any theories so far?

[hatsune miku]

the trailer has a lot of stuff packed in, honestly. Does anyone have any theories on whats going on in that sneak peak we got or should we wait until more news drops before we start theorizing?

[Nordin]

Always worth theorizing even early on. People have been cooking their own theories since the first Dream BBQ announcement dropped, and they're always so much fun to read.

[!mp!sh]

Guns seem like they'll be important to the plot maybe. Ena of course wields some kind of rifle in-game, but there's also a blocky revolver that shows up twice, first as a shadow and then in the very last shot (which also has Ena shooting a finger gun). And in the shot just before that it's literally raining bullets.

Edit: One more thing i just realized: the big spirally hole in Ena's chest at one point could be like a gun barrel with riffling? probably a reach tho, it's too oblong

[TakuTaco.]

I wanted to say "we shouldn't do that for now". But then I've looked a bit more . . . Carefully.

This scene when she was crawling with a hole in her . . . Everything. Ena had such emotions of pure pain and horror, something that she had earlier never expressed. But there's more.

Also I noticed that in this scene she'not geometric at all, although her regular look is still kinda same: separate floating limbs with rough forms. Here her body is whole (even though there's a huge hole) and very much looks like human's one.

Thoughts?

[Mr.R]

Originally posted by !mp!sh:

Guns seem like they'll be important to the plot maybe. Ena of course wields some kind of rifle in-game, but there's also a blocky revolver that shows up twice, first as a shadow and then in the very last shot (which also has Ena shooting a finger gun). And in the shot just before that it's literally raining bullets.

Edit: One more thing i just realized: the big spirally hole in Ena's chest at one point could be like a gun barrel with riffling? probably a reach tho, it's too oblong

I wouldn't be surprised if the gun doesn't work like an actual gun, and has a completely different purpose.

[Mr.R]

Originally posted by Otaku-Chan:

I wanted to say "we shouldn't do that for now". But then I've looked a bit more . . . Carefully.

This scene when she was crawling with a hole in her . . . Everything. Ena had such emotions of pure pain and horror, something that she had earlier never expressed. But there's more.

Also I noticed that in this scene she'not geometric at all, although her regular look is still kinda same: separate floating limbs with rough forms. Here her body is whole (even though there's a huge hole) and very much looks like human's one.

Thoughts?

She also looked desperate when she crawled to the dancer. Didn't feel like she was asking for help though.

Plus those few shots where her face is green and cracked under an apocalyptic looking landscape makes me wonder if that's perhaps some sort of bad ending? I don't see any good vibes there.

[Anoyint]

k so theres a few things ive noticed in the new trailer
First, some repeated imagery:
- there seems to be this theme of this weird mouth movement like chewing, on the heads of the characters on the tvs and on the breaking down green ENA. Maybe thats the talking animation, maybe thats some form of corruption, idk.
- Guns. Bullets raining from the sky, the spear turning into a pointed gun, the gun firing at the end, ena holding a gun while grabbing the money.
- Mannequins, human figures that seem to not matter, just float around and do whatever.
next, the text:
It calls someone “worker Ena.” I’d have to assume that that’s the one we play as, the one being given the task, the red/white one. So I’d assume these messages are directed at that character. It says that Ena “lacks conviction” or is doubtful, and that that’s unusual. So whatever task is being assigned (likely the one of searching “for the Boss that everyone wants to be”) is dubious enough, maybe dangerous or morally uncertain, that it causes this very sure of herself character to harbor doubts and hesitancy. Also, the mention of “worker” and “boss” ig indicate that ena holds a consistent job and is either seeking an answer to a work related query or trying to move up in the world? The language seems intentionally ambiguous.
For that last piece of text, it uses corner brackets. Corner brackets are apparently used for quotations in kanji scripts, like Japanese and the Chinese languages. Sooo idk what that means :P prolly that the third quotation is another character other than who’s initially talking, maybe. But whatever it is, it has an enemy that it wishes to destroy. Maybe there’s some duality in this speaking figure.
I still have no idea what the symbols in the four corners are supposed to mean.
there at least three ENA iterations here. they are all definitely not the same character, or maybe are the same character transformed. I believe there's some sort of conflict between the green one and the red/white one. Evidence of that includes: the silhouettes of hands after the tvs appear to be red/white ENA's, the fact that at the end it goes from a view of one to the other maybe as if the camera view was switching between them, and how red/white ENA appears to be firing a shot (with both her fingers and a gun thing behind her) at whatever's infront of her. Though, maybe one becomes the other? One rescues the other? Idk
Oh, and that thing with the grey ena is super odd. Something about an emptiness being opened up inside of her, some wound still fresh. I assume she wants to fill that. The spatula lady also reminds me of work related imagery, but she either seems to vanish or turn into the spirally mannequin that gray ena holds after she arrives under the spotlight. Then era’s mouth is also burning, oddly having these wounds in the same two places that the mannequin has spirals, sort of.
Man idk.

[Suzuki Joe]

I theorize that we know nothing of the game until the game comes out, hope I'm right.

[Maddimellia]

Originally posted by Anoyint:

there at least three ENA iterations here. they are all definitely not the same character, or maybe are the same character transformed.

This is exactly what I thought too, Ena can't look this drastically different in the same game so iit has to be either different Enas, or she transformed/changed somewhere.

[Fat_Albert73]

Trying to analyze Ena is like trying to analyze a dream that you can't quite remember all of the details to lol.

[Digby]

My pet theory about the series has always been that its set in some kind of computer system.
Perhaps a future where humanity has transitioned to mainly being digital entities.
Hence why you have all these weird forms and worlds but everyone just rolls with it.
But its set EXTREMELY far into said future meaning the majority of humanity are now those who have always been digital constructs, they're the post human generations. They don't know anything else, accounting for their often bizarre forms.

Ena meanwhile is basically the last one still around to have been born an organic human. Their mind completely fractured by the weight of their memory and long life.
She's unwelcome everywhere she goes because she doesn't understand these modern kids and their non-euclidean geometries.
There were other things I used as justification for this theory but I have long forgotten them.

[CatGross]

My theory is that we call them Donut Ena and GreEna (please)

[jellyfishh]

Originally posted by CatGross:

My theory is that we call them Donut Ena and GreEna (please)

and KetchupnMayo ENA

[Ize]

There seems to be an obvious overarching theme about hunger and eating (the fork, the grill-man, the dancing spatula, the hole in the stomach, the chewing), as well as talks about laboring or being employed in the narration and in the description of the game. Then there's a (separate?) theme of guns and bullets. If there was some straightforward symbolism, which is something I don't expect from such a convoluted series, maybe it would be about the struggles of balancing work (or money-earning) and life/motivation. The part where the meat fork turns into a gun makes me think about how what seems like a simple tool you use to achieve your goals could turn into something harmful to you instead. I don't know how any of this would fit in with the usual wacky character-oriented bipolar bad-trip-like journeys that are standard in the Ena series though.

[_Astral]

Maybe ENA turns into her green form when she cracks under the pressure of working too much?

[duskkitty]

idk about theory's but has anyone else noticed that the whales (or what ever the fat things flying through the sky are) are made up completely of keyboard keys