Teardown

Teardown

An "Ordinary" Therapy Trip
Drug Theory
This is mod is a work of art. It was so much fun exploring and finding all the little details! It was funny too! and even a little scary during some parts. and it also had LORE! I interpolated it as going to the therapist and not literally tripping on drugs but rather going through stages of life and assisting in the processing of what happens. where it starts with the backrooms level as a child with lots of stuff that genuinely makes me feel a bit nostalgic to back when I would watch those stupid 'horror' videos when I was a kid. next skips to their time in the war with the SpongeBob tank possibly being a way of coping with the horrors and the aot which is a very violent show being shown to hammer in how terrible this war was which was also why this level was very brief and ending with the screaming on the potty symbolizes just how painful and hard it was to
return to this place in their memory. and the reason why everything is sealed away in the next is because of us repressing those traumatic memories. then with the town in Ohio I feel like this could possibly represent how strange it feels returning from a such a terrifying experience and just how upside down and alien everything feels. and next in Detroit everything being empty and vacant could represent their state of mind after returning showing how they perhaps they feel like no one cares about them or even just the vacancy of friends they made while serving as well as just general cripling loneliness. then the boss fight taking place at new York followed by the show by the toilet I think is them wanting to do something else with their lives as they are obviously a very creative and funny person they wanted maybe to be a comedian but it just never worked out and they see their competitors as just toilets making the crowd laugh and cheer. or something written with slightly more elegance I'm off a perk. anyways, I beilive the gumballs represent the drugs they got into after everything with the next level representing that galactic feeling drugs give you. and with the final little bit before the boss fight representing how the world seamed to change after they started to trip with the boss fight itself representing trying to get off the drugs with the 2 minits it takes to win being equivalent to the 2 weeks of withdrawls it take to get off drugs. I felt a somber happieness after completing this mod it was genuinely so much fun and I can't beilive it is just a free mod I would pay to play a full version of this as it's own game. Their are many nuances I didn't go into which I feel really saaaaaays al oot about how beuteafull this mod wiasis.