"Star Li Research Institute" evaluation: graduate writing paper simulator

The subject matter of the Star Rite Institute is interesting, and it easily resonates with certain people. The author drew a girl in the game, the girl wore the most earthen purple sweater, and pink velvet pants, tied a ponytail, and concentrated in the research institute to fight for scientific research. From time to time, the girl's ponytail would also disappear, because in the process of rummaging through the literature, reading the literature, finding the subjects, and writing the paper, her hair, like a flash in the pan, a dozen dozen, quickly fell out.

Her mentor, on the other hand, radiated a red, aggressive light, his eyes drawn into a slanted triangle, also bloodstained. The head of the tutor has smooth lines, only two small pieces of black gathered on both sides, and the body is huge, which has the potential to mask the sky and the sun, and will say to the girl, "People should not do scientific research if they are alive?"

According to the steam store page, The Star Rite Institute is a retelling of the life of a psychology graduate student. The darkness in this research institute can stimulate the player's strong "interest" in psychological research. People who have read psychology can return to school by playing this game, tutors can understand students, and ordinary players can play and feel that life is really good now.

The gameplay of "Star Rite Research Institute" is relatively close to "simulator". Characters walk, chat, do some interaction that is not difficult, and you can finish the game in more than an hour. The whole work does not put much effort into the art and sound effects. The only sound that impressed me during the game was the crisp sound of the girl crying while hiding in the toilet.

In this game, hair is hard currency, it is magical, can be used to trade, buy and sell "subjects", buy and sell "data", usually players read literature, be pressed in front of the computer to calculate data, hair will continue to fall. And in order to regenerate hair, players also have to go to a fantasy, pick up seeds, grow a plant of hair, to fill their own head.

In addition to following the scientific process, players have two other shortcuts to take. One is to go to a small dark room and use hair to exchange a paper directly with a partner. But you may not know what the consequences of this action will be, and what the omissions in the paper may be. There is another kind, that is, after experiencing all kinds of difficulties, hardships, and cycles, you can choose to hide in the bathroom and cry. It was a very sultry cry, or rather a little dirty, and in crying, you might have cried out an essay.

In the normal scientific process, there are always complications. For example, if you immerse yourself in literature, and you finish a book, you will find that the article you just read does not seem to have any effect on your research. You go down the hall and you look for people, and you want them to settle down for your study and do a whole questionnaire, and they walk around and they ask you, "Do you get paid to fill out this questionnaire?" You can only say, "For the sake of science, for the sake of ideals, for the sake of mankind, let us struggle."

Later, when you analyze the data, there are always bugs that interfere from time to time, crawling around on your monitor. Writing a paper, writing, the body and the will can not carry, you lean to the right, from the seat fell down, eyes glazed, people more and more Meng. In the telephone room, the school also has a black fence decoration, every time you come here and talk to the outside world, it is like receiving a visit through the cage. My high school classmates in my hometown told you that I was going to get married, and you? Parents say to you, lack of clothes? Did you have a good time? Bestie and you said, my husband and I are going to divorce, you? Is it still an emotional blank?

After all this, the paper came out. But in the final step, the paper is submitted to the journal, and if it is rejected, your previous efforts will still be in vain. So the question is, in order to pass your hard-worked paper, are you willing to invest it in some journals that look like tabloid newspapers? But sometimes, even if you submit a paper to some obscure small journal, it does not mean that you can pass, and you may have to start again later.

Visually, The Star Rite Institute also creates an atmosphere similar to that of a horror game. Only in a circle beside the girl, the line of sight is clear, go a little further, if the day in the game is good, to the night, it is a dark piece of nothing to see, the whole feeling of walking in the abandoned hospital in the middle of the night, anyway, just a word, depressed.

Finally finish the paper, go to the tutor to ask for a reply. The tutor will tell you that this is just the beginning, people live for scientific research, scientific research is the way to realize the value of life, scientific research is the accelerator of sublimation of the soul. So, you want to drive, you want to escape. It's just a game, after all, and you open a dusty door in a research institute and run.

In terms of gameplay, the "Star Rite Institute" is actually obviously flawed. Its length, although there is a "play" part, but most of the time it gives people the feeling of "to the Moon" like an interactive novel. The player is in the identity of a bystander, watching the busy paper producers in the institute all day, and then produce some exclamations.

Consumable content also needs to be filled. If the player repeats some loops, interspersed with more empathetic details, such as interesting memes or jokes, it might be more friendly to players outside the "graduate" status. Or, as a reviewer on Steam said, I hope to join the "plagiarism/stealing results/teacher swallowing the name" and other Settings, such as the flattery option of the tutor's lofty sense of the teacher's beautiful sense, to supplement the capacity, the player's experience may be much better.

On the whole, the theme of "Star Li Research Institute" is very novel, and on Weibo, a message about "Star Li Research Institute" has been forwarded more than 20,000 times, which has struck a chord with many players in the comment area. On the website indienova, the author of "Star Ceremony Research" revealed that the game sold only 7 copies on the first day of Steam, but under the heat of subsequent related topics, the game eventually sold more than 4,000 copies in a week or so. Considering the volume of the game, this should be a good achievement.

Combined with the success of "Chinese Parents" and "Great Fairy Simulator" in the past two years, perhaps for small domestic studios, whether the game genre has its own topic has become a significant factor. For example, the author of "Great Fairy Simulator" once said in an interview that some players did not even understand the type of gameplay in advance, and simply aimed at "fairy repair". And the Star Rite Institute, to a certain extent, has this quality.