Yeah boyee
just beat this
Mario and Princess Peach
one day i will interview a 70 year old hideo kojima dressed as tim rogers and ask him if heās read formulary for a new urbanism by ivan chtcheglov and he will say no and itās gonna be so cool
that was the first time hideo kojima has ever acknowledged the existence of hip-hop. its kind of shocking
just hit chapter 5. i feel like sam is close to a WHAT ARENT YOU TELLING ME moment.
man kojima has a serious smoking fetish.
ok so, post-beating-the-game thoughts (spoilers, of course):
iād been drinking a bit of bourbon while finishing off this game yesterday and now iām trying to piece together some things that feel unclear.
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is BB Sam? no, right? but alsoā¦yes? Unger seems to recognize Sam as his son but so far, time travel has played no part in the game?
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Bridget isnāt Samās mother, right? Because she canāt have kids? Or did she have some kids, but not Amelieā¦
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ā¦who may or may not be a real person? but does exist because sheās the EE? is she a manifestation of Bridget? and why was Bridget on the beach with Die-Hardman since she was already long dead? an illusion of Amelieās?
From what I got
Sam is Ungerās BB, but not BB28/Lou. I donāt know if Sam time travelled or just was living in his memories; that part was a little strange and remains unexplained as far as I have gotten in the post game. Amelie is the soul (ka, I think?) of Bridget, basically, and only exists in the Beach. I think Beach Bridget is an illusion created by Amelie, yeah. Bridget and Amelie are two halves of the EE.
yes, bridget existed on the beach and in the real world at the same time, but only the real world version of her aged, and she had the ability to manifest the beach version of herself in the real world so she eventually started doing that and presented her younger-appearance-self to the real world as amelie, her daughter. she isnāt samās biological mother-- she busted BB sam out of his pod and raised him as her own
yeah i guess sam seeing his memories is weird. maybe heās just sort of jacked up because he used to be a bb and maybe jacking into any bb would trigger the flashbacks?
Building off what I said in GYPT, weird as heck Kojima has a thing for double aging a female character. In Policenauts you meet your ex-wife who immediately dies and then meet her daughter who looks exactly like your wife did 25 years ago and is the same age as when you got frozen in space.
I replayed the beginning and they immediately drop that Contract subplot. Also didnāt out it together that Sam caused Central Knot Cityās voidout. Or at least was at ground zero for it. I still donāt understand how voicouts happen. A BT merges with live human? But and also for Sam he just plops back into our reality full whole?
Was also looking at that opening area and it is really cool and you do not go back there.
yeah, the voidout thing is a little iffy to me. it seems like if a body doesnāt get incinerated quickly, it becomes a BT, which then causes a voidout if the BT consumes everything around itself?
but then in that opening scene, why does that one porter attempt to kill himself after killing the other transporter? suicide doesnāt seem to have an impact on whether or not a person becomes a BT/voidout, so wouldnāt killing themselves be pointless? is it just to avoid what is maybe a more painful death?
Also Lisa was Samās Mom? And also a Lisa that he got pregnant and she died and that caused a voidout???
Sam got Louisa pregnant, not Lisa. Lisa is his mom.
It would prevent a void out for at least 48 hours. Because voidouts only happen when a living thing is eaten by BTs
Sam can just come back after being dead, but it was still the āliving and the deadā mixing like āmatter and anti matterā and causing a voidout.
Took me more than 40 hours but Iām definitely at this point now
i did a felix and completed it in 30, fear i wouldnāt have finished it otherwise
Iām still deciding whether to do a Felix on this one, which is to say, buy and play the game
I think my final clock time was like 35 hours, and I didnāt feel like I sped through things really.