Spoilers for the new content in the Contamination content update (as well as the full game's narrative in general :p):










I can't fully express how well this game's new content works with its concepts and its narrative. To give a bit of setup, I managed to take a run all the way to the final boss's Endless variant. The boss was extremely hard, yet I managed to scrape through thanks to a busload of extra health.

Her dialogue after the fight said that she would continue hunting Cyl, again and again, as long as it would take to kill her permanently. Even if it meant hunting her forever. Then, she died, and the game progressed as usual, continuing further into Endless mode.

I started getting more and more exhausted as time went on. I hadn't had dinner yet, and I was so powerful that I was scrolling through YouTube on the other tab and waiting for the bosses to spawn so I could kill them and move on.

After a certain point, I decided to just end the run by killing myself, since it didn't seem like anything else was going to.

Then the game hit me with the ending cutscene.

The end of the story is predicated on the player becoming so powerful that they die out of boredom, and the ending cutscene makes this VERY clear.

After all of that struggle, becoming so powerful that the enemies couldn't even appear on-screen, Cyl's final fate is to forever search for a final confrontation with Picayune that will never come. She is condemned by the Aberration to continue wandering the galaxy forever, endlessly paranoid about the ancient evil that only she remembers, until she is either caught off-guard and killed (which will never happen), or until she decides to end her own life (which she will never do).

That's REALLY dark.

So yeah, the game is as phenomenal as ever. Highly recommend. I'm going to go lie in bed and watch cat videos now. I need some comfort after that.

Spoilers for the new content in the Contamination content update (as well as the full game's narrative in general :p): I can't fully express how well this game's new content works with its concepts and its narrative. To give a bit of setup, I managed to take a run all the way to the final boss's Endless variant. The boss was extremely hard, yet I managed to scrape through thanks to a busload of extra health. Her dialogue after the fight said that she would continue hunting Cyl, again and again, as long as it would take to kill her permanently. Even if it meant hunting her forever. Then, she died, and the game progressed as usual, continuing further into Endless mode. I started getting more and more exhausted as time went on. I hadn't had dinner yet, and I was so powerful that I was scrolling through YouTube on the other tab and waiting for the bosses to spawn so I could kill them and move on. After a certain point, I decided to just end the run by killing myself, since it didn't seem like anything else was going to. Then the game hit me with the ending cutscene. The end of the story is predicated on the player becoming so powerful that they die out of boredom, and the ending cutscene makes this [i]VERY[/i] clear. After all of that struggle, becoming so powerful that the enemies couldn't even appear on-screen, Cyl's final fate is to forever search for a final confrontation with Picayune that will never come. She is condemned by the Aberration to continue wandering the galaxy forever, endlessly paranoid about the ancient evil that only she remembers, until she is either caught off-guard and killed (which will never happen), or until she decides to end her own life (which she will never do). That's [i]REALLY[/i] dark. So yeah, the game is as phenomenal as ever. Highly recommend. I'm going to go lie in bed and watch cat videos now. I need some comfort after that.