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Even knowing what was coming, it was a great ending. I also appreciate that the game never really gives you any DEEP LORE about the heart of the woods. It just is.
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we actually learned a decent amount about how the Darkwood worked, but any researcher who could have reached the heart would already be under its spell. And whatever the Three knew, they would never share.
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StillFullyTerrible posted:we actually learned a decent amount about how the Darkwood worked, but any researcher who could have reached the heart would already be under its spell. And whatever the Three knew, they would never share. I meant more in the sense that the thing the protagonist destroys at the end has no origins or motivations. It just is and it does what it does. It remains a mystery.
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Yeah - we do learn about what it's LIKE, kind of, though there's a lot of conflicting evidence, but... is it an alien? Some ancient force? A uh... mutation? Radiaton? Iunno man. It's a big gross THING.
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PurpleXVI posted:I meant more in the sense that the thing the protagonist destroys at the end has no origins or motivations. It just is and it does what it does. It remains a mystery. yes, that is also what i was talking about. the only ones who might know, The Three, will never tell what they do know, so it remains an enigma.
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Aug 14, 2020 07:58
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So wait, I'm trying to piece things together. The protagonist was dreaming? Or not, as we see the village, the doctor etc existed outside of his own consciousness and could be rescued. I think the dreaming only starts when you get to the heart of the forest for the Thing to finally consume you?
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Aug 14, 2020 09:31
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Thank you for your LPs Bacter! I love them!
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dervinosdoom posted:Thank you for your LPs Bacter! I love them! 
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Aug 14, 2020 16:31
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Sheesh, thanks! I love doing these - I’ll look for you all in the next one (after the one-update genocide run, for which I have something very special planned)
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Aug 14, 2020 18:12
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Man, that alt path is grim! The wolf fight in the sawmill is a cool setpiece though. As for the true ending, very satisfying.
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Aug 15, 2020 19:02
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Agreed, very satisfying. Even before Bacter pointed out the imagery in the first ending, it felt all wrong. I'm glad to see the true ending!
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Aug 15, 2020 23:07
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Fire is cruel and indiscriminate, and illuminating and cleasning. That's the only way it could have gone down. We saved the world! Or a substantial amount of it, anyway.
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Aug 15, 2020 23:40
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But how long have we been lying there, rotting, dreaming? Is the implication that we've been there the entire game?
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That’s one option - I might also guess that ever since we emerged into town. Remember, earlier we heard that the road will “only take us deeper into the forest” I do want to give the game credit - this is so much better Lovecraftian style horror than “a really strongk fish”
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Aug 16, 2020 00:43
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The epilogue text talks about the fates of the people we met and even says that some got out after the burning, so it suggests that everything before we 'escaped' was real. Maybe up to our last dream sequence in the underground. I'd guess that all the poor souls on the tree are the ones that followed the voice and 'made it' to the road and got their reward of whatever it was they were trying to get to outside the wood.
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Aug 16, 2020 05:12
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Maybe what happens is that the tree builds outwards, and there was never a path to leave the forest. The only road was the road to the heart.
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Aug 16, 2020 05:27
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And that's it, except for.... THE GENOCIDE RUN I've been planning this for like half the LP. I apologize for nothing The chicken lady's body has directions to the doctor's house. That's how you find him  Oh, by the way, the first minute is what happens if you go out at night. Bacter fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Aug 19, 2020 05:42
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I do appreciate that if you go nutso like that, you become a legend of the woods. Granted, I'd like to know who told the story since you, well, killed everyone.
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Aug 19, 2020 08:43
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Keldulas posted:I do appreciate that if you go nutso like that, you become a legend of the woods. Granted, I'd like to know who told the story since you, well, killed everyone. The trees themselves. You are a legend told by the woods.
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Have to say that I loved that last section of the true ending when I played. Particularly the sound effect of the protagonist testing out the flamethrower. Perfectly sets the scene for what you are about to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YRW1nyGaY
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Aug 19, 2020 12:10
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That was an excellent ending. Looking forward to any future LP's you do, Bacter, this one was great!
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Until today I had thought that first line of Cotton Eye Joe was just scat nonsense, like “Fedat ‘ndoot’ndat Cotton Eye Joe.” So, thanks? Also the song is now stuck in my head. Good to see the doctor finally get his..
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Honestly, that ending was great. I would of done the same thing!
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