Quiet in the mist——When you control my dream, all the details of memories [detailed game explanation]
Sep 30 2012
[Background] The first thing you need to understand about this game is that the protagonist is not a human being. As a player, you are not actually operating the game. Therefore, there is no sound of footsteps when the player walks, and it is quite stable, and there is also a floating feeling when falling. The protagonist is actually the soul. But it is not the concept of soul as we know it. To understand the background of this game, you must first read this article: Yang is the Soul. It explains my understanding and opinions about the soul, and in its part about dreams, it extends the background of this game. The player plays the role of a Yang Qi ball without memory. As he competes to retrieve a sleeping person, he experiences the entire event in a fog. The visual performance of the game is experienced through the person's feelings. That is to say, in fact, it is the soul that operates the character, and the person who looks at the screen and listens to the sound is the sleeping and dreaming person.
[Cross scene] But the above is not important, it is just a magical explanation of the game. You can understand it or not, it doesn't affect the expression of the game itself, that's all. Below, I will explain what the game itself reveals.
[Woods, sounds, and colors] After entering the game, it was foggy and I couldn’t see much. Use the mouse to operate your sight to distinguish the line between heaven and earth in the fog. Turn around or not turn around very much, and you can vaguely see the vague shadows of a few trees in the distance. That's where we need to head. And if you travel far away from the woods, you will fall into the fog and find it difficult to extricate yourself. As we walked over, the woods became clearer and clearer. The trees are very tall and exude the smell of moist trees. The air is not refreshing, but the humidity mixed with the fragrance of eucalyptus gives it a unique flavor. The woods are very deep. Where should I go? Is this my direction? But it doesn’t have to be a direction, after all we can just enjoy walking in the woods.
Walking in the woods, the accompanying piano sounds slowly describe this tranquility as the player steps. As I walked, the world was no longer just black and white, but had color, which was a harmonious color. Once it suddenly stops for a period of time, it is the end of a journey, and day and night will be reversed. Once again, the day passed. And if you are in a hurry, there will be no rest. That is a person who has no leisure. Going through all this may be completed in one day. As you walk for a long, long time, the colors of the world will gradually become weird. Is that a kind of beauty? Weirdly beautiful? unknown. But at least you can know that if you stop, the world will return to its original state.
The woods are very deep, and it is not easy to walk through them. We can't always find a straight direction in a jungle. But we can feel it, feel that weak bias. The road, towards the direction you want to go, will always be deflected, and it will become more and more deflected. If you do not actively control the movement direction, it will eventually be biased perpendicular to the target direction, walking endlessly and getting lost in the misty forest forever. So if you want to go to the other side of the forest and see the mountains, you need to constantly correct your direction. After feeling that it is leaning to the left, correct it to the right. Vice versa, if so, it can be guaranteed to always move towards the central axis. Finally, you can reach the end of the woods. When a person suddenly comes to an unknown forest, how easy is it to go out? Someone occasionally encounters a strange tree. It turns out that it has already moved a lot. Strange trees always point in all directions, but they can also mislead. Go straight in any direction it points, and you'll end up back there. However, if you are facing the direction of a mountain, you will eventually reach the mountain after walking past it several times. This is a strange tree.
[Mountain] The mountain is rugged and complex, with stone steps, plank roads, roads, and even ditches washed out by natural rainwater or old roads that have been corroded. All of these are directions that can be chosen. Go higher, and when you reach a commanding height, you can look down. Although the distance is not clear, all this can give you direction. As you go higher, the accompaniment tone will become higher and higher, and the field of vision will become wider. Moreover, in the direction of your goal, you can see the brilliance of the sun, which can guide you to the final destination.
[Pink and Purple Route] This route is not difficult, but quite difficult. Climbing a mountain can be very tiring, and taking big steps is especially important. It requires constant jumping and often sliding down. If you choose the wrong path, you may fall into a cave. Fortunately, you can go back by going back to the past to avoid having to start over again. After climbing to the junction, Pink, you will face a broken bridge. Run at top speed and jump continuously to jump to the other side of the bridge. Don't be afraid of falling, because returning always allows you to try unlimited times. The purple route will take you to the top of Yin Yang Mountain. There is a tree on the top of the mountain, and a ropeway is tied to the tree. Walk along the ropeway to a protruding point, then walk over and climb to the highest point to reach Wucaichi Volcano. In the crater is the colorful pool. And you can jump off the ropeway to reach other places.
[Green Route] This route is the most obvious and easiest to start with. After climbing up the ladder and jumping over the plank, you will reach a platform. You can see the ropeway above your head and the suspension bridge in the distance. Jump to the opposite side and walk along the stairs to reach the stone pillar area that is flat but has no complete path. The stone pillars are very high, but the bottom is very deep. Jump over them one by one, choose your own route, and finally reach the other shore. This is bound to be a hard route because you made the easy choice earlier.
[Indigo Route] Indigo Route can be reached by going down a fork, and it is difficult to find. Blue, walking on the back of the mountain. Dianse is a ravine in the mountains. Blue will also eventually encounter an area of stone pillars, and these pillars are thinner and smaller, making them more difficult to pass. So you will understand that there are many routes in this world, and the difficulty is very different from each other. As for the Dianse route, you end up at the bottom of the stone pillar, and you never know whether you will be able to get out. If you can go out, you will always walk at the foot of the mountain, you will not see the sun, and you will lose a lot of scenery. Otherwise, you can only go back the same way and find other ways.
On the right side of the route entrance, there is a cemetery, a human cemetery. Those people died, leaving only graves containing the memory of their life.
There are seven earth lords in the mountains, and there is a magic box. A second hidden area will be triggered. This hidden area cannot be activated in the free version of the game because the box is damaged.
The first hidden area is entered from an ancient well. Players will fight through the nebula and come to a forbidden land. Here, the gravity is extremely small and the environment is extremely closed. It looked more like a broken wooden barrel. The bottom of the barrel was rugged, as if it was full of bird droppings. The well pillar in the middle can help players return to where they came from. Between the two worlds, there is no practice, except at the mouth of the well. Because here, there is no way to go back to the past in another world.
[Salt-alkali pool] A lot of salt has been exposed here, leaving many pools. There used to be hot springs here, but now everything has dried up. There used to be a lot of people here, but no one knew where they went. There are still many small trees growing here, but they are just small trees. There are two other huts here, but no one can be found there. People, where have they gone? Why is the cabin empty? no one knows.
[Stump Forest] This used to be a forest, but only old tree stumps remain, whose age is unknown. However, now there is no life here, and it seems that big trees will never grow again.These trees were cut down by people. The whereabouts of the chopped down trees are unknown, and the stumps left behind after being chopped down may eventually turn into fossils here. Here is the tree's grave.
[The ending] Passing through the grave of the tree, there is another fog. After all this, everything was quiet. Looking back suddenly, there were no dim lights, but there was still the fog that was impenetrable and unclear, lying there quietly, unable to disturb, but able to pass by. After passing through a fog, searching in the fog, searching and searching, I finally saw the majestic brick building. The spin that was put together without any clue begins to fall apart as you get closer. The final plot has been triggered at this time, and you cannot leave. High walls are wanted to be raised all around, but this wall blocks the way in and blocks the way out. You can never know what it will be like to move on. The sculpture made of bricks began to disintegrate, and pieces fell from bottom to top, making a falling sound. What does this portend? Human civilization has brought bricks and a world made of bricks. Human civilization left behind various relics in the early days: stone steps, plank roads, suspension bridges, cemeteries, as well as the remains of those trees and the eroded ground. Human civilization has transcended trenches, transcended mountains, conquered volcanoes, everything. And human civilization is here, and in the end, only this brick world is left, and it has begun to disintegrate. And the whole world finally lies quietly in the fog, and where does this fog come from? Can the fragrance in this mist evoke the fantasy of the past? Does the silence in this mist hide another memory?
[Conclusion] Quiet in the mist, there is nothing left in the end. Those experiences may not become memories, but they will be a very beautiful dream. Perhaps, when that person wakes up, he will not remember anything, but you have seen all this, and all this will also have a subconscious impact on that person. And who is that person? unknown. But, at least, he has seen these and been exposed to them, so it was possible to construct this dream. Quietly in the mist, it is a small dream that a person has, nothing more. And you, the player, are just a passing soul, controlling this dream.
