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#you decide to help catherine in her personal mission to send humanity to space to live on even if they wouldnt have a single clue. even
hprse · 3 years
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Just watched what was essentially an hour long fusion of a video essay for the game SOMA called "the game that broke me" and i wasnt paying much attention until the middle to end area but when i say the last scene of the game lived up to the title because thats when it hit me what exactly had been occurring throughout the game and what had occurred to every. Single. Human. On. Earth. In the game and im currently kind of stewing on this because god damn.
#txt#im going to put a spoiler warning for those that dont want to watch it but are curious#so. SPOILER WARNING FOR THE TAGS AHEAD#AGAIN. WARNING.#so in the game you are a car crash survivor who had continuous brain issues#and for some reason nothing would work#so you undergo one last surgery and when you wake up? you are in a world post comet crash#which has destroyed all life.#HOWEVER. life had lived on in robots as all humans had their brainwaves scanned and copies and pasted into varying robotic forms#HOWEVER the pasted forms? not just robots. they are also in a capsule in some special base. where they are basically living in paradise#the goal? get this capsule into space. to ensure that when the earth enevitably is truly destroyed? humanity can live on among the stars#you decide to help catherine in her personal mission to send humanity to space to live on even if they wouldnt have a single clue. even#though she is just a copied sentient amount of data on a screen. you meet many robots with human minds. almost all of them are essentially#in some sort of trancelike or damaged or terrified state. one of which screams in pain despite... not being able to truly experience it.#his dead human body is found a few rooms away. you get to choose to kill some of these robots in varying forms including one stuck on the b#ottom of the sea who believes herself to Be in the capsule that will be sent to the stars. at a few points you yourself get copy and pasted#a few times its discussed afterwards when you wake up in a new place about what will happen to the old you and its kind of brushed off#until the very. very. end. the last scene. you are preparing to send the capsule to space. catherine has set up something in the computer#that will load both u and her brains into the capsule as long as it occurs fast enough before the 30 second launch#its a TERRIFYING 30 seconds as the upload bar hardly moves until the last seconds. the capsule launches and...#you are still in the chair. you arent in the utopia of the capsule like your pasted self. you are terrified. about to die#you scream for and at catherine until her face appears on the screen and she says 'we both failed the coin toss. now simon and catherine ge#t to live on the ark' (simon being you and ark being the capsule)#around you as you scream. both of you are shouting fuck yous. catherine at you for being ignorant to what had been happening this entire ti#me and you for feeling betrayed and lied to for not understanding nor realizing what was occurring#around you as this occurs the lights are flickering and shutting off with loud noises. finally the screen shuts off on catherine. and you S#SCREAM in your chair you are strapped to for catherine. pleading for her to return. and then the screen goes black with your last words beg#ging for her. and then the credits roll. just like that#this ENTIRE time every single time when you copy pasted your brain another YOU was left behind to die. just like it happened at the end#so yeah. ask for more details if u want bc damn. out of tags
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