[ECHOSTASIS] p.2 - Scorchard

[@ivant.w.9152]

"I guess there's no better place to search for an Angel than in the Cloud" is some Microsoft-keynote-speaker caliber shit

[@YizzTheEunuch]

100%

[@Tinlion09]

I'm glad you're playing through this. As much as I loved the previous games in the series, I would not have the patience for the gameplay here, especially navigating the painting maze.

[@Scarwing]

Surely nothing bad can happen by listening to the voice that talks to you in second person.

[@nonsquarepixels]

You agree completely with this assessment.

[@SanguineVoyeur]

Thank you for finally saying "Scorchard." That was in my mind every single time "Scorched Orchard" came up

[@tytydraco]

Whenever you finish this game, I am BEGGING for an explanation on the full lore. I need to put the pieces together so bad

[@jeremytitus9519]

Hell yeah, we girthard, we scorchard

[@foxyshibata3783]

Second Person Narration needs to be used more often. The effect it produces for tone is incredible and not often explored.

[@captaintofu4926]

Can you imagine playing this in VR?

[@segaherman_twitch]

Your always playing intriguing games 🎮

[@Crowley9]

Well, seems pretty clear where this is headed. I am intrigued to see what'll happen once these three are resolved.

[@mongolianthroatsingingfan265]

I appreciate the timestamps lol

[@nonsquarepixels]

I know its kind of the point of the game's mechanics to be discomfortable, but I'd feel this game would be greatly improved if time not only moved faster while running but also stopped when you stopped, like in SUPERHOT. Also unlimited quicksaves.

[@nonsquarepixels]

Come to think of it, instead of quicksaves, lean in to the whole VCR theme and make it a seamless rewind.

[@GabrielPhelanLucas]

The latest update on August 9th did just that, plays much better now.

[@GooeyGremlin]

AWRR I NEED MORE OF THIS.

[@kimtae858]

Are we Red/Angel, the soul of the dead daughter of the Enigma Corp developer from Mothered or someone else?

[@In4m8ion]

Thats where im going currently, and if thats the case it would prolly give us the identity of our 3 subjects.

[@jtlego1]

See my takeaway from the previous games was that theres *multiple* Reds running around. I think both HER and Enigma Corporation have backups of the AI which is why they're both using blank slates of the original sentient (the Red we see become self-aware at the end of Mothered) for their own purposes. Either things to be experimented on (The Enigma Machine) or to be trojan horses to screw the other side over (Echostasis Prologue, Mothered: Home).

[@Tinlion09]

Makes me wonder what would happen if you thought about Red or Liana. Or dialed into HER's dreamscape, like you could in Prologue.

[@In4m8ion]

@@jtlego1My current thought is that there is only 1 Red, as in Enigma machine she mentions remembering all the RAED testing, and that they just clear her memories of it, but that Liana and Red are no longer together, that Lianas core separated at end/start of Mothered Home. Trapped in some semblance of the cloud in a stasis loop until Red (now the algorithm) found her and pulled her out to use her in her scheme. Im not sure what the goal really is yet, and exactly why Enigma would use such a turbulent AI for the algorithm at all, assuming that her sentience gave her the ability to perform the tasks at hand and Enigmas hubris made them believe they could contain and control her free will.

[@blackdog9698919]

How is there no Subject 69?

[@LadyMapi]

I mean, if ANYONE is Subject 69, it's clearly [GIRTH DADDY].

[@JonathanSicoli]

This is not a place of niceness. It's foreshadowing. Or something.

[@KipCasperX]

This game sucks so bad. The world's most irritating puzzle rail shooter.