The reality of virtual games (spoilers, be careful)

Roger 2022-01-14 08:01:46

I watched a thriller tonight, "Stay Alive", about a group of young people caught in a horror online game. However, when the characters they played died, the players in reality couldn't escape death.

An experienced game tester accidentally got a set of mysterious computer games released underground. Soon, he was found to have died tragically in a locked room inexplicably.

A group of friends came to attend the funeral, unintentionally finding this death-survival game based on a notorious aristocratic murderer in 15th century Europe: "Bloody Lady". Naturally, this group of super game fans can't wait to start the game.

At the beginning of the game, it goes back to the evil allusion that "Bloody Ladies" killed hundreds of young girls and bathed them with their blood in order to stay youthful. The night owls who are excited about the fake and real game environment never expected that every step of their operation would lead their lives to the path of no return, not to mention that the nightmare would be annihilated from the light of their survival when they pressed the START button.

As the game progressed unstoppable, the players whose characters were manipulated died in the game were killed one by one in reality in a corresponding manner. The legendary "Bloody Lady" seems to have crossed the boundary between virtual and reality. . The remaining players have to get the strategy as soon as possible, fight against the horrible "bloody lady", win this game full of blood and curses, and survive.

I feel that the plot is pretty good, a bit of "Battle Royale", but it is far less real and bloody. Probably the Japanese are pursuing that kind of shocking touch. This "Stay Alive" deals with the game scenes in a real way. People are eager to live in the virtual and are fighting against evil spirits. When I watched the movie, I thought that if I played this one myself, it would be exciting, but it would be more fearful. Because, in the dark there will always be eyes looking at you. Just like that cut-throat game developer, his heartbeat, he is not dead but he has smelled death.


However, there were a few bugs in the film, and there was no explanation in the post. After all, it was produced at a low cost, and the handling of certain plots was unreasonable and unclear. In terms of the horror plot, the sound effects are not realistic, but the evil spirit dolls covered with maggots, the black life-deathing carriage, and the dimensional space that resembles Silent Hill are all small contributions.


The funniest thing is to count the little boy, because he left for a while and the character in the game was close to death. When he hurried to the car to prepare to operate, the car door was closed, so he ran to the car window desperately to reach the gamepad , Finally pressing a button, the character jumped away and escaped the crush of the carriage. However, when he smashed the car window and played the game again, the surrounding suddenly turned black and the atmosphere was abnormal. This is a sign that the character is about to be killed in reality, so he cursed: "Fuck! This is cheating! I'm here. It's not dead in the game yet!" So he fled.

Later, I think about it, this passage seems to be cursing those who are used as cheating devices in online games... It seems that the screenwriter is also a game fan.

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Stay Alive quotes

  • Phineus Bantum: I beta-tested for a while. It sucked. It's kinda like eating a beav - it's awesome at first, then it's just goddamn monotonous.

  • Phineus Bantum: [describing Abigail] Girl has got body karate going on.

    October Bantum: Shut up.