Okay, I cannot stop thinking about a very specific moment in the Skip Button Route, so obviously I’m required to discuss it.
After being trapped in the dark for who knows how long, during the 15th skip the player finally starts to see the skip button room beginning to be reclaimed by nature.
It’s the first bright, warm, comforting feeling the player has gotten in a while, especially considering the fact that The Narrator’s crazed ramblings of “the end is never the end” happen not too long before this skip. It’s a breath of fresh air FINALLY feeling a sense of hope through the terrible experience Stanley and the player have been put through so far.
Even though The Narrator seems to be gone, the room is flooded with natural light, open to the outside world for the first time in thousands of years. The Player is led to believe that the next skip will have the room looking even more lush and comforting. So they press the button again.
And are met with arguably the most terrifying skip of the entire bunch.
There’s no more light, no more greenery, only darkness as the room falls in on itself. Inhuman, unidentifiable noises drone on in the background, noises that were later found to be some semblance of The Narrator’s being still calling out to Stanley for help. He’s long gone, but in a way he’s also still trapped there. It’s simply horrifying.
This skip is such a curveball for the game to throw at the player, and I think it’s ingenious.
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