OMORI - Final Duet 

depression

“Are ya winning son?” Us:

yes, true horror crying so much over a two minute cutscene

Can’t believe Omori made depression so popular they added it to real life

"The sun shined brighter when she was here." it did. *he really did*

For a boy named Sunny his life sure wasn't very sunny...

"MARI really loved you, SUNNY. You know that, don't you?" - Hero

once my classmate performed this on piano at school and i actually bawled my eyes out in front of everyone 💀

"the butterfly effect" if Aubrey had not lost the shoe she would never have met Sunny and the others and would not have led Basil to make friends with them. It was Basil's idea to give the violin to Sunny for Christmas, so if Aubrey hadn't introduced Basil to the others Mari would probably still be alive and everything would be fine.

"Are you okay?" No I'm listening to Omori- Final Duet

My mental health be so fine then bam, Omori.

welcome back, this probably isnt your first time watching this video

"I'll never cry over a game" The game:

The moment when sunny stares at mari while she is playing piano for the last time its really a pain in the heart.

God, the part where Mari jumped in the lake and her relief to see Sunny alive, and direct cut to him being alone after just wrecks me.

I never understood why people consider this ending so depressing. Sunny comes to accept his trauma and finds peace within himself. He doesn't need to hide within white space and he can finally truly connect with people and find genuine happiness. It isn't going to be easy, no, but whatever path he takes, he can finally be true to himself. The reason I cry every time I think of this ending is because it helped me come to terms with my own trauma so I could finally find my own happiness.

the part of this game that really hits me in the gut is this: we see mari perceived as a perfectionist, yet she's this pretty and kind older sister to sunny. and in the end, we never even got to meet her. we only see her through memories and dreams.. and none of it is real. thats what really hurts me about the fact that she died. we never met her, nor ever will. she's dead. she's been dead for four years and even sunny and his friends cant accept that despite having met her. no one will ever meet her because she died when she was only around sunny's age. yet the game still manages to portray perfectly how much she meant to everyone, and how big of an impact her death had on the group, especially sunny.

Mari didn't want to die. But she wouldn't want you to throw your life away, either.

What we expected: Psychological Horror and scary spooks What we got: Depression and Sadness with a hint of happiness

2 years ago, on my birthday, i played this song the entire drive to my dads. when we got there, we found him dead, already slightly stiff. i remember just staring. even today, even though it’s been 2 years, it’s stuck in my head like it was yesterday. i don’t wanna cry writing this but i fear ive already started. maybe it’s bad to say, but i think a part of me knew from the moment i saw he wasn’t responding to texts. something shifted. and though i can psyche myself out from time to time that he’s still alive, that he’s here, i felt it. i could no longer feel him there with me. i had never felt more empty than in that moment. i haven’t properly processed much either. some days i have to second guess whether i remember he’s alive or gone. despite everything he put me through, despite that he overdosed on my birthday, i love you dad. youve completely fucked over my life, but i miss you lots. i miss your hugs and your stupid big man hands. i miss the jangle of your keys. or the sound of you clearing your throat in the morning. i feel like i took that for granted, and there are times through out your abuse that i wondered what would happen if you died. but i never truly wanted that. i wanted you to get better, and now im stuck with this hole in my chest, it’s a gaping wound, i don’t even know what to do with it. i just miss being taken care of, i miss being loved. i miss my dad. thanks to omori, ive been able to kind of grieve. the story made me feel more understood than i have the words to explain.

"She *loved* you...And you *killed* her.."

Began with the piano. Ended with the violin.

_OMOCAT Played DUET._ *IT HIT RIGHT IN THE HEART!* You take 9999 damage!

Is it normal to listen to music like this on a loop in hopes of crying, but you just get used to the song, and it's no longer sad?

You know a song is good when it makes you remember memories you never had.

In literature, I was told by my teacher that windows represent the truth in allegories. .. well, would you look at that?

Violinist Problems: Trying to play this song but the tears start staining the wood, so you stop playing only to cry harder.

Omori is a game that made me realize to what point my depression has come. in scenes like this where many people start to cry or have any emotional reaction, i barely can show any reaction. it made me notice how much my mental state has been broken by things like being depressed for over 5 years (i‘m 18), constant loneliness for a very long time, the lack of friends or any social interaction, being a heavy internet user (up to 10-12h a day) and slowly losing the hope for the life or any of those things to get better, resulting in losing the very will to live, knowing i always mess up when i actually do something.

Omori is truly a game that changes you. When you finish the game, it leaves you with some sort of emptiness inside. it makes you want the ending to change, it wants you to have Mari back, It wants you have all the characters back together and happy for once but it doesn't. It leaves you with either Sunny killing himself and him admitting the truth to the others about how Mari was killed. It doesn't show their expressions or reactions, only Basil's which he is happy due to the guilt of covering up the death has finally been lifted. Who knows if we will get Omori 2 (probably not) but we will never know about the gangs reactions to this information and that's what makes Omori so special. That its about "our" acceptance of death, we at the end of the game may not accept this as an ending but overtime we will. It makes us grieve as well, almost as if we knew Mari personally and we did because we played as one of the people she truly loved the most, Sunny. We are Sunny and just like him, we have to learn to accept what happened, to accept that Mari is gone but not matter what happens, she will continue to be there in our minds, the memories, the good times that happened when she was here. Thank you Omocat for creating one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life, shall you continue your work and create more masterpieces like this.

Sad Fact: If you do the Recycling sub story, you can fight in the real world and your party can receive all emotions except Sunny, he can feel Sad and Angry, but isn't affected by Happy, he's so guilt ridden that he refuses to feel happy. Even sadder fact: In the flashbacks where you can move around and inspect stuff in order to repair the violin, you notice that Sunny speaks in the first person, as himself, but after 4 years of self isolation and seeing himself as the Omori, he talks in the way the Omori does, the third person

This makes Pixar’s ups montage look like a comedy.

It's funny how different people cry for different reasons. I had started crying during the OMORI fight because Sunny's self-hatred hit a little too close to home (along with the score of the fight), but continued crying til the end over how in the span of one duet the game perfectly illustrated their lives and how much they meant to each other. My friend, the younger brother of an older sister, said it reminded him of their relationship and the thought of losing her after everything they've been through led him to tears. I love how art can resonate through different people

Man, I finished omori like a week ago and this song still makes me emotional

BIG BOY TEARS

"My child is fine" their child: listens to this at least twice a day for 4 months

I think playing as sunny makes all of mari’s death so much sadder, the amount of guilt he feels must be devastating, knowing he’s the reason his sister is gone ..

when kel gave a high five, I smiled when everyone had a group hug, my heart melted when basil hugged, my eyes got watery when mari hugged, I couldn't help myself to not burst into tears It was a beautiful experience ❤️

This song is basically: "I'm not crying, you're crying."

She loved you and you killed her HERO loved her and you killed her AUBREY loved her and you killed her KEL loved her and you killed her BASIL loved her and you killed her You loved her and you killed her But it’s time to move on, because everyone loved her.

if only sunny lived in a single story house.

I beat the game in the first week of January, in only four days. It's hard to think that it's been almost 4 months since then but I can't get that damn game out of my mind. Final Duet makes me tear up every single time. I don't cry that much nowadays but my heart feels so wrecked and it hurts. It's funny how such a game made us feel that way. When the Kel scene at Mari's grave came, for the first time I fully realized how Mari's death affected everyone. Hero's grief, blaming himself for her "suicide", Aubrey's anger, thinking everyone abandoned her, Basil's been closing to himself more, and Kel, while seemingly fine, has gone through his brother's harsh year, Aubrey's new behaviour and lost two dear friends, had to put on a smile, not because he was happy but because he had to. He was Kel, and Kel is just Kel. It was the first time I cried at the game. The second time was at "Do you want to have a picnic with Mari?" Then By your side played, slower, reminding us she wasn't there. But she also was, in some way. I was staring and sobbing at it for at least a good 15 minutes. Now, I am wondering how Sunny, back then, didn't just break out in tears and confess the truth. And then.... Final Duet. Shit. I somehow managed to hold back. Only teared up. The real breakdown came after the whole truth, after Good Morning. The “thanks for watching” screen. The realization hit me. That's it. Nothing else. That's all. Cried a lot that day. Went to the bathroom to not make my family worry. My smartass self thought it would be okay to rewatch Duet that night. Haha. Hardly had any sleep. Some weeks passed. Didn't stop thinking of Omori for a single day. Haven't opened the game at all either. I was too scared. But I decided to open it. The new screen melted me. Sunny being happy again, his eyes glowing. The title song (leitmotif of Duet T_T) being a whole more lively, birds chirping in the background. You probably picked it up by now, cried again. That night I also watched Final Duet. But that's when I found a version with lyrics. They were obviously fan-made but I watched it. Holy hell, I almost cried as hard as the first time I watched the Duet. Didn't have any sleep either. Now, after many hearings, I realized that the saddest part of it is not only the story behind it, but the fact that it can apply to literally everything. It doesn't have to be about Omori. (The fact that it is tho makes it sadder) I don't know why this game affected me so much. Maybe it's the fact that it gave us a taste of a friend group, being happy, spending time together, bonding, and then proceeded to take it away in such a forceful and cruel way. My personal life isn't the best but it's not the worst. I'm not ‘happy’ happy, I'm not ‘sad’. I don't know. Some things make me feel like the world is great. Other things make me hate myself. Maybe that's life for me. I don't know. I do have friends, a friend group if I could call it. We're not even close to the bond they have. I don't know why I wrote this. Nobody is gonna read it. It's gonna be buried in the sea of those comments. This one is not the most emotional one. Not the funniest. Not the most annoying one. It's just my thoughts. Not worth your time reading this. But if you have, thank you. Truly. Aaaaand I'm crying again. I sometimes hate myself for it. Crying I mean. Sometimes I can't hold it back and it annoys me, because I'm in front of people. I don't want to cry in front of others. I don't want to make them worry and stuff. Anyways, I already talked way too much. I feel like shit now (having heard all this time Final Duet) but I really, truly, wish you the best of life. You guys deserve it

I cried pretty hard at this part. So heartbreaking

“Hey Bobby, play that one about falling down the stairs!”

I like how it starts with piano and ends with violin. Because I think that it shows how Mari was born first and that she died first, before Sunny. The violin was second born, ends with violin because whichever ending you choose, Sunny will always be the last to die. And the visuals, if you know the context, will make you cry, sob even, it shows what Sunny has gone through, how they all grew up together, how good of friends they all were up until Mari died and how much they all split apart. Like, in the very beginning, you see Sunny and Mari sitting at the piano, and then at the very end of it all, you see a lone piano, Sunny, nor Mari are there, I think that's saying that after everything that Sunny went through, he forgives himself and is allowing him to move on. Also, I love how intense the music gets nearing the end, in the beginning, it's so calm and heart-warming, near the middle it starts to get intense, and then, at the end, it gets so passionate and you can just FEEL the emotion put in to music without even knowing the context to the full story

in 2 weeks im gonna play this during my school graduation ceremony... i hope i don't fall from the stairs or something ahahahah

Is it not ironic? The violin he got to spend more time with his sister made him unable to be with her.

Oyasumi, Mari.

why's nobody talking about this specific part; 0:28 - 0:39 it gave literal chills and for some reason i keep repeating it just to hear the violin part

Why am I crying

This scene for me is the acceptance of Mari's death. It made me realize: "Sunny is going to tell the others, and they might even forgive and understand him. However what it doesn't change, and cannot change, is the fact that Mari is dead. Mari is dead and no one can do anything about it. That last scene where Mari lies in the coffin with flowers, is basically: "You can rest now, we all love you but we have to move on."

And it all started with a “AYO THE PIZZA HERE”

im being such a baby with this song

One of the best scenes from any video game ever, and that's final

1:19 Knowing how Sunny is, he probably wished that he drowned instead of being saved that way Mari wouldn’t have to die because of him and it fucking breaks me even more.

Poor fucking sunny man. It's so impactful how his and his friend's lives changed completely by just a simple argument between a little brother and his sister. Repressing feelings and encapsulating himself in a fabricated perfect reality just so he can avoid the truth and the pain is so damn heartbreaking, specially knowing he was just a child with a bright future ahead (not saying he doesn't have one at the end of the game, specially after the secret post-credit scene). But it's so beautiful how in the end he forgives himself, hugging omori, accepting his past mistakes, and moving on, cause that's what Mari would've wanted. I've seriously never been impacted in such a deep way by a videogame, and I'll surely keep this game close to my heart

Who do psychological horrors all have such a heart tearing beautiful song at the end of the game that leaves you speechless for days

Fun fact: The song opens with *just* MARI's piano and ends with *just* SUNNY's violin.

I love how much tiny details are in this game like when sunny stares at Mari and he slightly messes up because he’s so emotional that it’s their final duet

I was introduced to omori not that long ago and for a few days I never got that through the games so I never knew how heartbreaking it is but by the end of it i realized my life is a little to simular to sunnys except the mari death. Ive locked myself mentally after losing a family member, and i still have not fully accepted this fact, and even writing this now makes me feel something on heart lifet little by little and watching and playing omori and seeing how everyone else is going through something so simular makes me feel a bit better every time but still by the end of it im still just Sunny.... this song really helps me calm down and reflect

I literally have been depressed for 5 years and can't find my happiness anywhere. I feel so tired of living.

Scene at 1:30 actually disintegrated my emotional structure, it really showed the true loneliness and despair Sunny feels knowing that Mari would’ve done anything for him, and knowing that what he did will never make up for what he lost

Knowing Mari loved Sunny so much and forgave him after what he's done makes everything even harder.

In my opinion, one of the reasons this is so sad is because it shows Sunny’s happy memories that will never happen again because Mari is dead, and things could have stayed happy if he didn’t kill her. Life could have stayed wonderful, but it didn’t because of that one day.

This is the type of song that can make someone cry instantly, make someone softly cry, or make someone cry later in the night. No matter what, it’ll make you cry.

The fact that Sunny tries to see her face behind the piano while he's playing. He can't mess up, so he kept playing yet he just wants to get one last glance at his sister as he plays the song she had wished to play with him.

I noticed that this song is actually like a representation of Sunny and Mari’s lives. It starts with only the piano, likely because Mari is the older sibling and Sunny wasn’t born yet. Then, after he is, the majority of the song is played with the piano and violin together, and Sunny and Mari spent most of their childhood’s together, never separated. But at the very end of the song, the only instrument that can be heard is the violin, obviously because Sunny accidentally killed Mari, and now he’s an only child. He’ll never see his sister again. Yet it’s this song that plays during the good end of the game, where Sunny lets go of his guilt and learns to forgive himself. The piano doesn’t disappear just because Mari died. It disappears because Sunny learns to let go of his trauma and let Mari move on

I’m so glad I played this game having no idea what it was beforehand. Just made the experience 100x better. This game’s a fucking masterpiece.

this made me reflect, all the friendships i lost, im alone now, i got no friends, but all the friends i ever had, were so important to me, in a way that i wont ever forget any of them, and it is surprising, how we always had some kind of "Last Duet" aswell, a last activity we would do before we knew we wouldnt see eachother, and here, i will put the name of my best friends in my life

FINALLY LEARNED THE PIANO PART

You know what makes me cry the most? It's the fact that the piano doesn't start up from a sad, mournful tune. It starts with a happy, almost childish melody that feels...pure, in a way. It makes you feel nostalgic, full of joy and and like you're watching them both grow up (even without watching the video/only listening to the audio). I kinda interpret this as Mari showing her brother that, even in death and after *he killed* her, she's not sad, nor is she mad at him/holding a grudge against Sunny. She's just...happy to be able to play the song she and Sunny once practiced day and night, for at least one last time.

As someone who just beat this game a few hours ago, this was an emotional rollercoaster. One of my favorite games of all time. There were multiple points where I was getting hit in the feels. I loved the story. The characters. The pain. The tragedy. The music. Seeing the title screen change creeped me out but ultimately made it worth it when the sky became clear and Sunny woke up to the real world with Basil and the others. It's okay to live. Every day is a new adventure. Always move forward. And find someone to share those adventures with.

off to go kel myself

the saddest realization in this game is during the final fight, you remember omori IS sunny. everything omori is saying to sunny is everything sunny wholeheartedly believed for 4 years

this is whwre i broke down. holy shit it hurts so bad i was literally sobbing i had to mute the facetime call i was on

Instruments:Piano

I didn’t cry for seven years at any form of media, but this track, it makes me tear up, and I easily tear up to all sad media ever since

"You've done a bad thing. But that doesn't make you a bad person."

When I found out this game was phycological horror, I thought I'd be scared by some eldritch being or glitch. This is so much worse (in the best way possible)

1:17 KILLED ME 😭

I havent even played Omori and I want to cry.

You know, at first Mari's death is scary. The "suicide" part is so traumatic. But then I wasnt scared, I was just so sad, and when they started this cutscene, where they showed Mari and Sunny from the beginning, I broke dammit Poor Sunny

This song is basically the music version of the quote "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"

No matter how many times I hear this, it never fails to bring me to tears.

randomly out of the blue i wanted to tear my entire room apart listening to this but i love this song even though the backstory of it 😭

I would do anything to have friends like them.

pain, agony even

Every time I see this, I cry. It’s like ptsd.

In the other games they have tryhards, in here we have cryhards

This is probably the first time I've seen an indie game that digs so deeply into the player's soul. This game breaks you down and makes you cry. You start to feel like the main character, you start to blame yourself for what is happening and you feel all the pain of the main character. This game is worthy of a much larger audience and, hopefully, it will find this audience.

I regret quitting piano, I want to make my friends who play Omori cry

This makes me tear up only when I'm feeling emotional. But still every time gives me goosebumps

Omori teaches us a lot of things,but the thing that affect me the most is anger will always make things worse so try to control it

spoiler warning the way that the piano starts before the violin but it also ends before the violin... mari was born first, but she also died first..

I love how it tricks you into thinking the Big Emotional Note is at 1:12 and then proceeds to actually, physically punch the air out of your lungs ten seconds later. What an unreasonably beautiful piece of music.

got into omori as someone who has a dead older brother im not okay

This makes me wanna breakdance and cry at the same time

1:46 and 1:50 completely destroy me. a lot of people pointed out sunny not being able to see mari’s face, but mari cannot see his from where she’s sitting. they literally cannot see eye to eye from their current perspectives.

There are so many tiny details in this cutscene the more you look into it. The colours of the flower pots Basil plants matches the colour of clothing each friend wears in the next shot, showing how he planted flowers representing each of his friends. He is always shown nearest to Sunny, signaling that they had a closer relationship to each other as compared to the rest of the group. They even both had a flower in their ear at one point, so it's like foreshadowing that they had a closer bond and shared much more with each other, even before they both started carrying the guilt of Mari's death on their backs. There's one shot where Sunny is sitting next to Aubrey on the swings, and I think that's supposed to symbolize how, out of everyone to Sunny, Aubrey changed the most after Mari's death and was the most affected by her death after him. They're sitting on swings, which match with the idea of hanging. Ropes, dangling with your feet off the floor etc. Then of course, the idea of windows being the gateway to the truth. When Sunny looks up to the window, he sees the room where his violin that started that entire mess was kept and then sees Mari lying surrounded by flowers, showing his acceptance that she has died because of that incident. That's the truth. Then there's the flowers. They're the same ones set by Basil's grandmother after she passes away, and they mean something very profound: I will be with you even in dreams. Which perfectly mimics how Something, which is Sunny's guilt over Mari's death, is always following him even in the Dream Scape. But it also signifies how the Mari herself in the Dream Scape is always there for Sunny. She is literally his save point, the place where he will reappear and continue, and try again. She has and will always love him, and will always be there with him.

The composers and artist really outdid themselves here with this MASTERPIECE

The sun shone brighter when she was here.