After coming to terms with mortality and the tragedy of the Nomai and the Stanger's inhabitants, Outer Wilds is quintessentially a comedy game about dying in the most absurd ways
My favorite accident in Outer Wilds is when the cockpit detaches with you in it. “Why did the power go out?” I say, with the innocence of 50 babies and 15 sunflowers. Only to unbuckle and see the other 4/5 of my ship is missing.
The funniest thing in OW is when you leave your ship and repair your autopilot though it is still active. And when reaching 100% functionality your ship just cruising into the distance, leaving you behind in the vastness of space xD
First time my brother played he landed on a planet but was targeting another planet, turned his auto pilot on and jumped out of the ship. It didn't take off immediately, so after he jumped out he got to see his ship take off without him. It was hilarious.
Gosh the first time I went to Ember Twin I thought the gravity cannon looked like a great place to land. I recalled the nomai ship and it destroyed mine
Literally the only game I didn't get mad once about dying. Every single one of my deaths was either a skill issue or so funny that it didn't really matter
I never thought the gravity cannon to be a ship landing platform but instead a warping station that would bring me to the respective locations (Interloper/Quantum Moon). After activating it, it sure sent me alright.
@@wlankabel2986 no no you're supposed to do it manually. All the gravity cannon does is recall shuttles and launch them (or whatever's in the cannon). The shuttle don't even have their own propulsion system they can only be launched by a gravity cannon but they can interrupt their momentum so you can use them to travel but it's very impractical and takes a lot of effort.
@@matthewa6027 well keeping visual contact is easy, maybe you can even have other nomais lock the moon in place for you giving the same effect as taking a picture.
One of my first times, I misinterpreted the Nomai writings and thought Hollow's Latern was the quantum moon, and tried to launch straight into it to follow in the footsteps of the Nomai. The comedic timing between sliding the ball up into the go position and dying less than 2 seconds later was not lost on me.
Kinda surprise you never include deaths from quantum rock teleporting near you or your ship, sending you to you death and leave you with the most quizzical moment of clarity ever
@@BysamySatehyyeah thats how i saved myself after i had the core in hand to bring to the nomai ship i thought i was safe and started my ship again just to hear the angler scream so i ejected myself to safety
i still remember the first [and probably only time] my ships eject got activated. i was absolutely TERRIFIED of going underwater on giant's deep because for all i knew it was just endless water with a horrifying scary core of electricity and death and i was convinced it would drag me down with it [found out later its the complete opposite, but i digress], so i waited for the statue island to get flung up by the waterspouts and flew in under it while it was above the planets atmosphere. *technically* i made it, but i slammed into the walls so hard that my ships eject automatically activated, and it took me a bit to realize why i couldnt move my ship. after i realized what happened, i was kinda just went "welp. i got what i needed, so i can just wait for the next loop to get my ship back ^_^" turned around, started walking towards the mural, and then the second half of my ship blew up killing me instantly. 10/10 game
i agree, the game was awesome, i'm thinking of doing a part 2 of this game, but first, i have some other games to complete, and i also always had that in my head aswell "gotta wait for the next loop" the game is crazy 😂
My first death was very memorable to me. The guy on the museum said "nobody went to the interloper before" and I'm like "oh yeah? Well that looks like a job for me!". Landed there, found very amusing it was so tiny, kept exploring the tiny surface trying to find something, only to then realize the sun was a lot bigger. For a moment I'm wondering why, then I remember "oh yeah, I'm in a comet" and immediately collide onto the sun
I think one of my dearest memories related to outer wilds is trying to enter the tower of quantum knowledge on brittle hollows for like half a hour, just for the planet surface to detach and collapse into the black hole, just for me to follow it along with the ship, and managing to enter by using 0 g instead of the momentum from the black hole. It's such an incredible game, I miss it so much... TwT ✨✨