#ISAT act 5

[strawberryjcm]

do it yourself!

[brain-in-the-stars]

it feels so empty

I wonder why

[fee-phy-fo-fum]

Take a bow, when everything's done.

the fun thing about handwriting words instead of using font is that you can do the emotion thing easier. the unfun thing is inconsistent size and also not straight and also writing neatly is so troublesome.

[the-lion-guard-88]

SMG4 x ISAT: (I WON’T LET YOU GO HOME.)

IN STARS AND TIME ACT 5 SPOILERS BELOW

Time Taken: 54 minutes

So I completed the game in 6 days with 100 Loops and a total playtime of 24 hours and 1 minute

[cloud9v]

in stars and time but in that part of act 5 euphrasie gets yeeted out the window

[mochalaxy]

yknow sometimes you just gotta get a bit crazy...

monochrome version below~

[hashtagarting]

Oh, stardust . . .

[starrycat123-blog]

hey uh. In ISAT act five has anyone else encountered like... maybe it's a glitch but like personally I had memory of sadnesses equipped before act five started and then when act five started and the memory changed it still gave me the memory of sadnesses effect anyway? and like I loaded an act 4 save to see if I could do it again and I could but also I've never heard anyone talk about this so maybe it's just me? It just nags at me a bit bc sometimes I'll be reading those character analysis posts and ppl will be like yeah it's so hard for Siffrin in act five where they have to fight all these sadnesses all alone... But!! for me!! I didn't do that at all!! My Siffrin waltzed through and literally didn't fight any of them except technically the bosses. Like I think I maybe fought one sadness in all of act five. I had a bit of trouble navigating the house at one point but I wasn't fighting a bunch of sadnesses. I'm guessing this wasn't the experience for anyone else though?

Hold on I'll make a poll

[tiredhams]

A broken wish

Act 5, alias the best worst act ever

Bonnie and Isabeau are holding onto poor Siffrin, poor fella

[ack-cough]

Look me in my sheepy little eyes and tell me that the Isat team wouldn't try to domesticate Mal du pays with the power of friendship

Siffrin is NOT rockin with it.

They get it all cleaned up with a fresh change of clothes-

It just kinda follows sif around from a distance, probably it's a wondering sadness that the others dont have the heart to put down do to it's striking resemblance to their friend

or it's an embodiment of siffrin's loop trauma who knows

[brain-in-the-stars]

see, Siffrin. in the end, she has always thought of you as a friend ;;

[kazehita]

at this point i dont know how likely it is for me to finish this, so the world can have it in its storyboard-and-roughs-form

[asterkatt]

ISAT ACT 5 SPOILERS!!

okay I said I was going to give more thoughts on act 5 of ISAT and then uh. I didn't. oopsies. but we're here now!!

I loved Odile's friendquest in this act SO much. one of my favorite things about the way the game handled Siffrin's actions throughout the entirety of act 5 in general is that everyone's reactions to him were so DIFFERENT. but not only were they different, they had reasons for being different. it wasn't just "Siffrin says something messed up, hurts someone's feelings, pushes it down, rinse and repeat". each "breakdown" was specifically tailored to be character specific. to fit in with how they've behaved in the story thus far, as well as how Siffrin feels about them/tends to respond to them in particular. with Mirabelle, it really was entirely accidental. Siffrin didn't even realize how their wording might come across in the moment. It wasn't him lashing out in any way - just him genuinely trying to cut corners. Odile?? Odile's was very different. it's easy to see that there's a lot of tension between Siffrin and Odile - more tension than there is with anyone else. Odile has been a thorn in Sif's side - constantly observing and watching and theorizing about why they're behaving strangely. I did the sus quest. Sif knows that she has the ability to figure it out. Consequently, they have to be way more aware of her than anyone else. (side note that's not entirely relevant to this but I want to bring it up - the fact Siffrin believes that her constant eye on him is because "she doesn't trust you" makes me sick. because that's not it at all. they might pretend it is. hell, she might act like it is. but it's not and she knows that. she knows it's because she's worried because she cares and Siffrin can't understand that.) so I feel like they took the "mistake" of messing up with Odile harder than they took any of the other interactions. because how could they be so stupid. how could they forget. how could he forget that she always figures it out.

so of course he lashes out. not only are they being faced with the same blinding mistake they've made over and over and over again, it's also a reminder that she doesn't trust him. (and why should she?).

and then she goes and makes it all worse by calling him a "friend". because they know that's not how she sees them. he believes that she doesn't trust him. so it must seem like she's directly lying to his face - and she thinks they're too dense to see through it.

I love that Odile doesn't back down. she doesn't shy away when they start yelling at her. she doesn't let it slide just because she made them upset (Isa and Mira both probably would - though Isa would try and get them to talk about it later). she pushes, because that's the only way she's going to get any answers.

the way you can feel her anger when Siffrin hits her where it hurts the most (without even seeing her face) is just AUHGSKJDHFKJSH. the writing of this game. the details. never cease to amaze me. I love the way she snaps back. she doesn't get angry, she doesn't yell - and yet somehow it hurts just as badly.

I also love the way Siffrin reflects on it - the way they acknowledge that "she was only worried about you!!!" because deep down he knows that their friends do actually care about him. the way Odile handles the situation afterwards as well - at the clocktower?????? I love that you can tell she's trying so hard to make the "right" choice to not endanger them when it's not what she wants. she doesn't want to leave Siffrin behind. If they weren't going to take on the King the next day, I guarantee you she'd be using anything in her power to figure out what was going on with him. I don't have the exact quote rn but at the end of the sus questline she mentions that she can't let something go when she finds it odd - and this is BEYOND odd. but she has to put the safety of the whole group and their mission first, and I love seeing that side of her.

[lumikuutti]

I decided to digitize that one doodle

.... and then I turned evil and made the below edit :^)

[deadlyeyez]

deep down,

you know that we are the same…

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yeah so for anyone curious on how badly act 5 goes. here’s your answer: REALLY FUCKING BAD. river Loses His Shit.

[tac-bat]

(there's someone in the fog)

how the fuck did i get inspo from a drawful doodle I did in jackbox bro KDHDKHUYUHDD