SIGNALIS - 3000 Cycles (I missed you) [Extended]

[@fireboythestar3455]

The flashback with Ariane was great because it was the only moment where not everything was hellish. It reminded us what we were fighting for. And it was striped away from us within minutes.

[@brunobarrios213]

That scene made me emotional because of this

[@ArkayeCh]

Imagine all the hell you go through and the only you kept you going was remembering that kiss and dance. Breaks your heart.

[@MrViki60]

It's not fucking fair. They deserve better.

[@ArkayeCh]

@@MrViki60 Perhaps this is Hell. :')

[@juggernut1418]

If it wqs only a strait game it whode be a 10/10

[@mrmac2340]

I just want them to be happy. PERHAPS, THIS IS HELL.

[@juggernut1418]

Lesben or gay people go to hell god made us to fall in love but to oposite genders

[@witwunsz4740]

W-Why couldn't they be? Why can't they be happy?

[@juggernut1418]

@@witwunsz4740 becose woman x woman =hell

[@pomtamto5586]

@@witwunsz4740One must imagine Elester happy.

[@k_nito7954]

​@@pomtamto5586 This bioresonance... to hold... ME?

[@user49357]

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal

[@Avenray19]

That in and of itself is pretty complicated. There are both positive and negative forms of desire. To be desired by a compassionate personality type is great! To be desired by a predator-type personality is actually pretty terrible.

[@noah509]

Thank you for this.

[@Chef_Alpo]

​@Avenray19 good point, it also depends on how a person absorbs this affection. Some for vanity - this is obviously quite one-sided and is just downright ghoulish - while in its proper form it is received and reciprocated, synergistic, forming a self perpetuating bond. The latter form has no room for vanity.

[@VAVORiAL]

No.

[@MrNextMx]

Aye bro, you nailed it 👌

[@lolrus5555]

Phoo... regardless of whether there's really *_something_* buried under Leng that amplified Ariane's bioresonance capabilities/is prolonging her suffering, whether the entire game is just some dying dream Elster got sucked into via Ariane's bioresonance, or just Elster losing her fucking mind, there's really no denying that these two got a raw fucking deal ._.

[@not_a_rakerake914]

ayo, caim from drakengard loving signalis too?

[@drfish4964]

Yeah, like... jesus fucking christ, no matter how you twist it, I can't think of a more miserable love story ;_;

[@daz211]

@@drfish4964 No kidding. They were both stuck together on a small space craft heading towards the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, with the craft itself being a flying time bomb with a 3000 day fuse (even though problems started around 1500 days. The Nation knew this was the case, they had to, otherwise they wouldn't have been notified come day 3000. Game was rigged against them from the very beginning, sent on a mission where the only options were success or dying alone and forgotten by the people who sent you.

[@ArioDragon]

@@not_a_rakerake914 Drakengard is in no way easier, in terms of what's happenning and condition of the world than Signalis. Goddamn Hell everywhere!

[@fireemblemistrash75]

@@ArioDragon true that. Draken1 and 3 is just madness with no really good ending to say the least tbh Also fuck yeah Caim from drakengard

[@AndroidNoir-L06k]

"do not talk, or befriend an elster unit." Now we know why, LSTR just can't let go her precious one and also go so far as to die for lost cause.

[@daz211]

Die for something as simple as a promise. Again and again and again and again....

[@a.k8185]

It would be amusant to interpret them as the ones that get incredibly attached. Though, it likely took time for certain due to how Ariane was... Did seem to be on good terms with Alina quickly though, S2301.

[@Darkstr99-ob4wm]

possesive and possibly obssesive personality traits in a LSTR once they fall in love.

[@a.k8185]

@@Darkstr99-ob4wm Probably-Probably. Alina comes to mind.

[@Blind_Hawk]

The music sounds so dreamy, distant, and something you can not keep in mind. Like a dream or a distant memory, you fondly know. Cicada and 1000 Eyes killed it with their OST.

[@dwarrow25]

“I made a promise. I’ll do anything.”

[@aaronatkinson177]

In the end you stayed true to your word even if it meant saying goodbye to the one you cared about the most 💯 💔

[@HighPrincessErinys]

This sounds like what intimacy feels like. Very befitting Elster and Ariane, and their tragedy.

[@myriri3687]

Their tragedy? The real horror of this game is that they were not special. There were a LOT of people in the exact same situation all because their government decided to do something really stupid for no reason other than to look good that year in propaganda. Penrose-512. Meaning there might possibly be 511 other Penrose program vessels each with a pilot and a Elster. 511 other tragedies like Elster and Arianes. All of them with the same guaranteed outcome (and a host of other potential terrible outcomes) a slow miserable death from a combo of radiation poisoning and starvation. All for nothing except making the government look good in a few propaganda reels.

[@AuroraAustralis_]

@@myriri3687 Special or not, they deserved to be happy and what happened is utterly devastating

[@joshuaverde5362]

@@myriri3687 isn't the Penrose program called low cost or cheap? Maybe it's just another saving face way to get rid of certain undesirables. Then again, Ariane did wish for this but because they fell in love in the ship, both of them wanted a different fate. Ariane worrying about not seeing each other the next day and elster planning to do anything and everything to be with Ariane whether in the waking world or not.

[@MitsurugiR]

@@myriri3687 L take

[@networknomad5600]

@@MitsurugiR W take, cope.

[@thesoggynoodle4451]

god damn it. i keep coming back here. this song just perfectly captures the moment of "we know theres chaos and destruction around us, but this little zone, this little world, is ours, and it is teeming with love and life." this game goddamn it, its taken a top spot for one of my favorite games ever.

[@resonanceofambition]

I think we are hurt so much because we wish, in this day that anyone, anyone, anywhere would go through such lengths just to keep a promise. For me, the fact that Elster is "just" a machine makes it ten times worse. Goes to say that we're all just deeply hurt inside.

[@resonanceofambition]

@@KayliTovar That's kind of a "is", not a "may"

[@tomorbataar5922]

@Lost noodle Yeah, being a fellow loner as Ariane and Elster I think that's why this game hit me so hard. At least both got a brief moment of happiness and love together before it all broke apart.

[@RetroChug]

It hurts more when you've known such a deep love for someone. Someone you'd die for.

[@Autta_GUM]

Found this in recommended without playing Signalis… I AM NOW OBSESSED

[@guillaumegeaymond503]

the game is a goddamn masterpiece, I highly recommand you give it a try if you can spare the bucks

[@tnd9086]

this game is great, if you have the money and time to spare i highly reccomend playing it

[@Zayindjejfj]

I want to unload my memory to experience it. I just want more of it.

[@insert-user-name-here]

The game is really good, if you can you should try it.

[@Analogrime]

GO PLAY SIGNALIS! RIGHT NOW!

[@yassinefarah2423]

The romantic calm before the endless storm.

[@BlueFlameFK]

im so glad i came into this game knowing next to nothing, the story gripped me so hard that i've barely been able to focus on anything else the past few days after i got the promise ending. realizing only after i had beaten falke what our promise was reading the bloody notes. and that i was trying to find the wrong woman the entire time. when ariane died and elster passed right next to her, it wasn't anything near a happy ending, i just wanted them to be happy. but instead elster just completed her promise, ending arianes suffering and dying having achieved her final mission. i was hopeful after watching the 3000 cycle cutscene, but after i read the transmission that came later that same cycle, it clearly was the beginning of the end for them. the amount of pure love they must've had. trying to preserve their life to live together with each other, only to prolong their suffering, ariane asking elster to kill her, then dying later in the penrose from the radiation, failing her promise. leaving ariane in the cryo chamber stuck between dream and reality, creating new realities to complete their promise. this was a story of love corrupting their hearts, and eventually leading to pure suffering, only ending in their deaths. there could never be a happy ending to signalis. but this fact is in the foreground as you try and complete the promise, not even knowing what you promised.

[@jooot_6850]

Hour 1 haha cute robot ladies! Hour 12:

[@AcanOfsplode]

I am so glad I knew nothing about this game going into it besides knowing it was classic survival horror. I took a break for like 4 hours and I couldn’t stop thinking about it so I booted it back up and finished chapter 1 and then 2… until the actual credits rolled and I got my results… I can’t wait for a annual playthrough along side SH3 and Resident evil remake.

[@CBJay-hw3jk]

did you make it past the fake ending?

[@Nazhull]

the scene where Ariane hugged Elster I felt the warmth of love, it became my favourite part of the game

[@Diablokettle]

I just love the art, Elsters face of sheer comfort and happiness is so wholesome. It really shows just how far she’s willing to go for Ariane.

[@gangblad5220]

I miss her, irretrievably. It's something precious, the most precious thing I've ever had: her. I've always known, I've always shown her, I've always implied, that since her arrival in my life, it's all been new feelings, new sensations. I was born when we met, when we exchanged our first words - first discreet, then spontaneous, then funny. A complicity was born, a friendship, as well as an improvised love. She quickly became my everything, and my only regret was that I couldn't hold her in my arms as much as I wanted to. An idyll, an ideal, she was my idol. I loved her for who she was, who she would be: I could, I wanted to see her cry, see her happy, see her bitter, see her mean; as long as with me, as long as she considered me her ally, and gave me of her kindness. I loved her unconditionally. I loved her, I thought if she disappeared my heart would stop. It didn't stop, at least not the mechanical part, but since then I've felt nothing. At certain times, the pain is such that I scream, I shout, I feel nothing but despair. Even dying is too easy. I ask myself every day why I didn't choose this path, why I didn't finally decide to let myself sink. It's better than being like I am now, sinking into madness. She was beautiful, radiant, my sun, my life, the only good thing that ever happened to me. Lucky and grateful, I dedicated tons of ink to her. I don't know if I was good to her. I've always supported her, always been by her side, could I have done more? No. I'm in a rage. I'm sad, recently plunged into this acedia. I don't do anything. When I say nothing, I mean I'm letting myself sink into emptiness. In the darkness of inconsistency, doing nothing productive. I'm sinking into this basking. A rest that's not restorative. I need to contemplate the void, I need to do nothing, because when I try something, my cowardice takes over again. I know that from now on, she doesn't care about our love. She doesn't feel anything anymore. It's painful. Like imagining that I've been banished from her life. I can't wish for anything but to return to those precious moments. Little by little, every day, I manage to tell myself that she wasn't that great. I try, above all, to reassure myself, because of course; she was great. My loved one; I can continue to live in the past, imagining that she's still holding my hands warmly. The present doesn't care. I'd like to be loved again, I'd like to be held. I'd like a pretty girl with a pure heart, unlike me, to take me in her arms. That I could scream, scream. Let my disgusting snot flow, let my tears drip down my face. I wish, so much, that someone existed for me. I wish there were. I. I am not. no more. Inconstancy. Weakness, death. Not physical death, even worse, Gloreless and ugly like the man I've always been: A slow death, agony, collapse. I'm nothing but the living dead, there's only a sham in me.

[@jooot_6850]

beautifully written.. i hope you're doing better now though!

[@vanilladegenerate5711]

These two, abused and oppressed by their hateful society. At least they found love and compassion with each other for what time they had. A real tragedy, they and everyone in that game deserved so much better

[@juggernut1418]

They will end up in hell well becose there gay

[@youtubeisapublisher6407]

I love it, it's like mainlining melancholy directly into my veins. Thanks!

[@CelestialDraconis]

I don't know what this game's about or who these two are, but the vibes are lovely.

[@illianstrange5556]

You should play the game. It changed me as a person and made me see things about myself I had forgotten. There hasn't been a day since I've played this game that I haven't thought about it. Maybe it'll touch your heart and change you too. For better or worse. Stay strong out there, maybe I'll see you in another cycle.

[@jooot_6850]

That's Hell you're walking into.

[@hive5123]

Such a melancholic song but very soothing and comforting, much like the hug they had. At that point I knew I was going to cry my eyes out at the end of it all and I was right. What a good game

[@snaildad193]

I don't know what this is from but listening to this loop through headphones with that image calls to mind the first time I ever slept with my wife. The warmth, the ethereal joy of love and being loved. The lady in black isn't saying anything, but that smile says "You are beautiful; heaven must be real because I'm sharing a bed with one of God's own angels."

[@cowboysandallthegoodstuff3713]

I think about this comment so often. Thank you for sharing it. Its so profoundly romantic

[@jooot_6850]

hopefully your wife doesn't accidentally manifest you into Hell

[@jras7327]

damn, dog.

[@someirishboi6308]

I have been crying for 10 minutes I haven't even played it yet

[@birb4415]

The fact that just listening to a song as simple as this can make you feel such powerful sadness is why this game will always be a masterpiece. My only regret is playing it in the first place, I wish I had stayed ignorant and just enjoyed the nice calming music.

[@razagan1343]

I swear the moment I have 20 bucks I am buying this game

[@andreseh87]

It's so worth it.

[@sebastianvelcro]

It is worth it. Really take your time with it. No need to rush. Took me a good 14 hours my first time. Really good game to just sit back and listen to the music sometimes. Take in the atmosphere.

[@resonanceofambition]

@@sebastianvelcro And then play it again. And again. And again.

[@izperehoda]

You can pirate it and buy later.

[@razagan1343]

@@izperehoda hmmm I already have enough games to clear out of my backlog. but you do make a good point

[@terrasigma9924]

this feels like a liminal space where it's just these two spending time together in a white void

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

“All the things she said, running though my head, running though my head, this is not enough.”

[@БруноБуччелати-н6б]

Dawg you are not a lesbian from USSR.

[@kimashitawa8113]

Bikini Bottom has fallen

[@erebys21]

Every time I listen to this I feel like I fall into a lake of warm static. Unnerving, but also comforting. Like nothing can breach the serenity of the lake of static.

[@dommie6darko89]

That is very beautiful, thank you for sharing

[@Airsickword]

Reminds me how ghost in shell nightsalker makes me feel, a deep, endless lake that you are suspended in, floating yet not.

[@Lesandira]

This gives me major Silent Hill vibes. Truly amazing work by 1000 Eyes.

[@derBene]

Or RE4 save room vibes.

[@savenok4869]

Just finished signalis and got promise ending. I hope after this ending the cycles stops. I'm glad it's all over for them.

[@EvesScaleModels]

damn why did i click this not 6 seconds in and ive already got the return of the crippling depression this game gave me

[@dommie6darko89]

This game is something else man

[@EvesScaleModels]

@@dommie6darko89 its mental crack i stg

[@sleepycat1929]

Without love it cannot be seen.

[@jKherty]

Wild Umineko reference in 2023

[@dommie6darko89]

I like to listen to this video, with another tab open, playing relaxing thunderstorm with lighting sounds. Its so peaceful.

[@Obscurus41]

Best indie along with disco elysium and hollow knight so far. What the hell am I going to experience now?

[@BrokenToews]

Celeste and Tunic

[@hotzalin]

real

[@Arcticreconwolf]

I love it, thank you for uploading this! Definitely my favorite track of the whole album. Has a spacey soul survivor type vibe to it

[@astartes2971]

Я плачу, их история трогательна и мне было грустно смотреть на них когда они умерли

[@cesarst3720]

Я тоже...

[@trevorfranks69]

I just want what they have.

[@DarkSamael55]

Why is it so hard to find real romantic love in real life like the one they're having 😢

[@ProxyWishGranter]

For real

[@jooot_6850]

pretty sure you don't want cancer

[@giannilyanicks1718]

@@DarkSamael55 your opinion.

[@NSD150]

My favorite survival horror game, my absolute favorite part is the beautiful soundtrack.

[@aobaichiko122]

I play this whenever I sleep now and I always wake up feeling better. There's something in this audio.

[@sarcasticdude2620]

It must be nice to find someone who understands you.

[@jooot_6850]

Elster could only ever fall in love with Ariane. Ariane could only ever fall in love with Elster

[@krossbim3443]

there is no greater form of love, than to go through an endless cycle again, and again, for the sake of a promise.

[@Blind_Hawk]

I always wondered what Elster feels like. Of course the human parts would feel like flesh and a human being. But their hands and body must be feel somewhat "hard".

[@jooot_6850]

I hate to say this... but is her boobie plate soft? Or would it be hard and armored? LSTRs are made of titanium bones and a plasticlike outer shell, so... maybe only her face feels human. Also, would a replika have reproductive organs? Probably not, right?

[@witwunsz4740]

they look so happy together

[@lolagagginw812lol7]

This is so beautiful to listen to! I like to imagine that this is what Ariane and Elster were listening to while on the Penrose. :)

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

October is coming, I’m not going to be afraid, but im going to relive my sadness. That is itself is horror. Good luck Adler bros. We will make it.

[@AStarCalledWormwood]

there was literally no point in their mission. they were slung out into the darkness of space, expected to reach an inhabitable star system within not even their lifetime, but their "low-cost" craft's lifetime. utter wasteful madness. all my homies hate the nation.

[@malhekai]

laika moment, but worse

[@jooot_6850]

Ariane was thrown away like a defective tool. What a shame. What a waste.

[@amyj5603]

I really enjoy this game, still not done with it yet, but this gives me huge silent hill vibes!

[@dommie6darko89]

Did you ever finish?

[@amyj5603]

@@dommie6darko89 absolutely! such a amazing game!

[@lolagagginw812lol7]

@@amyj5603 I Know Right?

[@ilovegreeneggsnham.4376]

i didn’t think this game would have such a strong effect on me when I bought it

[@kaidenvi]

i've listened to this for hours on loop, but i only just noticed that the background image slowly zooms out as the video goes on. sneaky sneaky...

[@Hallrassy]

Холод еще никогда не был так приятен... Так холодно и одиноко... холодно...

[@skullnumb1532]

I hope i find a love that's as pure as Elster and Ariane's

[@jooot_6850]

I hope you find one without the radiation poisoning.. we're all gonna make it!

[@2000peace.j]

this made me cry

[@theSantiagoDog]

This is wonderful. I've had it on repeat for days.

[@TheLightensoul]

Can we get a 8 to 10 hour version of this, i would love to one day sleep to this comforting music as I sleep. it would be very nice.

[@realityreplayed6908]

I remember the gazebo glazed by opaque moonlight. I remember my emotions resting in your hands like a delicate dove awaiting your love. I remember you drowning that dove in the murky lake-water too, and I remember the lanterns. They fell from the sky like embers in the night, descending tranquilly by the grace of the wind. I remember the pain when we left that place, and how it was never the same after we did. Im sorry I wasnt enough.

[@jooot_6850]

hope you're doing okay now

[@realityreplayed6908]

@@jooot_6850 thank you eventually I will be

[@crimsonsxrazor8243]

we are the eyes at the ends they will get their happy ending one way or another...

[@aurelianus1308]

"I don't like Space East Germany! Maybe I'll go somewhere else!" Signalis 2 happens in the Empire and its just as bad. "Perhaps I can use this scarce ammo to end my suffering!"

[@schizoposting1911]

perhaps, space germany is hell.

[@tenjenk]

@windrose5988 Not truly meant to represent them directly, more so they represent a heavily oppressed working class, not that the recognized human citizens of the nation are treated any better. The replikants are made from mind scans of citizens, mass produced in untold numbers to fulfill a function across every region under the nations control. As such while they are not actively prejudiced against or hated, they face very strict rules of interaction (Elsters become obsessive if socialized with and Mynah's go insane without indulging their maternal instincts) under a terribly oppressive regime which already dominates over its human citizens. They are treated as disposable products despite being alive and sapient, where each one develops a distinct personality (albiet with similar traits) and individuality from its sister models, which form from the different life experiences they encounter during their operational period.

[@Sandwichs5]

Man I have never played this game but dang hearing and seeing bits of it really makes sad and happy at the same for them, we can never get a good ending but we got a decent ending that ends the suffering and pain at least for now hopefully

[@jooot_6850]

it's worth the $20, and it's also definitely worth the heartbreak

[@Sandwichs5]

I played it finally and man I just have no words for what to say after the heartbreak, I got the memory ending btw

[@jooot_6850]

@@Sandwichs5 "oh my god i get it now"

[@Sandwichs5]

@@jooot_6850 thanks for being here mate :)

[@jooot_6850]

@@Sandwichs5 :)

[@godemperormeow8591]

I wish I could hold onto my dream for just a little while longer, the one that has brought me so much happiness...

[@YoRHaUnit2Babe]

LSTR and YoRHa Units are two types of Characters written with curses, of which the ways genuinely have impaled my heart with raw fear and as far as I know, Grief. My observed biggest differences between them being the levels of Isolation and Cycles. 2B knows that She has to kill 9S and once made a promise with Him that She can fulfill... She can kill Him and meet Him again. LSTR can't fulfill Her promise... Which is the absolute worst case scenario I can think of. She tries with everything She has, Yet it changes pretty much nothing. this is my biggest fear.

[@redline5O5]

Just found this today and I fell in love with it which was odd...

[@TheRealMonsieurGo]

What was in the letter ? (I decided to not open it)

[@sucu7359]

More Information about LSTR units.

[@youtubeisapublisher6407]

A list of things not to do which basically boils down to "Under no circumstances fall in love with your Elster unit".

[@misterscienceguy]

@@youtubeisapublisher6407 And "Don't talk about the war."

[@TheRealMonsieurGo]

Thanks you all !!!

[@umamisoy]

The same info you find about other units, what's their quirks, how to keep them stable and what to avoid so they don't malfunction Things to do to keep them stable They are loners, so leave them alone. among things to avoid: Pictures Paintings War films (All things Ari shared with her)

[@arfumis]

Moral of the story: don't romance your android Moral of this artwork: her fingers are too large for you.

[@petrspetsnaz630]

Moral of the story: never ever romance someone in a survival horror game.

[@daz211]

@@petrspetsnaz630 Bold of you to assume the characters know what genre they're in

[@petrspetsnaz630]

@@daz211 They should have looked at tags their game has!

[@gabunne]

@@petrspetsnaz630 Ariane on her way to the penrose program when she sees the "Survival Horror" tag

[@rekumi959]

Я просто хочу быть счастливым..

[@hardatak]

3000 cycles of hell you mean

[@SinnerBeta]

So how much do you think a cycle is anyway, a day (on the planet the person elster was based is from)?

[@Br0ckR0cket]

For the sake of easy math, I just assume that a cycle is roughly equivalent to 24H. There's no hard evidence to the contrary, so it's easier to just roll with that. I mean, what's really the difference between a cycle being 22H or 26H compared to 24H? Personally, a "day" to me is split between when I'm asleep and when I'm awake. So some of my "days" are shorter and some of my "days" are longer, but either way, every time I go to sleep, it'll be a new "day" when I awake.

[@xmurae]

@@Br0ckR0cket that's a good thought. When I was playing through I just thought of it as a year. But thinking about it now it doesn't make much sense lmao.

[@cpt.midwich2821]

Well they are in stasis, looking for new worlds around system, no evidence of hi speed space travel engines. I am afraid that "cycle" is muuuuch longer then 24h.

[@TangledVirus]

My take is that a cycle is a day in the capital of the nation. So, let's say 20 hours. In the flashback there's a not from Ariane saying that she made the cycles in the ship last 6% longer, in order to resemble a cycle in Vineta in order to make Elster more comfortable. With that we can assume that individually each planet on the nation follows a standard cycle based on the capital and the actual duration of a day on whatever planet be dammed.

[@_krbrs_]

@@cpt.midwich2821 3000 days is EIGHT YEARS, spent in complete isolation.

[@xarop5145]

Damn, this game hit me 10x harder because i was on a streak,,, Before this game I had finished Persona 3 FES...

[@JuankyPresentaciónNumero40k]

¡It's Verry Beatifull!, 😭😭😭🤧

[@yummypizza3209]

Hey elster, remember that time we appeared in family guy?

[@I_LovePuck]

It reminds me of him... I love him

[@rometherevenant8749]

Gawd damn it I love this game

[@XoJIJIoY]

This game made me wanna shoot either myself or someone else . 10/10 would break my rotten heart again

[@tonywade7473]

Defenatly myself

[@snakesnoteyes]

Please don’t shoot someone else or yourself!

[@jooot_6850]

don't give up, skeleton

[@neah_kk9114]

live with suffering

[@vazak11]

Niiiiice

[@Crimson.DemonPT]

amazing game

[@ghoulish6125]

How many Elstrs (protagonist, us) have there been? I can't figure out the time loop aspect. Why is there a time loop, how did it start and why are certain people trapped in it without degrading? I understand Falke picked up on the relationship memories, but there's a lot im lost on. I guess my survivor play through needs to be a slow burn.

[@FloorFourteen]

There isn't necessarily a loop. It's all linear, it's just a massive number of Elster's show up to carry out the mission. Most of them seem to die along the way (the ones in the elevator shaft Adler kills for example), but some leave the ship(leave ending), some reach Ariane and lose their memory (the one you take the armor from which is also reached the memory ending), and potentially one of them actually fulfills the promise and kills Ariane which would be the Promise ending thus bringing an end to the entire thing. This is my interpretation anyway.

[@beepeopeepeo2645]

@@FloorFourteen honestly, I think the Ariane we see is actually Alina who has been biologically remade into Ariane by the flesh thing/red eye/song of the stars She was similar to her from the start (Alina often fainted at work and Ariane was said to be sick quite often, being paired with an Elster replika) and when we got to Nowhere her diary entries were saying that her hair started turning white and “it’s like I was always here” Basically the original Ariane became one with this alien force/elder god/whatever and utilized bioresonanse to make different replikas into Elsters and different gestalts into Arianes and make them fulfill the promise that the original Elster made to the original Ariane. This (I think) explains the lily ending and how it seems that all of the endings in the game seemingly happened because the Elster in each ending is a different Elster. I’m sorry if some of this seems like gibberish, I haven’t slept for 32 hours when writing this Please understand

[@somedouchemcbag987]

@@beepeopeepeo2645 Also the Ariane in the ending has bandages on her face. In *exactly the same spots as Alina if we look at her photo on the keycards*

[@ghoulish6125]

@@beepeopeepeo2645 Not at all, I appreciate the write-up and your time. I'm going to chew on your words while I do my next playthrough, as I think you're onto the gist of it.

[@KajiCarson]

@@beepeopeepeo2645 That's an excellent interpretation.

[@falcon1706]

I really just want to see them happy tbh, fuxking hell emotions suck

[@hotzalin]

bop

[@jonathanluzgonzalez7510]

Not me liking this because of the soundtrack, can't wait to finally get a working laptop thay works to actually play the game

[@MrViki60]

Tfw no waife

[@tylerhilpisch7850]

just how long is a cycle? a month, a day? i dont think it is a year

[@AkaiOtinashi]

A day/24 hours. Ariana said in a note she tuned their cycles to be as long as a cycle on Vineta, which in our reality is the equivalent of earth.

[@lohollywood1f428]

8 years for 3000 cycles, so about 13ish years for the final *noted* cycle at 5009, but definitely more due to lore

[@Palmer.GV.]

❤❤❤❤❤💓💓💓💓💓

[@alefmagnum207]

I'm jealous. Just by looking at them I wish to be loved back by a woman whom I loved......

[@OnSele]

the name of this soundtrack is killing me...

[@Socialrejectzallhuman]

This is my theme

[@ryanrosales118]

they shouldn’t have let these lesbians into space..

[@william1760201]

Mmmmm

[@LiliKilii]

🤍🖤

[@yamada-f1p]

I just wana sleep..... Elester......

[@a.k8185]

Has less... outright notes than the other tracks of similar kind, but gee, *ow.* Does a lot, even without the thought of... well, them. Poor people, really.

[@cocoalove1071]

The melody is similar to Siro Sagisu

[@pizzalover5017]

:(

[@olegd3860]

EVeCqoG

[@juggernut1418]

Why did they had to make this game gay They can atlist add a male version edit: should i delete this comment

[@user49357]

Yuri for the win beta

[@juggernut1418]

​@windrose5988idk bro i think this game whode be better if it was a striat a woman that wants to be with her man forever

[@2013HORSEMEATSCANDAL]

@@juggernut1418 i think the game's not gay enough where are my twinks

[@DarkSamael55]

@@juggernut1418 I mean you can always fantasize about daddi ADLR ;)

[@juggernut1418]

@@DarkSamael55 no no....i mean like the short guy x tall girl

[@yeaj1721]

These characters didn't really have a lot of depth and development. But I still felt tears well up when I saw them dance or when I saw the "memory" ending.

[@cowboysandallthegoodstuff3713]

you have seen them in so much pain. the tiniest signs of happiness and comfort lets the player know just how valuable they are to eachother. its fantastic, and cruel.

[@derBene]

In my opinion they are certainly deep enough. Maybe like average people. That should be enough to feel empathic to them. Just like you said.

[@tenjenk]

we werent given the depth and development directly, but its still there. Enough was hinted that we were allowed to fill in the gaps. Like the empty white space of a line sketch creating expansive depth and form in our eyes. We see a few strokes and a rich vibrant image forms in our mind. That is what we see.

[@theresnotry.3398]

Elstar, missed you too.

[@KingSodium]

"How many times are you willing to go through hell to keep your promise?" Playing this game is hell and after making it all the way to the "promise" ending... it's painfully tragic. This game is by far (in my opinion) a masterpiece of survival horror and romance.