Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

She's just trying her best to see if she can help her friends.

But if it really doesn't meet Takeyusei's standards, she can completely understand. The president is a perfectionist; otherwise, he wouldn't have created such a classic video game.

"Let's listen to it first."

Zhu Youxing then pressed the play button.

After a series of crackling sounds, a male voice cleared his throat, and soon a soft humming began to accompany the guitar.

This person's voice isn't particularly outstanding, but his guitar playing rhythm and melody are quite good, which largely makes up for his vocal shortcomings. You could say he has a nine-point performance and composition skill, and a five or six-point singing ability.

The performance elevated her singing, which was originally only at a level of five or six, to a level of seven or eight, which is quite remarkable.

The first song is a vocal performance with only guitar accompaniment.

Zhu Youxing thought it was pretty good, especially his guitar playing, which was indeed very unique.

However, Final Fantasy's music isn't primarily guitar-based, so he decided to keep listening.

The next piece is a violin solo. The overall music is very pleasant, giving the feeling of strolling in the morning sun, relaxed and carefree. He is indeed a very good composer.

What kind of bottlenecks would such a person encounter?

Zhu Youxing wasn't a composer, so he didn't really understand these things and could only listen to them again.

"Not bad, both of your performances were quite good. By the way, how old is your friend's older brother?"

"I'm already forty years old."

Did a composer who was somewhat famous more than a decade ago encounter a creative block?

It is indeed difficult to remember someone unless they are a truly well-known figure.

Such composers, whose talent is fleeting, are easily overlooked.

Next, Zhu Youxing played the next piece of music.

This time, it's not a performance of a single instrument, but an ensemble of multiple instruments.

This piece of music is also above average; it was probably played on an electronic keyboard or similar instrument. The overall musical style carries a touch of dreaminess and confusion.

Since this was the last piece of music he produced, and also his proudest, he must have sensed his own creative block at this point, and expressed it in the music.

This is very good music; it already meets Takeyusei's standards for Final Fantasy music.

It wasn't that the previous music producers were bad, but Zhu Yuxing always felt that they didn't fit the psychedelic yet revitalized style of Final Fantasy.

Some are too bland in style, some are too old-fashioned, and some are too modern—all fall short. But this one at least meets my passing standard, around eight points. It may not be perfect, but if this person is willing to accept my guidance and compose and play music according to my specified style, there is a chance that it can be improved to nine points or more. That would be comparable to Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for Final Fantasy in my previous life.

When the third song ended, Sakai Makoto's voice came through the tape.

"Thank you for listening. I am very grateful. If there is anything I could have done better, please feel free to point it out. I am willing to do my best to improve."

The sound ended, and the tape also came to an end.

Matsuhashi Minoru looked at Takeyusei with a hint of anticipation.

"President, what do you think?"

Zhu Youxing was deep in thought.

He was still wondering whether Sakai Makoto truly met his requirements.

Eight points is already quite high.

It would be really difficult to find someone who scores nine out of ten right from the start and can rival Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for Final Fantasy.

So, shall we choose this one?

Well, this one will do. Finding someone more suitable is probably like winning the lottery. Besides, you can train them later.

However, I don't know if this person is arrogant or haughty. If so, then it's not a good fit.

“I think it’s a good idea. I can have him come over sometime. I want to see it for myself,” Zhu Youxing said with a smile.

Matsuhashi Minoru breathed a sigh of relief.

Her friend had entrusted her with the task of finding a suitable job for a long time, and now it seemed that there was finally hope, which made her very happy.

Chapter 114 A New Game Console?

Speaking of which, he was also someone who once shone brightly, but also fell like a shooting star.

The illustrator for Dragon Quest, Sansuke Tsuchiya, also has a similar background.

From this perspective, the two games are even in this respect.

Now that the composer has been finalized, all that's left is to find a suitable illustrator.

Zhu Youxing didn't waste any more time on this and decisively called his mother again to ask for her opinion.

This time, Zhu Youxing's mother did not disappoint him. She quickly gave Zhu Youxing the address of someone who seemed to be one of her students.

In their previous lives, the three giants of Final Fantasy were an artist, a game producer, and a composer.

This student's art style also reached eight out of ten in Takeyusei's mind, and is quite similar to Yoshitaka Amano, one of the three giants of the early Final Fantasy series in his previous life.

Of course, he has his own style, and it's impossible for him to be 100% similar to Yoshitaka Amano, but he is 70-80% similar, which is enough.

The other party was initially not particularly interested in video games, but because Zhu Youxing was the other party's teacher's child.

In the end, the other party agreed to help, since Zhu Youxing would definitely pay enough money, after all, no one would turn down money.

With this, two of the three key figures in Final Fantasy are secured, with the composer actually being the more important one.

Because Yoshitaka Amano only helped draw six Final Fantasy games, and after the seventh game, the Final Fantasy series went down a completely new path.

However, composer Nobuo Uematsu remained the go-to composer, his position unshakeable.

Aside from these two, he himself naturally took on the role of the last leader in Final Fantasy.

He will provide the main tone for Final Fantasy, ensuring they can make the game according to their requirements.

With this, the game development work of the fifth game development team officially began.

Among them, composer Mayu Sakai personally examined him and confirmed that he met his standards, and then arranged for him to join the game development studio.

Perhaps it was the ordinary life of more than ten years that gradually smoothed out his rough edges and made him no longer dwell on the bottlenecks of his youth. He was surprisingly obedient, doing whatever Zhu Youxing asked him to do, and able to compose music of whatever style he was asked to compose. He was truly a very high-quality composer.

Such obedient composers are rare, and based on this alone, Takeyusei had already decided to make him the official composer for Final Fantasy in the future.

Sakai Makoto also cherishes this job. After all, he is almost unable to support his family. The daily grind of life has made him realize the importance of life, and that money is more important.

The illustrator introduced by the mother was not very common. He simply helped draw various original concept art drafts according to Zhu Youxing's requirements. Obviously, this illustrator still looked down on this emerging video game industry and was not yet able to truly integrate into it.

But this isn't a big problem. Final Fantasy is less tied to illustrators than Dragon Quest; composers are actually more important.

It's acceptable to treat this artist as a temporary worker.

As time went by, more and more people joined the video game industry in Japan.

Among them, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment stands out, with more than 30 independent game studios now developing games for the Famicom, and more than 20 other companies that were already somewhat well-known expanding their business to also produce video games for the Famicom.

This includes Jinping Entertainment, which previously cleared out its inventory by selling reskinned game consoles.

They own a large number of IPs, including animation, film and television dramas, and novels. If they randomly select a few popular IPs to make a game of the same name, it will be very popular.

A game rated 6 out of 10, combined with an already well-known IP, can achieve very good sales.

However, they chose to log their own game on multiple platforms, taking a 30% cut from the Famicom console, which is 10% less than the 40% cut from other companies. This actually means they will earn significantly less money.

However, they still insisted on logging in from multiple platforms.

Their first official game was a game based on a somewhat well-known adventure novel, called Edward's Adventure Legends. It was a role-playing game, the easiest genre to make money in at the time, with turn-based combat and some of their own innovative gameplay, which garnered a following.

The most authoritative game review website today, Yinan Games, was originally a forum founded by that kid, Kazuo Murakami.

This website also gave the game a three-star rating, making it the second Samsung game to be released outside of the Famicom.

Of course, according to Kazuo Murakami's evaluation, half a star is due to the IP's popularity, and in terms of playability, it's only two and a half stars, not as good as Sun Knight from Surui Electronics.

Just as these people were enthusiastically throwing themselves into the booming video game market, Youxing Electronic Entertainment suddenly and without warning released a brand new product.

This thing could be considered a game console, but its functions are quite limited, and the console's performance is also quite low.

But it has a very unique appearance, a cartoonish look, and looks like a decoration. More importantly, it can be held in your hand and played with.

At the same time, related advertisements were broadcast on Tokyo TV, and advertisements for the product were also posted on trains and street billboards.

These advertisements all have very significant commonalities.

That is, the advertisements all feature cute girls with sweet smiles.

They wore the brightest smiles in the world, holding something that looked like an egg in their hands.

In the television commercial, a group of girls are running and jumping happily in the morning sun, each holding a colorful, egg-shaped object in their hands.

On the shoulders of these cheerful girls, adorable little animals also looked happy, dancing along to the music of the advertisement.

The little animals had rather unique appearances. There was a yellow one with rabbit ears but a lightning bolt-like tail, another that looked like a nine-tailed fox, and yet another that looked exactly like the slime, the signature monster from Dragon Quest.

The little animals bounced and hopped on the girls' shoulders, and finally they all crawled into the colorful eggs in the girls' hands, followed by a front view of the egg-shaped objects.

It was a screen with black and white pixels in the middle.

On this screen, which is about the size of two or three thumbs, the basic appearance of the small animals is outlined with very simple pixel graphics.

They appear on screen sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and sometimes angry; in short, they look incredibly lifelike.

Tamagotchi! A baby for girls.

"Grow, nurture, educate, and grow old, experience what it's like to raise a pet."

"There are more than fifty different kinds of small animals with different appearances and personalities, and each time you raise one, you will have a different feeling!"

Tamagotchis are now officially on sale. For details, please call the number below or visit an authorized Yusei Electronics store to purchase! For only 2000 yen, you can bring home more than 50 little animals! You can take them out and raise them anytime! Take care of your babies all the time.

"Tamagore, we all love it!"

In the advertisement, the girls hold small eggs in their hands, reach out to the camera, and show happy smiles.

Then, the advertisement ended, and immediately the contact number left on all the advertisements was bombarded with calls.

Chapter 115 Scooping poop is humanity's mission