
However, it is not 100% clear is it was an actual suicide. Driven to Suicide: The plot starts with a person who has become "tired of living" and has been lying on a pool of their own blood for about five minutes.Anxiety is a Wake-Up Call Boss since you can reach him being level 10, but he'll quite probably kick your ass. Difficulty Spike: The bosses are not easy to defeat, particularly the first two.This, coupled with the detached and sorrowful BGM helps setting the mood. Deliberately Monochrome: The first few screens of the game are rendered in grayscale.Defeat Means Friendship: The boss for each area, once defeated, becomes a new party member.Body Horror: Most enemies and NPCs show different forms of this trope and, in occasion, the environment itself.Then again, there is little the average citizen could've actually done in this situation. I can peacefully view the destruction of the universe just outside my window". Apathetic Citizens: "I knew this room was a good buy.What is the link between this story and the mind's ongoing ruin? That is up to the characters to find out. Of the rockstar, her composer and the music they made together. There is a story, there is a way to go on and there is a persistent, intoxicating presence. What remains of memory is a confusing wreck, but there is a truth hiding among those fragments. For the mind's denizens, the world is steadily coming to an end. The mind's inner structure has been thrown into chaos: the memories are confused, the details have been erased, no personality, friends or family can be recalled and no clear view of reality can be grasped. His brain is trying to come to terms with this grim event, disconnected from reality and in a state of degenerative decay. This game has been described as "a surreal post-life adventure", taking place solely in the mind of a dying man.Ī person has just died, but hasn't completely accepted it yet. The Endless Empty is a videogame made by Erik Sheader-Smith using RPG Maker VX Ace and released both on Steam and in November 2018.
