"Did I Do The Right Thing?" | An Analysis Of Enslaved: Odyssey To The West 

I played this game for 2.5 months getting the Platinum trophy on PS3 and absolutely fell in love with it. I will never forget Enslaved for as long as I live

Extremely underrated game, slightly ahead of its time. A remaster or even remake would do it justice.

I've meet this game in 2013 or something, through a PS3 demo. Ever since I've wondered about what was gonna happen in the story. Now, 2024, I finally remembered that memory, got the game and played it for a week. Now it's finished and I'm still hungry for more 😅

its funny how ninja theory wanted to make a sequel to heavenly sword, couldnt, wanted to make a sequel to enslaved, couldn't, wanted to make a sequel with DmC, couldnt... finally hellblade 2 will break the curse lol

Great game setting characters and music. I can’t believe I missed this game. But I appreciate the work and creativity that went into it. Seriously deserves a sequel.

considering you see old signs that advertise Pyramid, it's safe to assume it was some corporate enterprise created half-way into the war, it probably had good intentions but as the war progressed the corporation either became more desprate for resources or just plain greedy and power hungry and started raiding all possible places for more stuff to maintain the Pyramid and more victims to keep the Pyramid simulation alive. so yeah, it definetly should have been destoryed. but it wasn't meant to be this evil

I just recently restarted Enslaved, when I found out it was backwards compatible on the Xbox One. And I'm not sure if it was a good or a bad idea because I forgot how much I loved the game and the story and now I just want to hear other people's opinions on the game. Which led me to your video and I greatly enjoyed it! You did a great job!

This game needs a remaster.

I think she made the correct decision at the end. These people weren't given a choice and were forced to live in this alternate world. If given the choice and they chose to live there then leave them alone.

the common theme of this game is "moral ambiguity". this is tied to EVERYONE in this story (except Pigsy. He's just inexcusable... untill he did a 180 and sacrificed himself, showing that he díd actually have a caring side and making me question his motives). And I like how the ending perfectly portrays this. This game DEFINATELY is a very good one on the story side.

Love this type of content, you do it so well my dude, I'm here before you blow up! Great job.

I feel like the ideal outcome would have been that Trip/Monkey and Pyramid came to an agreement to let people choose for themselves if they want to continue living on in the destructed, dangerous wasteland, or live in Pyramid's idealistic simulation. And notice how Pyramid said "see what they have, before you take it away". This indicates one of two options. Either Pyramid knew what was gonna happen, or Pyramid was trying to trick them into being captured into the simulation. If it's the first option, chances are quite high that Pyramid would have stopped enslaving and let people choose for themselves, as this would be the only outcome where he could keep 'saving people'. If he was trying to trick them, however, there would be no chance he would agree and keep the agreement. But in the end... Do I think Trip did the right thing? I'd actually side with "no" on this one. First off, Pyramid said "people are bringing their kids to school". This means there would be kids in the simulation. But if you look at all the enslaved people; all of them are adults. meaning these kids are not real and only simulated. So breaking the simulation would result in possibly hundreds if not thousands of people effectively loosing their children thye bonded with, possibly sending them down a depression spiral. It's also fair to believe that most of these people were captured quite young, meaning they never learned to actually survive. So setting them 'free', will most likely doom a big amount of them to die in the wasteland. And everyone on the older side is probably too old to still survive in the wasteland, needing to rely on the younger ones (who, as just stated) will be unable to survive either. Sure, they got controll over their real lifes back... but is that really worth it, if it means most of them will be quick to perish or be doomed in one way or another? Not to mention the fact that she didn't know how exactly they were connected to Pyramid. What if it was the same as with her and Monkey? She dies, he dies. What if they were connected in the same way? Pyramid dies, they die? There was no way for Trip to know it was safe to kill Pyramid. She had no way of knowing if it would actually save and free the people, or would result in a direct kill on all of them. She basically took a MASSIVE risk for the sake of vangeance. So I'd say no, Trip did not do the right thing. It might have ended up fine in the end, but she took a HUUUUUGE risk with a high probability of death or failure, knowing that these people were happy in the current state and not knowing what the consequences would be.

As soon as Horizon released, i thought it was an Enslaved sequel! I swore Aloy was Trip!

Great great video bro this analysis was really brilliant. I love this game so much it has such a special place in my heart. That deserves a sub 👍

Awesome analysis. Loved this game

I just ended this game today in xbox 360, and for me the ending was like the encounter between neo and the arquitect in the third Matrix movie

One of the most underrated ps3/360 games ever

Dude! Brilliant, a womderful review Keep it up man

I guess it's hard to answer the question because there is so little information there is about "The War" the game keeps pointing to. - What were the events that led to the war? - Where did the robots come from? - What happened after the war? - What happened after Pyramid died? - How did Pyramid come to be? Usually, after a cliffhanger like this, people would've loved a continuation of the story and perhaps a new cliffhanger. And this answer alone would've sold Bandai Namco several copies of the new game.

I like your video as I just finished the game, however the fish didn't survive for thousands of years it was 200 years......remember trip said " if the fish can survive 200 years so cam we'

Have you played golden sun?! :)

I still think about that last line. On another video (a "No Death In Love" OST track, I think) someone linked a fanfic about what would happen after. The only fanfic I ever cared to try, and I was not disappointed. I'll edit if I can find it.

Epic vid, love this game

I always found it weird that Trip was villainised by most gamers.

Fantastic game. I don't usually play with a controller, but I did, just because of the story. I can't play Pigsy's perfect 10 again, it made me very sad.

This game really struck a nerve in me. I couldn’t finish it. I hated the “trip” character’s hypocrisy so much, I’d just let “Monkey” get out of range of her and die. Pretty silly.

What an irony! Trip who came to the idea of enslaving Monkey herself, she did not agree with Pyramid that did the same to the rest of the world. All can make bad decision in life, but enslave somebody's will to make your own way better it is not forgettable in any way. In a way she somehow restored her sins back destroying Pyramid but not fully. Monkey is the only hero here!

very very good video, im very suprised you dont have more subscirbers

I love this game and this discussion about it!😍❤ It's not really something new but a little different. It's similar to the Matrix or endless tsukuyomi from Naruto. I think it comes down to 🤔1. why they came up with this (was it real enslavery or did the ppl chose this themselves? What where everyone's intentions? Was humanity forced through an economical breakdown? etc.), 🤔 2. what was going on in that machine (was it a life without problems where you couldn't act out our free will or was it just the same?) and 🤔 3. story of the Chinese farmer To 1. In the end it might not matter that much why they did it and more what the situation is now, but still see conclusion. To 2. if they don't have free will and everything's perfect then that's a real problem im, bc they can never do progress in any way. Much like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. But if it's actually the same I'd say, what's the difference? They probably won't live forever hooked up to the machine anyways and just lived their life. To 3. So would I say that she did the right choice? It's so difficult. Definitely not no. If they actually were enslaved against their free will AND they have no free agency then mos def YES! Though she doesn't know that. 😤There's still a possibility that she did it out of revenge or bc her trauma. And if they chose to get in there themselves and live a normal life, then it really doesn't matter if they're in real life or virtual. 🤷🏻I think it would tell from the reaction of the ppl. 🔥In the end, aren't we close to that future as well with our VR, Metaverses etc? ANYWAYS I'd love to have a prequel and / or sequel of that franchise and thanks for that discussion! 😍🙏🏻

To be fair this is sorta like fallout 4 science squad guys. Takes place in a wasteland and say there doing good but the difference is pyramid gives them a false life but also killed a bunch of people like ya can just ask people. Same goes in fallout but way more dumb like saying society hasn’t changed over 100 years yet they actively destroy society except pyramid is a flawed robot man thing and fallout is a group of the smartest people in the world who discovered teleports and made robots that have real dreams and feelings

Awesome just subbed!

gooooooood video buddy

I would stay in the simulation

I would stay in simulation coz that is the world that left for me

While I enjoyed the game, the ending just didn't do it for me. Pretty much nothing in the ending justified anything for what or why the world is continuing the way it is. If you got resources to build a darn pyramid you might as well build farms, shelters, tools and let the man's memories be a "book" with insight from the time before - but no we got this, and it's dumb. Because with all those people still need to be fed, kept alive etc etc. The attempted simulation theory was better executed in MGS2.