It can stay underrated..... people who will appreciate it come to play and experience it, the community is quite tightly knit and it's fun, last thing that's needed is it becoming super mainstream and played by people who will just overreact for views
I see this often. Signalis is NOT underrated, just not mainstream. Underrated means that a lot of people don't realize the potential. Signalis just isn't a story that will resonate with Bill and Ted who play FIFA on the weekend. That does not make it underrated. In fact, I'd say that the people that DID play it would say it highly rated.
Underrated? You are joking, right?) 1) 549k. units sold on Steam. 2) 1900 reviews on Steam that's 97% positive. This is a tremendous success for an indie game without advertisement and noname (in that time) developers. In my opinion this game hugely overated. Don't get me wrong I LOVE aesthetics and lore of this game but game mechanics in general are not good. Yes there are few cool ideas but they used rarely and poorly. As and example "Radio" is interesting in terms of mechanics and whole "vibe" but it could be used in more subtle and interesting way. "Survival" mechanics doesn't exist in this game at all. You can combine or create items but it mostly for puzzles. Battle mechanics are strange and sometimes absurd. It was much easier for me just run through enemies than trying to kill them. After the second chapter the game become more like labyrinth journey where you just try to find key items completely ignoring enemies because there is no need to waste ammo. After this game slowly start to loose atmosphere of a horror movie and become something repetitive and boring.
same shit with fear and hunger lol, game has similar theme of hopeless struggle against cosmic forces, yet fandom be like: I want to FUCK this character
This and CONTROL have the fucking hardest title drops ever. With this it's unnerving and almost horrifically beautiful. With Control, it's an oppressive thud, and nothing more. This game wrecked me emotionally. I've never connected so deeply with a character, like I have with Elster. I suppose it's because she reminds me a lot of my sister.
@@hippiethebill Doom's is alright. It's kinda generic and could have been done better, because the entire game is great. Another game with some of the best title card drops though has to be the Ace Combat series, but also Project Wingman, especially the mission ones. Kings in PW has one of the best openings ever. It's eerily silent, no HUD, just a title card for the mission, then the boss flies past and the music kicks off, with the titlecard fading.
Well maybe its because im just starting the game but it doesnt feel scary to me, at least for now. I hope It can match the ammount of horror that is in "Darkwood" because that game had me take looong breakes, thats how scary it was for me
@@professorryze3739 I personally don't think Signalis is the scary kind of horror it's more of the chilling kind of horror like more existential and gives me the same feeling I got when I finished something like Evangelion, I'm sort of glad that Signalis isn't straight up horrifying but its atmosphere and presentation makes me always come back to it
CONTROL, SOMA, now SIGNALIS. My favorite, most unnerving video games. To date. SIGNALIS is something else. It's presented in a very unique way, and it's intensely, painfully metaphysical. A love letter to early Resident Evil, Mulholland Drive, and H. P. Lovecraft. It crawled beneath my skin and won't leave. It's been weeks now and not a day goes by without thinking of Elster/LSTR/Magpie/Kasasagi. This game sticks with you. Seriously, the last time a video game story resonated with me so much is like a decade ago when SOMA was released. SIGNALIS is a fever dream realized and presented in the best possible way. Literally the only gripe I have with it is that the aim system sometimes takes a second to register a target, but fuck that, it's not a shooter anyway. It is a perfect video game and living proof that the medium can be an art form. To think 2 people have made it is beyond... words. I feel very lucky to have lived this long. It's a bittersweet thing to ponder. TLDR; beautifully painful video game.
started the game like 25 minutes ago and this intro gave me the biggest goosebumps in my life. when a game does that for me, I just know I'm in it for the long run. really looking forward to my experience with this game
My brother in law FINALLY just started playing this morning. I got it for him for Christmas. Every time I’ve seen him since then, I’ve said “you know how I know you haven’t started playin it yet…? Because I know that as soon as you pick up The King in Yellow, you’ll be giving me updates around the clock.” Sure enough. He started playing today. He’s been texting me all morning. Lol 😂 It’s that intro cutscene. Perfect. Beautiful. Hooks you in. All that I’ve texted him in response is “ACHTUNG… ACHTUNG… ACHTUNG…”
Idea 1: Elster is hallucinating the game whilst dying of radiation poisoning because she can't get herself to fulfill The Promise Idea 2: Elster is just an eepy gal who is having funky little nightmares on the trip back to Rotfront
Idea 3: Arianne used her for some extracurricular extranet activities and now the poor replika's got a computer virus. Dammit Arianne, this is why we install VMs on isolated hardware for those activities!
only suffering awaits us from this point on interlaced by few solitary notes, memories of what we had just to make the end of it all even more bittersweet
I hate how this version of the track isn't the one in the soundtrack, it's so impactful. Since that's the case, I wonder where it comes from, as was the case with the other songs like Serenade or Summer.
@@sarahe.nardandrea7639 I meant this version of The Promise which was based off of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude, sorry. The 3 Note Oddity is interesting though.
I'm a little late but I'm pretty sure this version is actually just that section of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude. From what I can tell after listening to both, I can't discern the difference (though I can with the soundtrack Promise).
Started playing this. The amount of emotions I went through during this can't be properly described. Confusion, fear, hopelessness, nostalgia because of the sounds straight out of the 90s. But also that feeling that something happened and I woke up not remembering shit but knowing there is something I must do and yet being confused about the reason. (Reminds me of depression and using substances even) It feels both great and... Uneasy
I just started playing the game after I got a few things recommended on UA-cam. Fan works of Replikas going along with seemingly normal business I assume. I’m about an hour in. UA-cam is diving deeper into the signalis fanworks and I am… so extremely terrified for what may happen. I cannot wait for it. On another note, this title drop chilled me to the bone and hooked me. The game is a special kind of terrifying I haven’t found in other games yet. And I can’t wait to see where it drags me off to now. Edit: I just fell into an elevator shaft…. I know this isn’t the end of it… but oh god
@@selinali1500oh wow it has only been 3 months? Thank you for asking about my progress. Needless to say… calling it "I’m done with the game by now" is inaccurate so… I have finished the game for now. God it was a rolercoaster Spoilers from here on out for anyone else reading. If you are still reading… please go play the game yourself if you haven’t. It may take some time if you’re not into longer ish games but god… it is worth it. So… I don’t exactly know how it continued from the time I made the post but I assume I found the next lower level after writing it. I had a shock when first landing in the elevator shaft and you can surely guess what my reaction was when I saw the entire shaft filled to the next level with more. I continued down with… I think only a small amount of help from the playthrough. The water level puzzle and the planet alignment puzzle (I may have the stupid tbh). But anyhow… I continued down and on. By now some memories are blurry. But when I found Falke holding the owl lockbox sound thing… I was confused. The Radio of the "Eulenlieder" chilled me. The kolobris were so terrifying. I also found the Ara in the vent. She puzzles me still. I eventually went to nowhere and encountered Erica again. With troubles of course. I remember dying once or twice in the rooms just full of replicas. Anyhow…. I kept going, confused by the many symbols. 512 repeating and then finally encountering the beginning again. Walking past Adler and then seeing the many bodies once more. And then finally the Penrose. I had seen a video partially about the game before. So the scene with the many Elsters wasn’t unfamiliar to me. By now I was just curious and so entirely full of questions… Ok this should have been boring enough for anyone who was still reading and didn’t know the game to have left by now. I was shocked when Elster broke her arm. I was so ready to see the end and then… she fails. None of my questions answered. And then the menu screen killed me… the eye. I was so in denial i immediately entered again and….. things were off. It felt brighter and so I explored… the ship seemed… fine. "I Hope i Never have to use this" and other remarks so instinctively familiar yet emotionally charged by Elster in a ship previously described so cold. Blank facts in the intro. "A picture depicting Ariane young". The envelope still closed on the desk about how to deal with LSTR units. I opening it gave me more questions. But after the checklist was done.. I understood partially… they danced and seemed so happy… Elster and Ariane… Just.. dancing to a familiar song.. and then the cut off after the two fell asleep in bed… discordant familiar music. And an Elster who failed on the floor in the snow or desert. A sickly looking Ariane looking down at her… by then I didn’t know her name entirely… but now I do… "remember our promise" followed by Elster Waking up and entering… a broken ship. Making her way to the cryo chamber to do what I assumed would be fulfill her promise… and then… the sight of flesh and a dead armored Elster. Yet another one who failed before me. Seeing her armor herself and fix herself using another her… god… I Must fulfill that promise. At all costs… I stormed rotfront like I was an Angel of death. Only the areas I could. Perpetually low on Ammo. Yet always managing. Just enough flares… the many cards. The dials. And a familiar marking on the wall.. through it a familiar office. Inside this small hole in the wall of… how the hell did I get here? I eventually solved the puzzles. Saw the itou book store and… Erika… giving up… succumbing to her illness… this game was a rollercoaster. Until now I was sure I would succeed… now I was worried… what if Ariane has already faded or will fade like Erika? And all the others? (I completely blanked on the fact I went through the ||idk the name behind the censor|| again. I remembered the code. 204512.. I am astonished i still remember it tbh. Anyhow…) Going through all that filled me with more dread. Hesitation… and the literal promise pushed me forward… hold shit this game… when I finally got to the room through the wall… I was still confused. But it was Arianes. I was getting closer. I understood a bit more of her situation. If only little. I followed the hallway. Confused by the many notes. Some explained a bit. Others didn’t.. I’m just now noticing how much I’m skipping over. The sweet mynah in the mines… the encounter between Adler and Erica before nowhere. Cigarette wife. Honestly it’s all feeling just as out of place as the game did. Which, to me, feels poetic. Another familiar depiction yet again slightly different. Another cycle. I first turned around. I had the safe (saves actually) after all. I found Adlers Office.kept going and encountered Falke. I wouldn’t let her stop me. I had all the weapons I needed. A pistol, a revolver and a rifle. A promise had taken me as far to try and take out what is essentially an artificial god…. I died so many times. I thought about giving up. But I wouldn’t let that stop me. No god can keep me from saving her… eventually she fell. 6 spears. And finally I could continue. Only Adler in my way now… waiting atop the stairs. As the music was raising. Finally I will be able to embrace Ariane again… Once again… "you’ve returned… are you really willing to go through with this once more? You’ve seen what happens. This world cannot take much more. This may be our last chance." I hate Adler… not because of his character writing… but because of how much he stood against me… I fought god. And there he is. Calling me a selfish monster…. Despite the attack.. a Stab to the eye.. Elster perseveres. Despite the bleeding she keeps going. All the way to the Penrose 512.. once more…. I pray she gets inside this time. And behold… the airlock askew… she opens it. I finally get inside… A mess meets me. A dooming message… soon they should die… "don’t try to extend your suffering"… 3000 cycles only to be left behind to die… Ariane withering… and soon… Elster too… Over 5000 cycles… they lived for that long… elster dead in the corner of Arianes room… "I couldn’t keep my promise". Or something along those lines… time to make it right… but just what is my promise? What can I even do? There she is… I have come to remember my promise… and Ariane awakens… she knows me and calls my name… Elster can’t do it? Why not? We’re here aren’t we? We have to do it. Wait… "time for this to end?" "Du hast es versprochen" What is…. Oh…. Oh no…. Im sorry….. time runs out… It is done… Elster finally fails… My first time playing was 12 hours long and I played more offensively. You can guess where that lead me I’m sure. I continued playing after. I fell so deep into the signalis hole… sixnalis… the dreamers.. the eye… by now I have almost all achievements and almost all endings. Including the key ending.. the white Lilly… us two dancing once again……. This game destroyed me and k would do it again for her… I will cherish it forever… it has dethroned my previously favorite game… OneShot. Also a great game that has a painful story. This is where I leave it now. Sorry it this was too long or incomprehensible.
@@seierredstone Yeah this game does that to you Don't worry about writing alot it was enjoyable to read Usually I make a voice recording whenever I finish a game to be introspective or whatever and my recording for Signalis was stupid longg
There is a lot of symbolism regarding that painting in particular, one of the tracks in the OST is called Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) which is based on Rachmaninoff's composition whose name translates to "Isle of Death". Upon closer inspection, Signalis as a whole seems more like a collage of references, ideas and homages to different pieces of media with themes that are reflected in the story itself. In a way, the in-universe name for humans, "Gestalts", represents the game in relation to Gestalt psychology, wherein a "Gestalt" is a unit which has more value than the sum of its parts - like how Signalis is more than the references that comprise it. There's so much to this game, one would go mad trying to comprehend its spanning themes - much like The King in Yellow...
i found the song in the background !!! it's Preludes, Op. 28: No.15, Raindrop, by Frédéric Chopin and Mus Symphony. this part in particular is somewhere in the middle.
Good Mork this is gonna be a ride, isn't it? The atmosphere in just the room beyond this is as dense and heavy as lead...and I think imma play in armour and with my gun close next time I boot it up. THE CHILLS
First time watching this: confused, intrigued. Pulled in by the mystery and what lies ahead. The second time, now with perspective: uncontrollably sobbing and crying T-T
Not quite - The Promise is based on the same piece (Chopin's Prelude 28-15) but I believe it has some subtle differences in the way it's played and arranged.
I hate Signalis because while i am too much of a coward to play it for longer than, like, 10 minutes at a time before alt+f4ing, i am also too intrigued by the story to just let it go. Is this what finding eldritch texts is like ?
Same. I'm such a baby when it comes to horror games but I am obsessed with the art and music and tone that I keep playing this game with one hand over my damn eyes basically.
After my first play through i noticed, that on book we can see the same 6 sigils from the ending. And that 20 numbers are not a random numbers but safe code for secret ending. Just wow
Might be reading too much into it but considering all the other Elsters we see along the way it seems likely that the short flash of the game over (fatal error) screen might be the first Elster, the one we control before this scene dying
@@Lubble- I clarified that i meant the one we control before this scene, not the true first Elster, that Elster is still stuck on the real penrose, collapsed on the floor
Chilling title drop. Can't comprehend how underrated this game is
Chilling . Can't comprehend this game
It can stay underrated..... people who will appreciate it come to play and experience it, the community is quite tightly knit and it's fun, last thing that's needed is it becoming super mainstream and played by people who will just overreact for views
I see this often. Signalis is NOT underrated, just not mainstream. Underrated means that a lot of people don't realize the potential. Signalis just isn't a story that will resonate with Bill and Ted who play FIFA on the weekend. That does not make it underrated. In fact, I'd say that the people that DID play it would say it highly rated.
@@Exciya good points
Underrated?
You are joking, right?)
1) 549k. units sold on Steam.
2) 1900 reviews on Steam that's 97% positive.
This is a tremendous success for an indie game without advertisement and noname (in that time) developers.
In my opinion this game hugely overated. Don't get me wrong I LOVE aesthetics and lore of this game but game mechanics in general are not good. Yes there are few cool ideas but they used rarely and poorly. As and example "Radio" is interesting in terms of mechanics and whole "vibe" but it could be used in more subtle and interesting way. "Survival" mechanics doesn't exist in this game at all. You can combine or create items but it mostly for puzzles. Battle mechanics are strange and sometimes absurd. It was much easier for me just run through enemies than trying to kill them. After the second chapter the game become more like labyrinth journey where you just try to find key items completely ignoring enemies because there is no need to waste ammo. After this game slowly start to loose atmosphere of a horror movie and become something repetitive and boring.
the game:
the fandom: UWAAAAAHHHHHH, SESBIAN LEX, ARGHHHHHHHHHH
It's a coping mechanism
it's how we cope
@@FirstNameLastName-wd8gn gotta snort thos copium huh ? XD
@@LRofKynthos when the game is too depressing that it mind breaks the whole community
same shit with fear and hunger lol, game has similar theme of hopeless struggle against cosmic forces, yet fandom be like: I want to FUCK this character
if anyone's wondering, the lines are from an hp lovecraft short story called "the festival".
I WAS wondering, thank you very much! (Edited because I initially had a question mark for some reason 😅)
This and CONTROL have the fucking hardest title drops ever. With this it's unnerving and almost horrifically beautiful. With Control, it's an oppressive thud, and nothing more.
This game wrecked me emotionally. I've never connected so deeply with a character, like I have with Elster. I suppose it's because she reminds me a lot of my sister.
Control is one of my favourite games from past few years and yes, the title drop is iconic
I'd say DOOM 2016 also has a badass title drop
@@hippiethebill Doom's is alright. It's kinda generic and could have been done better, because the entire game is great.
Another game with some of the best title card drops though has to be the Ace Combat series, but also Project Wingman, especially the mission ones. Kings in PW has one of the best openings ever. It's eerily silent, no HUD, just a title card for the mission, then the boss flies past and the music kicks off, with the titlecard fading.
The game "Observation" also has a really nice title drop with great music 👌
@@AbysswalkerASMR Never thought I'd see Observation brought up randomly. Loved that game.
The best horror game of 2022 and nothing else even comes close, Signalis should be dominating the conversation when it comes to modern horror gaming
Was my favorite game from 2022 as well and even took game of the year of 2022
Well maybe its because im just starting the game but it doesnt feel scary to me, at least for now. I hope It can match the ammount of horror that is in "Darkwood" because that game had me take looong breakes, thats how scary it was for me
@@professorryze3739 I personally don't think Signalis is the scary kind of horror it's more of the chilling kind of horror like more existential and gives me the same feeling I got when I finished something like Evangelion, I'm sort of glad that Signalis isn't straight up horrifying but its atmosphere and presentation makes me always come back to it
CONTROL, SOMA, now SIGNALIS. My favorite, most unnerving video games. To date.
SIGNALIS is something else. It's presented in a very unique way, and it's intensely, painfully metaphysical. A love letter to early Resident Evil, Mulholland Drive, and H. P. Lovecraft. It crawled beneath my skin and won't leave. It's been weeks now and not a day goes by without thinking of Elster/LSTR/Magpie/Kasasagi.
This game sticks with you. Seriously, the last time a video game story resonated with me so much is like a decade ago when SOMA was released.
SIGNALIS is a fever dream realized and presented in the best possible way. Literally the only gripe I have with it is that the aim system sometimes takes a second to register a target, but fuck that, it's not a shooter anyway. It is a perfect video game and living proof that the medium can be an art form. To think 2 people have made it is beyond... words.
I feel very lucky to have lived this long. It's a bittersweet thing to ponder. TLDR; beautifully painful video game.
started the game like 25 minutes ago and this intro gave me the biggest goosebumps in my life. when a game does that for me, I just know I'm in it for the long run. really looking forward to my experience with this game
My brother in law FINALLY just started playing this morning. I got it for him for Christmas.
Every time I’ve seen him since then, I’ve said “you know how I know you haven’t started playin it yet…? Because I know that as soon as you pick up The King in Yellow, you’ll be giving me updates around the clock.”
Sure enough. He started playing today. He’s been texting me all morning. Lol 😂
It’s that intro cutscene. Perfect. Beautiful. Hooks you in.
All that I’ve texted him in response is
“ACHTUNG…
ACHTUNG…
ACHTUNG…”
I stumbled onto this game one day on gamepass.
This opening had me hooked immediately, lovely music choice.
its prelude in d flat major Op. 28 No. 15 (raindrop prelude) imo the best of chopin
Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice
Something was unearthed.
And things have learned to walk that ought to crawl
fellow lovecraft enjoyer?
Idea 1: Elster is hallucinating the game whilst dying of radiation poisoning because she can't get herself to fulfill The Promise
Idea 2: Elster is just an eepy gal who is having funky little nightmares on the trip back to Rotfront
Idea 3: Arianne used her for some extracurricular extranet activities and now the poor replika's got a computer virus. Dammit Arianne, this is why we install VMs on isolated hardware for those activities!
first game to ever grip my soul just by dropping the title drop, absolutely incredible
only suffering awaits us from this point on interlaced by few solitary notes, memories of what we had just to make the end of it all even more bittersweet
This title drop gave me a gossebumps and chills debuff for the rest of my play session
I hate how this version of the track isn't the one in the soundtrack, it's so impactful.
Since that's the case, I wonder where it comes from, as was the case with the other songs like Serenade or Summer.
the audio at the beginning of this song is Three Note Oddity, a numbers station recording
@@sarahe.nardandrea7639 I meant this version of The Promise which was based off of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude, sorry.
The 3 Note Oddity is interesting though.
I'm a little late but I'm pretty sure this version is actually just that section of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude. From what I can tell after listening to both, I can't discern the difference (though I can with the soundtrack Promise).
@@clasy01 yep, thats the case. Forgot all about this comment when I found the playlist with it on it.
Started playing this. The amount of emotions I went through during this can't be properly described. Confusion, fear, hopelessness, nostalgia because of the sounds straight out of the 90s. But also that feeling that something happened and I woke up not remembering shit but knowing there is something I must do and yet being confused about the reason. (Reminds me of depression and using substances even)
It feels both great and... Uneasy
I finished it. What even is reality? Where the fuck am I.
@@KDZX4 I'm sorry for your loss. welcom to the club😊
ABSOLUTE CINEMA
I just started playing the game after I got a few things recommended on UA-cam. Fan works of Replikas going along with seemingly normal business I assume. I’m about an hour in. UA-cam is diving deeper into the signalis fanworks and I am… so extremely terrified for what may happen. I cannot wait for it.
On another note, this title drop chilled me to the bone and hooked me. The game is a special kind of terrifying I haven’t found in other games yet. And I can’t wait to see where it drags me off to now.
Edit: I just fell into an elevator shaft…. I know this isn’t the end of it… but oh god
Hey, any updates?
-Someone who has finished Signalis and can't stop thinking about it
@@selinali1500oh wow it has only been 3 months? Thank you for asking about my progress. Needless to say… calling it "I’m done with the game by now" is inaccurate so… I have finished the game for now. God it was a rolercoaster
Spoilers from here on out for anyone else reading. If you are still reading… please go play the game yourself if you haven’t. It may take some time if you’re not into longer ish games but god… it is worth it.
So… I don’t exactly know how it continued from the time I made the post but I assume I found the next lower level after writing it. I had a shock when first landing in the elevator shaft and you can surely guess what my reaction was when I saw the entire shaft filled to the next level with more. I continued down with… I think only a small amount of help from the playthrough. The water level puzzle and the planet alignment puzzle (I may have the stupid tbh). But anyhow… I continued down and on. By now some memories are blurry. But when I found Falke holding the owl lockbox sound thing… I was confused. The Radio of the "Eulenlieder" chilled me. The kolobris were so terrifying. I also found the Ara in the vent. She puzzles me still. I eventually went to nowhere and encountered Erica again. With troubles of course. I remember dying once or twice in the rooms just full of replicas. Anyhow…. I kept going, confused by the many symbols. 512 repeating and then finally encountering the beginning again. Walking past Adler and then seeing the many bodies once more. And then finally the Penrose. I had seen a video partially about the game before. So the scene with the many Elsters wasn’t unfamiliar to me. By now I was just curious and so entirely full of questions…
Ok this should have been boring enough for anyone who was still reading and didn’t know the game to have left by now.
I was shocked when Elster broke her arm. I was so ready to see the end and then… she fails. None of my questions answered. And then the menu screen killed me… the eye. I was so in denial i immediately entered again and….. things were off. It felt brighter and so I explored… the ship seemed… fine. "I Hope i Never have to use this" and other remarks so instinctively familiar yet emotionally charged by Elster in a ship previously described so cold. Blank facts in the intro. "A picture depicting Ariane young". The envelope still closed on the desk about how to deal with LSTR units. I opening it gave me more questions. But after the checklist was done.. I understood partially… they danced and seemed so happy… Elster and Ariane… Just.. dancing to a familiar song.. and then the cut off after the two fell asleep in bed… discordant familiar music. And an Elster who failed on the floor in the snow or desert. A sickly looking Ariane looking down at her… by then I didn’t know her name entirely… but now I do… "remember our promise" followed by Elster Waking up and entering… a broken ship. Making her way to the cryo chamber to do what I assumed would be fulfill her promise… and then… the sight of flesh and a dead armored Elster. Yet another one who failed before me. Seeing her armor herself and fix herself using another her… god… I Must fulfill that promise. At all costs… I stormed rotfront like I was an Angel of death. Only the areas I could. Perpetually low on Ammo. Yet always managing. Just enough flares… the many cards. The dials. And a familiar marking on the wall.. through it a familiar office. Inside this small hole in the wall of… how the hell did I get here?
I eventually solved the puzzles. Saw the itou book store and… Erika… giving up… succumbing to her illness… this game was a rollercoaster. Until now I was sure I would succeed… now I was worried… what if Ariane has already faded or will fade like Erika? And all the others? (I completely blanked on the fact I went through the ||idk the name behind the censor|| again. I remembered the code. 204512.. I am astonished i still remember it tbh. Anyhow…)
Going through all that filled me with more dread. Hesitation… and the literal promise pushed me forward… hold shit this game… when I finally got to the room through the wall… I was still confused. But it was Arianes. I was getting closer. I understood a bit more of her situation. If only little. I followed the hallway. Confused by the many notes. Some explained a bit. Others didn’t..
I’m just now noticing how much I’m skipping over. The sweet mynah in the mines… the encounter between Adler and Erica before nowhere. Cigarette wife. Honestly it’s all feeling just as out of place as the game did. Which, to me, feels poetic. Another familiar depiction yet again slightly different. Another cycle.
I first turned around. I had the safe (saves actually) after all. I found Adlers Office.kept going and encountered Falke. I wouldn’t let her stop me. I had all the weapons I needed. A pistol, a revolver and a rifle. A promise had taken me as far to try and take out what is essentially an artificial god…. I died so many times. I thought about giving up. But I wouldn’t let that stop me. No god can keep me from saving her… eventually she fell. 6 spears. And finally I could continue. Only Adler in my way now… waiting atop the stairs. As the music was raising. Finally I will be able to embrace Ariane again…
Once again… "you’ve returned… are you really willing to go through with this once more? You’ve seen what happens. This world cannot take much more. This may be our last chance."
I hate Adler… not because of his character writing… but because of how much he stood against me… I fought god. And there he is. Calling me a selfish monster….
Despite the attack.. a Stab to the eye.. Elster perseveres. Despite the bleeding she keeps going. All the way to the Penrose 512.. once more…. I pray she gets inside this time. And behold… the airlock askew… she opens it. I finally get inside…
A mess meets me. A dooming message… soon they should die… "don’t try to extend your suffering"… 3000 cycles only to be left behind to die… Ariane withering… and soon… Elster too… Over 5000 cycles… they lived for that long… elster dead in the corner of Arianes room… "I couldn’t keep my promise". Or something along those lines… time to make it right… but just what is my promise? What can I even do? There she is… I have come to remember my promise… and Ariane awakens… she knows me and calls my name… Elster can’t do it? Why not? We’re here aren’t we? We have to do it. Wait… "time for this to end?"
"Du hast es versprochen"
What is…. Oh…. Oh no…. Im sorry….. time runs out…
It is done… Elster finally fails…
My first time playing was 12 hours long and I played more offensively. You can guess where that lead me I’m sure.
I continued playing after. I fell so deep into the signalis hole… sixnalis… the dreamers.. the eye… by now I have almost all achievements and almost all endings. Including the key ending.. the white Lilly… us two dancing once again…….
This game destroyed me and k would do it again for her… I will cherish it forever… it has dethroned my previously favorite game… OneShot. Also a great game that has a painful story.
This is where I leave it now. Sorry it this was too long or incomprehensible.
Oh god I wrote a lot XD
@@seierredstone Yeah this game does that to you
Don't worry about writing alot it was enjoyable to read
Usually I make a voice recording whenever I finish a game to be introspective or whatever and my recording for Signalis was stupid longg
Oh yeah out of curiosity did you play with the new or old inventory system?
One of thr flashing scenes is a famous painting "isle of death". 0:55
There is a lot of symbolism regarding that painting in particular, one of the tracks in the OST is called Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) which is based on Rachmaninoff's composition whose name translates to "Isle of Death". Upon closer inspection, Signalis as a whole seems more like a collage of references, ideas and homages to different pieces of media with themes that are reflected in the story itself. In a way, the in-universe name for humans, "Gestalts", represents the game in relation to Gestalt psychology, wherein a "Gestalt" is a unit which has more value than the sum of its parts - like how Signalis is more than the references that comprise it. There's so much to this game, one would go mad trying to comprehend its spanning themes - much like The King in Yellow...
i found the song in the background !!! it's Preludes, Op. 28: No.15, Raindrop, by Frédéric Chopin and Mus Symphony. this part in particular is somewhere in the middle.
Good Mork this is gonna be a ride, isn't it? The atmosphere in just the room beyond this is as dense and heavy as lead...and I think imma play in armour and with my gun close next time I boot it up. THE CHILLS
if anyone's wondering, the ost name for this is "The Promise"
And so begins one of the best traumatic experiences you'll ever perceive. Would do it again.
Just started playing. I’m terrified and enraptured
First time watching this: confused, intrigued. Pulled in by the mystery and what lies ahead.
The second time, now with perspective: uncontrollably sobbing and crying T-T
lol, the ost is the same from Halo 3 "Believe" trailer, so cool.
Not quite - The Promise is based on the same piece (Chopin's Prelude 28-15) but I believe it has some subtle differences in the way it's played and arranged.
One of the greatest intros in gaming, with no context at all the sound alone made me want to cry on first playthrough.
cant believe this game got me into classical music
Second time playing this game only for the artifact ending haha, I'm obsessed with this game lol
this game has been taking me 6 months so far to finish just one ending but holy snickerdoodles I love it so much
I hate Signalis because while i am too much of a coward to play it for longer than, like, 10 minutes at a time before alt+f4ing, i am also too intrigued by the story to just let it go. Is this what finding eldritch texts is like ?
Same. I'm such a baby when it comes to horror games but I am obsessed with the art and music and tone that I keep playing this game with one hand over my damn eyes basically.
This game single handily made me like classical music
One of the hardest title drops I've ever expirenced
**sees the King in Yellow**
God won't save us now...
This game and Alan Wake 2 have the hardest title drops of any games in recent memory
After my first play through i noticed, that on book we can see the same 6 sigils from the ending. And that 20 numbers are not a random numbers but safe code for secret ending. Just wow
Might be reading too much into it but considering all the other Elsters we see along the way it seems likely that the short flash of the game over (fatal error) screen might be the first Elster, the one we control before this scene dying
But the first Elster is dead?
@@Lubble- I clarified that i meant the one we control before this scene, not the true first Elster, that Elster is still stuck on the real penrose, collapsed on the floor
@@joule400 right well you did say the first Elster so that needed clarifying
This game is beautiful and scary at the same time
Like Raindrops Slowly Falling
Game is an indie Masterpiece.
Wish this cut directly after the title dropped
*Hears music*
I BELIEVE
I swear that the piano is from the halo 3: believe trailer
both are chopin’s prelude op 28, no. 15, yes.
Istg I was at the mall, and i heard the piano part playing. Ive gotta know if im crazy or not and what song was playing during the intro 😭😭😭
I love this, its so fucking good
RAAAAHHHHH RAINDROP PRELUDE RAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
big mood
Whats the ost at 2:11 when shes by the mirror? Ty
Turned Around
thank you, skipped over it in the ost because the first few seconds were so different.@@AvKriftan
@@AvKriftanThanks
Does anyone know what the name of the song that plays in the background is?
the promise - signalis ost
What song is this?
I found it it's the Raindrop Prelude by Chopin for anyone wondering
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