So I noticed in my e-mail last week that Double Fine released the adventure game I kickstarted awhile back, so I decided yesterday to finally boot it up and give it a whirl. I thought it was interesting that I was choosing two different stories, often switching back and forth between them. The only thing I couldn't figure out was how the two stories were connected.
One story is about a young girl named Vella in a fantasy-style land, who is being sacrificed by her village to a massive floating monster. She does not want to be sacrificed and instead tries to figure out a way to destroy the monster.
The other story is about a young boy named Shay living a seemingly repeated life on a sci-fi spaceship, with a computer "mother" that takes care of him. He is bored of being treated like a child and yearns to be a real hero, even working with a stowaway to do such.
They always seemed to have some things crossing over, but it was not till the "end" that everything came together... somewhat...
I mean... Holy shit... what?
Honestly the whole thing feels mind blowing. I really would love discussing what the hell might be going on with those that played it.
One story is about a young girl named Vella in a fantasy-style land, who is being sacrificed by her village to a massive floating monster. She does not want to be sacrificed and instead tries to figure out a way to destroy the monster.
The other story is about a young boy named Shay living a seemingly repeated life on a sci-fi spaceship, with a computer "mother" that takes care of him. He is bored of being treated like a child and yearns to be a real hero, even working with a stowaway to do such.
They always seemed to have some things crossing over, but it was not till the "end" that everything came together... somewhat...
I mean... Holy shit... what?
So at the end of the story Vella defeats the monster and out of it's mouth walks Shay, revealing that the whole time his space ship was the monster.
After the reveal you go back and see how each story played out and the parallels fly at you like a hammer. When playing Vella's story, during her sacrifice, Vella watches as three of her fellow young girls are eaten, but escapes before she herself is eaten. When going to Shay's world, he breaks his cycle by teaming with a stowaway person in a wolf suit named Marek, who convinces Shay to help him save innocent lives caught in war. During one of these missions Shay uses the ships boom arms to collect three of the innocent creatures in space, but much to Marek's protests decides to push through and collect the forth, which seems to turn angry and escapes, causing an alarm to sound. Those creatures? The maidens.
At the middle point of Vella's story, Vella meets another maiden that was set to be sacrificed the day before, but the monster for some reason left behind after the ceremony, and she is brooding around the two broken cages of the two taken maidens. Shay's world? The first time you do the mission to lift people with the boom arms, you collect two creatures before Marek tells you an enemy ship is coming and you have to leave, thus abandoning the third creature behind. Once again, he was picking up the maidens. At no time are you, as Shay, allowed to see the creatures in the storage hold.
You think this is confusing? It get's worst. The way Vella succeeds in bringing down the monster is by being lead into the temple of a being known as the Dead Eye God. The being turns out to be a man named Alex, who was in a cryostasis on what was his former space ship, helping her focus the ship into a laser weapon. His actions and words parallel very close to Shay, as he was a boy who wanted to be useful but ended up taking over the navigation of his ship and crashing it. This means there could be dozens of children on these ships thinking they are in space but actually in floating monster houses.
After the reveal you go back and see how each story played out and the parallels fly at you like a hammer. When playing Vella's story, during her sacrifice, Vella watches as three of her fellow young girls are eaten, but escapes before she herself is eaten. When going to Shay's world, he breaks his cycle by teaming with a stowaway person in a wolf suit named Marek, who convinces Shay to help him save innocent lives caught in war. During one of these missions Shay uses the ships boom arms to collect three of the innocent creatures in space, but much to Marek's protests decides to push through and collect the forth, which seems to turn angry and escapes, causing an alarm to sound. Those creatures? The maidens.
At the middle point of Vella's story, Vella meets another maiden that was set to be sacrificed the day before, but the monster for some reason left behind after the ceremony, and she is brooding around the two broken cages of the two taken maidens. Shay's world? The first time you do the mission to lift people with the boom arms, you collect two creatures before Marek tells you an enemy ship is coming and you have to leave, thus abandoning the third creature behind. Once again, he was picking up the maidens. At no time are you, as Shay, allowed to see the creatures in the storage hold.
You think this is confusing? It get's worst. The way Vella succeeds in bringing down the monster is by being lead into the temple of a being known as the Dead Eye God. The being turns out to be a man named Alex, who was in a cryostasis on what was his former space ship, helping her focus the ship into a laser weapon. His actions and words parallel very close to Shay, as he was a boy who wanted to be useful but ended up taking over the navigation of his ship and crashing it. This means there could be dozens of children on these ships thinking they are in space but actually in floating monster houses.
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