17 July

Game Study Muv-Luv Alternative: Latter part

Muv-Luv Alternative Latter part
　In the course of lecture, I was only able to follow the progress until the coup d’etat on Dec. 6th.
　With the advent of BETA during training on Dec. 10th, the game Muv-Luv Alternaive will reveal its true nature as a depressive game. Please play the video clips for yourself to check that out. Here are some tips for appreciation and reflection.

Breakdown and retry
In the episode on December 10, which reveals the sudden BETA attack during a tactical surface fighter OS function comparison exercise, the catastrophic setback of the protagonist Shirogane is depicted, who is unable to play the character of the capable savior he has been trying to establish until now, in a new situation where what he has previously experienced and learned is completely useless. The essence of Muv-Luv, which is called a “depression game”, will be started around this episode. It’s going to be a long and painful story, but that’s the true essence of Muv-Luv. It is a common behavior for adults who are old and mentally weak to respond hardships, unable to bear the burden of the problems at the root of the world and escaping into the trivialities of actual life, but this erotic game does not run away from reality or from fundamental principles.

Flee back to the original world and be expelled again
On December 10 (from December 13 to December 17 in the original world), the details of sufferings experienced by Takeru is depicted.
He is forced to go through a horrific experience in his original world, and undergoes a cruel transition from being a “bystander who saves the world” to being “the one who brought evil to the world.” As the realization of the harsh actuality after awakening from the delusion envisioned in subjectivity, the same spiritual experience can actually come to any of us.
After losing everything, Takeru is mentally reborn, and he returns to this world again and starts over as a weakling.
Returning to this world again, Takeru is informed of the completion of Unit 00 and finally finds out the whereabouts of Sumika. The date of this world is December 17th, and the following date around December 18th, is the start of this game’s “philosophical theme”.
These serious episodes are the essence of this game, so it’s a good idea to check them out for yourselves by playing them on the gaming computer in the 13th floor assembly room.

Innovation as an “erotic game”
Invention of new targets and Philosophy and Metaphysics for Eroticism
In the December 19 episode, the unknown elements of the ecological interpretation of BETA that are completely incomprehensible to common sense are rather strikingly and realistically revealed. In the December 20 episode, the change in the design philosophy of the tactical surface fighter, which had to be dealt with as a technical consideration to deal with a new type of BETA, was discussed in great logical detail. Both episodes were densely packed with abstract content that was very difficult to express as a video with no screen movement, but the basic setting was solid, so it was rather worth watching the more. Even if it is a video game, it does not need to express everything in video. While those two episodes proved that the conceptual description with text data alone is sufficient for appreciation, behind the scenes, the deepening of the relationship between Takeru and 00 Unit is also told at the same time. Unit 00 turned out to be the final weapon that projected Sumika’s personality on it.
In the December 21 episode, a tactical understanding of the significance of formations in the hive invasion exercises, was depicted through conversations with fellow members of the newly added squad.
After these behind-the-scenes recaps, we get to the December 22 episode, which finally gives us a path to future developments that anticipate the outcome of the game's story, as well as further revelations of previously hidden facts. This will be developed in the form of a re-presentation of the method of understanding the concept of “self-identity re-verification” that the existential propensity of the completed 00 Unit Sumika manifests. In order to construct a unique capture target and to prepare with a final capture stage that is unparalleled in the previous erotic games, Muv-Luv Alternative, chooses a bold presentation that goes beyond the framework of empirical understanding of the concept of “personality identity piercing through multi-world ” based on the supracosmological hypothesis of inter-world information propagation. Muv-Luv Alternative proved to be a very heavy duty “erotic game”.