Video Game Tycoon in Tokyo-Chapter 929: Canned Games

The story was simple and predictable. Gamers might still enjoy this kind of narrative, but he didn't. This was exactly the kind of content he dealt with daily—and he was sick of it.

As for the gameplay, Assassin's Creed was the poster child of formulaic design.

The previous three games had already perfected the mechanics. Breaking new ground was difficult. If they were going to innovate, they wouldn't wait until the fourth game.

Even the trailer, to avoid spoilers, focused more on generic gameplay features—just old wine in a new bottle.

Like territory capture, tower defense, crafting explosives... all pretty standard stuff.

Surei Electronics could easily make a game like this today.

He sighed and launched the game.It began with a recap of past events in the Assassin's Creed series, and then transitioned into Ezio's story.

In Revelations, Ezio is over fifty, but still agile as ever.

In the opening cinematic, he's ambushed and captured by Templars, who try to hang him—but he escapes in classic, flashy Ezio style. Then the game transitioned into player control.

"This cinematic is still top-tier," the developer muttered in admiration.

Gamestar Electronic Entertainment had the best engine in the world—Unreal Engine. Other companies could use it too, but no one used it like Gamestar.

In fact, rumor had it that their internal version of Unreal was vastly different from the commercial one—more powerful, more advanced.

Gamestar's cinematics were now considered first-class.

In the early days, Unreal's strength lay in delivering 90% of blockbuster VFX quality at a fraction of the cost. Now, after years of iteration, it could deliver full-quality visuals without breaking the bank.

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All the developer could do was admire from afar. He wasn't skilled enough to work for Gamestar, so he had to settle for a job at Surei. But even so, the difference in development environment and tools was clear.

After the cinematic, Ezio was ready to explore.

The game began with a tutorial sequence tied into the story. Ezio needed to find a secret library and uncover hidden knowledge. But to access it, he needed keys scattered around the world—so the various regions would be Ezio's destinations.

"Yep. Just as I thought," the developer said calmly.

He already had the whole structure figured out. Ezio would arrive in a new city, take over a base, help some NPC assassins, defeat a local boss, and move on to the next area.

That was the standard formula for these games.

To be fair, it was still the safest and most widely accepted model in game development.

Takayuki had once said in a lecture that such templates weren't sustainable long-term—but they could yield short-term profits. Whether a company could evolve during this window depended on its own strength.

And so far, the window hadn't closed.

Sales of Revelations confirmed this.

On day one, it sold over 500,000 copies.Given its development budget of about $30 million—plus marketing, maybe $50 million total—breaking even would take about 1.5 million copies sold (considering physical distribution and retail cuts).

With the Assassin's Creed brand and Gamestar's name behind it, it was sure to hit that mark.

After all, it was a solidly average game—nothing less.

But for this developer, it was already getting dull.

After finishing the tutorial and defeating an early Templar boss, Ezio arrived in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul.

From there, the game introduced important characters, explained the social environment, and the local Brotherhood's growth goals.

Ezio also found time to flirt—still a charmer in his fifties.

The story wasn't anything surprising.It was clear this was all the game had to offer.

The developer kept playing, bored but determined to finish.