I never thought about it

@santiagobarrero7066 all song names tie in with the story of the game. Especially gris pt 1 and 2. Watch a complete ost of the game and youll find some nice details in there.

This almost sent me to tears mate, this is the most beautiful game i have come accross all year

we carry on in our forbears name, and inspite of them... we carry on theyre spirit and we impart our own into the next generations own spirit... so our human spirit lives forever. and we die with meaning....

I wonder what your other top 5 games are? But for me Gris ranks: #2 in best of 2018 #14 in best of 2010's #7 in best emotion moment of 2010's I haven't ranked all time rankings yet but it would probably drop a few rankings. This may not seem very good but i have played a lot of games.

​@@purpleguy319 My "top 5" refers to the top 5 games I would recommend people play today if they wanted to get a sense of my tastes. Not necessarily the games that are my favorite of all time, because it's impossible for me to nail down what those would be. Most games that are my "favorite games" just sit on a nebulous, unranked, ever-growing list. I've played way, way too many games that I love to be able to rank them numerically without giving it some serious thought. To answer your question -- In no particular order, my top 5 games that reflect my tastes today are: Gris, Subnautica, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Zelda OoT, and Morrowind. Now you've got me curious about your top 5.

@@Alex-qw6vh top 5 recommendations? #1 Planescape:Torment #2 SuperGiant Games enitre caterlogue (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades) #3 Risk of Rain 1 & 2 #4 Starcraft 1 & 2 #5 Othercide #5 was so hard to pick because i could give 5 more for a top 10 recommendations, but these 5 are my best picks for what videogames have to offer. Story, Style, Gameplay, Element Cohesion, and Choice.

@@purpleguy319 All great games (except I haven't played Othercide, but I'll definitely check it out now that I've looked at it). I debated swapping SoC for RoR2 (easily one of the best games ever made), but SoC absolutely nails one of my favorite game elements in a way few other games have even come close to: atmosphere.

That’s a very interesting way to look at the game. Me personally it was the other way around for who died. That Gris lost her mother and this entire world was basically a dream she was having about her confronting her tumultuous feelings about her grief. And her walking to the sky was her finally waking up from her long dream and accepting that while her mother is gone and she will always miss her, her mother’s love will always be with her. That’s what I was thinking when she was kissing the statue. It was a farewell kiss to the past and her mother, and her ascension was her moving to the light of the future, however foggy it is, filled with hope that her mother lives on in her memories, even if they’re now bittersweetly colored.

First time I’ve seen someone else with this view of the story. Blew my mind (with even more ugly crying) when I saw it this way on my second play through. Most view it as Gris dealing with the loss of her mother, which I think is how the story presents itself at first. However, it’s how it ends that I feel where a plot twist can be interpreted to reveal that it was actual Gris who had passed. Gris can be seen as a spirit deal with the trauma in synergy with her mother, or possibly a mental avatar the mother created to help her process her emotions. It is her mother at the end who breaks through the darkness with her singing response to Gris’s voice pulling her back together. The symbolism of the mother as a statue remaining on the ground in the healed multicolored world while Gris literally leaves towards a white light in the sky can appear as an intentional metaphor for passing on. Regardless, the fact so many can make their own personal interpretations establishes the game as an interactive art experience like no other.

You’re the first other person who saw it the same way I did. That Gris was the one who died, still tied down to the earth by the grieving of her mother and once she helped her mother through the grieving her mother was able to let her go so gris could ascend to the stars.

Different views make this even more beautiful

I think your view is very good... I also thought because the statue cries and gris kisses the statue saying: "it's ok mom".... then she leaves up the star way to ascend to the afterlife.... But yeah what was the creators intend?😅

thank you so much for this comment, this made me smile. Honestly the game felt incredibly true for so many reasons, and so cathartic, too. I didn't really know how to edit this because there's so much to be said, but at the same time nothing at all. Glad you enjoyed the game and this video