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4.64 average rating based on 11 ratings
Serial Experiments Lain for PSX update 2: Do I have the spoons for this? Do I have the spiritual will to scrub through all these menus? Do I have the mental strength to accept the fact that indeed, the kids are not alright?
Can I accept the fact that Lain Iwakura is painfully real? That her therapist, Touko, is a person I've met before? That in every fault, ever malicious deed, in every mournful cry for help is the voice of somebody I know, somebody I am? In exploring these people you take part of them with yourself, and as they begin to rot so do you. Identity, technology, delusions, connection and lactose intolerance all tied up in a neat little bow before being smudged away like a stain thumbed off a countertop.
Yeah, this "game" is doing things to the chemicals in my brain.
This game demands you work for it. It is deeply stressful, painfully intimate and as dense as a psychology textbook. It's is less of a game and more of an "interactive experience"-- Less so a piece of media and more so a person.
It is playable, fully translated right here.

I plan to review it. When it's over, I suspect I'll have to take some time to mourn. This isn't something you just walk away from. It's something you carry with you for a long, long time.