There’s a strange feedback loop in this game: the discomfort of its cryptic, glitchy navigation (the pleasure of solving it). The static hiss through earbuds (painful high end, but right ). Lain’s monotone dissociating while you, the player, push her toward the Wired’s raw nerve.
Lain sat on the floor of her bedroom, the glowing screen of her handheld device casting a harsh, artificial light over her pale face. The device was an experimental mod of the Navi, a compact "Portable" unit labeled with a jagged, handwritten sticker: v03 . pain and pleasure v03 smasochist lain portable
Handheld versions allow fans to experience the dense, often disturbing narrative of the Lain universe in a private, intimate setting. There’s a strange feedback loop in this game:
