funny story i fell asleep to this video and heard giggling in a disturbing ass nightmare and woke up and still heard it just to find out it was Lain and it scared the shit out of me
Reminds me of the time my parents were listening to Sword and Scale I fell asleep and was hearing it in the background while watching someone getting killed
If it can bring any comfort: when I was watching the anime for the first time I had a dream (more a nightmare ) where I had found this device shaped like an old mp3 player, though which, I could speak with a digitalized human soul that insisted on the fact that he was the trapped soul of Elon Musk. That’s the effect this anime had on me 😐🥲
it's insane how a simple game of listening to audio files can be so good at portraying uncomfortable feelings and mental illness, some details like lain laughing in the background at some of touko's diary entries are genuinely scary even though it's so simple
I love the way you made this SO accesible to newer fans, seriously. I always appreciate things like these, bc seriously the game is so unaproachable to new fans. However I do want to add, (this is for ppl who have yet to see the full video), to also consider playing the game in a non-lineal order, (the game's level order I mean) since I feel like it also complements itself pretty nice, creating anticipation and explaining certain behaviours the characters have in future logs.
Exactly. This video was meant to show the Lain storyline in the most linear/cohesive way, but it is also recommended for new fans to play and experience the game as it is: a non-linear narrative (this also have a important meaning to the narrative).
dont think touko was supposed to be a psychiatrist like.. at all. the moment lain displayed signs of being mentally ill she started screaming at her and berating her. she could only handle lain when she was "normal"
@@ConvertingMinds Once I typed the same kanji because I didn't know that I could write my name when I first time playing it! After a while when I decided to translate, it was called "Hihihihihi" or "ヒヒヒヒヒ" I don't wanna be called like that, even it would be sound hilarious if Lain says it. I wonder if I could change my name through save file but I'm scared it would crash the game and all my saved games! (whoops I replied to the wrong comment before, sorry emily!)
Wow, I just finished the anime and wanted to check out the game's gameplay to see how it approaches the same story. I thought this was just gonna be a 1:1 VN thingy and instead I am greeted by this experimental non-linear Goliath of obtuse interfaces and stylish, but clunky 90s PS1 futurism with so much godam lore, which is honestly a pleasant surprise. Even tho I have no fucking idea what is even going on tbh. lol Still, I really like how avant garde and unique this is. Thanks for sharing this play through
No. Some audios are locked by another audios, also, this order is very odd. "Almost random". It is part of the experience searching, unlocking the audios, getting lost and confused.
Thank you so much for this because I had stopped playing and lost track. So I'm really appreciative that you have the full game so more people can enjoy it.
@@ConvertingMinds I head about it much earlier than that, this anime was broadcast late at night in Spain's channel four ("Cuatro") in the early 2000s along with other interesting choices to play at four AM like Paranoia Agent. We knew about the game back then. I remember a friend that was self-taught japanese burned and played a pirate copy off the internet.
I've thought about studying psychology as a profession before but after seeing Touko's mental downfall because of her work I think I'm alright doing something else (I think actually her mental breakdown was caused by Yoshida and Lain messing with her at the same time plus her toxic workplace but whatever) fr tho that tachibana psychotherapy lab is shit. touko asked to stop treating lain more than 5 times... they should have sent her to another therapist
@@ConvertingMinds true. it's just sad to see how touko was unprepared to deal with lain's issues and that made things worse, for example when she discovered misato was an imaginary friend lain created, she reacted in a confrontational manner which probably made lain even more closed off/unwilling to actually be honest. touko should probably have asked to talk to her parents by now, through which she would understand they were going through a divorce. to be fair to touko though, she asked the lab a bunch of times to send lain to another therapist and it seems like they just ignore her. maybe the psychotherapy lab's shitty work ethics is to blame for all this lol
Yes. AI and neural networks already existed in the 20th century. There have already been experimental chatbots in this century. For example, "Eliza", a chatbot from 1966.
almost a year and I'm still watching it, only got to the 5th hour of this. it got to the point that i have started to learn Japanese, successfully, progress of English got to a unseen level. but to my dismal, enchanting atmosphere of lain doesn't attract me as much as before. but I'm still planning to finish it
This game looks vastly more complex than i ever had any idea of. I mean, 12 hours of brain wrenching content? I thought it was only an hour long at most. But damn, the creators really pulled out all the stops with it. Just like the anime itself
11:34:48 he says "医大になる" or "go to medical school", which i think is the thing written on the computer also something else but i can't catch it, it might be "...を今話すな" or "...stop talking" but it's hard to make out
Essa lore é uma obra prima, a atmosfera e simplesmente por ser tão fora da caixa me deixa intrigado. Agradeço desde já por ter feito as legendas em inglês e por ter colocado coerência na ordem da história. Let's all love Lain! :)
O jogo também tem legendas em PTBR. Eu cogitei em fazer um vídeo em português mas ia dar um trabalho bem grande. Se isso acontecer, irei fazer no nosso outro canal: Converting Minds: VNX+
And after days I'm done! Thank you for having done this I would not have the patience to play this myself, I liked how it's similar yet different enough from the anime so you don't feel like you are experiencing the same story in another format. now I'm going to watch the video with the extra audios.
i just got into lain and was curious about the game and found this! thank you for the upload, im going to try and watch all of it (im 2:30:00 in) might update with thoughts as i go along, so spoiler warnings for that. I really like this format of game, it kinda reminds me of the more modern game "her story".
@@pikitunch Dc1057 video name probably used the same "idea" from this book of Laing. Also, this is also some kind of the Serial Experiments Lain main motifs.
If you finished watching this video: there are remaing audio files that are not in this video. To watch the remaining Xa Files watch this video: ruclips.net/video/KDaMTqmJba0/видео.html
i thought you guys were just hating when you said touko was a wack therapist but jesus christ 😭 she really is terrible . i guess its a testament to the quality of the writing that it's established that touko and lain's relationship will go wrong so early in the story because she is leaning on a kid she's supposed to be treating for emotional support and friendship
@@LuureAmetI have things to do, I can't just spend an entire day watching this. It was really good though and I really enjoyed it without watching it non-stop.
During the recorded walkthrough I was "afraid" of a possible bug related with the last audios. Well, that wasn't even a bug, but I thought that sskn files were related with this.
I was looking for the gameplay and found only video clips from the game until I stumbled across this video. Now I see that IT IS gameplay, that would be considered just a menu in different game. Well, it's kind of expected for this kind of story. Hard to translate it into actual gameplay. Story itself is sort of good, but confusing just like anime. Some things hardly make sense. I like Lain's animations, they are adorable. Watching this made me want a daughter. What's up with TaK files, why is there so many and what's even the point? My favorite moment is when Lain goes to aduruto saito 4:54:28
The "gameplay" is extremely confusing by purpose, but this is also meaningful in the narrative. The TAK files (Talk files) are supposed to be Lain interactions with other people (and you) in the Wired.
The order was figured out by myself. It is not perfect. Some audios are linear locked by the game itself, and I tried to "avoid a bug" in the gameplay that actually don't existed. This resulted in some audios out of order.
spoiler-question why she haven't tried to find her daddy through the wired? i so glad she has enough competence to create some fucking robot, but for what? doesn't seem to have much of logic
She wanted hugs and don't feel lonely. But yes, this moment is strange, her father seemed to have evaporated. However, if I'm not mistaken, Lane said that she lost her memories of her father.
thank a lot, friend! awesome game, very unique atmosphere, though a little boring (i was watching it for 1 year). as i understood, watching all the content after 8th hour isn't mandatory? a see there's idle talk further without any impact on plot, right? and 2 questions: why ending with acid techo music was played multiple times? was that bug, or developers idea? if you know, how can i listen this adorable music from there? i can't find it-
funny story i fell asleep to this video and heard giggling in a disturbing ass nightmare and woke up and still heard it just to find out it was Lain and it scared the shit out of me
Welcome to the Wired.
this shit sounds like something out of lain
Reminds me of the time my parents were listening to Sword and Scale I fell asleep and was hearing it in the background while watching someone getting killed
i need to do this
If it can bring any comfort: when I was watching the anime for the first time I had a dream (more a nightmare ) where I had found this device shaped like an old mp3 player, though which, I could speak with a digitalized human soul that insisted on the fact that he was the trapped soul of Elon Musk.
That’s the effect this anime had on me 😐🥲
it's insane how a simple game of listening to audio files can be so good at portraying uncomfortable feelings and mental illness, some details like lain laughing in the background at some of touko's diary entries are genuinely scary even though it's so simple
I really love the idea of Lain throwing content into my face at a high speed
Wired vibes
Let's all love Lain!
Lain throwing blue beans at the screen will never not be funny
😅😅
She flings those little screens at us.
1:22:05 the therapist telling Lain to listen to what the voices are saying 💀💀💀 that's not a good sign
Thank you for playing the game this way! It's more or less lineal and feels like watching (or better to say listening to) a movie!
The story can be more easy to understand listening the audios in a more cohesive order (still, it is not going to be easy) 😍😍
I love the way you made this SO accesible to newer fans, seriously. I always appreciate things like these, bc seriously the game is so unaproachable to new fans. However I do want to add, (this is for ppl who have yet to see the full video), to also consider playing the game in a non-lineal order, (the game's level order I mean) since I feel like it also complements itself pretty nice, creating anticipation and explaining certain behaviours the characters have in future logs.
Exactly. This video was meant to show the Lain storyline in the most linear/cohesive way, but it is also recommended for new fans to play and experience the game as it is: a non-linear narrative (this also have a important meaning to the narrative).
I was starting to think that i was the only one that TRULY loved Lain.... its hands down my favorite anime...
Lain have its own unique fanbase 🤓🤓
Maybe one of the most interesting ones.
I can finally experience what i've been missing out on all these years
touko was not ready to be a psychiatrist. she could not handle when her patient showed mental illness in front of her and took it way too personal 😬
dont think touko was supposed to be a psychiatrist like.. at all. the moment lain displayed signs of being mentally ill she started screaming at her and berating her. she could only handle lain when she was "normal"
@@haunted-porcelain-doll yes.. even when lain was normal she became bored with her because she was unstudyable...
@@sweethomealabama6395RIGHT??? like GIRL pick a struggle😭😭
8:03:28 the fact she says your name here is just amazing... lain, your really ballin
Unfortunately I typed random kanjis in my username because I don't speak Japanese 🤣🤣
@@ConvertingMindsyea same i dont recognise some either 😂
@@ConvertingMinds Once I typed the same kanji because I didn't know that I could write my name when I first time playing it! After a while when I decided to translate, it was called "Hihihihihi" or "ヒヒヒヒヒ"
I don't wanna be called like that, even it would be sound hilarious if Lain says it. I wonder if I could change my name through save file but I'm scared it would crash the game and all my saved games!
(whoops I replied to the wrong comment before, sorry emily!)
Well ヒ is a Katakana character not Kanji but I get what you mean
@@_.aquatice5881its okey
poor touko asked her bosses to stop counseling lain 10 times already 💀💀💀jesus christ
🤣🤣
Wow, I just finished the anime and wanted to check out the game's gameplay to see how it approaches the same story. I thought this was just gonna be a 1:1 VN thingy and instead I am greeted by this experimental non-linear Goliath of obtuse interfaces and stylish, but clunky 90s PS1 futurism with so much godam lore, which is honestly a pleasant surprise. Even tho I have no fucking idea what is even going on tbh. lol
Still, I really like how avant garde and unique this is. Thanks for sharing this play through
Could the player really listen to all of these diary logs in any order?? This game seems insane ngl but I admire that. Imma keep watching
No. Some audios are locked by another audios, also, this order is very odd. "Almost random". It is part of the experience searching, unlocking the audios, getting lost and confused.
Playing this at 2am while stoned would be an *interesting* experience
12 mfin hours of lore. 12 HOURS.
🤓🤓
Half of it is walking sim
And here silly me always thought this game was a deep dive into Lain's fragile psyche.
I'm one hour in and I already wanna have a talk with Touko.
It is possible to see some of her personality aspects and issues through the story.
Thank you so much for this because I had stopped playing and lost track. So I'm really appreciative that you have the full game so more people can enjoy it.
this great opportunity for me to improve reading skills in English - over 10 hours of adorable content. soon I will watch it
Lots of Psychiatry jargons 🤩
@@ConvertingMinds i hope so:D
What a cute young lady. I hope she has a nice life and i certainly hope that nothing terrible happens to her
💀💀💀
Lain really went 💀
懐かしいゲーム、このゲームはまだ手放さずに保有してます。英訳は素晴らしく良い仕事だと思います。
Serial Experiments Lainのビジュアルノベルのコピーを持っているということですか？私もCDのコピーを持ちたいです。おめでとうございます。残念ながら、このビジュアルノベルは西洋で過去5〜10年の間に言及され始めたばかりです。
そんな事情でしたか、コピーも出回ってるんですね、いろんな規制や事情があって再販はとうていムリですもんね
@@ConvertingMinds I head about it much earlier than that, this anime was broadcast late at night in Spain's channel four ("Cuatro") in the early 2000s along with other interesting choices to play at four AM like Paranoia Agent. We knew about the game back then. I remember a friend that was self-taught japanese burned and played a pirate copy off the internet.
@@GalateaElegans I would want an original copy of the PS1 game 😅😅
The first full playthrough of this game on RUclips!
Thank you. I'm surprised the game is this long.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this for so long I can’t believe I just found it now … thank u beloved
Lain fans deserved this.
I've thought about studying psychology as a profession before but after seeing Touko's mental downfall because of her work I think I'm alright doing something else (I think actually her mental breakdown was caused by Yoshida and Lain messing with her at the same time plus her toxic workplace but whatever)
fr tho that tachibana psychotherapy lab is shit. touko asked to stop treating lain more than 5 times... they should have sent her to another therapist
Lots of psychologists have to deal with their own mental issues (and help their pacients to do so).
@@ConvertingMinds true. it's just sad to see how touko was unprepared to deal with lain's issues and that made things worse, for example when she discovered misato was an imaginary friend lain created, she reacted in a confrontational manner which probably made lain even more closed off/unwilling to actually be honest. touko should probably have asked to talk to her parents by now, through which she would understand they were going through a divorce. to be fair to touko though, she asked the lab a bunch of times to send lain to another therapist and it seems like they just ignore her. maybe the psychotherapy lab's shitty work ethics is to blame for all this lol
I've been looking for a full game play of this game
Thanks.
5:34:07 wow that kind of stuff already existed or at least was an idea back then? I thought it was a new concept
DALLE
Elevenlabs
ChatGPT
There are potentially thousands of Lains out there right now
Yes. AI and neural networks already existed in the 20th century. There have already been experimental chatbots in this century. For example, "Eliza", a chatbot from 1966.
7:54:57 oh that 4th wall break
Thank you for this. I was looking for a longplay after watching the show last year and was surprised there wasn't one.
almost a year and I'm still watching it, only got to the 5th hour of this. it got to the point that i have started to learn Japanese, successfully, progress of English got to a unseen level. but to my dismal, enchanting atmosphere of lain doesn't attract me as much as before. but I'm still planning to finish it
This game looks vastly more complex than i ever had any idea of. I mean, 12 hours of brain wrenching content? I thought it was only an hour long at most. But damn, the creators really pulled out all the stops with it. Just like the anime itself
The game started development before the anime, but the anime was finished/released first.
That's a fricken ASSload of work they were all doing at once then
NÓS TE AMAMOS LAIN
Obrigado pelo vídeo!
VAMOS TODOS AMAR A LAIN
☝️🤓
@@ConvertingMinds KKAKSAKSAKS EUAE
個人的にとても懐かしい作品なので。僕も同様です。配信された方に感謝してます。
@@琢也家田 不思議ですが、同じ気持ちを感じます。昨年このゲームを発見したばかりなのに。
10:44 it took me a while to realize I was listening to Touko's voice
2:45:09, no bullying, everybody is friendly, really? well i think she is surfing wrong internet
yeah the internet 30-40 years later 😅
Back when the anime was released the internet was different, smaller comunities, less normies.
@@GalateaElegans i wish normies weren't on the internet so us weirdos could just be ourselves without caring what others think
Touko is strange counselor, she is tend to blaming herself about not writing in dairy everyday, she has so depressive thoughts without a reason-
She got her job unprepared and the people at her work are jerks so that makes her mental state even worse
11:34:48 he says "医大になる" or "go to medical school", which i think is the thing written on the computer also something else but i can't catch it, it might be "...を今話すな" or "...stop talking" but it's hard to make out
Essa lore é uma obra prima, a atmosfera e simplesmente por ser tão fora da caixa me deixa intrigado. Agradeço desde já por ter feito as legendas em inglês e por ter colocado coerência na ordem da história. Let's all love Lain! :)
O jogo também tem legendas em PTBR. Eu cogitei em fazer um vídeo em português mas ia dar um trabalho bem grande. Se isso acontecer, irei fazer no nosso outro canal: Converting Minds: VNX+
@@ConvertingMinds Ahhh, que surpresa um BR!!!!
@@ConvertingMindstomara q acontece
é um olho no video e outro no tradutor
And after days I'm done! Thank you for having done this I would not have the patience to play this myself, I liked how it's similar yet different enough from the anime so you don't feel like you are experiencing the same story in another format. now I'm going to watch the video with the extra audios.
Indeed, the game design choices may not be so "friendly", it requires lots of trial and error.
i just got into lain and was curious about the game and found this! thank you for the upload, im going to try and watch all of it (im 2:30:00 in) might update with thoughts as i go along, so spoiler warnings for that. I really like this format of game, it kinda reminds me of the more modern game "her story".
i really enjoyed "Cou33" at around 2:57:00 ! I think the idea and explanation was really interesting, i might check out that book by laing!
Her Story _probably_ was inspired by Serial Experiments Lain.
@@pikitunch Dc1057 video name probably used the same "idea" from this book of Laing. Also, this is also some kind of the Serial Experiments Lain main motifs.
Thank you for puting this together
Leaving a reminder 3:02:34
My God, Lain, is an all loving & all powerful God.
Praise Lain.
Let's all love Lain. 💖✨
The ending to this game still haunts me.
Welcome to the Wired!
If you finished watching this video: there are remaing audio files that are not in this video.
To watch the remaining Xa Files watch this video: ruclips.net/video/KDaMTqmJba0/видео.html
That link for the remaining .XA files seems to be dead.
@@haloslayer255 It is now fixed.
🙏
i thought you guys were just hating when you said touko was a wack therapist but jesus christ 😭 she really is terrible . i guess its a testament to the quality of the writing that it's established that touko and lain's relationship will go wrong so early in the story because she is leaning on a kid she's supposed to be treating for emotional support and friendship
Alternative game title: Free robux ends bad
After a week I am almost at the halfway point- five hours and fifty-six minutes to go!
You know there is 24 hours in a sycle of day and this is just 11hr,s half of that,
@@LuureAmetI have things to do, I can't just spend an entire day watching this. It was really good though and I really enjoyed it without watching it non-stop.
man, you're legend for doing this, holy shit almost 12 hours!!!
Let's All Love Lain
getting the sskn files before going through site a (level 1-3) or b (level 4-6) will make the story pretty linear
During the recorded walkthrough I was "afraid" of a possible bug related with the last audios. Well, that wasn't even a bug, but I thought that sskn files were related with this.
2:50:07 welcome to the net :)
I wish they have this on English dub, it would be nice to listen to it instead of reading
Yea
Thank you very much for playing the game like this!! This game is crazy!! I loved it.
PD: Let's all love Lain!!
holy shit, the movie data thing in counseling session 53 (7:26:23) absolutely took me apart!! this game is so insane
1:18:34 Lain's laugh is so cute. it sounds like mine a bit XD
currently i'm at 2:30:45
2:04:11 puberty start here
this game fells like an ARG
Damn, she's relatable.
7:10 (saving for later though I didn’t get far, lain has tea with counselor of some kind, she dislikes milk)
2:52:50 reminded me of kurumi lol
Saving where I left off for myself: 1:06:19
Todo mundo deixando marcadores no vídeo kkk
Jus leaving a reminder 44:31
1:10:38 first lain image
saving where i left off 2:04:01 !
I love this game !!
I was looking for the gameplay and found only video clips from the game until I stumbled across this video. Now I see that IT IS gameplay, that would be considered just a menu in different game.
Well, it's kind of expected for this kind of story. Hard to translate it into actual gameplay. Story itself is sort of good, but confusing just like anime. Some things hardly make sense.
I like Lain's animations, they are adorable. Watching this made me want a daughter.
What's up with TaK files, why is there so many and what's even the point?
My favorite moment is when Lain goes to aduruto saito 4:54:28
The "gameplay" is extremely confusing by purpose, but this is also meaningful in the narrative.
The TAK files (Talk files) are supposed to be Lain interactions with other people (and you) in the Wired.
@@ConvertingMinds thanks, fellow Vikintor fan
@@cold_warrior he is a fellow Brazilian Game Dev 👊👊👊
Which time was the part where she laughed maniacally?
Thanks
ELEVEN HOURS?!?! DAAAAAAMN
Have u figured out the order yourself ? Or are there forums out there that helped? Still it felt like some were not in order, is it wanted?
The order was figured out by myself. It is not perfect. Some audios are linear locked by the game itself, and I tried to "avoid a bug" in the gameplay that actually don't existed. This resulted in some audios out of order.
1:58:35 saving it
7:46:51
5:37:37
no turning point
9:38:27 this section of the game is basically lain's tweets
2:01
dont mind this comment im doing sum soundfont stuff
file name "nega feeling" sound cool
There is also the "Posi feelings" tag 😅
ikr?
6:08:00 woahh Lain u wildin
😅😅😅
6:40:41 time mark for later
ill try my best.
spoiler-question
why she haven't tried to find her daddy through the wired? i so glad she has enough competence to create some fucking robot, but for what? doesn't seem to have much of logic
She wanted hugs and don't feel lonely.
But yes, this moment is strange, her father seemed to have evaporated. However, if I'm not mistaken, Lane said that she lost her memories of her father.
Hi, in what sequence should i play the files? im really confused
8:06:30 Dc1057
7:43:45 is scared shit of me when I woke up
Did you add the captions yourself, or is there a way to get it on the game?
The lainTSX version and the "Simplified" version have subtitles in multiple languages.
What is the song in the intro? It’s very nice!
thank a lot, friend! awesome game, very unique atmosphere, though a little boring (i was watching it for 1 year).
as i understood, watching all the content after 8th hour isn't mandatory? a see there's idle talk further without any impact on plot, right?
and 2 questions: why ending with acid techo music was played multiple times? was that bug, or developers idea?
if you know, how can i listen this adorable music from there? i can't find it-
11:31:30
"¿Una cajeta?"
6:07:21 You what O_o
I know my unpaitient ahh is not going to watch the whole video, but its cool to hear younger lain. Almost watched 2 hours already
Watching in 2x speed makes it essier
😥
Am I crazy or is the video linked in the description just this video?
It is now fixed.
6:47 is that all they said there?
2:36:54 (nice video)
cool!
7:20
7:20:00
Bookmark 29:40
Do you know where the song from this video is? ruclips.net/video/mgkSv_18nm8/видео.html
Is it from the actual game?
Probably from the game. Or maybe from a 90's artist...
Subahibi oynamanı öneririm
sooo what is the big cyborg body later in the game?
Best father ever 🤣🤣
6:07:20 eeeew duuuuude
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
6:30:36
Toko is such a horrible therapist lol
03:24:00