Bab 244: Samus is my wife
Metroid is the game exclusively developed by Takayuki, who took over the production after more than half a year. Naturally, the game has garnered a lot of attention.
With a considerable existing fanbase, the initial week of sales was impressive. Moreover, due to significant enhancements, including game music and character animations, the story itself far surpasses the first and second generations of Metroid.
In the second generation, the intergalactic bounty hunter Samus successfully brought back a Metroid hatchling and delivered it to the scientists on the Valley Star.
After studying, scientists believed that the Metroid hatchling could be very helpful for humanity's future development. With the premise of ensuring the hatchling's safety, Samus left it on the Valley Star for the scientists to research.
As for Samus, she left to continue her bounty hunter business.
However, not long after, a distress signal came from the Valley Star, indicating that the scientists were under attack.
Upon learning this, Samus hurriedly headed to the Valley Star.
After some exploration, all the scientists in the space station were found cruelly murdered, and the Metroid hatchling was missing.
Finally, after further exploration, Samus discovered Ridley, who was preparing to abduct the Metroid hatchling.
Despite battling Ridley, Samus failed to rescue the Metroid hatchling. Ridley took advantage of the situation and quickly left the space station, which was about to self-destruct.
In the end, Samus had to return to her own ship and follow Ridley's footsteps to the Zebes planet, where she had fought in the first generation.
Upon arriving, Samus was surprised to find that the previously destroyed space pirate base had been rebuilt, appearing even larger and more powerful than before.
From here, it was evident that this game had richer content than before, with larger maps and more gameplay options.
This time, there were initially four elite bosses to face.
A futuristic story full of scientific fantasy, along with richer gameplay, made Metroid highly anticipated even before its release, with favorable reviews from a male gaming website, marking another step forward in this genre of games.
Thanks to the positive reviews from the male gaming website, many players naturally chose to trust it, resulting in sales exceeding one million in the first week in both the United States and Japan.
Many players stayed up all night playing the game, at least until they completed it.
Especially in the United States, scenes similar to those of Japan, where people queued up early to buy the game, were observed.
Many fans of Metroid, as well as some curious bystanders, queued up to purchase the game.
Among them were several Samus players who cosplayed with various materials, both male and female. They seemed to have truly immersed themselves in the character, as if they were Samus themselves.
Lil'Da made a big fuss about proving her strength in her own way, using higher advertising costs to promote her electronic game, but she couldn't compete with a series that had been awaited for over two years.
On the day of Metroid's release, it was evident that many small and medium-sized department stores were overcrowded, while large department stores seemed somewhat deserted on the release day and the following three to four days, making one wonder which were the real large department stores.
Of course, these sales figures would naturally continue to be sent to those large department stores via email and letters.
To do this, the American branch of Gamestar has also established a special team.
TV journalists with keen instincts naturally wouldn't miss such sensational news.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm at a mall called Brin's Department Store. Now you can see there are many people queuing up here. Let's interview some of them to find out what's going on and what product is so fascinating to them."
The journalist approached a player dressed as Samus who was in line.
"Hello, sir, I wanted to..."
"Metroid! Samus is my wife!!"
The journalist originally wanted to ask about the general situation.
But when the microphone was handed over, the player dressed as Samus excitedly shouted.
This startled the journalist, but she quickly recovered and asked, "Sir, did you just shout that Samus is your wife? Did your wife ask you to buy something?"
"Don't listen to this guy's nonsense. How could Samus be his wife?! That outstanding woman should be my wife!"
"You jerk, stop talking nonsense!"
"Hey hey hey, she should be my wife."
"What's going on? Why do you all claim Samus is your wife? Have you ever respected Samus herself? She should decide who her wife is!"
"Since you all claim Samus as your wife, then Chun-Li belongs to me."
"You jerk, how dare you muddy the waters. Watch me beat you up!"
On the side, the journalist was a bit bewildered.
She couldn't understand the gamer jargon about electronic games at all.
She only heard these people fiercely debating who Samus's wife was, which made her feel very confused.
Why were these people so fixated on Samus?
At this moment, the cameraman leaned over and whispered to the journalist, "Samus is the main character they are about to purchase in the game. They all like Samus very much, so they want to see her as their wife. Actually, I also quite like Samus."
Clearly, the cameraman was very knowledgeable. After this explanation, the journalist understood, then turned to explain the current situation to the audience.
However, at the same time, she also felt that the gaming circle was chaotic. How could they take a virtual character from an electronic game so seriously? It was completely unreasonable.
But this also indirectly proved the popularity of this thing.
However much these people fiercely debated, even almost coming to blows, they all eventually calmed down.
Because several tall and burly bodyguards had already walked over with an imposing manner.
They immediately shrank their necks and obediently queued up.
At this point, the journalist could finally inquire properly about what was going on.
The player dressed as Samus from earlier also began to explain honestly.
They were here to buy a game called Metroid. They had all played Metroid to some extent before and were big fans of the series. Since today was the release day, they all came over to queue up and buy the game.
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