Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 324: Want You to Always Love Me

A ga called It Takes Two.

Players are amazed, the industry is astonished, and dia outlets are trembling with awe.

Why?

Because—

"There are just too many aspects of this ga worth analyzing, so many that I don't even know where to begin writing..."

At this mont, Lin Xiaong, who is searching for small dolls in the toy house, grows more astonished the more she plays.

This ga contains so much.

Whether it's the art design, level arrangent, or the puzzle-solving and two-player interaction chanics.

It's no exaggeration to say that any single elent taken from this ga could be developed into its own standalone title, using that rich imagination to shock players.

But Golden Wind didn't do that.

They almost "extravagantly" gathered all these wonderful ideas together.

The benefit of this approach is that it keeps players consistently enthusiastic throughout the gaplay experience.

You haven't even grown tired of one set of equipnt yet, and the next set is already available.

You're still marveling at the previous scene, and a brand new one has already arrived.

There are even countless breathtakingly beautiful scenes that only last for re minutes.

The entire ga, inside and out, radiates two words—

Luxury.

It feels like Golden Wind is showing off with extravagant, lavish displays:

Look! Isn't this fun! Isn't this beautiful! Isn't this interesting! And there's more!

Of course!

Beyond the macro-level fun and enjoynt, the ticulous craftsmanship of Golden Wind and the little touches of chief designer Gu Sheng are also evident in the details.

Like right now, with this Lego minifigure that Lin Xiaong is holding.

Yes, after solving puzzles and overcoming challenges along the way, the two have arrived at a Lego train station.

The entire scene built from Lego bricks is so childlike and dreamy.

Their task is to collect four Lego minifigures and place them in the correct positions to raise the barrier and allow passage.

Originally just simple mission items.

But when Lin Xiaong finds the figures, she discovers their designs aren't simple.

Especially the one in her hand now—

White dress, tall little boots, big adorable eyes, with a pair of bun hairstyles on her head.

"Is this... CEO Ou?"

Click.

Lin Xiaong places the Lego Shen Miaomiao on the base.

With a snap, the Lego Shen Miaomiao clicks into the slot, while opposite her, another slot remains empty.

After looking up and down for two seconds, Lin Xiaong claps her hands and directs Hao Xianming through team chat:

"Da Ming, go look again, we're still missing one figure, we're missing Old Thief's figure."

"OK! Leave it to !"

Hao Xianming, who calls himself Xiao Lin's pillar of strength, agrees and jumps onto the Lego house, boarding a small Lego plane circling overhead to survey the entire scene from above.

Whoosh— whoosh—

Circling around the area, Hao Xianming looks down at the scene, observing carefully.

Finally, when his gaze sweeps across a small corner of the map, Hao Xianming's eyes light up:

"Found it!"

Whoosh!

Jumping from the plane, Hao Xianming swings via grappling hook and lands beside a small figure in the corner.

This little figure wears gray-blue formal attire with a small watch fastened to its left wrist.

Looking at the figure's face— it's practically a miniature version of Old Thief!

Carrying the Lego Gu Sheng, Hao Xianming hops and skips his way to the station.

With a click, he places the Lego Gu Sheng on the base.

And the next second, with a clunk, chanical transmission sounds are heard.

The opposing Lego Shen Miaomiao and Lego Gu Sheng actually bow simultaneously, their facial expressions changing as they close their eyes and pucker their lips.

Smack.

The two Lego figures kiss each other, pink hearts rising between them, transforming into a beautiful pink cloud in the air.

"Ooh—"

For a mont, Lin Xiaong and Hao Xianming both make teasing sounds simultaneously.

And the audience in the livestream chat can't help but join in the teasing—

'Ooh—'

'Yo—'

'I feel like a dog walking on the street suddenly getting slapped across the face'

'They even have animations? Why are you two so extra?'

'This is sowhat against the rules'

'Hmph! Old Thief! Sneaking in personal content, huh? I advise you to increase your efforts and know what's good for you!'

'Labacus garlic easter egg, huh? Interesting, interesting...'

'This Old Thief guy is really playing dirty— who can resist this?'

'A little romance between ga developers'

'If I had a boyfriend like Old Thief, I'd probably have eight kids by now...'

......

And such little easter eggs aren't limited to just this one.

So of these easter eggs are hidden in mini-gas within levels, only visible to PC players in third-person perspective—

Like in the previous two-player tank battle.

If players observe carefully, they'll notice that the green tank controlled by Cody has "Sam" written on it, while the blue tank controlled by Little Plum has "Mia" written on it.

So are hidden in the artistic designs of levels, only discoverable by motion-sensing pod users in first-person perspective—

Like after this level, players will enter a brick castle.

Cody needs to control a long-necked dinosaur toy resembling a crane, moving bricks up, down, left, and right to create pathways for Little Plum.

anwhile, Little Plum needs to control a small dinosaur toy with a long tail, flipping bricks by tapping the floor with its tail, cooperating with Cody to progress.

At this point, if players look carefully, they can see collars around the necks of the dinosaurs they're controlling.

The long-necked big dinosaur's collar tag reads "DinosaurGu," while the long-tailed small dinosaur's collar tag reads "DinosaurShen."

Of course, there are others like the current Lego minifigures that both motion-sensing pod and PC players can see.

These small easter eggs don't affect the overall experience. For players focused solely on the ga, these symbols don't represent anything and don't impact the ga's fun. But for players who follow Golden Wind, they're unexpected little surprises that fill this already warm ga with more sweetness and romantic aning.

This is a ga full of charm.

Players love it.

They love its sweet, romantic little details, its cleverly designed levels full of ingenuity, its fantastical and bizarre dreamlike scenes, and even more so the reflections on life beneath its romantic fairy tale structure.

As they say, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.

Every pair playing this ga seems to gain so insight into relationship dynamics during their playthrough, as Cody and Little Plum repair their relationship.

We are the hamr and nail partners in the tool shed.

Life inevitably involves collisions, just like hamr and nail, but as long as we love each other, these clashing impacts won't drive us apart— instead, they'll make the relationship called love even stronger.

We are the gunfire rangers in the treehouse.

Passionate fire is essential, like tree resin and matches— your attraction to is always so deadly. Perhaps appearances fade but love doesn't, as witnessed by those flying big flower pants.

Everyone's soul may have different heights, but fortunately, I'm willing to beco the cloud ladder for your climb to the vast do, and you're willing to beco the little boat carrying through the starry sea. We are two fragnts that fit each other, echoing across the universe of universal gravitation, attracting one another.

Oh right.

Besides that, we are also warriors of life.

The combination of ice and fire aren't necessarily natural enemies— I can use ice magic to pave the way for our future, while you can use fire dash to burn away life's hardships. We are a natural pair because the combination of ice and fire creates springs that nourish sprouts.

We are magicians of ti— though your ability to revisit past grievances is particularly impressive, I also have ti reversal abilities to help us rediscover past sweetness.

We are also magnets with mutual attraction— gravity brings us together, and repulsion not only doesn't separate us but can actually push each other to higher peaks.

We jumped through the tool shed, repairing tools that never had ti to be maintained.

We flew through the big treehouse, removing the hazardous wasp nest that had been there all along.

We experienced childhood innocence in our daughter's toy room, reminiscing about warmth.

We held hands sliding through the snowglobe's blizzard, gazing at the aurora.

We entered the water tank to roam the seabed and repair love's pathway, we traveled through the grandfather clock feeling ti's passage and cherishing the present mont of being in love.

So it turns out life has always been about daily necessities and trivial matters.

But fortunately, we are love's magicians— we can make daily necessities sing, we can make trivial matters dance, we can turn ordinary life into a romantic fairy tale.

Because on this life journey that's neither too long nor too short, we have each other, we lean on each other.

We, It Takes Two.

Finally!

After a music tunnel full of fantasy and neon!

Cody and Little Plum rush toward the most dazzling finish line—

Boom!

The Book of Love appears again, holding Cody in its left hand and Little Plum in its right:

[Hey! Haha! Look at our enthusiastic audience here!]

Looking around!

The dazzling neon stage is set up, and anthropomorphic glow stick audience mbers are raising their hands, cheering and applauding for the two in the air— what a lively scene!

[So! Ready for the performance? You two!]

[Showti— is here!!!]

With that!

The Book of Love brings the two backstage.

The upcoming performance requires Cody to adjust the sound while Little Plum sings.

Gently placing them in the green room, the Book of Love pats Little Plum:

"Hey, hear everyone's cheers and anticipation? Little Plum."

"But... but I haven't sung in a very, very long ti..."

Little Plum appears quite anxious.

"It's okay, May,"

Cody comforts:

"You just need to treat them all as glow sticks that can't talk... oh... they actually are glow sticks."

"Well said!"

The Book of Love snaps its fingers, then puts an arm around Cody:

"Let's go prepare the stage."

"Relax," Cody follows the Book of Love out the back door: "You can do it, Little Plum."

"But... but I really can't..."

Little Plum is still very nervous:

"If I don't sing perfectly, I'll disappoint everyone..."

Hearing this, the Book of Love stops with its hand on the back door, turns to look at Little Plum, and says aningfully:

"No, you just need to sing from the heart,"

"No one's life is perfect,"

"Trust Cody, and trust yourself..."

The path to the stage is long.

No more chanisms to activate, no monsters to defeat.

But with the controller buzzing in her hand, Shen Miaomiao genuinely feels unprecedented tension like never before.

Shen Miaomiao tightly hooks her arm through Gu Sheng's, her mood growing increasingly anxious and excited.

She loves this ga, and is even more grateful for it.

Because this ga not only imrsed her, allowing her to fully experience the charm of gaming.

It also let her touch Gu Sheng's soul through it, mustering unprecedented courage.

The playing ti was brief.

Though for a ga, over ten hours of gaplay is already quite substantial.

But for three years, these ten-plus hours seem insignificant.

Fortunately though.

For the long journey of life, three years is but the snap of a finger.

Although the ga is ending, the new journey of our lives is just beginning.

A new starting point is right before us.

And now, it's ti to raise the curtain.

"So are you ready?"

Facing Shen Miaomiao's question, Gu Sheng doesn't answer directly but instead asks in return.

"I can't... actually sing, can I?"

With the controller vibrating, Shen Miaomiao also arrives before the grand curtain, grinning slightly at Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng raises an eyebrow slightly:

"Required—"

With that!

Shen Miaomiao follows Gu Sheng's gaze to the big screen—

[Prompt: Ready to sing a song for your It Takes Two partner? The stage will automatically receive audio from your motion-sensing pod or controller microphone, supplented with chord accompanint. If you stop singing or make no sound for three seconds, the ending will automatically play]

[Confirm]

There really is such a thing?!

Shen Miaomiao is shocked!

She never expected that in this final level, Gu Sheng actually created reality-connected interaction!

Players can choose their own song to sing, with AI automatically providing chord accompanint. Only after players stop singing will the ga proceed to the grand finale.

"I..."

Shen Miaomiao opens her mouth slightly, her small face full of confusion and anxiety:

"What should I sing... I can't think of anything..."

"Don't you have anything you want to sing to ?"

Gu Sheng smiles gently:

"I've sung so many songs for you before."

Hiss.

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao freezes.

Right, before she would frequently pester Old Gu to sing songs for her.

Like "Eloping," like "Need Soone to Accompany ."

And now, it's her turn.

After a brief pause, a light flashes in Shen Miaomiao's big eyes, as if she's had an idea.

Clicking [Confirm].

The ga screen shows Little Plum taking a deep breath, slowly pulling open the grand curtain, stepping out with anxious steps to the center of the stage.

Below, countless pink glow sticks look at her expectantly, ready to sway with the song.

Shen Miaomiao looks at the countless glow sticks, gently exhaling a nervous breath.

Then, slowly opening her mouth, her voice soft like sumr night breeze—

[Once is enough, I'll take you to see the ends of the earth]

[Laughing heartily on sunny bright days]

[Quarreling and playing in the carefree air]

[Do you know my only desire]

Once is enough.

This was the first song Gu Sheng sang to her.

That day, she had a high fever that wouldn't break.

A text ssage at 3 AM made Gu Sheng cross half the city, carrying her burning with fever to the ergency room.

While going downstairs, in a daze she insisted that Gu Sheng sing a song for her.

But she had been listening all along.

Just like how my love for you has never diminished over all these years, but instead grown daily.

[The world is still small, I'll accompany you to the ends of the earth]

[Stop searching in worry-free corners]

[Growing old slowly in carefree tis]

[Do you know all my heartbeats]

[Beat with yours...]

Singing to this point.

Only to find that at this mont, Gu Sheng is also looking at her, his eyes slightly red.

They gaze at each other without words.

anwhile, in the ga's grand finale, Little Plum's humming vocals also begin,

Ethereal humming accompanied by grand symphony fills the venue!

With countless glow sticks swaying and dazzling lights, glittering ribbons descend from the sky, falling on both of them, letting them float and drift with the dreamlike wind!

As the two in the ga gradually draw closer, amidst the blooming neon lights, Golden Wind's LOGO also appears beside the ga screen—

[It Takes Two]

[Golden Wind]

[Presents]

And as the symphony's vocal harmony intensifies further!

Right after Golden Wind's LOGO, photos slowly appear and transition with beautiful calligraphy—

In the embrace of early spring morning sun, a delicate girl in white dress holds a boy's large hand, carefully walking beside lotus pond.

Under the blazing sun of blooming midsumr, a lively girl holding ice pop drapes herself over boy's neck, laughing while taking photos at amusent park.

In the twilight of late autumn sunset, a sweet girl holding flower bouquet smiles more beautifully than the flowers, welcoming the boy's return.

Under the envelopnt of deep winter night lights, a surprised girl is carried horizontally in the boy's arms, her upturned lips and astonished eyes sparkling like stars, brighter than the stars in the night sky.

We et each other at every dawn morning, and say goodnight to each other under every night curtain.

Three years is too long, long enough for us to love each other from the closest distance yet farthest apart.

But three years is also too short, short enough that I haven't been able to express all my love.

But fortunately, we still have ti, we have a very long ti, using the days and nights of a lifeti to express our love for each other.

[Dedicated to— Shen Miaomiao (MiaShen)]

[I've woken from nightmares of losing you, I've missed you in places very close to you]

[And now, I don't want to wake from nightmares anymore, I don't want to miss you from the closest places anymore]

[I love you]

[I want to with you—]

[It Takes Two]

[From: Gu Sheng (SamGu)]