93The_Ace

I really like your write up, great analysis of the movies!

I want to say my peace about why I believe the fight between gendo and shinji looked so bad toward the end of the movie. I believe this is 100% intentional, for a couple reasons.

I agree completely, that when I was watching it initially I thought, wow this looks extremely mo-capped and not blended in the scene at all, and they aren't even fighting in the way Eva's typically do - this was more of a giant monster fight than anything seen in the show before. Then, it's revealed the Evas are are on a movie/tv set. This is a reference to the end of the eva tv series, where the motif around all the characters confessions at the end is via a tv or theater set. Then we transition to Shinji reversing his role from the original ending of the series, and helping everyone better understand their own characters flaws so to speak

Anyway, that's at least why that particular scene worked for me.

As for the Gendo and Shinji talk and why it sort of fell flat. Well, I think a sort of unique aspect of 3.0+1.0 is that it not only is finishing the story of evangelion, but I believe it is also adding additional context to the whole series. I know that the story of the original series differs quite a bit from the movies, but I think the way both narratives work together is quite fascinating. So, when Gendo and Shinji are talking, we don't just have the context from the movies, but also the original show. We know quite a bit about the relationship since we learned a lot about it through Ritsuko and other characters. However, I *think* this is the first time Shinji and Gendo talk explicitly to each other about the reasons why Gendo did what he did.

To me all three endings of the show essential are different ways of coming to the same conclusion. But, 3.0+1.0 offers us an Additional Ending (Impact???): the one we finally see where Shinji and all the characters are free.

Hopefully at least a little of this makes sense lol. I watched all the movies over the course of 2 days, and I probably need to watch them again if I want to get any deeper meaning out of them.

There's some really great moments in the last movie (the whole first half is phenomenal). And I'm glad this is all over and we can finally say: Goodbye, All of Evangelion.

I view the audio and other logs as a sort of lens to view the game through. In a game tied so closely to perspective and a visual connection to understanding the world, I find the idea that these extra bits of information poke at the concepts that you're beginning to develop in the world of The Witness. I don't feel like there's anything particularly intrusive about them or that there's a particular philosophical idea that is trying to be shoehorned in here. The world of The Witness is so tightly connected to itself that I tend to see it as self-realized and self-contained just like the island in The Witness, disconnected from everything else in the world but extremely interconnected with itself. It's just another piece of knowledge to gain perspective, but you get to decide if it means anything to you.

@gkhan:

Wow, that's really helpful. Sadly I just ended up looking at a guide for that part of the elevator, because I was trying to wrack my brain for any ideas about color theory that I knew and couldn't seem to make the right connections. This helps immensely.

Hey, ok, I need a hint or something. I'm currently in the flower house with all the colors. I completed the initial couple areas and was working my way up an elevator, but I reached a point on the elevator where the solution doesn't seem to be intuitive or maybe I'm just not seeing something the right way.

After the outpouring from the GB community and the positive responses from the cast of Contradiction, I'm left wondering if the GBEast crew has gotten in contact with anyone from the game. GBEast has seemed pretty quiet on that front. Of course I understand that Gbeast have been super busy trying to keep making videos and they're at PAX now, but I would really love to see an interview with part of the cast or something like that. It certainly seems like the Contradiction fellows would be down. I know scheduling can be a pain for something like that, but I think that would be a ton of fun to see!

This is really unfortunate. I bought the game on PC, and luckily have not really been experiencing these performance issues. But it's good to see that WB is taking action on this unexpectedly botched launch

That thing they showed a couple months ago of "gameplay" looked like a proof of concept more than anything, so I guess it makes sense that it's getting delayed.