Exhaustive Analysis of the New Ripple Trailer (Rain World: Watcher)

Windchime 3 (good luck solving it!):
• Rain World: The Watche...
Watch the trailer yourself!:
• Rain World: The Watche...
sorry this video is a day late, was really tired yesterday

[@theweebinhiding5650]

as someone whos never delved into the modded regions of this game, seeing the desert, coral reefs and pink hue of the endless sky is so fascinating

[@troysbuilds.3896]

Assuming you play on PC, try the mods, they are pretty amazing 👌🏼

[@marimationsowo]

yes!

[@Polemimic]

On switch 😢

[@NovaAge]

This is how it feels to be a normal slugcat in the Enot's world.

[@NovaAge]

The void spawn being purple, and more importantly some swimming up, makes me think their connection to the void sea has been cut off. I always wondered if the ancients tried to synthesize void fluid, and by extent what they would do if the void fluid ran out via being converted into electricity. I'd like to imagine that the world has either ran out of void fluid or has very little left; the latter being more likely with the golden stripe imagery meaning it has to be actively present (as opposed to being a core theme, yet physically absent), it would also explain the droplet theme for the trailer (the trickle of what little has been left).

[@adamixziober]

great theory but... how would void fluid ever run out? from the regions shown there doesnt seem to be some sort of giant civilisation that could use it, and even if there was, the void sea is pretty much infinite anyway

[@joshuahughes8336]

​​@@adamixziobermaybe we see the aftermath of the civilization's slow starvation and collapse due to the lack of void fluid? Like way, WAY far future stuff.

[@NotGayBen]

​@@adamixziober rain world DLC so far has jumped WAY in the future. Could be that the Watcher is millions of years in the future and the void fluid has naturally dried up, just as a result of nature taking its course

[@NovaAge]

@@adamixziober "there doesn't seem to be some sort of giant civilisation that could use it" The ancients knew how to use void fluid to create electricity, and it very likely is how iterators generate their power. Quoting Looks to the Moon commentating on the SB_Filtration pearl: "My creators, or rather my creators' ancestors, figured out a way to use Void Fluid. Because you can generate energy by creating a vacuum... never mind." (changing the subject upon realising your character cannot understand the process) As for the quantity, Rain World's main theme* is the passage of time, 90% of the game's story is best described with the word "time" somewhere in it; so it is very possible that the void fluid was drained over a *very* long period of time (and couldn't melt the iterators in said time, as that would take even _more_ time, especially as it would slow down as the void sea was drained). *other than family, hope, the meaning of life and death, blind trust in authority, the danger of laziness & arrogance, selflessness, a warning on religious & partially overall extremism, ingenuity and the effect of scale in everything's impact on the rest of the universe. Man, this game has a lot of themes.

[@lipucka]

Stero here, just a bit of clarification. 10:13 The guy that makes the desert region asked a permission from me to use these statue designs around a year ago. So... I don't want people to think he stole them

[@wrayk760]

Yoinkers

[@shadedway5277]

I think your analysis of the last room was really cool!! I hadn't even considered the awkward location of that blue fruit, it would make sense that this is a 'tutorial room' for riding the new not spiders!

[@xenotyphon]

I hope they aren't entirely docile like the deers and actually fight back or something against hostile creatures or the scugs if provoked.

[@shadedway5277]

@@xenotyphon I mean they do have a giant drill,

[@xenotyphon]

@@shadedway5277 Deers have antlers but are practically only for us to grab.

[@unmenrandom5805]

Dude i didn't know about the iterator speech part holy shit

[@residentkratos2]

Yes, me too!! I'm really curious what all the dialogues in Five Pebbles and Looks to the Moon are like.

[@LamarjorieQueen]

Hearing you say the word “benefactor” both made me smile, and made me get PTSD from watching the whole vid 😂

[@LamarjorieQueen]

Also, I think the “natural looking” room connects to the green gate-themed region, as it is similarly green-ish, and the grate-like section of the thing watcher is standing on, and the “growths” are either the “lungs” or “veins” of an unknown iterator!

[@hootis1]

@@LamarjorieQueenmy theory is that the growths are living cabinet beasts

[@LamarjorieQueen]

@@hootis1 omg now I have to think about that 💀 but fr tho that’s actually a cool concept! I wonder, what sorts of things make it a theory? Evidence, facts, hypothesis, etc-

[@NovaAge]

I just thought of Half-Life lmao

[@allysonthompson8754]

Considering the timeline, I think it might be what specifically the Watcher experiences after ascension, not entering a state like how the Saint and Echoes had, but not fusing to create a tree in the Monk and Survivor endings. The Watcher might be in a dream-like world that resembles reality mixing together throughout both the Watcher's and their ancestors' timelines, which explains that snowy and sandy regions. This is about my best guess on the timeline, but on the actual trailer I did mention how it could be before Saint and after Rivulet, some parts of the available regions are snow-covered while some are in a similar state as they were in previous campaigns or more humid environments due to a differently powered Iterator.

[@chicocorriente]

@@allysonthompson8754 Your idea its really cool!

[@Gront517]

Well now we know what he means by “CONSIDER”

[@borb5353]

*consdier

[@JaydenBakare]

​@@borb5353 That was confirmed to be a typo.

[@GhostPrince1174]

I'm sure someone else has already mentioned this somewhere, but the pulsing background elements around 7 minutes in really remind me of the worm-things in the void sea, especially with the kind of head and eye shapes. I learned a lot of new information in this video, too! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!

[@John-hv7ct]

the thing of the ripple beeing either a spiral or line or circle depending on the eye may refer to how the cycles feel for different entities maybe us as the slugcat have a spiral and for the iterators its a circle since they live thousands of cycles with almost nothing changing

[@Brite-um2tq]

Who has the line?

[@John-hv7ct]

@@Brite-um2tq i thought and i changed my mind The Slugcat has the Line it will have an end and has a beginning. with rapidly changing lives The Iterators have the Spiral depending on the angle nothing changes for thousands of cycles except new experiments and the degredation. Echoes have the Circle. Forever trapped at the same Place the same form until the end of time

[@Mr.DinoNugget1234]

This is a mix of words that I think I heard from the translated audio : Explosion! , Report The overseers is in poverty , Be wary , 999 , is this reaching you? , attunement

[@blockylizard]

wait so five pebbles voices actually says something???

[@ramuk1933]

I heard something like "you have achieved attunement" in the voice.

[@chicocorriente]

I have a strange theory! What if The Watcher's ability is to jump between worlds by a void sea thing. Meaning he has all the rooms duplicated, one as the ‘real’ one and another version as the ‘Ethereal void distorted one’ such an ability makes sense with the phrase ‘When the world beneath your feet cracks and crumbles, will you cling to all you once knew? Or will you plunge into the unknown?’ It also makes sense with the different extreme biomes.... What do you think?

[@LamarjorieQueen]

Honestly, that sounds believable, can’t really think of it any other way now that you’ve said it :\

[@dantebayer919]

I've been thinking about this too, it makes sense because saint can fo it, and maybe you could go to a place just like where you just were, but with a different enemy pool, or with whole rooms either now visible, or completely gone.

[@chicocorriente]

@@dantebayer919 That idea would be really cool

[@mixingcat5213]

I am still holding my theory of watcher being a iterator's eye, inside an experiment. Various regions, one iterator tower being seen, old but somehow working purposed organisms and the new creatures that weren't seen in rain world nor downpour. If the ripples are referred as the cycles of the ecosystem inside the experiment, these all fit in well. Also, notice the echo flakes at the end? Echo? Slugcat? I am sure watcher is what saint was. Watcher somehow ascended in the experiment messing it up, reincarnated after sort of rubicon shenanigans and became saint! And the challenge 70 begins lol

[@SlothOnFire]

3:14 i heard something about "can you understand the attunement" and "beware of you" and something else about attunement

[@hessiboi_]

i was just WAAAAAITING for ur analysis on this >:3

[@cubeex3768]

Can't wait for the purple sky region.

[@mekmekmonarch8284]

I was more excited for this than the actual trailer

[@unlomtrash]

What if Watcher can move in time, making the game 4D?

[@patfad7243]

Let's gooo we're skipping 3D with it. Who even need width

[@Draconicfish2679]

⁠@@patfad7243 but wait, would that mean… The Watcher is still 3D, just with a different 3 dimensions than us?

[@patfad7243]

@@Draconicfish2679 he is 3 dimensions ahead of us

[@aureole6383]

@@Draconicfish26792+1d gameplay-wise

[@JaydenBakare]

Nice analysis, I was waiting for this! As a lot of people have already said, it seems like The Watcher can time travel. It explains why all of the regions have such different environments and climates to each other.

[@bromomento644]

not enough we need a 4 hour analysis of every single frame and every sound

[@Wesdoezstuff]

Man 10 seconds in and this video crazy 🗣️🔥

[@youshallmeow2002]

In the purple void spawn room the room pipes are also green which could result in some sort of connection between them/same regions

[@alaas1041]

Dude the moment you said "the addition of dynamic inclines" I immediately thought of geometry dash with how similar people analysed the trailers for the both of things

[@InsertarNombre1990]

Consider: A droplet of rain pierces the still water. A ripple. A ring, ever expanding. Consider: Movement along the circumference of a ring. From one eye a loop. From one eye a spiral. From one eye the motion of a line. Consider then: A second drop. A thousandth. A multiplex of rings, spirals, interacting in countless ways. A froth. A seethe. An effervescence

[@neongalaxy9976]

“Before I disappear into the Aether… ridge” that is absolutely horrible, I love it

[@ngoclangthi7442]

Can't believe we got the watcher before skong...

[@flamingcouch-mp6de]

I think heard beware somewhere in there

[@samortank4090]

Im thinking about 3 things in the trailer, the watcher is always crawling on the sand and snow/salt. Maybe some sandstorm or that drill crab will come up out of it if you dont crouch. Also, in the badlands trailer, there’s a weird moving orb under a cactus, it rotates around pretty quickly and I’m thinking that’s the drill crab. The last thing is pretty little. Those little black things on the sand are , as far as I’m aware, are rock fleas. They’re just background bugs but they tend to get stuck on weird terrain they aren’t accustomed to, like sand.

[@borb5353]

6 months is really really close to you ? i want it NAUWH!

[@TheCubifyer]

I think the reason as to why the Watchers world may be so mishmashed is because it isn't tied to a single cycle, but instead either traveling between them or perhaps even existing in multiple cycles at the same time. To me the Watchers feels like the antithesis to Saint, instead of being focused on ascension and moving on they want to see everything the world has to offer. They remind me of Rhinestones beneath Shattered Glass (the echo in Undergrowth).

[@teclante28]

i thing it says attunement near the end of the voice but not sure 3:15

[@fishy-bg7eg]

The wierd pulse backround room could be cabiniet creatures mabye?

[@Draconicfish2679]

5:31 The Watcher? Nah, we’re talking about Drought now!

[@Artkidlikesgames]

ayo hi draconic fish

[@Draconicfish2679]

@@Artkidlikesgames Hello!

[@BaBaleine]

I think that the litle black spots in the sand are like the spinal of a mole like creature. One of the dave talked about diging creature on the soil

[@reginamaute7488]

One is probably able to avoid the thing in the Sand by using this crab spider thing. Like i think it won't attack the spider.

[@BaBaleine]

@@reginamaute7488 yes but i think that to similar ti the worm grass

[@leilaclarridge5807]

Also, quadrupedal Slugcat locomotion!

[@nathanjohnson2066]

The weird monologue seems to have a plausible explanation in my opinion: 1.Each being's presence/existence creates a "ripple" in the world/time. Their presence expands outwards seemingly infinitely, affecting more and more of the world. 2. I think "eye" indicates "perspective." From one perspective the cycles are a loop, for another a spiral (similar to the loop), and for another a line (either going along the spiral OR the straight line that is the motion of any point of the expanding ring of a loop). 3. 1 and 2 combined create an unfathomably complex (and potentially very chaotic) world. I believe Watcher (since it's literally its name) has a heavy theme or perspective. Regardless of whether the Watcher is an echo, a normal slugcat in a broken world, an experiment, etc. I think that part of the point of the game is that the slugcat's perspective will have great effect on reality.

[@Ripplesinstillwater]

Balagaga post ⚠⚠⚠⚠

[@maple...]

so if some people see the cycle as a loop, and others see it as a spiral, what would seeing it as a ripple mean? obviously ripples are thematically important considering the Watcher logo has ripples (of void fluid?) i'm thinking its related to how the cycles of different creatures intersect

[@Thornsawawa]

i think that too :3 it might more directly apply to watcher as well

[@I_love_eating_plutonium]

What if the watcher campaign takes place in an entirely different section of the world in rain world than the one we’ve been playing in on the vanilla and downpour versions of the game

[@fakeman5953]

bro do we have a full video on iterator speech slowed and reversed??? someone give me a link? like bro... balagaga cannot just throw cool stuff at us and then not show us the rest of it

[@IceVulture]

yes please 🙏

[@JaydenBakare]

Thankfully, we're in luck, someone released a video about this. It's called "The Watcher trailer is hiding something...", It's by a KZbinr called Seven Red Scugs!

[@thomasharris8926]

I'm so excited for the watcher

[@Aques_Aquir]

you forgot to mention a new screenshot on the steam storepage

[@kikun_or_smth]

Maybe the real silksong was the march 28th release date we got along the day.

[@soniaserval454]

Im wondering if this has anything to do with Sliver of Straw's apparent ascension

[@timothytosser288]

Right before my birthday what the hell

[@iiWarlord]

I think is kinda crazy that bunch of people on Rain World yt community hasn't mentioned how the whole cicle and death isn't the end thing is a on going theme on Buddhism and so much other religous and hermetics texts on our actual world and they get so lost trying to get how Rain World works while bunch of other people advocates that our world works exactly like that

[@woahyogurtz]

i heard "artificer" in the reversed version of the new "iterator" voice, but idk what else i can hear

[@MARIAFABIOLALUCERO-rx5vs]

No me digas 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 Siii :DDDD

[@ku213ie6]

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[@cristalschroeder4485]

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[@kellerboom09]

9:45 I'm calling it, the region's name is gonna be Sanded Citadel.

[@TheAutisticFrog]

2:51 where can i find this for all dialouge