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@@HiCZoK tl;dr - a mother kills her child in a car accident and feels guilty about it. The entire game is just a metaphor for her suffering, that's basically it.
By the time I got to this boss, I had so many perks, damage/healing buffs and a high stat Electropylon gun that the last boss turned out to be the easiest to beat; I was surprised after the cinematic to be met with the credits when I thought their was going to be something more challenging. Also, the conceptualization of alien meta realm is fantastic, and both the final bosses is impressively hellish, the first one being like a combination of Lovecraftian and Giger horror.
First time I got to this boss, not only did I have the Electropylon Driver, but I had just picked up the parasite that gives you +25% damage for the next 15 kills. Yeah, he died REAL quick.
*Unforgettable* Finished the game tonight and I have *NEVER EVER* been pushed into a box like the world of Returnal had me (Atropos you absolute cruel savage monster AHAHA!) It became a tremendous set of learning curve's for my life getting past each Biome (particularly the derelict citadel and abyssal scar) many games have scared me all of a sudden especially jump scares but none have consumed me and spat me back out only to tell me then to try again all over again with barely anything Returnal I say this about every game I finish I shall treasure you and your a master piece however more than putting you with other games I cherish I put you on top having taught me *KEY* things in life THANK YOU ALL INVOLVED WITH RETURNAL YOU HAVE MADE ME REALISE I AM MORE THAN I THOUGHT ;)
When you find out the "white shadow" was the reflection of the moon on the lake , I was left devastated. Best PS5 game at the moment and by far the most unique, seriously wish more people played it
Right? Haha and this game is not physically hard, it's mentally frustrating, they say the hardest battles are fought in the head 😎 most people are lazy too it looks like, keep pushing that boulder upwards 🤘
I think people would play it more if the entire game didn’t restart when you die. The difficulty isn’t the issue its the lack of check points. Even after the updates the constant issue people had with the game is the fact that it requires to much of your time when it isn’t necessary. Having to restart entirely feels like a waste of time.
@@TheGhettoMozart That's not true at all. Especially later. You unlock metroidvania-style powerups all the time, that let you shorten each run dramatically, and return to the stage boss much faster. The route to the final boss is literally like ten 2-minute rooms, after you unlock everything necessary. The powerups and keys stil transfer from run to run, along with unlocked weapons, weapon perks, unlocked artifacts, one of the currencies, and your understanding of the game. There's not a single time you have to restart the game.
@@TheGhettoMozart Yes so true, i sold the game because of that, i think this game waste my time alot because of wanting to upgrade my gear like 1-2 hours and then suddenly die upon the locked area, and then when your gear is ready and then you cannot heal yourself to fight the boss is frustrating.
Here's my interpretation. There are two car crashes. The first with Theia, Selene, and Selene's unborn brother Helios. And a second with Selene and her son Helios who is named after the dead unborn brother. Selene was already stuck in a cycle before reaching Atropos. Selene distracts Theia causing the first crash, killing her unborn brother Helios and severing Theia's spine, which stops Theia becoming an astronaut (the refusal letter you can find in a few places is for Theia, not Selene). Selene feels guilty and becomes an astronaut for Theia, but resents and ignores her child in her persuit just like Theia did with Selene. The astronaut on the bridge is the emobdyment of Selene's obsession with becoming an astronaut at the expense of her child Helios, which causes the crash. There's ambiguity about if the astronaut was real, one alien text says that it 'may or may not' have been there, and in both text and audio logs it is shown that Selene was secretly taking medication which may have either meant that the astronaut was a hullucination, or the astronaut was real and the medication was an attempt to stop her seeing it. It's implied that the astronaut may have been 'following' her for a long time. Selene's child Helios drowns during the second crash, and Selene survives. It is not clear if the red eyed creature was really present for that, it may have been. 'Do you see the White Shadow' may be a reference to White Shadow by Peter Gabriel, which is a vinyl that has a locked groove, so it repeats in a cycle infinitely until it's stopped, and may be interpreted as 'Do you see the loop?'. Selene manages to join Astra's Origo mission to escape her guilt by leaving Earth behind. In a conversation with her Astra colleagues in one of the early ship logs it's shown that she doesn't keep any momentos of earth, and says she has no family left. Selene is drawn by a force to Atropos, likely the red eyed alien, and this may have started when she first began seeing the astronaut. She disobeys her colleagues and breaks regulations to fly to Atropos. The alien archives imply that Selene freed the creature that created the Severed. The red eyed monster is probably the creature orchestrating everything, and she probably IS on Atropos with the 'it was all an allegory' thing being a red herring. The loop on Atropos may be half-allegory half-literal, 'ABANDONED HELIOS' for instance, and the spine-like architecture and bones you find everywhere perhaps symbolising Theia's injury. That is just my interpretation, a lot of it is intentionally ambiguous. There's another story thread with paragraphs you unlock with 100% research for all the items, I don't think anyone has unlocked all of those and figured out their correct order yet. An important thing to note is that the developers are keen fans of the cosmic horror genre, which makes me more inclined to believe Selene is in Atropos, and the red eyed creature (which is perhaps named Xaos) called her from the void to free it, and is trapping Selene in the loop. Interested to see what other people have figured out!
Dude! That is a fantastic interpretation! Thanks for sharing! I finished the game yesterday, and I can't recommend it enough. As far as I know, you need to complete the game 3 times in order to see the "real ending". Sad that it doesn't have a save option, though. I will play it again at a later time, seeing I have to play RE: Village one of these days.
@@andrescruz735 Thanks! Yes, it does seem to take at least 3 playthroughs to get the real ending, more if you miss some sunface fragments on your 3rd run.. The Sunface representing Helios (Selene says "My sun" at one point, and also Helios is Greek for sun/the sun god). In order to unlock the story in the items menu, it would take many many playthroughs, I have not found anyone who has managed it yet! RE: Village looks awesome, enjoy it!
I like yours more than mine. I believe the five bosses are representations of the five stages of grief. Phrike is Denial. The tabs around the first biome speak of madness taking them. Or possibly him specifically. Denial taking over before you get to the second stage. It’s a stretch though. Ixion is Anger. I feel like this one speaks for itself. I’d personally argue out of all the bosses he’s the most aggressive. Blasting past, getting incredibly up close and personal. Screaming and very clearly a Severed. Nemesis is Bargaining not for his fight, but for his place in the story. When you beat him it all seems business as usual and Selene gets to go home. All seems well and she lives a long life. By the looks of it her kid was alive as well. Until... Hyperion. Depression. Sat atop his tower and playing a sorrowful piece that he cannot stop. The music is maddening and has driven past versions of Selene to such insanity as well. And then... Ophion and the subsequent interaction with who you called Xaos. Acceptance. She cannot fight what happened. She has accepted it. She understands why she must be on Atropos. Xaos has trapped her in the loop and she will be tormented with the house, her mistakes and death for eternity. Stuck in the endless cycle. Fighting through Phrike, Ixion, Nemesis, Hyperion and Ophion forever. Fighting through Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance for eternity. Or it’s way simpler and Xaos really likes watching her defeat tentacle monster with the power of gun.
I found out it was Selena that caused the her ship to crash. She shot it unintentionally. Atropos is warped her in a time bubble. Future version of her shot the ship with possibly an Electric canon. She wasn’t even consciously aware. She even breaks the cycle and makes it to earth. Praised for her survival Then grows old and dies at 80 She gets sucked back to same planet with same younger age 30? And wants to break the cycle again. Finds the creature and then returns. So All this Only to find out that she can’t break the cycle. The game says break the cycle but you don’t. That’s your 70 bucks bye
I didn't play the game but I like figuring stuff out. The main character is in her own personal hell that she was taken to after dying in the crash, that's why her brain is shown at the end. The white shadow is referring to her white space suit, and her focusing on exploring the great unknown destroyed her relationship with her family. This is why the house is shown to be damaged after she picks up her picture of her in the white spacesuit. Instead of valuing what she had in front of her, she abandoned her family for the great unknown. So in hell she is alone in an everchanging landscape she will never fully know, and her former life is her shadow. To her daughter, her mom's white spacesuit is the white shadow because it was the only thing she left behind. So the "white shadow" is the grave mistake that sealed her fate. The white shadow signal is her calling to follow the path she is doomed to repeat over and over. The white shadow also could be referring to the the scene where she sees the moon's light shining from under the water, that was the moment she completed the cycle, being completely informed as to why she's in hell. And then it repeats. The planet is called Atropos b/c it's based on a greek mythological character who is one of 3 sisters of fate in greek mythology. The moon represents her/them b/c they are also associated with the night.
And maybe taking it a bit further and saying her DAUGHTER is the white shadow as well! White symbolizing her daughter's purity, and that's why in the house that bright white light was coming from her daughter's bedroom. That's why at the end of the game she reunites with her daughter & her daughter says "do you see your white shadow?" as she is sitting BEHIND the protagonist. The protagonist looks in her rearview mirror and sees both of them, but adjusts the mirror so she can only see herself; the mom is selfish. As soon as she sees the white spacesuit she veers off the road b/c that's what caused her to follow the wrong path & sealed her fate. So the white shadow is both her daughter and her spacesuit. The daughter is the white shadow of the protagonist looking at it from the mom's perspective & the white spacesuit is the white shadow of her mom from the daughter's perspective & that represents the loop.
your theory seems absolutely perfect to me! after seeing the true ending, I'd even add Helios means the Sun, on the surface, if she's able to swim and save herself (though I don't get that house cutscene with the tv, when the news says "the doctor miraculously... and escaped unharmed...")
The way she speaks to Ophion definitely implies that each boss represents a stage of grief. In this case, she is fighting to accept what happened. On repeat encounters with Ophion, Selene says that after suffering light years of pain, Ophion’s answers are beneath her. Showing that she knows her enemies have nothing to offer her and that she has the answers she seeks.
She says the answer she seeks is beneath Ophion, so he should just give it to her. As in, my answer means nothing to this Eldricht horror. Not that Ophion's answer is beneath her.
a light year is a measurement of distance, so you're basically saying she endured kilometers and kilometers of pain (9.6 trillion to be exact).. i'm that guy.
When I beat this boss I actually thought that other creature she encounters afterwards was the second half of the boss fight. Lol. Great game I hope they have some additional content planned.
For some reason this was the easiest boss for me. By the time I reached it, I had so many upgrades and like 300% Integrity, plus a fully upgraded rocket launcher, that it just ate shit. Ixion, on the other hand, was a nightmare. Anybody else have the same experience?
By then you had already gone through 4 other boss fights so you instinctually learned the pattern and rhythm of the game.\ Personally I found the minions and miniboss's way more difficult simply because of their numbers.
Same. I more than tripled my health, I had two large silphum vials, 4 damage siphons, 50% repair efficiency, 20% protection, and a level 28 pylon driver with 4 upgrades, including a silphum extractor. I literally could not die by that point. Ironically, Phrike was the most challenging for me. It took me more than 8 attempts to bring him down. Ixion took 3, Nemesis took 2 (in a single run bc of the reconstruction chamber), and Hyperion and Ophion took 1. Imo, the mid to late game weapons seem remarkably overpowered against individual foes. The pylon driver is especially stupid. Almost all the tough enemies that trigger lockdowns get vaporized by it in seconds.
In my opinion, the developers were freely inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel "A Maze of Death". Selene's mind is inside a virtual reality simulator created specifically to train astronauts in the event of a crash landing on an exoplanet, but Selene's psychological trauma and guilt are somehow interfering with the simulation, making her live a distressing experience.
6:30 (You Half to listen closely to here the beginning of the song but soon after you here the lyrics) I like how Don’t Fear the Reaper is playing on the radio
I got him first try without the items but strangely enough there was a large silphium dropped on the floor didn't even know where it came from 🤔 still I might have been able to do it since I had that parasyte that gives you 2 malfunctions in order to survive a death blow.
GAME ISNT OVER!!! (Now there are 6 new things thrown in every biome. One in each. After you get those, go to the house, after house, clear the last areas again for the TRUE ENDING) Ps: before those 6 things pop up, you have to have seen the 3 house sections in the first forest, and the 2 house sections in the other forest before the new 6 things pop up.
@@IMTHEAN7 go back to the first biome again for the 3rd. 3 in 1st, 2 in 4th. After that, 1 secret item in every area (AFTER), lastly, house again in either 1st or 4th biome. Then just finish the final boss again.
@@michaelmyersplays4992 I don't care for co-op but the tower of Sisyphus mode is not well done. I got past phase 3 and the game becomes a repetitive slog. Unfortunately they didn't add much new content.
Also a thought just popped into my head, this game is called "Returnal" because it's a combination of the words Return and Nocturnal, therefore meaning "return to the night", referencing the night of her death.
I had half and still have beaten this boss first time without watching RU-vid or anything else. It's the easiest boss fight in the game. Weird though you get all these upgrades but you only use them once cause I was expecting to die at the boss, but I didn't. Now watching title screen. Hoping there is more....
its a pain in ass. dying and not returning to where you just were. not a large selection of guns. you don't have a huge inventory to stock up. the end fights happening 3 times is just overkill. at the moment its the only new decent game for ps5.
I beat the final boss from the first try! I think because I left the game for a couple of days and came back and leveled up to the max and explored the entire map before I got to it! I left it wanting more, now that I got good at it 😄
I find that you actually get better at gaming when you take lengthy breaks in-between. Like sort of a subconscious rewiring takes place after being refreshed. Idk, tho. I'm not a neuro-scientist
Tell me about it that part with those 2 jellyfish summoning kamikaze. Littles shits made me use my heals before the boss 😭😭 still got him first try funny enough
this isn't really the true true ending, reviews stated that there is way more to the plot than 1 run, most said they were 40 hrs in and there was still much to figure out. can't wait to play some of this game tomorrow, hope to finish It before RE8
I still can't find the name of that song toward the end right before they crash it's an old song that's playing you can barely hear it in the background I think the guy says fly in the song
@@guesstime6445 thank you I actually just found it!!! But the harsh guitar and other instruments in the original.... I kind of like this better I wonder... If it's some sort of remix
The final boss was a too easy for me. Maybe cuz since the nemesis fight I somewhat gained super powers, I remember having a mate in the party and when he noticed I died for like the 1000000th time I started to play the ukulele and I became broken
There's dozens of interpretations this game has but one of them is plain and simple. She's in hell. She died in that car crash with her daughter, unable to find the answers she's looking for and with countless of "lives" and resets she gets close enough to the truth only to be sent flying back and farther away from ever finding out that she's already dead. And there's nothing that she can do. Forever pursuing the infinite emptiness that is death.
Welcome to the great world of Rogue likes, where the end is meaningless so you have to do more runs to accomplish more objectives even if you finish the game 40 times
I was absolutely overpowered when I beat this boss. I had two revive items, 3 large silphium, 2 small silphium, 10% protection and 201% integrity lol If I had played it with my feet, I would probably win anyway.
Same, I was pretty much op with a maxed out bonus damage weapon. Had plenty of self heal and shield with another bonus weapon damage. My health was 2 health bars.
Hahahahah i'd love to see that fight. Btw, do you have any tips for a beginner? I started playing today and I'm having a hard time understanding the game (like, what i should take, what i shouldnt, etc).
Seeing as how no one has posted a full walkthrough or a all cutscenes video, imma assume she and her daughter did actually die in the crash and Selene, throughout the entire game, is just in her own personal Hell for (I assume) not caring for her daughter all that much
@@veryconcernedjesus2584 I partially agree with your take on it, but the daughter survived the crash (it's explained on the news report). WAAIITTT....looking back, how would she know about the news report of her death? I think the mom isn't dead, but in a coma, her brain is still functioning, & that's why she was able to hear parts of the news report on her death.
There's actually a true ending to the game that nobody seems to have reached yet. This isn't the complete ending, there's another. Similar to Hades, the game isn't over after the first complete run. Nobody has actually managed to reach the secret ending from what I've seen here yet but all we know is that it exists.
I had a parasite that can regenerate my healing items and I have beaten the boss with still 5 healing items, 2 of which were big ones lol. It was very easy
So, you know how Hyperion is like, her dad playing an organ at the funeral? Well carrying that forward, Ophion is this incoherently screaming, immobile, humanoid, who’s trapped underwater. We…. We fucking know WHO this is, right?
So basically she’s in hell. Set to fight and dye for eternity in a endless loop (kind of depressing). It’s a good game but I could never get past the hadal key stage. It’s way too long of an area with no checkpoints to beat. Also how TF did this guy get such a crazy health bar?
so i looked up ophion, that boss you fought, in greek mythology it was the origional ruler of earth, a titan. way before chronos took over, and it also says he has a wife but im assumming going thru lore and learning more about the games backstory i wonder if its a different rendition of the charater, much like how the planet is named after one of the fates. this game has so fuckin much i wanna see but ya boi is broke as fuck and cant get shit rn.
the final boss wasn't all that bad. It was that whole area under water that was rough. Those stupid orbs that fire a million projectiles and then those giant monster dudes who come at you super fast and smash you. Plus all the little squid things that you cant even see until they are a foot away from you. It took me a bit to get through it.
