You Told Me to Run the Company into the Ground, So What's Zelda Doing Here?

[Game development] [Unabashedly lighthearted comedy] This is an era of cutthroat competition in the AAA game industry, which means any game company that can't measure up could go under at any moment! Tong Xiaoyu alone is determined to start an incompetent company! Not only must it be incompetent, it must also become notorious throughout the entire gaming industry and make the worst games imaginable! That way, her company can go under in no time and she can go home and lie flat. To that end, she sifted through the muck and finally found the perfect "talent," a man named Han Che. His game demos are shoddy, with awful textures, monotonous gameplay, and crushingly dull content, completely out of step with the times! His background is plain, he has no work experience, his major is totally unrelated, and he has the clear, foolish eyes of an idiot! He's simply the perfect "lead game designer" of her dreams! But gradually, as Tong Xiaoyu watches the company thrive, she starts to realize something is wrong... They agreed that a game with no story, no worldbuilding, terrible visuals, and terrible music was bound to lose money. So why did Han Che turn around and produce Goat Simulator? They agreed the game would be free, skins could be traded, and paid loot boxes wouldn't give you anything good. So how did CS make 12 million in its first week? They agreed that first-person puzzle games were a dime a dozen. So how did Outer Wilds: Three-Body Problem end up at the table? They agreed that buying a bankrupt studio and its game for a fortune was guaranteed to lose money. So how did Han Che turn it into The Legend of Zelda? Years later, Tong Xiaoyu stares in a daze at her name on the Forbes list. She turns to the leisurely Han Che and rages helplessly: "You've really done a number on me!"