The Existential Fear of SOMA
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
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During our last venture down the existential rabbit hole, we focused on the game The Stanley Parable. A game that had a heavy emphasis on meta, and primarily used as a way to convey some incredibly deep and interesting themes. SOMA, while perhaps not being as funny or self-referential, arguably features a narrative that's just as interesting, just as profound, and to many, perhaps even enlightening. 
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I am pretty sure that a human is just a miserable little pile of secrets.
*smashes perfectly good wineglass
FWIW there are choices with Carl Semken and Amy Azarro.
With Karl, if you go into the room just down the hall from his human body there's a lever in there, pulling that will shut off the power for the facility and turn the Karl robot off instead of leaving it screaming in pain.
With Amy, you can leave her alive if you only pull and transfer one of the power cords keeping her alive.
It really does take the existential part of _existential crisis_ too literally
The game draws parallels between Brandon Wan waking up and being reset, and the versions of us in dreams being reset after we wake up. The very start of the game has Simon in another recurring nightmare about Ashley, and not long after the Brandon Wan section of the game, is Simon put back in a dream state. This was intentional. The implication is that dreams we didn't remember are real versions of us that are abruptly aborted.
This might sound cheesy, but that line near the beginning about (paraphrasing a bit) "Death might clear the anguish of life, but life goes on-and you'd be missing out. Those stresses could have been ironed out in time" hit really hard. And I just felt like you should know how effective it is in a video about a topic like this
Nice, looked for something to watch, refreshed youtube and now i have something to watch. Looking forward to it!
Banger after banger, keep up the good work dude! Loving the content
And a comment for the almighty algorithm, because your channel rules.
This looks great, Munt Lad. I love your content.
as for brandon, erasing his data only "kills" the version of him yet to be woken up. At this point, we already killed multiple versions of him. We don't just send him to sleep and wake him up again for another round of interrogation, we snuff out the version we just talked to and go back to an earlier version.
Nier Automata also makes a huge point of the importance of just a few minutes of memories... or continuity... when the death of one of the characters means being reverted to their last update
i love your videos sm, your voice is soothing, the topics you speak about are interesting, just *chefs finger kiss* beautiful work 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 appreciate the work you do 🥰
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who looked at it like 1.0-4.0 I'm happy someone else shared the same thought process as me on this
Resident Evil retrospective part 2 soon?
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyes.
Commenting to comment for the sake of commenting.
Once again, a great video!
chunkiest video yet. thanks muntman
Another beautiful upload from the Munt Lad.
Excellent video, and this game does have one of my favorite stories in sci-fi ever, up there with homeworld and xenogears
xenogears is a scifi masterpiece.
@@coreyrachar9694 literally the only game I want a remaster of.
Peak youtuber has returned
This was a great and interesting video ❤
That's actually a good philosophical question
masterpiece
I would say mind defines the body
After watching your vids, I realized you always end each line in a falling intonation and going into vocal fry and dragging the last sound slightly. And now I can't unhear it,help
In my book, Simon is not a bad person, just an idiot who rejects reality in favor of the delusion that he's gonna copied and pasted onto the ark. Which makes him more human on one side, but also annoying on the other side. There is no Coin flip, as Catherine says. Just another Clone.
i love soma :D
Loving the MGS retrospectives! I just have a single request: DO NOT SKIP Metal Gear Rising: Revengance. While considered a spinoff to the main series and has less stealth gameplay in favour of being more action focused, something akin to dmc or Bayonetta, I think the story still does a great job at having an in depth narrative/ commentary that you come to expect from a traditional MG game, one that scarily mirrors the current world every passing day
100th like on a Soma vid 🤌🤌
Hello
Will we be getting the continuation of DAMN. Breakdown? 🫶