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With the end of "Shell Girl", "Void Girl" has finally landed on the Steam store in the anticipation of many players who are still looking forward to it. The chaotic cases and clues will continue to lead us into the world of Reito Tokisaka's reasoning.
The flower of curiosity in the industry
When it comes to Innocent Grey, players in recent years have more or less heard of the society's classics. Whether it is the enduring "Purgatory Moon Mania", or the "Flower" series that has a large audience among the lily hobby group, or "The Girl in the Shell", this work "The Girl of the Void", "The Girl of the Sky" and other curious reasoning, they all show the niche but meticulous style of IG Club, and they are gradually expanding their unique audience and growing and growing.
When it comes to IG Club, we inevitably think of its creator, Sugina Mizuhime, a young man who was obsessed with boxing but found nothing, entered the CG animation game department by mistake, but opened up an extraordinary world. Shancai Mizuhime was deeply influenced by the popular TV animation "Green Baby" at the time, and on the eve of the popularity of the cute painting method, she laid the foundation for the next 20 years to be the same black long straight beautiful girl painting style.
Since the first generation of works, IG has adhered to the design ideas that are incompatible with the trend of the times that everything can be cute, and dares to set foot in the field that many manufacturers are afraid of. This courage in the fire has also paid off for Sugina Mizuhime, who has made IG famous for her skillful balance between cuteness and pulling, thoughtful thinking from her habit of reading, and her unique style of painting. "The Void Girl" is a masterpiece of IG Club breaking through many obstacles and surpassing its predecessor.
Pull a hair, move the whole body
The first part of the story of "The Girl of the Void" is a parallel line, one line of the murder that the protagonist detective Reito saka is focusing on now, that is, in the fifties of the last century, the only thing in common is that the victim's abdomen has been brutally cut open and put into strangely shaped clay. The other line focuses on the little-known "puppet village" in the mountains on the eve of World War II, where a group of young girls who are ignorant of the world are separated by the family tradition of the puppet gods and the heavy secrets behind them......
(Spoiler alert) When we delve into the plot, the two story lines that move like a merchant suddenly converge and merge due to the identity and past of Tomoyuki Mazaki, and the unspeakable truth also emerges: the young daughter of the Hinagami family has been sent to the ancestral grass family that manages the shrine for generations, and is called the "Son of Heaven", and then remarries back to the Hinagami family when she becomes an adult, and maintains the orthodoxy of the bloodline by marrying close relatives. This kind of bad habit makes the blood relationship of the three families of Black Arrow, Young God, and Ancestral Grass in the puppet village intertwined, and everyone is related to each other, making everyone's interests almost identical, and the murder is therefore difficult to show.
However, with the emergence of rebels against the old customs, the real murderer is lying in the law, and there are eggs under the nest? Hidetomi, who represents the majesty of tradition, calmly stares at his guilt after counting his own guilt, symbolizing the collapse of feudal customs. Recalling that the little snowflakes that triggered this avalanche of change, they were just nameless young people who fell on the streets and were so frustrated that they tried to commit suicide, which can quite arouse the emotion of "pulling a hair and moving the whole body".
The past is empty, and it is still like a dream
Compared with the title of the previous work, "The Girl of Nothing" has the same magic, and it is also more than that. It's not hard to guess.,The girl of the void refers to the heroine of this work, Yukiko.,She has a memory loss in the past, and she uses a deformed way to "absorb" the personality of the people around her.,Shape yourself into an image of admiration.。 But peeling away the surface, imitation makes Yukiko lose her true self, and the empty heart is the original meaning of "nothing". And a dark line of the story is to tell how Yukiko went from nothing to something with the help of everyone, from fiction to reality.
At the end of the story, Reito reveals the source of his pain: "Even if you think you have absorbed the consciousness of others, what you remember is your own memory." What you think is someone else's memory is actually just a memory of your heart and that person. If you continue to act like this, it will only give you an extremely superficial personality. ”
When we step out of the characters and look at the big picture, the display of "virtuality" is everywhere: time passes slowly in the air that seems to be sluggish in the soundtrack. The ordinary daily life in the winter of the puppet village is warm but strange, and the calm and depressing surface hides a crazy and morbid atmosphere. Spanning the contrast between the before and after war, the depression of things and people strengthens the sense of distance between the characters and the memories of the past, and the so-called dust returns to dust, and the main purpose of "nothingness" is to go to a higher level in this melancholy atmosphere.
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching says: All things are false, and everything is allowed. It means that everything in the world is illusory and unreal, and man should conform to nature and the law of development. That's true. "Void" also has the meaning of negating existing things, representing the total negation of the long-standing family dross of the puppet village. Just as the most respected ancestor of the puppet village, Hidetomi, said on his deathbed, although the tide of the times is late, the history of the puppet village will also be washed and deposited, slowly disappearing in the corners of the history books, and completely forgotten by the world.
Miscellaneous
"The Girl of the Void", as a work of the trilogy, has well completed the undertaking of the plot and the enrichment of the content. In addition to the plot arrangement based on the heroine of this article, this work is a good supplement to the whereabouts of Fuyuko in "The Shell Girl", and it can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of players in the previous work.
There are many characters in "The Void Girl", and the relationship between them is even more disconnected, but thanks to the excellent interactive mechanism designed in the game, players will not get lost in the vast amount of clue evidence, but can be in the male protagonist's self-questioning and self-answering and step-by-step approaching the truth of the incident, which is very immersive.
It's a little regrettable that the relatively grand framework of "The Girl of the Void" has caused a lack of polishing of details, such as the identity of the murderer is not well hidden, and the difficulty of reasoning is low, which is difficult to surprise readers.
epilogue
On the whole, "The Girl of the Void" is a text adventure game with a rich plot, exquisite conception, and curiosity and reasoning as the core.