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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| Source: [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lainpsx.txt] written by Keisuke Shindo.
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| This file is hosted on 'thought experiments lain' - http://www.cjas.org/~leng/open.htm - by Lawrence Eng
| | The game doesn't have a plot as such, rather it is a collection of events. |
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| >I have played Lain PS game about a month ago. I have a mixed impression.
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| >But, now I know there are many people who want to know about it, I'll try
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| >I can't recommend this "game" to other people. especially non Japanese
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| >speakers. But It really has a completely another Lain story.
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| >It contains about 5 minutes anime movie and fragments of dialogue by recorded
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| >voice (total about 2 hours?). There is no Japanese texts. English text
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| >to understand the story. You have to understand from the japanese dialogue
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| >without Japanese text or character animation. I know that it is hopeless
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| >for non
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| >Japanese speakers. But I think that the release of the English version is also
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| >hopeless.
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| >I can't say that it is a "game". I think that it is like a database
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| >software which
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| >has it's own interface. There is always Lain wearing special costume at
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| >the center
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| >of the screen. Whenever you command to Lain by Pad , Lain picks up one icon by
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| >animation and play the fragments of animation or dialogues of the icon.
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| >The story
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| >was recorded like radio dramas and they were chopped and dispersed randomly to
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| >each icons. You have to seek out the fragments and you have to think what is
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| >going and what it means by yourself.
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| >At first, you can see only a little data fragments. And you can't play
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| >the data by
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| >time order. As you find out more data, You'll see more about what was going in
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| >past.
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| >Good thing:
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| > -The atmosphere is similar to TV series. Very odd and complex.
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| > -Cool display design. Same designers as the CG scene of the TV series.
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| > -Many AB's artworks.
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| >Bad thing:
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| > -I think this is NOT a game.
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| > -User Interface is horrible. You'll feel frustrating by the slow response.
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| > -Character design of anime part is not so good compared to the TV series.
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| > (I think that Lain's character design in TV series is almost perfect.)
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| > -You have to think by yourself what is going from the fragments of the story.
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| > (But it was made so on purpose.)
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| >Same as the TV series:
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| > -Lain's producer Ueda Masayuki. Lain was originally planned to make 2
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| > different stories.
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| > -Lain's voice actress Shimizu Kaori.
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| > -Lain's hair style.
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| > -Wired space.
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| > -Philosophy(?).
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| >Different:
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| > -Character design.
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| > -All of other characters. (There is no Alice, Deus, Knights...)
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| > -Story. No connection to TV series timeline.
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| >Summary of the story <spoiler>
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| >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| >Iwakura Lain is a 11 years old ordinary girl.
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| >Yonera Touko is a 27 years old psychiatrist.
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| >This game(?) contains Lain's personal diary, Touko's personal diary, Touko's
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| >council records with Lain, Touko's medical records and few others, and
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| >animation
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| >movies for about 5 minutes which was chopped to about 30 pieces.
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| >Lain visited to Touko. She had been annoyed by hallucinations. Touko began
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| >to councel her. When Lain was asked about her hair style, she answered.
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| >"It enters from right. And perhaps it goes out from left. so..."
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| >Lain became interested in psychopathology, and asked many things to Touko.
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| >She answered the expert knowledge about psychopathology in order to keep
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| >close to Lain. Lain became to like Touko.
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| >Lain entered junior high school. She had her best friend Misato. And she
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| >became to hook on network. She became to communicate to other people
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| >in the wired, and also to be able to cracking. Lain always talked to Touko
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| >about Misato and the net. There are also many things about them in Lain's
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| >diary.
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| >One day, Lain's father disappeared. No one told where he went. Lain began
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| >to make her own robot "father". She made an AI and his body by a machine
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| >connected to the computer. But the "father" doesn't have the head and the
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| >lower half of the body. Her "father" began to study from net.
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| >(Her true father was killed by someone. But it is not certain who did it.)
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| >Touko felt frustrating that she can't do enough her own study because she had
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| >to help her boss's own study, and because her only patient Lain looked no
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| >problem. She became to hate her boss. After for a while, her boss killed
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| >himself.
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| >3 years passed since Touko began to councel Lain.
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| >Touko thought that she has no problem now. But other patient was not assigned
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| >to Touko. Touko began to be impatient. At the same time, Touko knew that her
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| >lover Takashi married to the other woman. She became to love the other guy
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| >Yoshida who was a salesman in Tachibana Lab. He gave her a trial piece of
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| >machine for relaxation. But he also refused her.
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| >One day, Touko found out that Misato doesn't exist. But Lain denied the fact.
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| >Touko began to diagnose Lain again.
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| >Lain realized that the "father"'s machine body is not necessory. She
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| >programmed
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| >her father into the wired, and broke the body. And she also began to program
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| >herself into the wired.
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| >Touko became emotionally unstable. Lain began to worry about Touko, and
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| >now Lain
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| >has even more knowledge than Touko. So, Lain began to diagnose Touko. Touko's
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| >medical records became Lain's medical records. (It seems that the machine from
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| >Tachibana Lab. made Touko unstable on purpose.)
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| >"Close the world , Open the nExt."
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| >At a girder bridge, Lain met another Lain, and talked to each other.
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| >"It ended. It began."
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| >Lain put her gun out and shut herself.
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| >Lain appeared to Touko. Touko knew that she was taken in by Lain who is an
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| >existence
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| >more than human beings. Touko died.
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| >Lain "What will I need in the wired?" "Existence, will. Others are only data."
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| >Now Lain and Touko only lives in the wired and began to talk to "player".
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| >Lain "From now, I am always with you."
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| >It made me feel as if they really exists in my PlayStation. Many thinks
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| >that this ending
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| >is fearful and too hopeless (including me)...
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| >This story was not arranged by time order. I have seen all data (perhaps)
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| >and I
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| >estimated that this story is like above. It seems that there are still
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| >many mysteries.
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| >But this game(?) seems to be aimed to make us think about the story by
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| >ourselves
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| >and to have empathy for this story and Lain.
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| >I think that It is similar to what Lain's TV series aimed to. It makes us
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| >confusing
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| >the fiction with our reality. And It will also make us feel as if Lain
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| >really exists.
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| >You'll see what I mean at the end of the TV series. But it is not so
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| >this.
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| ==Characters== | | ==Characters== |
| [[Iwakura Lain]] | | [[Iwakura Lain]] |
