在阅读了《鲁滨孙漂流记》之后，我发现其内容与当今世界的生存游戏非常相似。因为他们都有一系列主要任务，一个相同的过程——使用有限的资源来生活，以及一个类似的结局——逃离。
在情节的最开始，总是有一个过渡期来保护新手，系统（或故事作者）将提供一些帮助来帮助主角（或游戏玩家）适应奇怪的环境。例如，提供一些有各种必需品的沉船，以协助主角踏上岛屿。在适应之后，系统将促使主角默默地探索地图，然后游戏才真正开始。此外，主角可能会接受一些改善生活条件方面的支线任务，但如果不完成，也不会产生太大的影响。例如，鲁宾逊在岛上驯化了山羊并拯救了西班牙人等等。然而，星期五拯救并协助船长重新控制船只，则算是主线任务，这通常意味着它会影响该剧情的发展。
为什么《鲁宾逊漂流记》可以被视为一个游戏？鲁宾逊是多么幸运的一个男人，你会不自觉地认为他的命运像是安排好了的，如同游戏中的角色一般早就被系统安排好了命运。但鲁宾逊会发现他自己是处于笛福设计好的游戏中吗？不。而我们又该怎样做才能通过所谓的命运或其他什么东西来辨别到自身是否处于游戏之中？事实上，我们是否身在笼中并不重要。现实是什么？鲁宾逊漂流记的世界，对我们来说是虚拟文学，对他来说却是现实。游戏里的角色也是如此。虽然在故事中，鲁宾逊拒绝了家人的安排，而选择在海上航行。这是命运，也是他的选择，是冥冥之中他必走的路，但也是遵从他内心的选择。因此，生命对我们自己来说哪怕也只是一场游戏，但更重要的是我们内心如何做出选择。
（译自我阅读课的读书笔记，中文版有改动，以下为原文）
Reading Robinson Crusoe in Game Perspective
After reading Robinson Crusoe, I found that its content is very similar to the survival video games in today’s world. Because both of them have a series of main missions, a same process – use limited sources to live on and a similar ending.
At the very beginning of the plot, there is always a transitional period to protect the green hand that the system (Or the writer in the story) will offer some helps to assist the protagonist (Or the player in the game) to adapt the strange environment. For example, send some shipwreck with various necessities in order to assist the protagonist to foot on the island. After the adaptation, the system will impel the protagonist silently to explore the map, then the game truly starts. Besides, the protagonist may accept some side missions which will improve the living conditions but it’ll affect nothing if the protagonist won’t do it. For instance, Robinson had domesticated goats in the island and saved the Spanish man, etc. However, saving Friday and assisting captain to re-control the ship, they belong to the main mission which means it will influence the development of the plot.
Why I’ll consider Robinson Crusoe as a game is because Robinson is so lucky a man that you would unconsciously think anything upon him had been arranged by someone already just like playing a survival video game. But would Robinson Crusoe discover that he is in a game designed by Defoe? No. And how can we realize whether we are in the game setting by what-so-called fate or anything else? But it is not really matter whether we’re in the cage or not. What is the reality? Robinson Crusoe’s world, which is a virtual literature for us, is the reality to him. So does the player in the game space. Although in the game, Robinson denied the fate given by family and chose to sail on the sea. It is the fate and also the choice made by him. Thus, life is a game for ourselves and what is important is our inner mind chose to be.
（首发于网易蜗牛读书）
