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Chapter 106 - 59: Let me savor it again!_1

Chapter 106: Chapter 59: Let me savor it again!_1

"I just don’t get it, who the hell came up with the slogan for the tower defense genre?"

In the wee hours of the morning, on the Thunderbolt platform.

The ZC live streaming room.

As a streamer mainly focused on draw card games, ZC’s streams were known for their hardcore nature, often featuring challenging levels and strategy-oriented content.

Usually, he would have ended his stream by this time, but today, due to the opening of the Winter Festival and the strong demand from his audience, he decided to dig around for some new games to try out live.

If the response was good, switching to a new game for the new year wasn’t out of the question.

After all, he had to make a living.

After trying out several new draw card games produced by big-name companies, ZC felt that the experience was just so-so, nothing to write home about.

The artwork, voice actors, character design, and storylines were up to par.

But there was nothing particularly praiseworthy either.

It was the same old formula: slap on a new skin and let the energy of giant platforms carry out a massive promotional campaign.

So, ZC turned his attention to smaller-scale companies, hoping to find something there.

It wasn’t unheard of to find surprises among the smaller players in previous years.

But this time, he was somewhat disappointed.

He tried several games in a row from mid-sized companies.

They all touted themselves with the tagline ’The latest innovation! Tower defense genre!’

But when actually played, they still wrapped themselves in the skin of turn-based gameplay.

Some companies were even more outrageous.

They directly turned the characters under player control into towering high towers.

Then, drawing cards would equip these towers with weapons and armor.

You ask if it was defended or not?

Tower defense! It has towers and can wear armor.

Isn’t that tower defense?

This left ZC speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"How come the quality of this batch of games from these companies is all over the place?" ZC frowned. "I remember last year, Jinhai Entertainment was called Jinpeng Entertainment, right? Their ’Rushing Manager’ was quite innovative last year, so why did they produce such trash this year?"

"And then there’s Feishang Entertainment, which also has a weird vibe."

"These companies all wave the flag of tower defense, but what on earth is the actual meaning of tower defense? Who came up with it?" ZC was utterly confused.

The chat was also buzzing.

"I heard that it was a company next door that makes non-draw card games, called something like ’Number One Expert’ or ’Number One Housekeeper’."

In a Blue Star dominated by the draw card system, most tycoons make up a huge part of this category.

In their eyes.

There were only two types of games on Blue Star.

One was draw card games, the other was non-draw card games.

Beyond that, they didn’t care about other types of gameplay; they just looked at whether new games could hit their G-spot.

Don’t talk to me about all that nonsense; if it can be a waifu, then whale, if not, walk away.

I’m busy up and down in real life all day; I come to games to relax and have fun.

Talking to me about storylines, gameplay, innovation?

You might as well talk to me about the character’s bra size.

As for the booming Number One Player Company next door.

What is that?

What kind of games have they made?

Never made a draw card game?

Sorry, never heard of it, not interested.

"It’s Number One Player, right?..." A viewer who played a variety of game types corrected the streamer via chat.

"Let me check it out." Hearing this, ZC opened his browser and searched for the company’s official website.

He had heard of Number One Player before, but since the games they made didn’t align with his streaming contract, he hadn’t paid much attention to them.

Upon entering the official website.

He immediately saw the new game "Arknights" prominently featured on the homepage’s main screen.

In the game type section, it was clearly labeled: Tower Defense Strategy Game.

Both PC and mobile platforms were supported, which was an old tradition for all draw card games on Blue Star, naturally aimed at making more money.

After clicking to download, the game finished installing quickly.

Fed up with the so-called ’tower defense’ from his previous trials, ZC approached this game, also bearing the ’tower defense’ tag, with some skepticism.

After launching Arknights, he began furiously skipping.

Skip the CG, skip the opening sequence, skip the dialogues.

Then the next moment, what appeared before him was a game interface dominated by a gray and white color scheme.

The interface’s composition was quite monotonous, even appearing somewhat rough.

It was nothing more than several high platforms stacked with bricks and a ground paved with grid-like square tiles.

On the far left was a blue square framed door, and on the far right, a Red Door.

Just by looking at this screen, ZC had a bad feeling.

This was even worse than the first level of Jinhai Entertainment...

It looked way too rudimentary.

Moreover, the Blue Door also appeared in Jinhai Entertainment’s game, representing, probably, the final line of defense.

The player’s task was simply to prevent monsters from breaking through this point.

"Don’t tell me it’s going to switch to turn-based again..." The ’tower defense’ titles he had just tried had left ZC somewhat traumatized.

But at the next moment, a pretty girl with a goose-egg face and rabbit ears appeared within the interface and gently guided him with her voice.

"Doctor, the monsters are about to attack. Please use Amiya for defense and counterattack! Amiya is a Mage-type Operator, better suited for placement on distant high platforms for combat. Doctor, please give your orders."

ZC followed the newbie guide, dragged the rabbit-eared girl who was now just a small avatar at the bottom right, and dropped her haphazardly onto one of the high platforms.