Discussion on ending - MAJOR Spoilers of course

[CitizenX3639]

So I enjoyed Moon Mystery but I'm sort of light on the ending.
At the Start, Sam wakes up saying "I keep having this dream over and over" or something to that extent. At the end, IMO, I think it makes more sense the attack happens and it cuts off the transmission(as it does)so Sam is basically stuck in a time loop. Instead of somehow he saved it?
Just curious what others think or am I way off base?

[mikimiki1]

Originally posted by CitizenX3639:

So I enjoyed Moon Mystery but I'm sort of light on the ending.
At the Start, Sam wakes up saying "I keep having this dream over and over" or something to that extent. At the end, IMO, I think it makes more sense the attack happens and it cuts off the transmission(as it does)so Sam is basically stuck in a time loop. Instead of somehow he saved it?
Just curious what others think or am I way off base?

Hi, he didn't say he is having the dream over and over, which means it's not a loop :)

[CitizenX3639]

Originally posted by mikimiki1:

Originally posted by CitizenX3639:

So I enjoyed Moon Mystery but I'm sort of light on the ending.
At the Start, Sam wakes up saying "I keep having this dream over and over" or something to that extent. At the end, IMO, I think it makes more sense the attack happens and it cuts off the transmission(as it does)so Sam is basically stuck in a time loop. Instead of somehow he saved it?
Just curious what others think or am I way off base?

Hi, he didn't say he is having the dream over and over, which means it's not a loop :)

he does say though "I keep having the same repetitive day the past week." When he awakes from his dream.

So from my POV, he has already started the loop which began 7 days prior when Earth was destroyed. Its almost like the one terminator movie where they are fighting to stop Skynet and when they get there, they couldn't stop it. It is inevitable.

[RealityBlights]

I recall the line at the start, after waking up in the lunar living quarters, as being "I keep having this strange dream" (or something very similar). I thought it was a time-loop at first, or at least a case of time-travel with memory-loss, but after completing the game I feel this is a better explanation. There is evidence at the beginning that leads to my theory, as well. The partner we never see, prior to the game's start, came into contact with the blue crystal and began experiencing what he claimed was visions of the future. My theory is that he was dealing with a more intense version of what Sam was experiencing: Visions of the alien civilization's future end (perhaps from the alien's perspective). We know the blue crystals were altered by the black hole, and the black hole was the vector for time-travel in this game, so it isn't exactly a leap that they produced a strange ripple to those that came into contact with them. Not in the context of this game, at least.

Sam is receiving a sort of subconscious echo from the civilization invading Earth. The game starts up on a desolate alien planet that is literally in the process of being swallowed by the black hole. We can infer this to be the alien's home world, or at least one very near to it. We also know the alien civilization is, at the start of the game, already long extinct and their machines have just kept on going and going with the last order they were issued: Find a suitable new home. When Sam and his colleague came into contact with the blue crystals, they received a bit of an echo from the long dead civilization, and thus began to have dreams/visions of "the future".

I feel a few leaps need to be taken in order for the plot to make sense to someone analyzing it. First off, you have to assume the black hole naturally has a powerful effect on time-space beyond simply warping it around itself. This would be evident by the blue crystals, which had been altered by the black hole, giving "visions/dreams of the future/past". Secondly, while there was some sort of technology being developed to use the black hole to travel back in time, the black hole itself must naturally have this ability due to the fact that Sam had to literally pilot his spacecraft INTO the black hole in order to travel back to the past, instead of into a machine that would then use the singularity as a source. There are quantum fundamentals that are assumed here that you just sort of have to roll with for it all to make logical sense, but if you do assume them, it actually does. The writing, while not perfect, is actually quite good for a B sci-fi story.

I may have gotten a detail or two wrong, given I completed the game several months back, but it should be a relatively solid theory regardless. I really enjoyed this game, and while the plot did irk me somewhat (I'm an astrophysics and quantum mechanics nerd, sue me) I found the game's story and premise extremely intriguing. I think one concept not touched on, either rarely or never before (that I've seen), is a hyper-advanced alien civilization having no concept of weaponry or security. In game mechanics and story it worked perfectly together.