Chapter 26
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The zombies moved very slowly, and the cartoony zombies weren’t scary either, but Wen Lingwei felt quite tense. As the zombies slowly waddled towards the Peashooters, she couldn’t help but feel a little nervous for them.
The Peashooters started shooting out peas. The popping of the peas on the body of the zombie filled her ears.
Soon after, the hand of the zombie fell off, and soon after that, the head fell off. The headless zombie fell to the ground, dead.
Wen Lingwei now managed to relax a bit, thinking, “Is that all? That was easy. Just a casual game after all, not all that difficult.
“However, this combination is quite interesting. How did you connect plants with zombies? And it manages to be oddly satisfying.”
The screen was dark, it seemed like she had reached the night level on the second stage. The stronger Football Zombie now appeared as one of her potential opponents. It was obvious that Wen Lingwei had failed this level once and had made suitable preparations. As the Football Zombie appeared, she put down a bunch of plants in that lane, attempting to beat it with more firepower.
4In the end, the Football Zombie was defeated, but the other lanes didn’t have enough firepower and were overrun by zombies, resulting in a game over.
“Ah! Damn it!” Wen Lingwei took a sip of coffee and restarted the level.
Chen Mo couldn’t help but laugh, as this was quite normal. As there were only so many suns to collect in each level, if you spent too many resources going face to face with the football zombie, the defences of the other lanes wouldn’t be good enough.
In reality the best way to beat the Football Zombie was the Doom Shroom, though Chen Mo didn’t plan to hint that to Wen Lingwei, as spoilers affected the gaming experience. It wasn’t because her mean words were still on Chen Mo’s mind.
4Seeing Wen Lingwei completely immersed allowed Chen Mo to relax a bit. It seemed that classics in this world still remained classics, and good games would always age well, so he wasn’t too out of his element as a videogame designer.
Based on the current contents in the game, an experienced player would take about five hours to go through it once; going through it twice would total about eight hours.
If you included the other minigames and if you were extremely talented and borderline crazy, you could probably beat it in two days in one sitting.
Of course, you could play the endless mode for the rest of your life.
However, new players wouldn’t be able to cruise through all the levels easily, like the more experienced players, as there was an experimental and learning phase.
Moreover, casual games didn’t require big health sacrifices, like playing throughout the night. Playing two hours a day, including time for experimenting ,would result in about a month of playing.
Even if you beat all the levels, there was still endless mode to compete with your friends. It was basically an endless rabbit hole.
Therefore, Wen Lingwei thinking that she could beat the game in two hours could be described by Chen Mo in one word: naive!