I will wake anyone the fvck up to revive my wife. Why is it called the bad ending? My wife is with me 😿

@@LanaaAmor because it literally destroyed the entire world - it’s possible that there wasn’t a reality to spend time with her in, so it could be ultimately pointless.

@@beans7867 but his wife was his entire World 😭

@@LanaaAmor what lol

@@jessh4016 cope

Tbf, you would've most definitely died in the apocalypse. Even the rocks foreshadowed it

Of course that was on purpose. We all thought he was just standing at the doorway not to let the fisherman into his house, only later you can see that it was a mirror all along. Heck, you can even see the Collector's eyeglasses lying by the fisherman on his boat during the opening intro, right before he crashes.

Well, it literally also says that he's standing in the doorway of his house as you approach so it's also a case of unreliable narration

The first time I saw the man in the 'cabin window' I was wondering how come this person came up into the boat or near the boat. Then we only see him on the isle, indicating that he never leaves the isle. I started wondering if that man was an imagined person. I didn't make the mirror / door connection until I saw that scene where he breaks the mirror.

Another giveaway is that he never shows up in your inventory when he’s a passenger on your boat!

Or when you first see him it's through a porthole, or more accurately it's your reflection in the glass. I wondered about the fisherman being an unreliable narrator but deliberately tried not to think too hard about it, I loved what the game did with the reveal.

Damn i didnt know that since i confronted him before getting the bad end.

Where does it say that the stellar basin creature came from space?

It's possible that the creature in the Stellar Basin is inspired by HP Lovercraft's "The Color Out of Space". O_O

​@@fishygaming2554 There are three/four things that allude to it. The two obelisks found there, one of the messages, and the Researcher's findings; 1. The Creature originated from a spore. The idea of panspermia is not only a classic sci-fi trope, but a hypothesis for the real world origins of life on earth. "A spore floats in the water, adrift in the current. Fish feast in a frenzy above, devouring its kin. The spore lands in the thick silt of the sea floor. Its roots stretch down into the seabed, growing - extending towards what lies beneath." 2. The Creature appeared within the last 20 years (the Fisherman visited Stellar Basin with his fiancé with no sign of the Creature... yet there's no mention of visiting the resort, suggesting it was destroyed beforehand) "The green glimmer of an aurora blooms in the night sky above the resort. A distant boom shakes the thatched rooves and rouses dreamers from their sleep. The waters withdraw, exposing the coral to the warm air. Confused creatures chitter and seek out their hiding places. Moments later the waters return; crashing, seething, sweeping souls out to sea." 3. There's a mention of there being an 'alleged' meteor impact. "Artifact Manifest Jar of Earth A jar containing earth from a meteor impact site. Allegedly." 4. The Creature is unnatural, yet not 'caused' by the Eldritch Abomination's influence like the monstrosities found in other locations. The spore that became the Creature seems to have originated in a separate occurrence, however it's clearly not a natural part of the ecosystem, as documented by the Researcher. It's tentative, but I think this points to it being an alien lifeform.

There's also that he describes the Fanatic as simply fading away when he actually burns himself away on a pyre. Maybe a small thing but it's stuff like this that makes me question if some summary people actually play the games they summarize or if they are using someone else's summary as well.

So the stellar kraken is the source of the infection?

That's what all the ladies say.

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More like a "calm" " fishing" "Simulator"

@@KiomonDuck hehe

Does Cthulhu not want to be summoned?

@@Miles26545 it's not cthulhu. it's most likely other forces (i.e., the leviathan) preventing cthulhu being summoned by any and all costs. besides, going by lovecraftian mythos, cthulhu is beyond morality/apathetic to the world. everyone and everything destroyed or driven to insanity is just an unfortunate side effect of cthulhu's unfathomable existence.

​@@mayorkoopbobthat's cthulhu's dad

@@gefenbenhayon343 nug? if i remember correctly, nug looks very different from the eldritch deity that showed up at the end of the game. if anything, it could just be a monster designed after one of the notable eldritch entities in mythos and lore.

Ahhh, I was wondering what those stones were about. I finished the story of the game but went back thinking I still had stuff to unlock because I couldn't interact with them.

@@TheKgr320 Now ya know :)

Any chance you’re willing to say what some of the texts stated?

@@hanacinnabun One near the ancient lighthouse talks about a leviathan rising from the sea and actually enjoying the light perhaps alluding to the leviathan which eats the MC in the good ending presumably to protect the world from knowledge of summoning the elder god in the bad ending

I only discovered how to read the obsidian stones AFTER getting the bad ending of the game for the first time, and the very first THE VERY first obsidian stone I read was one that described the destruction of the world and how Greater Marrow fell to ruins. I felt like my previous save was a much more organic premonition of what it was to come if I followed the collector whims. It feel so poetic having that knowledge after being left with the uncertainty if there was only one ending, and not so long after I found the old mayor and slowly but surely I started to piece everything together, this game’s story is so well crafted omg

Ur God damn right

I have a question @heisenberg because I hear different answers everywhere. So tell me, at what moment did you become Heisenberg?

just saw u on dead meat lol

fucking hell, you're everywhere. got any blue crystals?

Damn bro this guy is everwhere

That's because most modern AAA games are created to be products, not art.

​@@cartooncritique6625soul vs soulless

Exactly, except instead of the islands, you pretty much take reality as we know it.

Yeah, according to the mythos he awakens when the stars are in the proper alignment.

Same here

It is clearly heavily inspired by Sunless Sea so madness mechanic is a given.

Yeah; I found that somewhat disappointing too. It felt like you should have got more out of it.

I hope you know your username made me literally cry from laughing, its so stupid and dumb and its not funny but i just saw “dr.nipples” out of the blue in the comments and it broke my brain. Thank you? How dare you? Idk which one is more accurate but it’s important that you know this.

That’s how I interpreted it aswell. It makes the most sense that way imo

Oh, I like that more than Leviathan vs Cthulhu...mostly because it adds to that theme of inevitable doom that is such a mainstay of cosmic horror.

This clashes with the Leviathan trying to kill you as soon as you discover the book, more likely implying it was trying to stop you. In addition It has a chance to spawn and devour you when using your powers in open waters, a fate the collector constantly warns you about, implying he's hunting you down and the usage of the book's powers leads him to you.

But the Leviathan also tries to kill you when you use the book's powers too much in the open waters... And if the Leviathan was an extension of Cthulhu that simply doesn't make sense...

​@@OctagonCookies A willing slave is a good slave; think about it. In order for an Old God to push its unknowing victims into doing what it wants, it must coerce subtly by them give them a sense of urgency and slight paranoia. Making the victim think that cooperation with the Old One is theirs and the best alternative. This will make the victim be more amenable to the Old One's commands. But a reckless and uncooperative servant is no use to its master, so it uses the Leviathan as its whip and punishment should the servant disobey.

Something tells me Hidetaka Miyazaki must be a big Lovecraft fan. 😅

Even his cat couldn't get a break.

Why would either of those allude to vampires?

@HollowBagel vampire shows like Dracula and Hellsing Ultimate when Alucard unlocks his control art restrictions and unleashes more of his power until the enemy is rendered silent

@@swangooo I don't understand how any of this alludes to vampires being in the game. The casket is a casket. It was what the book was found in. The eyes are figments of your imagination, in higher panic.

@HollowBagel Do you want to understand? If you really do I can explain further, but if you're trying to establish that I'm wrong, I am. This game is devoid of vampires. These aspects of the game just steered me in the direction of vampires based on my own experiences with vampire media intake. Simple as that.

1. The book with the red cover and silver ribbons. That's what the Old Mayor means when he yells "Throw it back!" 2. Yes, she's your sister-in-law. Apparently she lived far away and never met you until now. The mysterious notes she'd found were bait to attract her attention, same as the handkerchief and bottle-notes are for you. Cthulhu doesn't care who it is who calls him up, and was probably hoping *she* might do so if you failed.

2: There's only 1 bit of evidence to suggest they're related. And that's the messages written by the dead. Other than that, without some more solid proof, I wouldn't say definitively they're our sister in law. I think it's unlikely that she wouldn't know who we were. We married her sister, and it's been 20 years since her death. She would have definitely met us at a funeral of some sort, or seen us in photos.