"This outfit, the size seems a bit small..."
Bai Wei tugged at the hem of the clothes, looking a bit embarrassed. "I'll go change into a larger size."
Before she could go change, He Yin grabbed her with one hand and pulled Xiao Ningxi outside with the other:
"It looks great already!"
"Let's go, let's go, time to go play!"
Caught off guard, Bai Wei was dragged by her out of the mall and onto the bustling street.
Not far away on the street, more characters appeared one by one—
Huo Huo, carrying shopping bags, wearing only a yellow-green printed bikini on her upper body, half-draped in a white transparent sun-protection cover-up, and denim short shorts on her lower body.
Vivian, stretching her small blue camisole until it was almost bursting, revealing a large expanse of fair peaks.
Shuo Feng, using two indigo ribbons hanging from the back of her neck and draped over her breasts as a top.
Bu Erxi, wearing rabbit ears and a skin-tight bunny suit, but with an upper body so magnificent that it couldn't be contained at all and could only be "supported," swaying back and forth almost overflowing as she walked.
Te Moer, also in a bunny suit style, but changed to an orange color, with the middle section hollowed out, open all the way from beneath her neck to the bottom of her lower abdomen, and large swathes of stockings removed from both sides of her thighs and hips to reveal sturdy thighs.
Fu Ling, who looked wrapped up tightly in white from a distance, but upon closer inspection revealed that the white was less of a clothing item and more of a milky-white body paint, her plump peaks emitting a flesh-toned reflection in the light.
Character after character made a blockbuster debut.
The bullet comments grew denser and denser until they obscured the entire screen, making it impossible to watch normally without reducing the density.
At first, the bullet comments were filled with various exclamations: "As expected of Vivian's foodie persona, this nourishment clearly wasn't eaten in vain!"
"Is this a milk cap? Open and drink immediately? Genius!"
"Isn't your rabbit a bit too well-developed? Walk slower, walk slower, it's going to spill!"
"Mom, I'm thirsty! I want to drink milk!!"
However, as Te Moer and Fu Ling made their appearances, the bullet comments suddenly flooded with question marks:
"Wait! Who is this?"
"Calling @Frost Snow Project veterans."
"Veterans don't know either, never even heard of it!"
"New characters? Two at once?"
"Are they emptying their entire stock just to survive?"
"How is it that I feel a little sorry for them?"
Soon, they had no time to spare to pity Dream Builder.
That was because Dream Builder began firing on all cylinders. After the commercial street, the camera shifted to the seaside.
The classic swimsuit segment that 2D cannot do without.
Yet the swimsuits Dream Builder prepared for the characters were on a completely different level from their peers, making even the fanservice swimsuits of most mainstream anime pale in comparison.
Especially since Xu Meng had specially filtered the selection; almost everyone who appeared on the beach in a swimsuit possessed proud figures—virtually none of them had a cup size lower than F.
What was even more saucy was that the animators chose to let them team up to play beach volleyball...
That spectacle was as magnificent as it could possibly be, maximizing the visual impact.
As evidence, in the teaser uploaded to P Station, a large amount of white water mist special effects appeared here to obscure scenes with overly intense visual impact.
Had it not been for this, the teaser would never have passed P Station's review.
Weiguang was much more reckless and didn't care at all; as long as nothing was exposed, you could upload whatever you wanted.
--Sometimes even if you did expose something, it was fine; it would pretend not to see it, and many internet living Bodhisattvas survived precisely because the reviewers turned a blind eye like that.
The seaside scene ended, and the camera shifted to outside a hospital.
Fei Yun, wearing a sleeveless short shirt and lace-trimmed lantern shorts, walked out alongside four other characters who looked somewhat unfamiliar to the players.
Similarly, they followed the pattern of the previous characters—either dressed very coolly or possessing explosive figures!
At first, the bullet comments all assumed these were also satellite characters prepared by Dream Builder.
Until the camera shifted, and a golden-glowing character appeared in the frame.
That was Tong Que.
After remodeling, she had become a woman with a height in a league of her own.
--Xu Meng had originally intended for her to stand alone in both height and figure, but because the artists later let loose, the characters of Frost Snow Project inevitably ushered in cup-size inflation.
Wanting to keep Tong Que in a league of her own would not only make her body proportions and clothing uncoordinated but also restrict the creation of future characters, so the title of unique figure was removed.
Yet this did not detract in the slightest from the visual impact she brought to people.
Because her clothes were almost entirely composed of gold and jade.
Instead of gaudy golden armor, they consisted of exquisite beaded chains strung from gold and gems, which were then linked together to form a magnificent outfit.
Clearly, this set of clothes could not block much flesh either, with only her sensitive areas covered slightly more strictly.
The remaining positions of her abdomen, back, hips, and insteps were less for coverage and more for decoration.
Vast expanses of wonderful skin were exposed to the air through the gaps between the gold chains, yet at a single glance, it did not feel vulgar.
It was as if an ancient Egyptian queen had been reborn before one's eyes, exceptionally majestic and magnificent.
That breathtaking gorgeousness made anyone who saw it freeze in place.
The bullet comments grew sparse once more.
Then she spoke: "Fei Yun, and everyone else, congratulations on your recovery. On behalf of the City Defense Force, I welcome you home."
The bullet comments exploded instantly:
<div>"Fei Yun? Yun Fei!"</div>
"Holy crap! I remember now, Dream Builder said they were going to gender-swap the male characters!"
"Not a single one appeared earlier, so they were all waiting right here!?"
"Discharged from the hospital? This is a collective sex-change operation!"
"Congratulations, the surgery went very smoothly. Now you are a cute little girl!"
"Hahaha, I can't look at them straight!"
"Whose perverted idea was this? This is too hilarious!"
It wasn't just the players who were shocked; industry peers were equally shocked and bewildered.
Even though Dream Builder had already announced this matter, the conclusion drawn from their internal discussions was that the drawbacks outweighed the benefits.
Wasting a massive amount of energy and offending a large number of female users, while male users might not necessarily appreciate it, potentially leading to a series of subsequent problems like refund requests and reports.
Therefore, their final judgment was that this was likely just a gimmick.
Dream Builder's most likely course of action was to delete a batch of insignificant characters, perfunctorily gender-swap two or three to appease the players, and finally use development schedule issues as an excuse to let the matter become a lingering historical problem.
--This wasn't random guessing; if it were up to them to do it, they really would do it that way.
Yet right now, looking at these gender-swapped character illustrations, did they have a single penny's worth of crudeness about them??
Dream Builder actually meticulously produced these gender-swapped characters with uncertain sales prospects according to the standards of sellable female characters!
Incredible!
Yet the even more incredible part was yet to come—
At the top of the tower in the very center of the city, a bronze bell tolled long and loud.
Outside the city walls, pollutants and corrupted machine soldiers emerged in droves.
The camera split into three: the commercial street on the left, the seaside on the right, and Tong Que in the center.
"Enemy attack!"
"Reinforcements!"
"But the combat suits aren't around..."
"Then we won't change into combat suits; we can fight just as well without them!"
In the tri-split screen, everyone charged toward the city wall simultaneously.
Against the backdrop of their retreating figures, the animated short ended.
Then it seamlessly transitioned to real-time combat footage! Finally, it was the true real-time combat display that many players had been anticipating!
To properly transition the impression left on the players by the animation and deliver full visual impact, Xu Meng deliberately arranged for Tong Que's demonstration to be placed first.
Opening with a royal flush!
Tong Que's figure went without saying; as she sprinted and charged toward the monsters, the camera even gave a 360-degree rotating close-up.
Golden chains fluttered and swayed, with beads of gold and jade leaping across her skin, dazzlingly vibrant.
Witnessing that dynamic effect, the players could only think it was awesome, exquisite, and formidable.
Designers in the industry held their breath on the spot!
With golden light flowing, a grayish-black assault rifle emerged from thin air and materialized in Tong Que's hands.
She began firing frantically at the monsters.
Affected by the rifle's recoil, the gold chains along Tong Que's side and the plump, fair half-spheres beneath them surged turbulently, trembling unceasingly.
Thus, the fragile hearts of hundreds of thousands of players trembled along with them...
Monthly passes sought, follow-ups sought, recommendations sought!
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