I played this game and I don't understand it, what is the point ? honestly the performance of the narrator was amazing and was my favourite part of the game but otherwise I don't understand what the "message" is.
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and like, who is stanley ? who is the narrator ? how come stanley can hear narrator's voice ? if stanley is in a game and we are playing that game, then narrator should be in the game too, somehow he is in the game and not in the game at the same time ??
It's a fourth-wall breaking game, a game whose characters are aware that they're in a game. Their personalities, knowledge, and awareness change throughout the game and the consistency is limited to "pathes" that you take. The devs are playing with and making fun of the rules.
Or, there's a free will versus determinism argument that's a bit clever
Now you’re stuck in the backrooms. The lights turn off. You hear a loud growl.
"Wait, why did the lights go off? Stanley... did you touch anything? This isn't how the story work!"
I went through all the endings in under two hours and spent the rest of the afternoon in intense terror about the idea of eternal life and the possibility of eternal suffering..
Probably not what the author intended, but I'm not playing it again.
I am sorry, but could someone please explain this to me? Looks like an old office with old monitors, but is the joke more than just "times have changed"?
