SIGNALIS: The Fault In Ourselves || A Comprehensive Critique
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Signalis is a 2022 survival horror game by first time indie developer rose-engine, inspired by their favorite media like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, but also the King in Yellow, Blade Runner, Blame!, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Twin Peaks, Alan Wake (probably), math, music, paintings, and more. While impressive, does Signalis buckle under the weight of this ambition? Inquire within!
0:00 Introduction
5:34 What Is Signalis?
11:46 Graphics
13:18 Music
14:03 Sound Effects
14:38 Gameplay Loop
16:28 Map & Menus
17:08 Pushed to the Limits (of My Inventory)
19:47 Gameplay Frustrations
22:00 Final Gameplay Thoughts
BEGIN SPOILERS
24:04 Story Synopsis
34:39 My Interpretative Lens
36:03 We Live Inside a Dream…
40:19 …But Who Is the Dreamer?
42:14 Spatial Dream Logic
44:22 (Eternally) Recurring Motifs
THE MAN & WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS
49:45 Alina Seo
51:31 Lilith Itou & Anna Huang
53:43 Elster
55:11 Isa Itou
58:42 Adler
1:02:32 Ewige Wiederkunft: Eternal Recurrence
1:07:06 Ship of Theseus
1:09:48 Fakeout Ending
1:16:27 Shore of Oblivion & Isle of the Dead
1:18:22 Birds of a Feather – Falke, Swan Lake, & the Dweller on the Threshold
1:29:03 Leave Ending
1:30:27 Memory Ending
1:31:28 Promise Ending
1:33:46 Artifact Ending
1:41:00 God Is a Woman
1:46:00 No Fault In Our Stars But In Ourselves
1:48:44 And Death Shall Have No Dominion
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Alatyr on Buyan Island artwork by Denis Sklyarskiy – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
The Mask illustrations by INJ Culbard in his graphic novel adaptation of the King in Yellow –
Sierpinkski triangle by Beojan Stanislaus
Benoit Mandelbrot by Getty Images
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Chief Joseph of Nez Perce Indians.1877. Getty Images
Oscar Reutersvard image:
Left: Sketch by Oscar Reutersvärd, Opus 1 (1934) – Source: Impossible World. 1 May 2014.
Middle: Poster for the Hommange a Oscar Reutersvärd, by the Galerie Bell’Art, Stockholm (2001) – Source: Galerie Bell’Art, Stockholm. 1 May 2014.
Right: Sketch by Oscar Reutersvärd, Opus 2B (1934) – Source: Impossible World. 1 May 2014.
LITAVYTSIA, embroidery alatyr symbol –
King in Yellow images by Rhonda Libbey, Vicente Valentine, Nathan J. Anderson, Tentacles and Teeth, Wendigo Moon, Kate Moyer
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