How Women Died discussion

[Ayman]

so there's the thing about the game, they don't really explain what happened to the women except that it was the white flash that caused it, in the kickstarter, Dingaling shows Lisa was suppose to discover why she is the only woman, but in joyful, she only wants to rule over the world.

[Sullenify]

It's debatable whether all the women are actually dead. Buzzo does mention there being others, although he could just be lying.

[Ayman]

i remember dingaling saying that what Buzzo says is 50% Ego and 50% Truth

[bridgeofblues]

Maybe the other women are joy mutants.

[FulvousFox]

They aren't dead, at least based on some evidence they aren't.

*Spoilers ahead for the kiddies*

The whole game essentially takes place in an area controlled by Yado, kind of like a Hunger Games sort of scenario. Olathe was designed to test Joy and see how a society would react to it. The "White Flash" that the game refers to was Yado basically removing the women from Olathe and putting them somewhere else, most likely to test the effects of Joy on them as well.

Buzzo was also a partner with Yado in the process of making Joy, hence him having knowledge of the other women.

[samuel jacob jellyroll johnson]

Originally posted by Necessary Amount Of Rumcake:

They aren't dead, at least based on some evidence they aren't.

*Spoilers ahead for the kiddies*

The whole game essentially takes place in an area controlled by Yado, kind of like a Hunger Games sort of scenario. Olathe was designed to test Joy and see how a society would react to it. The "White Flash" that the game refers to was Yado basically removing the women from Olathe and putting them somewhere else, most likely to test the effects of Joy on them as well.

Buzzo was also a partner with Yado in the process of making Joy, hence him having knowledge of the other women.

I don't think Olathe was specifically designed to test Joy. Instead, Yado found it to be an ideal location to do so. This is implied at the start of the game, where Brad has just been beaten up by Columbo and he's walking home. Further on from Brad's house, Yado is there and says something like "Olathe... It's perfect.".

[Ayman]

that still doesn't explain much about this "White Flash"

[samuel jacob jellyroll johnson]

Originally posted by DellenXLawyer:

that still doesn't explain much about this "White Flash"

Like you said, we can only assume that the White Flash was the process of removing all women. Like a bomb gives off a loud noise, or a fire generates smoke, the White Flash was just a secondary effect in whatever Yado was using to get rid of all females.

[macmc]

In the science village, there are "kill her" messages etched everywhere, and the science note where the speach devolves into the guy wanting to "smash her face in over and over". Maybe the flash is a trigger like the trumpet, cuasing a violent reaction against females, but who knows.

Also, anyone else notice that when you defeat really powerfull Joy mutants (Harry, Arty) the screen flashes white for a brief moment? wonder what that could mean.

[ERROR #29]

Maybe Yado's trumpet was somehow a Bremen Flute. He could lead the women somewhere else.