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The gameplay mostly involves killing monsters and other players. During [[Layer 04]], a man finds PHANTOMa and | [[File:Phantoma - ingame.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|An in-game sequence of PHANTOMa, bearing resemblance to 90s-era dungeon crawling computer RPGs such as [[wikipedia:Might and Magic|Might and Magic]] and [[wikipedia:Dungeon Master (video game)|Dungeon Master]].]] | ||
A [[wikipedia:MMORPG|MMORPG]] popular with children that is actually a front for [[KIDS]], a project to harness the collective psychic potential of children based on the research findings of [[Professor Hodgeson]]. | |||
The gameplay mostly involves killing monsters and other players. During [[Layer 04]], a man finds PHANTOMa and a tag game played by kindergartners merging, resulting in him shooting a young girl with an in-game weapon. When [[Lain Iwakura]] of [[the Wired]] asks [[Taro]] what is fun about the game, he responds with "Nobody knows what's fun and why." | |||
In [[Layer 06]], the latent psychic abilities of these children is used to create a giant image of Lain in the sky. | |||
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