So about the final boss (spoilers)

[TMAC Blade]

I have to ask if the game is some sort of Hideo Kojima mind ♥♥♥♥ or if the developers are serious about the root being from another planet. I ask this because there is something called data corruption in the game and in some of the boss fights, mainly root related ones, they begin to glitch and even start displaying distortion like they're a computer program or something. The final boss does this to an insane degree and he begins to glitch out with the fight going from this glitched arena with wire frame back to the original arena. Even when it switches back to the original arena the boss is seized for a second or two glitching out until he just comes back and goes back to his attack patterns. It goes back and forth with computer distortion all through phase two. Also why does the keeper keep talking about system errors and the like? I keep hearing the root is an alien race blah blah blah but based on what is seen it feels like the world you play in is meant to be a video game and you just so happen to be the player in said video game. Maybe the world is a representation of a computer system and whats really happening is a virus infected it and your player is just the anti-virus software removing it.

[Trichouette]

The root is "alien" if you consider the current earth, but it comes from another version of earth.

What I think :
The root isn't an alien entity like the characters supposed at first.

There used to be an earth, it was the "core" of the system, but it got corrupted by the root which appeared in it.
The labyrinth's keeper sealed the core and... duplicated it into the earth we know, but without the root. (I think)
Then the root started spreading to other worlds, including the new earth.

The keeper sealed it away because it wanted to understand how the root appeared, but it turned out he couldn't contain it.

All the talk about "index" and "reboot" make it sound like a computer system indeed.
The root is corrupting the whole thing.

[TMAC Blade]

Originally posted by Trichouette:

The root is "alien" if you consider the current earth, but it comes from another version of earth.

What I think :
The root isn't an alien entity like the characters supposed at first.

There used to be an earth, it was the "core" of the system, but it got corrupted by the root which appeared in it.
The labyrinth's keeper sealed the core and... duplicated it into the earth we know, but without the root. (I think)
Then the root started spreading to other worlds, including the new earth.

The keeper sealed it away because it wanted to understand how the root appeared, but it turned out he couldn't contain it.

All the talk about "index" and "reboot" make it sound like a computer system indeed.
The root is corrupting the whole thing.

There is a running theory that Chronos VR is actually an indicator it could be some sort of military combat simulator or perhaps a VR world created to birth artificial life. What I think this might be is all the Remnant games are in a digital world and it's being housed in some sort of environment developed by some software engineers who are in the IRL and they could be trying to create some sort of digital life form. Maybe the keeper is the AI system in charge of the whole thing and the dreamers are the advanced AI life forms born from the experiment and are subsequently employed by the keeper to clean the system. Whats interesting none of the characters in the game mention the glitches or the talk about index or reboot which might indicate these digital life forms aren't real but are computer generated and exist within this system and based on their perspective, the root is an alien when in reality it's a virus installed by a hacker in the IRL.

[Trichouette]

Originally posted by TMAC Blade:

Whats interesting none of the characters in the game mention the glitches or the talk about index or reboot

Keeper & clementine do, and they're the only ones who know what is really happening.
Except for ford who just bailed and will probably be found again in DLCs.

I don't agree with the whole "we're in a fake VR world" theory though.

I just think, like the keeper said, that the world was made by "the creator" and perhaps there is no creator at all.
The world functionning like a virtual environment could be just a design choice, because after all, how else would you design "anomaly" in a way that can be recognized.

[TMAC Blade]

Originally posted by Trichouette:

Originally posted by TMAC Blade:

Whats interesting none of the characters in the game mention the glitches or the talk about index or reboot

Keeper & clementine do, and they're the only ones who know what is really happening.
Except for ford who just bailed and will probably be found again in DLCs.

I don't agree with the whole "we're in a fake VR world" theory though.

I just think, like the keeper said, that the world was made by "the creator" and perhaps there is no creator at all.
The world functionning like a virtual environment could be just a design choice, because after all, how else would you design "anomaly" in a way that can be recognized.

The creator could just the software engineer. As dumb as it sounds I'm applying some of the concepts and ideas from FreeGuy here and it kinda makes sense. Also we don't understand God either, the keeper doesn't even understand it yet he says there is one. Perhaps from their perspective the creator is this amazing being but in reality just a group of developers. Also the keeper doesn't know how the Root appeared which might indicate it was inserted into the environment and not a logged and categorized creation within the system which would be why the Keeper doesn't know where it came from.

[Valhalla]

I have always just theorized that the Root is an alien lifeform that is both organic and some sort of technilogical virus. And they use this "viral" part of them to traverse worlds when connected to them, and then use their organic half to literally spread across a world, like an actual organic virus.

I mean, who are we to say what aliens can or can't be. For all we know, there are aliens out there that age backwards, can shapeshift, can connect directly to technology.

If that isn't the case, I would think it is a bit more like the "Simulation" conspiracy theory, where all of us, everything we know in life, the entire universe, it just a simulation being watched by its creator, who people refer to as God or other such names of their choosing. And perhaps somehow a "rootkit" device is planted, which would allow a hacker to infiltrate and take control of the "Simulation" we all live in, which could be represented in any form.

So it doesn't need to be that just our characters are in some sort of in-game simulation, but rather basing it off the "Simulation" theory that IRL, the entire universe is just a simulation, and this game is showing what happens when some sort of virus or malware gets into the universes coding. Or, who knows, maybe "God" tried to deliver an update to the system, and the update was infected with malware, which is this Root we see in the game. And the "Guardians" are the Firewalls, so with the human slaying them, the Firewalls come down, and the Root can infect that segment. As for "Dreamers," they are merely backdoors to infect core systems of the simulation.

I mean, c'mon! They even have a "Backrooms" area hidden in the game!
And in the Backrooms, you find the Archon class, which is a greek word for Ruler. As in, you got into the systems backrooms and found some coding of the "ruler" of the simulation.