Author: NGA-hjyx01
Buying milk is actually the beginning of a nightmare?
To be sure, the name Nikita Kryukov is certainly not a strange name in Russia, we can find a 22-year-old young man from the Russian second division FK Zenit Izhevsk, whose professional football career is just beginning; we can also find a former Soviet actor with a similar name, who starred in Lenin in 1918 and Defending Tsaritszyn.
However, none of the above is the Nikita Krykov to be talked about in this article, and the Nikita mentioned in this article is a game producer with unknown specific information, but a delicate embodiment of the mental activity and emotional perception of people with mental disorders - I have every reason to suspect that this author is either a close relative or friend with a psychological disorder, under his/her delicate brushstrokes, "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a." Both Bag of Milk and Milk Inside a Bag of Milk have achieved amazing positive ratings on Steam.
In literary works, especially in movies, the discussion of mental disorders is a relatively hot topic, from the third perspective of "Rain Man" to the first perspective of "Autism Course", such works not only reflect humanistic care, but also allow the actor's acting skills to get a great degree of room for play, but also satisfy the audience's empathy, a seemingly "no one is hurt" world is formed - but they often do not face everything experienced by patients who are more painful and cannot be saved by outsiders.
Works that explore mental states in games may be able to go a little deeper—because when we really manipulate a character, feel his joys and sorrows, and "do" everything he does, then maybe we can go deeper into that emotion.
There is no shortage of great works involving mental disorders, such as Senblade: Senua's Sacrifice in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, the writer who lost his beloved in "Alan Wake", the writer who went crazy because of the bottleneck... But these without exception make a lot of concessions for the sake of gameplay, and mental disorders become a background setting for content expression, an auxiliary to a narrative method, but not the narrative itself.
In "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" and "Milk inside a bag of milk", the mental disorder is the narrative itself, and the author uses an almost bloody victim's perspective to make us feel this pain personally, which is probably why they have received amazing praise: it leads the body to be a "normal person". of players stepped into the sight of those with mental disorders.
It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that going to the supermarket to buy milk will become an almost impossible task – indeed, in today's society, many people will half-jokingly claim to be "social fear", and there are words like "otaku" to express people who are resistant to the connection between the love of two-dimensional culture and real society. But that's a far cry from being an obstacle — not just that you don't want to, it's more that you can't:
You will be overwhelmed by fear, you will be swallowed up by despair, your vision will begin to blur, your memories will begin to be confused; you will not be able to think, you will be miserable; you will begin to feel irritable, everything will be directed at you; you will begin to be suspicious and suspicious, feel that all people are deceiving you; you begin to feel inferior and distressed, you feel that you have become a burden on others; you begin to lose control and involuntarily hurt yourself and the people around you; you know that this is not right, but there is no way, nothing can save you, no one, No medications, no...
If...
It would be nice if I could fall asleep...
If only I didn't wake up after falling asleep...
The abyss of despair for people with mental disorders
For a person with a mental disorder, there will be a final "safe zone" before he/she finally has a complete psychological breakdown, and for the little girl in "Milk inside a bag of milk", this safe area is her bedroom.
When she arrives in the bedroom, she begins to communicate with her only "friend": after stopping going to school, the most unbearable thing is loneliness, and all we can do in the game is to play this "friend" to bring a little comfort to her soul.
In both of Nikita Kryukov's works, "gameplay" is treated in a minimalist way — in Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, the little girl imagines herself as a character in an AVG game completing a "mission," while in Milk outside a bag of milk, The "gameplay" link basically exists only in an indoor "clue search" and some of the key dialogue links (you can refer to the next section of the guide).
What we need to look for is a "firefly," or at least an imaginary firefly. Such a gameplay design, although "primitive", fits well into the narrative – in the process of investigating the bedroom objects, we can learn a lot of stories about what happened to this girl one by one, of course, most of which are not so straightforward, but from the perspective of a mentally disabled patient: she does not speak up to her word, she constantly repeats meaningless words, she chooses to cheat and escape in pain, she is not only deceiving you, but also deceiving herself.
Some of the powerlessness lies in the fact that the effort we can make is very limited — some key choices affect the fulfillment of conditions, and different conditions lead to five different outcomes. The single-week schedule is short, about half an hour, and if you use the archiving of key nodes to complete these endings, it will probably be shorter. However, there is no GE or BE in the traditional sense: maybe under such pain, it is a relief to really leave this world?
Or we can choose to deceive ourselves into having a dream that reassures someone who cares about you.
Full Achievement Raiders
It is recommended to play at least 1 week before watching...
See clue location
0. Turn on the radio to get an achievement.
1. First death
Dialogue chooses "The problem is here, I have no idea...".
2. Second death
Investigate the laptop choice "You say it goes around and back again".
When you go to the window sill, choose "Who cares so much about your every move?"
Five endings
3. Outsider ending
Conditions that did not trigger the other four outcomes (specifically unknown).
There is no need to do it deliberately, and it is mostly this ending in the case of casual play.
4. Phone ending
Does not trigger the first death and collects the sticky note in the lower right corner.
5. Daily (pseudo)endings
Don't trigger the first death, don't collect the sticky notes in the lower right corner, collect all five fireflies, don't go to the balcony.
6. Dream ending
Don't trigger the first death, don't collect the sticky note in the lower right corner, don't collect all five fireflies.
Triggers a second death.
7. Dream Ending 2 Babel Tower
Don't trigger the first death, don't collect the sticky notes in the lower right corner, don't collect all five fireflies, don't go to the balcony.
8. Complete any ending to unlock Good Night.
9. Always investigate the school bag to get the truth about not going to school and the last achievement.
I don't think I would recommend this game
It's a game that has a 98% positive rating out of over 1,000 reviews, and yes, almost everyone will find such a game so special, and yes, almost everyone will feel like a deeply rooted work of art.
But I don't think I can say I love it, but also with the narrative experience as the core content, in "Finding Paradise" pilot Colin finally walks out of the "safe zone" that Faye gave him; it is also a psychologically handicapped character to play a story, Omori has a much higher level of gameplay fun and completion from the game level.
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk is more like an Impressionist painting by the talented producer Nikita Kryukov, but I wouldn't have chosen to hang it in my showroom because its paint is like a volatile venom, and the pain is too deep, and the depression is too pure.
It is said that less than 10% of human brain cells are developed, in fact, this may be a kind of luck, because one of the biggest problems of people is to think too much, remember too well... If the rational bursts the levee, let the out-of-control thoughts rage into disaster.... I don't think I can imagine that pain, but I know I can't stand it, so —
Ah, the girl who is difficult to save herself, may you dream peacefully...
Clever narrative integration;
Delicate brush strokes;
Self-expression of the "first perspective" of patients with emotional disorders that reach the bottom of the heart;
Minimalist process with gameplay.
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