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After playing through the entire game, I realised that Charon was this guy who was supposed to guide souls to the afterlife or something of that sort. I completely forgot about 7 Days (another indie game) which used the same name for the person who 'leads' us.


Other than that, it was really a wild experience. Spoilers from here, but that lady is such a poor soul, I still feel bad for her due to this vengeful man who wants to play with her memory--who she loves oh so much it doesn't make sense until you're her. I guess I felt that sunken cost thing for a moment, but honestly? She deserved to hear the truth. All of them do, because when you're honest, you're actually respecting them instead of lying to them and trap them in that world of fairytales. Second guy was really a sad one, and third...I actually am struggling with the idea a bit? Why is there two forms of him (one being the spider and another the fetus-like baby)? I thought it was gonna be a case of an unborn fetus dying due to mother dying or something and cared for the mother oh so much only to find out he was a soldier. I would've expected a dying man, but that really confused me. Was it a kid because he's naive at heart and trusts propaganda ("he's our enemy so we should brutally torture him!") too much? And was the spider because of his (nonsexual) sadistic desires?


Really thought provoking anyway. Thanks for releasing this masterpiece out there and hell, making it free as well.

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Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it! As for the third sequence, this was my interpretation while making his character
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I saw the spider creature as representing the violent side to this man, that emerged and was celebrated during war. But that is just a facade, and once you go through the level you see him for what he really is -- a baby (more specifically, something even younger, a fetus) who is childlike and oblivious to the harm he has caused.

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I see, that's interesting! Yes, it does line up--although I never interpreted the spider as a façade and instead, being a part of him--just the more cruel one that takes pleasure in the pain, the part that became who he was physically, despite being very much a directionless person inside (i.e., a child / fetus). He did seem to understand the hurt he caused to the people when he recounted his experience when he was a fetus (or at least, so it seemed). Either ways, just having him out there recounting his life experience at that form really baffled me.


I do wonder...does the soul really get set free, or is it just a loop? I feel bad for both the soul and MC + charon, if that's the case.

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I'll leave that last part up to interpretation :) However, I will say this: I see the ending as a happy one.

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Charon's a name for a dude in the Underworld in Greek mythology. So the name probably was an allusion to that.