Thread 718579710

Why am I killing a baby?

>>718579710 (OP)
This whole game is a joke about Ness using a baseball bat in Earthbound
So clever Toby Fox

Because the world needs to be purified.

>>718579710 (OP)
He created a system that was beyond repair because he's a fucking kid who doesn't realise the horrors he created

>>718580780
I thought this whole world is somekind of a metaphor...?

Destroy the child

>>718580980
Stay in your coma

>>718579710 (OP)
because why fucking not
it's not everyday you get to brutally murder a child in a video game

>>718579710 (OP)
he grows up to be drumpf

>>718579710 (OP)
It's better that way.

>>718580636
Get Middens away from that tobyslop

Whats your crack theory on what OFF actually is?

I think anything is better than what Mortis apparently actually thinks the games supposed to be.

>>718579710 (OP)
So is the weird brain mural behind the batter supposed to be the player?

>>718580457
>interactive media that doesn't want you to interact with it
The meta bullshit doesn't work anyways because it isn't immoral to kill a fictional character.

>>718584025
Meta narrative of the Iterative process it takes to make a good game spread out across different devs and studios

The only way to turn off the switch

>>718584025
A bunch of trivial observations on industrialism and rudimentary readings of Freudian psychoanalysis. All that with just enough mythological and biblical references (selected at random) to obscure the vapidity of thought. I enjoyed the original game immensely, but it says nothing at all.

>>718584404
So batters the game director whos shutting down the whole process? Firing each stressed and overworked employee and their leads?

ngl that's a cool design

>>718585628
Amogus ass creature. What did they mean by making him act like Batter?

>>718585739
Nothing, because mortis ghost will never follow up with anything satisfying about anything, so the zodiacs will just be a bunch of stupid boss battles. Some of them do have good designs though

>>718582581
I genuinely think Middens with its half backed plot about Karma or something is partially inspired by OFF as well.

>>718585628
Why it looks like something from spongebob?

>>718584025
It's very fucked up parody on Wizard of Oz

>Secretary fights
the hell were they thinking
fucking dumb way to pad the game out

>>718586851
Yeah, I thought the zone revisits were super boring because of that too. Especially considering that the secretaries are never explained. Like the world is obviously not purified because the secretaries are unpure, I supposed shutting OFF the world by pulling the switch does the trick. But like, wtf are they, why are there so many, where do they come from? Where are they going?

>>718587345
>Especially considering that the secretaries are never explained.
Do they really need to be?

>>718588293
I like to think so, the specters and burnt were explained.

What now

>>718591035
Its over...

>>718585875
I'd say it's mostly about Genie being a self-righteous force of destruction, kinda like senator Armstrong taken to even further extremes, and I guess it leans more into themes of abusing the power you possess, while OFF deals with the subject of doing what you believe is right even if it's not morally sound, and though there are some similarities, not sure if there were direct influences.

>>718594423
I have not played Middens in awhile but isn't Genie just reverse Pablo? As I remember she belittle you if you're not actively shooting people left and right. And to progress to ending you need to kill at least 10-15 enemies. That is one of the more frustrating parts, since she turns on you anyway and says you're a bad person, for killing people who are based on occultists and prisoners.

>>718595193
I guess you can see it like that. Pablo only really aids you on your quest, having no personal stakes in the matter, outside of Japhet business, while Genie is the one getting you to "cleanse" the land, and through the game he(she?) says something like "every bullet I shoot is a seed for a Genie waiting to be born".