Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 123 is not good.

"Commander, this road is impassable. After you get off, please stay close to us."

M4A1's voice was cold, only showing a hint of emotion when addressing the commander.

The girl seemed to really enjoy calling him "Commander" and also liked hearing his response.

As the plot reaches the middle stage.

The road has been blown up due to the fighting ahead.

The player-controlled commander must wear an exoskeleton and walk to the front lines to maintain the command system.

During this process, without realizing it, the commander was surrounded by four girls in the very center.

The M4A1 and AR-15 flank each other, while the lively SOP2 leads the way, occasionally glancing back, and the experienced M16 brings up the rear.

Surrounding them were a large reserve of humans.

Although this is the rear of the battle line, everyone is on high alert.

Therefore, when faced with a choice of three topics, Ye Feiyang chose the one he felt would ease the tense atmosphere.

"You don't need to be so nervous, someone is clearing the way ahead."

These words were meant to comfort the android, but AR-15, who was walking on the right, suddenly spoke up.

"This is not a game, Commander. Protecting your physical safety is the highest priority order for this operation."

"Anything can happen on the battlefield in the next second—that's a phrase you once taught me."

Although AR-15 is usually a bit lazy and likes to act cute, at this moment, the girl has a serious expression.

"AR-15!"

The M4A1's volume increased slightly, as if to issue a reminder.

"I'm just stating the facts."

AR-15 replied once and then fell silent, its wary gaze sweeping across the surrounding darkness.

Despite the brief incident, Ye Feiyang didn't feel offended; instead, he felt a strange sense of unease.

If you only read the text, there's nothing wrong with it. But if you turn on the audio, you can hear AR-15's tone just now, which sounds exactly like a scene where he was being scolded by his girlfriend for smoking.

Although Ye Feiyang didn't have a girlfriend, he felt that if he did, it would definitely be like this.

This experience of being carefully protected by a humanoid girl as if she were a "fragile item" is truly... a first for me. The commander in the scene probably feels the same way.

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"Speaking of which, is your visual system really okay in this environment? Although there are flares, most places are still pitch black, which feels quite oppressive."

“Our visual sensors can switch to night mode and will automatically adjust according to the light intensity on the battlefield, so please don’t worry,” M4A1 patiently explained.

"However... Commander, please let us know if you feel unwell."

"I'm fine, perfectly fine."

In the game, most of the M4 squad's scenarios unfold in this way, without much "romantic entanglement," yet you can still feel the connection between the humanoids and the commander.

And the commander's attitude toward the war.

After two more battle stages, a new storyline unfolds.

"Did you hear any noise?"

As AR-15 uttered a sentence, the team looked up at the sky, and then the PPT dialogue ended, with an animation marking the "plot turning point" appearing on the screen.

"Boom-boom!"

Amidst shrieks and explosions, a blinding ball of light explodes above the pre-set enemy spawn point!

A ghastly beam of light tore through the night, instantly illuminating a large area as bright as day! The intelligent mechanical reconnaissance unit "Wasp" shrouded in the intense light was completely exposed.

"Enemy attack!!! Sky unit!! Target detected! Sharing data!!"

"M4 SOPMOD II, suppress!"

"learn!"

"AR-15, provide cover fire!"

The two girls pressed forward.

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat—!!!" The muzzle of the M4 SOPMOD II spat out a blazing tongue of fire under the light, and the tracer rounds, like angry red meteors, precisely tore apart a "wasp".

Tracer rounds not only illuminate the trajectory of the bullet, but also leave a brief trail of light in the darkness, providing a reference for correction in subsequent shots. In the animation, this has a strong visual impact.

"Commander, a dense heat source has been detected ahead! It might be aimed at you!!!"

M4A1's words hadn't even finished.

"Be careful!!"

Three wasps charged directly at the squad, and the squad opened fire with their M4s.

Although the girls reacted quickly, one or two enemies still managed to get through the barrage of fire. Fortunately, the commander of the final battlefront was no pushover either.

He looked up and fired a precise shot, and two enemies fell to the ground, one of them landing next to the commander.

"Attention all frontline squads!! Commander under attack!! The crisis has been averted, but command may be interrupted for several minutes!!!"

"Also, frontline squads, be alert for enemy air strikes!"

"Understood!" "Roger that!" "Is the Commander alright?!"

A few brief responses.

However, the animation didn't focus on the speaking M4, but instead cut to the "Wasp" that had landed on the ground, its abdomen slightly open.

Then a "little bug" flew up.

Immediately after adjusting its aim, the little insect flew towards the commander like a bullet.

Just as the bug was about to collide with the commander, M4 spotted it, flipped over, and stood directly in front of the commander.

The bug bumped into the back of the M4.

"what!!"

"What's wrong? M4?"

"It's nothing, Commander."

M4 frowned, touched his back, pulled out a bionic insect, stomped it to death, and then shot and destroyed the landing flying android.

In the darkness, the commander also glanced at the bug that had been trampled to death and whose blue arc had flashed.

The animation ends.

The story then returns to the PPT presentation format.

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As the animation ended, although the crisis was over, Ye Feiyang still felt that something was not quite right.

The writers of The Final Front often use these details to portray their characters.

At first, he thought the little bug might be some kind of virus or something.

However, he quickly changed his mind and thought it probably wouldn't happen. After all, M4 was a member of the core team and had a lot of popularity. At the press conference a few days ago, they were one of the main teams in "Final Front: Origins".

No matter what, it's impossible to portray the M4 as corrupted in the main storyline.
Although that's what he thought, and the main storyline seemed to be progressing normally, they experienced a rather classic encounter on the front lines, requiring backup forces to step in.

The scene depicts the commander leading the reserve force in a charge.

But after this highlight, as they got closer to the city, M4 started to act strangely.

The main storyline dealt him a blow.

Although M4 was still directing the battle normally, the humans successfully reached the Esmine River.

During this process, M4 suddenly told the commander that she had just seen enemies falling from the sky on the left side of the city, which might be the Omnic command tower.

"Really? I didn't see it."

AR-15 was the first to express doubt, and the rest of the M4 squad shared the same sentiment; they hadn't seen what M4 described.

However, before the girls could say anything more, the commander waved them off.

"Go and see"

As mentioned before, the command of the omnics is a large group of omnic intelligences, so after defeating the omnics, you need to find the surrounding command towers, otherwise the omnics can still command the battle from a distance.

Therefore, upon hearing M4's report, the commander did not outwardly "hesitate" and led his troops there.

(End of this chapter)