When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay.

Chapter 405 This review is simply nonsense!
Lilith temporarily stopped sliding the mouse wheel.

Then she looked at Gu Fan suspiciously: "In our game... are there these things?"

Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "As far as I know, no."

Lilith was also puzzled: "Yeah, as far as I know, there isn't one!"

She was still not sure, but luckily there were some game design documents on her computer, so she opened all of them to check.

First is the basic functional documentation.

Then comes the concept draft of the world view background setting.

Then there are the detailed plot documents for each character...

Since the plot of "Heartbeat Dream" itself is quite large, these plots are basically scattered across several documents, and all the text contents are basically recorded.

These text contents are basically generated by fake-AI, and then repeatedly screened and polished by several designers before being filled into the game.

Therefore, detailed preservation and backup are also done in the plot documents.

Of course, there are very few contents in the game that are freely generated and answered by AI, but these contents only account for a very small part of the game and basically will not have any subversive impact on the game plot.

Lilith first pressed ctrl+F and searched for similar keywords in several documents, but found nothing.

But she was still worried, so she quickly scrolled the mouse and went through all the documents from beginning to end.

Still no result!

Finally, Lilith opened the game again, found the part where the AI ​​could freely generate answers, and asked a few questions herself.

For example, the previous article on Shaowan Games Network mentioned keywords such as "savior" and "end of the world".

The result was still nothing. The AI ​​answers given by the characters in the game were basically ambiguous, irrelevant to the questions, or even simply evasive.

This cannot be blamed on the fake-AI being unintelligent. The key point is that these AI settings themselves do not include any content about saviors and the end of the world. How can they answer?

The only part of the game that is related to these contents is a small part in the early stage of the game.

For example, the opening CG of the game, and the one or two lines of dialogue written in advance in the early stage.

As to why such a background was adopted, there have been many different opinions and speculations from the outside world. But for Anti-Heaven, this has never been a problem, because everyone knows that it was just set up casually at the beginning, and no other considerations were given at all.

Just like many readers of books who thought they had found a deeply buried foreshadowing and clue, but the author just wrote it casually at the time, completely unaware that this was actually a hole that needed to be filled.

Now Lilith was even more speechless.

"I want to see what kind of trouble this Shaowan Games website can come up with for me!"

Lilith angrily slid the mouse wheel and continued reading.

……

“We have said before that Heartbeat Dreamland is actually a meta game. It not only has conventional love content and horror content, but also adds psychological horror elements. In this way, it actually forms a four-dimensional gaming experience.

“The first dimension is the romance part of the game.

“The second dimension is the horror part of the game.

“The third dimension is the scary part outside of the game.

“The fourth dimension is the romance part outside of the game.

“These four dimensions actually influence and interact with each other, which brings players a memorable and unforgettable gaming experience.

“Therefore, the plot of Heartbeat Dreamland should actually be analyzed from these four dimensions, and not just stay at the level of the game, otherwise it will inevitably be a blind spot.”

Next, this review briefly analyzes these four dimensions and how they actually make players feel.

For players who have already played the game, this is actually not difficult to understand. If you have already fully experienced most of the game content, you can completely skip this part.

However, this review is for players who have not played the game, so I will write it in more detail in this regard.

In short, the emotional flow that "Heartbeat Dream" brings to players is ups and downs and constantly changing.

From the initial sweetness, to the subsequent shock, to the chill in my back extending beyond the game, and finally to the touching and relief outside the game...

As the game content is peeled off layer by layer, players will feel as if the dimensional wall has been broken, and the characters in the game seem to stubbornly break out of the limitations of the code and have a direct communication with their real selves.

This kind of communication brings a completely different feeling to players.

After introducing these contents, the article gets to the point and begins to formally analyze the actual plot of the game.

“From the existing texts in the game, we can only get common concepts such as ‘end of the world’ and ‘savior’. But for these common concepts, I searched through the game and did not get any possible explanation.

“Even if a certain character’s AI is set to the highest level of Eden through a special process, you still won’t be able to get any useful information from her when you talk to her.

“Is it that the government didn’t produce content in this regard?
“It cannot be said that there is no possibility at all, but it is extremely unlikely.

“After all, as a meta game, the official has already laid many clues inside and outside the game. They are even willing to create a lot of texts that have no practical meaning, and bury the truly useful information waiting for players to discover.

"It's impossible that only the most important part is missing!"

The review didn't explain this in too much detail, but most players know what he means.

No matter which girl becomes the guide, she will write a lot of diaries, and in the diaries there will be content like "suspecting that someone is peeping inside through the male protagonist's pupils."

These contents are hidden in a large amount of seemingly meaningless texts, most of which are daily trivialities or meaningless chatter. Although they are interesting if you really read them, most readers do not have the patience.

But even so, the official designers also put a lot of effort into writing these contents. Even if fake-AI is used, they still have to screen and polish them, which is a lot of work.

Therefore, this review draws a decisive conclusion.

Obviously, it is impossible for the official to achieve perfection in these areas, but it only leaves a big hole in the underlying world view of the game. This does not make sense at all.

Even if the official accidentally forgot to add it, there must be a correct answer among them.

The purpose of this review is to find out what the correct answer is as much as possible.

Since the review cannot be too long, Zhang Qifeng did not keep the audience in suspense like most other video authors, but revealed the answer directly.

“I think that this savior is not the protagonist played by the player, nor is it any other girl in the game. There is only one savior from beginning to end, and that is Elliot!

"Everything that happened in the Garden of Eden was actually a means to stimulate Elliot to awaken as soon as possible. In other words, the romantic and terrifying interactions between players and other female characters are also part of this kind of play."

……

Lilith was a little confused. She blinked her eyes and said, "Huh?"

Obviously, this answer was completely beyond her expectations.

Elliot?

Come on, he’s just an ordinary guide!
Elios is the first character designed for "Tokimeki Dreamland", but she is also the character in which the project team invested the least resources.

The reason is simple, as a guide, she herself does not have any love story or horror story.

If the completion rate of other characters in normal love and horror content production is 100%, then the completion rate of Elios only needs about 20%.

With such limited content, how can we force ourselves to regard her as the savior?
This unscientific!

……

But it is obvious that this review is very confident in proving that "Elios is the savior."

First of all, the male protagonist and other characters were excluded with good reason.

“The Garden of Eden is for selecting saviors, but think carefully, how can we select saviors?
"Is it through dating? That's impossible.

“Although this kind of nonsensical setting may appear in ordinary love games, we already know that Tokimeki Dreamland is by no means an ordinary love game. Its core is actually somewhat tragic and serious.

“So, the protagonist played by the player is in love with various girls while awakening to become a savior. This plan to create a savior is obviously too outrageous.

“Similarly, it doesn’t make sense that the other girls are saviors.

“Although these girls will undergo some training, it is not actually mandatory for them to train or not.

"If players are willing, they can only train two or three times a day at most. If players are not interested in training, they can even take girls shopping, swimming, playing in the water and sunbathing every day without any training at all.

“That doesn’t make sense either.

“So, the training in the Garden of Eden was just a cover and actually had nothing to do with the creation of the savior.

"If we are just creating ordinary warriors who can fight monsters at the end of the world, then this kind of training is barely justifiable, but if we want to create a character like a 'savior', this level of training is absolutely impossible!"

……

Lilith and Gu Fan looked at each other, and saw confusion on each other's faces.

His method of elimination actually worked!

Indeed, from the perspective of the review, whether it is the protagonist played by the player or the various girls who fall in love with the protagonist, none of them are worthy of the word "savior".

But a new problem arises. They are not worthy of her. Does that mean that Elios, the gatekeeper, is worthy of her?

……

"How can the 'Savior' save the world? Obviously, she must have a powerful force that can surpass all conventional combat power.

"Otherwise, the conventional fighting force of this world has been completely destroyed. How can a mere well-trained warrior be called a savior?"

These two sentences seem quite convincing.

If you want to become a savior, you must at least have combat power that exceeds all the conventional forces in the original world. Otherwise, it’s no use saving anyone. Rushing to the end of the world will only be like sending one more person, and it will not be able to reverse the situation at all.

But a new question arises. In "Heartbeat Dream", it seems that the so-called "powerful force beyond conventional combat power" has never been demonstrated?

Fortunately, this review quickly provides an explanation.

“Before explaining what this power is, let’s go back to a previous question, that is, from the perspective of the plot, what exactly is the horror content?
"Many people think that horror content is just a fantasy or delusion of the protagonist." After all, after the protagonist escaped from the illusion, he was still in the Garden of Eden. The surrounding illusion did not change at all. The girls who turned into monsters also returned to their original state, and they themselves did not have any related memories.

“It all seems like the protagonist is going crazy.

“But after deleting the guide Elliot, everything will return to normal for a short time, and no more horror content will appear.

“Obviously, the appearance of these horror contents is directly related to Elliot. This is not the protagonist going crazy, but more like Elliot, the guide, and a special ability of Eden.

“Although other guides are aware of the existence of the player behind the protagonist, they do not create horror content. This undoubtedly shows that there are problems with ‘Elios’, ‘guide identity’ and ‘Eden’ itself!

“I think this special ability comes from Elios herself. Among all the characters on the island, this initial guide is the most special.

“The identity of a ‘guide’ is equivalent to a special authority identity, or an amplifier of ability.

“And the Garden of Eden itself is more like a huge testing ground. It exists precisely to stimulate Elios’ special abilities!

“Elios’s special ability is that her inner subconscious can affect reality. This is a powerful force that can materialize the spiritual world and affect the material world. The horror content experienced by players is the manifestation of this spiritual power, which is an uncontrollable situation.

“And the ultimate goal of Eden is to develop Elios’s special ability so that she can control this power at will.

"It is conceivable that only a being that can communicate and exchange with beings outside the game, a being that can influence the material world with its own spirit, can surpass all conventional forces in the original world, and be worthy of the title of 'Savior'!"

……

This content made Lilith open her eyes wide again in disbelief.

What is all this?

Serious nonsense!

But after carefully analyzing this content and combining it with the feedback from players in the comment section below the review, Lilith had to admit that this passage seemed to make sense!
Indeed, after deleting the Elios file, there is no more scary content.

Although other guides will come to the rescue and gradually become aware of the players' presence, they will not be able to create terror.

Such a simple comparative experiment is enough to prove that being aware of the existence of players is a special privilege granted by the special identity of "guide"; and the appearance of horror content in the Garden of Eden is directly related to Elliot.

Moreover, there is much evidence to support this argument.

As mentioned in the review, only a special existence like Elliot, who can break through the dimensional wall, directly realize the existence of the player, and possess the power to change reality with consciousness, can be worthy of the word "savior".

After all, for all the characters in the game, the player's existence is comparable to that of a god.

But simply being aware of the player's presence is not enough, any female character who becomes a guide can do this.

More importantly, can he not go crazy after realizing the existence of the player? Can he control his emotions and master his power?
Obviously, no other character can do this.

After they realize the existence of the player, they immediately become obsessed with love and are willing to destroy the entire Garden of Eden and delete all other characters just to completely control Eden and be with the player forever.

When playing to this point for the first time, players may think that this is because these characters are all love-brained and the game is designed to be like this.

But now it seems that there seems to be some deeper rationality hidden.

On the one hand, the fact that they were able to enter the Garden of Eden was the result of careful selection, and did not necessarily completely conform to the thinking patterns of normal girls or even normal humans; on the other hand, the reason why they went crazy might be because the guide's authority exceeded their established thinking scope.

Just like in some Cthulhu novels, once humans possess advanced knowledge, they tend to fall into a state of madness.

The identity of a guide allows these game characters to glimpse the reality outside the game, which is obviously both a privilege and a curse.

From this perspective, Elios is indeed the most special existence.

……

"In this way, we can roughly sort out the real story background of the game "Heartbeat Dreamland".

"In the future, a terrible disaster has occurred in the world, and humans are helpless. But humans discover that Elliot is special, and realize that she has a powerful force that can change the world.

“But this power has to be unleashed in a certain way.

“So, humans created the Garden of Eden and asked Elios to be the guide in the Garden of Eden. They also asked the protagonist and various characters to come to the island. The purpose of the existence of all other characters is to help Elios awaken her special abilities.

“As a guide, Elliot gradually realized the existence of the player behind the protagonist, and inevitably fell in love with the player. But as a guide, she could not fall in love with the protagonist, let alone have further communication with the player behind the protagonist.

“So, with the amplification of the guide’s authority, her special ability was released in a twisted way, and the other female characters turned into terrible monsters and began to hunt down the protagonist. This also shows that in Elios’ subconscious, she hates the protagonist’s closeness with other female characters.

“But this ability is obviously not omnipotent. When the player chooses to quit the game, it is equivalent to that the Garden of Eden and even the entire world in the game stops functioning. Similarly, Elliot’s consciousness is also suspended or temporarily cleared. This is why when the player enters the game again, the Garden of Eden will briefly return to normal.

“At the same time, Elios’ personality is different from other characters. She won’t act too willfully and cause the entire Garden of Eden to collapse.

"When the player reaches the third stage after going through so much hardship, the character will voluntarily leave the Garden of Eden. There are two possible explanations: one is that Elios could no longer tolerate this character, so she sent her away forever; the other is that the officials of the Garden of Eden, that is, the deeper management, believed that the existence of this character was not conducive to Elios's awakening and that there was no value in her continuing to exist in the Garden of Eden, so she was sent away.

“I am more inclined to the latter possibility.

“Because the guide always eliminates a character by deleting the character’s files, it is obviously not the guide’s doing to make the character leave the Garden of Eden.

“Finally, after the players’ continuous efforts in and out of the game, Elliot’s special abilities are fully activated in battles with other characters with guide privileges, and she finally becomes a true savior.

“At this point, Elios left the Garden of Eden, and everything in the Garden of Eden returned to normal.

"This means that the mission of Eden has been completed. Elliot has awakened and has become the savior to save the world. She has given her powerful abilities and privileges to the players, allowing them to obtain all the rights of Eden. Obviously, this is her final ripple.

“Players can choose to live happily ever after with any female character in the Garden of Eden, and this is the final blessing that Eleos can give us.”

……

At this point, Lilith's expression had turned into one of complete astonishment.

It can be said that every sentence, every reasoning, and every development in the second half of this review was completely beyond her imagination!
What the hell?
It was just a small loophole that the producers had never considered, but it was made into such a long essay?
This Shaowan Game website is really amazing!
What’s even more terrible is that, judging from the comments of the players under the review, there are actually quite a few people who fall for this!
"I see. Is this the real plot?"

"Indeed, if this is the explanation, many of the doubts that were previously unclear can be explained."

"So, this game is not fragmented at all? The romance part, the horror part, the metagame part, are all connected by hidden plots? It's not a crude stitching, but a long-planned one?"

"It's no wonder that Shaowan Games' initial report was so secretive, because any other report could contain spoilers, and once spoilers are revealed, players won't be able to experience this special feeling when they first see the game."

"Shaowan Games Network really has good intentions! This is indeed the ethics of a professional gaming media! I bow down to you!"

The game "Tokimeki Dreamland" has received many negative reviews before, and the one with the most likes focused on attacking the problem of "division" in the game.

Because at first glance, the romance part and the horror part of this game have nothing to do with each other. It seems more like Against the Heaven forcibly stitched them together in order to deliberately scare the players.

Including the meta-game part, it is also quite unsystematic.

But now, with the completion of the plot, these three seemingly forcibly stitched together contents actually have a deep internal connection, so the so-called "Tokimeki Dream" game content is naturally self-defeating!

What about the previous reports on Shaowan Games Network?

Originally, the players were complaining, thinking that Shaowan Games.com had known for a long time that this game was a rip-off, but the interview was deliberately misleading, which was a heinous crime.

But now it seems that if fewer game websites give out spoilers in advance, it can certainly reduce the shock players receive in the early stages, but it will also seriously affect the players' gaming experience.

And when the mystery is revealed, the shock that players feel when they bid farewell to Elliot will naturally be greatly reduced.

If it were a normal gaming media, they would definitely find ways to break the news if they got hold of this explosive news.

If it were revealed before the game was released, it would definitely gain extremely high popularity.

Even if it affects the subsequent gaming experience, so what? Anyway, for gaming media, the reputation and sales of the game have nothing to do with them. All they need is a huge amount of traffic.

But unexpectedly, Shaowan Game Network actually adhered to its professional ethics and always put the players' gaming experience first. It would rather give up this huge amount of traffic and silently endure this unjust accusation.

Touched, this is so touching!

It is simply a model for all gaming media!

As for the unethical and scary things in "Heartbeat Dreamland"...

In fact, until now there are still many players who are completely unable to forgive Against the Heaven, but many people have also let it go.

After all, "Heartbeat Dreamland" is a special game. As mentioned in the review, if you want to establish the four dimensions of inside and outside the game, love and horror, and give players a brand new feeling, then the initial fright is inevitable.

There are a lot of dating games and a lot of horror games, but games like "Heartbeat Dreamland" are truly unique.

Therefore, many players were relieved, and even gradually accepted this setting, and began to miss Elios infinitely.

Although the other female characters are also in their prime and have their own merits, players can always find their favorite type among them.

Even these female characters can have sweet love stories with the protagonist, and there are a lot of CGs and cutscenes to relive.

Even though Elliot doesn't have many scenes in the game, she can't even hold hands or hug the player.

But she is indeed the most special one, leaving a very deep impression on all players, no matter whether the players like mature women or young girls, gentle or tsundere.

……

"Boom!"

Lilith's face turned pale and she pounded her little fist on the table.

“Something is wrong, something is very wrong!

"Check, Gu Fan, check for me!

"Call Zhou Yang over here! Some of the functions here are obviously superfluous. I must know why this happened!"

But before Gu Fan could say anything, Lilith changed her mind again.

"Forget it, don't call Zhou Yang yet. Check it out for me first."

Lilith suddenly thought that these functions were all done by Zhou Yang. If she called Zhou Yang over, would he tell the truth? It was highly unlikely.

Therefore, it is useless to ask and it may even alert the enemy.

Gu Fan actually didn't participate much in the development of "Heartbeat Dreamland", so he was used to screen the problems first. If there were some things that even Gu Fan couldn't explain, then there must be something fishy, ​​and then he would find Zhou Yang to settle the accounts!

(End of this chapter)