ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 484: Bomb Fishing! A Shitty Game-Eating Fish!! Part 2

「Just for the reference’s sake, what’s your opinion on her as a Professional Gamer? Is she any good?」

「From what I have heard, she managed to play about two hundred official matches so far, and her win rate is more than sixty percent.」

Yeah, a win rate like that is indeed something a little bit crazy, but it is surely something that one can be proud about.

「By the way, Silvia has a flawless track record of one hundred percent win rate in all of her official matches. And now she even tries to incorporate Chinese martial arts into her battle style, so you can expect that win rate to stay that way for a LONG time.」

Yeah, and things like that are something that you need to be freaking afraid of……

The fact that someone who was already strong like a freaking demon was now even stronger was making that fact even more terrifying than it already was. And those Chinese martial arts…… for some reason it was making my spine tremble in fear. They surely are no good to deal with. As for me…… let me stay with my fantasy-like battle techniques, thank you very much.

But I was finally understanding what everyone’s game here was: those bastards were trying to throw me into the beasts’ den without giving me as much of a warning! How awfully nice of them!!!

「Oh yeah, I can already predict that I am going to catch a cold on that day and I will surely have some sort of terrible stomach pain to boot!」

「Would you like me to send you some stomach and cold medicine? With a priority mail? And no, seriously, I really wanted to tell you, even wanted to talk to you about it alone, but Silvia prevented me from doing that! Said that she would not tolerate any form of leaks! That it would ruin the element of surprise!」

「By the way, what is going to happen when Sanraku-kun finally shows up on that day?」

「Most probably the world is going to see what the true hell looks like: A dream team of Number One and Number Two in the United States Versus poor and lonely Sanraku. I expect that the sight won’t be pretty.」

「Hey, I would even pay to be able to see something like that!」

「And yeah, you can bet your asses that I am going to have a freaking cold on that day! For sure!」

「Don’t you even dare!!」

I let out a rather pathetic cry upon hearing that, and I could feel that my hands were visibly shaking. What the hell, guys!? I thought that the two of you were better than this……! No, on the other hand, I certainly do not wish to know! There are just some rabbit holes in this world that are simply not worth gazing into, no matter how tempting it may seem to do so!

「……Fufu, fufufufufufu.」

「Now this is quite a pickle. Whatever should I do? It seems that both Sanraku-kun and Katsu-kun have broken down beyond repair.」

「I dunno? Maybe send them for repairs? That seems to be the most reasonable solution, don’t you think?」

「Fufufu…… But, however, my dear Sanraku-kun…… I have been preparing something that might raise the tensions even higher! Or rather, give you an incentive to show up!」

Huh?

Katso laughed in an eerie voice, and then he opened his mouth and slowly said the following words:

「The reward for winning in this event is going to be the First Edition of the Justice Versus Japanese Translation Package……!!」

「Wha……!!??」

The First Edition of JusVa!?

「The hell is that?」

「It’s a certain retro game that at the time was only published overseas. It is compatible with the current VR systems, but strictly speaking it is one of the first VR games ever created, one that was out there on the market before the era of Full Dive technology even came to be!」

「…… This has to be a joke, right? Are you sure that it’s not actually a second edition or something like that? After all, the box copy of the Version One should be so old and vintage that it might as well become a donation to some museum of technology!」

「Once she realized that it would be a perfect bait to fish out either you or No Name, Amelia did not hesitate and ordered one copy. As for the actual cost…… Do you even wish to know? It’s pretty extreme, after all……」

「…………」

There is something that I really would like to say here, but my mouth stays shut and no words are able to come out of it.

Justice Versus surely is an old, or maybe even ancient game that first came out many years ago…… It belonged to the last generation of controller-based fighting games that were eventually driven out almost completely by the birth of the Full Dive technology…… and aside from that, it earned for itself the notoriety of a game that was impossible to beat.

By the time of its actual release, the VR technology was already in full use. The amount of copies available on the market was fairly limited, and the need to use the controller was actually a turn-off for the vast majority of the players out there. But for those brave enough to try it, the catchphrase: “towards infinity unprecedented!” was waiting.

Full Dive VR is a technology that one cannot possibly omit when talking about the history of video games. The sympathy, the identification, the synchronization…… The Full Dive VR allowed the players to experience the levels of immersion that the normal controller—based games would never possibly be able to give them.

It’s a really simple story. The Player is only a human being, no matter how he struggles, he cannot move things that humans cannot do, and he does not know how to move parts that do not exist in the human body.

And as far as Justice Versus goes, it is a video game that pushes the boundaries of controller-based movements to their very limits.

The essence of fighting games of yore is similar to card games. From the beginning, it is decided how powerful the character’s technique is and what kind of effect it has and in what range.

Players are competing for victory by hitting each other’s hands with multiple cards varying from small single actions to powerful gauge techniques.

Full dive VR has a loose and narrow definition of the term “hand”. There is a side that depends on the player’s own specifications because the player actually moves the body.

Obviously, there are also system assists to perform more complex or powerful moves, all so that you can move your body the way you want it to in order to have as much fun as possible from playing the game.

Rather, it’s strange that in just ten years, a game like ShanFro managed to come out, a game where you just have to think about a thing in order to do it. Motion assist is still the mainstream that is a must.

So what’s so great about Justice Versus it’s actually its customizability, or rather –––––– No, that’s not the problem here at the current moment!

「Seriously…… What the hell is this!?」

「Seriously, I want to end the life of having to fear that the first thing that pops up when I open up my email is a series of spam messages coming straight from Amelia Sullivan! So Sanraku, I want you to go there on that day and do what you did with the real Meetias: try to beat the everlasting shit out of her and teach that bitch her place!」

The expression on Katso’s face was at the moment really malicious but also rather pathetic if I do say so myself……