[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[aquilantiqua]

Hey everyone.

Integria put forth an interesting theory and it does wokr a bit. The barriers we see all over the game, only certain things being allowed to move, the filter over the game, and towards the final act & the final act where things and you appear and reappear.

I think this is something occurin the mind of our protagonist. Now if this is the path we'll go then we can look at the rest of the game in a different light:
- Nothing we saw occured but the delusions of a madman and him killing himself is himself releasing himself.

So maybe, we're seeing a life pasting through our prog's life. He's already killed himself (maybe that's why he's returning to the temple, the way where he killed himself) and during his last minutes, he's trying to puzzle everything together, all the crimes his done and to make amends with himself and his children.

So the filter, is a sort of dream haze, a death haze.

This direction of thought is the thing making the most sense to me right now. Going further with the shifting of the environment and "teleportations", specially near the end where it gets much more noticeable and intense, it could be an indicator the unstable power balance between Mandus and his "evil" half. The little things like doorways disappearing could be the evil half toying with his memories of the place to keep him mentally unstable. However, the teleportations seem out of your control, but they don't hamper your progress and if anything seem to put you closer to your goal. They could be representative of Mandus' other half losing power and you're able to jump ahead in your mind/memories where normally you'd have to make the slow, obstacle-filled crawl through the Machine.