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Mm... something a bit paradoxal about black plague? - Tommittaja - 01-11-2011

Spoiler tags include a bit from the ending of overture Tongue
Spoiler below!
in the end, there read "and the man who entered the mine, was no more... BUT i started playing black plague... he's still there Big Grin or did they just mean it metaforically?


RE: Mm... something a bit paradoxal about black plague? - Som1Lse - 01-11-2011

(01-11-2011, 01:45 PM)Tommittaja Wrote: or did they just mean it metaforically?
Yes.

Spoiler below!
Philip is infected thus he is "no more" the Philip that once entered the mine.
He is a different one now.


RE: Mm... something a bit paradoxal about black plague? - Googolplex - 01-11-2011

Hä?
But he is the same person I think because he knews about his history.
How should it be that he is in an other body?

I have not really understand the penumbra story.
Great game but hard to understand.

RE: Mm... something a bit paradoxal about black plague? - Sessika - 01-11-2011

I think it's purely metaphorical. After all he's seen, all he now knows and has been through alongside his infection he no longer considers himself the man he used to be. Regardless of the outcome of his 'adventure' he could never go back to the life he once had because he himself has changed.

RE: Mm... something a bit paradoxal about black plague? - LucaP1000 - 06-28-2011

(01-11-2011, 06:53 PM)Sessika Wrote: I think it's purely metaphorical. After all he's seen, all he now knows and has been through alongside his infection he no longer considers himself the man he used to be. Regardless of the outcome of his 'adventure' he could never go back to the life he once had because he himself has changed.

Agree. Everyone after a similiar experience, would not be the same anymore. Philip did already know this while he was travelling toward Greenland. If you listen at the Overture intro movie, he says he knew he was leaving everyone, and maybe he won't come back anymore. Philip had two chances: stay at home, but with his father's past obscured, or risk his life but at least know what really happened.