One of my favorite themes of the game it's theit love of art itself, they say bad artists copy, but good ones steal. Signalis is such a piece that shows you clearly what inspired it and isn't afraid nor ashame to show it to you, how they use their references and make them to themselves, I love how you don't need to really know those references but it endorse your experience, for example my friend play it and didn't get the Evangelion episode 25 reference, the one where all the characters flash inside of Shinji, where for Shinji is he realizing he isn't alone, that he isn't an island, meanwhile for Elster is reafirming the idea that she's been there before, that she's stuck on a cycle, as well Elster breaking her arm it's a rotoscopie of Major Kusanagi breaking her limbs as well, both showing how little they care about their machinery bodies in favor of their objectives. You use Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to open Falke's owl box, who could herself being a reference to Odile, the black swan who is the daughter of Baron Von Rothbart who is represented as an owl and fools Prince Siegfried to make Odile -Falke- look like Princess Odette -Ariane-, at the end both Siegfried and Odette being reunited by death -wink-. Even their use of art in the universe itself, why does this militant regime has pieces like Isle of The Death and Saturn eating his Son on their replaceable soldiers dormants? Ariane it's cast away for her love of art and creation of it. It feels exactly like how art it's use and consume nowadays, just like a decour, without much thought of appreciation of it, just something to put and never think much about it, how corporations treat creatives, leaving them behind and using them just as tools for their business. I love Signalis, it's a beautiful piece of art, I can't wait too see the seed of inspiration that planted to bloom and inspire many other artists through the years, through the indie-videogame scene or anyone who gets inspired by it.
Thank you for your perspective! This is definitely something I could've touched on myself if I had noticed it sooner, fortunately you did it for me. I think I was scratching the edges of it at a couple points but this definitely could've used a whole segment. Regardless, thanks so much for your comment; I love getting lengthy stuff like this, it makes me feel like the insane investment I put into my projects are worth it. Hope to see you around here, glad you love Signalis as much as me!
I just found it a week ago, I was surprised to see it was 2 years old, I was just recently hearing about it. I hope that means it’s getting cult classic status
i genuinely love that you picked a forest to talk about this game, having the bird song in the background is such a lovely ambience and it's beautiful :3
I need more Signalis, it’s been out for a couple years, but just getting it’s cult classic status recently. I will be coming back to this video every few months 😊
Oh, friend, there are so many little details that can help your experience be better. Not gonna list all of them, just a few. a) Alina likely died 10 years ago on Vineta, there is a picture appearing very briefly of Lilith standing in shallow water, placing a flower on one of 6 gravestones (like the ones in secret ending). Since their unit was 8 people, and she and Rebecca [don't remember the last name] were the ones who were present on Rot Front later, that likely means that Alina is one of the 6 that didn't make it out of Vineta. You're probably right that once Ariane "took over" Sierpinski, she just recreated Alina, like she recreated Isa, and possibly all of the Elsters that kept trying to reach the gate and fulfill the promise. b) Since Empire and Nation are very much modeled after West and East Germany, their respective terribleness, and the tragedy of people caught between the two is very authentic. I say this as someone living in post-Soviet space. The Penrose triangle, which is the icon for the game and the logo for the program, is literally an impossible shape. It can't be more clear that the mission is designed to be impossible. The 512 is likely a serial number, with 511 other ships preceding this one, and LSTR being the Landship Survey Technician Replika are designed to be deployed on Penrose ships specifically, which are in turn designed to be mass-produced and sent on a one-way trip into cold emptiness of space, to "Demonstrate technological superiority of the Nation". It's not a case of them hoping to actually find anything or deal with dangerous individuals. There's not enough light and warmth in Oort cloud for habitable worlds, any planet you find there will be a deep-frozen wasteland. Nation just takes loners and misfits, pairs them with a loner replika, and shoots them with fanfare into nothingness, never to be heard from again. Yes, a totalitarian nation would absolutely kill hundreds of people to create a fake image of greatness, they wouldn't even have any seconds thoughts. c) There is at least one shot of Falke that is literally a repaint of Ariane's face from later (and is also probably a visual reference to Ghost in the Shell). Couple that with the fact that Falke is the clone of the Great Revolutionary, a strongly bioresonant individual and leader of the Nation, and you have a startling clue that perhaps Ariane is not just very similar to Alina, but also maybe to the Great Revolutionary? And since Empress of the Empire is also a strongly bioresonant individual, maybe she's also part of the same stock? Sort of bioresonace-created echoes of each other, clones, but not genetic clones, more like bioresonance (maybe inadvertently) creating/molding nearly identical messiah/chosen figures by affecting them before birth? I hope developers do something with this. A couple of things I choose to believe: a) there is no eldritch being, it's all just Ariane and her dream. The red eye is just her watching over the dream, as she's very noticeably an albino, with white hair and red eyes (and a great addition to a pantheon of anime girls with naturally red eyes, yay!) b) The "promise" was never to kill Ariane. To get the "promise" ending, you need to take a lot of damage, deal a lot of damage, and take more than 12 hours to complete the game. At that point, a very damaged, tired and worn down Elster would choose to just end her lover's suffering, but that's not necessarily it, not what this warrior woman would endure all of this for, not to just kill her little goddess. The real promise is to be together again, even if in the middle of a ship/world that is long-abandoned and falling apart, which is what they achieve in the secret ending. c) A lot of German art and literature through the ages is about fear of a giant impending catastrophe, but also about finding solace amid the ruins of the world after it has all ended, so I agree with your optimistic take. I'm not an art scholar, but deep integration of this theme is what makes Signalis a definitive modern German masterpiece for me. Sorry, this was long, but this is what Signalis does to my brain >.
I actually really dig this causal conversationalist approach to discussing the game. So much of Signalis is equally objective as it is subjective, and it poses so many complicated questions that don't have a single clear answer. It's a wonderfully dense game to talk about.
Thank you! I generally try to keep my videos pretty light, easy to watch, like we’re having a conversation. Some stuff does this better than others, but I’m glad you enjoyed it!
got any metro videos lined up? you got me into the franchise (I’m 4 achievements away from 100% of last light) loved your signalis videos!! cool stuff, pretty interesting sci-fi setting
Actually, yeah! I have a sort of long bucket list of videos and unfortunately not nearly enough time for all of them, so I have to pick and choose carefully. I’ve been planning to do a longer look at the whole series for a LONG time, I just haven’t gotten around to it.
Honestly, the second I saw your face I subbed, unsubbed, disliked, pulled my eyes out and fed my dog a ham sandwich (unrelated). Great video. I hate to suggest things in other creator's comments, but anyone wondering what the hell happened in Signalis, I suggest Power Pak's video. I think it's the clearest, and probably closest we can possibly get, to the truth.
one day i wanna make like a tumblr post or someting talking about all the philosophical aspects of SIGNALIS. i love philosophy, it's always great to have medias that dwells deep into it and i think SIGNALIS is perfect in that (it's my second favorite piece of media ever, tied with Madoka Magica) but yea, lesbians :)
If you needed a long break then please don’t beat yourself up over it. You don’t owe us anything. I understand missing the income you could have made for sure. But losing family? Give yourself a break for needing your break. Wishing you better days!
Trust me lmao income is not much of a concern on here yet. I’m in school and have a job outside this, and while I am TECHNICALLY monetized, it doesn’t amount to much typically. I do actually enjoy doing this, otherwise I wouldn’t upload at all. Thanks for the continued support though, I always love seeing familiar faces around here!
Thanks for watching! Any questions? Let me know! (also please let me know what I can do better or if I was wrong about anything)
One of my favorite themes of the game it's theit love of art itself, they say bad artists copy, but good ones steal.
Signalis is such a piece that shows you clearly what inspired it and isn't afraid nor ashame to show it to you, how they use their references and make them to themselves, I love how you don't need to really know those references but it endorse your experience, for example my friend play it and didn't get the Evangelion episode 25 reference, the one where all the characters flash inside of Shinji, where for Shinji is he realizing he isn't alone, that he isn't an island, meanwhile for Elster is reafirming the idea that she's been there before, that she's stuck on a cycle, as well Elster breaking her arm it's a rotoscopie of Major Kusanagi breaking her limbs as well, both showing how little they care about their machinery bodies in favor of their objectives. You use Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to open Falke's owl box, who could herself being a reference to Odile, the black swan who is the daughter of Baron Von Rothbart who is represented as an owl and fools Prince Siegfried to make Odile -Falke- look like Princess Odette -Ariane-, at the end both Siegfried and Odette being reunited by death -wink-.
Even their use of art in the universe itself, why does this militant regime has pieces like Isle of The Death and Saturn eating his Son on their replaceable soldiers dormants? Ariane it's cast away for her love of art and creation of it. It feels exactly like how art it's use and consume nowadays, just like a decour, without much thought of appreciation of it, just something to put and never think much about it, how corporations treat creatives, leaving them behind and using them just as tools for their business.
I love Signalis, it's a beautiful piece of art, I can't wait too see the seed of inspiration that planted to bloom and inspire many other artists through the years, through the indie-videogame scene or anyone who gets inspired by it.
Thank you for your perspective! This is definitely something I could've touched on myself if I had noticed it sooner, fortunately you did it for me. I think I was scratching the edges of it at a couple points but this definitely could've used a whole segment. Regardless, thanks so much for your comment; I love getting lengthy stuff like this, it makes me feel like the insane investment I put into my projects are worth it. Hope to see you around here, glad you love Signalis as much as me!
I genuinely love seeing that about 2 years after it's release, people are still making videos about this kinda small indie game
I just found it a week ago, I was surprised to see it was 2 years old, I was just recently hearing about it. I hope that means it’s getting cult classic status
near perfect works of art tend to have that effect
I really hope the developer's rose engine will still make games similar to signalis they are actually really good 👍 👏
-goes to a forest to film
-immediately becomes shocked and disgusted by the presence of a spider lmaooo
Great video, once again :)
I tend to be bad at predicting easily predictable things
@@CNRMRY_YT that is genuinely endearing :) lol
i genuinely love that you picked a forest to talk about this game, having the bird song in the background is such a lovely ambience and it's beautiful :3
I need more Signalis, it’s been out for a couple years, but just getting it’s cult classic status recently. I will be coming back to this video every few months 😊
thank you!
Oh, friend, there are so many little details that can help your experience be better. Not gonna list all of them, just a few.
a) Alina likely died 10 years ago on Vineta, there is a picture appearing very briefly of Lilith standing in shallow water, placing a flower on one of 6 gravestones (like the ones in secret ending). Since their unit was 8 people, and she and Rebecca [don't remember the last name] were the ones who were present on Rot Front later, that likely means that Alina is one of the 6 that didn't make it out of Vineta. You're probably right that once Ariane "took over" Sierpinski, she just recreated Alina, like she recreated Isa, and possibly all of the Elsters that kept trying to reach the gate and fulfill the promise.
b) Since Empire and Nation are very much modeled after West and East Germany, their respective terribleness, and the tragedy of people caught between the two is very authentic. I say this as someone living in post-Soviet space. The Penrose triangle, which is the icon for the game and the logo for the program, is literally an impossible shape. It can't be more clear that the mission is designed to be impossible. The 512 is likely a serial number, with 511 other ships preceding this one, and LSTR being the Landship Survey Technician Replika are designed to be deployed on Penrose ships specifically, which are in turn designed to be mass-produced and sent on a one-way trip into cold emptiness of space, to "Demonstrate technological superiority of the Nation". It's not a case of them hoping to actually find anything or deal with dangerous individuals. There's not enough light and warmth in Oort cloud for habitable worlds, any planet you find there will be a deep-frozen wasteland. Nation just takes loners and misfits, pairs them with a loner replika, and shoots them with fanfare into nothingness, never to be heard from again. Yes, a totalitarian nation would absolutely kill hundreds of people to create a fake image of greatness, they wouldn't even have any seconds thoughts.
c) There is at least one shot of Falke that is literally a repaint of Ariane's face from later (and is also probably a visual reference to Ghost in the Shell). Couple that with the fact that Falke is the clone of the Great Revolutionary, a strongly bioresonant individual and leader of the Nation, and you have a startling clue that perhaps Ariane is not just very similar to Alina, but also maybe to the Great Revolutionary? And since Empress of the Empire is also a strongly bioresonant individual, maybe she's also part of the same stock? Sort of bioresonace-created echoes of each other, clones, but not genetic clones, more like bioresonance (maybe inadvertently) creating/molding nearly identical messiah/chosen figures by affecting them before birth? I hope developers do something with this.
A couple of things I choose to believe:
a) there is no eldritch being, it's all just Ariane and her dream. The red eye is just her watching over the dream, as she's very noticeably an albino, with white hair and red eyes (and a great addition to a pantheon of anime girls with naturally red eyes, yay!)
b) The "promise" was never to kill Ariane. To get the "promise" ending, you need to take a lot of damage, deal a lot of damage, and take more than 12 hours to complete the game. At that point, a very damaged, tired and worn down Elster would choose to just end her lover's suffering, but that's not necessarily it, not what this warrior woman would endure all of this for, not to just kill her little goddess. The real promise is to be together again, even if in the middle of a ship/world that is long-abandoned and falling apart, which is what they achieve in the secret ending.
c) A lot of German art and literature through the ages is about fear of a giant impending catastrophe, but also about finding solace amid the ruins of the world after it has all ended, so I agree with your optimistic take. I'm not an art scholar, but deep integration of this theme is what makes Signalis a definitive modern German masterpiece for me.
Sorry, this was long, but this is what Signalis does to my brain >.
I love this comment, thank you for all these amazing insights.
I actually really dig this causal conversationalist approach to discussing the game. So much of Signalis is equally objective as it is subjective, and it poses so many complicated questions that don't have a single clear answer. It's a wonderfully dense game to talk about.
Thank you! I generally try to keep my videos pretty light, easy to watch, like we’re having a conversation. Some stuff does this better than others, but I’m glad you enjoyed it!
i cannot believe i can’t gatekeep your face anymore. heartbroken.
When he said: "It's MURRAY TIME" and connored all over the place, i cried.
just murray'd all over my keyboard
Very nicely done video. Love the much more chill and laid down vibe with just you sitting in a forest talking. Stop worrying too much and just do you!
Loved the video, it was very chill and funny (giving the despaired story you were telling us). Thank you for your work
I honestly thought the camera troubles were a setup for a horror gimmick at first lol
That probably would’ve been a good idea I’m just stupid
@@CNRMRY_YT if you ever film in the forest again, you could throw in the gimmick that time as a surprise
Amazed u have a face i thought u were just the letters CM
do you have any idea how long it took me to code this video
You're evil for that camera flashbang
Any time I wanna have a freaky, weird as$ dream I just pop on my headphones, queue up the Signalis OST, and drift off. Works every time.
RETURN OF THE KING
got any metro videos lined up?
you got me into the franchise (I’m 4 achievements away from 100% of last light)
loved your signalis videos!! cool stuff, pretty interesting sci-fi setting
Actually, yeah! I have a sort of long bucket list of videos and unfortunately not nearly enough time for all of them, so I have to pick and choose carefully. I’ve been planning to do a longer look at the whole series for a LONG time, I just haven’t gotten around to it.
Love it
Thank you!
Honestly, the second I saw your face I subbed, unsubbed, disliked, pulled my eyes out and fed my dog a ham sandwich (unrelated).
Great video. I hate to suggest things in other creator's comments, but anyone wondering what the hell happened in Signalis, I suggest Power Pak's video. I think it's the clearest, and probably closest we can possibly get, to the truth.
one day i wanna make like a tumblr post or someting talking about all the philosophical aspects of SIGNALIS. i love philosophy, it's always great to have medias that dwells deep into it and i think SIGNALIS is perfect in that (it's my second favorite piece of media ever, tied with Madoka Magica) but yea, lesbians :)
If you needed a long break then please don’t beat yourself up over it. You don’t owe us anything. I understand missing the income you could have made for sure. But losing family? Give yourself a break for needing your break. Wishing you better days!
Trust me lmao income is not much of a concern on here yet. I’m in school and have a job outside this, and while I am TECHNICALLY monetized, it doesn’t amount to much typically. I do actually enjoy doing this, otherwise I wouldn’t upload at all. Thanks for the continued support though, I always love seeing familiar faces around here!
I'm in love 💕💕
miss u elliot
Nice❤
Real art and too deep,.. Really deep... It not a video game at this point.
wait.... you don't look 4 feet tall and 500 pounds?!?!
Best looking vidya essay youtuber honestly, not to imply that there is competition in that domain; but he may as well take this as a compliment.
its just a cool camera trick i learned, sort of plays with your perspective
This guy looks like he has a stellar girlfriend
sometimes!