The ending discussion (Not the secret ending, the real one) [INSANE SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF NOT FINISHED]

[GamingRevenant (YT)]

As I said, leave right now even if you haven't yet finished the mountain itself or anything else.

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Ok. So, I finally managed to finish the game. I made a lot of threads to solve puzzles get to what I think is one of the basic endings. Who has had the same ending as I did?:

You get put in a cage, it flies over the entire island, brings you back to the end, DONE. It even shuts down the game afterwards.

I feel that, obviously, there could be a different ending. I'm not talking about the cheap one you can get after aligning the pole of the beginning castle with the sun. No, instead, I think that if you solve literally everything, that mean:

- Possibly solved all the puzzles in the entire game
- Solved all the theatre clues
- Solved all the obelisks (which consists of finding landscape trails and drawing specific lines)

Who thinks the same? In any event, I would love to see people discuss on this matter. What exactly is going on? You can link the evidence of the secret ending as well if you want.

[defster]

Ever seen one of those movies where they show you a major plot twist in the very first scene, but you need to watch the whole movie, maybe twice, before you understand it's significance? This game is a bit like that.

(Even in a spoiler thread, some spoilers can be too spoilerish, so read below at your own risk)

The audio-logs in the underground "secret" area give you a fairly clear idea of what's going on, and why. At the very end of the underground section (excluding the music box area) you can find the solution to how you can close the door in the starter area again, allowing you to access the secret ending without starting a new game. This makes sense, since by then you realise that the secret ending is actually the real ending, except this time you understand it.

If you can't find all the audio-logs, there's a great end-game thread on the Witness reddit with location pics.

[Vardis]

The "cheap" ending you mention isn't an ending, it's something that supposedly is one step to unlocking the true ending. Hence why when you get access to the secret dev room, while the game shuts down after you go through to the end of that path, it resets the gate, and your solving that puzzle is recorded on the nearest obelisk.

[ZiGGY^]

I have no idea what to expect tbh, I'm still working on obelisks. I have 3 icons to go with no idea how to get 2 of them. There are still a lot of loose ends for me, but I was satisfied with video log 4 as my true ending, lol. I'll prolly start hunting down the rest of the audio logs next.