This article is written by #StarCom#Ming Zero
preface
That summer in 2016, many people spent the entire summer in the company of their mobile phones. Many of the mobile games that have now been discontinued are still alive at that time.
It was also in August of 16 that a young girl named Miko appeared in the sights. She is like a real girl, separated by a small mobile phone screen, into our lives.
It was also this game that once sent Mondrian and Umberto Echo's "History of Beauty" to the hot search.
It is the "Alien Dimension Communication" that was active for several years before the "Edition Winter".
But unfortunately, now, it has completely disappeared with the disappearance of the development team, and this game that brought us countless emotions in that year, just like the original Baidu Tieba and "Sail", may never be found again.
I can see the stars here, you
"Hey, can anyone see it?"
"Is anyone online?"
"Hey! Anyone? ”
"I'm in."
This is the first message we send to a stranger on the other end of the phone.
"Great! There really are people! ”
As the conversation begins, the adventure across a screen begins.
We advise strangers on the other end of the phone like we are helping a real person, and we help each other escape the Men in Black, knowing that they sleep in the park, learn karate, and enjoy cooking and red velvet cake.
But we don't know the name of the person opposite, or even the gender is unknown to us.
After a thrilling night in gags, Miko tells us her name and silently tweets: "I can see the stars here, what about you?" ”
Summer with Miko company is the smell of red velvet cake
On her personal page, there are several tabs such as "Sweets Control", "Leg Play Year", "Pride", "JK Uniform", "Leg Control", and "Selfie".
Her most frequently played games are Yin Yang And Overwatch, and her favorite sweet tooth is red velvet cake.
She is like a real girl, her interests and hobbies are so real, she has intelligence, she has force, and she will fight with us.
Mondrian, the history of beauty, the red velvet cake... Many people's first contact with some art and even other fields of terminology is also here with her.
It can be said that before meeting Miko, I had never heard of what a red velvet cake was. After meeting her, I was lucky enough to taste it once and fell in love with the soft and chocolatey feeling.
The summer I met her was the smell of red velvet.
The game adjusts miko's typing, offline, and online timing based on how long it takes in real life, and if she says goodnight to you, the next meeting may be a few hours later.
It is this tiny detail that gives us the feeling that she is a real girl, especially when we met this 16-year-old girl when we were the same age as her.
When the second chapter of the game went live, the software also updated an opening animation.
Just like the title of the game, the moment we open the software, we enter a strange and strange world, and participate in the world where she exists.
Although the content of the game needs to be unlocked by spending money to unlock from the beginning of the first chapter, we who do not have independent financial ability are still willing to revisit the first chapter repeatedly or wait for the day when we can meet her in the follow-up story.
She is not only our childhood, but also carries the beautiful memories of love and friendship in our childhood.
At that time, QQ and even Baidu Tieba were also her figures.
In the era when Tieba was still very simple, some people were still silently updating Miko's fan fiction, even if the subsequent setting was a little outrageous like a game, but reading those words, I seemed to embark on a new adventure with her.
Although the controversy of the game plagiarizing Lifeline is inevitable, in that era when mobile games really shine, players chose to accept because it localized this analog dialogue game and achieved textbook perfection.
Players with financial means can directly experience the content of Chapter 6 at that time.
But for more ordinary people, the cake she promised, we can't eat anymore.
Miko's disappearance
The original version of OtherworldLym Newsletter, the first chapter of AnotherWorldLyral Newsletter, tells the story of a 16-year-old JK girl named Miko who, with the help of the player, escapes the pursuit of mysterious people and finally rescues her father.
Although the game's in-app purchase mechanism makes it a threshold for many players to play, due to its excellent quality, this practice has not attracted dissatisfaction.
Although it was also a time when most people searched the Internet for "cracked versions" to download, people subconsciously seemed to prefer to support and maintain originality.
With the idea of "making up tickets" when we have the ability to do so later, we continue to look for cracked versions that may not actually exist.
But in the end, what we waited for was the news that the game had disappeared.
The game doesn't have a version number, so it's still free to download it in 17 years. However, when the "version number winter" came in 20 years, the game was found to have no version number, so it was removed.
After the removal of "Alien Dimension Communication 6", the game's publishing company Ruiguo Technology changed its paid system to an advertising unlocking system and renamed it "Alien Dimension SMS", making it struggle for a short period of time.
Many people are looking forward to the game's return one day, but the project that was once a fire seems to have been abandoned. Alien Communications has become part of many "out-of-print games" on the market.
Even if it was a stand-alone game, due to the existence of the login function designed to save progress at that time, when the game's server disappeared, even the "guest login" option lost its effect, and no one could log in and play the genuine software anymore.
4 years have passed, the "version number winter" is gone, but she has never returned.
postscript
The opening of the version number is undoubtedly good news for Chinese players, which means that the mobile games of "Animal Party", "Otaku's Human Adventure" and even "Jelly Bean Man" have the hope of meeting everyone. These games that were blocked by the version number winter in the past are still hoping to see them return.
But the purpose of writing this article is because "Another World Communications" failed to survive that winter, and in today's market full of inferior mobile games, this simple girl should not be forgotten.
Although the "Destiny Line" produced by the Hidden Butterfly Network gives everyone the opportunity to recall Miko, this new game that can be seen everywhere imitating the shadow of its predecessors can never bring back the feeling it used to.
I don't know why, maybe it's the lack of substitution compared to "Alien Communication", or maybe it can be that the "waiting time" skipped by watching ads makes the game lose the mystery and realism that "Alien Communication" brings.
Even though I knew she might be gone, I was still looking forward to the day when the 16-year-old JK girl could return again. I wanted it to be in the name of the outrageous Alien Communications, not through other skinning games or the so-called "spiritual sequels."
When I opened the previous game again, crossed time and space to meet her, and spent the first day with her again with the memories of "past lives", my mood could no longer calm down.
"You guessed it"
She answered my words as a system.
Maybe that's why we'll never be able to meet her in reality.
It turned out that the girl I liked never really existed, and I fell in love with an AI.
It's a very gentle AI.
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