The meaning of a meta game

Zhao Lei began to explore different routes and tried different outcomes. He even deliberately chose the opposite route.

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If Stanley didn't choose to go to the boss and kept going downstairs, then he would fall into an endless loop. Stanley would start to dream and eventually fall into madness.

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At an office table by the window, Stanley could get out of the window and land outside, entering a pure white space.

However, this wasn't a BUG, because the caption would remind you that this was part of the game, and it also added some self-deprecation.

[At first, Stanley thought that he destroyed the map, but it wasn't until he heard the narration that he realized that this was part of the game. He then praised the game's profound and humorous criticism of the video game architecture, as well as its attempt at a metaphor for the narrative structure.

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