SOMA

The quintessential Frictional masterpiece.

Как любитель хорроров, могу с уверенностью сказать: это лучшее, во что я играл в жанре. Настолько проработать идею и развить её, поднять такие сложные вопросы — кто вообще такой человек и что делает его человеком — и при этом так грамотно подвести к финалу, что потом просто сидишь и обдумываешь всё, что только что произошло... выше всяких похвал. Однозначно 10 из 10.

Masterpiece of a game

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Jogaço

Damn this game is good. The incredible dreadful and sorrowful story about what happened to humanity. The ending is absolutely devastating, but at the same time it tries to be opposite. [POSSIBLE SPOILERS] The story follows Simon. The last "rational" creature on the Earth. There was a tragedy and comet wiped out and killed everyone except people who were in the ocean. Pathos 2 are the scientist on the bottom of the ocean and they were lucky to stay alive. Now, they are the last people alive. They will try to develop ARK. ARK is the system that can hold UI. What is UI (you might know it if you watched Pantheon)? UI - Uploaded intelligence, basically they can upload human brain with its emotions and everything into the computer. In short, ARK is just world for UIs. The beautiful world to hold the last memories of humans. But who is Simon? He woke up after 100 years in the bottom of the ocean without any idea what is going on. He wasn't even scientist, he was comic book seller, how the actual ♥♥♥♥ he appeared on the bottom of the ocean? Real Simon died of cancer 100 years ago and he gave permission to use his analysis and data, that's why Pathos 2 was using him as default UI for every robot. But the question is still not answered, how did he wake up? Everyone is dead, who woke him up? Pathos 2 created WAU (idk what it means). Basically it is AI which tries to save humanity in any way possible. But there is a catch: it is AI. It does not understand emotions, that's why it doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ if the human is suffering, WAU only cares if it breathes. That's why WAU put Simon UI into the woman body (you can actually guess it by looking at your arms, they are feminine). Every human is dead, well technically no, people are alive, but they are alive as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ potatoes only breathing and suffering. It is living hell, because they will NOT die. WAU won't let it. WAU is not necessarily villain it is just trying to save humans. Simon have to active ARK and send it to space. The ending is really bad imho. The thing is when you copy your brain, you do not transport your brain. You literally copy it. That means there will be new and old versions. When Simon copies himself to the new suit, the old Simon is still alive and he is knocked out. You will be given choice to kill him or not. To be honest I just kill everyone cause I don't see any point living in this hell. That will happen in the end. Simon will copy his brain to the ARK, but he will be on the Earth. Alone. And probably forever. There are no one to kill him. "You killed everyone to save them, but there is no one to kill you". New Simon will be happily living in ARK with Catherine while old Simon will be suffering forever. I do not accept him as new Simon, he is completely new intellect being. That's why this game is amazing. "Will copies go to the Heaven or Hell after death, or will they just perish?" Poor Simon. The sad story about a guy who saved everyone, but there was no one to save him. (Btw i don't know who noticed, but Cath was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ murdered. There are obvious prints of crawling and there is a bloody wrench near her corpse. It was NOT an accident). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Existentially terrifying yet beautiful exploration of self, human nature and reflection on our uncharted paths into an ever more digital reality.