maker have a little logic?"

"Indeed, it doesn't make sense at all, and it feels like a similar institution has been forcibly fabricated in order to create this sense of hopelessness."

"I don't know what's going on with the bell, why do you want to make such an inexplicable game, intentionally causing trouble for the players?"

Other bad reviews are basically similar.

First, the game is not fun, not only is it not fun, it can even be said to cause serious discomfort.

Second, the game is unreasonable. Such an organization has existed for so long, and the parents are very supportive and even send pennants!Moreover, some of the plots in the Technology Defense Academy, such as adding circles, electrotherapy, mutual supervision, etc., also made these people feel unbelievable and a bit too much.

Compared with fantasy horror games, such as some zombie-themed horror games, "Devil in the World" is not scary enough.

But if compared with the reality, "The Devil in the World" is terrifying, but it seems too nonsense.

Therefore, many people played the beginning, or just gave the game one star after clearing the game at night.

And on the Internet, #微光工作室新游戏口口除暴# quickly became a hot topic.

The average score of the games produced by Shimmer Studios is 9 points, and this one has an average score of just over 6 points, which is obviously a crash, and it crashed badly.

And if things go on like this, even if "The Devil in the World" only sells for ten yuan, the sales will definitely not be good.Because this era is the era of rapid word-of-mouth communication, just like a movie, no matter how strong the lineup is, it will only fool the audience for a day at most.After the next day, all kinds of word-of-mouth will spread and spread at an extremely fast speed, and the audience will no longer buy tickets.

For a while, many fans of Shimmer Studios sighed.

(End of this chapter)