The pixel-style love visual novel “BLACK BOX LSS – The Shining Eternal” was released for free on Steam last weekend and received excellent reviews. This series is the precursor work of the independent game developer “BLACK BOX LSS” series, and another work ” The Steam store page of BLACK BOX LSS – Loving Rescuer has also been opened.
The story of “BLACK BOX LSS – The Shining Eternal” describes the male protagonist Ronnie working as a technical staff in a technology company called “3456”. The reason why he joined this company is to fulfill the dream he admired in his heart as a child 11 years ago. The promise made by a woman is the company’s TD technical chief, Miss “3456” (3456) – a prosthetic whose whole body has been transformed into a human body, leaving only her brain as a human being.
This work starts from Luo Ni’s perspective. Through an elevator accident, Luo Ni finally finds a chance to meet Miss 3456, and the two become closer in an instant.
The game itself is a general visual novel. Choice options will appear during the dialogue. Some options may lead to different endings, but these options are not that important in the early stage…
Because, even if you make the wrong choice and reach the ending, you can still go back to the last choice and continue advancing the story.
The most exciting thing about the game itself is the presentation of the story screen, with dialogues and narratives that are closely connected with pictures and texts like a waterfall of information, but also lively.
What’s even better is that the characters’ portraits will change according to the mood of the story, rather than being static. Small pictures are interspersed from time to time to make the reading of the text and the pictures more vivid.
The plot of the story is that Luo Ni wants to get close to Miss 3456 with respect and admiration, but is afraid of being disliked by her. Step by step, she brings out the past between Luo Ni and 3456.
By the way, Luo Ni in the story is now 24 years old, and Sansi Wuliu is 197 years old. This is a love story between old and young with a gap of 173 years.
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— fif (@mffffv) October 10, 2023
The romance visual novel “BLACK BOX LSS – The Shining Eternal” drawn by Chinese game developer fif has been released for free on Steam on October 20.
Just like the title of the game “BLACK BOX LSS – The Shining Eternal”, this exactly describes the mood of the male protagonist Luo Ni.
At the beginning of the story, Luo Ni quickly recalled the story of meeting 3456 at the Lunar Museum when he was 13 years old. At that time, 3456 praised Luo Ni’s talent and hoped that he could work in his company in the future.
Taking this as an opportunity, Luo Ni worked hard and became a talented scientific and technical personnel, and his field of expertise is the transformation of the enhanced human (Cybrog) interface. In other words, the background of the story is actually set in the cyberspace The high-tech future of punk.
The heroine 3456 of the story is actually an enhanced person who has lived for nearly two centuries. Her whole body has been replaced by enhanced prosthetics. Only her brain is the only part of her that is human. This setting is equivalent to The same heroine as “Ghost in the Shell”.
However, the difference is that 3456 is a very famous scientist who has spent her life studying the transplantation of human prostheses, and her ultimate hope is to build an external device that can transplant the brain. In a sense, once realized, Human beings can achieve eternal life.
In the story, 3456 revealed that the reason why she worked hard on research was because she was afraid of death, because death had taken away the people she valued around her, but she also knew clearly that her remaining brain was degenerating.
However, such serious ethical story issues were not discussed in the early stages of the game, but focused on Luo Ni’s own inner unrequited love for 3456.
Yes, even though she has an afro hairstyle, 3456’s career achievements and her mature words and deeds all deeply attracted Luo Ni – including Luo Ni’s accidental contact with 3456’s artificial body.
Gradually, Luo Ni’s admiration gradually turned into desire, and the contradiction between rationality and sensibility constantly impacted the thoughts in his mind.
The most interesting thing in the story is the “haunting on the 15th floor” incident that was reported among 3456 companies at the beginning.
At the beginning, several employees discussed that an employee of the company had a public dispute with Ms. 3456. Although he was subdued by 3456 on the spot, the employee unexpectedly disappeared afterwards. At the same time, there was a suspicious letter in the stairwell from the 15th floor to the top floor. After the apology message, many people suspected that the missing employee might have committed suicide and turned into a ghost lingering on the 15th floor.
But where are the remains of those who committed suicide? The answer was quickly given in the middle of the story: Luo Ni kidnapped the employee who offended 3456.
Even though it is a crime to imprison others, Luo Ni, who deeply loves 3456, does not care so much. He only hopes to exclude anyone who harms 3456. At the same time, he also hopes to help 3456 realize the brain transplant plan, and his values are also in line with his own. Unlucky family origins are associated.
In this way, it seemed that Luo Ni was lucky enough to get a chance to get along with 3456 during the elevator failure incident. Not only did she successfully get her contact information, but the two of them also unexpectedly had a lot of interactions afterwards.
Among them, when Luo Ni realizes that she is actually younger than 3456’s adopted son, her inner complex emotions allow this work to bring out the elements of a romantic comedy.
The story of the trial version of “BLACK BOX LSS – The Shining Eternal” has only 3 chapters, and the entire story can be quickly passed within an hour. Although it is a romantic comedy on the surface, it actually brings out many human issues worth pondering.
Can such a twisted approach really give Luo Ni what he wants? Players who are interested in the final ending of the story can actually play the game again.
