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文：Sora | 编辑：Rin
introduction
The airwave wind dystopian visual novel ghostpia ~ Ghost Town Girl developed by the Japanese game production team Chao Waterway has finally recently launched a Chinese Simplified Chinese version of the Steam platform. The beautiful and unique cinematic images and high-quality text translations give birth to a certain magical power, just like a ray of sunlight penetrating the layers of snow in the cold and spreading harsh winter, warming every heart that yearns for hometown and longs to be understood, so that this beautiful and evocative treasure work can finally be discovered by more people.
9999 stories of the ghosts
The story of this game takes place in a small town made of ghosts, where the day is as quiet as death, and the town's inhabitants, the 1024 ghosts, only begin to wander around at night, continuing to live a numb life with no beginning and no end. The protagonist of the game, Sayoko, is like a blank sheet of paper, with no work, no meaning of existence, no memories of the past, and no value that he wants to achieve in the future, but the friends who share true feelings are the irreplaceable treasures of Sayoko.
In this forgotten corner, the crazy adventures of three young girls make up Sayoko's daily life. After all, in this ghost town outside of the world of common sense, strange things happen all the time. For these ghosts, what is beyond their capacity is like a hole in a pocket, deflated, and eventually piled up in those forgotten corners. The old things in the home, the scars on the body, even the "death", and the very concept of time, once forgotten, the proof of their existence is erased without a trace. So, the setting of 9999 days without a shower is not strange to the ghost?
In such an environment, Sayoko, known as the "ninja", naturally has a rather bad personality, and when she doesn't agree, her fists will take the first step, and she will have a wonderful mouth fetish when she speaks, although she looks quite handsome when she solves problems, but then she often falls into a whirlpool of self-doubt and unsolvable cycles, and spends a meaningless day in tension and anxiety...... Absurd, lonely, nonsensical, or a fairy tale? You may be a little confused when you first enter this world, but once you accept the plot design of this kind of radio wind, you will be deeply attracted by it, and then feel the warmth that emerges from the desolation.
As a "cinematic novel", the immersive reading experience of this work is incomparably novel and amazing. There are no options or multiple endings, as long as you can read 100% of the content as long as it autoplays, and there is not even a dialogue history and skip function, this work instead uses a movie-video fast-forward and rewind function, this special effect of "time and space jump" when going back, maybe it also indicates a special backstory? In addition, the combination of lofi and white noise-style background music, which is rarely seen in visual novels, and the combination of visual filters in the style of TV scanlines, coupled with onomatopoeic dubbing similar to fast-forward sound effects, further enhance the strong cinematic feel of the game.
In terms of visual performance, "Ghost Town Girl" adopts an overall hand-drawn style, and uses a lot of comic storyboards and dynamic CG to enrich the perception and emotional expression. Each chapter begins and ends with a clear opening and ending credits, marking the entry of new characters and the beginning of a new story, providing a better sense of story and rhythm. Compared with the energetic and jumping massive CG of "Maruko and the Galactic Dragon", the emotional interweaving of this work is more complex, and the picture performance is more calm, but it is also more touching to the heart.
As the atmosphere of the game gradually improves, the game's plot begins to stage unpredictable and unknown flips, and places that seem to be about to reach a climax will always unfold unconventionally, and an inadvertent moment will often take an incredible turn. In the endless loop, we have to think about what the ultimate meaning and liberation is for the ghost, but since the ghost has an infinite resurrection setting, can fighting really solve the problem......
In this bizarre story world, only emotions are particularly real under the delicate brushstrokes of this work. The chapter narrative is the focus of this work, there is no real main line running through, and each chapter has its own complete foreshadowing and emotional outburst. A series of carefully woven short stories have gradually created a unique inner world for each person, from the independent, reliable and gentle Patchy Fika, to the seemingly big grin but actually like a rose, to the romantic and mysterious wife Joel, and the sister Clara who died on the scene and played as cannon fodder, each character left a deep impression on me.
As the plot progresses, behind these seemingly crazy and weird adventures, what gradually shows the inner warmth and true feelings of the characters are life. It's like the climax of the protagonist Sayoko's heart being ignited by Joel, and they are honest with each other, and even they don't know why they can't help but say the climax of their vows to protect each other. The daily life of working together, as well as the emptiness in their hearts after being separated from each other, these ambiguous lily bridges make the player forget the unknown horizon in the distance of the town for a while, and immerse themselves in their subtle emotional interactions.
But in any case, the mystery is still unsolved, and after a lot of thought, the answer to the "ghost origin" is still unknown, but the fact that our companions are there is enough to support us in the days ahead.
epilogue
Why do ghosts only have four fingers? What exactly is hidden in the outside world of the town? Will that pending missile really cause an explosion someday? There are also mysteries such as Yoel's mysterious origins and Sayoko's vague memories. After the adventures that came to an end in the first season, the answers to these questions are left to future chapters to be revealed. For those who can't get enough, the Gaiden novels on the official website also provide an opportunity to further understand the world and the characters, and the rest is just a matter of waiting quietly and waiting, and no matter how long you wait, you won't overshadow its unique charm for this fantasy adventure in a ghost town.