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 There is guidebook for this game titled [[Serial Experiments Lain Official Guide]].
-==Plot overview==
+==About the game==
-Lain, then 14 years of age, begins to see a psychiatrist.
+Source: [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lainpsx.txt].
+This file is hosted on 'thought experiments lain' - http://www.cjas.org/~leng/open.htm - by Lawrence Eng
+         >I have played Lain PS game about a month ago. I have a mixed impression.
+         >But, now I know there are many people who want to know about it, I'll try
+         >to write.
+         >
+         >
+         >I can't recommend this "game" to other people. especially non Japanese
+         >speakers. But It really has a completely another Lain story.
+         >
+         >It contains about 5 minutes anime movie and fragments of dialogue by recorded
+         >voice (total about 2 hours?). There is no Japanese texts. English text
+         >won't help
+         >to understand the story. You have to understand from the japanese dialogue
+         >without Japanese text or character animation. I know that it is hopeless
+         >for non
+         >Japanese speakers. But I think that the release of the English version is also
+         >hopeless.
+         >
+         >I can't say that it is a "game". I think that it is like a database
+         >software which
+         >has it's own interface. There is always Lain wearing special costume at
+         >the center
+         >of the screen. Whenever you command to Lain by Pad , Lain picks up one icon by
+         >animation and play the fragments of animation or dialogues of the icon.
+         >The story
+         >was recorded like radio dramas and they were chopped and dispersed randomly to
+         >each icons. You have to seek out the fragments and you have to think what is
+         >going and what it means by yourself.
+         >
+         >At first,  you can see only a little data fragments. And you can't play
+         >the data by
+         >time order. As you find out more data, You'll see more about what was going in
+         >past.
+         >
+         >Good thing:
+         > -The atmosphere is similar to TV series. Very odd and complex.
+         > -Cool display design. Same designers as the CG scene of the TV series.
+         > -Many AB's artworks.
+         >
+         >Bad thing:
+         > -I think this is NOT a game.
+         > -User Interface is horrible. You'll feel frustrating by the slow response.
+         > -Character design of anime part is not so good compared to the TV series.
+         > (I think that Lain's character design in TV series is almost perfect.)
+         > -You have to think by yourself what is going from the fragments of the story.
+         > (But it was made so on purpose.)
+         >
+         >Same as the TV series:
+         > -Lain's producer Ueda Masayuki. Lain was originally planned to make 2
+         > different stories.
+         > -Lain's voice actress Shimizu Kaori.
+         > -Lain's hair style.
+         > -Wired space.
+         > -Philosophy(?).
+         >
+         >Different:
+         > -Character design.
+         > -All of other characters. (There is no Alice, Deus, Knights...)
+         > -Story. No connection to TV series timeline.
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+         >Summary of the story <spoiler>
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+         >Iwakura Lain is a 11 years old ordinary girl.
+         >
+         >Yonera Touko is a 27 years old psychiatrist.
+         >
+         >This game(?) contains Lain's personal diary, Touko's personal diary, Touko's
+         >council records with Lain, Touko's medical records and few others, and
+         >animation
+         >movies for about 5 minutes which was chopped to about 30 pieces.
+         >
+         >Lain visited to Touko. She had been annoyed by hallucinations. Touko began
+         >to councel her. When Lain was asked about her hair style, she answered.
+         >"It enters from right. And perhaps it goes out from left. so..."
+         >
+         >Lain became interested in psychopathology, and asked many things to Touko.
+         >She answered the expert knowledge about psychopathology in order to keep
+         >close to Lain. Lain became to like Touko.
+         >
+         >Lain entered junior high school. She had her best friend Misato. And she
+         >became to hook on network. She became to communicate to other people
+         >in the wired, and also to be able to cracking. Lain always talked to Touko
+         >about Misato and the net. There are also many things about them in Lain's
+         >diary.
+         >
+         >One day, Lain's father disappeared. No one told where he went. Lain began
+         >to make her own robot "father". She made an AI and his body by a machine
+         >connected to the computer. But the "father" doesn't have the head and the
+         >lower half of the body. Her "father" began to study from net.
+         >(Her true father was killed by someone. But it is not certain who did it.)
+         >
+         >Touko felt frustrating that she can't do enough her own study because she had
+         >to help her boss's own study, and because her only patient Lain looked no
+         >problem. She became to hate her boss. After for a while, her boss killed
+         >himself.
+         >
+         >3 years passed since Touko began to councel Lain.
+         >
+         >Touko thought that she has no problem now. But other patient was not assigned
+         >to Touko. Touko began to be impatient. At the same time, Touko knew that her
+         >lover Takashi married to the other woman.  She became to love the other guy
+         >Yoshida who was a salesman in Tachibana Lab. He gave her a trial piece of
+         >machine for relaxation. But he also refused her.
+         >
+         >One day, Touko found out that Misato doesn't exist. But Lain denied the fact.
+         >Touko began to diagnose Lain again.
+         >
+         >Lain realized that the "father"'s machine body is not necessory. She
+         >programmed
+         >her father into the wired, and broke the body. And she also began to program
+         >herself into the wired.
+         >
+         >Touko became emotionally unstable. Lain began to worry about Touko, and
+         >now Lain
+         >has even more knowledge than Touko. So, Lain began to diagnose Touko. Touko's
+         >medical records became Lain's medical records. (It seems that the machine from
+         >Tachibana Lab. made Touko unstable on purpose.)
+         >
+         >"Close the world , Open the nExt."
+         >At a girder bridge, Lain met another Lain, and talked to each other.
+         >"It ended. It began."
+         >Lain put her gun out and shut herself.
+         >
+         >Lain appeared to Touko. Touko knew that she was taken in by Lain who is an
+         >existence
+         >more than human beings. Touko died.
+         >
+         >Lain "What will I need in the wired?" "Existence, will. Others are only data."
+         >
+         >Now Lain and Touko only lives in the wired and began to talk to "player".
+         >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
+         >that this ending
+         >is fearful and too hopeless (including me)...
+         >
+         >This story was not arranged by time order. I have seen all data (perhaps)
+         >and I
+         >estimated that this story is like above. It seems that there are still
+         >many mysteries.
+         >But this game(?) seems to be aimed to make us think about the story by
+         >ourselves
+         >and to have empathy for this story and Lain.
+         >
+         >I think that It is similar to what Lain's TV series aimed to. It makes us
+         >confusing
+         >the fiction with our reality. And It will also make us feel as if Lain
+         >really exists.
+         >You'll see what I mean at the end of the TV series. But it is not so
+         >hopeless as
+         >this.
+==Connections between the game and the anime==
+This game explains many elements in the [[anime]] that are taken for granted or left unexplained. It can be considered an alternate timeline to the anime, perhaps one where Lain is incarnated into a different environment.
+*Lain's haircut
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