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LTK:
Oh my god.

(click to show/hide)Humming the vocals to an instrumental song played from the music player in the sandbox.
That hits the feels way harder than any combo.

LTK:
Huh. Okay, recursion finished.

(click to show/hide)After the first time I finished the game, I was convinced there was an alternate ending I'd missed, wherein Red doesn't absorb herself in the Transistor. The Goodbye() achievement seemed to refer to this: I thought "recurse through the story" meant that, like Bastion, there was an in-universe reason for everything happening again. So when I got to the end a second time, and found no interaction points other than the stranger's body, I thought I must have missed something, that maybe getting defeated by Bryce made something different happen (I'm still not sure?). But you don't have a choice.

I guess it's the only way, Cloudbank is a ghost town by now, it doesn't really matter if you put everything back the way it was. Red's the only one left alive.
(click to show/hide)I still can't honestly say that I understand what the Camerata really wants. I get that they want to end the recursive cycle of change for the sake of change - though as to why, I'm still baffled - but exactly how they go about achieving that is a mystery. When Asher Kendrell said "How could we achieve this with just our four voices?" he was apparently being literal, but I still haven't seen anything that indicates the people whose traces are recorded in the Transistor are actually capable of something other than unlocking Functions to fight the Process.

And, anyway, if the Transistor was keeping the Process in check before they lost it to Red, what did they do before they invented the Transistor? Bryce explained that it took a lot of work before he stumbled on the idea that would lead to the Transistor, but he also claims that the Process is what makes the changes to the weather and stuff in Cloudbank, and as far as I can tell this is not a recent development. It's just another way in which everything changes, and nothing changes. The only way that this would make sense is that the invention of the Transistor also allowed Bryce to mold the Process into something physical, something material, when it was just an abstraction before. Presumably that would also make it more useful to the Camerata.
(click to show/hide)So that leads me to wonder what kind of a city Cloudbank actually is. Remember how, in Bastion, you got all these hints and clues toward a far larger and elaborate world from Rucks' stories? Transistor is almost the exact opposite. There is only Cloudbank, and the only hint at there being something else is "the Country", which just has to be a euphemism. Cloudbank is big, and there's just as much potential for storytelling, but by all appearances it seems that the world ends with the city. When the reporter gives her last news report among the survivors, she says that beyond the border there is nothing, and that they decide not to abandon the city. What if they just can't?

On the other hand, there's still the stranger's suggestion to 'skip town'. He suggests this twice, and the first time Red decides to do the exact opposite. The second time... well, you know what happens. So that kind of throws a spanner in my theory, but still, the stranger is an outsider. He's not a Cloudbank citizen, even the Camerata didn't know who he was. He's a total mystery. So we don't know where he came from, but is it possible he might not know? That Cloudbank is all there is? He definitely knows a lot about the city, so it does seem unlikely, but it never seemed like leaving the city was actually an option for anyone.

de_la_Nae:
So I guess it's settled: I'm buying it eventually.

If only so I can come back and read the spoilers.

(like we didn't know it was sort of a foregone conclusion anyway)

ev4n:
Did finally buy it.  I am playing through it now.

LTK:
Any chance someone knows where to find the lyrics? Having trouble understanding a lot of the vocals.

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