Mirror2: Project X: A bitter love story in a colored robe

Love is a puff of smoke blown by a sigh;

Lovers have its purified Mars in their eyes;

The tears of lovers are the waves it stirs up,

It is again the most intelligent madness,

Choking the bitter taste of the throat,

Tongue-in-cheek honey.

—Shakespeare

After 4 years, KAGAMI WORKS' "Mirror 2: Project X" sequel to "Mirror" was recently released. Currently, the game has garnered 97% praise on Steam.

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In the first story that has been written, naoto Jingomiyaji, a researcher at the Federal Bureau of Research and Protection (Federal Bureau of Research and Protection), will work with his girlfriend and boss Rita to protect humanity against various supernatural phenomena and objects such as ancient gods, cults, other dimensions, parallel worlds, ancient witchcraft, anime characters that break through dimensional walls, myths and legends, super AI, magic, and mysterious oriental martial arts. The current game has only one female character to choose from.

At present, the game only has a female character of "Leah", and the subsequent characters may be unlocked in the form of DLC

Perhaps the female characters mentioned in the game will meet you in the form of DLC in the future.

In the 2-hour experience, the biggest feeling is that this is a bitter love novel that has been innovated under the popular gameplay, which well meets the people's growing needs for a better life.

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Brief introduction

"Mirror 2: Project X" is a 3D game that inherits the easy and refreshing puzzle match-3 mode of the previous game, based on the cartoon rendering style created by the EU4 engine " Beautiful Girl + Match 3 + Galgame".

Officially, the game is currently only 5% complete with the EA version (Early access, i.e. beta version). The game presents only one playable character, "Leah", only a few active skills, and only one "Hero of Mirror 2" achievement.

The official promise is that in the next 8-12 months, the game will update the card collection and more achievements. In addition, the story mode with 8 chapters expected to be up to 24 hours, the "Roguelike + match-3" tower climbing mode, which is expected to reach up to 100 hours, and the home decoration that is expected to be infinitely long will be updated.

The game continues to inherit the fine tradition of shangzuo beautiful girl + match 3, which not only makes people enjoy the exquisite painting style, the high-tech UI, the inextricable entertainment experience (theoretically it should be 7 consecutive matches), but also allows people to get the supreme pleasure in the dynamic melody, the poignant BGM, the thought-provoking story, and the imaginative picture.

"Mirror 2: Project X" currently has a total of 4 endings: "Fall", "Self-Evidence", "Demon World" and "Departure". It is worth mentioning that the songs at the end of ending 3 and ending 4 make people feel like a spring breeze, respectively, the ending three songs "イントロダクション (Demo)" and the ending four songs "path of life", which is highly recommended for everyone to listen.

Katao-gata Utakyo Chun-hyun, This Ise is the three songs "Introduction (Demo)"

The ending song is like a spring breeze, here is the ending four song "path of life"

In addition, the game has also innovated in gameplay. For example, at the end of each battle session, the player may get some Easter egg items that help the player understand and expand the plot; in the case of turning on DLC "Costumes", the player can choose to replace the character's original costume with the costume in the DLC (two sets of Leah swimsuit and one set of Rita swimsuit) in the game, and the character can automatically change into the DLC costume when you play a high combos in match-3 mode; in addition, at some key nodes, The game gives the player the right to give Memelia a physical exam or to interact with her girlfriend Rita.

In terms of story selection, the game also gives the player full choice. In the gripping plot conflict, in the face of the dilemma of girlfriend and demon, human beings and enemies, will you choose to trust or betray, destroy or redeem? These selection teams are intimately handed over to the players.

There are many such key decisions in the game, which greatly enrich the branches of the game's plot

Individual ratings

Storytelling: ★★★★★

Operability: ★★★★

Screen infectivity: ★★★★

outline

The following contains spoilers, and sensitive parties can scratch the shortcomings and reflections section below.

At the beginning of the game, Jingūji Naoto and Rita make an in-depth emotional exchange

FBRP houses FBRP-A1-12 Beautiful Girl Charmer Rita from another-world parallel universe. Rita has light orange hair, bat-shaped wings growing on her lower back, a tail vertebrae, and a horn-shaped tip. This form is very similar to the demonic situation in Middle Eastern mythology.

Archives: The FBRP institution in mirror2 is similar to the RCP Foundation

Archives: Based on the ending, it is clear that there was a serious miscalculation of the humanity's original classification of the harm to Leah

Demons are the key to humanity's fight against the overlapping world of planes. Some scientists predict that in the near future, the other world will overlap with the time and space where the earth is located. At that time, the physical laws of the human world will lose their way of functioning. Therefore, the in-depth study of demons will be the key to human self-preservation.

Rita, however, possesses the ability to insanely resemble men—to seduce men. Under her influence, the D-class agents who had previously observed her chose to jump off the building because of their insanity. Since then, she has also left the shelter and caused varying degrees of psychological impact and damage to the human male research institute upstairs and downstairs and the destruction of on-site facilities.

Jinguji Naoto was entrusted by the organization to make direct contact with Rita. After 17 encounters, Jingūji Naoto gradually bonded with Rita.

However, the organization became suspicious of Naoto Jinguji and asked Rita to judge him.

Archives: Anecdote about Rita's love affair with Naoto Jinguji

- When Rita asks Naoto Jingomiyaji how he really feels about Leah, if the player chooses to lie to Leah that he doesn't have any unusual feelings, the player will be in a trance because he is not determined enough. At this point, Leah's phantom will appear in the player and gradually replace her lover Rita in front of her. The player will also fall into the abyss of darkness and become Leah's slave. At this point, the ending "Fall" is triggered.

Ending One: Fall

In the hands of the Gun of King Solomon's Judgment, the player will face a crucial choice. When the gun is aimed handheld and any demon-related elements appear in the aiming line and its extension line length, the object will inevitably cause destruction after pulling the trigger.

A famous scene in mirror2 where the player group has heard about it

- Due to spending time with the demon, Naoto Jingomiyaji has been infected by the demon, and he directly dies after pulling the trigger. At this point, the outcome two "self-proof" is triggered.

After putting down the "Judgment of King Solomon" gun in his hand, Naoto Jingomiyaji has the option of continuing to delve into Leah's body or interact with his lover Rita.

Subsequently, FBRP decided to decompose the demons, which also put Naoto Jingomiyaji in a rational and moral dilemma.

Decomposing the demons will be the key to improving human self-preservation

When Jinguji Naoto chooses to rescue Leah, a sad Rita blocks the two of them. When Rita painfully chooses to pull the "Judgment of King Solomon" gun in her hand, Leah chooses to save Naoto Jingomiyaji with her superpowers, and the two return to the demon world together to live a life of sexual bliss. It's also the "perfect" ending that players recognize. But as mentioned above, will humans who have lost the magic as a vehicle for their research also lose an important part of their resistance to the other world? Is Naoto Jingomiyaji, who was forced to become the subject of research in the demon world, really happy? Is it all really worth it? At this point, the ending three "Demon World" is triggered.

Naoto Jingūji chose to join forces with demons and turned his back on humanity

Watching her boyfriend become more and more "obsessed", Rita, who is afraid of the other party falling into the abyss, cries and begs Naoto Jingomiyaji to give up his dream and job as a researcher and choose to leave the institute with him. Jingūji Naoto was in tears of his lover, and as a man, he nodded and chose to leave the institute with Rita.

Rita's cries

However, in the final scene of her elopement with Rita, Rita turns and smiles at Naoto Jinguji. At this time, Rita in the eyes of Jinguji Naoto was transformed into Leah. What was astounding was that Leah had a strange smile on Naoto Jinguji. At this point, the ending four "leave" is triggered.

Ending Four is an open-ended ending

flaw

During the 2-hour play, it was discovered that the Shop and Abilities features would not be inherited as the player jumped freely on the Story Tree page.

In addition, there will be stuttering from time to time when broadcasting, including a certain degree of small caton when playing in the state of entertainment and entering the ending song of ending three and ending four.

In addition, during the match-three process, when the jam shell did not know how to click on the connection, I could not see the same highlight flickering prompt as "Mirror" 1.

After being captured, Leah showed a Chuchuk look

As a sensitive player to details and plot, you may find that when the game's plot progresses to Solomon's trial, it is curious why Rita is so sensible (or indifferent) to Naoto Jinguji, and does not stop watching the male protagonist hold a gun to himself. In fact, from the diaries of both sides and the FBRP records, it can be found that Rita and Jinguji Naoto are very affectionate. In the follow-up plot, when Rita persuades Naoto Jinguji to leave with her, the author believes that such an anxious tone and sad micro-expression are the correct portrayal.

ponder

In fact, in "Mirror" 1, careful players will find that different sad, sad, and lamentable love tragedies can be triggered in different endings of the game.

In Mirror2: Project X, the game borrows heavily from Cthulhu and the SCP Foundation. In the story of the first game character Leah, in the love tragedy of "Man and The Devil", the meaning of understanding and conflict is also explored.

Regarding love, in the world of mirror games, the core of love lies in tragedy in a large part. Stories like the witch with the baby in "Mirror" 1, the reincarnation of the zombie sister III, etc., make people feel the pain of liver and intestines being broken and suppressed. Those heroines who abandoned themselves for the love in their hearts and died for the sake of faith have sublimated the value connotation of the mirror game plot.

Regarding subculture, there was a previous article titled "Children Bitten by "Cults"" bluntly said: "The "SCP" series has a great negative impact on teenagers, children have low discrimination ability, once they pay attention to these violent and pornographic content, there may be unpredictable consequences."

But as the netizen "North Luomen" said: the horror is only part of the scp, scp also has a lot of beautiful containment, such as scp-166, and there are many touching stories, such as "The Bear with the Heart", "Father's Bowl", "Love That Cannot Be Drowned by Water".

Perhaps, the public's understanding of subculture is still full of many prejudices.

But as Mirror2: Project X protagonist Naoto Jingomiyaji asks: Is it true that people and demons only have conflicts and cannot coexist peacefully?