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*This article is from the 2022 edition.
Calcland
Most of the game system is the same as
TacticalNexus, but this game is serialized and each scenario is bought by paying
for it.
(This system is similar to the system of purchasing manga one episode
at a time on the Internet.)
The game is not priced abnormally like
TacticalNexus, and the difficulty level tends to be much easier than
hardcore.
(The current plan is to purchase the main stage of Tactical tower D
for about
$0.5~$1.0 per stage.)
The problem
is that there is a clear storyline compared to TacticalNexus and also, unusually
for Team-Nexus' work, the main character has a clear intention (the main
character is not mute).
(The translation cannot be done in a cursory manner,
and the protagonist has by far the strongest tendency to be
unsympathetic.
Apparently, Team-Nexus' Tower of the sorcerer-like games
are flawed in some way every time.)
About the
Scenario
The story depicts a world several
hundred years before the world of TacticalNexus ("Original").
The numbers are
in chronological order "in the game world".
However, each information is
disclosed in order from the top to the bottom.
(Players will grasp the truth of the game world from the
order of the numbers above.)
*As usual, the translation is very difficult
to read because it is translated using translation
software!
6: The setting is
an island called "calcland".
Plot (the main character), a small squirrel
boy, Alpha, a raccoon boy, and Beta, a hawk girl, were living in a
forest.
One day, Beta is attacked and injured by a bear that lives in the
forest.
Alpha is forced to nurse Beta, and Plot tries to find medicinal
herbs, but the forest is full of ferocious animals and he cannot find
them.
(Each animal in the forest has its
own territory, and it was difficult for Plot to get out of the territory with
his own strength.)
Plot, walking
through the forest in search of a way to help Beta, meets Take, a carbuncle
girl.
Take tells Plot that she can "help Plot's cause."
She gives him an
item to check his opponent's ability and a device to rewind time: the
Restarter.
Plot has no idea why Taker would want to help her, but Plot takes
the two tools in stride and uses the Calicuradar to find out who she can
beat.
He uses the Calcradar to defeat opponents he can beat, obtain
supplies, defeat the tiger guarding the medicinal herbs, and heal Beta's injured
body.
The game
series: calcland tells the story of Plott, who uses his combat predictor, the
Calcradar,
and his time-reversing Lister to conquer
various locations and solve problems wherever he goes, accompanied by Take and
Alpha ,Beta.
7: In the forests of calcland, there is a town where
various animals live together, and those that have their own territory in the
forest are called strays.
In fact, most of the animals are already living
in the city, and those who are still living as strays tend to be in a very tight
living situation.
(The reason why
they keep everyone but themselves away from their own territory is to secure
food.)
Plot, who is
rapidly gaining strength, goes around the forest and defeats the strays who have
their own territory.
Plot goes around the forest, defeating
strays who have their own territory, and encourages those who are at their wit's
end to come to his forest home or to go to the
city.
Alpha, the
inventor, develops tools to help the plot wherever he goes.
Beta manages the
food and other needs of the plots in the forest house, their base of
operations.
Take comes to live with Plot in the forest
house and follows him on his adventures.
Alpha wonders if
Plott, who was once an outcast in the city, would recommend the city to
him.
When Alpha asks Plot about this, Plot replies, "Stray
people can't survive the winter.
2: More than a decade ago, an intense cold wave called "winter" hit
the forest.
(It is implied in the scenario that most of the animals could
not survive it.)
The
town is a mechanism built to survive the winter, and calcland is experiencing a
harbinger of "winter's arrival" in the near future.
8: The goal of the
plot is to help more animals survive the "winter.
As his fighting ability
increases, Plott becomes more aggressive in his attempts to destroy the animal's
territory and either drive them back to the city or provide protection for them
in his forest home.
At the beginning of the story, Plott never matched Alpha
or Beta in power, but over time, Plott became the most powerful fighter of them
all.
As Plott gains power, he no longer borrows power from
Alpha and Beta, and the two grow to miss each other.
Take asks Plot to take
him to a certain place when he has enough power.
Plot takes Take
with him, while Alpha and Beta are told to wait for him at his house in the
forest, but they insist on following Plot and his friends.
1:
The planet on which calcLAND is set was actually artificially created decades
ago by aliens (humans) who brought cultural development to the planet in
exchange for ethical values.
The planet is full of orphaned human "testers"
who are sent here to spend their lives as animals, the inhabitants of the city,
with their memories erased and disguised.
Terraforming and time manipulation
are commonplace technologies for the planet's inhabitants, and the planet was
created for fun in the first place.
(This is only described in
fragments.)
While Take is an orphan, his memory has not been
erased, and he is a "debugger" who has been given equipment and a base of
operations to manage this planet.
He was transferred to this planet on the
condition that he could return to his original planet if he could make the
inhabitants of this planet prosper.
Take desperately tries to protect the
inhabitants of calcland.
However, the aliens created the "winter" system on
this planet just for fun, in order to thin out the population that cannot
survive the "winter.
3: Furthermore, several years after the planet of calcLAND was created,
communication with the aliens who managed the planet of calcLAND was cut
off.
Impatiently, Take went to check on calcland in "winter" using a
teleporter that could move to any location, but the communication was cut
off.
The teleporter can be moved to any location,
but the communication breakdown prevents Take from returning from calcland to
Debugger's base headquarters.
At this time, Take, who was lost, had been saved by Plott (Plott had
forgotten).
In return, Plot shares Debugger's
"Blessing of Immortality" with Take, who manages to get to a forest near
Debugger's base.
Take manages to return to one of Debugger's strongholds near the forest,
where he retrieves his tools, including a restarter and calcradar, and at the
same time, he is safe.
Meanwhile, unable to return to Debugger's base in the
far distance, Take is stranded in calcland, hoping to return to the world he
came from.
5: Those who
survived the first "winter" left the city because they could not bear to remain
in the city where the memories of their friends and family
remained.
However, Plot attempts to continue the legacy of his
friends by rebuilding the city again.
The creatures from the areas less affected by "Winter" moved to the city due
to lack of food.
Soon, the town regained the vitality it had before the
winter arrived.
However, it is still unable to overcome
the winter.
Plot sounds an alarm to the people of the town, who are almost satisfied
with the status quo, but no one there knows the threat of
"winter".
Plot, in his childish form, has no leadership skills, and
his words and actions are unconvincing.
Those
who are alienated from Plot, who has no power and can only give directions,
gradually develop antipathy toward him.
Seeking resources and more power to survive the winter, Plot decides to
leave the city by himself and set up a base of operations in a forest house,
where everyone can live.
But for Alpha and Beta, Plott is their foster
parent and their family.
Alpha knew that he was really a liability to
Plott.
Beta was anxious and afraid of Plott, who was friendly but never
showed a smile.
Still, they could
not stay away from the plot.
9: Now overwhelmed by Plott (Plott's equivalent of adult power), Take
returns to Debugger's base headquarters.
There, Plott and
Alpha,Beta make, for the first time, the truth about calcland and this
planet.
And after trying various methods at the base headquarters, Take learns that
this planet was beamed far away from the aliens' planet.
For some reason, the planet was
abandoned, its inhabitants and all.
Teik breaks down in tears as he realizes that he will never be able to
return to his home world.
Beta is furious to learn that the existence of
"winter" was artificial.
Alpha despairs of their future on the abandoned
planet, abandoned by the administrators.
The
plot, however, is consistently indifferent and uninterested in this
fact.
In Take's absence, Alfa and the others ask Plot why he is so indifferent to
these matters.
Plott replies that it was somewhat predictable, and that the
chaperoning of the take was just a side trip to pass the time in the first
place.
Plott says that what he needs is absolute power and "reserves" to
survive, and that he is not interested in anything else.
Plot tells the stunned Alphas that it is time for them to
go back to the forest town where they used to live.
Plot, who for some reason never grew into adulthood, has gained the power to
be alone, thanks to the power of the Restarter and Calcradar.
Plot has
gained the power he should have had, and the Alpha are no longer able to
match him.
4: Plot is a survivor of the
first "winter," and Alpha and Beta are more than a decade younger than
Plot.
Plot, who survived the first winter,
was taking care of the young Alphas at the time.
Before the first winter, Plott, with his high intelligence, showed great
leadership skills and established the city's structure with his friends at that
time.
The
young Plot was the hope of the future for his friends, and Plot and his friends
looked to him to lead them as an adult.
With plenty of food and supplies, the town grew larger and larger, and just
when everyone was sure there was peace, "winter" arrived.
The parents of
Alfa, who had shared various skills with Plott, did not survive the
winter.
Beta's parents, whom Plott loved like family, also did not survive
the winter.
Apart from Plott, the only
survivors were large, sturdy creatures and those who lived in areas less
affected by winter.
Those who didn't survive the winter all entrusted their futures to
Plot.
They said, "If you are "prot", you will do your best to build a town
that can definitely survive the next winter."
"If Plot is a grown-up and
bigger than he is now, he can do all the heavy lifting."
"The body has only stopped growing for now, but it will
grow up soon."
Plot, who has lost everything, stands up again. In order to live up to the
expectations of his lost friends.
Plot, who has lost his friends,
never smiles again, and becomes
extremely obsessed with getting through the winter.
10: Alpha does
his best to defy Plott, who urges him to return to the city.
But Alpha, who
has been called powerful and strong, is no longer a match for Plott, who has
reached his true "adult" level of strength through the caliculaders.
The
alphas are shown to no longer be able to even help Plott.
Plot asks, "Do you still want to stay with us?" Alphas reply, "Even if
we can't help you, we want to stay with you.
Plot replies, "Then it's up to
the Alphas. Plot acknowledges the Alphas and begins to tell the three, including
Take, about the old days.
Plot liked his friends before they went over
'winter' and he always had a smile on his face in the city with his
friends.
Plot didn't want to stop the friends who didn't make it through the
winter, the things they built, the skills they pieced together.
The truth
is, he didn't love the town or "being the leader," he loved those friends who
built it together.
He wanted to live up to their expectations and make them
proud.
Plot's desire not to create others who will
suffer as they did is true, but on the other hand, Plot's thoughts turn to the
past and to those who are no longer with us.
He wants to pass on the skills
of those who did not make it through the winter and preserve the proof of their
lives, but Plot is still obsessed with the past.
Prot wanted the Alphas, who
had inherited their parents' talents, to be free to look to the future.
Prot didn't want to take them into the painful world of
Plot.
But Alphas are grown, and their childhood is almost over.
Plot says that he thinks
Alphas should be free to follow him.
After giving Plot the "Blessing of Immortality," Take realizes that he has
caused Plot pain, and he apologizes.
Plot replies that he never grew up to
be an adult, but that this is the way he used to look with his old friends, and
he has feelings for them, so he is fine with that.
11: Plot and his friends continue their adventures and visit the large
animals that survived the "winter.
Plot and his former friends are upset
when Plot appears looking exactly the same as he did more than a decade
ago.
When they see Alpha and Beta, they shed tears when they
realize that the children of their friends are still alive.
The survivors of the friends who were separated return to the town, and the
residents learn the truth about "winter" that the plot failed to convey.
The
residents feel a sense of crisis and begin to make preparations to survive the
winter.
By the time the strays all gather in town, the town has
grown dozens of times larger than it was before the winter.
Plot's former friends in town suggest that he move back to town from his
house in the forest.
Plot hesitated for a while, but accepted the proposal, and
Plot and his friends returned to the town.
Then winter came.
The winter was more intense than before, but the town
built by Plott and his friends was sturdy enough to continue life in the
winter.
On a winter morning, the four Plotts walked outside in the winter,
but the residents of the city seemed to be doing just fine.
12: Plot talk to the Take and the alphas.
In truth, he thought it was impossible to call all the strays to the
city.
He thought it would be enough to invite some of the strays to the
city, and if they could survive, that would be enough.
He thought that
was all he could do.
But thanks to Take's presence, we were able to rescue all the
strays.
Thanks to the Alphas, I was able to continue this fight.
I have
been looking to the past, but from now on I will look to the
future.
Plott thanked them with a smile.
By the time they returned to the town house, Plott and the others were a
little cold.
Take said, "In the cold winter, let's warm each other
up.
The four of them huddled together and waited for
winter to break.