Did anybody else managed to enter that secret garden below the spiral structure in Pharynx?

[david_aeon]

Self explanatory, the entrance to this room is located right at the botton of the huge spiral mountain in Pharynx, in the rightmost portion, considering the viewpoint when you enter this stage. Here is one screenshot of the garden: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=243277738
If someone knows something about this, I would apreciate some spoiler free knowledge, since I didn't found a single screenshot of this place in the community, and I just started playing this game yesterday, and only have 3 hours of gameplay.

[strigvir]

I stumbled upon this place by randomly falling, lol.
There can't be any spoiler-free info about it, because spoiler. In The Void universe it's just a easter egg though.

[david_aeon]

Originally posted by strigvir:

I stumbled upon this place by randomly falling, lol.
There can't be any spoiler-free info about it, because spoiler. In The Void universe it's just a easter egg though.

Hmm, I found it but thought it was impossible to reach in the beginning, but after learning that when I fall in the abyss I'm returned to the Void, I kept trying until managed to get in that room. loled by your spoiler mark, but idk... there may be some lore about it.
Thank you for the friendly reply, I'm still crawling to learn the ropes in The Void, but I've been enjoying every aspect of it.

[Sepoficus]

Found it as well. Dont think it was in original russian Turgor release of 2007 but it seems more like easter egg or hidden meaning place. Perhaps there could be more story to it then just atmosphere.

[david_aeon]

Originally posted by Sepoficus:

Found it as well. Dont think it was in original russian Turgor release of 2007 but it seems more like easter egg or hidden meaning place. Perhaps there could be more story to it then just atmosphere.

That's what crossed my mind when I got throught that passage and was teleported to this place. I thought "HOLY SH!T! I'll be facing pedo bear by any second!!!". But after calming myself, I turned my Sherlock senses on, and began absorbing the room's details...
And I must say, by that sandlot, which has some bloodstains and seemingly random objects scattered around , that this room may be much more than just a plain easter egg.

[strigvir]

Originally posted by Sepoficus:

Dont think it was in original russian Turgor release of 2007.

No, it was. it is the first easter egg I stumbled upon in the first hour of gameplay.
The only difference is that you get fancy notification for finding secret in original version.

Originally posted by Sepoficus:

Perhaps there could be more story to it then just atmosphere.

Originally posted by david_aeon:

that this room may be much more than just a plain easter egg.

Sure, I'd like to see you finding meaning behind a companion cube.
There is story for it, but it doesn't have anything to do with The Void though.

[david_aeon]

Originally posted by strigvir:

I'd like to see you finding meaning behind a companion cube.
There is story for it, but it doesn't have anything to do with The Void though.

I know that these elements have a story, mostly involving those who created it. As for the companion cube, it's know that he came to be from an earlier idea which the Portal lead designer Kim Swift had in mind some time before the Narbacular Drop, a concept stating about isolated subjects falling in love with inanimated objects.
I'm not a investigation enthusiast, but I always wonder about how much of these contents may be refered to the devs own history. That's what drives me to search for them.

[strigvir]

You didn't get me right.
How do you explain pressence of companion cube in The Void universe?
Also, by "There is story for it" I meant that garden has particular story behind it, but it's from another IPL game.

[Ikarui]

for those who still want to know
this garden is a reference to the end of an other game from the developer called "Pathologic"

[Braden]

when I first go into that level I saw it and jumped down to it xD

[Oddness]

What freaked me out the most about that secret place is that you can't draw colour, look at your body or journal etc.
The controls are removed to a basic level of wandering around as if from another game(which seems to be the case reading it is an easter egg to Pathologic).