Thoughts on chapter 2?

Don't get my hopes up like this.

>>715729997
lol lmao

becoming an ENA fan is the perfect shortcut to looking like an intelligent and interesting person. if I say I goon to ENA it also shows out "out there" my tastes are.

>>715730123
I... I think that's just you, anon

predictions for the next chapter?

>>715730573
lolrandom characters say lolrandom things. the fans applaud no matter what they get.
screencap this, I'm confident it will come true

>>715730573
Past-chapter compatibility
Like if new stuff can be used in previous chapters and the effects of your actions affect the future chapter, I'd love that, that's all I ask for

>>715730850
You sound mad

>>715730876
>that's all I ask for
and you'll still like it even if you don't get it

i wonder if the chapters are far enough apart that we can see a tangible improvement in joel's work
if you watch his first ena cartoon entries and his latest ones youll notice a massive improvement in animation, maybe we'll see the same here
>>715730850
>>715730995
calm down bro

>>715730876
>You sound mad
at what? I'm going to be proved right. why not screencap my post for when chapter 2 drops and you can say I was proven wrong? no I don't think you'll be doing that, will you? LOL

>>715731112
Chill

>>715730850
You've upset them but they won't say you're wrong.
Screencapped for when it's inevitably proven true

>>715731209
Seriously dude chill

>>715731209
Based

>>715731309
Saved

i've genuinely never seen someone get this heated over a game did this random indie title kill someone's parents or someone

>>715731112
i have sperg fatigue

>>715731454
It's annoying because he's right but he shouldn't be so obnoxious about it

>>715730876
>Past-chapter compatibility
i have a theory that if you didn't do the parkour thing and found the genie's broken body, you didn't actually kill the smoke machine, you just saw a vision of you doing it
so i hope the game ends up bringing that back and revealing you never did anything if you didn't get the proper ending

>>715731454
I'm just glad the thread is getting bumped instead of dying like usual

The first chapter contains themes of food, particularly people, or entities being eaten... And birth
The first thing Froggy says to ENA is that she's "late", and we then find out that the boss isn't even born yet by the receptionist who also, in the same sentence, tells ENA she is late, as if the two are correlated
The next thing Froggy tells ENA is that we have to "Aim for the boss' gut" and "Put that dead meat in his place"
What ENA is 'late' for must therefor be the death of the old genie of Horse Door, plans have already been made to inaugurate a new one and the old one must be fetched and cooked
The Shaman, when sending ENA on her journey, tells her she will "-Begin life anew", but that doesn't necessarily have to refer to her own life

I think ENA's work mission is to first facilitate the birth of the boss, who is gestating somewhere, sleeping and dreaming, while she throws a BBQ to cook the dead body of the previous genie, and then feed it to him so that he may grow and fully become the new boss

If this theme follows, then the order of the doors probably also reflects the order in which food is consumed, but in reverse

/cont

>>715731625
cont/

The Lonely Door represents consumption and expulsion of the food, the journey from searching to be eaten, to ending up in the bathroom, with the bathroom being represented as somewhere one goes alone both in the simple physical practice of using the toilet, as well as the spiritual theme of finding forgiveness and rebirth
The next door will therefor be the crowd door- The cooking and setting of the table, naturally the door fitting with the theme of cooking being the central motif of the game would also be the door suited for Pietro the Genie, who has been spoken of a lot and is said to have "deviant tastes", likely his whole dimension is themed after large gatherings and banquets
The third door, the Horse Door, will be where we find the meat itself, and so it is fittingly represented by a wild animal and the theme of 'fetching the meat' to cook, the hunt
The poster character, the clown, may not be Pietro, but rather this old dead genie whose meat is being cooked, as in any BBQ, the star of the show is the food itself

In the end of this backwards process ENA will have what she needs to nurse an unborn boss to life

>>715731625
>>715731698

Is there anything other than the doors that the 1st part showed or eluded to that might be elaborated on in future parts? I feel like there was some setup like that

>>715732436
i think the coral thing?

>>715731561
That's actually a sick interpretation, anon. Makes me wonder if the whole game is operating on a kind of metaphysical save state logic-like your perception of events is just a projection unless you hit the “true” node. If the smoke machine death is only *witnessed* and not *manifested* without the side path, that would basically fold time back onto itself. I really hope they go for that subtle branching design where the real consequences are hidden behind weird nonlinear choices. Would definitely give replaying chapter 1 more weight once 2 drops.

>>715732436
Whatever ENA did.

>>715734018
thanks i suppose but it's not really a "gaaaaaaaayum theory" about lore and stuff so much as it's a theory of how joel will have the thing programmed

like the fact that ena was just seeing a vision of her wish as opposed to actually getting it is pretty obvious, i also believe she didn't meet theodora in the bad ending but rather the old genie before her, because every genie is the lonely door takes on the pot form as a genie- their "true" form is beyond that, like theodora's greek statue form
i just think it'd be fun if the devs went above and beyond in making your actions carry on forward

i agree with you that if you didn't get shit right it'd be cool if you just whipped back to reality in the end of the game after you finished seeing the vision where you succeeded

>>715731526

>>715734154
The fuck did she do

>>715731698
I want ENA to nurse me (cool theory btw)

>>715736072
Not what you say she did.
She didn't do anything!
It was probably war crimes though

>>715736437
i still hold onto the hope and belief that ENA is just a living weapon
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouh

>>715736824
I think ENA are entities piloted by gamers from outside that realm of existence.
Every other entity hates ENA because they go around shitting up the internet realm saying nigger and starting flame wars.
No I didnt think very hard about this

>>715737110
solid shitpost theory

What was this guys problem anyway?

>>715738703
>you walk into a man's house
>he shares his life story with you
>you listen
>"lol what was his problem?"
sounds to me like it's you
who has the problem

>>715738761
I mean he is in some kind of realm where sinners or unforgivables go, or something.
Whats he doing there if he doesnt have a problem?

>>715738970
just because hes' there doesn't mean he's unforgivable
just because those who ARE unforgiven go there, doesn't mean everyone who goes there is unforgiven
just because people who drown end up at the bottom of the ocean, doesn't mean everyone at the bottom of the ocean has drowned, could be a diver, could be a fish
maybe he lives there, maybe he's visiting

>>715728769 (OP)
chapter 2 got released??

>>715740806
yeah

bump

>>715741102
where?

>>715744219
lol idk

>>715730123
>>715730276
not him but i've certainly fapped to a ton of Kane pics

>>715745629
Anon I won't lie that is some dogshit taste

>>715730123
Projecting

>>715746917
Kek, new to these threads, huh anon?

Yeah we have a local crazy guy who's angry abt these threads
It's kind of a fashion statement to have a local thread loony imo kinda like how kings used to have a court hobo