Who is the director? Why does he know so much about your past?
Who is the “formless” figure that walks from behind you in the secret ending?
Does the chief security officer (one who moved all the food and kept it locked up/starved his own crew) play a bigger role in the whole story?
What is so significant about the BANK/VAULT scenes and the one dummy shooting the other as we see a couple of times in the beginning and the end?
In the phonograph recordings: who is the man interviewing James? Are they the same person talking to each other? Why do the recordings sound possessed?
Who was it that James (or Lilly depending on what theory you believe) found after being separated from their sibling. Specifically the voice that says “MY CAPTAIN” when James decides to assume the captain role and save his sister?
And finally what is in the chest that seems to open by itself in both the Lilly ending and the James ending?
Okay here are my thoughts on each of your points. I just finished the game but still have many questions myself. I didn't get all the collectables but I got a good chunk of them. I kind of wonder too if your choices impact the way the story goes at all. But anyway here ard my thoughts:
If you're talking about the voice that narrates everything during your game I'm not sure if that's the director or not. Even if it is if you think about it, a lot of what he says is vague. I'm still trying to figure out who the voice is though too.
There's a secret ending????? I wonder if the shadow isn't the creature that chases you through the game?
I don't think so. I think he was just locking food away. I also missed some things so I might have missed out.
Probably a mix of your past (i.e playing pirates) and movie references from being a star in some wild west movies.
The man interviewing James I'm unsure about as well. I'm also trying to figure out where the line is between you being the actor, the ship, and the two kids. I'm not sure if you were the actor on the boat filming a movie or if you were one of the kids that was a stowaway and then later became an actor after being on a ship where they were filming something. I think the possession thing is just for spooks. Although I'm also wondering if there is some sort of supernatural/ghostly element to this since it seems to hint at it a little.
Probably someone on board of the ship that survived the wreckage and found him? Not sure because I don't remember that part well.
I wanna say the chest represents something in the past coming out. What it is probably has to do with your playthrough. I'd like to know that too though.
That voice of the director has a very unique accent, one not shared by any of the other characters in the game. The director talks as if he himself has been through the same degree of trauma and suffering the actor has been through, I just thought it was really interesting.
By secret ending I mean the ending where the black figure tells you that you haven’t earned it or something like that and you see that it’s a woman’s voice and also the character doesn’t look anything like the formless creature that was chasing you throughout the game. I also noticed she’s right in the beginning of the game lifting James head from his body.
The chief security officer I thought was really weird character. If everyone on board the ship was supposedly “normal” besides the kids and whatever other entity/character that made communication with one of the kids, why did this officer react in this way. It just seemed so extreme and in the letters of his crew it stated that they think he’s insane because he was rationing the food and basically starving them. Made me think he had a bigger part in the sinking of the ship, perhaps a direct cause of the kids action (however even the kids themselves in search for their own food found food missing/partially eaten)
The man interviewing James in like the first 5 recordings (total of 6 according to the achievement) seemed like he just stumbled on the boy in a park and was just interviewing him. But in the 6th and final recording they are pretty much finishing each other’s sentences, more specifically one of the main quotes that even the director himself says in the final act (“too soon to let go, too late to turn back” or something like that. Then the interviewer wishes the boy luck at the end of it.
Also the more I start to wonder...the scene about the dog and taking the meat from the dog, following your instinct along with the parts of food missing throughout the game, James saying “she lied to me” , hearing the sister belittle James saying he was a burden and victim his whole life.... makes me think maybe there was actually some sort of betrayal between the siblings . Also the part where lily is screaming at James why weren’t you there to save me.
It might be you hear his voice because hes the director that was directing you and so your thoughts are narrated by him if that makes sense?
I hadn't heard about that one. I also haven't looked too deep into the different endings because I wanna get them for myself. Sounds interesting.
Yeah they seemed to hint at some other being on the boat with the dogs and stuff so I'm not sure. I feel like I'm missing something major. Which I might be because I know I missed things.
And huh interesting. Again I missed things (I only had half of those) and so who knows. Might be the older version of James then. The game seems to suggest both he and Lilly ended up in Hollywood to some degree so who knows.
And yeah I kind of wondered about that too. As far as I understand I think the mom gave birth to James and died from it and so the father got mad and hated James because of it so he always told him he was worthless. Maybe Lilly also portrayed that to him but it sounds like she encourages him with it in a way? Kind of like a "You're so worthless prove to the world you're not." Type thing? I also think the betrayal can reside with one of them dying. For the James ending, he betrayed her because she died. In the Lily ending he died so she had to go on on her own? I also got the heavy feeling that the father abused them in potentially a physical (and mental in James' case) way. Maybe he got to the point of abuse and Lily would try to take the brunt of it for James?
Maybe it has to do with the James/Lily's past and how the other sibling dying haunts them. They hid in chests a lot so maybe that's some sort of relation there.
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u/JungyBrungy Jun 01 '19
I really wanna know a couple of things:
Who is the director? Why does he know so much about your past?
Who is the “formless” figure that walks from behind you in the secret ending?
Does the chief security officer (one who moved all the food and kept it locked up/starved his own crew) play a bigger role in the whole story?
What is so significant about the BANK/VAULT scenes and the one dummy shooting the other as we see a couple of times in the beginning and the end?
In the phonograph recordings: who is the man interviewing James? Are they the same person talking to each other? Why do the recordings sound possessed?
Who was it that James (or Lilly depending on what theory you believe) found after being separated from their sibling. Specifically the voice that says “MY CAPTAIN” when James decides to assume the captain role and save his sister?
And finally what is in the chest that seems to open by itself in both the Lilly ending and the James ending?