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Text: Xianyin | Editor: Rin
"Dream of the Stars" and "Narcissus" have always been the ultra-short GALGAMES that I have brought Amway newcomers into the pit all year round.
How short is "Dream of the Stars" as an ultra-short story? The playing time is almost more than 1 hour, which means that if you want to, you can completely get a refund, but you can see such a high praise answer. Maybe more people buy "Dream of the Stars" may be simply to make up for the ticket, I vaguely remember that this work has been logged in on various platforms long before it landed on STEAM and launched in the official middle school.
Not only that, in the early years, with the explosion of CLANNAD in China, fans would not only read the tear-jerking trilogy of KEY Club, but also mention works such as "Dream of Stars". When Alice won the award on a light rainy day, people would also mention "Dream of the Stars". And in recent years, Artori's popularity out of the circle can only be regarded as the revival of the beautiful girl robot theme in the two-dimensional circle, after all, this kind of theme can be traced back to the humanoid computer angel heart, and even the mechanical goddess.
But "Dream of Stars" is also a special one in this kind of work, because the theme of "Dream of Stars" is not so in line with the mainstream of human-machine love, and the anti-war component may be more. As a short sci-fi GALGAME, although the plot structure of "Dream of the Stars" is simple, it still has a good impact, and there are exquisite echoes in the details, these highlights are worth the player's own experience. Because discussing "Dream of the Stars" will inevitably discuss the setting, so everyone who continues to read this appreciation will inevitably be confused by spoilers. The best first experience for those who haven't played "Dream of the Stars" or watched the drama is the best.
The first thing I want to discuss is the ending. Although "Dream of the Stars" is a short open-ended ending novel, I personally prefer the ending of the death of the male protagonist. After all, at the end, the autonomous robot has already recruited accomplices.,The male owner has heard the roar of the machine.,There's a wound on his body.,The trick to say goodbye to the machine girl wasted the best escape time.。 As I've said more than once, failure is doomed from the beginning, so I'm more inclined to die.
As a work of the KEY Society, "Dream of the Stars" is more tear-jerking. I once criticized the tear-jerking techniques of the KEY trilogy as simple and crude, and they are all templates for the KANNON little fox line. First, show the daily life, determine the person you like in the daily life, get along with them, experience the life and death of your lover, and then save it through the fantasy setting. This is the tear-jerking three-plate axe in Asako's hand - first show the beautiful thing, then break it, and finally circle it back with a setting similar to a parallel world. But "Dream of the Stars" is different, "Dream of the Stars" is not fantastical, nor does it try to bring the tragedy back as a science fiction work closer to reality.
In terms of tear-jerking techniques, "Dream of the Stars" does not use the method of foreshadowing and then smashing, but is more inclined to pull readers into the play from the setting layer. For example, at the beginning, the machine mother directly congratulated the male protagonist on being the 2.5 million customer, and then immediately apologized, in fact, she falsely reported the number. For another example, Ji Niang said that she had a fault, but in fact, her real fault was that her mechanical head began to think about her relationship with people. So her wish is "If robots also have a god of robots, and there is a paradise for robots, please don't separate the paradise of robots from the paradise of people".
The machine girl herself calls herself a cheap version, such as a backward version that doesn't cry, and the thing she cherishes the most is the glowing ribbon that others give. I don't know what boredom is.,No pain, etc.、This kind of practice of being emasculated with negative emotions from the setting level.,Let the machine girl behave like an ignorant and persistent girl in this work.。
"Dream of the Stars" is a short story set in the post-war apocalypse. In the end times, the male protagonist meets the dilapidated planetarium director Niang. Through this encounter, the male protagonist saw the original intention of people to establish a planetarium and design these guide robots, and thus came up with the idea of changing their lives. But in the context of the apocalypse, all this is just a dream after all, because of this setting, the anti-war meaning of this work is still very obvious.
In short, "Dream of the Stars" is a small sci-fi galgame that is very worth trying. Even today, "Dream of the Stars" is still one of the first choices for Amway newcomers to enter the GALGAME pit.