strange journey: not all photos are blued equal

it's finally time to rescue our sister ship, the elve. for realsies this time.

carina is about consumerism/capitalism, huh...

you know, i've seen a lot of stuff about the destruction of the planet in my time. very few have been as straightforwardly damning as this one. a giant pig with delusions of grandeur that wants to eat, eat, eat, and integrates human technology to make itself more powerful, killing the people who made that technology possible... even if you destroy it, it will come back, because it's the face of human greed. it eats even the future, your hopes and dreams of a way to fix things... >_<

climate doomerism is so common nowadays that this one line felt especially true to me.

ba-ba-ba-ba ba-da-da da *farty trombone noise*

Zelenin disliked that.

the girls are fightinnggggggggg

at this point, i spilled some chocolate on the screen and didn't notice, so it's in all of my pictures following ^_^; ummmm... pretend it's set dressing for the topic of the day, gluttony?

humanity number 1! humanity number 1! all the greatest virtues, all the greatest evils! humanity number 1!

RIP all crewmembers of the elve, you all existed purely for zelenin's manpain. we salute thee.

faith: lost.

well, at least we could filch the parts we wanted to get from the elve.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUGABOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the protagonist is not as impressed as jimenez and i are.

BUGABOO <33333

with the graviton radio, we are finally able to make contact with command. i don't know if i mentioned this before, but the plot is basically that a strange space-time abnormality appeared in antartica (called the schwarzwelt), and nothing that enters was able to come back. the governments of the world created a joint-nation exploration team to go down there and see what was up. however, the distortion of space-time meant we couldn't make contact with the human world until we got specialized equipment, the graviton radio, from the science-focused ship, the elve.

aw, i get the feeling they're relieved that we made it because they really do care. i feel like that's the opposite tone most fiction takes when writing a government body overseeing a suicide mission.

hal 9000 updates the joint project on our progress. the progress is bad.

commander gore q_q i miss youuu

everyone is suffering...

you know, i always forget about this... the environments always LOOK perfectly livable and the demons are wandering around perfectly fine, so i forget that everything is fucked up and you'll die if you take off that diving helmet.

you kind of get used to it when walking around the dungeons, but, yeah, i guess it IS pretty weird and fucked up that this mysterious black hole is populated entirely with endless grocery stores and snowy city battlefields and shit.

hmm. that's not good.

it's expanding too? that's also probably not good.

the people were shocked by his message.

GET THOSE DIRTY ANGEL-SYMPATHETIC THOUGHTS OUT OF YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW, YOUNG LADY.

my final message: idk. goodbye.

i actually feel really bad for them... both sides were hoping the other would have a solution, but unfortunately everyone's just worse off than they were before we lost contact.

ZELENIN. ZELENIN NO!! STEP AWAY FROM THE ABRAHAMIC FAITH. THE FAITH WILL NOT SAVE YOU.

this is why i'm letting you cook this playthrough, jimenez. let's not put any faith into snake oil salesman this time!

OMG hiiiii!!!!!!! are you here to forcefeed me centipedes again :D?

lu... lu-i-cshaaa... ferrrrrr

"you were created to be greedy little bastards"

look at my name. it's in red, right? of course i'm on your side!

hold that thought for a few more plot beats, buddy.

this kind of dialogue makes me wish i was going neutral T_T but i save neutral route for last always! I'M SORRY COMMANDER GORE :'x