“Is this… the scene of my birth?”
Inside the Astral Express.
Star looked at the screen on her phone, no wonder she always felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with Kafka.
March 7th and Dan Heng beside her were also very surprised; it turned out there was such a thing before they found Star.
“What are you all gathered around looking at? I was wondering why I couldn’t find anyone, you’re all here.”
Just then, Himeko’s voice came from the side, accompanied by Welt.
“Ah, Himeko, Uncle Yang, let me tell you, this game is amazing!”
Upon seeing the two, March 7th excitedly told them about the game’s wonders.
Himeko: “You’re saying this game records what happened to you at Herta Space Station?”
March 7th: “More than that! I think if we keep playing through the game’s story, maybe even Himeko and Uncle Yang will appear in the game!”
After listening to March 7th’s introduction, Himeko became interested in the game’s developer, pondering what method could possibly record all of this so clearly and turn it into a game.
Welt, however, fell into deep thought, looking at the ‘Honkai’ prefix of the game.
“Instead of pondering their intentions, why don’t we download the game ourselves and experience it? What do you say?”
Himeko looked at Welt and said. Normally, she didn’t play mobile games much, at most March would drag her along, but this game was truly different.
In the past, there had been some mobile games that used the Astral Express’s name for development, trying to cash in on the Astral Express’s fame across the universe, but without exception, they were all low-quality products.
Now, a game that could properly present the Nameless was not a bad thing.
Welt also felt Himeko was right; instead of overthinking, it was better to download the game first and see what happened next.
Meanwhile, with the Stellaron Hunters.
Silver Wolf began to notice something was off during the character selection process.
If it was merely a Remembrancer recording everything through secret means, then the game’s protagonist should only be Star.
But now, she could actually choose the male protagonist, Trailblaze Power.
“Kafka, something’s not right. This doesn’t seem to be a simple recording.”
Kafka also saw the selected Trailblaze Power on Silver Wolf’s phone.
“Such a development did exist in Elio’s script, but this is indeed not something a Remembrancer could do. Silver Wolf, can you find the developer’s information?”
“I’ll try.”
With that, Silver Wolf pulled up a virtual screen and started operating, preparing to find the developer’s location through the game’s release IP address.
But no matter what she did, she couldn’t dig up any information.
“No, I can’t break through their hiding methods for now.”
Kafka also searched for the game’s official account on her phone and immediately found the target.
Currently, the Star Rail official account had 360,000 followers, and its Level 2 account status clearly indicated it was newly created, with only the previous hotfix update dynamic within.
“No, this account can’t be stripped of any personal information either.”
Seeing that even Silver Wolf couldn’t pinpoint the location, Kafka had no choice but to suppress her doubts, planning to ask Elio when they returned.
On the other side.
Yan Shi had designed the promotional plan and began to gradually allocate the game’s advertising budget.
A large number of game streamers started receiving promotional tasks for the Star Rail mobile game, and the game streamer Hongshu Gege was one of them.
He was barely considered a first-tier virtual streamer in the gaming section, often making game guides and commentary videos, and had some influence in the gaming community.
However, Hongshu Gege, in order to show off his professional gaming skills and insight, often made outrageous statements in his live stream, leaving the audience stunned.
If he was proven wrong later, he would have the moderators patrol the live stream intensely while he pretended nothing happened, so his reputation was mixed.
Upon receiving this promotional task, Hongshu Gege was quite curious.
After all, his promotional quote wasn’t cheap. If the other party could afford this money, why hadn’t he seen their advertisements before?
And as soon as Hongshu Gege saw that the other party was a turn-based mobile game, his mind automatically filled in all the details.
Ah, so it’s an old game with no promotional value, planning to cash in on the popularity of big streamers when it launches, right?!
Not only was there no internal test, there wasn’t even a public test announcement, and even the official account only had one hotfix update. This was clearly a plan to run away at any time!
Hongshu Gege, who thought he had found the truth, defined the game in his mind, preparing to thoroughly expose the game’s true nature in the live stream later.
After all, for commercial live streams, as long as he streamed the game content, it was fine. It didn’t say he couldn’t secretly badmouth it!
Hmph, this time, I’m going to use your game to show those haters what a professional game reviewer is!
So, after downloading the game, Hongshu Gege immediately launched it and started streaming, introducing it to his audience.
“Brothers, a turn-based mobile game actually came out today! Hongshu will take everyone to experience it first, alright!”
The avatar appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen, and the bullet comments expressed concern for the streamer.
“Here he comes, my favorite tsundere streamer!”
“Streamer, you failed to predict game revenue last time and said you’d eat the screen. You still haven’t fulfilled that promise, I’m waiting to see it!”
“I just love how the streamer is both bad and loves to play, and then breaks down and plays dead after being proven wrong!”
“Ting Zhi! Haters shut up! Thank you!”
“My Gege has worked so hard, are you guys out of your minds?! Do you have any resin?! If you have the guts, don’t eat the eggs my Gege lays!”
“Exactly, it’s hard enough to find such an interesting electronic pet, don’t break it so quickly!”
The screen was full of hateful comments, too many to block, because Hongshu Gege had just broken down and ended his stream in shame a few days ago, and everyone still remembered it.
Looking at the bullet comments from these haters, Hongshu Gege was so angry his teeth itched, but he also knew he couldn’t manage them for now, so he resorted to playing dead, casually talking about the game as if nothing happened.
“Oh, this game’s opening animation is actually pretty good, well-made.”
The game was playing the opening CG, and the audience’s attention was also drawn to the first character to appear, Kafka.
“Hmm? The characters in this game are well-made, so detailed.”
Some viewers who had already learned about the game also came to Hongshu Gege’s live stream.
“That’s the Stellaron Hunter Kafka! All the characters in this game are based on reality!”
The audience in the live stream gasped in surprise, including Hongshu Gege.
Judging by the current game quality, it was indeed quite good. Did all the budget go into the beginning?
Sure enough, he had to start with the gameplay. Thinking of this, Hongshu Gege quickly fast-forwarded through the story. As a (fake) hardcore player, he didn’t have the habit of watching game stories.
The battle segment quickly arrived, and after a quick glance at the tutorial, Hongshu Gege immediately expressed his opinion.
“The game’s story seems okay, but the gameplay is holding it back too much!
Turn-based games are antiques from how many years ago? They’re completely numerical games, you hit once, I hit once, there’s no room for operation at all.
I dare say that after this, all battles in this game can be put on auto!”
Hmph, a professional game review streamer must be brave enough to make judgments!!!
