I love the new jenna route update. The animation of chase doppelganger walking behind Leo at The hotell. The smoke room reference when janice hit the maincharacter from tsr with their car. All this freaked me out so bad. But in a good way. Its fucking awrsome!!!!!
Is there a better ending to Flynn's route? I got the ending where Flynn was the monster and was in the closet of who i am assuming is Jenna. I think "Flynn" drowned Sydney.
That's the only posible end of Flynn route and there only one thing wich we can influence on, by choising who's story you want to be completed: Flynn's, Leo's or ... Jenna's maybe ? And I dont think fully possesed Flynn was the killer more likely that *That* thing gave him
all the answers by warping him through time, space and even multiverse's of Echo (as we seen before with Chase's car, it's posible)
and mutilated Flynn" just been an observer of events of the past(only proving point that all going in circles).
there is a bug in Jenna route. Android (maybe spoilers).
after a fight Leo vs Brain. In hotel, when screen became darker in third time and "Leo eyes are still open" (or something like this with the same meaning) , game just crush. I try to make different choices but that do not change anything at all. I use absolutely new saves.
Same happens to me. I'm not sure if it's supposed to do that, or if there's some special animation or something that crashes the Android version of Ren'Py.
I suppose I could try checking on my desktop, but that would require going through the entire Jenna route again...
I just finished Leo's route and I'm really distraught from it. (The rest is spoilers)
I loved Leo but to me seemed rude to everyone accept Chase once you got further into this emotional rollercoaster. It proves he is a bit rude by going on Flynne's route. He is mean to Flynn because Flynn is curious to what happened to Sydney and does not know how to ask for the truth.
But I also get why Leo's the way he is. He was stuck in wondering if him and Chase were going to get back together. I have been in a place like that. I understand what he is going through and I feel a lot of sympathy for him.
Please make an ending where you and leo live together as a good ending i really love leo's route so much and it would be nice to see them together at the end.
Jenna's route... that animation! I didn't even know animations were possible in Renpy... Everyone else having static sprites, but that THING casually walking in made me do a double take.
So, I just finished Leo's route (which broke my heart and put me in depression box AGAIN (echoproject is little too good in this)) I have a question. So, if at last I choose option that ends their's relationship i get the end screen, but in other I dont. This mean that they still workin on it or this just isn't canonical ending?
Vn is very good. But in my opinion there should be more romance.
Low bow to people who did this tremendous work. Let's just say that is highly immerse you in it's events. Every road you choose bring you throught real roller coaster of emotions and after all, at the end when you don't know how to feel about that game 'couse your thoghts are all about
*that feel* ... like many people said before me ... feel of hollowness. After game that feel will not left you so easelly.
Anyway its REALY good VN that you should play if you like that sort of things, but i need to warn you that there is no absoulute good endings or such thing like *True* ending .
So you may go and give it a try, while i lying whith my headphones on and thinking about how to become a full member of society ... again.
I think that you need to have absorbed Adastra to make sense of Echo and the Smoke Room. The underlying concern in Adastra is the encroaching Darkness, which threatens all existence. We are told that there are fragments of Darkness scattered through the galaxy, and Echo plainly has one of these, activated by the mining work. The Adastra universe is layered, with the the "Parents" occupying a level that only the Darkness touches, and the intelligent species living in the material world, a layer 'down' from that. The Parents generate useful technologies for these species, and manage much of their lives, much as the Darkness impacts on humanity in Echo.
It is easy to spin a narrative that links these two. Imagine that Chase is the kidnapee in Adastra, finding his super-wolf and acting as a probe for the Parents towards the Darkness on Earth. He is selected precisely because of his Echo-derived public on-line profile and his ease with wolves.
In the Adastra world, the Parents are concerned by the Other, by the encroaching Darkness. They need to know more about it, but how to probe it without provocation or getting contaminated? Earth offers a welcome opportunity.
Earth is an anomaly in three ways: it is a physical host to a chunk of Darkness, it is, uniquely, home a multitude of intelligent species which have self-uplifted to full sapience. Third, whilst it has been contacted on numerous occasions, it has always thrown off those contacts and all local memory and external records of them are lost, apparently erased in the Sibling databases by some alarming intervention.
The Parents need to observe this last process in action, in order to secure their data structures. Hence, contact is needed, using a sacrificial sibling species of no great intrinsic value. The wolves will do just fine. Their ability to travel interstellar routes is immediately rescinded in order to isolate the culture. The Parents also want to observe the potential for contamination through third party carriers, and in order to find such a carrier, they look at records for past human interactions with the local instance of Darkness. The famous student post by Chase on the Echo riots comes up in the search, and so they look into Chase.
Motivation of Amicus is also started. Due to his social status, he is the only wolf over whom they have strong influence and for the same reason, the only potential interstellar traveller. Examining records from Earth, Chase's social media posting about his history with Leo comes up, suggesting strong wolf-human interaction potential. Chase becomes the target carrier of the Darkness, and he is invited to speak at a paranormal interest seminar in Rome, specifically on his Echo experiences. Delighted by the escape from his closed off world, he accepts. The rest proceeds as scripted. You would need to increase the currently-naive MC's sophistication a notch in the early scenes to catch Chase's world weary cynicism, and there is a later graphic showing distinctly human genitalia. Nothing there that an Photoshop intervention wouldn't fix. Chase and his love of water needs playing up in the lakeside scenes.
The riots that start shortly after Chase's arrival on Adastra are taken by the Parents as a sign that contamination can be spread by a carrier. earth, with its several Darkness hotspots is, therefore, seen as a dangerous source of contamination. Consideration is given to its destruction by one faction, whilst another presses for containment and further study. Earth is, after all, nowhere near achieving interstellar flight on its own.
We see that the attack by Cato on Amicus and Chase was engineered by the Parents with the specific end of installing a neck-based device to monitor Chase's interactions with the Darkness after he is returned to earth. Back on Earth, the 'convenient' outbreak of bird flu that he causes has him sequestered by the US Government in a secure facility in Arizona, 'coincidentally' close to Echo.
In isolation and confinement, his neck collar comes into action. Chase sees the universe as the parents do, as a multilayered structure in which various classes of intelligence have their particular domains. He explores this, meeting the Monitor which instructs him in how to understand this new situation. The local geography is dominated by the Darkness, which exists by virtue of the disorder that it can create in aware minds. Chaotic disorder will not do: it has to be a falling from potential, from grace, on behalf of conscious minds for it to feed. It sets out to subvert such minds and to pull them from their possible attainments.
Chase watches it in action, and notes that humans have developed a means to manage its influence, at least under mild challenge and at a distance. Close to, however, all is overwhelmed. Not-Earth based intelligences are, though, utterly vulnerable to it effects. During his exploration, he proves to be too conspicuous and is noticed. The entity, curious, uses Flynn's demonic avatar and its usual tricks to disrupt social order at the containment facility. Chase escapes, pursued by Flynn, and discovers where he has been held. He meets with familiar local characters, who hide him.
In the middle of this ramshackle hunt, Amicus arrives, having heard of Chase's confinement. during or subsequent to the escape. (Chase is tagged so that he can be tracked by the Galactics, separately from the Parents.) Reunion is punctuated by Chase's horror that his lover is utterly vulnerable to the Darkness, which latches onto his mind. Subsequent Leo-Amicus-Salamander dynamics are spectacular, and the Darkness is fed by them.
Chase goes into full White Knight mode, developing weapons to assault the Darkness in its lair. He transforms Flynn back to his former self and fights along side him. Amicus is preserved and a major reunion occurs. This victory opens the Darkness's archive of victimhood: can the preserved victims be restored to life, but stripped of their imposed negatives. Is that tantamount to destroying their identities, 'censoring' them? Flynn has strong opinions, the stronger when the restoration of Sydney becomes a practical possibility. The Monitor becomes a part of the debate: what is identity, what should and does survive death? And is the view of the Parents absolute, or merely imposed because they have power? The Monitors, hundreds strong, begin to question the eight Parents whom they serve. The mechanism by which Earth contains the epidemic Darkness is studied for its urgent potential use.
The role of the Parents becomes clear to the Sapientiae and the casual experimental use of the wolves chills all of the evolved species. If them then why not us, too? The revelation of Parental bad faith brings a system-wide political pot comes to the boil. Are the Parents kind overseers or manipulative opportunists? This can be a major plot thread in Khemia.
Insight into autopsy of the Darkness remnant casts light on the nature of the Parents. Both exist by virtue of an infrastructure: to eliminate the one, you would have to destroy the other. Will the Parents sacrifice themselves to Save the Universe? So what are the Parents? Kind nurturing entities of players of games? Wait for our next instalment.
I'm guessing the darkness can't do much beyond its domain besides latching on to one's mind. It'd be too weak to do anything beyond its source. One would have to had entered its influence to be affected by it. Without a clear source and domain, it'd dissolve before it could do anything. I doubt Chase would cause hysteria in Adastra. Unless Adastra itself already harbors darkness rooted within its lands.
Though it'd be interesting to see Chase fight off the darkness, he'd need literal magic to do so. Preferably one that can enforce the natural laws, something that can suppress chaos manifest. Highly doubt Chase could produce such weaponry, let alone the technology for it.
Such a story could be great with a few tweaks here and there.
If the Parents exist in a framework, then that framework can be used to construct tools. The tools demonstrably work on the mundane world, as with the "Parent tech" that forms in the injured neck, the seeing helmet and so on. Chase is given an interface to this environment, but only is akle to see how it "works" when he is invaded b y the Other at the containment facility.
I didn't think I could dislike Chase any more for what he *did*, but after learning what he did to Leo as well, fucking hell. No excuse there. No wonder Leo's like he is.
I feel the same. Everyone's saying how Leo acts like a psycho, and yes, he does go off the deep end to be fair, but he hasn't exactly been treated fairly in the past.
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I mean, Leo is obsessed with Chase. Is it because he actually does have an otter fetish? Who knows, but I interpreted the scene with his porn stash more indicating that he's looking for smut he can insert Chase and himself into, rather than him only liking Chase's appearance.
But for Chase to go do THAT to him? He knows he is jealous and insecure. So he thinks it would be funny to pretend he was pissing off with another guy as a JOKE? And learning Jenna was in on it too? Not only that, having Jenna always trying to one-up, or straight-up belittle him when he's trying to impress the guy he's into? Chase kind of ending the relationship, but never actually ending it also fucked Leo up. He's left wondering "Are we? Are we not?" Only in Leo's good ending where Chase actually ends things does Leo actually start doing the healthy thing and move on. He needed to end it sooner, not just leave him in relationship limbo for years. It's no wonder Chase and Jenna aren't my favourite.
That train scene drove a battering ram straight to my fucking chest at full force 😭😭😭😭
Especially after playing every route and leaving Leo for last so it hit EXTRA hard.
Just picturing Chase (Samuel) pour out all their hate and spite for echo after having ruined their lives opened the flood gates I tried so hard to suppress from seeing Leo just stand there in the distance with a shattered heart no matter how crazy he was at that time 😭. I haven't cried like a damn faucet in quite a while after Adastra.
I'm really eager to see how Samuel's story pans out in The Smoke Room.
With lots of theories in mind as to what happened in 1915 and what dwells within Echo, it leaves me restless for an update.
The plot, writing and storytelling is just
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Here's to hoping more fleshed out VNs like this 👏✨
Holy fuck amazing game with amazing story but I wanted to ask if me losing my feet on Leo's route is like a "bad" ending or the normal one considering it's a horror game.
I don't like the fourth image in the gallery. I know where that comes from and I don't like it. Lol
Seriously, though, this is a fantastic VN. I've played every ending and I honestly have never gone through this much despair before. Although the ambiguity is part of what makes the game special, I would like some sort of clarification about why (spoilers)
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Chase killed Sydney. Also, I think it would be awesome if there was more innocent encounters with these characters. Like, while going through Flynn's ending, I wanted nothing more than to just hang out with the entire gang. Maybe watch a movie like Leo wanted, lol.
Hello, is there a route for leo? I mean really with leo not with kudzu in a "good ending" way not the "cut off" leg. Can anyone tell me, i really like leo, and i thought that it will worked out, but i'm shocked when it's not and chase even with kudzu. I know how bad is his attitude and obsession but i really though that he will change and because of that i'm really hocked right now and sad
thank you, it makes me a little heartbroken because i thought it will be the usual visual novel. Welp i think playing a new theme visual novel like this is a new experience to me even if it is a bitter one
I think the story in Flynn's route messes up with time travel and different time lines. This is strongly hinted when the group is trying to leave Echo and they spot Duke near Chase's car all wrecked by the road (that happened in Leo's route). There are other hints but to me that's the most obvious. The phantom train in Leo's route might also have to do with this whole timeline mess.
So while Flynn's route ending was a bit confusing, my guess is one of these two things happened:
- Flynn fell in the hysteria and hallucinated the whole thing about Jenna's past.
- Flynn actually traveled to the past transformed in that red smoke monster, being him the creature Jenna used to see as a child.
I was left with kind of a big question about TJ's route. I feel like I missed something, hope you guys can answer it.
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Who did actually set the whole treasure hunt and why? I don't think it was any of the main group characters. The only thing that kinda makes sense to me is if it was The thing (as I like to call it) the entity behind all the weird stuff happening in the town, but that sounds a bit weird.
it's definitely hinted that it's TJ, though likely subconsciously/influenced by the town. remember that he was drawing those stick figure furries on napkins earlier in the game, and the final "note" has those same stick figures. it's likely his subconscious wanted the truth out even if his conscious mind didn't/couldn't.
O: you are right! I remember thinking that moment in the cafeteria felt kinda odd and irrelevant but it makes sense it was all to hint that TJ was behind it. Thanks, I definitely missed that!
I've been reading the comments and i just don't understand why everyone is so sad. Some people say there is no a good ending, but it is wrong. I don't know how many endings this game has (i played once). I'm gonna tell you my ending:
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1. Everyone is alive
2. Chase in love with Kudzu
3. After 2 years Chase and Kudzu return back to Echo to meet Leo. Leo forgives Chase, they say last goodbye and this is the end.
I think it's best ending for me. I was so happy. I thought this game doesn't has happy end, but i was wrong.
And I wish there will be more Kudzu's arts and poses in the pictures. It's very sad he has only one pose with folded arms. I wish the creators will fix it
Personnaly I love this ending but I still prefer Karl's one because Chase does not have to live with PTSD for the rest of his life, still in college and Karl too, stayed friend with Karl and Jenna, and everyone is alive too ! He has physical sequelae but meh. I prefer having to live limping than with trauma.
A great game, but holy hell, does it make you feel like shit.
Visual novels tend to leave me feeling a bit lacking in control over the character's actions - well, Echo does a great job of letting you feel like you have control, only to show you that your actions were ultimately meaningless, and you could do jack shit to stop all the horrible things that happened. The genius however, lies in HOW it does it - not the "the plot demands it" way, rather the "you were just a part of something much bigger" way. As the plot moves forward, it builds the feeling of helplessness and dread, giving you only short moments to catch your breath. The cast is also fleshed out and, for lack of a better word, believable - which only makes it easier to get attached to the characters, only for your feelings to get brutally mangled. I thoroughly recommend it, but DO NOT play if you're in a fragile mental state - "Echo" left me feeling hollow and broken after just one route, and I don't expect the rest to be any less haunting.
on build 49 jenna route it is a absolute fact chase is an idiot if he was running from a killer and the choices were an open road, alley way and building full of people he would just trip and cry and "use words" to make the killer stop, chase is so stupid that he had so many options he could have grab a pipe and shard of glass heck even the trash can would have helped more but no his idea of helping leo is jumping on brian the bear which he stated that the bear was bigger then leo and when he was flung chase was surprised and then he did again what did chase expect the result would be different for a journalist his so short sighted cant see the details around him he could have easily stab brians eye when the bear was so fixated with leo there was debris everywhere there was even a syringe but nooooooo his first idea was talk to it, The bear was already hitting leo and his first idea was talk to it!!! I MEAN TALK TO IT!!!! in times of confrontation like this its fight or flight or maybe i am not updated that its now fight ,flight and PUCKING TALK TO THE PERSON WHOS CLEARLY INTENT ON HURTING YOU AND YOUR FRIEND!!!!! GOD THIS PUCKING STRESSFULL so anyways this update is so disappointing that making you read it will make you loose interest from the game so if you are waiting for build 49 i suggest you keep your expectation low like almost reaching the earth core low and hope that build 50 will be better
Ikr? I did that one first and it left me devastated. It's not about trying to save the characters anymore (since it looks like that won't be happening :_p) but I can't keep myself from wanting to know more.
Is there a good ending? Or at least one that won't make me wish to throw myself from a 1000th floor??? I just finished TJ's route and I feel like sh*t. I don't think I can bring myself to finish the other routes until I confirm there's something close to a good ending.
That's kind of the point of Leo's true ending. yes the curse amplifys whats wrong with people. However Leo and chase's relationship has always been unhealthy. Which is why Chooseing to break up with him is bitter sweet. Right then and there he finally hear the words he needed to hear that chase never told him. Right then and there he learns the romantic relationship they had is not healthy. Right then and there he snaps out of the curse and the only way they will be happy if they both move on with there lifes.
OMG Leo's ending was simple too depressing for my taste T-T Imma cry everyday thinking of this now. He deserves so much better than that pleaseee make a happy ending for him i don't really care about the lenght :(
It would be wonderfull if when we are in the train going out echo, we could choose something like "kiss" and "not kiss" kuduzu. If we dont, then we go back to echo the day after the police arrive and well... There could be a happy ending with him, where they live in payton or something like that....
Kuduzu its a great character, but... When you do Leo's route, its because you want HIM, not the raccon jaja
This is so GOOD! This vn is very mysterious and very fun! The game doesnt give exact answers as to what is going on but playing this game overtime leads to some theories and playing others along this timeline will get you to the answer! I Love that the game isnt very sex based and can still show character relations! It always has this gloomy feeling hanging over it even during the good times. This game is very disturbing at times too and i LOVE THAT! 10/10 Would go back to echo again!
I refuse to accept that final shit as leo's route!
I understand that this is a VN of terror and everything but first of all it was made very short and second, from what happens in the restaurant only 30% of the rest of history you spend with him! It felt more like Kuduzu's route than Leo's. Just give us PLEASE the possibility of having a happy ending with him.
Anyway, in his route we dont even have a clue of whats fucking happening in Echo. Just that when we come back, we bring a lot of awfull memories and feelings
I know that feeling and you're right though, Chase and Leo is the most fit couple as far as ik and i loved it so much. But after the way Clint and Flynn talking so seriously about Leo's true nature (unstable), then since Leo finally known as 'Echo of Life'. For me the most rational reason is to reject him and made him realizing all his mistake. (you know what happened in the train if we didn't reject him)
And MAYBE it's quite possible to get happy ending with Leo IF he doesn't created as "one of the Echos" and doesn't have an unstable personality like he does in the game (idk that's ma opinion)
About what's really happening in Echo Town, maybe we need to pass all route such as carl, jenna, etc. And to knowing more about Sydney
I am completely fine with the ending if im being honest. I dont like leo because of the person he actually is and maybe thats how the novel wants us to see him but i guess he does have some good.
i strongly agree with you because their feeling is still threading together as a lover and if there's only another option before jumping on the train that designed for us to choose like "i love you, please be with me til the end of this nightmare and grow old together." Or something like this but less cheesy than this or even after the incident we escaped, left him behind and time passed, on the way to meet him again we can choose not to be raccoon's boyfriend and confess the feelings for Leo again even we can't be together anymore...
the echo of history as i am trying to avoid spoilers is about the founder of the town and his secret lover and there descendants to a crime that ether you will die trying to keep a secret or show reveal it and move on
Flynn's route was the first route I did. I really didn't like Flynn's ending. It felt really Anti climatic and when I thought there was going to be more to the story.... It ends and I still dont know what happened. Which is a shame. I liked Daxton. I wish he was more relevant to the plot.
Sitting on the ending for a day. I realize what my issue with the ending is. There is no resolve to his character conflict. Not saying it needs a happy ending but I feel like what happens to him could of been handled better on resolving his character conflict instead it ended on more questions then answers.
Playing threw all but Jenna's route. I see what was going on with Flynn's route more. However. Makes me wonder. Will there be a True ending route? Because if Jenna's play out as I think it will. I feel like this game would be proper suited if it had a true ending route.
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I love the new jenna route update. The animation of chase doppelganger walking behind Leo at The hotell. The smoke room reference when janice hit the maincharacter from tsr with their car. All this freaked me out so bad. But in a good way. Its fucking awrsome!!!!!
For Flynn's route does to be continued mean it's still wip or is it for an erry effect?
Oh, because...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunRT0f_PLg&feature=emb_title
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Is there a better ending to Flynn's route? I got the ending where Flynn was the monster and was in the closet of who i am assuming is Jenna. I think "Flynn" drowned Sydney.
That's the only posible end of Flynn route and there only one thing wich we can influence on, by choising who's story you want to be completed: Flynn's, Leo's or ... Jenna's maybe ? And I dont think fully possesed Flynn was the killer more likely that *That* thing gave him
all the answers by warping him through time, space and even multiverse's of Echo (as we seen before with Chase's car, it's posible)
and mutilated Flynn" just been an observer of events of the past(only proving point that all going in circles).
Thanks, that clears things up
does anyone know where the music is from? like is it just royalty free stuff or did someone produce it?
fantastic game btw !!!
there is a bug in Jenna route. Android (maybe spoilers).
after a fight Leo vs Brain. In hotel, when screen became darker in third time and "Leo eyes are still open" (or something like this with the same meaning) , game just crush. I try to make different choices but that do not change anything at all. I use absolutely new saves.
Same happens to me. I'm not sure if it's supposed to do that, or if there's some special animation or something that crashes the Android version of Ren'Py.
I suppose I could try checking on my desktop, but that would require going through the entire Jenna route again...
yeah, i already watch a walkthrough and there is some kind of animation that didn't work on android
Use skip feature
I just finished Leo's route and I'm really distraught from it. (The rest is spoilers)
I loved Leo but to me seemed rude to everyone accept Chase once you got further into this emotional rollercoaster. It proves he is a bit rude by going on Flynne's route. He is mean to Flynn because Flynn is curious to what happened to Sydney and does not know how to ask for the truth.
But I also get why Leo's the way he is. He was stuck in wondering if him and Chase were going to get back together. I have been in a place like that. I understand what he is going through and I feel a lot of sympathy for him.
It gets worse. Play Jenna's route, see what he's been put through
Please make an ending where you and leo live together as a good ending i really love leo's route so much and it would be nice to see them together at the end.
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Leo's Bad ending resume in 2 Words:
FEETus Deletus
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Ohhhhhhh!!! I got startled so badly.
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Jenna's route... that animation! I didn't even know animations were possible in Renpy... Everyone else having static sprites, but that THING casually walking in made me do a double take.
So when is the update coming?
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So, I just finished Leo's route (which broke my heart and put me in depression box AGAIN (echoproject is little too good in this)) I have a question. So, if at last I choose option that ends their's relationship i get the end screen, but in other I dont. This mean that they still workin on it or this just isn't canonical ending?
Vn is very good. But in my opinion there should be more romance.
No, I think you die there from severe blood loss.
It would be great if there were more romance but that would be too good for Echo and the group's dynamic doesn't really allow for more romance.
The end screen is like you reached the good end. Have more story after this screen.
Low bow to people who did this tremendous work. Let's just say that is highly immerse you in it's events. Every road you choose bring you throught real roller coaster of emotions and after all, at the end when you don't know how to feel about that game 'couse your thoghts are all about
*that feel* ... like many people said before me ... feel of hollowness. After game that feel will not left you so easelly.
Anyway its REALY good VN that you should play if you like that sort of things, but i need to warn you that there is no absoulute good endings or such thing like *True* ending .
So you may go and give it a try, while i lying whith my headphones on and thinking about how to become a full member of society ... again.
I think that you need to have absorbed Adastra to make sense of Echo and the Smoke Room. The underlying concern in Adastra is the encroaching Darkness, which threatens all existence. We are told that there are fragments of Darkness scattered through the galaxy, and Echo plainly has one of these, activated by the mining work. The Adastra universe is layered, with the the "Parents" occupying a level that only the Darkness touches, and the intelligent species living in the material world, a layer 'down' from that. The Parents generate useful technologies for these species, and manage much of their lives, much as the Darkness impacts on humanity in Echo.
It is easy to spin a narrative that links these two. Imagine that Chase is the kidnapee in Adastra, finding his super-wolf and acting as a probe for the Parents towards the Darkness on Earth. He is selected precisely because of his Echo-derived public on-line profile and his ease with wolves.
Oohh that kinda makes sense!
Especially after what Sam said in Flynn's route.
"First 'it' came from the gate, then 'they' came from the stars" iirc
The mining incident opened the gate then more came from the stars attracted by the growing chaos of Echo.
Try this:
In the Adastra world, the Parents are concerned by the Other, by the encroaching Darkness. They need to know more about it, but how to probe it without provocation or getting contaminated? Earth offers a welcome opportunity.
Earth is an anomaly in three ways: it is a physical host to a chunk
of Darkness, it is, uniquely, home a multitude of intelligent
species which have self-uplifted to full sapience. Third, whilst it
has been contacted on numerous occasions, it has always thrown off
those contacts and all local memory and external records of them are
lost, apparently erased in the Sibling databases by some alarming
intervention.
The Parents need to observe this last process in action, in order to
secure their data structures. Hence, contact is needed, using a
sacrificial sibling species of no great intrinsic value. The wolves
will do just fine. Their ability to travel interstellar routes is
immediately rescinded in order to isolate the culture. The Parents
also want to observe the potential for contamination through third
party carriers, and in order to find such a carrier, they look at
records for past human interactions with the local instance of
Darkness. The famous student post by Chase on the Echo riots comes
up in the search, and so they look into Chase.
Motivation of Amicus is also started. Due to his social status, he is the only wolf over whom they have strong influence and for the same reason, the only potential interstellar traveller. Examining records from Earth, Chase's social media posting about his history with Leo comes up, suggesting strong
wolf-human interaction potential. Chase becomes the target carrier of the Darkness, and he is invited to speak at a paranormal interest seminar in Rome, specifically on his Echo experiences. Delighted by the escape from his closed off world, he accepts. The rest proceeds as scripted. You would need to
increase the currently-naive MC's sophistication a notch in the early scenes to
catch Chase's world weary cynicism, and there is a later graphic
showing distinctly human genitalia. Nothing there that an Photoshop
intervention wouldn't fix. Chase and his love of water needs playing up in the lakeside scenes.
The riots that start shortly after Chase's arrival on Adastra are taken by the Parents as a sign that contamination can be spread by a carrier. earth, with its several Darkness hotspots is, therefore, seen as a dangerous source of contamination. Consideration is given to its destruction by one faction, whilst another presses for containment and further study. Earth is, after all, nowhere near achieving interstellar flight on its own.
We see that the attack by Cato on Amicus and Chase was engineered by the Parents with the specific end of installing a neck-based device to monitor Chase's interactions with the Darkness after he is returned to earth. Back on Earth, the 'convenient' outbreak of bird flu that he causes has him sequestered by the US Government in a secure facility in Arizona, 'coincidentally' close to Echo.
In isolation and confinement, his neck collar comes into action. Chase sees the universe as the parents do, as a multilayered structure in which various classes of intelligence have their particular domains. He explores this, meeting the Monitor which instructs him in how to understand this new situation. The local geography is dominated by the Darkness, which exists by virtue of the disorder that it can create in aware minds. Chaotic disorder will not do: it has to be a falling from potential, from grace, on behalf of conscious minds for it to feed. It sets out to subvert such minds and to pull them from their possible attainments.
Chase watches it in action, and notes that humans have developed a means to manage its influence, at least under mild challenge and at a distance. Close to, however, all is overwhelmed. Not-Earth based intelligences are, though, utterly vulnerable to it effects. During his exploration, he proves to be too conspicuous and is noticed. The entity, curious, uses Flynn's demonic avatar and its usual tricks to disrupt social order at the containment facility. Chase escapes, pursued by Flynn, and discovers where he has been held. He meets with familiar local characters, who hide him.
In the middle of this ramshackle hunt, Amicus arrives, having heard of Chase's confinement. during or subsequent to the escape. (Chase is tagged so that he can be tracked by the Galactics, separately from the Parents.) Reunion is punctuated by Chase's horror that his lover is utterly vulnerable to the Darkness, which latches onto his mind. Subsequent Leo-Amicus-Salamander dynamics are spectacular, and the Darkness is fed by them.
Chase goes into full White Knight mode, developing weapons to assault the Darkness in its lair. He transforms Flynn back to his former self and fights along side him. Amicus is preserved and a major reunion occurs. This victory opens the Darkness's archive of victimhood: can the preserved victims be restored to life, but stripped of their imposed negatives. Is that tantamount to destroying their identities, 'censoring' them? Flynn has strong opinions, the stronger when the restoration of Sydney becomes a practical possibility. The Monitor becomes a part of the debate: what is identity, what should and does survive death? And is the view of the Parents absolute, or merely imposed because they have power? The Monitors, hundreds strong, begin to question the eight Parents whom they serve. The mechanism by which Earth contains the epidemic Darkness is studied for its urgent potential use.
The role of the Parents becomes clear to the Sapientiae and the casual experimental use of the wolves chills all of the evolved species. If them then why not us, too? The revelation of Parental bad faith brings a system-wide political pot comes to the boil. Are the Parents kind overseers or manipulative opportunists? This can be a major plot thread in Khemia.
Insight into autopsy of the Darkness remnant casts light on the nature of the Parents. Both exist by virtue of an infrastructure: to eliminate the one, you would have to destroy the other. Will the Parents sacrifice themselves to Save the Universe? So what are the Parents? Kind nurturing entities of players of games? Wait for our next instalment.
Quite intriguing for the most part.
I'm guessing the darkness can't do much beyond its domain besides latching on to one's mind. It'd be too weak to do anything beyond its source. One would have to had entered its influence to be affected by it. Without a clear source and domain, it'd dissolve before it could do anything. I doubt Chase would cause hysteria in Adastra. Unless Adastra itself already harbors darkness rooted within its lands.
Though it'd be interesting to see Chase fight off the darkness, he'd need literal magic to do so. Preferably one that can enforce the natural laws, something that can suppress chaos manifest. Highly doubt Chase could produce such weaponry, let alone the technology for it.
Such a story could be great with a few tweaks here and there.
If the Parents exist in a framework, then that framework can be used to construct tools. The tools demonstrably work on the mundane world, as with the "Parent tech" that forms in the injured neck, the seeing helmet and so on. Chase is given an interface to this environment, but only is akle to see how it "works" when he is invaded b y the Other at the containment facility.
Not entirely sure if the Parents can deploy such an interface considering Chase's location, which is Earth, a place free of parental influence.
Highly doubt Chase's neck piece could serve as a channel considering how small and limited it's function is, unlike the archives.
So unless the parents have somehow made Chase's body capable of channelling and materializing various energies, such a situation is a bit nonsensical.
regarding the latest update...
what the fuck
what the FUCK
WHAT the FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
W H A T T H E F U C K
*WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK*
Actual spoilers...
I didn't think I could dislike Chase any more for what he *did*, but after learning what he did to Leo as well, fucking hell. No excuse there. No wonder Leo's like he is.
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I feel the same. Everyone's saying how Leo acts like a psycho, and yes, he does go off the deep end to be fair, but he hasn't exactly been treated fairly in the past.
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I mean, Leo is obsessed with Chase. Is it because he actually does have an otter fetish? Who knows, but I interpreted the scene with his porn stash more indicating that he's looking for smut he can insert Chase and himself into, rather than him only liking Chase's appearance.
But for Chase to go do THAT to him? He knows he is jealous and insecure. So he thinks it would be funny to pretend he was pissing off with another guy as a JOKE? And learning Jenna was in on it too? Not only that, having Jenna always trying to one-up, or straight-up belittle him when he's trying to impress the guy he's into? Chase kind of ending the relationship, but never actually ending it also fucked Leo up. He's left wondering "Are we? Are we not?" Only in Leo's good ending where Chase actually ends things does Leo actually start doing the healthy thing and move on. He needed to end it sooner, not just leave him in relationship limbo for years. It's no wonder Chase and Jenna aren't my favourite.
Haven't finished yet, but damn i feel like i need to say something about it. I feel hollow already.
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That train scene drove a battering ram straight to my fucking chest at full force 😭😭😭😭
Especially after playing every route and leaving Leo for last so it hit EXTRA hard.
Just picturing Chase (Samuel) pour out all their hate and spite for echo after having ruined their lives opened the flood gates I tried so hard to suppress from seeing Leo just stand there in the distance with a shattered heart no matter how crazy he was at that time 😭. I haven't cried like a damn faucet in quite a while after Adastra.
I'm really eager to see how Samuel's story pans out in The Smoke Room.
With lots of theories in mind as to what happened in 1915 and what dwells within Echo, it leaves me restless for an update.
The plot, writing and storytelling is just
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Here's to hoping more fleshed out VNs like this 👏✨
It's worse if you choose to stay with him though.
That's what I chose first actually.
It barely phases me at that point. I just gave an indifferent look after all the routes I've been through.
Getting pierced straight to my heart and soul felt much worse :D and Jenna's route shoved it deeper.
I've lost all emotion.
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Rargghhhhh!!! LEO!!!!!! Damn you!!! F*cking leave this town with me!!! Curse this bad ending and Sad ending!!! 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬👿👿😭😭😭😭😭 IM GOING CRAZY!!!!
Some Spoilers on Leo's ending
Holy fuck amazing game with amazing story but I wanted to ask if me losing my feet on Leo's route is like a "bad" ending or the normal one considering it's a horror game.
It's a bad one. You die on this one.
does leo's route have a good ending then ?
If you leave him, you'll get the better ending. There is no true good ending. :(
ohhhh but i don't want to!
Yeah I know :(
I don't like the fourth image in the gallery. I know where that comes from and I don't like it. Lol
Seriously, though, this is a fantastic VN. I've played every ending and I honestly have never gone through this much despair before. Although the ambiguity is part of what makes the game special, I would like some sort of clarification about why (spoilers)
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Chase killed Sydney. Also, I think it would be awesome if there was more innocent encounters with these characters. Like, while going through Flynn's ending, I wanted nothing more than to just hang out with the entire gang. Maybe watch a movie like Leo wanted, lol.
Anyways great vn! I loved playing it.
was there an update? its now on version 0.49 but it doesnt say it updated in the dev. log
What's new? Is it announced anywhere?
oh thank you
QUESTIONS but with spoilers.
Can anyone answer my question?
Hello, is there a route for leo? I mean really with leo not with kudzu in a "good ending" way not the "cut off" leg. Can anyone tell me, i really like leo, and i thought that it will worked out, but i'm shocked when it's not and chase even with kudzu. I know how bad is his attitude and obsession but i really though that he will change and because of that i'm really hocked right now and sad
Is that the only ending? Anyone pls anwer
Yes, that is it.
thank you, it makes me a little heartbroken because i thought it will be the usual visual novel. Welp i think playing a new theme visual novel like this is a new experience to me even if it is a bitter one
The author is good with his vn but I hate how he makes the mc in both adastra and Echo kinda seem like a narcissist sociopath.
Im sure its not the same person who wrote both Adastra and Echo. i think McSkinny wrote Echo and Howly wrote Adastra.
Maybe Flynn's? Because at the end of it the message "To be continued" pops out. Can't say for sure though.
Flynn's and Leo's routes spoilers ahead!
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I think the story in Flynn's route messes up with time travel and different time lines. This is strongly hinted when the group is trying to leave Echo and they spot Duke near Chase's car all wrecked by the road (that happened in Leo's route). There are other hints but to me that's the most obvious. The phantom train in Leo's route might also have to do with this whole timeline mess.
So while Flynn's route ending was a bit confusing, my guess is one of these two things happened:
- Flynn fell in the hysteria and hallucinated the whole thing about Jenna's past.
- Flynn actually traveled to the past transformed in that red smoke monster, being him the creature Jenna used to see as a child.
I just hope everything makes sense in the end and they don't leave it to the reader's interpretation, I'd hate that.
That's good to know, thanx. Why did you delete your previous comments? I was kind of invested in that conversation.
Thanks for the info. Say, could you please tell me where to find the link to access the Discord server? Or is it Patreon only?
Thanks bud!
I was left with kind of a big question about TJ's route. I feel like I missed something, hope you guys can answer it.
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Who did actually set the whole treasure hunt and why? I don't think it was any of the main group characters. The only thing that kinda makes sense to me is if it was The thing (as I like to call it) the entity behind all the weird stuff happening in the town, but that sounds a bit weird.
Maybe it's TJs subconsious agency.
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it's definitely hinted that it's TJ, though likely subconsciously/influenced by the town. remember that he was drawing those stick figure furries on napkins earlier in the game, and the final "note" has those same stick figures. it's likely his subconscious wanted the truth out even if his conscious mind didn't/couldn't.
O: you are right! I remember thinking that moment in the cafeteria felt kinda odd and irrelevant but it makes sense it was all to hint that TJ was behind it. Thanks, I definitely missed that!
I've been reading the comments and i just don't understand why everyone is so sad. Some people say there is no a good ending, but it is wrong. I don't know how many endings this game has (i played once). I'm gonna tell you my ending:
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1. Everyone is alive
2. Chase in love with Kudzu
3. After 2 years Chase and Kudzu return back to Echo to meet Leo. Leo forgives Chase, they say last goodbye and this is the end.
I think it's best ending for me. I was so happy. I thought this game doesn't has happy end, but i was wrong.
And I wish there will be more Kudzu's arts and poses in the pictures. It's very sad he has only one pose with folded arms. I wish the creators will fix it
Personnaly I love this ending but I still prefer Karl's one because Chase does not have to live with PTSD for the rest of his life, still in college and Karl too, stayed friend with Karl and Jenna, and everyone is alive too ! He has physical sequelae but meh. I prefer having to live limping than with trauma.
But I agree the ending is not that horrible.
One end.
In middle of 7.
It is a end but I don't consider a good end. At least not a good happy good end.
Anyway it is a terror story, not really need a happy end.
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People expect Chase end with the wolf. After all in some ends he be a journalist other he gave up and or it not even talk about it.
And all sad ends are so sad/bad that the feeling suppress the feeling that a no sad end could give.
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I only stopped to feel deep weird after see the Carl route. Because I understood most of the story there.
Maybe Chase ends up with Amicus. :) See a lengthy, earlier post by me.
Does anyone else just hate Jenna in general? After the amusement park, she's just... nothing but bitch the majority of the time.
A great game, but holy hell, does it make you feel like shit.
Visual novels tend to leave me feeling a bit lacking in control over the character's actions - well, Echo does a great job of letting you feel like you have control, only to show you that your actions were ultimately meaningless, and you could do jack shit to stop all the horrible things that happened.
The genius however, lies in HOW it does it - not the "the plot demands it" way, rather the "you were just a part of something much bigger" way. As the plot moves forward, it builds the feeling of helplessness and dread, giving you only short moments to catch your breath.
The cast is also fleshed out and, for lack of a better word, believable - which only makes it easier to get attached to the characters, only for your feelings to get brutally mangled. I thoroughly recommend it, but DO NOT play if you're in a fragile mental state - "Echo" left me feeling hollow and broken after just one route, and I don't expect the rest to be any less haunting.
I prefer the ram route. It say more of the story.
TJ and Flynn routes most buried my soul. Flynn route have some interesting point of narrative changes but... It is a confuse end.
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on build 49 jenna route it is a absolute fact chase is an idiot if he was running from a killer and the choices were an open road, alley way and building full of people he would just trip and cry and "use words" to make the killer stop, chase is so stupid that he had so many options he could have grab a pipe and shard of glass heck even the trash can would have helped more but no his idea of helping leo is jumping on brian the bear which he stated that the bear was bigger then leo and when he was flung chase was surprised and then he did again what did chase expect the result would be different for a journalist his so short sighted cant see the details around him he could have easily stab brians eye when the bear was so fixated with leo there was debris everywhere there was even a syringe but nooooooo his first idea was talk to it, The bear was already hitting leo and his first idea was talk to it!!! I MEAN TALK TO IT!!!! in times of confrontation like this its fight or flight or maybe i am not updated that its now fight ,flight and PUCKING TALK TO THE PERSON WHOS CLEARLY INTENT ON HURTING YOU AND YOUR FRIEND!!!!! GOD THIS PUCKING STRESSFULL so anyways this update is so disappointing that making you read it will make you loose interest from the game so if you are waiting for build 49 i suggest you keep your expectation low like almost reaching the earth core low and hope that build 50 will be better
Ikr? I did that one first and it left me devastated. It's not about trying to save the characters anymore (since it looks like that won't be happening :_p) but I can't keep myself from wanting to know more.
Is there a good ending? Or at least one that won't make me wish to throw
myself from a 1000th floor??? I just finishedTJ'sroute and I feel like sh*t. I don't think I can bring myself to finish the other routes until I confirm there's something close to a good ending.Not really. The only good ending, in my opinion, is Karl's route.
I like the ram's route too but I don't like its end. Not a sad end but not happy too.
It have 3 ends and in my opnion explain a lot of the story.
Yes, TJ's end kick me down. Flynn's route is more spice but have a end that may confuse your mind in a very bad way.
It is a terror Novel. Remember it, Don't expect happy good ends. Maybe have one that .,. I don't like it too but it is a good end for some people.
i agree
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That's kind of the point of Leo's true ending. yes the curse amplifys whats wrong with people. However Leo and chase's relationship has always been unhealthy. Which is why Chooseing to break up with him is bitter sweet. Right then and there he finally hear the words he needed to hear that chase never told him. Right then and there he learns the romantic relationship they had is not healthy. Right then and there he snaps out of the curse and the only way they will be happy if they both move on with there lifes.
I just got both endings in the same 20 minutes and I feel almost as destroyed as when I read Adastra.
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DUDEEEEE. I started reading the Smoke Room BEFORE I started and finished ECHO... SO MUCH LINES UP ITS ACTUALLY AWESOME.
Man, Adastra had me crying my eyes out multiple times before the end. Such a great story.
You underestimate my power!
Honestly, in the second half of the game i was thinking: "Is there way to break up with Leo?"
I read this comment before playing thinking i wouldn't relate too much but god, was I WRONG
OMG Leo's ending was simple too depressing for my taste T-T Imma cry everyday thinking of this now. He deserves so much better than that pleaseee make a happy ending for him i don't really care about the lenght :(
give him some love and kisses pleaseee
It would be wonderfull if when we are in the train going out echo, we could choose something like "kiss" and "not kiss" kuduzu. If we dont, then we go back to echo the day after the police arrive and well... There could be a happy ending with him, where they live in payton or something like that....
Kuduzu its a great character, but... When you do Leo's route, its because you want HIM, not the raccon jaja
yeaahhhhhh
This is so GOOD! This vn is very mysterious and very fun! The game doesnt give exact answers as to what is going on but playing this game overtime leads to some theories and playing others along this timeline will get you to the answer! I Love that the game isnt very sex based and can still show character relations! It always has this gloomy feeling hanging over it even during the good times. This game is very disturbing at times too and i LOVE THAT! 10/10 Would go back to echo again!
Update Leo's route!
Um...? Leo's route are finished like year ago.
I refuse to accept that final shit as leo's route!
I understand that this is a VN of terror and everything but first of all it was made very short and second, from what happens in the restaurant only 30% of the rest of history you spend with him! It felt more like Kuduzu's route than Leo's. Just give us PLEASE the possibility of having a happy ending with him.
Anyway, in his route we dont even have a clue of whats fucking happening in Echo. Just that when we come back, we bring a lot of awfull memories and feelings
Yeah, Leo deserved a *lot* better, but come on, be respectful
I know that feeling and you're right though, Chase and Leo is the most fit couple as far as ik and i loved it so much. But after the way Clint and Flynn talking so seriously about Leo's true nature (unstable), then since Leo finally known as 'Echo of Life'. For me the most rational reason is to reject him and made him realizing all his mistake. (you know what happened in the train if we didn't reject him)
And MAYBE it's quite possible to get happy ending with Leo IF he doesn't created as "one of the Echos" and doesn't have an unstable personality like he does in the game (idk that's ma opinion)
About what's really happening in Echo Town, maybe we need to pass all route such as carl, jenna, etc. And to knowing more about Sydney
I am completely fine with the ending if im being honest. I dont like leo because of the person he actually is and maybe thats how the novel wants us to see him but i guess he does have some good.
Everybody deserves a happy ending, or at least, a good ending. Not what happen to him
Route 65 better explains Leos ending
How so?
Spoilers ahead I guess
I don't like sad ending in media, there's enough of that in real life. Guess this game just ain't really for me. Shame, I guess.
I may sound silly but... They are sex scenes?
I'm playing leo's route and I just passed the part after confession on the school field, where they go to leo's house and do "that".
I was just wondering if you see them later or if there is a scene (illustration) about that moment (or similar)
sad to say there isnt though ://
Sad to hear that :'(
well there is that part when chase and leo are alone in the bathroom-
Yeah, i pass that part, but i want to know if there is more gallery images like that when they are doing it
well ive done leo's route so that's an apparent no :/
I love Leo's route so much and it hurts so bad how it ends so i gotta deleted it, three months passed still hurt about that. Echo....
ikr i still cant move on from the good ending on leo's route i hoped that chase and him would reconcile.
Reconcile... yeah.
i strongly agree with you because their feeling is still threading together as a lover and if there's only another option before jumping on the train that designed for us to choose like "i love you, please be with me til the end of this nightmare and grow old together." Or something like this but less cheesy than this or even after the incident we escaped, left him behind and time passed, on the way to meet him again we can choose not to be raccoon's boyfriend and confess the feelings for Leo again even we can't be together anymore...
I agree with you. A "perfect happy ending" would be like... The perfect touch to his route.
so i finished the game so far the echo means different for each of them
echos of history
echos of life
echos of sin
echos of chains
you get what i mean when you play it i wonder
what is the last echo
now on to the prostitute story line or according to its context haven't played it yet
I don't understand. Like I think understand who "history" is referring to but I am kind of lost and played through everything that is out as of now.
the echo of history as i am trying to avoid spoilers is about the founder of the town and his secret lover and there descendants to a crime that ether you will die trying to keep a secret or show reveal it and move on
Yeah, but what are the other Echoes you are referring to
I thought I finished the game. but I dont get what you mean, for real. I might need to play it again. And again. And again.
Well I guess I know who represents echos of sin, but the other three? Nice job man, good puzzles.
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Echos of History : Carl
Echos of life : Leo
Echos of sin : TJ
Echos of chains : Flynn
I don't really see where the story of Jenna is going so i'm not sure about the last echo.
awww you ruin the surprise i think jenna is going to have to face his family and confront them
Haha sorry 😂
Is it bad that I don't like Chase, but like Flynn?
I mean I don't like Leo and I like chase sooo no it's not bad at all!😂
Flynn's route was the first route I did. I really didn't like Flynn's ending. It felt really Anti climatic and when I thought there was going to be more to the story.... It ends and I still dont know what happened. Which is a shame. I liked Daxton. I wish he was more relevant to the plot.
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I started to understand it after play the other routes.
Understand what really happen in Echo.
After 7 ends, I can't say I saw a happy end. Maybe a good end but I don't think a happy end. But the kind of story isn't to be expected a happy end.
Mewing,
Pandrine
Sitting on the ending for a day. I realize what my issue with the ending is. There is no resolve to his character conflict. Not saying it needs a happy ending but I feel like what happens to him could of been handled better on resolving his character conflict instead it ended on more questions then answers.
Playing threw all but Jenna's route. I see what was going on with Flynn's route more. However. Makes me wonder. Will there be a True ending route? Because if Jenna's play out as I think it will. I feel like this game would be proper suited if it had a true ending route.