Will add a pic as soon as I have access to anything besides this iPad.
Since Urotsuki's dreams have such inconstancy, no universal theme, and don't seem to be related to each other, it's hard to form a theory about her. But I have one.
Urotsuki played Yume Nikki, and wanted to have lucid dreams like her. However, since she was a middle-to-upper class person with no traumatic experiences, she didn't have very interesting dreams.
So she used a program on her computer to absorb the brain waves of other dreamers and emit them into Urotsuki's dreams. One who was afraid of spiders, one who feared clowns, another with a bad experience with a teacher... They all were absorbed and the dreams now contained Urotsuki instead of the original dreamers. The computer has too much influence on the dreams to be unrelated. The ^v^ game has some trance-inducing qualities, too.
It's worth noting that a majority of the dreams are bad dreams. There are also some which may not have a overtly nightmarish setting but are just bad for some reason. (For example, the Shinto shrine. And Geometry World, which is TOO WEIRD.) I'm sure you've actually had a dream like that once. The few that aren't, like Mushroom World (I always loved that place because of this) will eventually lead to a real nightmare if you explore enough. (Grimdark Mushroom World is still pretty happy, ironically, but some of the other places aren't so friendly.) There's also Japan Town, which is a bit creepy to get to, and, while it isn't particularly scary on its own, everywhere you can go from there is, which adds a new dimension to the place. Swamp World is nice, but it gets odd. And let's not forget the Fairytale Window... Anyway, Urotsuki's computer mostly captures bad dreams. Like a reverse dreamcatcher! Urotsuki seems to find it important that there at least be a few nice dreams, for all the better the shock when she gets to a creepy part.
Urotsuki's fake apartment is her normal dreams with a subversive tint; like no computer, or balcony access. There's also the different chasers dreamt up by different people all ganging up on Dream Urotsuki, the conglomeration of it all. The other rooms in her apartment too; the neighbors which she knew little about were now abominations; the Uboa-like event and the pregnant woman for example.
Urotsuki seems to consider her adventures to be a game; her trophy room shows this. She adjusts her dreams using her "tools" menu, and her wallpapers are commemorative of her various dreams. But, occasionally, she has a dream that is too scary even for her. She still is riveted by the experience, however.
Note how the one who gives Urotsuki the Boy effect is an outline. Urotsuki needed a "Boy" persona for some of the dreams, so one of the actual dreamers gives it to her. But, since his dream is now about Urotsuki, he's an outline. And the Boy effect is Urotsuki with boy hair, with a B on her shirt to drive the point home.
The nexus in this game isn't like Yume Nikki's nexus where it seems like it is different aspects of one world, or like .flow's where it seems to be different areas; they seem to actually lead to different worlds.
Well, that's all I could possibly discern for such a mashed-up game.
Last edited 11/06/10(Fri)18:33.