#outer wilds echoes of the eye

[evalka]

🪐Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye

Followup to my previous post - a heavily colour graded & edited Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye screenshot with minimal spoilers.

[davinciwannabesblog]

I wanted an outer wilds poster on my wall, so i made one

Edit: high quality download is available on my kofi

Posters are available on my fourthwall shop

[ms-marz]

It's so satisfying seeing scientifically accurate creature designs in videogames and films.

Outer Wilds makes a fantastic job with its own world and Owlks are top tier design from a biological perspective. I just needed to prove it

(None of this has been approved as canon unless I specifically say so)

[mtsr0uter]

[maplecaster]

and so it spreads

[valevod]

Echoes of the Eye spoilers!!!!

I played the DLC!!!!! I dont think ill ever be the same person again!!!! I have consumed every little particle of the game, of the fan content, of the theory and analysis videos. And i am not ready yet to depart from the game ,if i ever will 😣

Have a bunch of doodleis!! I will make more ...for sure...

First of all THE PRISONER MY BELOVED!!!!!

I LOVE YOU UUUUUuuuuUuUUu!!!!!!!!!@@@!?**#,,**÷*(([,;;;;;

Then, there was this time this fella wouldnt chase me, the Ai of theirs is so wonky, i love the owlks.....and shining lights in their face. Not so much when they do it to me.

And tgen... a Gabbro and Outer Wilds: EotE if it was a 10/10

I played the game on a broken tv, so i played on hard mode.

[cobaltbluesu]

experimental Tarot card of the eye of the universe

[sketchytoasty]

(outer wilds spoilers) samurai jack/genndy style

[blazingjackdaw]

"…How beautiful. It’s different than I’d envisioned. Whatever happens next, I do not think it is to be feared." ✨

You ever have a game destroy you emotionally? Yeah, me neither ಥ‿ಥ

[ibumuc]

Play Outer Wilds

[carolkinopf]

sillies

3:o

[foone]

one thing I like about Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye is how it relates to (some) player's perception of the main game's ending. (spoilers)

So the ending of the main game is about the end of all things. You can't stop the end coming, but you can help make what comes next. It's about accepting that the end is inevitable, and that fighting against that end is pointless. The player goes through the whole game hoping they'll find a way to save Timber Hearth, to save themselves and all their friends, and slowly realizes that it's not possible. The end cannot be stopped: I'm sorry, but the universe is winding down. All that's left is to let the next world grow from the ashes of this one.

Naturally, not everyone was happy with that concept. They wanted some way to save the world, to have a "good ending", to not have to deal with the sadness of the ending. They were upset with the game.

And then Echoes of the Eye comes along, and maybe some of those gamers thought this was like the DLCs for Mass Effect 3 and Fallout 3: Maybe this'll retcon the ending, and let us finally win, and let the Hearthians live?

And then... nope. The DLC is about a race who came to the solar system and the eye told them "THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT TO DIE: LET'S CLOSE IT DOWN AND BUILD A NEW ONE!". And they were terrified and pissed. They shut off the message the eye was sending, they tried their best to forget that that was ever the situation they were in. They retreated into a fantasy world, ignoring the world burning around them. They nearly destroyed the multiverse by preventing the next big bang, because they didn't want their story to end.

It's only because of The Prisoner and The Hatchling's combined efforts that the Nomai came searching for The Eye, and The Hatchling was able to enter The Eye, and restart the universe.

The inhabitants of The Stranger had buried their heads in the sand up until the end of the universe, trying to ignore the reality of the coming end. The game makes it clear how foolish they were, and how close they came to destroying everything in their futile attempt to save themselves.

The DLC feels like it's in dialogue with those players who hated the main game's ending, and how there was no way to stop it. The DLC shows them a bunch of monsters in the dark, terrified of the first new thing to happen in 300,000 years, about to die as their spaceship falls apart under the strain as it attempts to avoid the supernova. They could have been the ones to usher in the new world, in their image. Instead they hid, and pretended nothing was happening. One of them tried to right this wrong by letting their story come to its natural conclusion, and they trapped that individual in a casket at the bottom of a lake, immortal but trapped in solitary confinement. They were just that scared of the story ending.

You meet The Prisoner and tell them of all that happened since their confinement. You tell them that their actions are the only reason you're there, why the Nomai came and tried to find The Eye, why you will be able to find The Eye. You bring that memory of The Prisoner into The Eye, and even as a memory they must apologize for their whole race, no matter how this turned out in the end. You reassure them that they did the right thing, and you step together into a new dawn.

The story of the DLC just feels like they had those who didn't like the main game's ending in mind when it was written.

[davinciwannabesblog]

Outer wilds thumbnails :P

[ms-marz]

Not me working on an info sheet overanalyzing the morphological design of a videogame alien species 👽🦌🦉

[mtsr0uter]

Tried out a new art program today, thought it would be a good reason to draw something from my fav game😝

Haven't been in a mood for fanart for quite a long time

[pixlime]