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Chapter 621 - 195: Even if the guidance is long broken, please become the King of Elden!_1

Chapter 621: Chapter 195: Even if the guidance is long broken, please become the King of Elden!_1

He clicked into it and took a look.

In the section tagged with the game genre, an unfamiliar term caught his eye.

AOWG (Action open world game)

"An action open-world game? What is this?" Czcu was baffled.

I’ve been playing games for so many years, and this is the first time I’ve encountered this genre...

I’m aware of open-ended conclusions.

That is, the final part of a movie or novel is left open, without detailed interpretation, giving the audience or readers room for imagination.

It’s often used to enhance the lasting impact of a work.

If done correctly, it can leave a lingering effect, endlessly fascinating.

But what the hell is an open-world game?

Don’t tell me they leave the game structure itself open for players to create?

No, no, no, that’s too far-fetched... It’s impossible, no matter how I think about it.

So if it’s not that, then what could this term I’m seeing for the first time mean?

Pushing his doubts aside for the moment, Czcu glanced at the price.

The game’s price tag was only half that of "Dark Domain Realm," set at 100 dollars.

Considering the pricing history of various major game manufacturers in Europe and America,

If it’s a 3D game, then

It could only be a beginner-level 3D game, and even entry-level 3D games are relatively cheap when sold at this price in Europe and America.

After all, subtracting the hefty cuts for the game platform and publishers, a revenue of 100 bucks per copy wouldn’t enable it to make much profit.

It simply wouldn’t sustain a gaming company’s expenditure; even a bestseller wouldn’t make much money, let alone if it didn’t sell explosively.

Therefore, Czcu had already lowered his expectations for the quality of the game upon purchase and installation.

After all, it’s said to be of a Western fantasy style.

What can a team from the East do with Western fantasy?

It’s hard to say.

Let’s just try and see!

After opening the game, he was greeted by a cover illustration of the game.

The overall tone was gloomy and dim.

In an environment that looked like a graveyard,

a Knight clad in silver armor, holding a blade thrust into the ground, was kneeling.

Around him, total silence.

Plenty of lifeless bodies lay strewn about in disarray.

In the distance, dense clouds obscured the light, rolling in like a visible storm, pressing down ominously, generating an overwhelming sense of oppression.

Whether it was the Lighthouse towering into the clouds on the left or the snow-capped mountains on the right.

Everything was shrouded in the oppressive, stacked clouds, devoid of a single ray of light.

In this opening illustration, the entire world seemed to have lost its order.

"Wow! I like this kind of composition with a rich dark fantasy feel to it; it seems to suggest a grand setting, giving players a sense of epicness before even starting to play," Czcu briefly praised.

But a single cover doesn’t reveal much.

What it’s actually like depends on the game itself.

Without hesitation, Czcu clicked to start the game.

Soon, the CG artwork appeared.

The narrator’s voice was deep and broad, reading like a dark history book that one couldn’t bear to look back on, slowly began to speak.

Gradually, it painted a picture of the borderlands for the players.

"...The falling leaves bring a message:

Beyond the mist, our homeland ’Borderland,’ the great Elden Ring has shattered—"

As the voice fell, the game’s static CG artwork was revealed.

The artwork’s main body was painted in an oil-style.

In it, a person with a slender silhouette, bare-chested, stood in front of a forge, wielding a strangely-shaped sledgehammer.

He seemed to be hammering something with force.

Soon there was a sharp ’clank’ sound.

After that, the sky was tinged with a golden radiance, enveloping everything, including a majestic castle below.

"This must refer to the destruction of the Elden Ring, but what exactly is the Ring? And who is the one shattering it? From the CG provided, the energy contained in the Ring seems to be boundless, powerful enough to change the color of the sky and the earth when it shatters," Czcu remarked while watching the CG, providing viewers with a simple narration based on his gaming experience.

At this moment, the narrator’s voice rose again,

With a slight excitement, the voice trembled softly.

"The ’Eternal Queen’ Marika has vanished without a trace."

The illustration that followed in the game depicted a long-armed, semi-nude woman, wearing only a very thin nightgown.

Yet, her pose was quite bizarre.

Hanging in a crucifixion-like position, head drooping, it was hard to tell whether she was alive or dead.

"On the night of the black blade conspiracy, the ’Golden Monarch’ Gedwin was the first to lose his life."

Immediately after, the scene changed again.

A powerful king was kneeling on the ground.

Behind him, a host of assassins clad in black veils thrust one after another black dagger into his robust body, one of which pierced directly through his back and into his heart.

The two illustrations seemed to convey the plight of two key sovereigns of the kingdom.

Quickly, the narrator resumed reciting, revealing the fate that followed for the kingdom.

"Marika’s children—the Demigods, obtained pieces of the Elden Ring.

But they fell into the wrong path due to that Strength, succumbing to madness, igniting the Shattering war...

It was a war without the birth of a new king.

It was a war abandoned by the Supreme Will—"

At this point, an epic orchestral background music also gradually reached its climax.