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1 month agoI wasn’t aware of that community but I’m gonna look into it now
Legendsofanus
My fav RPG is Morrowind
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Yeah, I’m glad you caught on it buddy. :3
Okay guy status report: I finished the game yesterday, wrote this review and kept thinking about what to play next and also worrying about finding a job; fell asleep early because of all the brainload.
Woke up this morning and I think I get it, Henry went to Shoshone to get away from real life and find an adventure and the fact that the game lies to you internally and externally just hit me today. Internally, Henry never gets his life changing experience and even though he meets Delilah it’s pretty much confirmed by the ending dialogue that he will go back, live his life and eventually forget about this one person he met on a two month job. Externally, the game feels like it’s an escape from mundanity and is an adventure but then it turns out to mostly be an on-rails walking simulator where you as a don’t even get to chop a tree yourself because all the animations are automated and the game doesn’t even let you fish!
It’s an exercise in deliberate expectation subversion and makes me feel sad about the whole experience. I think much of my criticism about the gameplay still stands but I get the storytelling a bit more now and would like to bump up the rating to a 7/10
TL;DR: I just realized I’m like Henry trying to escape life.
That sounds so cool
Also would love any recommendations for something to play next
I think I just had overblown expectations for it and I agree that I might have been harsh to the game by talking mostly about the gameplay. Mostly just wanted to get across what I experienced as I was playing it. The small annoyances, frustrations and even delights like the opening sequence that might not seem like a cohesive whole of this game but are still worth mentioning
Maybe one day I’ll replay it and be better situated to appreciate it more
Such a shame man since this was really high on my playlist for a number of years.
Not really, the only other walking sim I have played also came out in 2016 and it’s called “The Town of Light.” I enjoyed that one
It’s about a girl going through her experiences in a mental asylum in Italy and has a very realistic grounded setting (based on a real hospital). I have a review on it in this sub
There was another game I played which I can’t remember the name of, it’s more liminal space puzzle solving than walking sim but it uses it’s setting to tell the blossoming and downfall of a relationship really well. Would love to play that one again
That’s awesome dude, Pet Sematary was dreadful. For me it was IT that made me cry, I haven’t read The Stand yet
I have more than a few of his books on my reading list but have been spacing them out between other ones. Bought The Stand, The Shining and Eye of the Dragon too
That’s so cool dude, I’ll check it out when I start the DT books
So you mean the DT universe is so massive that the literal creator of the universe where Earth is is just one of the guardians?
“There is a Tower, he thought. It holds everything together. There are Beams that protect it somehow. There is a Crimson King, and Breakers working to destroy the Beams… not because the Breakers want to but because it wants them to. The Crimson King.” - Hearts in Atlantis, Low Men in Yellow Coats, Chapter 10
I think the beam is referenced a lot in IT but had no idea what it meant since I haven’t been to the Tower yet.
“Before removing the mote in thy neighbor’s eye, attend the beam in thine own” - IT (drawing on it from memory so might be a little different)
spoiler
It was a strange ending all right. The text made it read like it was Sudhir who comes into the room at night but having it be Padmini is just way more nasty and feels more shocking for some reason.
There’s even a horror/unnerving element to it when we realize that Padmini is the reason why Sudhir locked his room ever night and called it a “force of habit”. Padmini sounds sexually repressed as hell, she doesn’t even see who’s in bed and starts humping them, I think her childlike behaviour and her marriage meant that she was probably raped every night without understanding what was happening to her and thought to herself that this is just one of her duties.
It’s not a duty she likes so she gets sullen and distanced when Sudhir who (I think correctly) Nidhi thinks reminds her of her husband.
Sudhir probably likes girls who are smart but not too smart, he is clearly annoyed by Nidhi and there’s also the fact that he talks to her about sleeping in his room after bedtime. He doesn’t mention in during the day or at dinner in front of other people and they just makes him look sus.
There’s the thing with her aunt being so jolly all the time that it feels like there’s something wrong going on there as well.
Anyway, yeah I don’t know exactly what happened but I love that the ending leaves you so many things to figure out.