Zail's Tales: Outer Wilds - Chapter 19: Hacking the Matrix

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1:06:11 actually you _can_ get back up by jumping on one of the rocks that sticks out on the left, though it is slightly finicky. Similarly, you can jump up to the slide reel shelves in the first forbidden archive.

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When I finished this game I want to watch a 100% ship lop completion speed run. I'm sure there's more stuff like that in it.

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Starlit Cove is by far the most difficult area IMO. The design/layout is confusing (though they did improve it a bit with patches), and there is no stealth bypass puzzle to solve, you just have to learn the stealth mechanics (and they made this more difficult with patches). It does seem like you forgot what you saw in the slide reel from the slide burning room though.

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Don't worry. I just recorded the next episode and I got you, fam.

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15:30 I think there wasn't a ledge there in the initial release, but they added the ledge later to stop players from leaving the area without finding the stairs

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Games devs know the number one threat to the player is the player themselves.

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48:00 they gambled everything on this voyage... :(

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I still remember the absolute bottom of my stomach falling out when I saw that the first time. To suddenly have this context as to why this society that comes across at first as so guarded and ashamed and then you realize just how badly they fucked up and then spent the rest of their existence trying to reverse the damage anyway they could.

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1:29:39 why move away from the fire now when you're already in the dream world? Worried you'll fall into a world that is darker yet darker still?

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I'm only like 40% sure what you're referencing

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@@ZailsTales It is kind of an obscure reference relating to fan theories about what's going on with Deltarune. The dream world in EotE can be thought of as analogus to a Deltarune dark world (and, amusingly, the dream world is quite dark during the 22 minute window in which we see it). So if you could enter a deeper dream world by resting at a dream world fire... well, I suppose I could have referenced the movie Inception too, but quoting Gaster was my first thought.

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1:30:46 ah I see, you didn't find the downstairs area under the hands, that's missed by many people and they changed the layout in patches to make it more obvious but people still miss it

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Yeah not a 100% run alas.

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@@ZailsTales Well you kind of have to get that ship log in order to even complete this area, unless you use some sort of exploit. Or are you saying you didn't push the raft all the way to the burned building?

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40:04 🧠

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I'm amazed how many of these ah-ha moments i'm having even having already played this game before, i promise you not all of this realization is an act.

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28:56 o_o

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My shortest dumbest loop yet.