All Sorts of Female Characters
Theoretically speaking, “Tale of Wuxia 3 – Swords of The Future” could be played for an infinite number of loops, first round, second round, third round
There were many endings for the main storyline quest. It was almost like a “galga.” Different choices would lead to different endings. You could even end up being alone forever. You could also end up as one half of an enviable, perfect couple with the first heroine. Of course, that ant giving up the second heroine. As Zhao Youyue had found her own”path to monkhood” gaplay, romance with females would be the least of her concerns – or the concerns of a monk, at least.
She may not be interested in the female characters, but this did not stop those female characters from falling in love with Ah Guang, no thanks to his “monkness,” as such a path would lead him to inevitably helping everyone and everything – and that included these female characters.
Zhao Youyue’s main storyline quest concluded in a rather balanced ending that was neither good nor bad. He did not choose to murder the tyrant of a particular country, leaving people to continue suffering from extre hardship. Even so, where one tyrant falls, another would rise to take its place. Such was human nature. On the other hand, there were evil spirits of all sorts that road about. Of this sort, “Ah Guang” spared no rcy whatsoever.
In the end, Ah Guang chose to remain guard at the doorway where all evil spirits erged from —— The Abyss Vault. This ‘doorway’ was more like a crack that had opened up on the mbrane that separated dinsions. Monsters and spirits had conquered the world on the other side of the crack, and they now had their eyes on Ah Guang’s realm. It was there, where Ah Guang made the noblest of all vows. He swore to never ascend into Buddhahood, as long as this “hell” was not purged of all evil.
Zhao Youyue had taken five days to accomplish such an end. She spent at least twelve hours per day. Throughout her gaplay, she had completely ignored unessential, optional side quests. She had yet to collect many, many other achievents. This spoke of how grand a scale this ga had been built upon.
The ga did not skimp on CGI-laden cutscenes, and flaunted them at every opportunity they had. The music was even more invigorating. In the end, Ah Guang made such a choice. Many viewers in the live broadcast room comnted on the bullet curtain ——
“I’m inexplicably touched. It looks like Lady Ah Yu wasn’t just ssing around. I didn’t expect Ah Guang to actually beco ‘the’ monk of the generation. He even chose to guard the Abyss Vault”
“Even if it’s just a ga, I find it almost impossible to close your heart to that level. I’ve seen so many guides and walkthroughs, and they all taught the players how to achieve a Harem ending.”
“This is truly a good ga. After watching Lady Ah Yu’s stream, I’ve decided to get myself a copy and play according to the guide!”
“Zha Feng’s gas are all masterpieces. His set of worldview is quite interesting, especially that set up for Samsara Palace. Unfortunately, the skills demanded are just a little too ahead of our current generation”
“That’s how you get players to take things seriously. There’s a degree of reality there. If the ga is nothing but a ss of flurries and screen-wide lights and sounds, players won’t feel much. I thought I was watching a fully fleshed-out, impactful, action movie!”
After Zhao Youyue finished playing the ga, she even found herself the official novelization of the “Tale of Wuxia” series to read. She found that it was unsurprisingly cliche. Wuxia novels rarely differentiated from one another.
This novelization had been told from the first person perspective, but there was no main protagonist, only a rather extensive lead cast. The first and second heroines within the ga were mbers of this cast. The plot revolved around them, and they told the story through their personal insights and perspective.
Hoewever, Zhao Youyue thought that the heroines had been written rather stereotypically, be it the first heroine Cheng Shan, or the second heroine Luo Siqi.
Cheng Shan was a strong woman. Within this chaotic world, she had been orphaned early in her life. She had been brought up and almost indoctrinated as a suicide, frontline infantry. She carved her path through the martial world with her sword. At the sa ti, she was imnsely loyal to Da Chu – the country she was born in —— She did everything for Da Chu. I would rather die fighting for justice, than live in humiliation!
Even so, those words did little to prevent Da Chu from being wiped off the map. Well, that was rather embarrassing.
This gave way for painful choices and sad endings within the ga. If you chose not to save the first heroine, she would almost certainly die for her country. If you saved her, there would be a big side quest that involved reclaiming her country.
The second heroine, Luo Siqi was the daughter of a wealthy family within the Kingdom of Jin, a small country at a corner of the map. She had longed to explore the lawless world since childhood, and was ditsy, innocent, and naive. She got her wish, and entered that hostile world, only to swiftly have her dreams smashed to pieces. The lawless world was truly too dangerous! It was not as beautiful as she had imagined.
Fortunately, the protagonist was within the ga, albeit it had to be a protagonist who completed the quest – “the Hero saves the Beauty.” Thanks to the sadistic difficulty level of the ga we often get “the Hero failed to save the Beauty” outco, instead. Sotis the beauty dies, sotis we even get a “Hero failed to save the Beauty and himself” situation
This sidequest did not just sit there and allow you to take your ti. If you did not go to the Kingdom of Jin by XX year, only going after you think you have sufficient power, you would only find out that the second heroine Luo Siqi had either died for a very long ti, or she had been taken to other countries to be a slave of sorts, and her many, many offsprings were already running all over the map!
So players furiously marked this down as one of “Zha Feng’s bad intentions.” He was practically forcing you to risk your life and conquer this sidequest. How could you possibly wait until you were strong enough to save this heroine?
These generic females aside, the new DLC introduced a new, female supporting character – Ye Honglian. Ye Honglian had once appeared in a previous work, before the “Tale of Wuxia” series. She may be known as the “Deity Honglian,” but she was an evil woman who killed people without a blink. Triggering her sidequest either led the player down her path, or led her to turn over a new leaf, following the noble player’s way...
These female characters had far more screenti, compared to the female characters from many other minor sidequests, which often led to one-night stands. After all, this was a lawless world. You could f*ck around and f*ck just about anything you fancied. Besides, there were brothels scattered throughout various countries, and in varying spheres of influence. So players would never fail to drop by the brothel first – during each visit to a new country. It was said that after a player f*cks all the prostitutes within the ga, he would unlock an achievent called the “Cannon Lord of the Lawless World.”
With so many female characters and large-scale CGIs within the ga, it was clear that this was a male-centric ga. Of course, female characters were not exempt from love lines either. Of course, those love lines had to be of the girl-on-girl nature. That would be what we call the hidden “Lily line”[1]...
Unfortunately, Zha Feng never provided any gay lines or routes. The ga had decided on Zhao Youyue’s behalf that her monk was a downright upright, straight guy. Zha Feng must have been looking down on female gars, belittling their gar spirits. In addition to their timid character, they could never appreciate the beauty of his cruel, dark world.
Female players within this ga may be just as scarce as he had imagined, but so were the male players. For such a well-made, triple-A masterpiece, it barely covered the cost of its own production. Expecting to profiteer from this? Impossible!
Zha Feng, the idealistic ga producer,who had unpopular but stoic pursuits and principles of his own, did not make gas for business (mostly because he was rich as it is), but to share his thoughts and opinions with the world. He cared little about how well his gas did.
Right now, Zha Feng was in the process of making the second DLC of the ga. He was also fixing bugs and flaws in parts of the ga, while also preventing cheaters from fleeing from his ruthless bullying
Those who were familiar with Zha Feng knew that this entire DLC would be centered around yet another female character, and players would be able to ‘raid’ her, leaving everyone happy!
Zha Feng practiced a hands-on approach when it ca to developing new plotlines. His company had an entire departnt that dedicated their energy into plot developnt. He would work closely with this departnt, leaving them to elaborate on his ideas on Wuxia, even if those ideas sotis led to his “bad interests”
Translation Note:
[1] Lily line – A concept under ACGN realm, which refers to the innocent, pure love relationship between females, but does not entirely equate to “lesbianism.”
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