This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 49: You Call This a Fighting Game?

Dubhe, Star Sacred Land.

As a sect that has stood unwavering for hundreds of thousands of years, inheriting countless secret techniques and producing countless peerless characters, Star Sacred Land finds itself in a very awkward situation.

They bear the name of the "Holy Land of the Human Race," yet have never produced a single Great Emperor!

Moreover.

They coveted the inheritance secret technique of a human prodigy, hunted him down and failed, and were counterattacked at their doorstep, with the destruction of the Holy Land imminent.

No one knows the origins of that young man’s background; people only know that he is an extremely rare Star Sky Body, carrying numerous rare secret techniques...

Due to his Special Physique, people call him Xingkongzi, the prodigy!

Now, he has become a Saint.

With his cultivation breakthrough, the Star Sky Body youth, whose realm has caught up with the older generation of cultivators, came to Star Sacred Land alone to seek revenge for being hunted.

[First Act: Destruction of the Holy Land]

The straightforward and brutal storyline, Jiang Bin didn’t even carefully look at it. Considering the limited trial time, he directly skipped the dialogue and entered the destruction of the Holy Land level.

The first battle is with the Mountain Guard Disciple.

Jiang Bin, who’s already somewhat familiar with the controls, effortlessly executed the combo "Star Sky Body + Star Fall."

Star Sky Body is a Special Physique!

The protagonist, Star Emperor, was named after this physique, and it’s his greatest source of battle power.

Each time the trigger button on the handle is pressed, the Star Emperor refreshes a physique anomaly, with anomalies divided into "Taiyin and Solar" types.

Under the Taiyin anomaly, a CG animation of the moon rising over the sea appears in the background, giving the skill a healing effect.

Under the Solar anomaly, a CG animation of the rising sun over tall buildings appears in the background, giving the skill damage amplification.

Besides the physique, there are Secret Techniques!

The Secret Techniques have similar effects, but in the trial version’s first act, the protagonist, Star Emperor, seems not to have unlocked the Secret Techniques, so Jiang Bin doesn’t know what the specific effects are.

On the screen, a full moon slowly rises from the sea.

The youthful Star Emperor raised his right hand, lightly pointing his index finger forward, and streams of light fell from the starry sky, forming a surging and endless Galaxy, with waves made of gathered starlight crashing towards the Mountain Guard Disciple...

Sweep away!

Invincible.

Whether it’s the Mountain Guard Disciple, the True Disciple, or the Saint Heir and Saintess of the Star Sacred Land, they are all pitifully weak and powerless in front of the youthful Star Emperor.

"So easy?"

Jiang Bin exclaimed, finding the special effects amazing, while feeling puzzled about the difficulty of the storyline.

Really?

Given the high prestige of a human race Holy Land, one would think it was formidable, but he almost leveled it in just two minutes.

Is the youth Star Emperor too strong, or is this Star Sacred Land too weak?

"Quickly call the Saint Master!"

"Saint Master, save me..."

The Boss of the first act didn’t keep Jiang Bin waiting too long.

The Saint Master of Star Sacred Land, a saintly powerhouse who has lived for nearly three thousand years!

"Oh! The Boss is indeed different, pretty tanky, huh? Took two rounds of Star-Picking Technique?" Jiang Bin was somewhat surprised.

The real opponent finally arrived!

The cannon-fodder mob in front was probably to familiarize the player with controls and key positions, so he effortlessly crushed them.

This Saint Master is from an older generation of powerhouses, his strength truly formidable, taking two rounds of Star-Picking Technique and yet not losing even half of his health.

The Star-Picking Secret Technique is the Star Emperor’s A button skill, summoning a gigantic hand to forcefully pluck down a star and smash it towards the opponent.

In other fighting games, skills named like this are often a gimmick.

But "Star Emperor" is different; when it says Star-Picking, it really picks stars, true to its word!

This move is not only visually stunning but, under the Solar anomaly’s amplification of the "Star Sky Body," the skill damage is quite high and can produce a floating effect, hence Jiang Bin loves using it.

However, this move failed against the level Boss, not only was the effect poor but it also allowed the "Star Saint Master" to seize the opportunity to counterattack during stagger time.

"Damn, you have special effects too?"

Seeing the scene where Star Saint Master used the Star Sacred Technique with stars shining brilliantly all over the sky, Jiang Bin’s mouth twitched violently.

What kind of crappy game is this!

Previously fighting mobs didn’t reveal this; now encountering the tough opponent, he suddenly realized the game’s impact feeling is very poor, exceptionally so.

But the advantages are also apparent.

Though the game lacks the exhilarating feel of punch after punch landing, during the fight, the visual impact of each Saint Technique and Secret Technique’s confrontation is exaggerated to the extreme.

"And the light and shadow effects are just incredible!"

"Is this the Dream Building 5? I love it! Damn, the texture details, the water waves, the starlight texture..."

"You scoundrel, taste my Star-Picking Secret Technique!"

"Damn it! Only three minutes of trial time left, and I haven’t finished off Star Saint Master..."

Hearing the exclamations from other players around, Jiang Bin took a look at his remaining trial time.

It’s bad!

Too absorbed in appreciating the movie-level "special effects confrontation" between Star Emperor and Star Saint Master, he almost forgot the trial experience lasts only ten minutes.

There’s no time left...

He definitely won’t pass the second level, since he dawdled nearly six and a half minutes on the first level and didn’t even get to see the Boss Son of the Demon Emperor before it ended.

"Ah! No reward."

Jiang Bin got up and picked up his backpack and camera, shaking his head and saying, "The provided time is too short, probably not many people will get the commemorative T-shirt."

"However..."

He gained quite a bit from this trial.

"Star Emperor," as a game created with the Dream Building 5 Engine, indeed has visuals as publicized by Tianba Studio, comparable to AAA titles.

Especially during the fights, the confrontations of various Secret Techniques principles, physique anomalies and principles illusions... just amazing.

This kind of grand scene seems comparable to Hollywood’s fantasy sci-fi films!

Even in some sense, it’s cooler than Hollywood movies because it’s an Eastern fantasy Xianxia system, which would be more relatable and immersive for Chinese audiences.

Understand cultural recognition?

He will never forget the scene of starlights gathering at the Star Emperor’s fingertips, with the Taiyin anomaly of the moon rising over the sea in the background.

Utterly awe-inspiring! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

The impact of this rivals the first time he went to the cinema to see Star Wars.

He never imagined a fighting game could be played like this, that a fighting game could have such a "fantasy-level" grand scene...

No punch after punch, no Shoryuken or Hadouken, just killing Secret Techniques, principles illusions, unrivaled divine physique...

You call this a fighting game?

Alright, alright!

Your fighting game throws out celestial anomalies and plucks stars to smash people at will, right?

Luckily, he reads web novels too.

If it were a player who hasn’t read web novels seeing this amazing scene, their eyeballs might pop out.

Coach, someone’s cheating!

Being all set for a hot-blooded fight, buddy here practiced Shoryuken for a year, only to have you pluck down a star and smash it on him, and then tell him "times have changed"?