Chapter 437: Ace Bombardment! The Gaming World Shaken for a Whole Year! |
Golden Wind's headline trailer released!
Important news in the gaming world was, it seemed, meant to be repeated more than once,
Just as Komera was basking in self-satisfaction, already starting their celebrations ahead of time!
Just as Golden Wind was thought to have fallen into a desperate situation, its reputation and expectations plunged to rock bottom!
Just as everyone assumed Komera’s banner would spread unchecked across Huaguo!
Just as countless players marveled—some even startled—at the production quality of Conflict Zone!
As dark, Western rumors gathered like storm clouds over Huaguo, as the threat of Neon’s resurgence loomed again!
Half an hour after the Conflict Zone trailer dropped!
Golden Wind’s flagship title for this C-Expo was officially announced!
Daily Gaming News, PlayerFire, Blackbox Games and even tabtab plus a host of short-video indie media.
They practically encompassed half of Huaguo’s most famous gaming outlets in a promotional frenzy—an invasion of publicity that swept through like wildfire!
Chaos.
It erupted in that moment.
The shockwave of public opinion ran through the global gaming sphere with unbelievable speed!
And at the center of that whirlwind was Komera, hit first and hardest!
Over there, Seiichi Nakamura and others had just finished a high-level gathering—or rather, a premature victory banquet.
They had barely taken their seats in the car to go home when Nakamura received a call from his assistant.
The assistant’s tone carried full worry and the ominous prelude of a coming storm: “President Nakamura! Golden Wind…just released the trailer for their C-Expo flagship!”
Gasp!!!
At those words!
Seiichi Nakamura, still slightly tipsy and dazed a moment ago, snapped awake!
Golden Wind…released a trailer?
If the person steering Komera at this moment had been Uekoe Kagemasa instead of Seiichi Nakamura,
the arrogant Uekoe might well have dismissed this as trivial, or even written it off as Golden Wind’s dying flail.
But!
Seiichi Nakamura was not Uekoe Kagemasa.
His familiarity with Golden Wind and his own vigilance let him snatch onto a terrifying detail—
Golden Wind seemed to have deliberately waited until after Komera released its trailer to launch their full-scale counterattack.
This display…
resembled the clash between Escape and Silent Hill back then!
Something was wrong.
Ten out of ten, seriously wrong!
Snap!
Nakamura sprang up from the backseat, opened his folding smartphone, and started scanning news about Golden Wind’s headline trailer!
He didn’t even need to search hard.
By now, reports about this explosive announcement already flooded every corner—
“An unprecedented experience! Golden Wind suddenly reveals flagship game trailer!”
“Rising! Does the game subtitle signal an impending storm?”
“Sudden lift of secrecy! Golden Wind reveals new title [Battlefield Winds] trailer!”
“First title built on in-house engine reaches 3S-level! [Battlefield Winds] drops a trailer!”
(.....)
In that moment!
Nakamura had a very bad feeling.
It was as if the dense clouds hanging over Huaguo were rolling eastward with the rumble of thunder—
Gale, lightning, torrential rain.
The raging thunderstorm seemed to herald a heavy, oppressive invasion barreling in!
Though everything was black!
That sinister undercurrent seemed to twist and flow visibly in the darkness…
The cello’s tone was dark and low, like a dangerous whirlpool churning among the Western Atolls.
The great war drum sounded heavy, marking a slow, advancing rhythm that felt like a terrifying, threatening military march.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The oppressive weight of black clouds crushed like a city about to fall, filling the trailer with a suffocating low pressure.
[Built on the Golden Engine]
[A Gu Sheng Work]
[Golden Experience & Melancholy Blues — A Joint Production]
Dark screen, letters in dark-gold bearing the marks of time!
Right from the start, it was a threefold royal strike!
First, the opening line [Built on the Golden Engine] was enough to raise pulses!
As Golden Wind’s official accounts stated, this game, from start to finish, was made entirely on their very first self-developed engine!
Although that engine had been criticized and ridiculed by many before,
yet!
When it made its debut in a trailer for a flagship title, the shock was still impossible to ignore.
Second, the reappearance of [A Gu Sheng Work] electrified countless veteran players who had followed Golden Wind since its founding!
Ever since Golden Wind reorganized into three major studios and Gu Sheng became Chief Executive Officer, the tag “A Gu Sheng Work” had almost vanished from their game releases.
And finally, the union of Golden Experience and Melancholy Blues signaled a powerhouse production lineup!
It was also Golden Wind’s first title to be produced jointly by two major studios at the same time!
Whether nothing could top it afterward remained to be seen.
But at minimum, this roster was unprecedented!
At that moment, viewers watching the trailer bristled, knuckles tightening.
And the next second!
With another thunderous drumbeat and a tuba’s long, mammoth-like bellow!
An even more terrifying double ace bombardment flashed across the screen—
[Special Thanks —]
[Composer: Hans Zimmer]
[Performed by: Huaguo National Symphony Orchestra]
[Theme Song: BATTLEFIELD]
Boom!!!
Hans Zimmer as composer!
Performed by the National Symphony Orchestra!
The world’s top scoring maestro teamed with a national-level symphony for a joint grand offering!
Indeed!
For the theme, Gu Sheng did not choose a more modern, heavily electronic Battlefield 4-style track.
He picked what he favored—the most sweeping, epic symphonic score from Battlefield V in the series!
And!
Through Legend Pictures’ connections, they secured Hans Zimmer—the internationally famed maestro behind Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and countless award-winning scores—to rearrange and reinterpret the theme!
After all, in Gu Sheng’s previous life, the Battlefield V score was also adapted by this very master.
On the performance side, needless to say, leveraging Golden Wind’s current clout and Minister Li’s relationships, they got the nation’s top symphony to lend wholehearted support!
A powerhouse alliance!
Ace bombardment!
Opening thunderstrike!
The instant Hans Zimmer and the Huaguo National Symphony Orchestra’s names appeared on the black screen,
the world erupted!
Barrage comments in every language exploded instantly!
“Wha—???”
“No way—!”
“Hans Zimmer! Holy—what? Hans Zimmer doing the score? I’m fucking stunned!”
“Bro, really? Game soundtrack? You actually get the national team to score it?!!!”
“Holy shit—this clout—”
“I’m literally dumbfounded!”
“This is terrifying… my scalp’s tingling!”
“What level of backing is this, bro? I can’t even wrap my head around it, you’re standing way too high (lol)”
“Golden Wind just leveled up!”
“That Old Thief’s flex is borderline scary, I’ve got goosebumps all over”
“Call him Big Boss! Not Old Thief!”
“Before, I thought getting VIXX for Conflict Zone was impressive, but Golden Wind doing this… what the hell?”
“Forget boybands, this is on another plane.”
“This isn’t comparable—the judges showed up, what can a boyband even do?”
“It’s absurd, almost supernatural.”
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Shaking the gaming world for a whole year!
As the barrage said!
Such an awe-inspiring top-tier lineup—don’t just judge within Huaguo, even on the global gaming stage this would be unprecedented!
If the invitation of peak K-pop group VIXX for Conflict Zone’s theme had been a surprise to players,
then Golden Wind’s choice to bring Hans Zimmer together with the national symphony for Battlefield Winds’ theme was a dimensional stomp upon the entire game industry!
Crushing barely captures this music-side battle.
Perhaps calling it a “lesson” or “masterclass” is more accurate.
After all, the disparity in lineups is not senior students bullying freshmen,
but top university professors utterly annihilating elementary school math contestants.
Players were stunned!
And right now!
The dark undercurrent, accompanied by the cello concerto, reached its most deceptive peak!
Ma—!!!
The tuba sounded like a long alarm, like a dull thunderclap under the black clouds!
A low, magnetic voice, heavy with long-brewing pressure, slowly intoned—
“King Goujian of Yue, endured hardship and tasted bile, and in the end destroyed the State of Wu…”
Thunder rolled among the boiling black clouds.
On the turbulent ocean, a massive aircraft carrier, like a city-crushing black cloud, steamed toward the atoll-studded archipelago bristling with fortifications!
The churning waves split as it cut through, spray flinging up towering seas!
Amid the gale and the downpour!
Lightning ripped the sky, illuminating the stars-and-stripes flag snapping and clawing in the maelstrom.
Ahead, destroyers led the way, fast boats launched rapid strikes!
Flashes of muzzle fire lit up the tidal flats on the island shores—
one, two, three…
The drums grew ever more urgent; a torrent of flying bullets wove a dense net of fire, lighting the emblem on the Nimitz-class carrier’s bridge beneath the pouring rain, and also illuminating the lookout towers on the Western Atoll’s sentry posts, where flags snapped in the wind...