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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
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− | The game doesn't have a plot as such, rather it is a collection of events. | + | The player controls a Lain avatar and navigates a hierarchical system of computer files. The events of the game follow Iwakura Lain and her psychiatrist Yonera Touko. The following is a rough summary of the game's events as related by Keisuke Shindo. [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lainpsx.txt] |
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| + | *Lain (11) begins to visit Touko (27) because of hallucinations. |
| + | *Touko teaches Lain about psychopathology. |
| + | *Lain enters junior high, gaining a friend named Misato and an interest in computers and networks. |
| + | *Lain's father disappears under mysterious circumstances, and she programs an AI into a robotic replacement of him. |
| + | *After 3 years of counseling, Touko thinks Lain has no more problems. |
| + | *Touko begins to diagnose Lain again after finding out that Misato does not actually exist. |
| + | *Lain programs her father into the Wired and destroys its robotic body, subsequently beginning to program her own personality into the Wired. |
| + | *Touko experiences frustration over her lack of mobility at work. Her boss kills himself. |
| + | *Touko experiences relationship difficulties, getting dumped by two men in succession. |
| + | *Touko becomes emotionally unstable and Lain begins to diagnose her. |
| + | *Lain meets her Wired entity and kills her physical self. |
| + | *Lain appears before Touko and kills her, absorbing her personality into the wired. |
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| ==Characters== | | ==Characters== |