Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: The Metafictional Structure of Game Works

The Metafictional Structure of Game Works
(Cited from the description on the video game Fate/stay night, referred to as the text of the course)
Even after a convincing sex scene is achieved that completes the fictional meaning at a certain level, it is rare for the game world itself to end there. In many cases, the game playing progresses from there to the “underworld”, literally retracing the same story that the player has already experienced from a new perspective, and reexamining the inverted world picture in the extended dimension. This procedure is usually prepared for each heroine that can be won, and is usually repeated several times. The resulting new comprehensive fictional world picture eventually presents a breaking through development that introduces a trans-dimensional world-formula. An individual specific strategy procedure for winning each heroine, also implies at the world level an exhaustive examination of the truth of countless divergent parallel worlds and the extension of the scope of development of the information dimension that governs the fundamental significance of the world for conscious beings. This suggests remarkable characteristics that can be regarded as the realization of the construction of a new style that has never been embodied before in conventional works of art.

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In Cat’s Paw Distortion, the protagonist has nothing to gain in terms of his psychic grasp of the world in the strategy route of having sex with a girl next door, so in terms of thematic aspects, it seems to be a convergence of the “bad end.” On the other hand, each route that leads to making love with a domestic cat, mother, elder sister, and younger sister not only escapes the violation of the taboo of “bestiality” and “incest” by introducing the interpretation of quantum logic, but also leads to the discovery of the spiritual phase behind each personality (persona) of the family by the protagonist, who had lost his sense of qualia and had become an alienated person of the world. The blissful result depicted in this eroge is the moment of rediscovery of the psyche, the spiritual understanding of the relationship between humanity and the world.
　One thing that bothered the author is that it is not easy to determine whether there was still an unexplored route as a conditional characteristic of the game world development, as it is not clear whether there is a convergence route of sex making with the father and the protagonist himself, who were the remaining personalities of the family.

addition
　In the “Exodus” section, which is the main part of the sequel to this game work, Cat’s Paw Distortion Exodus2012), an important episode was developed that determined the thematic meaning of the game world involving the father and the protagonist himself, who had difficulty in making the status as sex partners under eroge procedure. Furthermore, in the individual parts of each character that can be played in parallel, the strategy route targeting Yuzu, a girl next door, functioned as one of the important axes for determining the ambiguous semantic construction mechanism of this game, which is centered on the identification of a certain personality status piercing through parallel universes. The dramaturgy evaluation of this “sequel,” which in many ways results in appropriating complementary elements to the preceding work, seems to require further examination.