"Let life be as gorgeous as summer flowers, and die be as quiet as autumn leaves ." Indian poet Tagore said this in his collection of poems " Bird Collection ".
The Japanese pastoral town with a surging undercurrent, the bizarre monster country, the era of turmoil and conflict accompanying... In this domestic Japanese pixel-style fantasy adventure game launched in 2019, "Hesen-cho Qitan" uses freedom, Release and dream tell the audience a romantic story about the philosophy of death.
"Because, the scenery there is so beautiful."
Deer bone monster talk
html When she was 18 years old, the heroine Xiyuan Xiasen had a car accident with her mother and survived by chance. Whenever she recalled what happened before she was 8 years old, her mind was boundless. Endless forest. One day in 1998, the heroine of the third year/high school senior, Shihara Shinsen opened her eyes. She should have lived in Hesen Town and found that she was actually at the station in Luming Village. The surroundings were covered with darkness and thick fog. After entering the station, he met the mysterious white-clothed girl Yuki Kiritani, who was cursed by Yuki Kiritani, telling the heroine that if she wants to leave here, she needs to touch other electrical appliances and start "reading" to Hessen Town Theater.
On the way, when passing Luming Village, I encountered a huge sheep skull blocking the road ahead. And the one who guards the skull of the God of Flood is a sika deer. He told the heroine and her party that they could only pass through the tree before the jade tree was watered with sun rain, and the sun rain only appeared when the fox family got married. After investigation, it was found that the fox got married in early spring of 1996. The heroine travels back to the past and meets Yu Qianjing, who is escaping from marriage in a house. It turned out that Yu Qianjing was dissatisfied with marrying an old monster who had married more than a dozen wives. Xiyuan Xiasen persuaded Yu Qianjing to go out and see the world: "I passed through the thorn bushes, covered in scars, and the messenger of death hovered above my head. But I still wanted to move forward, and cross the mountains, because the scenery there was so beautiful." Finally, with the help of the heroine, Yu Qianjing left this land that bound her freedom.
Why did Yu Qianjing persist in trying to go to the human world? It turned out that the God of Resurrection and Wind, who guarded Luming Village, had planted a seed in the heart of the young Yu Qianjing for more than ten years. Yu Qian silently learned everything about human beings and obtained the teacher qualification certificate. She finally realized: "What I like is not the result of chasing freedom, what I enjoy is this process, the process in which I can control my own destiny."
game There is also this kind of jump scar that flashes by, which makes people creepy
When I arrived at the station, Yu Qianjing handed over the sun rain to Shihara Xiasen - it turned out that the sun rain was just the ordinary rain mixed with the tears of the fox. Yu Qianjing slowly walked towards the train, leaving behind the worldly vision and shackles. Xiyuan Xia Sen poured the sun rain he had obtained through great hardships on the jade tree and formed a bright flower. Shihara Xiasen and Sika Deer quietly placed the jade-front flowers in front of the skeleton of the God of Faring and Wind. What was magical was that as the pure white light flashed, colorful flowers were blooming on the skeleton of the God of Faring and Wind. At this time, a whisper came from the bones: "Please use my remains to make your way to freedom." The God of Flood and Wind who silently guarded Luming Village, used all his last part of his divine power to survive the world, and for future generations, It points out the smooth road ahead. As Zhang Mo said: the place he was going to is full of bones, and the place he was walking to is full of flowers.
Cat Train
Under the guidance of the black cat at the entrance of Luming Village Station, Xiyuan Xia Sen then arrived at the Senzhi Cat Cafe. At the instructions of the cafe owner Sakurako Kishita, the protagonist retrieved the two kittens that the boss had neglected. Seeing the two beloved kittens come back, the boss was in a good mood to make a cup of coffee for Shihara Xiasen.
However, strangely, the waiter Aizawa who handed the coffee to the protagonist showed a strange look. Xiyuan Xiasen took the coffee and found a note with a sticky note at the bottom of the cup, which read: Don’t drink coffee! Shihara Xia Sen was naturally scared and put down the cup in his hand, but the boss tightened step by step and asked the protagonist why he didn't drink coffee.Shinhara Natsumoto was forced to retreat step by step. Suddenly, a mysterious light lit up. Shinhara Natsumoto was taken to the scene of the 135 train in Hesen Town three years ago.
On the train, Kiyoko Nishimura, a 17-year-old middle school girl, was bewitched by Takashi Yamada, a member of the cult named "Paradise of Truth", and threw sarin poison gas on the train. What’s scary is that on the train, there are also dads who buy baseball caps to surprise their son, girls who are ready to join the high school rock club with their youth dreams, old men who are preparing to reunite with their partners who once played football together, and are ready to go to Hessen Town The couple who were traveling... They were full of yearning for a better life in the future, but they fell asleep forever that morning.
35 Train conductor Mahagan Hagino when he was young, his father, as the conductor, had an accident because he drove the train to avoid children. She inherited her father's will and bravely faced the position of secular interview train conductor and started as a train attendant. After the train poisoning occurred, facing the carriage filled with poisonous gas, Hagino's body was trembling. But Hagino's eyes were not shaken. She bravely stuck to her post until the last passenger left. In the face of the danger of Yamada Takashi trying to rush out of the train to persecute the masses, Haginomi held his arm tightly with the deformed door handle and guarded the door of life of the innocent masses. In the end, Hagino Masa devoted her life to her ideals in the flower-like season, shining with eternal light like the Big Dipper guiding the train forward. As she said: "I was born in a train family. I spent my whole life chasing the train and finally died in the train. I was destined to drift, and the train is my destination."
Because Hagino Masato has too deep obsession with becoming the conductor , so that the soul did not disappear after death. The kind cafe owner Sakurako Kishita gave her a new identity and name, wanting her to live happily. The magic that makes people lose their memory will disappear, but Hagino's determination never changes. "She is like a lost kitten, and finally found the train to the country of fairy tales."
Monster Movie
Finally, Shihara Natsumoto came to Hessen Town Theater with the conch stone given by his boss that could avoid the harm of the crying rain. In the theater, when she wanted to read and write with a projector, she unexpectedly traveled back to her infancy. Awakening from the time travel, she decided to find the film missing from the projector to figure out what was going on. After discussing with Mengmeng at the monster store of the Dream Eater Tapir Tapirus, I learned that there was a poison gas attack in the theater three years ago. At this time, a resentful spirit entered the attic where the theater stores films. It will attack everyone close to it. The monsters in the attic, so no monster dares to get close to the attic. Recently, the monsters decided to hold a ceremony to invite the god of Feng to expel the evil spirits. At the
Festival, Ando Eki, who commanded the Toyoshi God Festival, asked Kihara Natsumoto to help the monsters present. Afterwards, Shihara Natsumon brought music scores, water and sacrificial lyrics for the monsters on site. Perhaps the hustle and bustle of the festival awakened the vengeful spirits sleeping in the theater, and they invaded the entire theater. Ando Eki immediately decided to write with Kihara Natsumoto on his watch and return to the scene of the poison gas attack three years ago to prevent the birth of the vengeful spirit.
Through the interweaving of time and space caused by the recitation, Kei Ando was once a big movie star who everyone loved. However, when extreme viewers heard the rumors that Mee Ando was going to be with another man, the crazy movie fan actually slashed her in the face. "I naively believe in everything they said to me and believe that they will accompany me through the difficulties. But since then, they have never appeared in my sight again." After the operation, Ando, who once surrounded him, was once surrounded by thousands of people. Hui gradually became depressed because of the departure of everyone, and she began to lose hope in life. And this actually gave the theater manager and member of the Paradise of Martial Arts Hideki Terajima. He encouraged Ando to turn the poison gas to the innocent people on that heavy rainy day. Only then did we finally understand why Ando Kei was eager to start a thought to stop this tragedy.The boundless rain fell in bleakness, but Ando Ke could only shout at her past self until her voice was drowned by the heavy rain and the screams of pedestrians.
Kihara Natsumoto and Ando Kei cooperated to lead the vengeful spirits at the festival to the roof of the theater. Xiyuan Xiasen, holding the conch stone, watched the pouring rain cover the resentful spirits, and those who were killed in the poisonous gas tear them tore the resentful spirits. The resentful spirit cried out, and eventually disappeared over the theater with the crying rain. The crying rain and the resentful spirit disappeared.
Kihara Natsumoto learned from Mengmeng that it turned out that the resentful spirit was transformed from the soul of Ando Kei. After the poison gas incident three years ago, Ando committed suicide because of deep regret. However, her resentment was too deep, and her soul eventually turned into a resentful spirit. Mengmeng and Tapira hypnotized the resentful spirit and kept this consciousness in the watch. The Ando Kei who everyone sees is just a dream transformed into this consciousness. Now, the resentful spirit has finally disappeared, and this long and terrifying dream has finally woken up.
"Xihara, to be honest, I am very jealous of you. I am jealous of you, not because of your face, nor because of your popularity. What I am jealous of is that you have the courage to love and the freedom to be loved."
Summer Flower Dongxue
Xiyuan Xiasen took the film from the screening room and handed it to the tapirs, and traced back to the long-clogged past... A hundred years ago, a miner's family in Luming Village gave birth to A girl, she is Kiritani Yuki, and she is also the reincarnation of Fengshen. During the second world , the girl relied on the power of Fengshen to allow the village to survive the crisis safely. The worship of Fengshen gradually emerged in Luming Village, and the girl was also respected as the "Shen Palace". The temple looked at the devout believer at a loss. She was pushed to the altar by the times and people and was admired by everyone. But she also became more lonely. Just when she thought she would eventually be lonely for a lifetime, a ray of sunshine shone into her world and nourished her dry heart.
Ayako Kihara, Kihara Natsumoto's mother, handed her homemade rice ball to Kiritani Yuki, whom she had never met in the empty carriage. This is the first time in a hundred years that someone is willing to share it with Kiriya Xue instead of just asking for it from her, which makes Kiriya Xue, who is not a man in Gujing, keep sobbing. Ayako Kihara told Kiritani that her husband, Seiichi Kihara, was hired by a company that wanted to invest in a food processing factory in Luming Village for risk assessment. In order to convince the opposing villagers, Seihara Kihara went all out. With the rise of the city, homesickness and wilderness gradually gave way, and Kiriya Xue, who had lost the hearts and beliefs of the villagers, became worse day by day. She persuaded the village chief Katsuo Watanabe to let those villagers who opposed the construction of the factory agree with Seiichi Kihara. However, there are unexpected situations in the sky, and people have good fortune and good fortune at any time. With the bubble economy emerging in Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, countless villagers' investments were burned. Ayako Kihara, who escaped with Nihara, unfortunately suffered a car accident. In the raging fire, Kiritania Yuki used all the power of the god of Fengshen to save Nihara's life.
The story ends, Kiriya Xue, whose body had long disappeared, relied on an obsession to let Kirihara Xia Sen come to Luming Village Station, hoping that she would touch the projector in the theater to return the power of Feng Shen. However, when Kiritani Yuki saw that Kihara Natsumoto's unconditional trust in her, her sincerity, kindness and beauty in treating others, she chose to let all the grudges and stories sink under the lake with Luming Village.
The philosophy of death that comes to life
Tagore wrote in "Bird Collection": Our lives are like crossing a sea, we are all gathered in this narrow boat. When we died, we arrived at the shore and went to our own world.
In "Hesen-cho Qitan", the game explores the philosophy of death without any hesitation. Through the construction and analysis of the images of many female characters, it depicts a Ukiyo-e picture for players in the context of the collapse of Japanese bubble economy . Faced with death, even though the ideal place to pursue is full of bones, they still face the sea and spring flowers bloom, making every section of the road they walk shine with colorful light.
There is a kind of travel cat that lives on the train all its life.They feed on the wind and rain and fall asleep on the sound of the train. After they die, they will turn into a beautiful stone and fall between the rails. It is said that through this stone, you can see the scenery they experienced throughout their lives. "I want to be the conductor." Everyone around Hagino Masa was laughing. "How can a girl be a train conductor?" Faced with these doubts and ridicule, her eyes did not waver. She stepped on the 135 train with this firm look and became a flight attendant. It wasn't her ideal, but she did a better job than anyone else. What Hagino Masao pursues his life is not the train, but the unknown journey carried by the train. In the end, she used her life to fulfill her dreams and the love she loved throughout her life. Hagino Masa made the same choice as her father: to give the length of life to dreams and to give the depth of life to justice.
Previously, Ando Hui regarded flowers and applause as her life. She worked hard and exercised her acting skills. She thought she was very dedicated, but in fact she was just afraid. She was afraid of being out of date, afraid of being stepped on by newcomers, and afraid of losing the audience's love. At that time, she loved illusory honors. So after discovering that she was deceived, she lost herself and committed an unforgivable crime. "Now I finally understand that flowers and applause no longer belong to me. I am satisfied when I watch everyone smile from the bottom of my heart when I see them."
Heihara Xia Sen, who has been seeing strange powers and chaos since he was a child, has always been because of himself. He was isolated from the circle incompatible with other children. But she did not blame others or give up on herself. On the contrary, she was always full of kindness to life and warmth to others, and she infected the people around her with love and hope again and again. As Yoshijiro, the owner of the shaved ice shop, said: "Miss Kihara has a special temperament. This temperament is not as sweet as cherry blossom , nor as rich as roses. This temperament is very fresh, like a sea breeze with a faint salty smell. , can give travelers who are burning in the summer a little cool. "
What a simple sentence to live your own life, but it has never been far away for Kiriya Yuki. From the moment she walked onto the altar, she could not have her own life. In order to punish Kiriya Yuki for using God's power at will, Hoshimo deprived her of her voice and wanted to give orders to believers. But under the bubble crisis, the decline in Luming Village is irreversible. The young man left Luming Village, and the elderly died one after another. The God of Flourishness, who lacked believers, entered the footsteps of the God of Flourishness... "I helped the villagers out of "desire and inferiority." I was afraid of being excluded by the villagers, so I gave without restrictions and prayed to exchange my fraternity for others' recognition. "This time, her reluctance and obsession with the world made her soul a writer in the world. This time, she hopes to live a good life for herself. Kiritania Yuki and Kirihara Natsumoto made an appointment to be beautiful Sapporo meets.
Blind and indifferent eras, the most sincere emotions have the deep power to break through death. Even in the face of blind obedient human hearts and ignorant eras, these female characters in "Hessian-cho Kitan" We all have a little heat, and a little light will make it like a firefly. We can also shine a little light in the dark without waiting for the torch.
"You smile kindly to others, and some people will walk away coldly. And someone will smile at you the same, give you a kind hug, and even accompany you throughout your life. Maybe one day you will lose the ability to see monsters and become an ordinary girl. But your tenderness and the love you give to others will bear fruit. This kind of "dedication of love and reward of being loved" is the best thing in the world. So "listen to your heart" and show your love to the person you love, that's enough. ”
