When it comes to forest individuals, first of all, I would like to thank the tex boss for the comments, textual research and translation of the sinicization group. Otherwise, this work is really difficult to chew. As a forest released in 2004, this work, as one of the typical Japanese white studies, has so many references that it is a minority in the galgame world (literature, folklore, history, philosophy, geography, technology, plus and the present era and cultural generation gap). Even when I pushed it, I felt that I was not pushing galgame but watching a wonderful drama with ups and downs. (Although that may be the purpose of the stars), it reminds me of Kant’s ideas about the sublime and the beautiful. In the depths of the soul, the transcendental sting of other things produces a sense of sublime. The emotions in the heart are attracted by other things and turned into a sense of beauty. And the forest created by Xingkong has achieved both in personal cognition. This work is widely cited, and the words are gorgeous. This leads to the fact that the joy of reading this work without relevant information will be greatly reduced (of course, the starry sky is not that important in the story neta of this work, and the starry sky conveys the text). Players who want to relax by playing galgame are very likely to abandon the pit directly. Because this book is still difficult to read. I would like to thank the tex boss again for his research and ideas. However, it is a pity that in today’s industry downturn, and the pace of life is accelerating, pressure is high, and information is fragmented in the era of fragmented information, I am afraid that such works will hardly have the opportunity to appear on the stage.
So let’s get down to business, let’s enter the personal analysis link, and the following is my purely subjective analysis, judgment and understanding.
title
When I see the game title of forest, and then connect with the literary attributes of this work, the first thing that comes to my mind is the meaning of the word forest in fairy tales-dangerous, hidden, and unknown. This is why there are so many forests in fairy tales (Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, etc.). And this work is also the starry sky to lead us on a fantastic adventure in this forest. The forest is actually made up of stories. This is probably the direct reason why there are fewer and fewer trees in the forest mentioned in the plot.
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I personally think that the fairy tale Forest can be divided into 3 worlds. The story in the story is the forest, the story itself is the forest, and the world outside the story is the world of the player outside the fourth wall.
As for the forest’s timeline, the plot first began when Hui Liu and Yu Sen met through their elders and created the earliest forest, so the two were respected as the original of the forest. Ash and Yusen created a story named Padua (that is, symbolizing the completion of the story, unsprouted implying that the story is not yet complete, based on the name of the world’s earliest botanical garden), and then the two supplemented the story with Telanga, Characters such as Peglia, Helmai, Sirius, etc., as well as the setting of the World Tree and the Village of the End. In the process of creating a story, Yusen tried to escape from reality in pursuit of a beautiful story. So Huiliu tried to reason, stimulate and appease. I hope Yu Sen can accept the end and the reality, but this has been resisted by Yu Sen. But in the end, the gray stream still made Yusen gradually believe in the relationship between people, which made Yusen take a step to the outside world. This can be reflected in the beginning of the plot where Yu Sen was working outside. After that, the two created a story about finding the witch’s real name, and the image of a witch in the story reflects Yu Sen’s personality, such as the name of the imitation Pippi, being lonely, and not wanting things to change. The main line of the forest story is the story of finding the witch’s real name. But the two original ideas are not the same. Gray Liu pursues the reality and rationality of the story, while Sen pursues the beauty and eternity of the story. As a result, there was an inevitable conflict between the two. The conflict led to a gap in the forest, so the forest began to continuously draw new stories from reality, and the entire forest was divided into two parts, gardens and Shinjuku. This is the reason why Shinjuku will merge with the forest and the story comes from Yusen’s bookcase in the work. As the creator of the story, Yu Sen often chooses to escape, so she cannot produce the story alone. Just like in the prologue, if there is no help from the gray stream, Yu Sen can only endlessly loop in the never-ending party. So in order to complete the witch’s story, the forest also involved several other characters. After introducing the character information on the stage, the adventure begins. Invitation from the Wind, Shinjuku Rafting, Midsummer Night’s Pirates, The Game, The Umbrella Voyage, Treasure, and Alice’s Adventures in the End are riddles. And these riddles now think of the existence of leading the story to the end, and the gift printed opposite to it also plays such a role, which is probably why the gift in the plot is both a help and a curse. And be should tell the story that Yu Sen could not accept the situation, so Huiliu chose to revise the story. So in the adventure along the way, we have seen a lot of allusions to the adventure and the clever design of the starry sky. For example, in Chapter 2, the gambler who failed in Japan’s economic crisis turned into a child on a paradise island in Chapter 4. Of course, another key point of this work is the issue of Black Alice. Personally, Yusen’s voice appeared when I was with Alice and Huiliu, and after that, Li Jiazi called the witch Lin’s mother, and Yusen and Li Jiazi were together. I haven’t met (Li Jiazi mentioned that he wants to meet Yu Sen), guessing that Alice should be a story created by Yu Sen and Hui Liu. And the time between Huiliu and Lijiazi until Lijiazi died should have happened after Yusen fantasized about giving birth and Huiliu was expelled. At the same time, I had the experience of Cowherd in Huiliu, before I met Jiyue, Kariya, and Dai. In the game, it is not difficult to find that the characters in the forest have a relationship with the characters in the forest world, for example, Rigazi corresponds to Alice. (And in reality, Alice Riddle and Lewis Carroll are also students and teachers in reality), and there is Yusen’s voice when they meet Alice in the initial be. Therefore, the role of Alice is the projection of Yu Sen’s creative consciousness, while the Rigazi in Chapter 8 is the projection of Gray Stream’s creation. And through the death of Rigazi, the two discovered the existence of the fourth wall. Yu Sen used the gift to break the fourth wall to release his internal seeds. An original of the forest left. This should be the reason why Kariya said later that the forest would not reappear. But the one who knew that the Ashes of the Fourth Wall chose to spend a lifetime collecting pieces of Padua to bring the story to a happy ending. After finally collecting all the pieces, he entered the village of the end on his deathbed, and finally made Padua germinate and the forest reappeared. Alice also appeared as she thought, and Gray Stream finished telling the story of the witch through Padua, resurrected the witch and gave her real name Yusen, Alice, the created character, then merged with the witch. The fairy tale is complete. In the end, a beautiful new world was created (this is also the ending of Ragnarok in Norse mythology, including sex), and the player also ushered in the final ending of the forest. In the end, the meeting between Huiliu and Yusen used the ending mentioned by Li Jiazi in the previous story. And that’s the end of this fantastic adventure. Forest thus ushered in a bright ending.
In general, the setting of forest is undoubtedly malicious. The characters in the play have to change their value choices to make the story continue. This is undoubtedly painful. Under a certain driving force, Dai solved the problem of relying on the professor, and Kariya defeated the blind obedience to the store manager. Rigazi accepts death at the end. And Yu Sen also accepted the reality after witnessing Li Jiazi’s death. Gray Stream also lost a lot for the final outcome. And paying the price is a common story prototype like the forest. I won’t go into details here. I guess the forest’s will is to complete the witch’s story, so who is driving this story. That’s right, it’s the players in front of the screen. In most galgames, the author generally takes the method of dissolving the male protagonist to increase the player’s sense of substitution. So that players can immerse themselves in the story, and the representative of this method has to mention the actor’s acting skills and self-cultivation author Stanislavski, by the way, he also appeared as a character in Heyan, Stanislavski This method is undoubtedly quite good for the producers, so it is also adopted by most of the works, but at the same time, this behavior of strengthening the sense of substitution will also cause the audience’s self-judgment ability to be inhibited. Therefore, Brecht would then propose the theory of breaking the fourth wall, allowing the audience to regain their ability to think again, and the forest work is obviously the second category. The plots that were deliberately staggered in the forest’s story were bizarrely destroying the player’s substitution. The scenes and words of the game can’t keep up with the description at all. This is all to make players think about the game itself. The more popular word for this method is meta. Of course, the use of meta in galgame is not a new thing, such as the more famous Junbi and DDLC (ever17, stinking), but personally think that this kind of breaking the fourth wall But it strengthens the sense of substitution in the game, so as to achieve a kind of spiritual satisfaction and stimulation of strangeness. Of course, forest is obviously trying to prevent this, so we have seen a lot of dictionaries, fragmented plots, literary and artistic words, and a lot of options in the back are all to force players to think. And maybe this is the reason why the forest was spit out by some players, and some players praised it as an altar. In the book Princess Walks into the Black Forest, it is mentioned that fairy tales usually start from a certain predicament, and then there is a solution to the problem, followed by the process of solving the problem. There must be leaps in the process. Encounters, encounters lead to fights, and final victory leads to the festivities at the end. Forest itself is a fairy tale, which is why it was said that there are three worlds in forest.
Personally, I think that the difficulty of reading forest is high, aside from the complex and numerous dictionaries. The main reason is the fragmentation and anti-rationality of the narrative. Starry sky mentioned Nietzsche’s point of view in the forest. Personally, I think Nietzsche’s philosophy is divided into two parts, one is the meaning of life and the other is the criticism of culture. In the plot, the conflict between Yusen and Gray Stream corresponds to Nietzsche’s Dionysian and Sun-god spirits. The gray stream represents the spirit of the sun god (instrumental rationality), which developed from the ancient Greek humanistic thought to rationality, and along this line, people initially believed that following the path of rationality could lead to happiness, but in reality we It is clear that even some rationalisms have turned to refined egoism and even socialism, which is undoubtedly disappointing (the Qian Liqun incident). Yusen represents the spirit of Dionysus (value rationality). People are ends, not means. When we devote ourselves to the work, we will not have a judgment of interests and return to the real world. When we return to reason, there will be conflicts. This is why we sometimes feel a sense of confusion and loss when we finish a good work. And the reasons why artists as creators have mental problems and some choose to give up their lives. And this should be the reason why Yusen chose to jump off the building (you can be crazy about Indonesia at the end). Of course, Dionysus and Sun God cannot be completely separated. This is also the reason why Huiliu must resurrect Yusen. In modern society, the pursuit of high efficiency and low cost has led to a lower and lower tolerance for all the vague, inaccurate, and irrelevant rationales around us, and many places in the forest are deliberately not clearly explained. Just like the forest, people are confused. It is always unreasonable to organize a complete system to summarize it. Personally, I think Starry Sky in this work shows a criticism of the Japanese instrumental rational culture at that time. (Of course, this form of forest is not a normal GAlGAME)
Summarize
The definition of the world is outside the world, and there is no value in the world. A thing depends on others to exist. And so is the story. In the forest, the question of whether the story will be forgotten is mentioned. It is mentioned that the old heroes will be forgotten, and Padua (the story itself) will also be forgotten, but Sirius will not be forgotten. The personal contrasting understanding is that the heroes of the old era refer to parts of history that are lost to memory after a period of time, while Padua represents a single story that may be remembered but will eventually be forgotten. And Sirius represents stories that have been given meaning and transformation by people, such as the stories of constellations that have been passed down through various transformations. From a personal point of view, it is only a living story that can be remembered by people. This reminds me of some stories I’ve also read before, but most of them are forgotten now. A story that I’ve clearly read. Thinking about it now, a living story is a process of being created and then re-constructed. For example, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has different versions in different eras, and Alice has also widely appeared in the field of cultural creation and her image has been constantly changing until today.
The above are some of my immature thoughts on the work of forest. Wittgenstein once said that he must remain silent about what he cannot say. Everything that can be said can be expressed, and the most difficult part is often the unspeakable parts, such as the unspeakable in the Cthulhu mythology. That’s why Wittgenstein wrote that his proposition is just a ladder that can be thrown up. When you transcend these propositions, you can view the world in a correct way. There are still many places worth exploring in this work, such as the boundaries of language and the meaning of names (so some bigwigs will use analytic philosophy to analyze). These were shelved due to lack of personal ability and inability to express. Finally, I use one word to express my impression of pushing Forest, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The above content is my superficial analysis and opinion on Forest, please feel free to comment.
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