I was a kidney for seven days in a game, but I learned how to do a "silent goodbye"

recently, on my mobile phone, I have either pursued some particularly simple and straightforward operation pleasure, and clearance is the end of the game, such as "The Last Sword" and "War Soul Inscription", or I will play some games that do not seem to be so "gamey" Games, such as "Sunset Summer".

In "Sunset Summer", a game centered on the daily life of the old man and the dog, what we can play is neither the old man nor the dog, and is just a kidney of a dog, one Only the kidneys of a 7-day-old dog are left.

We cannot manipulate the puppy to make any interaction with the elderly. The only thing you can do is to follow the "destroy the stars" gameplay and keep clicking to eliminate the color blocks to eliminate the lumps in the kidneys and try to prolong the puppy's life.

This sounds like a very boring game. But the brilliance of "Sunset Summer" is that it uses the segmentation of the UI interface to cleverly put you into the tear of emotion.

Just look at the upper part of the vertical screen, and you will see the happy life of the old man and the dog: since waking up in the morning, the dog flies behind the old man, blowing the wind with grass on his face; In the afternoon, play a game of picking up sticks with the old man; lying next to the old man, watching the old man repair farm tools.

Most of the time the dog runs happily in the pixel wind scene, tirelessly traveling back and forth between the old man and the scene. The BGM full of happiness and joy is melodious, and together with the exquisite pixel painting style, it creates a poetic summer.

While we constantly click to eliminate the square in the lower half of the vertical screen, we can clearly see the lumps in the dog’s kidney. I know that the apparent peace and happiness are just false illusions, and all the happiness is only a short 7 days. And every time it was eliminated, it was just a 7-day lie with the dog.

I want to tell the old man, please slow down when you drive the carriage. Every run is very hard for him. I want to say to the elderly,Please don't play the game of throwing sticks with the dog for so long. The dog is very sick... But I am just a kidney that can detoxify, and I can't do anything except silently eliminate it.

With the passage of real time, it becomes more and more difficult to keep the kidneys running. The dog's blood bar is getting shorter and shorter, and the difficulty of eliminating it has risen sharply.

In the upper part of the picture, the dog's steps began to slow down. It slowly began to fail to catch up with the old man's carriage, and he could no longer run repeatedly in the scene like before. It needs to stop and rest from time to time, and it stays on its stomach longer and longer. But as long as it has strength, it will still go in and out with the old man, even if it can't chase his carriage, it will try to lie beside him.

And we still can't do anything, except to continue mechanized clicking-elimination. The dog’s growing weakness gives meaning to this monotonous and boring cycle—the dog’s strenuous support is as painful and boring as the elimination of this weak game. Whether it is a dog or a game manipulator, the reason why we are willing to endure all this pain is just to buy more time, so that we can accompany the elderly a little more and complete this final farewell.

The clearance time of the entire game "Sunset Summer" is 7 days in the real world. In these 7 days, the only thing that can be done is to repeat the monotonous elimination, giving the dog a chance to spend the last time of his life with the old man. It does not have any commendable gameplay, but it will tell you how to cherish the last time, how to use the last strength to say love, and every seemingly ordinary day spent by cherished and important people. Because you may not know that behind everything as usual, someone is saying goodbye to you silently.

In 2020, I said goodbye to many people and things.

And in the days to come, I will face more separation. Some of them are sudden, while others are foreseeable one after another, leaving slowly and firmly.

If life is a destined separation after another, then at least we can say goodbye.

You can download the Android "Summer in the Sunset" by clicking the original text, and come to the show for just 7 days. iOS can be downloaded from the App Store.