Amazing video! Just gonna dump all the little issues there are in this video. We don't really know how many echoes there are exactly. I'm pretty sure there are far more than the ones we see in game. A pretty significant fact is also that Ancients didn't use void fluid just for ascension, but they used it as an energy source too,( but sadly moon thinks the slug is dumb and refuses to explain it in details so all we know is that it has something to do with vacuum). Pebbles didn't try to get the organisms ''consume" him, he wanted to make it go around himself and rewrite the taboo of self destruction that was written in every single cell in his body, so he can actually self destruct afterwards. There are also a lot of little details on different topics and a lot of theories, but writing them is painful and would take way too much time.
since void fluid literally destroys matter i imagine they'd generate energy with it sorta like a reverse combustion engine, lowering pressure rather than increasing it
@@xen5558 Indeed it is. In-game you can see the top layer of the void sea described as "filthy" where it's all yellow, while below that, where the worms are, is clean. This is because matter has been very, very slowly dissolving here for generations. Presumably the void worm activity just below that layer is the reason it cuts off so abruptly, and is probably the reason for deep pipes breaking when extended lower.
Something to keep in mind is that each overseer you see in the game supposedly belongs to a certain iterator, they're sorta like their little scouts, scouting about the area and then notifying their iterators of what they saw or any interesting things. If there's 2 overseers in the room you can see them touch their tendrils together supposedly transferring information. Iggy, the yellow ones supposedly belongs to Moon and wants you to help Moon, since they try to direct you directly to her and get neurons for her after you meet her to make her less miserable and have more BRAIN POWER. The blue ones which supposedly have no names are Pebbles, you see them all over the Wall at times, and it's said that Pebbles has stopped listening to their overseers for the most part. There is also an extremely rare overseer you can find in Subterranean that is supposedly thought to be NSH's. Pretty sure you can only see it in Hunter but I'm unsure. Just something to think about.
My theory on the Hunter's ending is that No Significant Harassment was able to implement a sort of link between his own conscious and that of Hunter's. This takes a very heavy toll on the Slugcat's body though, because no matter the modifications made, it's just not built to house such a thing- hence the illness. When the Hunter enters the Void Sea, NSH's is able to transcend with them, which is why we see them in the cutscene. The substance we see exit Hunter could be NSH's conscious, which takes form in the next slide. The reason neither Moon or Pebbles know this happened is because communications are so bad they must use "unconventional methods" to deliver information. This theory could also answer the question of why Hunter can die permanently, because it could potentially be a type of bio-mechanical organism, like the Iterators. Not too sure on that one, though- because Moon does say that despite having very little time, you will wake back up again.
ya thats a common theory but mine is that the hunter never asends and nsh killed him to go back so he can do more things for him i think this because in the cutsean he look dead in the last 2 and the others like alive when they asend + at the end u can see a light or the core and he does not seem to reach finaly if he asended i think moon or pebbles would say it somewhere idk tho
Perma death in the Hunter's run would be like reaching a state so severe of sickness that Hunter would wake up, just to cpnvulse the moment he wakes up, & either pass up because of the pain, or simply die. This mechanic is shortened by giving you a perma death, instead of having the player just die constantly reached certain point because of how weak you became, until you give up & delete the save file.
This is a better theory than mine which I made up with no evidence. My theory is that the hunter is may be partially composed of void fluid and so they have limited time before the void fluid erases their very being. Once time is up, the hunter begins to really feel the effects of the void hence the seizures as their brain and nerves is dissolved . It may also explain why the hunter needs to eat more, because the void fluid in his body consumes some of the food before he can digest it. As for the endings, we see the monk meet up with the survivor and all three cats meet up with the other slugs so that could mean two things in my mind. When a being ascends, before they die for good they can see and interact with their memories. This explains the survivor seeing an exact replica of their tree and the hunter seeing an iterator (who in this theory should be No Significant Harassment). Or they ascend to another life meeting those who also ascended. I find this less likely since I don’t think that many slug cats went to Pebbles or another iterator to get the mark and then made their way to the void sea. But if this is the case, that means the iterator at the end of the hunter run is Sliver of Straw. That was just my theory but then again I have no evidence.
mmm interesting but i still think nsh killed the hunter or he died because in the cutscene the other 2 look alive when they asend and it looks bright around them in the hunter cutscene it looks like he died and u can see a bright light above him so i think he never made it and nah took him back for some reason i think i can more proof befor but i forgot lmao any i could be wrong but its what i think
15:15 I’ve heard a neat theory on that ink coming out of the ascending Hunter and forming an Iterator. No Significant Harassment had another purpose for this Slugcat than just reviving Moon. He wanted to see what would happen if an Iterator entered the Void Sea. Somehow NSH put a piece of himself into the Hunter for that piece to reach the Void. Now Iterators are restricted from messing with their own genome, and I think since they are biomechanical, were probably also made to be extremely incompatible with other things. NSH *IS* the Hunter’s Turbo Cancer! Whatever had to be implanted into the Hunter to manage to hold a piece of an Iterator’s Essence, his body is probably rejecting that implant to the point his body is shutting down, limiting his cycles. How this manages to actually truly kill Hunter is unknown, i assume since it enacts a limit on his cycles, Iterators don’t age, and whatever damage Iterator brain piece does to Hunter persists as the cycles go on. The final cycle is probably the implant does so much irreversible damage that Hunter reaches a point where the implant kills him the moment the next cycle starts, only for him to reawaken the next cycle only to be immediately re-killed by the implant, leaving him in a fate far worse than any lizard can inflict.
Yeah I was thinking of something similar related to the "true death" thing, I think the game ends because you can't control your body anymore and therefore you can't play. But the virus being the Iterator is such creative theory and it makes sense aswell
Idk, i feel like that implant would send hunter back to before when he first got it, effectively removing the implant, it's not like you get sent back in between a lizard jaws when you die to them. And game play wise it would kinda be a da fug moments if you wake up in a weirdass lab.
I’m pretty sure there are at least two kinds of reawakenings, one where you just wake up as if yesterday’s horrific accident was just a dream, and another where you’re reborn as a baby in a new life, but you retain all your previous memories. This is how we get ancients with titles saying they’re mothers, and fathers of hundreds
There are hundreds of iterators, but the entire game map only covers the neighborhood near two of them. If there are six Echoes in this small area you might presume there could be hundreds more. Also I like to think that the rain nearby Pebbles is much worse than nearby other iterators, since he has to work extra hard to deal with his cancer problem. Dunno if there's any lore to support this or not.
@@pezvonpez I mean, it's tiny for us, but it's huge for the slugcat, specially since they see it in 3D while we are restricted to a cartoonified 2D look. And based on how the game background and playable area are built, it would take many more years to make a full region of their world. Oh, and I don't believe that each iterator is THAT close together, it may be just the altitude and our restricted POV making it look like they're extremely close to each other.
Yes! In at least one of the downpour campaigns, there’s apparently extra rain which is (supposedly) confirmed by five pebbles to be him attempting to wash out the rot, which has significantly accelerated by this campaign
Just a few corrections 1. There are definitely more echoes throughout the world 2. The torrential downpours seen in the game are local to Five Pebbles, who is overclocking to slow down the infection. The rains aren't 'as' crazy elsewhere in the world. 3. As for the anti-killswitch on the iterators, I have a feeling it was a requirement to make them work in the first place. Nothing living can die on this planet, probably the entire universe. The ancients weren't dicks anymore than any other creature trapped in the cycle. 4. The worms are pretty important, and though not specifically stated it's pretty clear from what we see in game that the immortality is a type of lure used by the worm void shit to get some food. I'm pretty sure they/it feed off of memories or something but spit out what they don't like, as seen with the echoes. The "worms" themselves were living creatures, as seen in the memory crypts, presumably ancients who became worms after some void baths. This story is ultimately Lovecraftian and the void is always hungry.
The intense rain from FP is actually due to the fact he was running multiple parallel processes for his experiment of procreating homemade organic matter over his own genome. Iterator processes require a large amount of water, but since he was running so much more than usual, he required even more, thus needed more water for the experiment. But this experiment failed after Moon forcefully interrupted in self defense, distracting Pebbles just as he was presumably close to completion, creating the rot. You can give Moon the pearls from FP's chamber to get somewhat of an idea regarding what he's up to now, and it's pretty clear he's not really doing anything huge at the moment, so it's safe to say he's not overclocking himself anymore after the failure of the experiment, he's just kind of meandering with mini simulations, trances and wasting away due to his rot.
From how I interpreted it, the cycles and deathlessness was that in their world reincarnation was not only a real thing, but guaranteed and definite, without forgetting your past life. As such even a mayflay would have memories stretching back millennia or even millions of years potentially, long enough for anyone to potentially become suicidal I’d think, or at least bored enough that they’d want to exit the cycle in any manner wether that be some manner of actual transcendence or ascendence, or simply a permanent ‘true’ death. This stands in contradiction to the respawn mechanic though so I’m either misinterpreting, or the respawn system is a gameplay abstraction and only partially diegetic.
I get that part of the charm of this game is it's solitary atmosphere; you are alone, apart from your prey and would be predators. The world has been abandoned to ruin by mysterious creators, inhabited only by vermin and cast off dregs and remnants of the old world. Exploring this world and taking solace in the few beautiful moments that you can, taking comfort in the presence of Looks To The Moon, or your lizard buddies is great. But damn if I didn't want to play this with a friend, to explore this lonely world with someone else. In the same way you can explore the world of Dark Souls with another person, I wanted to do that with Rain World.
My personal interpretation of the Hunter's ending is that the weird disease it had was a sort of probe inside of it placed there by NSH. Kind of like nanobots or something, placed there to observe the inside of the void pool or possibly to link their consciousness into the pool effectively ascending.
I've heard three interpretations: -The goop is tbeir sickness and they're seeing sliver of straw after ascending -The goop is his sickness and transcendence shows you your greatest wish (monk meeting survivor again, survivor being reunited with his family) therefore hunter's greatest wish was being reunited with NSH -The goop is a type of nanobot from NSH that would allow NSH to effectively transcend by ascending a part of itself
@@Daszombes i am a believer of the second theory because there is absolutely no way for the survivor seeing his family again after diving into the void, the void liquid is supposed to dissolve thou and grant you death, release from the cylcle that all life wish, to escape (according to fp) which is the saddest part of the game for me, survivor never gets to see his family neither does the monk (see his brother) i think we all agree on the point that the thing that leaves the hunters body is the illness that has been tormenting him which means his wish to be free of the illness came true thats what the void fluid does! And i think it was nsh at the end but they were there because of hunters dream and werent there at all
About the names of the ancients: Mesoamerican rulers in the Maya empire also used this naming structure. Like Kan Ek’ (four stars) or K’inich Hun Pik Tookn (Great sun , eight thousand boulders). I think it's really beautiful, and I guess the storywriters did, too. (source: Grube, Nikolai, “Los nombres de los gobernantes mayas”, Arqueología Mexicana, núm. 50, pp. 72-77.)
I always thought that the hunter's turbo cancer doesn't perma-kill it. Rather, it causes the hunter to become increasingly weak until it eventually reaches the point where it's either permanently incapacitated or just instantly dies at the start of every cycle.
The reason why hunter doesn't get revived when he succumbs from the sickness is because instead of dying, he becomes the sickness (which is why Hunter Long Legs exists). HLL's kill icon is also litreally just hunter's kill icon just to prove that hunter doesn't die.
This video is about the base Rain World story, and was made years before the semi-canon community-made Downpour DLC which both changed some things and added huge amounts more.
My ancient OC (do not steal) is called 18 naked cowboys in the showers. Informative vid with a dash of humor, take my sub fine sir. Also by sub I mean subscription, NOT submissive uwu
11:10 actually they were some of the last iterators, before them all the iterators were built with their own water sources. However as more or less the final iterators, the ancients loosened their safety perimeters which lead to 5P being able to kill her by drawing in more water then the ancients thought he would ever take
That doesn't explain why Moon is referred to as the local group senior, as well as the whole big sis bit. Maybe they had looser restrictions, but when building more, realised it might be a problem and spaced them out.
One thing I don't get about 5P. So his failed suicide experiment led to the creation of the Rot, which will eventually kill him, so couldn't his experiment be considered successful? He wanted to die after all, so isn't a terminal illness a positive for him? I guess the main thing is that Pebbles intended to circumvent the taboo, allowing for him to self-terminate quickly and without any prolonged suffering or pain. With the Rot growing in his systems (which has been happening for an indeterminate of cycles), he is implied to be suffering, since his structure is decaying, and well, he's not dying very fast, so I guess that's why he still considered the experiment a failure, even though yes, the Rot will kill him... one day.
It's also worth noting, death was only a *consideration* he pondered upon. He was considering multiple possibilities, with death being one of them. He wasn't certain about this being an answer. Unfortunately having taboos is problematic regardless of what he wanted to do, as they strictly regulate against preforming certain actions, which his experiment was directed at circumventing. But this failed sadly, and now he is slowly withering away.
it’s because silver presumably just found away to die and immediately ended her shit, so he hoped his solution (whatever organism he made) would kill him just as quickly. the rot will kill him over the course of potentially thousands of years while he feels the pain of slowly being torn apart. it’s a shitty way to go.
old comment, but Iterators are implied to be unable to truly die or "ascend". When iterators discuss death it's usually less a true death and more a gradual decay to the point of being completely unable to do anything. Sort of like the difference between humans dying and being in a vegetative state. As far as I'm aware, Sliver of Straw is the only known exception. The Rot is terrifying not because it could kill 5 Pebbles, but because it could potentially trap him in a nearly braindead state for all eternity with no way out.
Same. I just completed the game as survivor, without having the slightest idea what was going on. I was like "what?". Turns out I had eaten one of Moon's neurons, so she refused to talk to me. Its pure luck and coincidence I managed to complete the game.
My quest to find treasures and nick-knack have led me to your channel, specifically this video and I gotta say you are one passionate man my guy, you got me interested in this game and this game's lore in no time while I can't play it I am however still able to enjoy the facts and details you've presented throughout the video, looking forward for more from you whatever the content may be 👍👍
Everytime I read about Hunter’s story and fate - and how it’s sickness may get so bad that it dies immediately every cycle and wakes up over and over again - I get increasingly sadder. That’s a fate worse than death and NO living creature, especially an innocent slugcat, deserves that. They’re literally just cute, wild animals that wanna eat and sleep all day 😭
nah, after dying from his illness the hunter will be infected by the rot and his corpse will become a monster in the style of daddy longless, this is known since if you die at 19 cycles as the hunter and then play as glutton, the monster It will appear in the room where you lost as a hunter, plus five Pebbles also talks about it, it is called hunter longless and you can search for it
I love rain world. I like how the lore focuses a lot on ascension and nirvana, and it’s also a very meditative game to play with the amazing soundscapes and graphics.
Honestly, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos getting trapped in The preta for all of eternity seems pretty ok, they'd somehow just ruin The nirvana for everyone else anyway.
15:20 old vid I know but I feel like this could mean that since opposite to Survivor and Monk who are creatures that were born and can have families, Hunter was actually created for a very specific purpose. I think what the cutscene is trying to say is that Hunter is the one creature that has no actual way of dying. They will just wake up once again and fulfill their purpose over and over again
Hunter was got into the interstate and couldnt transcend using void water just like the other 6 ancients... then he became feedback for NSH studies. The giant creature in the void water are the ancients unified... after that, survivor and monk find their union... but the hunter go there not to find peace, but to escape his horrible fate... thats why he fails, and was all a experiment by NSH.
Damn having known the lore likewise and seeing you interpret them with memes and shit cracked me up xD Nice job on the video lol, and yes i would also like 5grams of whatever the lore writer took when he dud some writing
Btw, slugcats aren't actually slugs+cats it's just some random creature, most animals don't have real names like slugcat. I think his pictures are called bear thing
Five Pebbles and Moon are the main characters of the story, and Survivor and Monk are the couple-paragraph side characters that pop up sometimes, and Hunter is a chapter. The actual important side characters are Seven Red Suns and No Significant Harassment.
Bit late but I like the idea of The Vinki, because it means the first slugcat Five Pebbles had ever seen (atleast I think) was a troll. From Significant Harrasment.
15:33 i assume... ink = "soul" of whatever the poor thing was, and the iterator appearing is/may be a nod that it was actually an iterator really playing a risky move, let the cancer take them and see if that'll do it ((void cancer??? or mini-daddies)) or see if this new mobile body can bring them to the fabled sea and let them take their chances there
My theory on why NSH gave the Hunter Turbocancer™ is because he too sees death to be a reward for going through all these efforts. He probably found either a single affirmative or a double affirmative that allows the slugcat he created to eventually die, but he is still unable to actually self-terminate after the fact due to only finding a solution for an organism that he specifically created (so basically, the technical implementation of his permadeath isn't possible nor generally applicable).
6:30 They built big ass supercomputers (which talk to the PCs via tiny sock puppet robots) They're iterators because they iterate and reiterate on solutions to the problem
I love everything in this game it’s perfect to me. My first death was getting immediately eaten by a green lizard thing as I went through those little pipe things. I had no time to react just immediate death. I’m still very new to the game but I love it so much.
@@frogmouth2 All we know is that they’re making another game we don’t know anything about it lol It says on the videocult Twitter bio “creators of Rain World and…”
4:00 The void fluid was more likely primarily extracted from (and more likely discovered in) the rock through which the fluid permeated, not directly the sea itself.
@@GoldballIndustries Idk, aren't honeycombs made in such a way that they contain honey? Honey is only contained in like thousands of small bowls that is the honeycomb. Honeycomb also contains other stuff, such as larvae. Meanwhile the rocks aren't meant to contain stuff, they aren't shaped to contain anything, and yet the void fluid seeps into them an permeates through them, rather than being contained/enclosed within them.
This stuff is crazy...Can someone just explain to me the little white slugcat and why he never gets back to his family? I started the game thinking that was the end goal and you'd just have to go through an interesting world with procedural animations and creature AI to get back to them...Then I saw giant monsters, machines and ascension lol. This game is wild.
Ending of the game spoiler (I put that there because..eh idk, but it’s there at least) Am I the only one that see the ending as... well, impregnation ? Like the slugcat a clearly... you know... it’s even more obvious when playing the Survivor (because he’s white, you see what I mean) and then there are many of you swiming to a white huge circle and when you enter it the game end and you get the cutscenes I don’t really know what that mean except something like reincarnation, but... that wouldn’t make sense because the whole purpose of the void is to die permanently, or maybe they become the giant creature that you pass... idfk, this game is confusing Anyway great vid
@@tartipouss I'm late but someone in the comment section of the flora video had a theory that those were all the possible version of you. The theory stated that maybe the void worm was feeding its young with all of the *you*s that could exist. This would explain echoes and "ascending" as it would eat every *you* and you couldn't wake up anymore. This explains echoes because maybe some of their *them*s swam back, got messed up and melted by the void fluid, and woke up. Only half existing.
@@BrotherLongLegs8 I don't remember parallel universes being a part of the Rain world lore Well that's a new one for me, sounds neat but a bit weird (and yet we're talking Rain World lore)
i headcanon the ancients had tapir-like snoots and that during the long period of time where nothing happened, the iterators started calling them dick-faces on iterator discord
@@Daszombes I'm still confused, if there are no more ancients left why even stay alive as an iterator, just die lol, moon should've been happy that the real method to dying was just overheating or are there still ancients
@@terryfriesNot all iterators want to die, they all want to solve the big problem (though many don't have much hope that they will anymore) but even in the sliverist discord chat (where they believe SoS did solve the problem) most of them think Pebbles' theory that her dying was the solution is pretty out there. A lot of them think she solved it and then died mysteriously but that the solution is just unknown. As for the question of what are they even trying to solve now. One of the lore bits says that the ancients, once they started just voiding themselves again en masse (I guess they "got their karma up" thru their spiritual practice and felt able to void bath safely?) they tasked the iterators with continuing to work to solve the big problem for all the lesser creatures of the world, somehow. A noble-sounding, Buddhist-esque thing to do but it's implied many times that overall in their quest to ascend themselves they really fucked the whole planet and that's why it's like this now. It's more like they're paying lip service to their supposed noble values. They also get to ascend while having created a new intelligent race of biomechanical creatures that specifically can't ascend and have to suffer in their place so that's pretty wack. Anyway so Moon wasn't trying to die, 5P was probably trying to reprogram his genetics to allow himself to die quickly but instead got the rot which is very slow and painful. Technically Moon could maybe have killed 5P by using all the water and mayyybe 5P would have been into dying that way but Moon probably wouldn't do it, she's not as much of a radical thinker as 5P.
I just finished the game today, I never heard of it from anyone before, found it, tried it, and I genuinly have no idea what the fuck I just played but I loved it
a comment on some rain world game-play i saw mentioned how the iterators names are just literally discord usernames and its the most brilliant accurate statement of all rain world lore since you mention discord as well!
It's more of a forced communication, Moon said starting a forced communication will affect everybody connected to the server, speacially ones who are having the communication
Then comes along downpour and simultaneously makes everything make sense and makes nothing make sense at the same time by connecting a lot of the dots we have and giving us 20 more. Also not really anything new lore wise but monk can actually see flickers into the past of the shelters and places survivor has been so it can follow along survivors path(but idk if monks just build different or if it’s just for the player to understand better)
14:20 Now that I know Spearmaster’s story, I feel bad for Hunter. Clearly, Spearmaster’s Iterator was a much better creature designer. I am just picturing Seven Red Suns getting pissed at No Significant Harassment over Hunter’s Turbo Cancer.
sooooooooooooo if the Iterators are _trying_ to die... why was Moon so adamant about getting Pebbles to stop hogging the water? losing that much water wouldve killed her, right? isnt that what most of them were trying to do? same with Pebbles and the rot. sure thats a hell of a way to go out, rotting from the inside (or overheating/collapsing in on urself in the case of Moon)... _but its a way_
Well they're trying to get out of the dying-waking up cycle that affects everything, I think. If Moon dies because of neuron and water loss and Pebbles dies because of the rot, they would eventually wake up again, where they die and then wake up again, rinse and repeat.
Well not every one of the Iterators actually want to die. At least not yet of course, and the main reason is because some of them still believe there's a way to solve The Great Problem.
I love this game, it doesnt punish u for being creative, i played as a "wild animal", killed moon, didnt even know pebbles existed, i saw 4 worlds, then juked the guardians and completed the game for the first time
the ending part some people not gonna understand it but from a game called the void im gonna use the same logic that every world has its own rules how to ascend or descend and the verticality limit is infinite just like the void specific action must be made to either ascend or fail and descend the question if you ascend into a better place or worse and so in descension is probably randomized and dont matter what are the rules of this world we are in probably unclear but whatever happens its permanent and cant be changed but i know that try your best to live as long as possible dreams are basically the closest thing to real verticality limit a world that exist in your head till you wake up but its more of a simulation that modern science still have minimum understanding and how to control it or were just ghosts in the flesh and can happen to machines eventually since its just a combination of memory and experience that just disappears then its destroyed
Actually it's a tri-cone drill, which is a real drill bit, but it can be seen in video games too (all I've seen so far though is Subnautica and, as you said, Space Engineers
Amazing video!
Just gonna dump all the little issues there are in this video.
We don't really know how many echoes there are exactly.
I'm pretty sure there are far more than the ones we see in game.
A pretty significant fact is also that Ancients didn't use void fluid just for ascension, but they used it as an energy source too,( but sadly moon thinks the slug is dumb and refuses to explain it in details so all we know is that it has something to do with vacuum).
Pebbles didn't try to get the organisms ''consume" him, he wanted to make it go around himself and rewrite the taboo of self destruction that was written in every single cell in his body, so he can actually self destruct afterwards.
There are also a lot of little details on different topics and a lot of theories, but writing them is painful and would take way too much time.
thank you for correcting me this is badass
since void fluid literally destroys matter i imagine they'd generate energy with it sorta like a reverse combustion engine, lowering pressure rather than increasing it
@@Jomads it's actually pretty slow at dissolving matter, but yea I see how that might happen.
@@xen5558 Indeed it is. In-game you can see the top layer of the void sea described as "filthy" where it's all yellow, while below that, where the worms are, is clean. This is because matter has been very, very slowly dissolving here for generations. Presumably the void worm activity just below that layer is the reason it cuts off so abruptly, and is probably the reason for deep pipes breaking when extended lower.
Who are the overseers??? The tentacle dudes at the bottom of the abyss?
Something to keep in mind is that each overseer you see in the game supposedly belongs to a certain iterator, they're sorta like their little scouts, scouting about the area and then notifying their iterators of what they saw or any interesting things. If there's 2 overseers in the room you can see them touch their tendrils together supposedly transferring information. Iggy, the yellow ones supposedly belongs to Moon and wants you to help Moon, since they try to direct you directly to her and get neurons for her after you meet her to make her less miserable and have more BRAIN POWER. The blue ones which supposedly have no names are Pebbles, you see them all over the Wall at times, and it's said that Pebbles has stopped listening to their overseers for the most part. There is also an extremely rare overseer you can find in Subterranean that is supposedly thought to be NSH's. Pretty sure you can only see it in Hunter but I'm unsure. Just something to think about.
You can see the green overseer on monk as well, but I'm not sure about survivor.
@@theballsmaster9723 if it’s on monk, I’m sure it’s on survivor.
Was doing my survivor playthrough and saw a green overseer accidentally. They are not rare, like at all
the red one is srs i think
Red is SRS and green is NSH.
My theory on the Hunter's ending is that No Significant Harassment was able to implement a sort of link between his own conscious and that of Hunter's. This takes a very heavy toll on the Slugcat's body though, because no matter the modifications made, it's just not built to house such a thing- hence the illness. When the Hunter enters the Void Sea, NSH's is able to transcend with them, which is why we see them in the cutscene. The substance we see exit Hunter could be NSH's conscious, which takes form in the next slide. The reason neither Moon or Pebbles know this happened is because communications are so bad they must use "unconventional methods" to deliver information.
This theory could also answer the question of why Hunter can die permanently, because it could potentially be a type of bio-mechanical organism, like the Iterators. Not too sure on that one, though- because Moon does say that despite having very little time, you will wake back up again.
ya thats a common theory but mine is that the hunter never asends and nsh killed him to go back so he can do more things for him i think this because in the cutsean he look dead in the last 2 and the others like alive when they asend + at the end u can see a light or the core and he does not seem to reach finaly if he asended i think moon or pebbles would say it somewhere idk tho
Perma death in the Hunter's run would be like reaching a state so severe of sickness that Hunter would wake up, just to cpnvulse the moment he wakes up, & either pass up because of the pain, or simply die. This mechanic is shortened by giving you a perma death, instead of having the player just die constantly reached certain point because of how weak you became, until you give up & delete the save file.
@@thebookless3381 ya i agree
This is a better theory than mine which I made up with no evidence. My theory is that the hunter is may be partially composed of void fluid and so they have limited time before the void fluid erases their very being. Once time is up, the hunter begins to really feel the effects of the void hence the seizures as their brain and nerves is dissolved . It may also explain why the hunter needs to eat more, because the void fluid in his body consumes some of the food before he can digest it. As for the endings, we see the monk meet up with the survivor and all three cats meet up with the other slugs so that could mean two things in my mind. When a being ascends, before they die for good they can see and interact with their memories. This explains the survivor seeing an exact replica of their tree and the hunter seeing an iterator (who in this theory should be No Significant Harassment). Or they ascend to another life meeting those who also ascended. I find this less likely since I don’t think that many slug cats went to Pebbles or another iterator to get the mark and then made their way to the void sea. But if this is the case, that means the iterator at the end of the hunter run is Sliver of Straw.
That was just my theory but then again I have no evidence.
mmm interesting but i still think nsh killed the hunter or he died because in the cutscene the other 2 look alive when they asend and it looks bright around them in the hunter cutscene it looks like he died and u can see a bright light above him so i think he never made it and nah took him back for some reason i think i can more proof befor but i forgot lmao any i could be wrong but its what i think
15:15 I’ve heard a neat theory on that ink coming out of the ascending Hunter and forming an Iterator. No Significant Harassment had another purpose for this Slugcat than just reviving Moon. He wanted to see what would happen if an Iterator entered the Void Sea. Somehow NSH put a piece of himself into the Hunter for that piece to reach the Void. Now Iterators are restricted from messing with their own genome, and I think since they are biomechanical, were probably also made to be extremely incompatible with other things. NSH *IS* the Hunter’s Turbo Cancer! Whatever had to be implanted into the Hunter to manage to hold a piece of an Iterator’s Essence, his body is probably rejecting that implant to the point his body is shutting down, limiting his cycles.
How this manages to actually truly kill Hunter is unknown, i assume since it enacts a limit on his cycles, Iterators don’t age, and whatever damage Iterator brain piece does to Hunter persists as the cycles go on. The final cycle is probably the implant does so much irreversible damage that Hunter reaches a point where the implant kills him the moment the next cycle starts, only for him to reawaken the next cycle only to be immediately re-killed by the implant, leaving him in a fate far worse than any lizard can inflict.
Yeah I was thinking of something similar related to the "true death" thing, I think the game ends because you can't control your body anymore and therefore you can't play. But the virus being the Iterator is such creative theory and it makes sense aswell
Idk, i feel like that implant would send hunter back to before when he first got it, effectively removing the implant, it's not like you get sent back in between a lizard jaws when you die to them. And game play wise it would kinda be a da fug moments if you wake up in a weirdass lab.
I’m pretty sure there are at least two kinds of reawakenings, one where you just wake up as if yesterday’s horrific accident was just a dream, and another where you’re reborn as a baby in a new life, but you retain all your previous memories. This is how we get ancients with titles saying they’re mothers, and fathers of hundreds
womp womp
There are hundreds of iterators, but the entire game map only covers the neighborhood near two of them. If there are six Echoes in this small area you might presume there could be hundreds more.
Also I like to think that the rain nearby Pebbles is much worse than nearby other iterators, since he has to work extra hard to deal with his cancer problem. Dunno if there's any lore to support this or not.
@@pezvonpez I mean, it's tiny for us, but it's huge for the slugcat, specially since they see it in 3D while we are restricted to a cartoonified 2D look. And based on how the game background and playable area are built, it would take many more years to make a full region of their world.
Oh, and I don't believe that each iterator is THAT close together, it may be just the altitude and our restricted POV making it look like they're extremely close to each other.
@@danielm.595 the attitude is not too high the cloud layer is very low in the game,the nearest is probably 1.5 maps away
Yes! In at least one of the downpour campaigns, there’s apparently extra rain which is (supposedly) confirmed by five pebbles to be him attempting to wash out the rot, which has significantly accelerated by this campaign
Yes i swear to god my day cycles were SO SHORT at the wall
@@eldritchcupcakes3195Rivulet
Just a few corrections
1. There are definitely more echoes throughout the world
2. The torrential downpours seen in the game are local to Five Pebbles, who is overclocking to slow down the infection. The rains aren't 'as' crazy elsewhere in the world.
3. As for the anti-killswitch on the iterators, I have a feeling it was a requirement to make them work in the first place. Nothing living can die on this planet, probably the entire universe. The ancients weren't dicks anymore than any other creature trapped in the cycle.
4. The worms are pretty important, and though not specifically stated it's pretty clear from what we see in game that the immortality is a type of lure used by the worm void shit to get some food. I'm pretty sure they/it feed off of memories or something but spit out what they don't like, as seen with the echoes. The "worms" themselves were living creatures, as seen in the memory crypts, presumably ancients who became worms after some void baths. This story is ultimately Lovecraftian and the void is always hungry.
What do You mean by "as seen in memory crypts"?
@@wilczus222 I'm pretty sure there are weird fleshy worm creatures in the giant creates in Memory Crypts
@@burcus2545 Your comment doesn't really make any sense... Consider rephrasing it?
The intense rain from FP is actually due to the fact he was running multiple parallel processes for his experiment of procreating homemade organic matter over his own genome. Iterator processes require a large amount of water, but since he was running so much more than usual, he required even more, thus needed more water for the experiment. But this experiment failed after Moon forcefully interrupted in self defense, distracting Pebbles just as he was presumably close to completion, creating the rot.
You can give Moon the pearls from FP's chamber to get somewhat of an idea regarding what he's up to now, and it's pretty clear he's not really doing anything huge at the moment, so it's safe to say he's not overclocking himself anymore after the failure of the experiment, he's just kind of meandering with mini simulations, trances and wasting away due to his rot.
Oh ok, so just nuke the underworld on the planet, simple and easy
slug cat: "why tf does it rain so much?"
Daszombes: "so, y'know suicide?....."
From how I interpreted it, the cycles and deathlessness was that in their world reincarnation was not only a real thing, but guaranteed and definite, without forgetting your past life. As such even a mayflay would have memories stretching back millennia or even millions of years potentially, long enough for anyone to potentially become suicidal I’d think, or at least bored enough that they’d want to exit the cycle in any manner wether that be some manner of actual transcendence or ascendence, or simply a permanent ‘true’ death.
This stands in contradiction to the respawn mechanic though so I’m either misinterpreting, or the respawn system is a gameplay abstraction and only partially diegetic.
I get that part of the charm of this game is it's solitary atmosphere; you are alone, apart from your prey and would be predators. The world has been abandoned to ruin by mysterious creators, inhabited only by vermin and cast off dregs and remnants of the old world.
Exploring this world and taking solace in the few beautiful moments that you can, taking comfort in the presence of Looks To The Moon, or your lizard buddies is great.
But damn if I didn't want to play this with a friend, to explore this lonely world with someone else.
In the same way you can explore the world of Dark Souls with another person, I wanted to do that with Rain World.
thank god there's a mod for that
@@Daszombes There are mods? Great!
Now I need to get my friends to play this game...
Think I might just replay Dark Souls 3.
I want a slugcat, where your literally the family head of a bunch of slugcats, and you go around murdering everything with others to feed the young
boy do I have news for you
So... It's like 2b2t Minecraft server
My personal interpretation of the Hunter's ending is that the weird disease it had was a sort of probe inside of it placed there by NSH. Kind of like nanobots or something, placed there to observe the inside of the void pool or possibly to link their consciousness into the pool effectively ascending.
I've heard three interpretations:
-The goop is tbeir sickness and they're seeing sliver of straw after ascending
-The goop is his sickness and transcendence shows you your greatest wish (monk meeting survivor again, survivor being reunited with his family) therefore hunter's greatest wish was being reunited with NSH
-The goop is a type of nanobot from NSH that would allow NSH to effectively transcend by ascending a part of itself
@@Daszombes i am a believer of the second theory because there is absolutely no way for the survivor seeing his family again after diving into the void, the void liquid is supposed to dissolve thou and grant you death, release from the cylcle that all life wish, to escape (according to fp) which is the saddest part of the game for me, survivor never gets to see his family neither does the monk (see his brother) i think we all agree on the point that the thing that leaves the hunters body is the illness that has been tormenting him which means his wish to be free of the illness came true thats what the void fluid does! And i think it was nsh at the end but they were there because of hunters dream and werent there at all
@@echoff6476 i mean, we know that there is some kind of “ascended realm”, maybe they’re just seeing other ascended slugcats.
Spoiler
Apparently there''s a hunter long legs in Downpour. Yikes...
About the names of the ancients: Mesoamerican rulers in the Maya empire also used this naming structure. Like Kan Ek’ (four stars) or K’inich Hun Pik Tookn (Great sun , eight thousand boulders). I think it's really beautiful, and I guess the storywriters did, too.
(source: Grube, Nikolai, “Los nombres de los gobernantes mayas”, Arqueología Mexicana, núm. 50, pp. 72-77.)
Yknow, even the attire of the ancients has a lot of mesoamerican-incan vibes...
I always thought that the hunter's turbo cancer doesn't perma-kill it. Rather, it causes the hunter to become increasingly weak until it eventually reaches the point where it's either permanently incapacitated or just instantly dies at the start of every cycle.
"i found this weird robot that told me to kill myself. so i did."
-Me on my first playthrough
feel free to lambast me about anything I got wrong
"Do you want to die?
OF COURSE YOU DO
*WE ALL DO!"*
This is so funny
The reason why hunter doesn't get revived when he succumbs from the sickness is because instead of dying, he becomes the sickness (which is why Hunter Long Legs exists). HLL's kill icon is also litreally just hunter's kill icon just to prove that hunter doesn't die.
This video is about the base Rain World story, and was made years before the semi-canon community-made Downpour DLC which both changed some things and added huge amounts more.
Sure, its complicated, but wow that is absolutely incredible. That would genuinely make a super cool novel or something.
My ancient OC (do not steal) is called 18 naked cowboys in the showers. Informative vid with a dash of humor, take my sub fine sir. Also by sub I mean subscription, NOT submissive uwu
You should make that into a NFT while you're at it.
YEE HAW RAM RANCH REALLY ROCKS
The Ram Ranch- Cycle 341
Oh no
11:10 actually they were some of the last iterators, before them all the iterators were built with their own water sources. However as more or less the final iterators, the ancients loosened their safety perimeters which lead to 5P being able to kill her by drawing in more water then the ancients thought he would ever take
That doesn't explain why Moon is referred to as the local group senior, as well as the whole big sis bit. Maybe they had looser restrictions, but when building more, realised it might be a problem and spaced them out.
@@Tyxaar good point. I haven’t looked at the lore in half a year so I don’t really have a response
@@esoopthederp7672 plus it’s implied that the rain is a global phenomenon, so it’s safe to say that many iterators across the world.
@@Faust-d2o yes? Of course it was, the ancients had conquered their home planet utterly. What’s that got to do with 5P and BSM?
Wait a minute… 5P was able to KILL big sister moon?!!?!?!?
Then they’ve just solved the puzzle, they found a way to die.
One thing I don't get about 5P. So his failed suicide experiment led to the creation of the Rot, which will eventually kill him, so couldn't his experiment be considered successful? He wanted to die after all, so isn't a terminal illness a positive for him?
I guess the main thing is that Pebbles intended to circumvent the taboo, allowing for him to self-terminate quickly and without any prolonged suffering or pain. With the Rot growing in his systems (which has been happening for an indeterminate of cycles), he is implied to be suffering, since his structure is decaying, and well, he's not dying very fast, so I guess that's why he still considered the experiment a failure, even though yes, the Rot will kill him... one day.
It's also worth noting, death was only a *consideration* he pondered upon. He was considering multiple possibilities, with death being one of them. He wasn't certain about this being an answer. Unfortunately having taboos is problematic regardless of what he wanted to do, as they strictly regulate against preforming certain actions, which his experiment was directed at circumventing. But this failed sadly, and now he is slowly withering away.
it’s because silver presumably just found away to die and immediately ended her shit, so he hoped his solution (whatever organism he made) would kill him just as quickly. the rot will kill him over the course of potentially thousands of years while he feels the pain of slowly being torn apart. it’s a shitty way to go.
old comment, but Iterators are implied to be unable to truly die or "ascend". When iterators discuss death it's usually less a true death and more a gradual decay to the point of being completely unable to do anything. Sort of like the difference between humans dying and being in a vegetative state. As far as I'm aware, Sliver of Straw is the only known exception. The Rot is terrifying not because it could kill 5 Pebbles, but because it could potentially trap him in a nearly braindead state for all eternity with no way out.
Well... It wasn't the rot that killed him...
Think of it this way, would you rather die instantaneously from a brain aneurysm, or a slow painful death as cancer consumes your entire body?
God I love this game more than anything else I've ever played, I have over 100 hours in it and I still had no idea what was going on
Same. I just completed the game as survivor, without having the slightest idea what was going on. I was like "what?". Turns out I had eaten one of Moon's neurons, so she refused to talk to me. Its pure luck and coincidence I managed to complete the game.
My quest to find treasures and nick-knack have led me to your channel, specifically this video and I gotta say you are one passionate man my guy, you got me interested in this game and this game's lore in no time while I can't play it I am however still able to enjoy the facts and details you've presented throughout the video, looking forward for more from you whatever the content may be 👍👍
Everytime I read about Hunter’s story and fate - and how it’s sickness may get so bad that it dies immediately every cycle and wakes up over and over again - I get increasingly sadder. That’s a fate worse than death and NO living creature, especially an innocent slugcat, deserves that. They’re literally just cute, wild animals that wanna eat and sleep all day 😭
nah, after dying from his illness the hunter will be infected by the rot and his corpse will become a monster in the style of daddy longless, this is known since if you die at 19 cycles as the hunter and then play as glutton, the monster It will appear in the room where you lost as a hunter, plus five Pebbles also talks about it, it is called hunter longless and you can search for it
The way you described the lore was by far the funniest thing I have ever seen, this video should go down in history
thank you for making this video. rain world is my favorite game it makes me feel insane
I need more rw content like this, this is great.
agreed
I love rain world. I like how the lore focuses a lot on ascension and nirvana, and it’s also a very meditative game to play with the amazing soundscapes and graphics.
Honestly, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos getting trapped in The preta for all of eternity seems pretty ok, they'd somehow just ruin The nirvana for everyone else anyway.
they can both fuck off to mars or sth tbh
we are sending shitty rich people to the narakas 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What😊
This is actually amazing! Good job!
15:20 old vid I know but I feel like this could mean that since opposite to Survivor and Monk who are creatures that were born and can have families, Hunter was actually created for a very specific purpose.
I think what the cutscene is trying to say is that Hunter is the one creature that has no actual way of dying. They will just wake up once again and fulfill their purpose over and over again
If the void sludge turned the rich Ancients into space octopi, then would that mean the giant worms in the void are the Ancients who jumped in?
Or perhaps the worms ate them
Hunter was got into the interstate and couldnt transcend using void water just like the other 6 ancients... then he became feedback for NSH studies.
The giant creature in the void water are the ancients unified... after that, survivor and monk find their union... but the hunter go there not to find peace, but to escape his horrible fate... thats why he fails, and was all a experiment by NSH.
Damn having known the lore likewise and seeing you interpret them with memes and shit cracked me up xD
Nice job on the video lol, and yes i would also like 5grams of whatever the lore writer took when he dud some writing
Btw, slugcats aren't actually slugs+cats it's just some random creature, most animals don't have real names like slugcat. I think his pictures are called bear thing
Five Pebbles and Moon are the main characters of the story, and Survivor and Monk are the couple-paragraph side characters that pop up sometimes, and Hunter is a chapter. The actual important side characters are Seven Red Suns and No Significant Harassment.
Bit late but I like the idea of The Vinki, because it means the first slugcat Five Pebbles had ever seen (atleast I think) was a troll. From Significant Harrasment.
15:33 i assume... ink = "soul" of whatever the poor thing was, and the iterator appearing is/may be a nod that it was actually an iterator really playing a risky move, let the cancer take them and see if that'll do it ((void cancer??? or mini-daddies)) or see if this new mobile body can bring them to the fabled sea and let them take their chances there
Mini daddies was a good guess, it turns out.
Best Rain World lore video in my opinion. Your editing style and narration are absolutely amazing dude, keep it up!
My theory on why NSH gave the Hunter Turbocancer™ is because he too sees death to be a reward for going through all these efforts. He probably found either a single affirmative or a double affirmative that allows the slugcat he created to eventually die, but he is still unable to actually self-terminate after the fact due to only finding a solution for an organism that he specifically created (so basically, the technical implementation of his permadeath isn't possible nor generally applicable).
This video is a really good, great structure and lore analysis plus great editing and comedy. Underrated channel.
This slaps, well done!
I’m one minute in and I’m hooked. Can’t wait for the other 17 or so minites
Edit:(Lmao minites)
6:30 They built big ass supercomputers (which talk to the PCs via tiny sock puppet robots)
They're iterators because they iterate and reiterate on solutions to the problem
Really enjoyed the video loved your dry humor along with the actual lore being told
I love everything in this game it’s perfect to me. My first death was getting immediately eaten by a green lizard thing as I went through those little pipe things. I had no time to react just immediate death. I’m still very new to the game but I love it so much.
I wonder if video cult will make another game... well whatever they make, it will be an experience for sure
Those signal videos on their RUclips aren’t just for nothing…
@@_.Dylan._ I don’t know what to get out of vapourwave combined with the female symbol with horns…
@@frogmouth2 All we know is that they’re making another game we don’t know anything about it lol
It says on the videocult Twitter bio “creators of Rain World and…”
The lore is so good, I literally want a book out of this, any news from the creator of the names whether he is working on a sequel or a book?
Theres an expansion to the game coming out soon
1 minute in, insta sub, you deserve WAY more attention!! Very comedic and informative :)
"I dont think the fuckin lizrads built this shit" cracks me up everytime xD
Sounds like a mossbag knockoff for Rain World.
I love it!
Highest praise I've recieved yet
lmao I really like the concept of a wild fucking animal that just so happens to randomly ascend out of pure chance
4:00 The void fluid was more likely primarily extracted from (and more likely discovered in) the rock through which the fluid permeated, not directly the sea itself.
so like honeycomb instead of an ocean of rocks
@@GoldballIndustries I always interpreted it more as just how fabric soaks up water, rocks soak up void fluid.
@@Nen_niN I MEANT AN OCEAN OF HONEY NOT ROCKS LMAo
@@Nen_niN theres this ocean of void fluid, and theres some void fluid in some rocks, so its like honeycomb and this massive ocean of honey below
@@GoldballIndustries Idk, aren't honeycombs made in such a way that they contain honey? Honey is only contained in like thousands of small bowls that is the honeycomb. Honeycomb also contains other stuff, such as larvae. Meanwhile the rocks aren't meant to contain stuff, they aren't shaped to contain anything, and yet the void fluid seeps into them an permeates through them, rather than being contained/enclosed within them.
very cool but i think you're wrogn. im not gonna elaborate though
understandable
Yes very cool...
I think you're wrong too, but I won't elaborate too...
ухх на этот раз придется
Oh my god IM SO HAPPY MY FAVORITE GAME IS SURGING IN POPULARITY AGAIN :DDDD
Is that what's going on? I guess I'm helping then.
@@Daszombes hell yeah you are! I also subbed btw, your videos on Rain World are awesome :D
This stuff is crazy...Can someone just explain to me the little white slugcat and why he never gets back to his family? I started the game thinking that was the end goal and you'd just have to go through an interesting world with procedural animations and creature AI to get back to them...Then I saw giant monsters, machines and ascension lol. This game is wild.
Ending of the game spoiler
(I put that there because..eh idk, but it’s there at least)
Am I the only one that see the ending as... well, impregnation ?
Like the slugcat a clearly... you know... it’s even more obvious when playing the Survivor (because he’s white, you see what I mean) and then there are many of you swiming to a white huge circle and when you enter it the game end and you get the cutscenes
I don’t really know what that mean except something like reincarnation, but... that wouldn’t make sense because the whole purpose of the void is to die permanently, or maybe they become the giant creature that you pass... idfk, this game is confusing
Anyway great vid
I noticed that, I'm sure a lot of other people did but I genuinely have no fucking clue what it means and I don't want to try and find out
@@Daszombes we are not _high_ enough to understand it
@@tartipouss I'm late but someone in the comment section of the flora video had a theory that those were all the possible version of you. The theory stated that maybe the void worm was feeding its young with all of the *you*s that could exist. This would explain echoes and "ascending" as it would eat every *you* and you couldn't wake up anymore. This explains echoes because maybe some of their *them*s swam back, got messed up and melted by the void fluid, and woke up. Only half existing.
@@BrotherLongLegs8 I don't remember parallel universes being a part of the Rain world lore
Well that's a new one for me, sounds neat but a bit weird (and yet we're talking Rain World lore)
I May not haved completed rain world, but the amount of dead was driving me crazy and wanna know the lore already
This was so good I thought I was watching someone with 50k subs or smtn you're so underrated
i headcanon the ancients had tapir-like snoots and that during the long period of time where nothing happened, the iterators started calling them dick-faces on iterator discord
xD
Me, returning to this video and seeing it having 5k views:
“Well, it’s about time”
I know dude what the hell this is my fourth month on this site
Please keep making content you definitely earned a Subscriber
(At the void fluid pools)
Random ancient: I'm gonna jump!
Other ancient: Do a flip!
If you check out the no significant harassment page on the rain world wiki you can find the main theories on the hunter ending
If the iterators want to die why is it a problem if 5 pebbles kills moon?
not every iterator wants to die, some still even believe that the great problem is still solvable
@@Daszombes I'm still confused, if there are no more ancients left why even stay alive as an iterator, just die lol, moon should've been happy that the real method to dying was just overheating
or are there still ancients
@@terryfriesNot all iterators want to die, they all want to solve the big problem (though many don't have much hope that they will anymore) but even in the sliverist discord chat (where they believe SoS did solve the problem) most of them think Pebbles' theory that her dying was the solution is pretty out there. A lot of them think she solved it and then died mysteriously but that the solution is just unknown.
As for the question of what are they even trying to solve now. One of the lore bits says that the ancients, once they started just voiding themselves again en masse (I guess they "got their karma up" thru their spiritual practice and felt able to void bath safely?) they tasked the iterators with continuing to work to solve the big problem for all the lesser creatures of the world, somehow. A noble-sounding, Buddhist-esque thing to do but it's implied many times that overall in their quest to ascend themselves they really fucked the whole planet and that's why it's like this now. It's more like they're paying lip service to their supposed noble values. They also get to ascend while having created a new intelligent race of biomechanical creatures that specifically can't ascend and have to suffer in their place so that's pretty wack.
Anyway so Moon wasn't trying to die, 5P was probably trying to reprogram his genetics to allow himself to die quickly but instead got the rot which is very slow and painful. Technically Moon could maybe have killed 5P by using all the water and mayyybe 5P would have been into dying that way but Moon probably wouldn't do it, she's not as much of a radical thinker as 5P.
I just finished the game today, I never heard of it from anyone before, found it, tried it, and I genuinly have no idea what the fuck I just played but I loved it
I enjoyed every piece of this. It made me laugh x3
I thought no significant harrasment was a meme name
It actually Canon
Literally discord user names
a comment on some rain world game-play i saw mentioned how the iterators names are just literally discord usernames and its the most brilliant accurate statement of all rain world lore since you mention discord as well!
Ahh the Squidward's Suicide Civilization very Hilarious!
the concept of transcendence sounds like an oddly corrupted version of buddhist 'enlightenment'
Love the iterators names ngl
Fantastic work
Very well made video and pretty funny too!
Wait, so a overclocked supercomputer capable of running nearly endless processes at once gets distracted by a DM?
It's more of a forced communication, Moon said starting a forced communication will affect everybody connected to the server, speacially ones who are having the communication
Dude this video was awesome!
4:58 I've heard that at some point, void fluid "got cheaper" which would mean it has a price
Then comes along downpour and simultaneously makes everything make sense and makes nothing make sense at the same time by connecting a lot of the dots we have and giving us 20 more. Also not really anything new lore wise but monk can actually see flickers into the past of the shelters and places survivor has been so it can follow along survivors path(but idk if monks just build different or if it’s just for the player to understand better)
1:23 that lizard just friggin suplexed itself! talk about an achievment and a half
can't wait for an updated version of this when the absolute insanity that is the five new slugcats is done
14:20 Now that I know Spearmaster’s story, I feel bad for Hunter. Clearly, Spearmaster’s Iterator was a much better creature designer. I am just picturing Seven Red Suns getting pissed at No Significant Harassment over Hunter’s Turbo Cancer.
OMG SOMEONE KNOWS ABOUT GONE WITH THE BLASTWAVE YES
"OC dont steal". Anyway nice video! I like the presentation
I just beat rain world and am ready to watch this
epik!!! i have like 200 hours in rainworld but mostly in sandbox and the rest is me running around in 3 diff regions
cant wait for the lore video from downpour :D
Month old content? Woohoo I just started torturing myself with this game
well, we know now that Gourmand's storY answers how Hunter is able to "die" after 19 cYcles....
Seeing hunter-long-legs for the first time f'd me up
Sweats in 200+ hours
3:05 Damn, It seems everything in Rain World is just living Kenny’s life from South Park
sooooooooooooo if the Iterators are _trying_ to die... why was Moon so adamant about getting Pebbles to stop hogging the water? losing that much water wouldve killed her, right? isnt that what most of them were trying to do?
same with Pebbles and the rot. sure thats a hell of a way to go out, rotting from the inside (or overheating/collapsing in on urself in the case of Moon)... _but its a way_
Well they're trying to get out of the dying-waking up cycle that affects everything, I think. If Moon dies because of neuron and water loss and Pebbles dies because of the rot, they would eventually wake up again, where they die and then wake up again, rinse and repeat.
Well not every one of the Iterators actually want to die. At least not yet of course, and the main reason is because some of them still believe there's a way to solve The Great Problem.
imagine if the night cat had lore
I love this game, it doesnt punish u for being creative, i played as a "wild animal", killed moon, didnt even know pebbles existed, i saw 4 worlds, then juked the guardians and completed the game for the first time
Why you kill moon tho?
Great video, very funny! Haven't seen any videos about Rain World quite like this
7:21 wait what is survivor eating lizard??
it was a mod I had installed while recording footage
Crunchy time
why the HELL do you not have more subscribers this video is so good
best content this side of the shorts tab
the ending part some people not gonna understand it
but from a game called the void im gonna use the same logic that every world has its own rules how to ascend or descend and the verticality limit is infinite
just like the void specific action must be made to either ascend or fail and descend
the question if you ascend into a better place or worse and so in descension is probably randomized and dont matter
what are the rules of this world we are in probably unclear but whatever happens its permanent and cant be changed but i know that try your best to live as long as possible
dreams are basically the closest thing to real verticality limit a world that exist in your head till you wake up
but its more of a simulation that modern science still have minimum understanding and how to control it
or were just ghosts in the flesh and can happen to machines eventually since its just a combination of memory and experience that just disappears then its destroyed
thank god for supercalculator discord
thank you for this video
4:53 that is a small grid drill from Space Engineers. I see you, author, and I respect you; drills are hard to draw.
Actually it's a tri-cone drill, which is a real drill bit, but it can be seen in video games too (all I've seen so far though is Subnautica and, as you said, Space Engineers