The story of cats are liquid is a never ending cat and mouse chase. On the outside it looks like an innocent cute game, but as it progresses it just gets more intriguing, scary and depressing and with each ending it always makes you ponder. “What’s next?”
@@SuperPhantomUser hear me out on my theory, What if lumi is a hikikomori (a person who shuts themselves in their parents or their own homes for long periods of time ranging about 2 or more years) and the “friend” who died was actually their SISTER, (I’ll explain later) and the entirety of cats are liquid is just “lumi” dreaming and the PERSON who is dreaming is looking at themselves as lumi since they don’t want to forget the last gift the sister gave. And the purple one is actually a built up version of lumi’s feelings manifesting into a being who wants to help lumi, meanwhile a weird being [the cat that the person “plays” as] is actually a built up of her terrible feelings who’s main goal is to eternally trap the person into a never waking up state, [coma] so when lumi finally says she wants to be in a better place, the monster [lumi] kills her (or traps her in coma) so she cant escape. But once that’s finally done, the monster starts to slip up explaining the neon rooms as the monster getting weaker as its goal is “achieved”. The purple one has good intentions but they won’t be as much help as the person needs to learn to cope. The “friend” in their dreams is just a part of the persons mind trying to remeber but the monster is trying to convince the person they are an enemy. Until they bring up the cat. The person slowly starts to remember but doesn’t wanna leave yet so the monster initiates a complete reset.
I've got a theory about why all orange things hurt Lumi. Maybe the dead friend was an orange cat and all orange things are like memories of their dead friend. And when Lumi or the other cats touch something orange, it hurts because the death of their friend was a traumatic event. That could also explain why they are somehow alive since they are like an extension of the dead friend. And that could also explain why the Companion is immune to everything orange. Maybe the purple one wanted to show to Lumi that, these orange things can be painful, but you can move on and get out of there. Let me know what you think. Edit: Thanks for the likes!
The ending of ALITS is just... scary for me, watching her just instead of going through the exit, and accepting her friend's death, she just doesn't, she resets everything by killing herself, is just so intriguing to me.
the story of this game is grim and yet it's some of the best writing I have ever seen. the gameplay is so unique and the lore is intriguing. This is has got to be one of the best games of all time.
I have to agree with all of these. It's very well-written (especially ALITS) The gameplay itself is similar to other platformers, but the way it's organized and the unique, clean aesthetic makes it stand out
I wouldn't say best game of all time, but the lore and narration... It's one of the best I've seen so far, it might be the only game that nearly stole a tear from my eyes honestly. I'll definitely recommend it.
Im sure someone else has said it here, but you can find the purple cat several times in the last world of ALITS, I think even possibly in the second to last level. They are kinda hidden, as they are in ABP. i distinctly remember one being up on a tower thats completely optional to climb. Anyways, that just makes the ending even sadder, if purple cat (possible parent) was there to watch lumi game end herself. Purple cat may be found outside of the last world as well but I’m not sure Something interesting is that in the neon rooms the gravitation clouds are purple (the ones that follow lumi when you are close) I think this symbolizes purples attempt to reach out in physical ways of comfort because they cannot use words to comfort lumi. However this affection is just considered an “obstacle” for lumi to get around.
Purple is found in many worlds, I think there's a total of 4 or 5 times that you can see them outside of world 9. I also like your idea that Purple's trying to reach out to Lumi with the hug clouds, gives them a whole new meaning
@@MaximRodin-s9u is this in ALitS or ABP? Edit: ALitS, I went through all of them and apparently you get an achievement when you find all of the Purples
Hey there! Playtester of liquid cats, Sami here. Im extremely happy that you made this video. Although i already played the games i just didnt feel like having to go through all that again just for lore- So yes im extremely thankful (mostly cuz im lazy)
When I first saw the "I gave my cat to you" line my brain short-circuited too but the first theory that came into my head was that maybe since they are god-like entities (creating/altering worlds, resetting time, etc) maybe they're not cats but only possessing them, and the friends gave her lumi as a gift (if lumi is the cat's name not the character/entity's name). That would be really confusing but nobody's mentioned it (that I an tell) and it's some food for thought
New theory about what owner means that I just need to get down: it is said that her owner locked her in those rooms. The owner could be whatever controls her emotions. Cat could equal emotion/the power to control emotion. That would also make the title make sense. At first, the friend and her death controlled Lumi’s emotions. But then, Lumi had the option to take control of her emotions. She didn’t. But she is the owner, the one controlling her emotions. She(the dead cat) was the owner(one controlling Lumi’s emotions) and gave her cat(emotions/control over emotions) to Lumi, who is now the owner. The purple one could also be Lumi farther in the loop trying to get her past self out, but can’t. The square could be her attempt to make her face her situation
When I first found out about this game, I thought that it was a meme game, because 'cats are liquid' in itself is quite a funny statement. But I was really shocked to see the story of this game as I played through it. I never knew that this game could have so much deapth in it.
Green:shock(no mouth, acting different, making platforms as if it hasn't processed there's no ground) Lumi:Denial and maybe bargaining(locked herself up in this world, smiling face, ignores everything else) Red:anger(grumpy face, bouncing off like it's shoving away, parting gift is active when hurt) Blue:depression(sad face, acting glum, freezing time like it's just stuck that way, parting gift is active when watery like tears) ???(maybe purple? Or companion?):acceptance. It's a decent match for the stages of grief.
I didn't think Green could show shock instead of calmness, thinking of their ability to make things appear and disappear as if they hadn't proceseed it yet is very different.
I like this comparison a lot! Especially Purple being acceptance, as they are trying to get Lumi to escape the loop and accept the truth. Although I wonder which would be bargaining... maybe the Companion?
theory for the "i gave you my cat" line: the dead friend is actually referring to the purple one when saying this. the dead friend somehow manifested the purple one into existence to try to help lumi through her grief and eventually let her escape.
Good point, but when the dead friend mentions the cat they gave, Lumi says "..." while when they mention Purple later on in The Reset, Lumi perks up and tries to stop them. It seems unlikely they are the same
In my opinion, Purple is the dead friend, and that cat they gave isn't an actual cat, but the Companion, which is a pet, as you showed in your video. "Cat" is used as a substitute here. I know you debunked this theory, but I un-debunked it, I just can't remember where I put my comment about this
Wait I never noticed but the Companion's abilities could be a paralell to the friends' abilities. Stopping time to avoid obsticles is Blue's ability while "jumping" is essentially Red's ability. None of cats can really boost, they can only turn into liquid form to be faster. However the entirety of what Companion can do, making platforms appear with trigger mechanisms is very similar to Green's ability (at least to me). Also Green is defenetly special in some way because they look different from the others (they have no mouth or tail) and the dialouge for them is different.
1) The Companion's abilities parallel to the friends' is something that other members of the LQS Discord server have noticed as well (great job for noticing that btw) and they connect the boost to Green since Green is the only other cat besides Lumi where turning to liquid is a big part of their ability 2) Green is definitely different from Red and Blue, in the way they treat Lumi in 7-1 and how their dialogue is different when they are "fixed"
@@SuperPhantomUser Well I was in the discord for a while as well but I either left or got kicked cuz of inactivity (can't remember). But before I joined I already theorised stuff, in fact it was the reason I did join because I wanted to talk about lore. I only noticed the ability thing now tho because of the way the video was put togerher. Hmm also about Green, I remember someone (also on discord) theorised that they might be the dead friend. It would make sense why they're different.
something I noticed: World 12 has ten levels, which is not enough to fit each world into a corresponding level. But, I notice that world 7 and 8 are the ones left behind to not have their own level. And both those worlds are the only two worlds to have some sort of friend, helper, or companion to help you out. Idk what implications this might have but its cool that i noticed it
I like to think that they were excluded because Lumi couldn't have had her friends help her in World 7 (because they already left), and Purple took away the Companion for good after World 8
It doesn't make sense. World 7 was left out because it involves friends, which already left, but why did the dev leave out World 8, which does have an ability, but not World 1, with nothing special to it?
I played this game when I was in middle school and am revisiting it in college. I relate a lot to how Lumi feels and am crying because I'm just so sad about it. I really would like a third game even though it doesn't sound like they're planning on it. To end it with her 'stuck' in a loop of her own creation makes sense because some people become prisoners to their grief and cannot move on, but it just makes me sad. I really want Lumi to escape. I want her to meet her friends again in the real world, or wherever they are right now, and I want them all to move on and find happiness again together. :( Edit: As someone professionally diagnosed with bpd, I honestly did see myself in Lumi (and the symptoms of bpd specifically) as I played but didn't dwell on them too much since sometimes I relate too many characters to it just because it's comforting to feel seen even if it's just a single behavior. But seeing that you believe that as well, I can say that I agree. 1. Her fear of abandonment / being abandoned in some way. Her friend died, and we can see through her conversation with the dead friend that she lashes out and blames the friend for 'leaving her' here, 'abandoning' her. The friend obviously replies that they can't be blamed for their death, and Lumi just says that she could have stayed home. In grief, but I think especially with bpd, sometimes it's hard to accept that life is just tragic sometimes. It was an accident. No one could forsee that she would die. But it's hard to just accept that reality because it feels so unfair. It _is_ unfair. Life is unfair. But who wants to scaly that? Sometimes it's easier to blame someone, even the person who died. Because you _do_ feel abandoned, even though it was not abandonment by choice. And to avoid those feelings, she goes through the extreme measures of living in a constant loop in a world that is ultimately bad for her and her recovery. Even though every time she will feel confused and hurt why she was locked in here, try so hard to get out, and feel panicked as she loses her abilities. It's not a happy loop at all. But at least... nothing is permanent. It can all be reset. And maybe, right now, that hurts her less than the irreversible reality that her friend is gone. Those other cats, whether they were all friends of the dead friend and put themselves in these worlds trying to cope, or if they were all separately dealing with grief from losing a loved one and became friends through that shared trauma meeting in these rooms, all left after they were 'fixed.' After they moved on. Because that's what they were supposed to do. But she can't move on. She can't leave but they won't stay. So has been, in a way, abandoned. They _could_ stay, technically. But it's not good for them, and they won't go down her path of self-destruction with her. So they leave, and she feels abandoned. Her extreme measures this time being, creating a whole new world that she traps herself in, erasing her memories, keeping herself in this painful loop where no progress or healing can take place. And now I'm realizing how long I'm going. I'll try to be more brief with the others 😿 Unstable, intense relationships: after the cats leave, after the Companion disappears, her initial reaction is intense anger from the hurt. She goes from loving her friends deeply, to feeling lost, listless, pointless without them, to feeling rage and lashing out and feeling that she can do things on her own now, she's _better off_ on her own. For the square, when it disappears, she goes from appreciating it and caring for it to 'hating' it and finding it selfish for never telling her anything to missing it intensely. Just like she probably misses her friends, deep down. Your emotions can change on others so quickly when you have bpd because your emotions are just so unregulated and can change so quickly, often out of your control unless you have trained yourself to control it or have gotten treatment to help control it. Rapid changes in self-identity: I feel that she doesn't know who she is anymore. This can be because of grief as well, but they aren't mutually exclusive. Constantly switching between states of matter, she is literally changing her identity. And mentally, I feel that she is lost in terms of identity. She was [dead friend]'s friend, but now they're gone, so who is she? She was the friend of the other cats, now who is she? She's alone, now she's the Companion's friend. Now the Companion is gone. She doesn't know who she is again. She might trap herself in this world because she doesn't know who she is anymore, so even if she left and went back into 'the real world,' she wouldn't even know how to act. At least in this world, she has an identity: the cat whose owner started acting weird one day and trapped her here, the cat that wants to get out of here. And even when she has that script to follow, sometimes she finds herself listless and feeling pointless anyways when the things she ties her identity to are gone, like her abilities and the Companion. Paranoia and loss of contact with reality: paranoid that her friends will hate her and feel that she doesn't appreciate them just because she needs time alone, also paranoid that they might be getting her to do something bad for her and not understand that (like when she felt paranoid about the world around her and red cat suggested she play in their world to distract herself). Paranoid about the world around her, which is why she can pick up that purple is watching her / there is something that isn't 'quite right' which is why she is uneasy in the first place. Since she's living in these fictional worlds and refusing to face the reality of her friend's death, you can easily see how she's lost contact with reality and refuses to confront it. Impulsive behavior: constantly putting herself in 'danger' and letting herself die over and over and over, even 'killing' herself at the end, just to prove that she can't die here. Putting herself through so many resets just because there are no consequences. It's not healthy. But it is comforting because it reinforces the fact that she can't die here. And in a world where 'death' has no consequences, you don't have to face the death of your friend. Suicidal behavior and self-harm: she kills herself at the end of every reset. She puts herself in harm's way every reset. Because she doesn't want to confront reality, she'd rather hurt herself and self sabotage every time she gets so close to moving on. Because she's survived it already. And, to her, doing it all over again will hurt, but it won't hurt as much as remembering who she lost and how she can never get them back. Especially when it's... _death_. It's not just that they fell out and she doesn't know how to repair the broken pieces. They're _dead_. There's nothing that can be done to get them back. Mood swings: after the Companion disappeared, she was immediately really hurt and angry. Just a room later, she was reminiscing and missing them and appreciating them. Ongoing feelings of emptiness: Especially after her friends disappear in ABP, and after she loses her abilities and the Companion in ALITS, she feels empty. I think she is chronically empty. I think she also chooses to reset every time because at least in the excitement and confusion of being trapped in 'a strange new place' and gaining new abilities, she can be distracted from the emptiness she feels. When she nears the end, she loses those things. And she cannot distract herself from the emptiness anymore, in fact it is emphasized by the hole they've now all left. So she resets to a time before she discovered and lost these things. Inappropriate, intense anger: I think with bpd, anger is really mixed in with hurt. She's so hurt her friends left her, and then becomes so angry she decides she doesn't need them and she'll make her own world without them. Even though it won't be as good. And she gets lost in the hurt and anger and emptiness. But she makes the world anyways. Her anger is intense to the Companion when they disappear, even though later she even acknowledges that her anger was inappropriate because all it did was try to help her. And it's pretty clear why it's inappropriate for her to be so intensely angry at her dead friend... for dying in an accident. But in the moment it doesn't feel inappropriate because you're just so lost in all the anger and the hurt and the loneliness and emptiness, you feel like you're on fire and you lash out. That was very long and I don't blame you if you can't read all of it, lol. Also to disclaim, I don't excuse these behaviors just because they are symptoms when they harm people and I also hope my explanations don't lend themselves to further stigmatization of bpd. I was simply going through the symptoms and explaining how I believe they match her and how I think she felt mixed in with how I've felt before. People with bpd are human beings and deserve the same treatment as others at the end of the day, praise for being a good person and criticism when being bad. I am glad that Lumi is so nuanced and people can relate to her and I'd be happy to attest to her having bpd, especially since I think she's generally liked and can be positive representation for us. Last note, if we were to go with the bpd theory, we could say that Lumi had such a hard time moving on since that friend could have been her fp (favorite person), a title more specific to bpd. The fp of a person with bpd is the bpd haver's favorite person (as the name implies) and are the most important person in their life and they can be what decides a person with bpd's mood, sense of security, confidence, etc. If the dead friend is her fp, losing them is like losing herself. If you read this all, thank you!! Haha I got too invested
Thank you for your valuable insight on the Borderline Personality Disorder theory! When I first made this lore video I stumbled upon the disorder and connected it to Lumi's condition so much that I decided to mention it here. I expanded it in my Theories video. It's one of my favorite theories and one that I still believe after all this time, but actually having someone who suffers from this comment is incredible. I couldn't read it all but many of the points you made were good and are definitely related to how Lumi thinks/acts. Thank you again, I hope you stay well :)
@Super Phantom User Thank you for making such a great video putting together everything, it helped me understand things better! And of course, I am always happy to speak up about my disorder, especially when the character who has it would be a positive representation of us!
I noticed that World 8 where the Companion leaves has a green color scheme, and so does World 4 where the Companion appears. Maybe the Companion is stuck in its own loop?
ALITS ending was so depressing. Lumi loses everything and everything what once was a thing became nothing and how she accepted her fate. Now I am strong man. But it was too emotional for me
cats are liquid game makes me feel some different type of way. scared, excited, paranoid, happy at the same time. ive played this game 5 times in a row and I'm happy to say i think i got the lore. i also wish there were more people in cats r liquid fandom i hardly see any but i love this game so much
The Cats are Liquid lore is a bit complicated, but it is super emotional for those who understand it Also there aren't a lot of people in the community but if you want to find people then I suggest joining the Last Quarter Studios Discord server - I am on it and so are a lot of others who care about the game
I always thought that the purple one was the physical manifestation of Lumi's grief. its colour is the combination of red and blue, just like the two friends who left Lumi a "gift", and he appears more prominently the more upset Lumi is. and I think Dev once said that the purple one didn't exist in ABP, and yet supposedly he's the creator of the Companion, even though it appears first there. if the purple one is something that split off of Lumi when she became more immersed in her pain, then that could explain this I think.
I like the idea that Purple isn't real and only an emotional manifestation. Unfortunately, Lumi's friends and the Dead Friend both mention Purple, so I don't think that's likely. Also, Dev never said that Purple doesn't exist in ABP (I don't think so at least), just that you can't find them in the rooms.
Then why are they found in the Editor? Also, in W5R10 the friends say: "You are the only one who stayed" "Except..." "You know who." Purple stayed with Lumi in ALITS, that means they have existed somewhere else, too.
@@SuperPhantomUser We don't know if Purple exists in ABP, but maybe we can check the game files to find out. Because some guy on RU-vid checked the files to find out in which rooms there was a purple cat in the other game.
@@SuperPhantomUserEven though they mention Purple, they only do so in the context that "they are still here", which could mean they're saying the cat can't get away from Purple
I can't tell you the amount of peace, quiet and loneliness I felt as I progressivelly got deep into the game and eventually finished it during midnight
This is so incredible and yet terrible to watch. I’ve gone through the loss of a loved one and I know that if you lose people you care about, you turn on yourself and shut yourself in, not letting anyone help because you can’t bear the hurt of letting go. And even if you realize there may be a way out, sometimes it’s too late. You’ve pushed away anyone that would help you and you can’t see that you need to break the cycle.
I'm sorry for what you had to go through, and I'm glad you were able to connect with the CaL series in this way. It's not the right thing to do, but I believe it would be an easy thing to do
One of the reasons I like CaL more than, for example, Nameless Cat is that there are no villains, no bad guys, no fighting involved. Red: good guy Green: good guy Blue: good guy Lumi: good guy, just gone a little crazy Purple: actually a good guy Dead Friend: IDK, but my theory is that they are actually Purple Companion: obviously a good guy, it is a good guy's pet
It's sad that so much suffering comes from when there is no one with malicious intent, but it's true that sometimes we're our own worst enemy, and it's definitely a strength of the game
I literally cried at the ending of ALITS, because i immediately understood that lumi kill*d herself (there was a white thing that lumi released, after that the spikes fell) and the release pack looked like a afterlife place to me. And i really liked youre theory! Its the best abd most explaing
Also I can't remember in which level, but there's a wall you climb up in ALITS, an arrow tells you to go a certain way, but if you keep climbing, there's a second arrow telling you to go the same direction. If you still keep going up, you'll see purple. Edit: whoops i made this comment in the middle of the video and didn't know you'd bring it up later, sorry 😅
i remember first playing this game, at first i was getting confused, confused why i was lonely, i had a feeling id meet someone eventually, so once i saw the friends, i felt comforted, then confused when they disappeared, when the blue cat disappeared, i though that was them fusing with lumi (because i never read dialouge) i kept on going...so confused..then comforted again...
Another thing I noticed when playing through ALitS is that not only the cat's face fades away when she gets closer to the end, but also the door fade and become darker and closer to grey. The fading face symbolizes losing hope, but the doors, I think, symbolize something a little more specific: "I don't want to continue, I don't want to go through that, what's the point going further?" Edit: Wow, someone actually put a like on my comment!
@@SuperPhantomUser Yes. Also, the last world is the place where it is revealed that the cat doesn't actually want to get out of this place, so she might not want to go through doors for a chance of freedom
The lore in ABP feels like it's someone who made a Minecraft server for him and his friends to play inside. The "fixed" friends describes how each friend has finished their own role in the server, while the "glitches" can be assumed to be the motivation of the person's friends going out due to new interests in their lives or when they're aging in general The companion cube can symbolize as a wolf that the person himself/one of his friends tamed that made him a bit less lonely The powers gained by Lumi could be referred to the Minecraft mods the person himself has made or just symbolizes what he'd do irl (like the Ice Block mechanic would be the same as trying to reach out to a friend asap) In the end, all of the player's friends have grown up and went on their own ways, leaving behind the player as he only has him and his friend's world to himself only, and that he'd make a better place than this or try to be better than the server he and his friends were in, just enjoying it everytime
Very specific, strange, like the Metaphor Theory but in a Minecraft server. As crazy as it seems this actually makes sense(?) and could be a theory of it's own lol
@@SuperPhantomUser To be honest I only have this in thought for the lore of ABP while that theory just simply breaks apart whenever trying to continue it to ALITD, but it feels weirdly coincidental lol
I never thought this game would actually have a video about it, it is the best free mobile platformer imo (Well, honestly, i even thought it was very underrated)
I started theorising in my head after the first glitch and came to the conclusion that they might have been the real cats and the "friends" might have been the clones which might explain why they were confused, because Lumi could've been replaced as well, but in the purple world (the one with the eyes I forgot which number) I thought that maybe the cats might have been dead. I guess I wasn't too far off from the general idea?
That definitely could explain that, and then the friends in world 7+ are only an illusion, or clones made by Purple. Because the friends were confused before world 3, it wouldn't make sense for them to die in world 3, bu world 3 does seem like the Purple world. And there is no "general idea": the lore was summarized in this video, but the theories can range widely.
Maybe this isnt that bad as it could be seen.. Like the reset means that lumi is still alive and the line "the reset was done" may mean that after "killing herself" somebody may have called ambulance or something like that and lumi is saved. Lets see this in the next part of *Cats* *Are* *Liquid*
I made a good ending for Cats are Liquid. Lumi wakes up again. She doesn't remember why. She feels different. Blah blah blah blah basically the same thing happens again ftom the previous stories but the ending is the good part Lumi is about to make another world where she can be happy but a flash of memory from the first game reminds her of pain and sadness but also happiness. She feels real emotions for once. She goes through the door instead of restarting. She wakes up. She realizes that she's not a cat. She's a spirit. She finds out that her friends and her were all cats on earth but after they died they warped into another dimension where they had some control over the worlds. Then after she learns the truth she sees her friends. They don't talk. But they understand. Now that they are finally free from the alternate dimension and they found their way to heaven the can be happy souls.
Here's my ending idea: Purple goes through ALITS too, trying to not get caught by Lumi. They prepare a hookshot and hover near the big exit in 9-10. Right after Lumi pushes the door away, Purple comes down . They pull back the cat and then the exit. Blah blah blah blah
I finally completely understood the story of this game and the actual meaning of the storylines. I always thought that Purple was an enemy for Lumi. I admire The Last Quarter for making a game with cats so sad. It seems very cute at first, but since you start understanding the meaning...it gets sad and interesting.
Does anything disprove that the purple one was given to Lumi by her friend. This could have happened to help Lumi, which explains why the purple one would be doing everything, including creating the Companion, to help Lumi.
While nothing explicitly disproves it, I don't think it is likely. When the dead friend says that they gave their cat to Lumi, she is silent. When they mention Purple, however, Lumi reacts much differently.
The first time I SAW the purple one was in the end of aLiTs, if you backwards on the very last room, you can see the purple one. (Also fun fact I played aLiTs before ABP)
33:37 as a year later i think I have a theory myself. “I gave my cat to you” so, you see the dead friend probably had the same icon as Lumi. But then the dead saw Lumi and gave Lumi the cat. So now the dead friend is the purple cat with nothing because Lumi was I think originally the purple one.
I've never finished the second game and completely forgot all of the story good thing some kind stranger made an essay video on this game for me to watch again, truly a life saver.
@@Markomilicic012 Because she does not want to talk to them. If you've actually played the game or watched the video, you must've noticed that this is more of a sort of argument.
@@АлександрСтепанов-о5ч wdym, she will be fixed somehow or r u just making fun of that Lumi wont have a happy ending or, like, being fixed with her friends? We dont exactly know if being fixed'' is good, i think is kinda related to the death but like- idk how to explain it
This certantly is interesting, and while i did not miss much, i did somehow get the secret achievement without finding ALL instances of purple, but other than that i certantly think i found almost everything, even coming to similar If not identical solucions before even joining discord. Also its worth pointing out How the song "there id no paralax" from aLitS has what seems to be a heartbeat type thing as part of the song, and It eventualy flatlines so to speak, which considering both where It plays ingame and the song name, It certantly hints at part of the lore, even If unintencionaly.
- Maybe you encountered them without even realizing, like you got close enough. Either that or you just have to find Purple a set number of times to get the achievement - Oh wow great noticing in the There Is No Parallax, that's a cool fact and it does relate to the lore :D
ALSO, In ALITS Lumi Still Flashes Red when taken damage, and turns blue when in liquid form. So basically ABP was actually like a game before ALITS. It all conects now.
Notice that when Lumi's friends all disappeared in ABP at the start, the corners on the ground started getting more "sharp" per se, and the colors turned dark and stopped glowing. It's almost as if her friends are basically her whole world.
The cats were with the abilites because of the glitch and when lumi was with them she help them to be fixed and because of this they didn't needed help anymore
I have a theory. What if Green is the only friend that actually left, and Red and Blue stayed with Lumi in the form of Purple? They could also stay partially as their gifts. Any thoughts on that?
@@SuperPhantomUser NOTE 2 SELF: Write something like "Any thoughts on that?" to encourage Soup to write a reply after reading the comment instead of just putting a like and heart Do not overuse
I just finished both the games today.. i started sobbing watching this. i don't know why. its such a depressing plot. i never knew a platformer game about cats could be this deep. i love this. thank you for making this, because i didn't quite fully understand the lore. have a great day.
All of this makes sense to me, I think you are completely right with your theory!! I didn't know that this game's story could be this deep... Thats so freak 🙀 and at the same time, so amazing! I can't explain, I just love this game.
This is the biggest comment discussion Ive ever seen! You reply to every comment and make us feel like you're friends with every single one of us! Great video!
Thank you! Keeping this game alive requires conversation, and the best way to do that is replying to comments. It's super fun for me to read through all of them as well, even if I don't get to do it as often as I'd like :)
Here a theory: This might be all in the owners head, let me explain: So the owner could be grieving her pet who died (in this case it would be the cat) maybe she would be making this story up in her head to cope with the sadness. She would be in the perspective of the cat, who as you know can’t die in the labyrinth of rooms. It might be that in the owners head shes trapped in a cycle of grief and that’s symbolized in the rooms. And the thing about being “fixed” might be about moving on and for her friends to leave he owner has to move on from them, or her friends could be trying to help the owner move on from her pets death. The stuff that hurts her could be about the pain and obstacles for moving on. And the fact that the Lumi want to stay makes it seem like it’s very difficult to move on, I haven’t played the world packs yet but I’m thinking that the purple cat could be symbolized as regret or it’s something trying to help, and for correlation with something I said before: maybe the reasons the other cats don’t have names is because they have been forgotten, or the owner moved on. Or I could be totally wrong idk lol Sorry I didn’t explain that well I’m bad at explaining things
This is like an extended metaphor theory that I mentioned, it does fit the "But I gave my cat to you" line and I suggest that you play the packs (if you're talking about the packs in ALITS and not ABP). I don't know if everything equates to something else, for example the orange might just be there for platforming challenges, but I see where you're going with this
Oh my god both cats are liquid games were some of my favourite mobile games I’d played EVER!!! I never thought I’d see anybody cover it! I might have to replay the games again before I watch this though, it’s been a while
Another theory for the "I gave you my cat." thing is that it might be the Purple one who had been given, but she had probably been lost with the cats assuming he/she died, however they are always watching them.
My theory aside, the dead friend tells Lumi that she is "the owner." Lumi doesn't have an owner in real life and instead she locked herself in the ALITS world. She is "her own owner" because she doesn't have an owner, and in the Reset Pack the "owner" is a term used to define who/what forced Lumi into ALITS. If you include my theory, Lumi is "her own owner" because Lumi as a consciousness/person represents a real owner in real life (in the game world). That person was given Lumi by her dead friend after they died, and Lumi reminded the person of their dead friend, sending them to the ALITS world.
this game made me feel anxious a lot of times, but this is the reason i like it. anyway, i guess the whole lore won't be known by us. there can be a lot of theories, and this is the sense of the game. anyone will find their own explanation for everything. thanks author for video! after watching, i understood a lot of things!
In the level where Lumi talks to her dead "friend" she says "You're the owner", and at the beginning of ALitS the owner is called a "he". So it doesn't really makes sense that Lumi is talking about that person when she suggests she locked herself in there because of "her".
In this case, either the "her" isn't the dead friend like a lot of people theorize, or the "he" of the owner was just made up by Lumi to try to convince herself that she did have an owner. Also it's worth noting that the dead friend doesn't have to be the owner, as the dead friend responds by saying "wouldn't that make you the owner?" talking to Lumi
This used to be a game I'd play when I got bored, I never knew there would be so much lore behind it. I didn't even know there was lore until I stumbled upon this video
Oh that could definitely be possible, especially with how each of her friends act If it's true that her friends aren't real (which a lot of people believe) then this would be an option for how Lumi created them
33:27 i belive that the cat isn't really a cat, and just a representation of him in that place, and the one's talking are the owner and the narator, because they are talking about the cat, she isn't talking about himself
well I can see I'm in the fandom of cats are liquid? initially when I saw this game, I saw alits and thought it was just a cat game, but I realized I was wrong when I got to the neon levels, I didn't understand it very well, so I played abp and it clarified some things for me, but this video made me It helped a lot, this video is very well done, I hope you continue like this, you have a chance
Thank you! The games have so much lore to unpack that I felt like it needed a dedicated video just to lay everything out (before even making theories), and yeah, on the surface it seems like just a cat game but it is so good
