What do you mean Wrong Game?! Why, I oughta Wrong game. I get it now. Well, it still all works. Just replace "communication tower" with "toy factory tower". Same thing, folks. Originally posted by Twelvefield :. Benmarch View Profile View Posts. This is how I interpret this whole game. It does seem like a very anti-consumerist message. And I think with the fireplace, as somebody said earlier in the discussion, it could be seen as a criticism of playing empty, repetitive games as part of that consumerism.
I thought a really interesting touch was the ending where the weather man asks if you are ready to go, and you have to say yes 2 or 3 times. It's as if the game is saying, are you sure you want to finish? The fact the credits roll as soon as you 'leave' makes it fairly blatant that you had to choose to finish the game and forget that burning things in the fireplace meant anything at all. And it did occur to me when you're talking to the old lady at the top of Tomorrow Corporation which notably peddles the empty message that 'the future is Seemed like the snow was just ash from all the things you've burnt.
I think this is a metaphor for the self-fulfilling prophecy that capitalism is; the more you spend, the more our economy is accelerated, the more you spend, the more consumerism becomes important, and all the while we live out of our means. Our economies literally live off future valuation - stocks, loans, inflation, interest - and a promise that innovation happens in the future to curb societal problems like overpopulation, fossil fuel depletion, global warming, etc.
I wonder if that's overthinking it, but still I feel like that's what they were saying. Haven't watched the video btw, I'll watch it now to see what it says.
More interesting to come to my own conclusions first. Last edited by OllyTrolly ; 30 May, pm. Breadfish View Profile View Posts. I just finished this game about half a hour or so a go, almost 5 hours in. Recent blog posts. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? End Combo. Edit source History Talk 0. Now go left and back down in the elevator. Leave the building and go right twice to see the ending. These walkthroughs may not be published or reproduced in any format without the author's prior written consent.
All game titles, art and character references remain the copyright of their respective holders. The Walkthrough King. With this special prize in hand I unlocked the secret ending: just before Miss Nancy fled the city's impending doom, she leaned in close, ample bosom taking up most of the screen, and embraced me. It wasn't much, but in this world devoid of hope, I found it endlessly comforting, and I put down my controller at peace with my fate.
I thought it was about some impending ice age myself and the Little Inferno was about encouraging kids to keep warm by burning everything they had. Once I got outside though I had a rather interesting take myself:. The moral of the story is - "Stop playing video games and go outside. Ultimately though, once your house actually burns down and you go outside, you feel a bit ridiculous for having invested so much time and attention to what amounts to burning things in a fireplace.
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