Author: Snow Bean
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > introduction</h1>
One day, you were born, a boy. Your parents treat you like a treasure and take good care of you. Then you went to an expensive bilingual kindergarten. At the age of 8, you started brushing vibrato with your parents' phones. At the age of 15, you were admitted to the junior class and entered the university early. Later, you decide to study abroad. Your horizons are much broader, and many of your ideas are different from those in China. At 29, you're married. You decide to go to an ordinary college as a teacher and prepare to start living a happy and stable life...
Two years later, nuclear war broke out and you died.
Your life is over.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8">1.</h1>
Because the newsroom moved, several of our editors were able to work from home. To be honest, working from home is much more efficient than in the newsroom – in the company, there are always sudden meetings or people blowing water and chatting that affects the progress of the article. As usual, after perfectly typing the last stop, I decided to look up and relax my neck and stop by to see what new things the sand sculpture friends in the small group were discussing again.
As a result, I found that whenever I opened each group, it seemed that all the group members were communicating with each other about the "life history" that they did not know where they were generated: some were stillborn at the age of 0, some people escaped into the Immortal Gate at the age of 500, some people soared to the top, and some people were in the four walls. But overall, everyone's life history seems particularly "nonsensical".
I'm a person who likes to hang out. Just when I wanted to open my mouth and ask what kind of game this was, the group seemed to have a sharp mind and directly threw out a connection. Click in to see, a simple page with black characters on a white background, with seven big words written on it -
"Life Reopens simulator".
"Start over with the Ying-so-so-Yingh-10 And I'll do it well next time. ","The Turmorin is the beginning of the turmoin", The Hou, and the reassignment. ”
"Isn't it just a web test?" Is there such a thing as fun? I dismissively typed these two questions in the group.
"Don't talk nonsense, you try it, let me hear what you have to say about your game culture pusher!" The QQ expression "toothless" followed by the group friends made me inexplicably a little angry.
Try it, isn't it just a web game, what tricks can you play? My stubborn temper came up at once, so I clicked the mouse, pressed the "Start" button surrounded by thin lines on the page, and typed quickly on the keyboard: "Want to reopen your life?" With life to restart the gun ah? ”
I'm referring to this emoji
The first thing that catches the eye is a word that is familiar to mobile gamers - "Talent Draw", and the ten draw buttons below seem to have foreshadowed what will happen after clicking. Although there is no exciting drawing screen, a large number of random entries with rare colors can help but make me feel like playing Roguelike.
What's even more interesting is that these terms seem to have a different meaning: for example, some can make happiness +2, some will make all attributes -1, and even mysterious terms such as "you have obsessive-compulsive disorder" and "don't know what to use...". But the names of the terms look more interesting than the various numerical variations of the entries themselves.
"Draco", "Anxious", "Anime Master", "Internet Troll", "Eternal God"... These various colloquialisms, which are commonly used in the vocabulary of our daily communication, constitute the basic language of this game, and it is really an inexplicable intimacy to read. If you think about it, flashing purely negative terms in a game is a delicate thing in itself. This "Life Reopening Simulator" seems to not follow the design ideas of traditional Roguelike, and it is really enough to let go of itself.
Would anyone really simulate being born prematurely?
I pretended to be "deliberate" for a moment, randomly selected three talents and moved on to the next page. This page is also very simple, you only need to assign 20 points into the four options of "appearance", "intelligence", "physique" and "family situation". "Don't be low in physique, otherwise you will be prone to stillbirth before you are born!" , the group friends turned on the guidance mode.
I said yes and clicked the "Random Allocation" button.
When the game started, I found out that there was no special plot for premature babies
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25">2.</h1>
Appearance 0, intelligence 7, physique 10, family situation 3, this value wants to go to a showbiz seems to be no play.
Clicking on the "Start Life" button, this life story that belongs to me is like the BASIC language, one after another in front of my eyes.
I was a girl who grew up in the city, and my parents didn't take good care of me. Later, I went to a normal elementary school and got three good students. After entering junior high school, my math teacher was arrested for making up classes outside of class. In high school, a dog ran into the class to listen to the class with us, but was quickly arrested by the city management who heard the news.
I was admitted to a 985 university, and there were always lectures from various big guys to listen to. After that, I became a hit worker, my private life was less and less, but my work was more and more.
Two years later, I got married and the baby was born. The year after the birth of the child, our family went out on a trip, and the news of the dissolution of the United Nations came on television. By the time it entered the year of confusion, the 6G signal had covered most parts of the world, artificial food had spread all over the world, and natural food had not been eaten. I watched the TV and found residents in costumes in the mountains, and my intuition told me that things were not so simple.
With the passage of time, the earth has changed dramatically, North Korea has unified South Korea, humans can almost control the weather, and I found a button that reads "If you press it, you will get a lot of money but humanity will perish in 1,000 years", but I didn't press it. Later, myopia could be easily cured, and the Nobel Prize was discontinued.
The death of my parents makes me feel old and tired easily. Later, my ears could not hear clearly, and life became an old age full of entertainment at almost no cost.
Life was spent in such a way that I died peacefully in my sleep until I was 90 years old.
This seems like a decent journey in life. I excitedly posted my resume to the group, but I didn't expect to be "ridiculed" by the group of friends: your life is too boring. After a while, they also posted stories about what happened in their lives.
Giant cockroaches of more than a dozen square kilometers appeared in Guangzhou.
Mobile phones died out and were replaced by holographic projections.
An asteroid suddenly turned away when it was about to hit Earth, and experts said someone might have made some outrageous wish.
A philosopher pioneered the philosophy of virtualism, constructing the entire system from the point that the world is a virtual game.
……
It seems that everyone's story is much more bizarre and tortuous than mine, which makes me feel a little reluctant. So I decided to do another round to see if I could get a similar story this time.
- Hence the scene at the beginning of the article.
Looking at the three big words "You're dead" in front of the screen, I didn't look back for half a moment - wait, this is GAME OVER? For some reason, an inexplicable recklessness suddenly surged up in my heart, wanting to see what different stories I would encounter when I repeatedly reopened my life.
"You find that children don't even learn what you don't." "Your family is getting more and more difficult, and food and clothing are a problem." "You've been tricked into ruining your business by a liar. "You're pregnant, and the company makes excuses to fire you." ”...... While constantly reopening my life, I suddenly found that my heart began to be gradually occupied by negative events- although there were constantly good things happening in my life, in the next dozen times in my life, I never lived to the age of 90 again.
Many times, my life is in a downward state
I started to get a little anxious. In order to be able to find a way to live longer, I no longer gave my fate to random numbers, but began to consciously adjust the tendency of attribute points, and in the selection of talents, I also began to consciously avoid those terms that had only negative effects.
However, I have found that in the process of reopening again and again, I can't fully grasp my own little life in the game - the events that will degrade your own attributes will always creep in when you don't want them to appear, and the big events that will change the world will not go in the direction you expect.
After each level, the game will rate your life based on your attribute values, but compared to the urge to open another round, the presence of the final score is not strong enough.
I can vaguely feel that the "life" depicted in the game can be controlled, but in fact, if you want to fully control your life, in this small "Life Reopening Simulator", it is a seemingly impossible thing - because it relies on a large number of random events and talents to easily orient your life to an unpredictable future while changing your attributes.
Who would have expected this to happen?
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Looking up at my watch, four hours had passed. This means that in addition to going to the toilet, I have been numbly nodding the mouse in front of the screen for four hours.
My daughter-in-law brought a plate of washed grapes and said to me in a reproachful tone, "It's almost done, it's time to rest your eyes." "That said, as soon as I started playing the game, it was easy for me to get carried away, so I got up and decided to go to the balcony to let the wind blow.
Because I don't smoke, trying to look at the scenery is a particularly effective way to relieve fatigue. I especially like to stare at the scenery in the distance with my eyes rounded and trying to look at the scenery in the distance—whether it's buildings, traffic, clouds, and while looking at them from a distance, I can also empty my brain, and even my whole body will feel a lot lighter.
Occasionally, I asked my friends to go out and explore the wind
The clouds in the sky have been reflected in the setting sun to a golden yellow, and they look warm. I pushed open the door, but I didn't expect the air to be a little cold in the autumn. One caught off guard and fought a cold war.
But because of this Cold War, the previously groggy brain suddenly sobered up a lot. Suddenly, the previous dozens of rounds of reopened life records, like a tide, began to pour into my thinking. I tried to use my brain to organize those words into paragraphs, but suddenly found that every reopening of life turned out to be a complete story, including the beginning and the end.
Life Restart Simulator is different from all the Roguelite games I've played before: each reincarnation is independent and complete, with a clear beginning (birth to school), process (starting a family to old age), ending (eventually dying because of an event), and mixed with twists (all sorts of bizarre random events). Even if it is a sudden violent death for various reasons, from an objective point of view, this is indeed an event that appears in our real life, and it will not be difficult to accept.
Nor is it something that will not happen
The "dead" in the game is a very clear, end sign. In the game, each of your lives is independent of each other, (basically) does not affect each other, each time is a new birth, and each time is a new death. This means that even if I quit the game at the end of any reincarnation, I will not feel any attachment - because "dying" is the end of life. Just like the intermission drama, this story is really over.
Of course, "Life Come Again Simulator" is not meticulous. I have encountered the death of my wife twice in a row, and I have also encountered the divorce and the birth of a child. Obviously, it is a bug, but in the game, it becomes an absurd and bizarre black humor.
I don't think developers are going to use games to attack any real-world problems — the events in the game are classic, but they lack enough depth. Developers don't seem to want to dig deeper into the meaning behind those events through the events in the game, but just want to use them as a sign to add some "realism" to the game.
Therefore, no matter how real the events in the game are, or how stubborn they are to play until they fly, each GAME OVER will not bring me any burden and discomfort, and seeing some events will even make me laugh involuntarily. After finishing the matter, if you carefully recall the bits and pieces of life, you will not feel that life is so heavy.
This suddenly reminded me of a meme on the Japanese Internet before: Life オワタ \(^o^)/
Being able to use Chinese characters and numbers to bring such a unique game experience shows that I really underestimated this simple browser game.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60">4.</h1>
Thinking about it, I suddenly wondered the developers of this game — what kind of people would have developed such a rough but fun, ironic but humorous little work? I went back to my computer and found the game's GitHub page in the top left corner of the game's web page. Apparently, the author does not seem to regard the game as a commodity, but generously puts the source code of the game on the website for people to consult and modify.
The game's Github page
I looked up the author's name, Vick Scarlet. Then through this username, I touched the author's page in bangumi.
To my surprise, this Vick is a very standard two-dimensional user: likeSakura Ayane, Mizuse, Rinsa Taneda, listening to BanG Dream!" (which seems to push Poppin'Party), catching up with most of the season's new fans, playing GAL and 3A masterpieces – except that I don't develop games and play GAL less, our hobbies are really a bit similar. If you can talk to someone who can get on the airwaves, you may be able to ask some more interesting questions. After thinking about it, I decided to try interviewing him/her.
As long as you like Yoko Kanno, we are good half-brothers
From the information, I found Vick's Twitter and other accounts (except for QQ and WeChat), but his Twitter closed the private message, and the other accounts had no contact information. The path of communication seems to be cut off.
Just when I was worried, a group friend suddenly sent me a screenshot of the game.
There is really no place to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there. Instead of leaving a message below Twitter and waiting for the other party to reply, it is faster to take the initiative yourself. After indicating my intentions, I added this QQ user named "Kobe Xiaotoku", in the group, his nickname is called "probability density".
Mathematically, the Probability Density is equal to the probability of a segment (the range of values of an event) divided by the length of that interval. Unfortunately, I've always been bad at math, so it's hard to grasp the origin of the developer's nickname. In order to alleviate the anxiety of waiting, I followed his personal profile and joined an exchange group about "Life Reopening Simulator".
It can be seen that the sudden popularity of the game also makes the planner a little overwhelmed. And there are constantly new people pouring in in the group, and the voices are boiling, so it is not lively.
In the group, the administrator often updates some notices about the game, the latest thing is that the game has been licensed to a small developer for a mobile game version - although the game can be played with a browser
"Hello, are you the author of the Life Reopening Simulator?" So are you the @vick_scarlet on GitHub? "Because I have already expressed my identity in advance, I use this sentence as an opening statement.
"No, he's the program, I'm the planner." Soon got an answer from Kobe Kotoku. And I was also introduced by him, and got Vick's contact information -
Vick's QQ nickname is called "The World's Beautiful Woman Planting Field Pear Sand", which is indeed in response to the old saying: farming is still suitable for LaoZi.
From "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang", when it was broadcast on TVB, it was translated as "still farming is suitable for Lao Tzu"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="76">5.</h1>
And so, a two-threaded surprise interview began. In order to save time, I decided to ask directly about the reason for the development: "How did you think of the theme of 'life is back'?" ”
Kobe Kotoku first replied: "Yes, at the beginning of our group chat, we discussed how you would divide the attributes of appearance and physique if they could be freely distributed, and then made a questionnaire vote." It didn't feel too addictive, and I wanted to make a game out. ”
"In other words, there is such a discussion because of a certain topic."
Vick took up my question: "Mainly he proposed it, and at that time he was complaining about some current affairs in the group, and some unpleasant things in work and life."
"So I'm bold enough to guess that I'm just complaining about the topic of 'if only I could add something to my own life'?"
"In fact, it's more because a lot of animation now is about 'rebirth in another world'." Vick's words made me realize that the theme of "rebirth" seems to have one or two in each season of the new fan. Although most of the crossover dramas are now cool texts, this kind of story of "letting yourself try another kind of life" is actually quite attractive to ordinary people who are busy with work or school every day.
However, because there are more and more such themes, the anti-routine will one day become a routine, and then a new anti-routine of "killing the reincarnated" will be born - although this comic draws a word and is beheaded because of the protests of all parties
"Then discuss philosophical questions, such as what consciousness is, how to judge oneself as the same person as the day before, the problem of consciousness cloning or transferring, and so on." Vick's words are not complete, but I can already roughly guess what the birth of this game was like.
If you are right, the origin of the birth of "Life Reopening Simulator" is from the daily chat of everyone in the group, and gradually diverged to what kind of prerequisites you want to make yourself if you want to repeat your life. The more I thought about it, the more addictive it became, so I finally started to make a small game to try. In layman's terms, we call this kind of action "brainstorming."
So after deciding to make a game, how was the overall framework of the game conceived?
"Just... Think about the meat pigeon games you usually play, do it casually. When I first planned to send a group of friends to play, I didn't think about it so much, so the whole thing was very simple, and there was no art sound effect or anything. Kobe gave a particularly simple reason: "Do whatever you want."
Indeed, the completion of "Life Reopen simulator" is actually not high, and some functions do not seem to have been considered to be done - for example, when I click on the leaderboard in the upper right corner of the page, a small line will pop out coldly: "Don't roll!" There are no leaderboards".
It really shouldn't be rolled up
"I don't know why there are so many people, I thought there would be at most one or two hundred people playing." After waiting a little while, he added something like this.
"Maybe that's why the random elements of the game and some current events make people feel funny?" I put forward such an immature guess, but from my point of view, this kind of "visual sense" element that allows players to have a variety of daily ears will make the game have full affinity and communication.
"Current events happen to be because I don't make up things after my twenties, resulting in too few incidents, plus to make up the number." My intuition told me that Kobe's sincere and straightforward answer was absolutely sincere.
If you click on the talent of "Visitor from the Otherworld", you can see Kobe Kotoku complaining about himself
"So what parts of the game are you two specifically responsible for?" I changed the subject a bit and planned to talk about what they were doing in the process of developing the game.
"I write copywriting, he writes code." Kobe kotoku said.
"I'm in charge of designing the naming and some specifications, and the values are designed by him." Vick said.
"Understand, that is to say, you and probability two people are independent of each other, non-interfering division of labor and cooperation?" "Yes." This kind of production method with a clear division of labor has been seen many times in previous interviews with indie game teams, and most of them are most common when development members live apart. However, for small teams, this independent development system based on mutual trust will have higher development efficiency. I confirmed with the two men that although they didn't reveal where they lived, the two were really not together, and it was the first time the two of them had collaborated on a game.
I asked, "How long did it take to develop the entire game from idea to the first version?" ”
"More than two weeks, mainly because I am slow to write copywriting, and I am preparing for graduate school to take time to write." His code was written in just a few hours. Kobe paused, then said, "And his code is basically bug-free, and the bugs are all messed up when I match the table." ”
The work of matching tables is a kind of "tempering" that every planner has to go through. In simple terms, a "table" is a document (mostly XML files) in a prescriptive format. Some of the key parameters in the game are read directly from this table document. Generally speaking, planners can directly modify the rules and configurations of the game by directly changing the parameters in the table. However, the table itself has always been a more tiring work, often thousands of lines of tables, looking at it for a long time is really dizzy.
I used to work as a table matcher
"The initial version did take a few hours. However, there are some bugs in the back, which took about two or three days. Vick added.
It is understandable that a person spends more time with a watch, and can write the code in a few hours, which is indeed a kind of speed of participating in Gamejam. "The first version of the game looked like it went very smoothly, but did you improve it after the game was developed?" I asked such a question.
"Nothing... Just send it out. So you see, there are still all kinds of bigamy, resurrection and other messy bugs in the game. Kobe kotoku said. In the early hours of the morning, it was only posted on a niche website in the group, and the number of games exceeded expectations (hundreds of people). In the morning, I posted it again in Tieba, and the game suddenly spread. ”
In terms of knowledge, "Life Reopening Simulator" has become a hot topic
"I didn't expect it to be so hot now?"
"Yes... If you think of it, add some banner advertising (fog)" Kobe Kotoku hit a haha, "is to improve it and then send it." ”
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"The events in the game seem to have buried a lot of memes, and these memes are kobe Kotoku you improvised when you were writing the text?" As I spoke, I sent a screenshot of the past.
"Yes. For example, this is the Soviet terrier, and it is directly used. In Kobe's mouth, it seems that it is not difficult to change a hot meme into the game.
I also often discussed the issue of origin with Mr. Ah Bin
"Are these copywriters all of your own thinking?" Or was it sorted out after discussing with everyone in the group? ”
"Most of them think for themselves." Kobe Replied. "However, I can't make up the rural part, I wrote it after asking the group of friends."
He also complained in his own games that he couldn't write about life
"So the property values in the game, the effects of events, and the calculations were also designed in advance?"
"Improvised, so obviously unbalanced."
"Taking the four dimensions of a character as an example, how do these values affect the character?" Still bothered with the game, I decided to ask some questions about the game itself.
"Origin, event trigger conditions, branch conditions after event triggers these."
"So I guess, for example, the higher the physique, the lower the impact of the attributes caused by wrestling after the character is old?"
Kobe Seems to have "shaken" his head and said, "Basically it's a 'right or wrong judgment', and it will not be the kind of higher and worse." That is to say, the whole judgment mechanism of the game is the type of "what will happen if it is greater than a certain value".
"There are schedule files of events and talents in the group, and the source code can be seen on the website." Unfortunately, I've only studied a little bit of C#, and it's a little difficult for me to understand the source code. However, since I have been a system planner for a period of time, I am still a little confident to read the table.
Regarding the influence and mutually exclusive relationship of talent, it is very clear in the table
"So let me give you another example, for example, when you are just born, there is a chance that you will encounter an event that falls to the ground, is this event randomly triggered, or is it also related to its own attributes?"
"Each age corresponds to a pool of events, and the eligible conditions are randomly drawn from the pool." Kobe Answered me in very simple language.
That's the way it is, it's so it is. I looked at the table with more than 1,400 events written in the game, and realized that "Life Reopen simulator" was not as complicated as I thought. Through the uncomplicated judgment criteria, in conjunction with the random event pool at different stages, the two simple systems affect each other, in the form of network memes and real life integration, so that the game has a kind of magic that wants people to continue to play in a loop.
I wrote more than 1,400 pieces of the table, no wonder it took more than two weeks
Looking at it, my eyes moved to a small line of small words on the main interface of the game under the title: This garbage life does not want to stay for a second. It seems really profound and deafening, why is there such a feeling? I decided to ask Kobe why Kobe wrote this.
"This sentence reads a little meaningful, is it your own feeling?"
"That figure's stalk." He sent me an emoticon, goodbye I'm an alien .jpg
It turned out to be this expression
It turned out that there was no sense of enlightenment at all, and there was no complaint. The speaker did not have the intention of listening, originally thinking that he wanted to find some great enlightenment of life from this small game, but when he looked back, he found that everything was just playing with the terrier.
This suddenly reminds me of the improvisation of Lao Bai a while ago:
The author's absurd words, the player's bitter tears. All clouds are difficult in life, who understands the taste.
Now in retrospect, good poetry, good poetry.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135">7.</h1>
I then asked the two of them, "Did you encounter difficulties in the development process?" ”
"Not really." Judging by the speed of the code and the speed of building up the game architecture, I guess the Vick who answered my question should be an experienced programmer.
I suddenly wanted to hear what I thought of the game from a programmer's point of view, so I asked Vick, "Are you satisfied with this game?" ”
"This game was originally wanted to play in the small circle, I didn't expect it to catch fire, everyone can like, this part I am satisfied, but the degree of completion I think is not enough." If you have the time and energy, you still want to improve the scalability of the game. Vick seemed to be busy replying to other messages, and it took me a short while to get a response from him.
"That is, the game currently has the idea of a follow-up update?"
Kotoku Kobe, who was the mastermind, dismissed my speculation. "No, I'm going to study, I've wasted a lot of time." He went on to say, "And this kind of mini-game will only be on fire for a day or two, such as a watermelon (referring to the Synthetic Big Watermelon that has been on fire for a short period of time before), and there is no need to follow up." ”
The reason is simple and realistic.
The "Synthetic Big Watermelon", which was once a craze and played by 40 million players, has now lost its heat
"And it's also open source, change it casually, and now many group friends have changed it to all kinds of messes." Looking at the sentence he typed, I glanced at the discussion in the group. At this time, there are already friends in the group who have begun to share the modified "Life Reopening Simulator Super Invincible Edition" - orange talent is guaranteed to brush out, easily able to live to 500 years old, so that the original repeated life has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Even the name was changed
"Will you consider trying to develop a game again?" I raise one last question.
"Maybe." "Possibly."
Both Kobe and Vick gave me an uncertain answer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="149" > epilogue</h1>
Then I talked to two of them for a little while. Kobe Kotoku is preparing for graduate school, but he himself always feels that "eighty percent of the way the game looks now is not passed"; usually he likes to play "Original God", "Hearthstone", "Sparrow Soul", on the nostalgic clothes of "World of Warcraft", and sometimes play GALGAME; thanks to the opportunity he learned to match the table in the small game company before, this time he can have the opportunity to make the game to finish.
And Vick seems to have been very busy, he told me that his job is the game program, naturally this is not the first time he has participated in the scene of game development; for the follow-up improvement of the game body, he actually has his own plan, and when I open the game again today, I find that there is already an intuitive numerical display on the main interface.
Vick's answer on the knowledge
The heat of the discussion in the group has not diminished. The game's homepage has added a Discord link and a black background mode; the magically modified Life Reopen simulator can already directly select ten talents, and also comes with 40,000 basic attributes, but the balance of the game has been affected, and it has become boring to play; some raider stations have analyzed the source code and claimed to have found the necessary conditions to enter a certain process; those absurd but seemingly serious events have been sent and sent again in countless groups - whether it is" Yunnan found a red and white spotted mushroom, eating it can become larger", "you go to the University of Tokyo, Tsinghua University, the University of Hong Kong and other universities to give a lecture "My Effort", or "the United States announced the entry into socialism".
I'm dripping baby
For Kobe and Vick, "Life Come Again Simulator" is just a small game with a big brain, it does not carry too many meanings, nor is it given much expectation. However, every player who has been reincarnated dozens or even hundreds of times in the game, that is, us, is so obsessed and fascinated by such a ridiculous story.
"Life Come Again Simulator" is not a "good dream day trip" in "Party A and Party B", and it will not bring you a flawless life experience. But it is precisely because of this imperfection of "helpless but have to accept" that we can feel the realism of real life from this small game, and we will want to reopen the game again and again in the game, infinitely close to the ideal life that is closest to our hearts.
Don't roll in for those top attributes, that kind of life is really a little less flavorful.
Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" is a film that I will take out and watch from time to time
Just as we were caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, we can't predict what will happen the next year, nor can we really "reopen" our lives, so we pin this unrealistic desire on the game as a medium. But whether your life the night before was as a magical girl fighting the Galactic Emperor who invaded The Earth, or whether the child broke into trouble at school and you were criticized by the teacher. The morning sun that greets you the next day is always so golden and warm.
Think about it, there are 7,676.96 million people in the world, and there must be someone who has the same story as you.