My interpretation of FAR 2 Story - SPOILERS!

[Nym™]

So I've played these games back to back for the first time a few days ago and boy...what a wonderful experience.
So of course I got hooked on the mystery of what happened to the world, all the people and most importantly who are Lone and Toe but more importantly who they are to each other.

For me the story ended on a boy meets girl theme although I've read some comments where people claim Lone is Toe's sister.

I'm looking at a series of screenshots that I took of the clues hinting at their identity and I am pretty confident Toe is not the brother of Lone.

So Changing Tides starts off as Toe falls into the water. Why and from where is pure speculation at best.

My personal guess is he's been living in that abandoned town for a while scavenging and simply tripped and fell in the water during one of his routine scavenge dives.

Explanation: There is a makeshift raft tied to the sunken car and an opened chest, at the very beginning. I'm not sure what to make of it except that the car is used as an anchor for the raft as Toe goes on these dives to loot the chest and gather whatever he can use from the bottom.

The point is, Toe is not new to this place. He's been living here for a while.

Bare with me, there is more evidence to support this.

As we make our way East (to the right of the screen :D) we come across some flooded buildings.

One of those buildings is actually a workshop/boat machine garage and it's only accessible from the outside through the shack where Toe sleeps.

So why this house and not another house? There are plenty to choose from after all. The house just before this one can be accessed easily.

Well... because this house has all the neat drawings on the walls and because it's the house where the Big Painting of the Pretty Lady with the Pretty Flower is.

And Toe is a little boy, all alone. So he makes his home in the little shack there, close to the water so he can explore and scavenge, and at night before he goes to sleep, he draws himself with the pretty lady so he doesn't feel so alone. In his dreams they are together.

Toe's clothes don't really fit, do they? They're quite.... big for him. That's because he's wearing the clothes he found in the Pretty Lady's house. A nice blue and white blouse, and possibly one of her workshop aprons or satchels cut up to fit as pants.

That takes care of the initial setting for me. He never actually met the lady in the painting, but he lived in Flooded Town long enough after she'd already left, to wonder who she was and imagine how she might have been and how they might have been together.

Toe falling into the water seemingly unconscious in the beginning of the game is somewhat metaphoric. It conveys to me that Toe probably doesn't remember who he is or who/where his parents are.

As to why he sets out to the Right, who knows?

Maybe there's no more stuff to scavenge...symbolic empty chest next to the sunken car?

Or maybe he stumbles on that map in the Pretty Lady's workshop that shows her setting off from the Flooded Town, all the way to somewhere else and he decides to go and find her.

Fast forward and Little Toe actually does find Pretty Lady. Sadly she is forever asleep. Her boat machine was not very lucky and got caught in the ice.... Toe's boat machine got swallowed up too. So that's a very scary and dangerous place to be.

But what's that?...Pretty Lady has a picture of another child. She must have went looking for them but never got there because of the ice.

Realization: There's another child out there, just like Toe, all alone that probably has a drawing or Pretty Lady on their wall!

Fear not! Toe will go find them! And then Toe will finally have a friend!

Fast forward to the end, Lone lights a signal fire, Toe sounds a horn and hope is kindled.

They find each other. Lone takes their hat off and lo and behold, it's a girl!

She came from the Desert, He came from the Sea. In the end they found each other. Boy meets Girl. Pure magic.

FAR 3: Toe and Lone work together to go and find the other people.

We have two characters on the boat machine. Lone handles the sails, Toe handles the engine. We switch between them on the fly to make the boat easier to manage.

to be continued....HOPEFULLY.

[GoodName]

if there is a third game I think the machine would be completely different as the artwork in the credits seems to show a machine made of the front half of the Okomotive attached to some part of the ship. It's hard to tell since the ship parts don't seem to be very attached to how the ship looks in game other than the house part which is very clearly there along with the front of the Okomotive

[Lonergan]

Just finished the game. I like your theory. I find it more convincing than theory's siblings. I don't think Toe is son of the woman of the painting, why should she go away and abandon her child? "Boy meets Girl" is great, making them siblings lowers the romantic subtext.

[Oiadine]

Originally posted by GoodName:

if there is a third game I think the machine would be completely different as the artwork in the credits seems to show a machine made of the front half of the Okomotive attached to some part of the ship. It's hard to tell since the ship parts don't seem to be very attached to how the ship looks in game other than the house part which is very clearly there along with the front of the Okomotive

I notice in the horn-house/light-house thing, the drawing appears to have a massive balloon. Perhaps the third game takes place not in either land or sea, but in the air? We would have Land, Sea and Air respectively.

[Lonergan]

Originally posted by Oiadine:

I notice in the horn-house/light-house thing, the drawing appears to have a massive balloon. Perhaps the third game takes place not in either land or sea, but in the air? We would have Land, Sea and Air respectively.

In this game we had a ballon for some time.

Maybe there will be a complete vehicle that can travel by Land, Sea and Air. This would be really cool.

[Oiadine]

Originally posted by Lonergan:

Originally posted by Oiadine:

I notice in the horn-house/light-house thing, the drawing appears to have a massive balloon. Perhaps the third game takes place not in either land or sea, but in the air? We would have Land, Sea and Air respectively.

In this game we had a ballon for some time.

Maybe there will be a complete vehicle that can travel by Land, Sea and Air. This would be really cool.

To be fair, the primary method of transportation in Lone Sails was land. There was *some* sea. In Changing Tides, the primary method of transportation was sea with *some* air. It only makes sense that if there were a third game, we could continue the trend with the primary method of transportation being air. The question would be, will there be some land transportation or...something else?