The multi-type suspense game "The End of Heaven" created by Kotaka Kazuka, Nakazawa and Masashi Takada was launched on the Switch and Steam platforms earlier this month.Recently, the main creative team accepted an interview to deeply analyze the game creation concepts and let’s take a look!
Xiao Gao and Gang said that choosing to use religious cults as the theme was initially intended to explore marginal themes that are difficult to reach in the form of independent games, so they focus on cults and murder.Although the team designed a core trick for this topic, it was shelved due to its excessive scale and was later achieved with DMM GAMES support.
In the game, the "Zhongtian Cult Group" prohibits violence, but the story revolves around murder.Xiao Gao explained that the sect has unique values and rules, and his desire to end the world together with the sect leader's case of dismemberment constitutes the core of the overall puzzle.Both the story and the worldview are constructed around this end point, and he personally believes that this work is one of his best works.
The five ministers of the game use different game types.Nakazawa Gong pointed out that in order to maintain an overall sense of unity, the team adheres to two major principles: one is to closely follow the main line of the "King Master Murder case" and the protagonist's pursuit of the murder, and naturally integrate the core plot into various routes; the other is to always remain unavailable from the world view tone of "Zhongtian Cult".
Regarding the order of the character and type design, Nakazawa revealed that the type is slightly earlier than the character setting.For example, first determine a certain route as the type of reasoning adventure, then construct the detective character Kishiru based on the image of Sherlock Holmes, and then improve the script and character details.However, the course of science ministers is in the case where roles are first and types are determined later, and the process is not fixed.
Faced with the multi-type span from horror to love, composer Masashi Takada designed the music theme motivation throughout the work, and then arranged the music according to the style of each route, so that the music not only changes with the route, but also maintains the world view atmosphere of the "Zhongtian Cult Group".He compared the theme motivation to "words", and the arrangement is the "rhythm and harmony" of different types of languages.
Zero's life below the protagonist has only four days left. Xiao Gao said that this setting is based on the balance of contents of each route. Although it poses a narrative challenge to some routes, the team finally managed it successfully.When asked about his influence on visual novels, he listed many works such as "Reversal Referee", "Shayya Song", "ever17", "Extreme Exit", and "When Cicadas Crying and Crying".
Finally, Nakaze Gong summarized two major features of this work: one is that the differences in values based on religion as the background create original tricks; the other is that the secrets hidden by the five major routes can be revealed in any order, and each player has a unique puzzle-solving experience.Regarding the possibility of logging into other platforms, Xiao Gao said that the copyright belongs to DMM Games and the other party decides.
