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"I want to play this ship girl game! Ah, no, I mean I want to play this game!!!"

"This ship girl is so beautiful!"

Ignoring the sounds of people swallowing their saliva inside the arena, and ignoring the group of players online who were already going crazy for Yi Xian.

The live music is still playing.

After hearing the title "Yixian".

The commander, speaking from a first-person perspective, coughed lightly.

"The commander will suffice..."

"Yes, dear Commander."

"..."

"Fine, call me whatever you like."

The commander was clearly also powerless against the elegant and charming Yi Xian in front of him, and soon stopped worrying about the form of address.

Instead, they started talking about serious business.

"Is there something you need?"

Yi Xian nodded.

He reached out and handed over a document.

"let me see.."

The commander, dressed in a white military uniform, accepted the brown paper bag in the first person.

After being unpacked, the originally cheerful music gradually softened and became somewhat somber, and the camera's focus was brought closer to the report.

On the white paper, the most eye-catching thing is the title at the top.

"Battle to retake the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean..."

Chapter 206 Plot Revision

Deep-sea area recapture battle

This fleeting scene in the PV happens to be the biggest difference between this world-line Azur Lane and its predecessor.

In its previous life, Azur Lane's storyline, while not exactly terrible, never really had any highlights.

It feels like it was made on a whim.

"Ah, we're making a ship girl game, right?"

"As for the plot, let's just roughly adapt it to World War II..."

The script that was ultimately decided on by chance was the early main story chapters of Azur Lane from the previous life.

This storyline, let's put it in 16 or 17.

It doesn't seem like there's a big problem, considering it was back then.

Warship Girls has no storyline at all...

Besides, since it's a military-themed game, paying homage to World War II isn't out of the question.

But the problem is...

Ship girls, ship girls.

Besides the first character, the second character is also very important.

No matter how many historical details are replicated in the character illustrations, it is ultimately not a historical drama game.

In addition, Azur Lane also features the Sirens as an opposing faction in its setting.

And in terms of worldview.

The reason for the formation of the organization 【Azur Lane】.

The goal is to gather Earth's technology and resources to build a new elite force capable of confronting the Sirens and regaining control of the seas.

Within this world setting, the main storyline is actually a ship girl civil war, with German and Japanese ships being brought out as bosses, a reenactment of World War II?

...

If this kind of copywriting wasn't something that came to mind on a whim, then Lin Li can only say, "I admire you."

and.

There's actually a hidden problem with creating this kind of copywriting in China.

The reason why the ship names in Azur Lane were so thoroughly censored in the past, besides the attacks from other companies, is at least half the blame for this plot outline.

Originally, if it were just a little girl with the name of a World War II warship fighting aliens...

It doesn't really matter if the names of these ships are included.

It's also very difficult to attract heavenly lightning, and even if it does, there's a chance to avoid it.

But, a little girl with a ship's name fighting in World War II?

What? Trying to glorify history?

Once this huge accusation is slapped on someone's head, no one can withstand it.

Furthermore, setting aside these external factors, this practice of dividing ship girls into factions and forcibly recreating World War II will lead to another very strange thing.

That means a large portion of the ship girls in the gacha pool will be enemy characters...

this...

Thinking about it carefully, it's still a bit strange.

But that's the characteristic of second-hand game developers in this era—making decisions on a whim.

Fortunately, after Lin Li joined Manjiu Network, the first person he sent there was the copywriter from the third team of the Battlefront Girls.

As a result, the entire storyline of Azur Lane was significantly adjusted.

Regarding the Azur Lane project.

Lin Li no longer had the energy to personally oversee the process.

Therefore, his requirement for fish balls, and even for the copywriting of this project, was to seek victory through stability.

The main storyline doesn't need to be pushed too hard.

More copywriting effort should be focused on depicting daily life and the ship girls.

In its previous life, Azur Lane had two anime adaptations.

The ratings for these two animations on Bilibili are quite interesting.

High-budget, large-scale film that replicates the main storyline's battle scenes: Rating 8.1.

The slice-of-life game "Azur Lane: Slow Ride!" has a rating of 9.8.

Although the genre of the animation is not the only criterion for rating, this detail still reveals something.

The audience of ship girls actually prefers the storylines where they get close to the ship girls in the home port.

Main story battles are also necessary.

But it's more of an added bonus.

This is somewhat different from the current writing style of the girls on the front lines.

Based on this overarching logic.

Lin Li summarized the storyline of Azur Lane.

Actually, there's not much need to sort it out.

Starting with Kantai Collection (KanColle), the core of the KanColle genre has actually been just one thing.

Ship girls representing humanity, and the deep sea beings that occupy the ocean, or the Sirens.

The story of the struggle for control of the sea.

It's that simple.

However, it's for the sake of a little more immersion and engagement.

Lin Li added some more details.

For example, in Azur Lane, there is only one commander, and now you, as the commander, bear the hopes of humanity.

The player's home port is the front line of the battle.

The player's initial goal is to clear a piece of sea area belonging to humans.

Follow this main thread.

The first half of the story focuses on cleaning up three major sections: the nearshore, mid-ocean, and deep sea.

The deeper they venture into the ocean, the stronger their enemies become.

After completing these three tasks.

The main storyline has now reached Chapter Six.

This is the time for a major version update.

As for the next major update, whether it's about spawning a new boss or letting players connect certain international shipping routes, that's what Fishball will be doing.

In any case, it's not difficult to create an interesting storyline within this framework.

Aside from the plot.

After communicating with Yuwan, Lin Li also modified some settings. First, the faction setting was removed, and all ship girls belonged to Azur Lane, minimizing nationality and political factors as much as possible.

Apart from the ship's own history, everything else is downplayed.

Everyone gathered together to fight monsters for the sake of humanity's blue ocean.

But at the same time.

Lin Li and Yuwan had multiple rounds of communication to try to recreate the personality differences of each ship girl's historical prototype in their individual storylines and in environments where ship girls appear.

For example, Lafite.

In the original Azur Lane, the historical figures and deeds of Laffey's prototype are not shown much; they are mainly reflected in the dialogue.

But actually.

If you look closely at history, there's quite a lot to say about Lafite.

There were two ships with the same name, Lafite.

The first ship was the "Benson" class destroyer, hull number DD-459, which was the prototype ship of Laffey from the previous Azur Lane.

The highlight was the Battle of Guadalcanal, also known as the Third Battle of the Solomon Islands.

This was a rare night battle.

Before dawn on Friday, November 13, the two sides were locked in a fierce battle.

In the darkness, it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe.

Raffi was fighting alongside Cushing on the battlefield.

It was late that night.

The Hiei suddenly appeared in front of Cushing, and Cushing's captain immediately launched six torpedoes, three of which hit the Hiei's hull, but unfortunately, they did not explode.

Soon after, the unharmed Hire approached, illuminated Cushing with a searchlight, and then used artillery fire to completely incapacitate him.

Meanwhile, Lafite, positioned behind Cushing, did not attempt to evade or escape during this process, but instead accelerated rapidly towards Beryl.

Lafi, moving at full speed, quickly arrived next to Birui.

The two ships came so close they almost collided.

Laffey's captain ordered a turn and launched a torpedo, but it's unclear whether it missed or failed to explode.

In short, the torpedoes were ineffective.

So the two sides continued to approach each other.