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2003/3/5: Personal correspondence (Kinoko)
My computer broke.
It’s gone… it’s all gone…!
Well actually I made back-ups for everything writing related so it’s fiiine~
My email-address, personal address and such things have all crashed, crashed, maybe crashed.
I was at Muv-Luv Unlimited’s 6th Episode at the time.
Now that I’m being kept waiting like a dog for a snack, Muv-Luv will have to be on hold at Episode 6 until I’m no longer so behind schedule.
It’s just as well taking a pause here, might be fun waiting until Alternative too.
So, Muv-Luv.
If I am to talk a bit about my impressions, they’re not set in stone yet seeing as I’ve yet to beat the game but,
personally speaking, it’s a masterpiece.
Only Phantom and Muv-Luv have had me so glued to the monitor that my eyes started to hurt.
Below, there’s gonna be some spoilers & personal opinions, so people who haven’t played the game yet (& non-believers) shouldn’t look.
At the end of the day, this writing style is not something I can achieve so there’s gonna be no “this part was good” or “I liked this character”.
This is… for me, an ideal game. And what I mean by that is that since I like it, I don't want to be overly fuzzy about the minutiae of events in it.
Right, what I’m saying is that what’s important is the atmosphere throughout the game.
I’m not talking about incompleteness or originality.
(If anything, it doesn’t resemble anything else, I mean military-genre stuff is more like... well, you know…?)
Honestly, I have great respect for the Muv-Luv staff.
With the whole world in its premise, it has a formula of how to increase the significance of that whole world.
This might be an extreme line of reasoning but what they’re doing is the same as “Kimi ga Nozomu Eien” did, further pursuing “meaning and significance broken to pieces”.
So, as we all know Muv-Luv comes in three parts.
Each one of them is not an independent work, but is actually part of one larger strand from the very beginning.
You might have thought there were three scrolls, but there was really just one scroll with the length of three.
Well, I haven’t beat it yet so I don’t know but...
Supposing that’s the case, the fact that Alternative (the conclusion) still isn’t done yet is, as a player, rather disappointing but,
As a creator I’m quite relieved.
Honestly, if I were to be beaten that badly I might not be able to recover.
In any case, even though I knew the flow from Extra to Unlimited, I still received quite the surprise while playing, which is amazing.
(Such morbidity (I say, in praise) is closer to Battle Royale rather than say, Gunparade)
My impression of Muv-Luv at the current stage is that it’s terrorism, yeah.
“Death arrives suddenly. Like a terrorist.
And that's how we become involved and finally notice the so-called ‘delicate balance’.
‘No way that’s the case’? ‘Look at how peaceful society is’, you say? Well of course. In order to maintain the balance, any means are permitted, and many sacrifices are made. Naturally such balance won’t crumble so easily.
And so, when the moment comes that it does, it is the end-stage from which there is no return.”
And so I, who love to enter preach-mode in this way, found Unlimited up to Episode 6 so, so interesting.
As a gimmick-lover, just that alone was enough for me to go ‘thank you’ in awe.
In recent times, where the consumer is without nation, and where only lore for a world-wide setting is possible to create (or rather, only that kind of production is allowed), there are things that can only be done by adult games.
What splendor there is in the staff were able to express this, and those surrounding them who allowed that production to happen.
The reason that I entered the industry is because this is the kind of game that I wanted to create.
In allowing me to once again confirm that, my feelings of gratitude towards Muv-Luv are unending.
Right, no need to be afraid.
———It's good here.
Please take me here again, Hero.
Wait...
These are the impressions of someone who has yet to fully beat the game so there’s a great possibility that in five seconds I’ll explode then forget everything.