Remnant 2 and the Entire Series Explained - The Dark Truth

A retrospective of the entire Remnant series explained from Chronos Before the Ashes, Remnant From the Ashes, Subject 2923, and Remnant 2; exploring the themes and the true meaning of the games and their endings.
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[@bigpapapage7165]

Just finished remnant 2 last night after playing remnant 1 years ago - had no idea about chronos and this video really helped tie it all together. Great work man, this video so well done. I hope your channel pops off

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I appreciate it. I worked pretty hard on this video, but it just never caught on.

[@dimetrixcurrington4950]

Ah yes, Ixilis.. worst boss fight in Remnant, and that INCLUDES Harsgaard

[@ConsoleControlGames]

He seriously felt like a punishment, lol.

[@glazed32]

spent 3hrs on this grueling boss and enjoined every min!

[@dingoesplays9965]

Ixillis was THE hardest boss to ever exist in the remnant universe, goddamn

[@dlib89]

I probably struggled and died more to it than to any boss in the entire franchise, including the final bosses

[@GamingCentral3000]

Super hard. I put the game on hold for a while over that one and finally beat her. Not I'm stuck on the Undying King due to my own bad decisions.

[@chrisfortner5545]

Definitely. But the feeling when I finally beat her... I got yelled at by my fiance for waking her at 2 am. Lol I was so happy

[@emgilkar]

i guess it still dlc boss of queen iskal is the hardest

[@impulse_nh]

Omgg this is so true, I played both remnant games (Remnant 2 before Remnant From the Ashes; don't ask me why XD) and Ixilis was by far the hardest, it took me much longer than most of the bosses from both games ☠️

[@jamesstump3602]

It's gonna come full circle. A new keeper is to be appointed, ie, clementine. The world's remade, humanity reborn to repeat an event they know nothing about. All rebuilt to suffer the cycle again. A loop within a system that none are the wiser to realize they are in. After chronos, we are no longer in the real world. Chronos is the end game, the rest are rather purely, and terrifyingly, virtual. We are in the mind and machinations of the original hero. This is my theory.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Not entirely. Remnant 2's rather heavy handed explanation that Clementine did a hard reset of all existence at the very least had her repeat the worlds, but without the Root infestation. Thus far, the 2 DLC have been either before Remnant 2 proper (the Forgotten Kingdom) or sometime during the main story (The Awakened King). It's anyone guess if the final DLC will actually be set after the official ending of the game or just another reshuffling of events of a world we've been to. My money is on going back to Ne'rud and the hints that it's far future of Rhom being more concrete.

[@jamesstump3602]

@@mrbigglezworth42 would be hard to go back to N'rud given regardless of path taken, the world gets sucked into Alepsis taura. Either by the custodian or when you beat the guardians actual form. Only pathway I can see that's NOT gonna destroy N'rud is fighting the dude (I forget his name.)

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@jamesstump3602 Tal'Ratha or the Custodian? Both mention how the world ship was intentionally sent into the black hole with the expectation that the Drzyr would find the answer to their questions but it backfired horribly. If, IF, we go back to Ne'rud, it could potentially be an expansion of just what the hell goes on inside a ship trapped inside a black hole at all. Maybe it'll have better enemies to fight then what Forgotten Kingdom had.

[@jamesstump3602]

@@mrbigglezworth42 the other guy. The one who ate his own kind and wanted to be "the ark" of his people. And if the game uses actual science, I'm pretty sure the planet just gets crushed. Or... Something.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@jamesstump3602 That's Tal'Ratha, who was the last living Dryzr...and then we killed him. The "or something" is where they could expand on Ne'rud, as Gunfire already started with the ship somehow escaping a black hole. Which last time I check is supposed to be impossible.

[@cloodhound9417]

Don’t like many videos but that intro is good man lmao, good ol’ days

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Lol, thanks!

[@TheCanineContrarian]

"The expedition was expeditiously cancelled" BARS

[@B_u_L_i]

Amazing recap of the trilogy so far!

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Thank you so much!

[@kizmo2317]

Great video. Thanks for tying all of them together.

[@spacecanuk8316]

Great video thanks! That genuinely clears a bunch up. Working my way through the final world of Remnant 2 and I started looking lore up online, and this really puts all those fragmented pieces together. Really good work, I love a lot about this game and its ideas, although the whole meta-simulation stuff kinda makes it fall apart for me a bit at the end. The connection to an old VR game is also pretty wild and I kinda respect it haha. Actually had and idea myself for a story about a post apocalyptic earth where some survivors stumble on some ancient secret in a cave and I swear at one point I conceived it involving a goddess figure kind of like Nimue. Bastards beat me to it in a sense haha, though I would have gone in a more up front Stargate-like/episodic expeditions approach.

[@beaumurray2935]

Awesome video! I never played Chronos, this explained a lot of what I missed.

[@ellionbregandert4120]

Well, players who got Anguish in R2 will definitely agree with you. Wake. Up.

[@BALTDGuitar]

You dont have to cut off Clementine and Ford you can listen in standing outside

[@allisone369]

Yup that’s what I did I stood behind the wall and you can listen to the whole thing. Was a lot longer than I would have expected.

[@Visigoth_]

How could you *Not interrupt that Cringe tantrum... yuck, eww... 🤢

[@grannde_]

Hate that the desert and swamp worlds aren’t in remnant 2😭

[@Mutanichost]

What an amazing experience, I loved it,I need more.

[@allisone369]

On Remnant 2 and have to say what a magnificent game. Didn’t play the others in the series unfortunately but thanks for the video as I am enjoying R2 much more now knowing what’s actually happening in depth. The game play is super solid. Loving every moment in the game so far. Killed only 1 world boss so far. 😁

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I hope you enjoy it. I got into Remnant after heavy convincing last March and haven't regretted a moment. Maybe some rage from getting killed a lot 😂 but I love it.

[@allisone369]

@@ConsoleControlGames the game is amazing. It scratches so many itches. It’s Darksouls / Bloodborne and a shooter all wrapped into one. Loving the game play. It’s so solid. Can’t say enough about it so far! I’m sure it will continue to delight!

[@brushdogart]

Came for the lore, stayed for the 1812 Overture.

[@JJsiN84]

Amazing video! I very much enjoy lore like this. Is anybody else playing these games? I was having a lot of fun and almost completed the second game but got stuck on the final boss and my buddy stopped playing. If anybody is interested let me know.

[@drell4809]

What difficulty? I haven't did my apocalypse run yet or HC but I'm always down to help out when I can.

[@tomrieger7253]

Honestly I am not a big fan of the virus twist in Remnant 2. I would have much prefered if the Root were not a virus in a simulation but a real Eldritch entity created by Clawbone. I am never a fan of worlds being just a simulation, making the entire game somewhat obsolete as everything we fought and saw, all these cool biomes were not real. I love Remnant 2 as a game, the bosses are fantastic, the new worlds are great, but I despise the simulation/ virus BS and would have gone with a much more straight forward storytelling. Invade the Root homeworld, kill off Clawbone (maybe a corrupted Ford wbefore the final boss with Ford being the Annhilation) who as their creator would look very different from a Root monster, yet is still Eldritch and almost God like in appearance and presentation. Oh, and the worlds could have still healed afterwards, like Yaesha, Root Earth etc. loosing all traces of the Root infection.

[@cosmiclive4437]

If they replaced the glitch effects with wibbly wobbly elrditch magic what would actually change? In my opinion the virus is more of a metaphor or a slight fourth wall break to add an additional metalayer like the video discusses in the end. The series is really about Nihilism without giving a definitive answer what to do about it. The root is entropy incarnate. It only destroys and can do nothing else. The universe of Remnant has a backup to rebuild the worlds after total destruction happens, but we dont have that. How do we deal with that? Our universe will die at some point just like the root will inevitably destroy all of creation in Remnant. All we really can do is either rage against the concept of total annihilation of all existance or just accept it. There is no ultimate purpose in life or at the very least we have no definitive way of finding it. Personally I believe that even with that knowledge, that shouldn't stop us from living life in a way that is enjoyable to us and doing our best to make it better for the people that will follow or at least not making it worse for those around and after us. But how anyone personally works with that is not something anyone else can dictate.

[@werehusky]

Im sorry to say but thats is also cliche, atleast the virus theory has a commentary about life.

[@Keyce0013]

@@cosmiclive4437 The story of the Drzyr is a pretty good example of that nihilism without an answer. They spent their civilization and lives trying to find someone else in the universe to talk to, to share their experiences with, and found nothing but empty loneliness. Even when we - the Traveler - come onto the planet-ship, the people are all already long dead and gone. The universe wasn't as lonely as they thought it was, but they all died out before they could learn that.

[@ythabagatpinoygaming]

Well Wallace was there during the events of Remnant From the Ashes as a young kid.

[@error0723]

The xvi fight at the start was so real. Took me and my friend almost 50 times

[@mekani82]

Great video, thanks for explaining and conecting sories.

[@TimTkachev]

Damn man it sucks that you dont posymt anymore. Your channel will pop off.

[@Keyce0013]

I'll be honest, I hated Remnant 2's story after I played it once through to the end. And I still do even after playing it again now. It felt like Clementine stole our thunder as the hero of the story, and we never see Founder Ford after he disappears into the World Stone at the beginning of the game. His appearance felt like such a wasted opportunity because he never appears again in our travels. Losom was an interesting setting but I don't really see how the story of the Fae and the Dran worlds merging affects the rest of the story against the Root. I'll admit that I liked the ending where it was revealed that we can't actually kill the Root, and I suspect that is because it has interacted with the World Stone(s) before. If you get a lucky roll in Yaesha you get to meet a lost human soldier who has been stuck on that planet way back when Founder Ford was just a military man. He admits to dying and reviving many times, getting older each time just like the protagonist in Chronos: Before the Ashes. But when Yaesha's World Stone turned dark, he and his fellow soldiers stopped reviving. He even gets killed and doesn't come back after you leave him - even though the World Stones are active again (thanks to us either now in Remnant 2 or the protagonist in Remnant: From the Ashes). Because of that soldier who teaches us how the World Stones work on people, I think the ending to Remnant 2 should have been a bit different, with us the players being forced to fight the end boss many, many times until the World Stone ages-out the Root, or we disable the World Stone and fight the boss each with our last lives left.

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I never found the soldier on Yaesha. That's awesome.

[@Keyce0013]

@@ConsoleControlGames He's tucked away in a corner so I can understand that.

[@spub1031]

In the taken king DLC you can see tiny amounts of the root in his arena. The king became mad because of the root and was most likely Losom's version of the guardian holding back the root. Everyone else you fought took the boss artifact we needed to go against the root.

[@SandmanModding1620]

Great video Uce

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Appreciate it

[@lsdesignweb]

At last a good explenantion of this game

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I appreciate the comment.

[@xxvaltielxx1789]

Poor Ixillis, died for our sins

[@shimigami92dk]

Anyone know what happened to the wanderer?

[@ConsoleControlGames]

No idea. My theory is that every character you play as is canonically being connected to you as their dreamer. Your influence on the character probably just makes them permanently explore and fight because that's what the gamer plays for.

[@Delta--Saint]

IN MY OPINION. The ending is Eternal Ascension

[@hihii9421]

Ngl I found the smg way too fast

[@paolob7455]

Need a vaatividya lore vid now

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I f-cks with @Vaatividya. I'm sure they would make an amazing lore vid.

[@psychedellictoxin1195]

I hated Ixillis so damn much.

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Took me 2 hours of dying on live stream to beat them. 😂

[@LS-zj7kv]

Looks too much like me...

[@martinraa9751]

sigma

[@Visigoth_]

Great video man! 🤔😲👍 - I totally agree with your insight: the DLC was just a "Contrivance." (It's a shame... I really enjoyed/ liked the Remnant series "I still do, but to a lesser degree."). And the "Femenist/Woke" shift in Remnant 2 really didn't sit well with me... it made the journey "a little less brilliant."

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Thanks! (Although I don't recall anything "woke" per se).

[@Visigoth_]

@@ConsoleControlGames lol... it's ok; (it just means you're still brainwashed by the Matriarchy! 🤣👌😅👍 from the opening scene it feeds right into "The Message," the "young B.I.P.o.C. is a strong independent woeman that don't need no man/ man's help, in fact she saves you... and won't let you forget it" all the "females" in the game are insufferable "written to be that way." I could go on and on listing out all the examples but it would be boring/ pointless.).

[@ConsoleControlGames]

I love a friendly debate that doesn't devolve into screaming, so I welcome this conversation. Woke, by definition, is being aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues. The fact that a multicultural group of people saved and accepted the protagonist and Cass into their society simply because they were fellow humans in need, kind of doesn't conform to the feminist agenda theory, lol. And trust me, I AM NOT a fan of nonsensical hypocritical feminists. Is Terminator 2 a worse movie than Terminator 1 because Sarah Connor changed from damsel in distress to bad ass? Remnant is about the struggle of a video game keeping us entertained. The people are just a machine AI's belief of what a "real" person is. It's like looking at AI art--something is just...off. All the "insufferable" women have a male equivalent. Ford/Clem are arrogant, self serving, and inconsiderate. Cass/Bo are young, stupid know-it-alls that are reminded that they're insignificant. McCabe/Riggs show the extremes of being a people pleaser and an antisocial asshole. I'm DEFINITELY not what you would probably call a "blue pill simp." Quite simply, some things aren't that serious. Looking for "wokeness" in insignificant things means being actively attentive to what you believe is a societal issue, which is ironically woke. Was the Marvels or Captain Marvel bad movies because they were woke? I beg to argue no--they were just terrible movies, lol. I'm not trying to be insulting or derisive, I'd like to know what other examples you have because I'm honestly intrigued.

[@Visigoth_]

@@ConsoleControlGames It's a game... so all the dialogue is written by writers; so everything is the way it is becaus3 they chose to make it so: Cass is a condescending bitch because they chose to make her that way. Ava is a condescending bitch because they chose to make her that way. Norah isn't as bad as the other two; but they still chose to make her a "young female" and give her the "what you think I'm too young to be a successful Dr." Trope. They chose to make Bo a SIMP for Clementine... they chose to make the "Some Old white Guy; Ford" a failure (as a family man and a leader) instead of a good/ tragic leader who had/ has to make sacrifices for the future of the Ward (no, that honor goes to his Granddaughter Ellen). They chose to make the "all powerful focus of the plot" an ageless young girl (who pitches temper trantrums). They even make it seem like Rigs might be gay; when he talks about his "Partner" Jed? All of these things are conscious narative choices... nowadays my "tolerance" for this crap is in the negatives...

[@Visigoth_]

@@ConsoleControlGames yeah... I don't agree with that "definition." 😉 Try this one instead: "politically liberal or progressive (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme." - I wrote an entire reply; and YT auto deleted it... we can't *really* have this conversation here. The first example of "Wokeness" comes from the very opening scene (the tutorial: the exchange between you and Cass) and the condescending narrative they chose to open with (just think of what it would be like for Ford to say something like "bla bla bla, Old Black Woman; bla bla bla.") not a "group of multicultural individuals" (even using that termonology is Woke... as far as I can tell; there's only "one culture" in Ward 13 "post-apocalyptic survival." Assuming that someone's skin color automatically denotes that they are of an individual "culture" and then labeling that as "multi" because they aren't all the same pigment is racist... you can have people of different skin colors share/ be a part of the same culture). 🤔 - Remnant 2 isn't "dripping with Woke," but it's still enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

[@Bgh583]

Its a worser version of last of us with a tiny bit of dark souls.

[@Flyingturtle-uc8er]

How is it similar to last of us? The gameplay and story are so very different. And the gameplay is very much like dark souls, it just involves guns instead of melee weapons, I really want to know your thoughts on why it’s so similar to last of us though, Im curious.

[@kilarbox]

The dark truth is Remnant series creators have zero storytelling talent. And, zero visual design talent. And, zero gameplay design talent.

[@MARSHISTAKEN]

this is it I started remnant 2 last night with and it was so boring the moment co-op got enabled we just didn't want to play, remnant 1 was the same boring, pathetic and a mess but because of covid we just finished it somehow

[@6546]

That's not an objective truth it's just ur opinion and to call it a "dark truth" only reveals ur massive fucking ego deciding that for the rest of us.

[@erasalams61]

U need to work on your mic mate and then u gonna rock with this material. Game is s freaking confusing with lore that my head spins lol

[@ConsoleControlGames]

Yeah, when I heard the final recording, I just couldn't start all over again. I tried to clean it up as best as I could...then I bought a new mic, lol.

[@martinraa9751]

skbibdi 🚱