#echo arches

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Finally talked myself into posting some of my echo fan art. Really wanted to capture the feeling of playing this game. I just pray that the quality didn’t get crunched to all hell

And a bonus for the Arches boyos because I love

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I got to say, I absolutely love how Echo plays with its medium.

Like everyone talks about The Embrace 'jump scare' and stuff but there's so many little things that go unheralded that I just adore. I haven't seen anyone talk about it but at certain points different lines either don't appear at all in the backlog, or narration would have words italicized that you can only see as such in the backlog (because narration is all already italicized in the text box)

The easiest example I can think of is in Carl's when Chase drowns

That line just isn't there. When I played through this the first time and noticed that my heart dropped, it was so fucking intriguing and it's something so easy to miss, god I love this game. And grammar! At the very end of Flynn's route, when he's talking to 'Sydney' but before the click, before 'Sydney' makes a 'choice'. The dialogue is in quotation marks like it always is. But after the click, when Sydney begins to recognise that this isn't real, when Sam takes over. The Dialogue isn't quoted anymore, like the text itself is recognising that it isn't real.

Then 'click'

only to return when it stops pretending to be Sydney

And like, we all know about the fonts and "Samuel" (or as I refuse to stop calling him even after finding his name: Mr Font). And the Mirror thing that eggs on Chase in the bathroom during TJ's route, so it's not like it goes unheralded but still, I love it. The fonts are always constant and easy to pick up so it must mean something that the Mirror Thing is the same font as 'Not Cameron' in arches.

There is so much to this game and I'm not going to pretend like I understand all the symbolism and what not, or what this means, or anything. But what I do understand is that this game is really fucking good and I love it with all my heart, and I just needed to gush about a few things

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Of course I’ve become attached to skinny ferret 19 and his fellow (literally) tortured souls of Echo. In order these are:

Daniel Gallegos - Skinny ferret: 19, chronic bad taste in men (wanted to fuck the smelly meth bear. I mean, his 2020 Arches version? I get it, but man it was 2014, you know he was in his nasty Echo era), nearly shared a grave with the Chunt Timothy Esposito - The buff breath play Skunk, really like his design, pity what happened to him (seen with Daniel and Benjamin by Cameron in the trailer) Benjamin Kowalski - The straight guy after some weed Keith - Brian’s only real ex Allen - The rat that drowned in his own vomit that Cameron saw at the end of Arches Rachel - Duke’s wife who died paying off a debt to Brian Unnamed Freshman - The cold open victim of Arches. I showed the picture of his paw to my vet friend and he guessed “Black-Tailed Jackrabbit” so I went with it I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone draw these characters, so I took it upon myself. Tried to make them unique to eachother and give them their own personalities, even when all I have to work with is “rat named Allen, ate bar food once”