Is this game supposed to make any sense?

[davidguy207]

I had no clue what was happening or why it was happening the entire time I played the game, nothing made sense. Is that how the game is supposed to be? Just clueless wandering until you stumble across the right thing?

[Anderdroid]

Stop worrying about why you're doing things and just take in the music, visuals, and voice acting. ENA (both the web series and this game) are meant to have a dream-like quality to them, it's not supposed to make sense, you're just supposed to take it as it is and think about how it makes you feel.

[Sprack]

Try identifying some of the reoccurring ideas and motifs to identify themes in the narrative, you can start broadly with the effects of capitalism and classism. There is a lot of symbolic meaning in this series so you need to be able to make connections that aren't stated directly in the text. Even the parts that are references to other media serve a greater purpose.

[MemerMan]

The ENA series is supposed to parody or represent the randomness of the internet, so yeah, it's not supposed to make too much sense, but the game does give you straightforward tasks to complete, though they are a bit tricky to find and complete.

[davidguy207]

Origineel geplaatst door Anderdroid:

Stop worrying about why you're doing things and just take in the music, visuals, and voice acting. ENA (both the web series and this game) are meant to have a dream-like quality to them, it's not supposed to make sense, you're just supposed to take it as it is and think about how it makes you feel.

I was just left confused lmao.

Origineel geplaatst door Sprack:

Try identifying some of the reoccurring ideas and motifs to identify themes in the narrative, you can start broadly with the effects of capitalism and classism. There is a lot of symbolic meaning in this series so you need to be able to make connections that aren't stated directly in the text. Even the parts that are references to other media serve a greater purpose.

I have no clue what you're saying. Guess I'm too dumb for this series.

[The dog]

Origineel geplaatst door Anderdroid:

Stop worrying about why you're doing things and just take in the music, visuals, and voice acting. ENA (both the web series and this game) are meant to have a dream-like quality to them, it's not supposed to make sense, you're just supposed to take it as it is and think about how it makes you feel.

my dreams make more sense than this art-house acid trip.

[Drewb]

It's an art game. Enjoy years worth of animation work, voice talent, and music. This is a journey over destination experience.

[Lizrdlickr]

There's also a massive amount of religious symbolism and iconography. I posted a theory about it earlier in more detail.

[meeqah]

NO, it's just hylics

[??Crashguy2??]

Absurdity in a medium with such a high regard for artistry is its own reward, in my opinion.

Also, the lack of cohesive theming, while confusing, still exists within a certain framework and it allows for a wide variety of expressive character traits. There are still patterns, too, that are broken when emphasis is supposed to be placed on particular traits or themes for some reason.

So, yeah, it doesn't make much sense in a traditional context but there are still patterns to it... you just have to keep an open mind and zoom out a little. For example, during dialogue the intonation is sometimes out of sync with how you would understand the words as they are written but they still mean what they are saying in an obvious interpretation. Case in point, the "Shaman." I think its fun.

Not all of it I don't think has any obvious point. It can just be for fun, too, because a particular gimmick is humorous or visually interesting.

As far as goals, yeah you just have to pay attention and identify what you're looking for through use of context.

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

It’s not supposed to make much sense, sort of like surfing the internet

[☣ TOXIC ☢]

It's called surrealism. This is what surrealism is. Don't look into it too much. Don't overthink it. There is no meaning to surrealism. That's the blunt honest answer bud. You want facts, you got it.

[M.O.S.S]

The game is made based on Surrealism,


Surrealism: (definition by wiki)

Artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or surreality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

Cheat Note: (by me)

Nothing makes sense because it's like being half awake in a dream world and in the real world at the same time. Things make sense to a point but not in the rational normal way you think while wide awake.

As for the characters and story , all of that is for you to have a interpretation for yourself as that is what Surrealism is. It's a personal experience you have in living it.

In the end of the game's run you are going to come up with your own self created conclusions of what exactly is transpiring though out the game and world.

[Mini]

Now this is a story all about how your world got flip turned upside down, I'd like you to take a minute just sit right there, and tell you how you became the unknowing victim of a cannibalistic drug fuelled suicide cult of lonely degenerates in a town called... hell?.. there...

[ParappaTheNoodle]

no i think that is not necessary the sense to be a good game

[Sprack]

Origineel geplaatst door davidguy207:

Origineel geplaatst door Sprack:

Try identifying some of the reoccurring ideas and motifs to identify themes in the narrative, you can start broadly with the effects of capitalism and classism. There is a lot of symbolic meaning in this series so you need to be able to make connections that aren't stated directly in the text. Even the parts that are references to other media serve a greater purpose.

I have no clue what you're saying. Guess I'm too dumb for this series.

What part are you having trouble with?