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I know it sounds unrelated, but the source of the Crystal Skulls are the aliens the previous children contacted.
They don't seem to like the Mother very much.
The Annunaki (or Sky People) were aliens who tried to colonize Earth only to discover the Mother had gotten there first. They tried to manipulate the Mother's various Children, controlling their minds, modifying their bodies, and imparting secrets of their technology, but in the end they failed to seal away the Mother and they died out aboard Nibiru.
One of the most curious things about La-Mulana 2: the Annunaki are pretty strongly implied to have been a bunch of jerks who just happened to leave behind a convenient means of sealing the Mother, but Nibiru is still one of the saddest locations in any game ever.
Thx, the game has good story for sure. So it will be interesting when the other members of her race come/starting seeking her:)
The crystal skulls outright swear at you. They're rude, and they're vulgar. They're quite nasty. Then you start to hear about some of the things they've done, especially to the Kotoamatsu. They seem to quite clearly be the villains of the story. And yet... you do end up fulfilling their will, don't you?
It's sort of like La-Mulana 1. Whether or not the Mother should be killed is a really interesting moral question. Sure, killing the Mother is justifiable out of self-defense, but, is it the right thing to do? Is it OK to commit matricide and deicide to save the human race? Yet, if you don't want to do it, your only choice is to turn off the game and stop playing. "Kill the Mother" is the only path laid out for you if you want to actually finish the game. We don't see Lemeza struggle with the moral question at all. He ostensibly came to La-Mulana as a researcher and adventurer, seeking to discover the origin of humanity... at some point this changes and we don't get any insight as to what's going on in his head when it does.
La-Mulana 2 is a lot less morally ambiguous about this. The 0th/9th child is really only ever portrayed as a villain. There's an attempt to create moral ambiguity with the Anunnaki, I suppose, but just because your interests align with a group of rather unpleasant and villanous aliens—who, by the way, made your victory possible with the creation of the Corridor of Blood and fomenting Dissonance across multiple generations—doesn't make your actions wrong.
To be honest, La-Mulana 2 has a hell of a hard time topping the first game. The first game involves exploring the most ancient ruins known to man, where all of humanity and all cultures originated, and slaying the mother goddess who created us. It was really not a game that left room for a sequel, especially since there is absolutely zero mention of the Eg-Lana ruins in the first game, and only one reference to the 0th body and the 9th child, which is contrived, and on that one tablet that you're supposed to use to figure out all the La-Mulanese numerals.
LM2 tries really hard to top LM1. One of the ways it does so is quite good; it actually allows us to meet living members of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th child. It allows us to meet and talk to Sakit. Another way it tops the original is by forcing you to infiltrate and conquer Hell itself, and also visiting an alien spacecraft. It explains what the Crystal Skull from the first game is, which was an otherwise unresolved mystery.
Unfortunately, one of the other ways it does this by "cheapening" LM1; it makes many traps, areas and enemies in LM1 out to be copies of ones in LM2. I get why they felt they had to, but it does feel a little bit too convenient. If there is a La-Mulana 3—I know, the devs probably don't even want to think about that right now with all of the work they still have to do on LM2 in terms of patches, ports, Kickstarter rewards, etc.—but if there is, then I certainly hope they avoid saying "Oh, here's another copy of the ruins, and most of the traps and rooms and enemies in Eg-Lana were copies, but these are the original ruins for real this time guys." They managed to squeeze one more set of ruins into the lore without damaging the lore too much (though there WAS some damage, don't get me wrong); but at this point, it would be ridiculous to try the same trick again. I'm not sure how they could make a La-Mulana 3 and have it make sense. I wouldn't begrudge them if they were totally done with La-Mulana after this; I'm sure they have other ideas and other projects they want to work on. But if they do make another, perhaps a reboot is more appropriate than another sequel. Who knows. I'm sure they'll come up with something.
One thing that is funny, though, is how much Spiral Hell resembles the Hell Temple. Of course, it's the other way around; the Hell Temple is based on Spiral Hell. Fobos is given responsibility for designing the traps in La-Mulana, and he admits in LM2 that the amount he set up was "unnecessariy." Keep in mind that, in-universe, it isn't a video game; Lemeza dies once and it's over. Can you beat LM1 with no guide and without dying once? Can anyone? No. In all honesty, Fobos very likely doomed humanity by being a terrible game designer, and making the ruins far too deadly and cryptic. Lemeza actually succeeding at the end of LM1 is astronomically improbable.
And then... Dracuets, hoo boy, Dracuets. You start with Fobos being utterly unreasonable, and then you crank that up to eleven, and you get Dracuets. Dracuets clearly had a major case of envy toward Fobos, and expressed that by saying, "Well, I'll build my own deadly ruins, and they'll be better than yours!" And so he designed the Hell Temple and the utter insanity that is held within. (And, of course, he lacked anything of value to give as a reward.) But LM2 makes it clear Dracuets is even worse than that: the whole layout of the Hell Temple was directly plagiarized from Spiral Hell. So not only is he an unbelievably terrible game designer, he isn't even original.
Although, the game's final area does seem like an awkward time to drop that particular joke on the player.
I feel the same, I never liked killing the Mother in LM1 and I still don't like it. She just wanted to go home. Besides, it's not like her children were little angels, many were warmongers and/or tried stealing her power. I'm ok with self-defence but Lemeza and by extension humanity didn't even try to save Mother, the origin of our species, what the hell.
The closest anyone got to sending Mother back was the Giants. No one else even came close. And that's apparently with the Annunaki sabotage.
It was a colossal endeavor to begin with, maybe totally impossible intrinsically. But time and the Annunaki ensured it couldn't be done.
As for Lemeza/the 8th Children failing... well, that's the fault of the previous iterations, by their own admission. The creation of the 8th was sabotaged by the 7th to become the weapon with which to put down the Mother.
Didn't the giants come close? Pretty sure it only failed because of the civil war. Yes, the previous children failed because of the Anunnaki sabotage, but the Anunnaki are dead now. At least those that came to Earth. We, the 8th child, are not being manipulated by the Annunaki, so shouldn't we try help her? At least try to communicate with her before resorting to violence.
There were literally only two of the Eighth Children that ever learned anything about the Mother before one of them killed her. As I said, by the Philosophers' own admission, they tweaked the creation of the 8th so that they wouldn't know.
And before you say "well maybe Lemeza and Shawn could've taught people about her"
Do you realize how absolutely crazy that would make them sound?
Sure, but if it's true it's true. Surely they can bring some evidence or anything, or bring people to the ruins. Or just try and communicate themselves with her. I understand it would be a hard sell, but imagine if we found an actual Alien on Earth, nevertheless the actual origin of our species, the first thing to do wouldn't be: "Well, I guess we have to murder it because no one would believe us".
According to the only "record" we have, any attempt at communicating with the mother would probably go like this:
Us: Hello!
Mother: WHY AM I STILL HERE.
Us: Uhhh--
Mother: -kills everything and starts over-
That's what they claim, yes. But I want to hear it from both sides before I make such a decision. Even if they sincerely believe she would it, remember, they were made by the 6th child to kill Mother and the 6th child was manipulated by the Anunnaki. Whom by the way very much wanted to kill Mother and take Earth. In fact, it's only thanks to Mother Earth wasn't taken over by them.
Also, I'm not even sure Mother can kill humanity just like that. Because unlike the other children, the 8th child could leave La-Mulana. We also know that those in Eg-Lana survived so either she didn't want to kill everyone or she couldn't kill everyone.
This is a case of us not knowing the extent of their power. Eg-Lana is seperate from, but connected to, the Mother, La-Mulana. Simplest explanation: their physical forms are intrinsically capable of blocking their own power, whatever that may be. Also, you're seemingly falsely assuming that the other Children were somehow limited to living within La-Mulana; citation needed. If you're citing Fobos, I thought he'd just meant himself and the other Philosophers; Xelpud and Mulbruk are also 7th Children and were also capable of existing outside the complex.
Also: the nature of the 6th children's creation and onward probably implies that Annunaki corruption is actually baked into any being coming out of the Tree of Life.
Sure.
It could also be that she didn't want to kill everyone. It could also be that she is too weak, for instance she lost the ability to create more life. Also, it's not like she was completely unjustified in killing them, some of them tried to take her power for their own gain, in that case it was self-defense.
Possibly. But that just shows that Annunaki are the true villains, not Mother.
I'm not saying we shouldn't kill Mother. I'm saying we should have first tried to solve it peacefully and only as a last resort kill her if she indeed threatened humanity. Killing her outright is not just morally wrong, it is also exactly what the Anunnaki wanted. Who is to say THEY don't threaten humanity, as opposed to Mother, and we just killed our best defense against them. I guess it could be a good lead-up for La-Mulana 3 if they wish to go that route, but I'm not sure what the "ruins" in that game would be.