Gotta Go the Healing Route

"It's actually a novelty... I'm afraid this beginning will dissuade many gal players."

Players who just want to enjoy the beautiful vertical paintings, beautiful voice actors and indescribable action plots have probably turned off the game by now.

However, there will also be delicacies to taste, and players who want to experience unique tastes will stay.After all, seeking the difference between virtual reality and reality is a major appeal of players.

This unique opening chapter is quite attractive to some players with less knowledge and strong receptivity.

For example, Miki Tomoaki is one of them. Not only did he not back down, but he continued to play with great interest.

But the core element of galgame is the beautiful girl after all, no matter how special the story is, the role of the beautiful girl is indispensable, even in this world of demons dancing wildly.

Soon, the innocent girl depicted on the packaging appeared.

To be honest, the artist's level is not top-notch.In Miki Tomoaki's eyes, the girl's painting skills are a little more blunt than those of the painters hired by the big factories, and they seem not so approachable.

But in this flesh and blood hell-like background, flaws were turned into advantages.In contrast, the girl's sense of innocence has improved by a few percent, and she has a sense of fairy spirit that is not like a fairy in the world.

For a player like Miki Tomoaki, the girl named Saya is undoubtedly a very eye-catching character who can ease the visual pollution of the dirty background.

But for the characters themselves in the plot, there is no doubt that it is the last straw seen in drowning.

The story continues.In fact, the opening chapter has already revealed the type of this game.

It's not a common harem comedy, but a very rare thriller and suspense visual novel game.

As in normal horror stories, death and killing are inevitable.As the story progresses, some characters are involved in the death incident, such as the doctor and the protagonist's neighbor.

Although there is a conversation between the protagonist and Saya, that pure and ambiguous segment.But the overall sense of suspense and horror of the story has not declined in the slightest.

On the contrary, as the story progresses, it becomes more and more intense, and then a part of the truth is gradually revealed. The underlying setting of the story-the pure and lovely girl Saya is actually the real monster.

Although there are a lot of foreshadowing and hints in the first half of the game, Tomoaki Miki was quite shocked when it was confirmed from the perspective of normal people that Saya is a lump of flesh-like alien.

The game mechanism takes into account the problem of dual perspectives from the setting.Moreover, for the player this is a difference in perspective, but for the characters in the story it is a cognitive problem.It is this difference in bilateral cognition that shapes the huge contrast in the game and creates a huge contradiction.

After understanding the game mechanism, Tomoaki Miki was shocked.

This is simply a genius idea, and it is undoubtedly a formal innovation for the conventional gal circle.

Based on the setting and perfection of this dual perspective, Tomoaki Miki felt that it was enough to give this work a score of more than [-] points.

Now, Miki Tomoaki also understands what the words printed on the game box mean.

Falling in love with non-human things is really literal. The hero’s cognitive error caused Saya in the field of vision to be in the form of a human being, but in essence Saya is a disgusting lump of meat.

The author of this script...

Tomoaki Miki was not able to comment on the author who was in charge of the script of "The Song of Saya".

Call him a genius, this setting is extremely insane, very hellish.

Let's say he is disgusting on purpose, and the conception of the story is indeed ingenious. There is no one before, and it is estimated that there will be few comers in the future.

To be honest, the character of Saya is really well portrayed, delicate and cute, like the little girl next door, but with an extra ethereal temperament.

There is a big difference between Saya's cuteness and the silly, white and sweet heroines in those love harem gal works.If you have to say it, it lacks the artificial feeling, pure and natural.

Saya is a delight.

This is also Miki Tomoaki's most tangled place. The script's shaping of the characters is really awesome, but the combination of settings has an inexplicable subversion of the three views.

It's like an invisible big hand going through the story, modifying his xp system abruptly from the perspective of the protagonist of the game.

When playing here, Miki Tomoaki couldn't help pausing the game, picked up the game box on the side, and wanted to see who the author of the script was.

Tomoaki Miki also found information about the production team on the bottom of the game box.In the column responsible for the script, there is a name called 'Kazama Xi'.

"Kazama Xi, right, I remember you."

In short, with a strange mood, Miki Tomoaki continued to play.

He wanted to see how the creator of the script would finish it off.

The script is great, but often the more powerful the script, the more ingenious the setting of the work, the more difficult it is to finish it.

According to the story unfolding now, the most challenging place for the script writer is undoubtedly when the two perspectives overlap, the male protagonist discovers his cognitive error, and realizes that Saya is the complete monster.

And this kind of plot has very high requirements on the author's portrayal of the character's reaction. If it is not handled well, it will lead to the collapse of the character design and the confusion of the story logic.

He had never heard of the name 'Kazama Xi', and it seemed that this author, like this little-known small society, was trying to create a script for the first time.

Tomoaki Miki still has some doubts about the finishing ability of this newcomer script writer.

The entire game time of "Song of Saya" is not long. It can only be said to be a short visual novel game, which is also the limitation of the small community.

The rhythm of the story is still very tight, the sense of horror, eerie, suspense, and the rhythm that horror games should have are perfectly expressed in the story.

Soon, Miki Tomoaki pushed to reveal the mystery of Saya's identity.

Saya is not a native creature of the earth, but a professor of a hospital, a high-level race summoned by a madman to a high-level existence through a "silver key".

Well, although Tomoaki Miki was a little surprised by the sudden involvement of fantasy elements, he was surprisingly not too surprised.

It's better to say that when exploring the professor's house, the bloody magic circle like a shoe cultist is inexplicably fascinating.With an indescribable sense of horror.

Saya's identity was revealed. As an advanced race, she has a strong learning ability and can even transform creatures.

At this point in the story, the option of branching finally appeared.

Sha Ye, who hugged Yu Ji tightly, confessed her identity and told Yu Ji that she had mastered the method of curing his brain damage through experiments.

Option One: Choose to heal yourself.

Option Two: Choose not to heal yourself.

Looking at the two options in front of the computer screen, Tomoaki Miki fell into a long pause.

He subconsciously placed the mouse on option one.

As a veteran visual novel game player, Miki Tomoaki naturally knows that the options given to him now are not the kind of obscure love branch choices.Before him is the protagonist's choice between the human world and Saya.

For option one, don’t even think about it, the protagonist regains his cognition, the following story will inevitably return to the normal human world, and the game will soon usher in the first ending.

This option is very interesting.

Miki Tomoaki couldn't help laughing.

If in the early part of the game, the protagonist didn't see Saya, didn't get along with her, and gradually developed feelings of love, these two options would not arise at all.Because returning to normal is the only salvation for the protagonist.

But, because of 'love', everything is different.

Choosing option one means losing Saya.

Do you choose to return to daily life, or choose 'love'?

"The author of the script is the devil, right..." Tomoaki Miki said to himself.

His hand holding the mouse was trembling uncontrollably. Although the cursor was on option one, he still couldn't click on it.

Instead, the cursor starts to move down and gradually comes to option two.

At the same time, he seemed to hear the boy's whisper in his ears:

"Have you really decided?"

Ahead...but hell!

PS: Chapter 2 is coming later.

Chapter 190 Five

Man is a rope between the superman and the beast.

Human divinity, noble deeds, love and devotion cannot be denied, but animal nature is also deeply rooted and exists in instinct.

The style of Lao Xu's works is very distinct. Although he eulogizes love, he does not shy away from the animality and darkness of human beings.Looking at works such as magic circle fate, most of them also have a gloomy and sad tone.This may also be the main reason why Lao Xu's works are enduring. Tragedy is more thought-provoking, and comedy will not make people relive those bits and pieces for too long.

In fact, before the masterpiece fate/zero, as a galgame script writer, perhaps because of the game's rating system, the darkness and cruelty expressed in it were even more explicit.

"Song of Saya" is one of the twelve artifacts. Regardless of the deep meaning of the story, the degree of novelty is not inferior to other artifacts. The game itself is aimed at the bloody demands of people.

Players with unstable outlooks will really feel physically uncomfortable because of "some" plots.Although "Song of Saya" is an experimental literary work belonging to Kazama Xi, Kazama Xi did not dare to go too far.He directly harmonized certain plots, leaving only a few hints.

But if this is the case, the degree of novelty and impact of the story has not been affected in the slightest.After all, the dark novelty of the main theme, the love between human beings and aliens is a complete subversion of the three views.

"Song of Saya" can be regarded as a Cthulhu story. To a certain extent, Lao Xu has also thoroughly played with the san drop mechanism in this story.

The point of view returns to the victim's side.

Miki Tomoaki swallowed his saliva, even though he knew hell was ahead, he couldn't help but click the mouse and chose the second option.

The protagonist chooses the latter between the world and Saya, normality and love without hesitation.

The author seems to be deliberate, and the perspective has returned to normal again.

The progress of the game is advanced from the perspective of the protagonist and his friend.

This good friend has discovered Saya's true identity, and can't wait to rescue the friend who is gradually falling into the abyss.

The dual perspective mechanism of the game, or the difference between the protagonist's cognition and ordinary people's cognition once again played a clever role.

'Doing the right thing' is thoroughly confused in this branch.

In the normal perspective represented by a psychiatrist, Saya is undoubtedly an ugly monster and an enemy to be destroyed.

From the perspective of the protagonist, friends, girlfriends and other normal people are the real monsters.

The main character has gone mad.This is the most objective result.

But for the players, the protagonist belongs to the kind of crazy, but not completely crazy situation.After all, all he wanted to do was to protect Saya and be with her.

There are actually very few dialogues in the game, but just through the difference in perspective, it immediately creates a sense of huge difference between the two different cognitive camps.

This contrast and double-sidedness, along with the unknown and fear, began to be completely released after choosing the branch, which made Tomoaki Miki feel a feeling of being pulled and ravaged mentally.

Especially when the protagonist is completely depraved, standing on the side of Saya, and mercilessly killing his friends.Tomoaki Miki only felt that there must be a big problem between him and the script author.

Branching options appear again, this time representing a final battle between two different cognitive camps.

Tomoaki Miki made up a save file with a precarious san value, and continued to choose the second option without much hesitation this time.

Jiyou called the protagonist, and was led to the cave by the protagonist and killed.

After Saya ate her gay friend, she was finally satisfied by the protagonist's love, awakened her reproductive instinct, and gave birth with a smile in the male protagonist's embrace.

The whole world was gradually occupied by the spores released by Saya, until it was transformed into a world of flesh and blood.Of course, from the perspective of the male protagonist, the world of flesh and blood that is full of abominations has returned to beauty.