Girlfriend: ...
Zhao Qiang took a deep breath!
By now, his mindset had changed.
The way this hammer generated force was simply bizarre!
He suddenly felt like he had been a little too overconfident.
This game was not simple!
But his girlfriend was watching from the side!
He had just been boasting so confidently about how good he was.
If he gave up now, what would his girlfriend think of him?!
No!
No matter what, he had to get past it today!
Once!
Twice!
Three times!
Ten times!
Twenty times!
Thirty times!
"First like this, then like this, and then—huh?"
"Don't rush, honey. Take it slow..."
"First like this, then like this! And then—hiss!"
"Honey, maybe we should stop playing..."
"First like this! Then like this! And then—"
"Honey, forget it, forget it. Maybe we should just give up..."
"Fuck—!!!!!"
"Aaaaaaah!"
When the protagonist sitting in the cauldron landed on the ground for the hundred and twentieth time, Zhao Qiang finally broke down!
The keyboard was snapped cleanly in half, and Zhao Qiang's eyes were bloodshot!
"Which bastard made this game?! I'm going to kill you, aaaaaah!!!"
"Honey! Honey, calm down!"
Countless players were going through experiences almost identical to Zhao Qiang's!
They wanted nothing more than to drag that bastard who made this game out of the screen and beat him senseless!
And under these circumstances, Wu Wei's system had finally accumulated enough Wail and Resentment Points!
Ability upgraded!
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After the first upgrade, Wu Wei understood that each system upgrade did not improve all his attributes across the board, but rather a single aspect of his abilities.
For example, this time, the system had improved his ability in game music.
"Damn it, music..."
This ability upgrade really stumped Wu Wei.
A good game did need a combination of factors, that was true.
Graphics, feel, story, playability, and so on.
But music often did not play an especially crucial role in games.
How should he put it? It was the icing on the cake.
A good game soundtrack could amaze players.
But it could not save a game's quality.
So for Wu Wei, who desperately needed improvements to his core game-making abilities, this upgrade was somewhat useless.
"Emmmmm..."
Wu Wei muttered to himself and fell into deep thought:
"How can music be used to its fullest potential?"
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Ming Ye Game Company.
Xiang Dahai, the director of game planning, stood in the department conference room with a dark expression.
The team members below kept their heads down and said nothing.
"Say something!"
Xiang Dahai slammed his hand on the table!
"You were all so confident when making the game, each of you spouting grand ambitions! Why are you all mute now?!"
After a long while, a young man with glasses and naturally curly hair timidly raised his hand:
"Director Xiang... well... no one could have imagined that a game like that would become our competitor..."
Whenever Curly thought of that blank-faced fool sitting in a cauldron, seeming as though he was mocking the entire game market, his heart felt incredibly heavy.
Just one week ago, the pixel-art action game their department had spent more than eight hundred thousand yuan producing had collided with Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
Actually, no one could have possibly imagined using the words "collided with" at the time!
They!
Mingye Game!
They were a legitimate game company!
They had planners, artists, scriptwriters—everything!
Their competing games should have been products from other game companies of the same caliber!
Not some obscure indie developer's little game that looked like a stupid lump of iron and could only be controlled with a single mouse!
Curly simply could not understand it.
How could that absurd game about swinging a hammer to rise against gravity possibly count as an action game?
He did not understand, and Xiang Dahai understood even less!
How had this trash game completely crushed them in sales and seized first place on Zhiyou Platform's weekly action game sales chart in one stroke?!
"This month's performance bonuses are gone! Your salaries are cut in half!"
Xiang Dahai slammed the table again:
"Go back and reflect on this properly! Why did we get intercepted by a game like this?!"
Xiang Dahai spoke furiously.
"Also, find out who exactly made this game!"
The conference room filled with subdued responses.
After calming down for a long time, Xiang Dahai let out a vicious sigh:
"This failure is a lesson! All of you need to remember it firmly!"
"Right now, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy sits at the top of the action game sales chart. We have no chance of challenging it for the time being."
"So the company has temporarily adjusted its plans. We need to immediately plan another type of game to make up for these losses."
"What ideas do you have?"
The oppressive atmosphere in the conference room finally eased somewhat.
Several employees' expressions brightened.