To be honest, I can’t play MC and J’s collaboration anymore.
The tone of the game is warm at the beginning, but as the plot develops, the tone becomes more and more down, making me extremely painful. From seeing MC being pushed and mocked by C to finally being bullied and ostracized after entering the school, until MC was threatened and bullied by C with the strawberry, and even had to beg C to put down the strawberry, my discomfort reached its peak. Because of some of my personal experiences, I really don’t like bullies (really, really, really don’t like them), so after seeing MC being bullied so badly, I really wish there was an option for me to get back at them, but there isn’t (crying)/大哭 ）…Even MC didn’t break up with C! This is the time when MC is the most heartbroken when I play, when his life is threatened, there is no one around him to help him, and the person who hurts him is the friend he thinks he is.
This is also a point that makes me have a lot of doubts, I think no matter what, for humans, any behavior that has threatened their own life will cause great psychological trauma, especially MC was only thirteen years old at that time. It’s hard for me to understand that after this incident, the MC in the story is just writing in his diary that C’s behavior is foolish (I really want to scream for help).
Then came the time for the showcase performance, and I couldn’t choose to refuse J’s performance. At that moment, I was really angry because I couldn’t understand what the design was for and what benefit it would bring to a game. Did players play the game just to be a camera? After MC and J’s performance, I felt that I had already foreseen all the pain MC would suffer in the future, bullying, betrayal, deception, and so on.
Therefore, I temporarily withdrew from the work and began to look at the comments of the work, and in other people’s posts, I saw comments similar to mine. Of course, I also saw the author’s reply, which really made me understand why I couldn’t change anything in the prologue. That is, all the content in the prologue is actually just an introduction to the MC, and although the player can choose in some parts, those are irrelevant options that will not have any effect on the background setting of the MC, and the player is like a ghost. This understanding greatly alleviates my feelings of helplessness in not being able to help MC, as well as my emotions of pain and anxiety.
Based on my current gaming experience, I would like to make a few suggestions. The author can try to explain the role of the prologue in the introduction of the game, that is, all the key points in the prologue cannot be changed, and all the suffering borne by the protagonist is the necessary background setting of the work, so that readers can accept it better. Or the 300,000-word prologue may be too long, you can try to put some of the content into the subsequent chapters as MC flashbacks to present to the readers, I think this can also deepen the depth of the characters.
What needs to be said is that the author’s writing is really good. The various wonderful and vivid metaphors in childhood are very childish, not like a child, but the words that a real child would say, natural and naive. The author’s boundless imagination is also something I admire very much, and I am always amazed by the author again and again during the game. I also saw the author’s careful portrayal of each character, everyone is living hard and clearly in the world, deepening the impression of the characters while also making me more and more empathetic to MC, truly experiencing the love, hate, love, and hatred between the characters. There is a saying that “there is no true empathy in the world.” If I directly enter Chapter 1, I think my feelings towards MC can only be superficial. So I accepted such a long setup, but I will continue to pay attention to the subsequent content and look forward to MC’s rise. (Staring) However, the part that hasn’t been written after the prologue, can MC be made better?MC now seems like a small bitter melon, and I also feel like my mouth is bitter (crying (╥﹌╥))
Finally, because English is not my native language, my English grades are not good, and most of the above content is published after AI translation. Please let me know if there is anything you don’t understand. I don’t want there to be misunderstandings. Thank you!