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Chapter 629 - 197: Anti-defense a Blunder? On the Contrary! Anti-defense is the Final Tenderness of this Hooked Designer!_3

Chapter 629: Chapter 197: Anti-defense a Blunder? On the Contrary! Anti-defense is the Final Tenderness of this Hooked Designer!_3

"Shit bro!"

With each occurrence of GAME OVER flashing on the screen,

the audience was nearly dying of laughter.

The popularity of the live stream room was skyrocketing.

Because, when viewers from other live streams heard that someone couldn’t even get past the first level’s BOSS, their curiosity was instantly piqued, and they hurried over to watch the spectacle.

Let me see what this is all about!

Upon entering the live stream room,

they would see the Big Tree Guardian beating the Fading One as if it was chasing chickens and dogs.

The barrage of comments started rolling like crazy.

"Just got here, newbie question, does the host’s character not have legs? Why is it always rolling on the ground?"

"Us leg-breakers do it this way."

"Fair point though, selling the game to the host for 100 bucks was a real loss. You could play the first level for a year. By the time you beat it, ’Elden 2’ will be out. Great."

"Where can I download this game? My curiosity is now piqued. I really want to see if it’s as hard as it’s made out to be."

As more and more viewers gathered around to watch,

Czcu was getting hammered by the Big Tree Guardian for a full hour.

And yet, he still couldn’t get past it.

There were too many moves to watch out for, and the player’s margin for error was too slim.

You had to nearly flawlessly execute about 40 strikes.

Czcu was on the verge of a breakdown, his face as beaten as if he had just been violated by a big black dude.

Suddenly, he remembered something he himself had said earlier.

"This game has just a few moves? Then it must be very simple."

"Anti-defense counter attack is really dumb. With that thing, I don’t even know how to lose. The number one player really doesn’t know how to play the game."

"Why is there a Blessing Spot here? So close, is it necessary?"

Looking back now,

it wasn’t that the top player designer didn’t know how to make a game...

Rather, given the difficulty of this game,

giving the player the anti-defense was actually the maximum extent of kindness from that damn designer...

Because when you get to the BOSS fight, you’ll find that you barely use the anti-defense...

The Big Tree Guardian would drain your entire energy bar with one hit, leave you fighting for your life...

After dying so many times he lost count, Czcu felt he was almost developing dendrophobia.

His whole body shuddered whenever he heard the stirring BGM.

Czcu even suspected that when he went to bed tonight, he’d find nothing but Big Tree Guardians under his blanket.

He thought of giving up.

But then someone in the comments said,

"Host, just give up, stop trying if you can’t beat it. This isn’t for you."

Czcu instantly got agitated.

"I’m going to beat it today just to show you!"

With that, he revived once again and charged towards the Big Tree Guardian with his sword.

This time, whether provoked by the comments or out of spite for himself,

Czcu, after dying countless times, did seem to get the hang of it.

After narrowly dodging the Big Tree Guardian’s lethal attacks several times,

he kept grinding down its health bar.

Finally, with just a sliver of health left,

"I’ve done it!! Brothers, I’m about to do it!! What garbage Big Tree Guardian! Just another notch under my belt!!" Czcu was so excited his tear ducts were trembling, and with a swift stroke of his sword, he followed up the Big Tree Guardian’s attack with a slicing move!

But to Czcu’s despair...

The slow quick blade!

The Big Tree Guardian changed its usual pattern of attacks.

It seemed like its last sliver of health turned it into a superman, as it delivered a swift and slow blade, sending the Fading One straight to the underworld!

Staring at the screen as it turned instantly dark, and that final sliver of health that seemed within grasp.

Just one more hit, but everything had to start over from the beginning.

Czcu completely lost it, his mentality shattered at that moment!

Clutching the mouse, he furiously banged on the desk, making ’bang bang bang’ noises!

In a fit of anger, he yelled out.

"Holy shit!!!"

"Fuck you! Number one player, fuck you!!!"

"I’m done! This damn game wasn’t made for playing! The number one player doesn’t understand what players want! The number one player can’t make games!!"

"Whoever wants to play it can! I’m going to uninstall it right now... Huh? Does it look like there’s a path here?"

"...Ah? You can actually fucking bypass the Big Tree Guardian???" Czcu shivered all over, staring at the screen in disbelief as if he had discovered a new continent.

During his meltdown and furious clicking, the Fading One also moved erratically with the mouse around the area.

And because of this, he accidentally made a discovery!

This Big Tree Guardian...

Apparently, doesn’t need to be fought head-on??

Maintaining a safe distance, it was entirely possible to bypass it!

Upon realizing this, Czcu was stunned!

The viewers in the live stream chat were also momentarily silent upon witnessing this scene.

And then, a flood of question marks filled the entire chat.

After all, before the release of "Elden".

On Blue Star, not just in action games.

Almost all games included a deeply ingrained mechanic.

That is, when you encounter a BOSS you have to fight it.

Only by defeating it could you advance to the next level, or obtain important items needed for the next level.

And in 3D games, due to the three-dimensional graphics, boss battles usually take place in a large area, giving players room to move around.

This too became a common, unsurprising setting.

Thus, even though Czcu initially tried to keep his distance from the Big Tree Guardian, he never considered the marvelous setting of ’bypassing the BOSS and going straight to other places’.

Because this setting, at first glance, seems highly contradictory.

There’s an intuitive logic here.

Bosses are usually well-crafted by game developers, requiring much more effort than lesser enemies.

If players are allowed to bypass the boss without fighting,

Then if a player just refuses to fight, isn’t all that effort on the boss wasted?

If the work on the boss is wasted, where does the ’important reward given only after defeating the boss’ end up?

If you let players wander everywhere, what happens to the story you want to display within your game?

What if players first encounter a later part of the story, then go back to earlier parts?

Wouldn’t that throw the entire sequence into disarray?

Therefore, when such a seemingly awkward and unprecedented setting emerged for Blue Star players,

The shock it brought to everyone in the live stream.

Was no less than a phrase "because you’re too beautiful" echoing in the sky during primitive society,

The primitive people couldn’t comprehend what it was, as they were only capable of digging holes back then.

"Sss..." Czcu gasped in awe.

His emotions, which were on the verge of collapse, instantly turned from anger to calm.

His eyes gradually brightened, a hint of curiosity flickering within.

"Something’s off... This game, it seems unlike any other game I’ve experienced before!"

"It’s neither ACT nor a typical RPG, and it’s hard to define what kind it really is, at least with my years of gaming experience I can’t categorize it."

"This game is so weird."

"Let’s not uninstall just yet, I’ll try it out a bit longer..."