When you hear LOST, is the first thing that comes to mind is the sci-fi suspense American drama "LOST"? But it's not. This time, the independent puzzle game "LOST: The Unenlightened" produced by the team of university students was brought in.
The game is produced by Mist Theater, and it is said that the production team is all college students, and at the end of the game, you can see them staying up late and black circles.
The difficulty of solving the puzzle in the game is not high, and the player can complete the level with a little more observation. Unlike heavy puzzle games such as "Mechanical Maze" and "Rusty Lake", you basically need to look through the raiders to get through. The game also didn't play for long, and I played it for two or three hours and played it easily.
The LOST picture adopts the style of combining virtual and real, the anime characters and the photo real shooting props are interspersed with each other, the painting style is very unique, and the virtual and real make people feel strange and creepy. Until the end of the game, many players said that the final choice of important people was completely unexpected, but it is not unreasonable to think about this change carefully, and the beautiful and broken appearance is just frightening, which causes players to sigh and think deeply.
Spoiler warning below, proceed with caution.
The main thing that puzzle games play is the plot, and the plot of LOST: The Unexpired Realm is very good, because what it wants to express and satirize is obvious, and its intention is also very clear and very profound. But the discussion of "rules and freedom" is a proposition that takes a long time to explore, and this game, you will feel a little unfinished after 1-2 hours of playing. If the story is longer, it may be intended to dig deeper.
The beginning of the game
There is a free city in the game world of LOST: Unfinished, but ironically the inhabitants of the city are unfree people. They have only one goal in life, and in order to grow a free head, they have been regulated by various rules from the moment they fell to the ground, and everything else, including cultural entertainment, is meaningless, can be discarded at any time, and even banned by explicit prohibition. In the opening scene, the brothers and sisters play badminton in the school, but such things as badminton are not allowed, because the school's propaganda board reads "High-altitude flying objects are prohibited". When the brothers and sisters played badminton, the brother said that he had found a way to escape, and hoped that his sister would listen to the radio more and pay attention to various messages around him. In the dialogue, it can be seen that the brother has already changed in his heart, thinking that everything around him is funny and unbearable, but now he can only lie dormant and is powerless to get rid of it.
"In this dark world, even badminton wants to hide itself." It can be seen that the brother's value is to hide himself in the crowd and wait for the opportunity.
Later in the story, the player mainly manipulates the younger sister to play the game. The younger sister can be said to have been chasing her brother's footsteps, including later collecting photos of her brother with her brother when she was a child, listening to what her brother said to herself, and the rebellious spirit of the brother is what the younger sister admires. However, the game's plot is laid early on, including the injured pigeons that the sister sees after picking up the lost badminton ball, which is a hint to the end of the brother.
Players who manipulate their sister to leave the campus at the beginning and then come home will find a more interesting setting. The place where the heroine lives is originally cold and gray, but when the light switch is pressed, it will become a splendid world full of flowers and living with various creatures. Some operations also require interaction in dark and dark and colored worlds. Perhaps this represents the fantasy of each of us as children, but when we grow up, we know that the fantasy will eventually be extinguished by the cold reality, and eventually become a numb adult. This wave of metaphorical reality is a bit spicy.
The same goes for the classroom, where two completely different worlds can be presented at the push of a switch
My sister's life on campus was fraught with fantasies of rebellion, and she was the only person in her class who hadn't grown animal or plant heads. Others either grow bird heads, butterfly heads, or plant heads. In the Liberty City, the daisy head is the most noble, and all the slogans on the wall are indoctrinated to make the children obedient and grow this free head. Including the news that my sister saw at her home yesterday, it also broadcast the scandal of a woman's transformation from a plant free head to a human head on the street. The free head is everything. However, the sister was eager to escape from this "everything". She follows the clues left by her brother, and also follows the various guidance left by the traveler Tao Li (harmonic escape), bent on escaping from the ascension. However, the teacher who grew the flower head opened his heart to her and advised her: I used to be like you, with the same personality, and the same eager to leave... The teacher released a bird symbolizing freedom in the palm of his hand. It's just that what happened to the teacher later, the sister in the game did not ask a clear answer from her, the player can imagine for themselves.
Campus mode, pay attention to the slogans on the walls
In the end, two endings are completed, one ending is that the sister receives a daisy hood at the statue outside the forest and chooses to try to integrate herself into the crowd.
Ending one
The other should be the true ending, the sister after collecting various clues, through the forest to escape from Liberty City. On the way, she met her brother. In a wheat field, the figure with the human body but the huge pigeon head was particularly conspicuous at this time, and I couldn't help but tingle in my scalp. The brother is a guide, for the sister is a beacon-like existence, what exactly makes him betray his determination? But I believe that the player naturally already has the answer, because the game actually lays a lot of foreshadowing of the brother's ending. Moreover, we have seen this kind of person who is forced to give up his self, and perhaps there are too many examples of this around you and me. How can a small person resist the torrent of the times? The sister could not escape with such a brother, and could only continue to the next journey of escape. She took the train to Wisdom City, where the people seemed to stand on the opposite side of the place where she had grown up, and they were extremely free beings: they beat others on the street, but no one stopped them, let alone punished.
It is as if escaping from one cage to another, and the story ends abruptly here. The game ends with a letter from her sister recalling everything in her old age. Maybe we've spent our whole lives trying to escape. As Sabina is described in The Unbearable Lightness of Life: she betrayed everything and ended up finding that there was no betrayal.
While the average puzzle game focuses on escaping from a chamber of secrets and escaping from a closed dwelling, LOST: The Unexplained Realm is an escape from a town and a closed life. The intention of the game is good, enough to cause people to think deeply, the brilliant and virtual and real combination of the screen also brings players a two-hour immersive experience, and the difficulty of solving the puzzle is moderate and not discouraged. For the college student team, making such a game with aesthetic sense, expressive desire, and high degree of completion is already the level I want to give a standing ovation. The main reason is that the intention is too good, dare to think and dare to do, so that people can't help but want to score high scores.
Escape the town
However, there are still some uncomfortable places in the game, many small bugs are not fixed, some bugs will be stuck at a loss, the player has to force a withdrawal from the background, re-enter the game will find that there is no saving when you just exited, which makes people very distressed.
In addition, the game's save mechanism is somewhat unclear, it is recommended to arrange a beginner guide, at least marked the save place and the mechanism of the save, many players can not see the place that can be saved, and do not know that the save can not be deleted but can be overwritten. It is recommended to install a prompt to the archive when making group modifications.
In short, "LOST: The Unenlightened Realm" is a medium and light puzzle game, which can be completed in one or two hours, suitable for leisure and entertainment, and can also trigger the player's thinking. In addition to the need to be familiar with its archiving mechanism in advance, it is more recommended for everyone to play.