He Became Yeong-Sik， the Villain in a Romance Game Where the Sexes Are Reversed. 2

Chapter 2 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Demon

‘It’s so hard to see the true ending.’

Clear blue sky. Beneath the beautiful scenery that will make your heart explode just by looking at it, you will see Jeolyujin, no, it has now become Stral Zenon…

No, the young man, who had just been stripped of his surname Zeno and had now become Strahl, looked up at the sky blankly and continued his thoughts.

‘It’s not difficult to see the ending of Orbital World. If you delve into the RPG part, it is so diverse that it adds hundreds of hours to the basic play time, but since it is a romantic fantasy, even if it is a reverse world, the main genre of this game is ultimately a pretty girl dating simulation centered on romance.’

In short, if you choose your options well, it is not difficult to see the ending for each heroine without investing a lot of time in the RPG part.

‘Because it’s a romantic fantasy.’

It was a romance fantasy because it is a story where love is at the center of fantasy.

It was a possible story because it was a genre of romance fantasy where the story progressed even if the main character did not grow, just by making an effort for love.

‘There is no need to change to another ability, and there is no problem in seeing the ending even if you just maintain the naturally given ability as a saint.’

Of course, there was no bad ending or dead ending depending on how you chose the options.

No, rather, Orbital World was a game that had many bad endings and dead endings.

It is not for nothing that the minimum play time until the ending is 100 hours.

The fact that the game implemented a combat system similar to that of Soul Like did have an impact on play time, but the variety of options was more of an issue.

Orbital World was a game where, if you wanted to play it in the first place, you could just skip the RPG part and run to the ending.

Nevertheless, the minimum play time until the ending of the first episode is 100 hours means that there are many options.

‘If you read the guidebook, it is possible to get to the ending in 5 hours, but…’

In other words, there were so many options that a 5-hour story would stretch to 100 hours without a guide.

‘This is what sets it apart from the ones that play out like visual novels these days, with no other option than just choosing a heroine route in the beginning.’

In the past, the heroine’s route and ending were different depending on the choices made.

But these days, is it because the trend of the times has changed to avoid failures as much as possible while playing games?

There were more cases where it should just be called a 19+ visual novel rather than a miyeonsi.

In most cases, it just runs straight to the ending to quickly show only the 19+ scenes without any changes depending on the choice.

But Orbital World was different. Like the old Miyeonsi, or rather, more diverse choices and different endings were waiting for the player than the old Miyeonsi.

That’s right, infinite possibilities of options, as if an entire world had been relocated!

‘That would really be the result of a simulation of an entire world… !’

… And with that fact, Strahl was now able to understand how such an insane number of options were possible, but it was already too late.

… The important thing was that Orbital World was a game where, if you wanted to, you could skip the entire RPG part through options and run to the ending.

Of course, in this case, if the RPG part is completed properly, the process and even the ending will be different, but isn’t it important to be able to see the ending?

In other words, depending on the person, there can be a difference between playing the reverse world romance fantasy Miyeonshi or enjoying the game with RPG elements added to it. In either case, Orbital World is a God game where you can see the ending.

In other words, as a romance fantasy game, which is a representative genre, you can enjoy only the love story shown by the main character and the heroines of each route, and even if you add the main character’s growth story through RPG to it, there is no problem in hindering the game at all.

As it uses romance fantasy as its banner, it never blocks gameplay that focuses only on the most important stories in romance fantasy.

The problem is…

‘It’s the true ending.’

… Yes, the true ending was the problem. The happy ending with the heroine of each route is optional, but if you choose well, there is no problem with completely ignoring the RPG part.

Even though it is a reverse world, as in a romantic fantasy, the main character is closer to the heroine, that is, the role of being protected by the heroes.

In female-oriented stories, that is, romance stories with female protagonists, isn’t it rare for the female protagonist to break the ogre’s pot and eat the dragon’s skull?

There are cases where the male lead, who has strong power as a result of a close relationship with the male lead, saves the female lead from danger.

Well, these days, there are cases where the female lead is stronger than the male lead, but in most cases, the story inevitably flows more like a love comedy than a romance.

Regardless, for this reason, progressing through the RPG part was optional.

You have the option to choose whether to continue the romantic atmosphere and watch the ending while being protected by the heroines, or to raise the male lead yourself and become the protagonist who fights alongside the heroines, even if it means destroying the romantic atmosphere a bit.

… That is, if it is ‘limited’ to the ending corresponding to each heroine’s route. In other words, the story was different in the case of endings other than those endings, in short, the ‘true ending’.

‘It’s not an ending we lost for no reason.’

A true ending, an ending that is differentiated from ordinary happy endings and has the modifier “Real.” So what is real about this ending?

‘It’s real in many ways.’

For example, the difficulty of the RPG part, for example, the recovery of MacGuffins that were not recovered in other routes, etc…

‘Something like the world after the ending.’

There are a total of 4 heroines in Orbital World. There were a hero, a princess, a magician, and a half-dragon, and there were four other sub-heroines, but excluding these, the important thing was the four main heroines.

These main heroines had individual endings, but the important thing was that the game ended with each heroine reaching a happy ending by receiving a proposal at the end of Part 3, at the end of her third year and at the time of graduation.

… In other words, it is not described how the heroine and the main character live after graduating from Orbital Academy, where the game is set.

So, naturally, the players are living well… , I think, or will there be a part 2? I had no choice but to have expectations.

As you can see just by looking at the presence of heroes among the heroines, it was a fantasy world where a demon lord existed, and in the course of the main story, a crisis-making part unique to romantic fantasy appeared as they became entangled with the demon lord’s army.

In such a situation, the game ended with the ending of the heroine’s marriage without any foreshadowing about the Demon King being resolved, so it was not surprising that some people were looking forward to part 2. However…

‘In fact, the foreshadowing about the Demon King is revealed in the true ending route.’

… Yes, the foreshadowing about the Demon King was not the second part, but a foreshadowing about the true ending route. The RPG part, as mentioned earlier, was not essential.

If you develop the main character through the RPG part, it is an element that allows you to somehow overcome the options that would normally go straight to a bad ending or dead ending and enter a new route.

In other words, if you know the strategy properly, there is no need to proceed with the RPG part, which is a common element of each heroine route.

… But the true ending was different. The RPG part was an essential element in the true ending route, where foreshadowing about the Demon King and various foreshadowings such as the Demon King’s army and the third secret organization began to be properly resolved.

‘That’s because in the true ending route, I started knitting dice with the Demon King during my school days.’

Any happy ending is fine for the true ending route, so reach the happy endings of each of the four main heroines once.

… To be precise, this was not a condition for the true ending route, but was closer to a ‘prerequisite for recognizing the fact that the true ending exists.’

That’s because each heroine’s happy ending included a foreshadowing of the true ending, and if the fourth main heroine’s happy ending was reached, a new PV appeared after the ending crack that would have ended the game, making the true ending clear. Because it informed me.

‘And after that, if you start the 5th round to reach the true ending…’

… A power map that did not exist before is added to the system.

This power map quantifies the power of the Orbital Empire, the Demon King’s Army, and the third secret organization, which is the main background of Orbital Academy, and starts with 100% power at the start of the game.

‘The true ending can be reached by protecting the Empire’s power values ​​as much as possible and reducing the power values ​​of the Demon King’s Army and the Third Power as much as possible during the game play.’

And for that, the essential element was the RPG part. The RPG part, which was optional in the normal ending route but could be skipped if chosen well, was essential in the true ending route.

No, it could be said that the absolute measure is to grow the protagonist and heroines by thoroughly exploring dungeons and completing quests, which were said to be unnecessary if you did not like them, as they only increased the play time beyond what was necessary.

This is because, in order to reach the true ending, it was estimated that the power figures of the Demon King’s Army and the Third Force, which were estimated to have been unable to reduce even 10% in each ending, had to be reduced to less than 10% at the most.

… In other words, unlike in other routes except the true ending, the decisive battle with the devil’s army was postponed until after graduating from the academy, in the true ending route, the story was that you had to face the devil’s army and the third force head on and crush them while attending the academy.

‘Of course, depending on the people, why? ‘You might think so.’

That’s because I could say I enjoyed the game enough just by reaching the happy ending of each heroine’s route without reaching the true ending.

In addition, in addition to the main heroines who are the foreshadowing and triggers of the true ending route, there are four more sub-heroines, so Orbital World is a game where the basic play time is over 1,000 hours just by reaching the happy ending with them.

In addition to that, since it is a huge game that is over 2,000 hours long including various digging elements, do you really need to see the true ending? It is not strange even if there are people who think that.

… As I said, Orbital World’s true ending was because the difficulty level was ridiculously high.

It’s so bad that most people who tried to reach the true ending got tired halfway through and quit the game, satisfied with the happy ending of each route where the main character and heroines live happily ever after.

‘The good news is that the amount of content is so large that you can fully enjoy the game without having to see the true ending.’

Therefore, even though no one has reached the true ending even after more than half a year since the game was released, people did not criticize Orbital World’s difficulty level.

You can enjoy the game by reaching a happy ending with various heroines without having to worry about the true ending, so there is no need to argue that the true ending is difficult. Because if you mess up, you won’t see it.

… However, it wasn’t that there were no complaints at all.

This is a PV that makes it clear that the ending appears after the final happy ending credits, with each of the four main heroines seeing a happy ending once in each route.

… Because through that PV, people were able to clearly see that the happy ending they had reached with the heroines was not an eternal happy ending.

In the new PV that appears after seeing the happy endings of the four main heroines, there is a short story about the male and female leads who got married in each happy ending, and through this, the foreshadowing about the Demon King is resolved.

… Well, that was it in a nutshell. The hero party, which includes the male lead who married after graduation and the heroines of each route, develops their skills through full-scale combat and then, several years later, engages in a decisive battle with the devil’s army.

… And although the results were not described in detail through the pv, the results were clearly visible through the last part of the pv.

-A world heading towards destruction. A world line heading towards hope.