The pale is incredibly interesting as a concept.
Entropy.
But filled with memories of things that happened before and maybe in the future too.
The pale driver gives you evenore context.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Not set in a fantasy world
Uh… I mean, it kinda is. The world of the game itself is pretty wild. Monsters of a kind exist, and there is some sort of fog between the continents that csn literally make you stop existing.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Quite frankly I had such a high Inland Empire on my playthrough that the only things I’m sure are real are the things Kim or my good friend Horrific Necktie backed me up on.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I will always back you up bratan! You and I are bratannoi – brothers. Brothers fight. But when they’re done fighting, you know what they do? They party. They fucking party!
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I was surprised that the church sequence doesn’t kill you. I only got shot once in the Whirling-In-Rags.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
The dancing can kill you if your health is low enough/your physical stats are 1-2.
xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
HARDCORE
altasshet@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I died from sitting on a slightly uncomfortable chair that one time.
False@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was very uncomfortable.
Apparently that chair is a common soft lock people hit.
5765313496@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As someone who has never played the game before, I really can’t tell if you’re making all of this up. It sounds fascinating.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s really worth playing. The voice acting is stellar, and it really is the best “role-playing” game, in the sense that you are fully immersed in role-playing a character. The mental gameplay mechanics are GOAT, and one-of-a-kind.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
It’s real. You can even die at the beginning of the game attempting to grab your tie.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
They aren’t continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.
The Pale isn’t… anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.