Wen 丨 Spring Words Typography 丨 Feather Night
She said, "It is my pleasure if you can feel Yiyi. If you don't like this game, it doesn't matter if you get a refund. ”
Generally speaking, Intelligence Ji's livestock editors play games such as text adventure and visual novels, and they all play butter.
But this time, we were recommended for a word game made entirely independently by a female game maker.
Her name is Yiyi, and the main page of the game looks like this.
After completing the level, the experience inside the editor is roughly divided into two factions. One faction thinks that the game music and graphics are good, but the plot is obscure, and the other faction is so beautiful and powerful.
Coincidentally, in the Steam review page, even if the game reviews are particularly positive now, the main discussion points of the positive and bad reviews are also focused on the plot.
So, how to describe the plot of "Yiyi" is the most objective?
A: Short.
How short is it, so short that some players feel lonely to play.
If the reading speed is fast enough, then the plot of "Yiyi" is only enough to play for 10 minutes, and if you don't listen to the voice, then the game may only be 5-6 minutes long. Carefully calculating an account, AAA games generally sell for 200-300 yuan, often able to provide players with about 40-100 hours of game time, calculated to be about 3-6 yuan per hour.
And "Yiyi" sells for 6 yuan.
So......
But.
As a representative of the bullish faction of Intelligence Ji's "Yiyi", my evaluation is that if there is no word game of the level of "Sea Sand Storm" and "Funeral Flower" this year, then "Yiyi" is the word game that shocks me the most this year.
The reason is that to understand the story of "Yiyi", it is necessary to have creative experience or logical speculation knowledge, just stay in the identity of the player and rely on the body sense to read the story of "Yiyi", but will feel physiologically uncomfortable because of the anti-desire and restrained values in the story.
- Spending money on your game is for my cool, not listening to you where a creator publishes his originality.
And such "subjective" content is still quite a bit in the game.
When I first went through the plot of "Yiyi", I also had a similar somatosensory question, "Who is this protagonist hooking, representing me?" Coupled with the short game time, in a word, several different characters take turns to go through the motions, and finally talk to the heroine Yiyi, and finally bid farewell to this dream.
Players can only outline the outline of this "dream" in the dialogue with several supporting characters, and the supporting characters have been very familiar with the protagonist, and have different emotions for the protagonist, most of the time, the player can intuitively feel that it is a highly scene-based "emotion" that changes with the scene and the role.
But emotions return to emotions, game duration is short, and the amount of information obtained by players in dialogue is actually very sufficient.
Here's a quick list.
The protagonist does not belong to the dream, the dream is a place where there is usually no sound but only color.
Dreams only have sounds when it rains, but every time it rains the protagonist has to leave for the next place, and there are no memories of the past.
The main NPCs are named by color, they are a part of the heroine's dependence, and their attitude towards the protagonist is either unwilling, or blamed, or helpless, but they all have love.
The male protagonist has come to a dream and has forgotten the memories of the past.
Dreams are created by human desires.
Yiyi is a character who is fantasized by the male protagonist based on the desire or need after the male protagonist's frustration, or some projection of emotions and thoughts.
The NPCs named after the colors are actually the embodiment of the heroine Yiyi, which is a certain emotion of hers.
This is the last chance to meet Yiyi.
When the male protagonist thinks of Yiyi, and when he must leave the dream, Yiyi does not keep the protagonist, but persuades him to return.
When this information is combined, the player's experience will be very interesting.
On the one hand, everyone can deduce that the protagonist has projected his emotions under certain circumstances and fantasized about the perfect woman in his heart, but just like the words on the Internet that mock the lonely.
Why should able-bodied people fantasize about an object of solace? It must be a bad life.
The place where the ability to think is needed begins to be reflected here, and simply using "gender" or "image" to bring in the relationship between Yiyi and the male protagonist will appear that the player himself is very low...
On the other hand, the player will be very difficult after assuming the identity of the protagonist, because the most basic logic in the player's position is barter, I invest my efforts and time to play the game, get a certain experience, but the plot of "Yiyi" needs to be calculated by the player himself, which is reflected in the tip of the iceberg in front of the player.
Originally, it was just to reverse some things outside the game timeline, and the player would also do it, but so much information and blank space is basically to tell the player: See yourself play.
Players who read more carefully have fantasy abilities or have creative experience may be fine, while players who do not have them are almost blocked by this high wall, but interpreting and recreating is the most interesting point of this kind of work.
Based on the fact that Yiyi was created by the protagonist, and that the supporting characters who are named by color and have various emotions about the protagonist are also part of Yiyi, we can deduce very interesting things.
Yi yi was created, and she had a lot of emotions when facing the protagonist, but at the end of the dream, when Yi Yi danced for the protagonist, she said that she hoped that the protagonist would go well and not to return here, and it could be seen that the protagonist came here to pursue some kind of emotion that could comfort her.
Even if the other supporting characters named after the color are obsessed with the protagonist, They do not retain him according to the body.
Therefore, the core driving Yiyi should still be the comfort of satisfying the protagonist's frustration after being created, and the best of this comfort is "love". It is precisely because of "love" that Yiyi may make even if he is very reluctant in his heart, but he still does not retain it, and he has the awareness of "because I love you, so I let go".
New enigmas and interesting points have emerged.
The person who pursues Yiyi in the dream is the protagonist, but according to the NPC, this is the last chance, so at least in reality, the protagonist has entered a state that does not need Yiyi.
And when we associate some people and things in the dream with Yiyi, who are born to comfort the protagonist, we will find that the dream is highly related to reality, for example, there will be a rain in the plot of the story, and that rain may be some change in reality.
At the same time, the story still does not tell us exactly whose dream it was.
Maybe it is the protagonist's, so if you think about it, the protagonist may be a delicate and gentle and kind person, even after creating Yiyi, even if you hope that Yiyi has an independent personality, or maybe it is a sentient and righteous but selfish person, even if you don't need Yiyi, you still have to say goodbye to her.
But what if this dream was made by Yiyi?
In the story, Yiyi's doppelganger Tells him: Everything here does not belong to you.
Yi Yi himself said, "You are where my dreams are." ”
In this scenario, we look back at the protagonist entering a state that does not require attachment, and there are countless possibilities. At best, maybe the protagonist's life is on the right track, and at worst, maybe the protagonist is about to die, and he no longer needs Yiyi...
In short, the question raised by "Yiyi" is not a shallow dialogue between the identity of the game and the player, and the premise of thinking about these issues is to clearly realize what kind of person you are.
This is why I promote Yiyi to the position of the most shocking word game this year.
The game itself has a strong ability to shape emotions in the scene, and in the superficial content, it is through emotions to drive the plot, but this emotion is delicate and mellow, in line with the theme and logical self-consistency, and even after deep thinking, you can feel the tension brought about by the "parting" contraction based on soul interrogation and dream and reality.
The game has such power that it can touch the soul.
Some viewers may read this and wonder: What do you say have to do with me?
Admittedly, it is difficult for viewers who have not had a similar experience to empathize, so I will give a real-life example, the provider of the example is the last time we wrote the Shanghai team of Madou Media was arrested by the second-dimensional police friend.
He told me that the case he encountered was very similar to the shenwen of the previous post, which was adapted by netizens into the girl who committed suicide in the comic "Recollection".
The story is about a girl who gradually loses hope and finally commits suicide
The case encountered by a police friend was that a woman reported prostitution, and the object of her report was herself. He said that when they arrived at the scene, the two were already doing a second round, their clothes were not dressed, and according to the investigation and transfer records, the prostitution was real.
"Then how did she report herself?" I asked.
"Afterwards she said she secretly made a phone call under the pretext of going to the bathroom to take a shower."
The police recalled that she was wearing a JK suit, the lock screen of the mobile phone was a painting that he had not seen, and the investigation was followed by some black massages on the takeaway platform to receive private orders, and she was still in college this year.
"She has three children in her family, she is the eldest sister, and her mother was abused by her father. His father gambled and would only run around the house, and in order to gamble, he did not even allow his mother to spend money on expensive meat for her child, otherwise he would beat her. ”
Later, she was admitted to a university far away, just to escape from her original family, but the family had no other money to pay for her except for tuition, fortunately, she could get a scholarship by herself, but her mother was weak and honest, and her thinking was also traditional, and she felt that marrying a person would have to serve him all the time.
I asked the police friend how to know this, I could hear him lighting a cigarette in the voice, he said that because they later checked the mobile phone and saw this student searching for how to commit suicide on the Internet, the colleague in charge of her ideological education said that she could not get in, so he went to talk to her, and finally the institute sent her to the shelter and education center according to law.
"When I asked her why you were reporting yourself, she told me that the man wanted him to call Daddy and wanted to beat her. Later, I talked to her, and she kept saying that I had no other way to make money to support my mother and younger siblings, and she was stressing to me that she was doing the right thing, just breaking the law. ”
When I heard this, I was silent for a long time before I asked, "Do his parents know?" You should be able to inform your family. ”
"Hmm. After the end of the custody education, she took a break from school and went back. "Later, I called and asked, and her mother said that she had been beaten by her father many times and finally committed suicide." He paused for a long time too, "Her mother is divorced. ”
In the story of "Remembrance", the ending of the girl
Later, I discussed some of her spiritual characteristics with my police friend, and the police friend was very impressed, he said that he also had a letter exchange with this little girl, but the reality was that this made her frustrated again and again, let her go astray, and her own spirit was depressed and lost the ability to self-regulate.
She said that the uncles and aunts in the shelter were right, but they were useless to me. I don't need those right and grandiose words, can those words save my mother? ”
Maybe there was another thing she didn't say, and those words wouldn't save herself.
In the story of "Yiyi", Yiyi is beautiful, and those emotional scenes are also poignant, but at least the final parting in the story has left enough dignity for each other and a vision for the future, Yiyi will say before leaving, "I will give you this round of bright moon." ”
Few works can achieve this humanistic height on the premise that the theme of "parting" does not portray suffering to reflect the light. She takes the emotions that people encounter in reality and encounters various things into a character, and through the relationship between the creator and the creator of the dreamer, the dreamer, puts the emotions that exist there, and that's it.
The most clever point of this method is that it is a means of using emotions to portray emotions, rather than the logic of "Xiaoming took a punch from Xiaohong, so Xiaohong was angry" to portray emotions.
Because of this, such a cross-examination hidden under the story can make the audience think for themselves and send out the most soul-related echoes.
Everyone will have a yiyi that carries the fragility and hope of their own spirit, and the yiyi have different forms, accompanying their masters to move forward, saying goodbye when the master no longer needs themselves, but people cannot move forward in order to move forward, and must face up to their own spiritual world.
At least, in order to be able to move towards the future of mental health.
Written at the end: As the author wrote on the page, this is a game made in 16 days, there will be shortcomings, if you don't like Yiyi, the refund is.
"Yiyi" is a work very about the airwaves, but it is also a mirror, because the questions yiyi asks are about the state of mental health, and no matter what emotions arise in the process of experience, it is valuable to carefully taste the emotions generated by itself.