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ok listen i finished outer wilds yesterday (and just replayed the ending for good measure)
**SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING (OBVIOUSLY)** please note i do NOT have the completed ship log and i dont know what im missing so be cautious around spoilers?? i guess?? idk if i get spoiled its kinda my bad for posting about outer wilds
anyway!! my girlfriend was like "wow you didnt have an emotional reaction like at all" and 1. no i was tearing up and am still tearing up rn but 2. because i don't think it was that sad? yes, everyone dying and the sun exploding and shit just getting fucking real was tragic but it was also a new beginning
all of those stars we saw were new beginnings, hell even hearthians themselves were once new beginnings i don't see this game as a tragedy i see it as a cycle of ends and beginnings like the cycle of repeatedly being blown up by the sun, except it wasn't permanent, so new life couldn't build from the pain we endured (i have roughly 158 loops worth of gameplay. christ.) in order to have a beginning you have to have an end i remember thinking my goal was to prevent the sun from exploding, but ultimately that wasn't possible our only option was to accept our fate and prepare for what comes next things have to die for more things to live and it just so happened it was our turn to die (hey yttd reference)
anyway the point i'm making is i think this game was incredible, stunning, beautiful, and an important depiction of the real permanence of our existence one day will be our end, but that will create a new beginning, we just won't be there to see it
#sorry i love this game like so much#my girlfriend bought it for me and i was like ooh cool space game and then bam the cycle of creation and destruction#and i was like holy shit#the cycle of creation and destruction#i think its devestating that hearthians died and i think its devestating that humans will die but there will be an after#i think we need to start seeing “i will die but the universe will still exist after me” as a positive thing#your end will be another's beginning#jesus fucking christ#sorry i did not mean to get that deep#outer wilds#outer wilds spoilers#outer wilds game#also should i get the DLC?????#i shit myself over anglerfish a lot and my girlfriend said its worse#can we get a “my girlfriend” counter on this post good lord
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