Immediately, however, Ib sees that Garry is not like her. Garry, the male character that Ib meets first, is initially presented as someone just like Ib: an outsider to Guertena's gallery of horrors who stumbled into the art gallery by another entrance. Thus, Ib is the audience of the game at large, us who are expected to experience the drama between these two people and undergo a potential change in opinion.

Ib enters the abyssal gallery voluntarily, gets stuck, and although silent, is clearly entranced by the gallery's otherworldly sights and clearly afraid of the gallery's horrors and wants to go home. As is typical for the RPG horror genre, she doesn't talk except to advance the plot. Ib, the nine year old girl representing the player, is the human embodiment of the player's choices. However, as with analysis of any creative work, the material relevance of such a work is always found in the correspondence of such archetypes to the world we live.

They seem more like Platonic idealized forms, character archetypes more than real people. The Game Ib and Mary-ism, a Materialist Analysis.ĪT first glance, the game Ib's 3 central characters seem to have nothing to do with a materialist understanding of the world.

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