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Also, I think some of the terminal messages/Past Aria's writings imply that the Entropy Centre might actually be CAUSING the destruction of Earth by messing with time (one definition of Entropy is "lack of order/predictability"/"decline into disorder"). So if Aria ever does manage to save the Earth, she might have to use...unconventional methods to do so.
Anyway, that's my two cents, what do you think?
During the floating sequence it seemed to me that to the left there were endless burning earths and to the right, infinite safe earths. I thought this indicated the past loops to the left and the future loops (before the cataclysm) to the right. I might replay the last chapter so I can see it again.
Either way, I think there's always room for a different outcome. When Aria is going through the copies of her office it shows all the copies of her "ghost" in various poses, writings things on whiteboards, or occupying different locations in the space. I think this indicates that while the overall outcome has always been the same, her specific actions within each loop are not predefined. Also the counting of days and other markings may indicate that across some of the loops she retained (or regained) memories of what happened before. Perhaps at some point
I think you are onto something with the Entropy Centre possibly being the cause of Earth's destruction. More specifically, the emerging sentience of the bots may have something to do with it. I didn't find all of the terminal lore so perhaps more is explained about that topic. From the knowledge I was able to gather, that plot line was sort of left hanging.
On that note, I wonder if anyone has found all of the lore? What if there *is* a different ending and obtaining all the lore it what triggers it? (If not, that would have been a stroke of genius from a game design standpoint.)
Astra had the ability to rewind the reactor core without being held by Aria. Maybe that could have been done at the end when they rewound the entropy cannon, but there probably wasn't time for Aria to escape. This could be an avenue to explore in a future DLC.
At any rate, I'm hungry for more and I hope the game is successful enough that the developer is able to make a sequel or at least a DLC.
I also do think the loops are different from jump to jump. After all, the entropy centre has visibly been abandoned for a long, long time, which probably wouldn't be the case if the loops were all the same. At the end of the game, the implication is that Aria was reset specifically because she was too close to the machine. The upshot is that the centre itself isn't entirely rewound every time Aria is. So what that means is that each time Aria wakes up after being rewound, the facility gets more damaged. In fact, this is probably the single most destructive loop iteration she's been a part of yet. During the dream sequence we see her spending loop after loop trying to fix things, but this loop she spends the whole loop just trying to not die from the cataclysm and the facility barely works.
I took the left paths to be the past and the right paths to be the future.
My takeaway from this is entropy, not of the earth but the entropy station and Aria. The station is visibly falling into decay and ruin, meaning it isn't being reset between loops. Aria is slowly losing her grip on sanity and the station is going to come apart and be destroyed completely in a few loops. Everything falls to Entropy, even the station powered by it and designed to safeguard the Earth against it.
Wouldn't this mean she'd quickly start to remember puzzle solutions, and thus not gaining entropy from them, making her unable to power the Earth Reversal?
As for the ending, I kept thinking that a significant role in saving the earth and the entire center could be played by that black cat, which also got into a cannon that rewinds time. But it is known that he became very young and returned to his hostess. It seems that his they were taken along with the evacuees. Then it is not clear what happened to the shuttles - the message said that they switched to manual control, opened all the doors in space and a collision occurred, although people had a whole year left before the disaster.
It seems that restarting the earth will not work, since the problem is in the earth itself - from many rewinds, people on earth lose their memory and they simply forgot about the center on the moon and do not believe any of their messages. Therefore, people on earth are not going to fix anything. Perhaps for to save the earth, it was necessary to use two main characters, where one would be on earth.
We remember that there is another cannon, but it is on the ground (first, having built a cannon, they restored the ecology on the moon, then they created a second cannon, but already on the moon. I think in the future we will solve problems on the ground (under the ocean?) and by launching the second cannon we will restore center on the moon and then moving to the moon (portals?) we will already start the restoration of the earth (with the subsequent self-destruction of the center?) And what do you think about the ending? I'm a little sad, it was a big blow for me, because I love the happy ending so much (
and rewing Earth does not lead to amnesia because it is "safe" (becouse another GUN)
So basically she has to repeat the process until she finds a timeline where enough is different that that version of earth can be saved.
But there is one significant theme of the game I think fits well here: thinking in reverse. What if the destruction of Earth isn't fixed by the Entropy Device; what if the Entropy Device caused the destruction of Earth that it fixes, not in a general sense of increasing entropy, but more directly (although from the random presentations you find, the general subjective "entropy" of the world does seem to have increased since the operation began - although I wouldn't have any idea why).
One off-hand comment (and probably Portal reference) Astra makes is that, if you point an Entropy Device at another Entropy Device, it has a possibility of causing a black hole. We do this twice in the game: once when we roll back the core, and one time when we roll back the main Entropy Device. It's never really explained why this works, but it seems kinda odd that they'd mention this possibility and then have us do it anyways. This is why I think maybe it did create a black hole, or some other singularity. What if, each loop, Aria rewinds the Entropy Device to save Earth, unintentionally creating a black hole that destroys Earth several hours before (the point at which you rewind the Entropy Device back to - when it wasn't broken, before Earth's explosion). The very fact that you're still rewinding it while it's firing at Earth seems like it should really cause some kind of trouble.
To be honest, when playing, I was kind of shocked that not firing the Entropy Device was not a choice (at least, from what I could tell). My assumption is that firing the device is what causes this trouble in the first place, so by not firing it at the end, you might prevent the calamity from ever happening the first time. After all, as we know, without the Entropy Centre, Earth was never really destroyed in real life. It could be that the very fact the Device will be fired in the future dooms the Earth it was specifically meant to save, meaning that the only safe Earth will be one in which the Entropy Device is never fired towards it.
A final note: in the last scene, as others mentioned, there are only two Earths to your right side. However, there is at least one more Entropy Centre walkway that stretches on after the final Earth. If we're going with the theory that Aria might only get two more loops to save Earth, then I would wonder why there are more walkways. If, at that point, the Entropy Device could only reset to a fiery Earth, you'd think there would still be something there. But there's just... nothing at all.
For whatever that's worth.
after that, avoiding the catalysm doesn't work anymore
there was a log entry, that they do rewind the earth before the birth of some staff members of the entropy centre, i just don't know if the big rewind was because of the catalysm event we see or it was because of an another catalysm event
maybe the catalysm event is result of a time paradox ripping the earth a part?
Second, I agree with you. It felt weird that the "final reveal" was that Aria was in a time loop, when that had been basically revealed several times already. I mean, it even literally said "You are in a time loop". The writing was quite literally on the wall.
I'm expecting DLC for the game at some point, because there is a lot of plot left unexplained (although I missed about 10 emails apparently, despite looking quite thoroughly), and the ending was very lacking.
It's definitely implied that the Entropy Center is on its last legs. The Entropy Device doesn't rewind the Center itself, that's why they're able to rewind before people are born yet those people still exist on the Center itself (something one of the lore notes suggests).
The reason Aria is forgetting is twofold, at least from what I can tell:
1. She has to rewind her memory of the Entropy Center so that she can solve the puzzles again and create Entropy energy.
2. There's a warning about rewinding yourself too much causing amnesia, so it's possible she's resetting too often and is causing major amnesia.
I question if Aria can even solve the problem, if it's even solvable. Does she even know what's wrong anymore? Does she have any way to actually change the outcome? By the time she gets her bearings, the Earth is being destroyed. Sure, some data goes to Earth to analyze but that has clearly failed already, so that doesn't really do anything. They abandoned the Center because they decided they couldn't figure it out, which suggests that she believed she could solve the problem if she continued at it. That's wholly impossible at the point the game starts.
I completely agree with the person who said that it's a shame there's no option to not rewind Earth. By the time I got to the end of the game I was agreeing with the Entropy Center staff and not Aria. She's literally in a Hell of her own making. She has clearly failed in whatever she thought she could do. Either she should go down with Earth like everyone else, or live on the Center until she dies of old age (though at this point the Center is so destroyed that she wouldn't live that long even if she wanted to).