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Chapter 610: The Silver Surfer
[Game Expert Activated—]
[You have successfully loaded the enhanced protagonist template—"Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd"—based on the FC platform's "Silver Surfer" blueprint.]
[Silver Surfer: Enhanced protagonist template. The template blueprint is based on the FC platform's "Silver Surfer," the Herald of Galactus, also known as "Silver Surfer" or "Silver Surfer." In the original work, the Silver Surfer was taken as a servant by Galactus and transformed, granting him powerful cosmic-level abilities... However, in the FC version, the Silver Surfer is merely a fragile, low-quality shooting game protagonist that shatters upon impact. The only commendable aspect of the game is its BGM.
When you choose to load the "Silver Surfer" template—
You will simultaneously acquire the template weapon "Silver Surfboard."
This character template does not require uninstallation.]
[Additional comment: Due to the FC version of "Silver Surfer" only having negative skills, after the template enhancement, the negative skills disappeared, but no new positive skills were added. In a sense, the Silver Surfer is an alien who would die without his surfboard.]
Cheng Tian, with his feet firmly planted on the Silver Surfboard, was already floating steadily.
When his talent initially randomized this template, Cheng Tian's expression was one of astonishment. Before entering the dungeon, he had indeed made a series of guesses about the new template.
Considering that the last template he loaded was the Tank Master Rebanna, and combining that with the special battlefield he was about to face, a template that continued to excel in vehicles seemed more likely, such as Armored Core or Gradius.
If it returned to the action-shooting game origins of Metal Slug, then templates proficient in firearms would also be a strong possibility, like the classic Contra or Gunstar Heroes, which would also be acceptable.
But Cheng Tian never expected to randomize such a template as the Silver Surfer, which was famously lambasted by AVGN!
As described in the template loading, aside from its superb BGM, this game, as a side-scrolling + vertical-scrolling forced-scroll shooter, had almost no redeeming qualities.
Moreover, unlike the incredibly powerful Silver Surfer in the original setting, the in-game Silver Surfer was riddled with flaws.
The shooting feel was terrible, and the hit detection was awful.
His own bullets would be canceled out by enemy bullets, while his firing rate was completely inferior to that of random grunt units encountered on the road. If played on the original FC, an old machine with no turbo button on the controller, then this game would inevitably make players' hands cramp up, and they might even lose a bullet clash against a mere grunt.
Furthermore, his body had no health to speak of; whether it was the environment or grunts, a mere brush or touch would immediately cause him to lose his surfboard and kick the bucket.
In fact, this kind of forced one-life setting is not uncommon in games. Contra, Salamander, Green Beret, and Jackal, the so-called 'old big four' games in China, all featured a one-life protagonist setting.
But where the Silver Surfer deserved to be criticized was that while having one life, it also gathered a large number of shortcomings from other games. The excessively poor gameplay experience only further highlighted the excellence of the game's BGM.
It's unclear if the trend of 'bad game, divine music' started here.
From Cheng Tian's enhanced template, it's also evident that the Silver Surfer's original setting was too overpowered, while the in-game setting was too weak. This ultimately led to the entire template, after enhancement, only retaining a surfboard... In a way, it's quite consistent with the Silver Surfer's characteristics.
Initially, Cheng Tian didn't understand why he was randomized such a template, but upon seeing the equipment description, he suddenly realized.
[Silver Surfboard: Surfboard, special vehicle, template weapon. Equipment requirement: Silver Surfer template. Durability - / -.
The Silver Surfer's iconic possession, and also the core vehicle that allows the Silver Surfer to freely traverse the cosmos.
The Silver Surfboard consumes no MP in standby mode. In active mode, it consumes 1 MP per second.
When you use the Silver Surfboard, you will be able to ignore planetary gravity and air resistance within the dungeon, moving relatively freely within planets and in outer space. Flight speed will be limited by your base Agility attribute, with a current maximum movement speed of Mach 2.4.
When you are in high-speed movement, you will be in a relative phase movement state with most current dungeon units, but ranged attacks you launch through yourself or the Silver Surfboard will not be restricted by this rule.
As long as you remain standing on the surfboard, you will gain "Cosmic Adaptability," allowing you to completely ignore the negative effects of outer space such as zero gravity, lack of oxygen, and cosmic radiation.
When you defeat an enemy target, there is a small chance to obtain a Silver Drone, with a maximum of 2. Due to your 『Mind Crystal』 professional skill, you can directly summon Silver Drones / Mind Crystals without defeating enemy units, and the maximum limit is increased to 6. (『Mind Crystal』Linkage Strengthening)]
[Friendly Reminder: You can even try using the Silver Surfboard while driving a vehicle.]
In Cheng Tian's Game Expert's internal judgment, compared to other templates that continued to strengthen combat power in vehicles, shooting, etc., its chosen inclination was clearly towards survival.
The "Cosmic Adaptability" provided when riding the Silver Surfer was the core meaning of this template.
Players who have played Metal Slug 3 and progressed to the "Mars People Strike Back" storyline should be able to feel the perilous nature of the combat environment through the screen.
And when this situation is concretized into actual outer space, even a tiny scratch, causing a fingernail-sized tear in an oxygen tank, space suit, or helmet visor, would be an irreversible fatal blow for an oxygen-dependent creature.
From the dungeon modifiers, it can also be seen that the space made some remedies in this regard, such as strengthening space suits and vehicles to allow players to gain enhancements that resist cosmic erosion with their Physique, but this only further highlighted the perilousness of the cosmic environment.
Similarly involving cosmic movement and even a mid-collapse cosmic space battle, Armored Trooper Votoms had no related modifiers.
At this point, Cheng Tian finally possessed true flight capability.
Being carried by a Stand by the collar was, at most, levitation, far from actual flight.
As Cheng Tian took off on his surfboard, Irene also enveloped herself in wind, taking flight by transforming her body into a wind elemental spirit.
Looking at the unscientific scene before her, Tama couldn't help but rub her temples, trying to convince herself to accept these supernatural sights.
And just as Tama was wondering if these suddenly superhuman colleagues were going to abandon their vehicles, the fighter jets without pilots, and the helicopter controlled by Tama, began to operate on their own without warning.
They slowly ascended in sync with the Hellion transforming helicopter that appeared out of thin air, forming a triangular formation of flying war machine matrix!
Ten minutes later, the Regular Army, which was escorting ground transport units carrying supplies to the rocket launch base, was subjected to a full-scale assault by the flying war machine matrix + Wind Elemental Spirit + Silver Surfer!
And the most astonished by this were the player teams who had accepted the escort mission and were huddled together in the Regular Army's troop carriers.
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