What about 4, 12, and 18 for the ask game? Would love to hear your opinion on those
4. What is your least favorite region?
Probably Drainage System or Underhang. I find some of the swimming sections in Drainage, particularly those with leeches, rather frustrating at times. Underhang has some tricky parkour sections that I tend to have trouble with as well.
12. Which echo is your favorite?
It is hard to say! I like all of them, I think each one has very interesting and beautiful dialogue. I am very fond of the echoes, they are one of the most breathtaking things in the game for me personally! Though if I had to pick a favorite it would have to be either A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads or Four Needles Under Plentiful Leaves.
A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads has probably my favorite echo room in the game. I think the gentle light of the red grass and the glowing white branches backdropped by the the shadows moving behind them as they tangle up towards the sky and small flecks of gold slowly flutter down is a very beautiful visual.
As for the other, this dialogue in particular that Four Needles Under Plentiful Leaves says has stuck with me for awhile.
"Did they know? That I didn't quite leave, didn't quite stay?
Should I be ashamed? That I linger here, where my memories are kept?
Should I be ashamed that I now envy your flesh prison?"
I could gush about all of the echoes, honestly, but these two in particular stand out to me!
18. How did the ending make you feel?
Rain World ending spoilers ahead, obviously
I thought it was so beautiful I literally had a breakdown that lasted 2 days. I think this moodboard I made shortly after completing the game summarizes my initial reactions best!
In all seriousness though, I was very deeply impacted by it in a very personal way. It is a bit difficult to put my feelings into words, but I will try!
I was alone in a dark room when I was playing through the ending. There is something incredibly enrapturing about the Depths for me personally (probably something to do with my fascination with real life caves and depths!). The gentle ambience of the dripping cavern walls and crackling torches, the beautiful hum of the music, the lights slowly moving across the walls as your vision beings to distort as you travel deeper and deeper into the flesh of this world before plunging yourself beneath the waves and even further into the complete unknown. It is loud, and scary, and beautiful. It had me so enraptured that at the moment where you make it past the cascade of melting gold only to realize that you aren't alone down here and are surrounded by millions of incomprehensible beings larger in scope and more different than anything you have ever seen before had me feeling genuinely terrified.
My job requires me to be underwater a lot, sometimes in the dark, sometimes surrounded by loud noises and humming and thrashing, and it reminded me a lot of that. I do not remember much from my first playthrough, but I do remember being scared and desperately trying to swim to the bottom to just try and get out of the loud chaotic swirling sea of creatures. Could you imagine how terrifying it would actually be to be slugcat in that moment? Even now, the entities shown in the ending and the thought of that scare me.
"Oh, interesting. This is a diary entry of a pre-Iterator era laborer during the construction of the subterranean transit system south of here. In it they describe restless nights filled with disturbing dreams, where millions glowing stars move menacingly in the distance." -LTTM
The rest of the ending is also very beautiful I think. I remember crying when you see other slugcats appear by your side as you swim down towards the light. It was really touching when slugcat finally got to be with their family again.
Anyways sorry for the long ramblings haha, I hope my thoughts are interesting at least. Thank you for the questions! <3
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