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[Outer Wilds] Here Comes the Sun
Outer Wilds is an open world exploration action-adventure indie video game. In the game, the player-character finds themselves on a planet with only 20 minutes before the local sun goes supernova and kills them; the player continually repeats this 20-minute cycle but learning details that can help alter the outcome on later playthroughs. The game won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Design at the 2015 Independent Games Festival Awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYtnjmpPg4&t=510s
I just beat this game last night and it is a beautiful little masterpiece of a game. I would describe it as Majora's Mask by way of Myst, The Witness, Super Mario Galaxy, and No Man's Sky. I haven't felt this sense of discovery or adventure from a game since Breath of the Wild.
It's available on Xbox One via the Xbox Game Pass (Note: you can get a month of Xbox Game Pass for $1, it's great value at the moment and I enjoy a lot of the games on it this month!)
It's also available on PC via the Epic Game Store as a timed exclusive (it's coming to the Steam store eventually). There has been some major controversy about this due to the fact that the game advertised itself on Kickstarter as a Steam game and later made an exclusivity deal with Epic, though they do eventually plan to be on Steam as well.
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Since I was stranded on this ball of ice careening out into space, having failed my self-assigned mission and with no way to leave, I gave up searching and just sat on the sun-ward side of the comet watching the solar system sail away.
In the game you have a signal finder, which you use to find other explorers of your race out in the solar system by pin-pointing the signals they project, each signal being the sound of the explorer playing their own unique folksy instrument (banjo, drums, harmonica, etc).
So there I was, farther from my home than I had ever been, than anyone of my entire species had ever been, trapped on a rock with no way to return, and knowing that in just a few minutes I and everything I'd ever known would be destroyed in an event I still didn't have the slightest clue how to prevent. On a whim, I pulled out my signal finder, and pointed it out into the collection of planets as they receded into the distance. I was so far away now that from this vantage point the signals of all my compatriots, that had once appeared to me as individual points spread far out across space, were all condensed into a single overlapping point. All those sparse, lonely little tracks, when played together, became a chorus, and all the signals of our entire little species became a single composition containing all of our instruments' voices singing together.
And then I watched the sun go supernova and consume everything.
My wife really likes myst and puzzle games but I'm a little worried some of the platforming / space flight controls will be too much of a barrier
I "finished" up Giant's Deep last night, moved on to the twin planets after. Had a crazy thing where I wound up on the other planet and was out of fuel and burning oxygen and just scrambling to find out as much as possible before the end of the loop, it was real cool.
Yeah, some of the best moments are where you just barely scrape by on getting to where you need to be before the end of the loop and are just desperately begging the translator to go faster.
I can't think of any way that trick might be useful later, but it's filed away just in case I need to launch the ship into the sun or something.
Also! Your ship has an eject button!
Holy crap this game has come a long way. I recognize so much stuff in this trailer! Potential spoilers for some stuff if you haven't played a bunch yet.
End game spoilers
Since it didn’t work, I crossed it off the list and spiraled further and further away from the right answer, rereading every rumor and revisiting every major location in the game, checking all of them during every time period.
So when I do finally give up and google the answer, I just feel even worse that it wasn’t some complex culmination of every revelation in the game, it was just a slightly different execution of something I already did. I would have never figured it out, and it had already pushed me far past my breaking point emotionally.
I liked the game a lot more during the early hours when everything was new and you were constantly filling out the rumor map.
Oh man, I can already come up with ideas how this could be awesome for speedruns.
Honestly, I don't think it's against the spirit of the game to ask other people for hints if you're stuck. Though, that can be somewhat dangerous as every hint cuts into the experience of discovery that is pretty vital to the whole thing.
That is exactly the same thing that happened to me.
Ash Twin end of game-
No, what I assumed was that that teleporter was a reflection of its tower- broken, and i'd have to find another way in.
But that was the only instance of that kind of logical leap I can think of. Every other puzzle in the game is explained somewhere at some point.
One loop I managed to find myself shipless in the center of Dark Bramble. That was a hell of a time I tell you what.
If you enter an area it will tell you in the ship log whether there’s more to discover there, but it won’t tell you if there’s areas you haven’t discovered yet.
I feel like almost all the areas in the game have a breadcrumb somewhere else that leads to them, though.
That's definitely the game's worst puzzle.
I understand it's a critical endgame moment that blows the whole mystery wide open, so they can't have people stumble on it by accident early on. But they just needed to drop an explicit hint somewhere, it's not something that anybody would figure out on their own. You can find literally every piece of information in the game and it's not enough to solve that puzzle.
My interpretation has been that the Sun Station method didn't work the way it was supposed to but did fuck with the sun enough in some manner to accelerate things
but that doesn't explain the other stars...
Answer:
this might be right but I don't like it!
then also the game shows this super advanced race meddling with technology that blows up stars
from a storytelling perspective, I think it's much more powerful if there's a connection there - if every other star wasn't blowing up too, I'd be pretty certain that the Nomai were in fact directly (albeit slowly) responsible for blowing up Timber Hearth's sun, but not being able to explain the rest of them does kind of leave you with "oh it was just time for the end of the universe I guess" which is kind of a more lackluster answer imo
I do like it! (end spoilers)
I've decided that you're right and am currently chewing on whether or not I like it
So that's the real reason the sun goes supernova. It's one final Fuck You from the object that killed an entire civilization. Now it's going to blow everything else up just to make sure.
I think the reason for this is
I mean 1) you're not wrong, that's probably what is happening.
but 2) I still like my interpretation better.
Well it's because
Easily my favorite game of the year and I think it might be in my top 10. Just lovely.
A few puzzles were a little rough to figure out on my own (so I didn't) and the execution at the end was more annoying than cool (wait then speed then slow...) but what a fantastic experience.
I read this comparison/description and threw up in excitement.
I'm hoping this comes to PS4, given that it wasn't published by Microsoft or anything, but I may end up playing it on PC. We'll see.
I got it on pc for, like, $15. I never use the Epic store so I don't know if it was a promo or something but that shit was cheap as eff.
As long as you're seeing new stuff you're making progress, it's hard to explain why. But you're forming a picture in your brain of the situation in each planet, and you can win once you fully understand all of it.
And make sure to use your ship computer. It does progress from cycle to cycle and can point you at things you're missing.
(Not to say that it's the only way to play. I'd recommend everyone go through at least one cycle with no time stop options--with a stopwatch handy.)
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I only just realized it tracks your progress and next points of possible interest on my last play through. Whoops!