Fair enough tbh, can't say otherwise since I'd be a hypocrite since I've complained about recent games being movies, rather than games myself.
True, I like Lain and have watched it all because I'm a fan of what it had to say without having to think too hard about it, watching it can be like a fever dream but when you realize what serial lain represents it's neat and the way that it predicted what the internet would turn into when the anime was made in 1999 is foreboding since lain means to represent human connection and the separation of reality and the internet, showing it to be a dangerous thing if you choose to live in a dream rather than be able to step into reality. I've always loved Yoshitoshi Abe's work, especially an anime called "Haibane Renmei" which will always be a masterpiece and a favorite of mine next to serial experiment's lain.
I've gone by the name Reki for some time which most of my friends refer me by on my platforms like Discord, would high recommend Haibane Renmei since it's short, and a really beautiful story and piece of art.
I loved the PS1 lain game because it's the "bad ending" to it's anime counterpart, basically the "what if Lain didn't have
Alice Mizuki in her life to remind her that she's human through human connection?" question being displayed for us to see - making it the flip side of the same coin. I could go on and on about both the anime and the game but this is enough autism for now.
- There was also a website known as System Space / "The Tsuki Project" that was based around serial experiment's lain which I was an early member of and also one of the first 1k members, it seemed like a novel place until it was revealed to have been possibly linked to a few actual suicides before the website shut down for good, but it was a really artistic website when it was around and there's a lot of videos covering it. It's fascinating to me how many things are inspired by Lain from it's community, at least those who have actually seen the anime and consumed the media. Don't think System Space was meant to be taken seriously but of course there's going to be those who are actually mentally ill who will use something like a website as their final push, unfortunate for those who lost sense of reality.
Because of System Space I also learned about a cool game called "Event 0." since the website had been using the song "Hey Judy" from the game as their opening screen welcoming audio, which was oddly fitting.
