To Elaborate on my Idea from the End of this Video. I could see Gloom as some kind of new EXTREME Weather Effect. It would be the strongest Underground, while also creeping to the Surface and the least apparent in the Sky which is closest to the Sun. We might need Gloom Resistance in the form of Potions and even Armor, weve seen the Mushrooms in Hateno used as Lamps, maybe this will be our Gloom Resistance. The Duality of Light and Dark and Elightenment in General is a MASSIVE Theme of this Game.
The dynamics of Tears of the Kingdom seems pretty vast, is seems they thought of everything. Ice and fire, gloom and sunlight. This game may be bigger than we anticipated. Thank you Lim for your amazing coverage on Tears of the Kingdom.
Perhaps Link is more vulnerable to Malice than before because he's been injured so badly by it. Like a sort of Frodo stabbed by a Morgul blade situation. So he has to actually directly heal from the malice/gloom vs. just normal health-ups before. Orrrrrr Link has to use light heal NPCs, to help keep the rebellion going.
I would also say he's more vulnerable since unlink in BOTW, it's coming straight from the source, Ganondorf. It's more concentrated since it's more red than pink than before.
@@ACW-dn9wb Well there's actually an interesting difference between the malice in ToTK and BoTW. In one of the loading tips for BoTW, it's actually suggested that the malice we see isn't *actually* just concentrated malice, but rather malice-infused water. The gelatin-like appearance is just the form it takes, but the malice "tendrils" are pure malice. I think the raw, un-infused malice could simply be more dangerous than BoTW's tar-like malice "goop". Liquid malice seems to hold a form, and it doesn't diffuse into the air like raw malice appears to do. Perhaps being near raw malice can cause damage, as it isn't bound to a liquid medium and lashes out at link when he's near it. EDIT: I found the full tip decription, titled "Pools of Malice": "Poisonous bogs formed by water that was sullied during the Great Calamity. Coming into contact with one will hurt you." Initially I had assumed it referred to the mud that drowns you, but there's a few reasons I disagree with this potential interpretation. For one, the title of the tip is quite clearly referring to what is conventionally referred to as malice in BoTW, and the tip say it "hurts you" which more accurately describes the behavior of malice tar. That, and visually it makes the most sense.
What is notable is that the tower in the gameplay demo had no lights AND was overrun with monsters. Perhaps these lights ward off this "gloom" and the monsters managed to disable them allowing them to take it over.
Also Limcube, I am grateful for your channel and videos, as it makes me joyed to be able to know that I will always see the red notification dot under “subscriptions” everyday ❤
Limcube, could you please help me. For some reason, Link won’t enter bullet time when I backflip when doing a test of strength shrine skip. Do you know why?
I had the exact same idea! It’s the best way for Nintendo to limit underground exploration by essentially giving us a time limit down there in the form of gloom and makes it so you can’t just rush down there, you need to be prepared.
I feel like to stop people from staying underground for too long, they'll add gloom as an affect to take away health (like you said) but they wouldn't make an effect that's irreversible unless you have a specific item so maybe sunlight removes the effect. It would make sense if the gloom reversing food just let you explore underground for longer
Love these theories, they seem pretty plausible. I think the spotlights around the towers might just be so that the enemies around them can spot you in the sky. Sort of like in Wind Waker at the Forsaken Fortress.
I think the gloom is the same as the darkness in the Thyphlo Ruins. After all, this same pitch-black darkness was also shown in one of the trailers, and would naturally be everywhere underground. Also consider that in trailers, we've seen underground caves that aren't pitch-black, but we've also seen Link running through that pitch-black tunnel. Furthermore, consider the shadows being casted onto the surface by the sky islands. Surely blocking off the sun can't have a great effect on the life living on the surface. Monsters previously living in the darkness may now cone to the dark surface.
I mean consider that there is precedent in Zelda for the entire sky to be covered and the kingdom to be absolutely fine. The cloud barrier from skyward sword covered the whole sky, with floating islands above it, yet the sky looked clear from below. Presumably, that barrier is still there, and these islands still above them, which is why they don't seem to have been ripped from the earth in most cases, just appeared in the sky.
it might just be the look of the hearts in the new game, but you can see that theres some light around them when theyre normal, your idea of gloom possibly being a debuff that limits your hearts could make more sense
I've decided to 100% breath of the will myself for the first time ever before ToTK comes out, currently at 42.21% with 228 total koroks found. Also I really like your idea about the effects of gloom, it would fit with the games darker theme perfectly.
@@ashleycurzon6348 honestly by the time I was done the koroks I only had a few locations left (15 minutes tops). I'd reccomend just doing koroks and worrying about the locations after
@@ashleycurzon6348 yeah I did basically 800 koroks in like 4 days cause I had a bunch of days off. It was quite a grind but you've got two weeks until totk!
I would love that Don't Starve "avoid darkness" feature, there's some reason why they have avoided showing night time, and that previews had the time of day locked
Tears of the kingdom seems to be diversifying the elements and mechanics, so I agree with you thinking gloom is some sort of status effect, maybe caused by touching malice, that saps health like poison. (Since we saw an item that causes a bright flash of light in the previews, as you said, maybe for flash bang arrows, i think having more effects in the game that BotW is basically a given.) Remember: since the previews have shown that gemstones have corresponding elemental AOEs, it is safe to assume that diamond arrows, will be some sort of light/divine arrow, since diamonds in BotW are said to harness the power of light, which may counteract gloom.) How i believe the effects of gloom might work: refilling hearts doesn’t remove the status so maybe we need specific items or potions to cleanse (purify) Link of the status effect. Like certain status effects from the Monster Hunter series can only be removed by certain plants and such. Or if anyone has seen certain anime with spiritualistic themes, were water from sacred springs can cure blights and evil. Since the motives of light and dark (the sky and the underground) are very prevalent, i think also the themes of the divine and evil will be very important as well. I don't agree though with the part with the effect caused by walking in darkness, though. In the ad Nintendo showed us, Link was walking around just fine, without a potion effect under his hearts. what I believe gloom is or how we get it is either afflicted enemies (As you briefly touched upon; in some shots of the second trailer we see Lizalfos that a infused with malice, maybe some sort of undead/curses zombie enemies! Maybe zombie enemies can apply the gloom effect.), or from a more evolved form of malice. As you said, the malice looks slightly different that when we first saw it in BotW. Malice usually takes the form of darkish goop, with some rib-like protrusions sticking up, and a malice eye here and there, so it seems like malice is trying to create a shape or something alive. In the shots in which we see the malice grabbing Links arm with the Master Sword, it's a bit more reddish and almost seems alive and sentient, kind of like tentacles of some sort of creature. Malice in itself is the physical form of evil, that is always growing and evolving, and now it has reached a point were it isn't just a evil puddle of slime, but a swirling semi-conscious mass of tentacles, that has finally reached a form or body it is satisfied with and maybe even turned into a new type of enemy. Another argument to support this would be the fact that Tears of the Kingdom is leaning heavily into the Ghibli inspiration, Princess Mononoke in particular; Links cursed right arm being representative of that. That movie also has enemies that are covered in stuff similar to malice, which causes extreme pain and decay upon touching it. So i think gloom is something like that. Thanks for another interesting video that really makes one think. Can’t wait to actually play the game after almost basically 5 years!
I first played BotW a year and a half ago on my roommate's switch and it was the reason I bought my own switch. Back then I remember this nebulous idea of BotW2 and just being excited a sequel would be coming out in over a year.... Crazy how fast it went
In a Japanese ad we see an underground cave that is completely covered in darkness and Link uses arrow fused with some kind of new flower to create light. Maybe that's Gloom? Standing in the darkness gives you unhealable damage over time so the players has to actually find a way to avoid that.
Hey Limcube! Something random, but I just thought of this! How about a “My Hero” speedrun: to complete the my hero sidequest and make the woman’s happy. It’ll also make ems a little more worthwhile too! What do you think?
I wonder if it will be tied to the undead and is a reimagining of curse. Maybe when redeads grab you, they apply gloom to you as theyre sucking the life out of you.
I’m curious… as your streaming the game when it comes out, would you be playing it in English? Or do you do your first casual play throughs in German since that’s your first language? Sorry I’m just intrigued to know 😅
this game could even draw from biblical apocalyptic literature. the angels will come to the earth and imprison/ kill/ banish the devil and his legions.
3:02 so if I understand it, if you are effected by this gloom, you can't heal the hearts that have been taken away by normal foods? and when you cook this flower, you can heal those hearts affected (or depleted) by gloom? hmm... interesting! I think it may be like you say that it's malice but when effected by it, it's called gloom. Only 2 more days before we can find out!!! soooo hyped!!!
I hope that you play the hero's path at the end of the playthrough. Would be quite interesting to see what you did in the playthrough from day 1 to the end at the zonai ruins.
@@limcubePlus awesome. I love these videos they are entertaining to watch/listen to whilst running around in BotW as we count down to the release of TotK. Can’t believe we are so close!
I'm confused about why you didn't just warp to the shrine at 0:33😅 But anyway I am soo hyped for this game!!! only 13 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 15 seconds until release in Australia
I hope they added the bomb launch from the 1989 TV show: th-cam.com/video/CbmjAsRldb8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Rinku%28HylianGamer%29 It would be awesome to fuse a bomb flower to your shield and shield jump to launch yourself into the air lol.
On the official Nintendo website it says that Link and Zelda set out to discover the source of the gloom infecting Hyrule, so perhaps this is why they end up in the cave with Gannon. To me, (from the trailers) it looked like Hyrule was beginning to rebuild when this gloom started to appear and things were starting to get bad. Everyone knows about malice, but this gloom seems to be something new and threatening.Gannon is the source, but no one knows that as everyone thinks the Calamity is over as Link and Zelda defeated it. Just my thoughts on the gloom.
You've been saying diamonds to counteract gloom, but I've been imagining gold. Either way, this could be the players' incentive to go underground and mine this material. We've already seen the strong mining themes in various underground scenes and I want to complete a mining dungeon and get gloom resistant golden armor Edit: was there npcs of some kind mining in the first trailer?
To be fair diamonds in BoTW harness light energy, which apparently taps into guardian resistance. Ancient energy is sort of a manmade "Light" (i.e. god energy) so maybe it harnesses god powers, which oppose darkness.
@@limcubePlus The question is though, are subterranean light sources adequate to protect you from "gloom", or do you need to bring some sundelion meals with you down there?
The thing about your gloom theory is this.... I play games to get away from depression, the last thing I want is game devs adding that mechanic into the game as well 🤣
But I think that will be the objective of the game. Deafeating our dark side and Enlighten. I know what you mean tho but if it gets too dark we can always go up to the skies
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To Elaborate on my Idea from the End of this Video.
I could see Gloom as some kind of new EXTREME Weather Effect.
It would be the strongest Underground, while also creeping to the Surface and the least apparent in the Sky which is closest to the Sun.
We might need Gloom Resistance in the form of Potions and even Armor, weve seen the Mushrooms in Hateno used as Lamps, maybe this will be our Gloom Resistance.
The Duality of Light and Dark and Elightenment in General is a MASSIVE Theme of this Game.
that sounds really cool
I’d just like to say thank you for making this content, it’s nice to keep up
I was looking at demos and saw a plant and it’s description said that it protects you from gloom and was wondering what gloom was
The dynamics of Tears of the Kingdom seems pretty vast, is seems they thought of everything. Ice and fire, gloom and sunlight. This game may be bigger than we anticipated. Thank you Lim for your amazing coverage on Tears of the Kingdom.
Perhaps Link is more vulnerable to Malice than before because he's been injured so badly by it. Like a sort of Frodo stabbed by a Morgul blade situation. So he has to actually directly heal from the malice/gloom vs. just normal health-ups before. Orrrrrr Link has to use light heal NPCs, to help keep the rebellion going.
I would also say he's more vulnerable since unlink in BOTW, it's coming straight from the source, Ganondorf. It's more concentrated since it's more red than pink than before.
@@ACW-dn9wb Well there's actually an interesting difference between the malice in ToTK and BoTW. In one of the loading tips for BoTW, it's actually suggested that the malice we see isn't *actually* just concentrated malice, but rather malice-infused water. The gelatin-like appearance is just the form it takes, but the malice "tendrils" are pure malice. I think the raw, un-infused malice could simply be more dangerous than BoTW's tar-like malice "goop". Liquid malice seems to hold a form, and it doesn't diffuse into the air like raw malice appears to do. Perhaps being near raw malice can cause damage, as it isn't bound to a liquid medium and lashes out at link when he's near it.
EDIT: I found the full tip decription, titled "Pools of Malice":
"Poisonous bogs formed by water that was sullied during the Great Calamity. Coming into contact with one will hurt you."
Initially I had assumed it referred to the mud that drowns you, but there's a few reasons I disagree with this potential interpretation. For one, the title of the tip is quite clearly referring to what is conventionally referred to as malice in BoTW, and the tip say it "hurts you" which more accurately describes the behavior of malice tar. That, and visually it makes the most sense.
Your videos keep me sane in this wait. In like the last 10 days you've become my favourite youtuber
when you said that after the weekend we can say "next week we are playing tears of the kingdom" i got butterflies. i am so excited!!!!!!
You have quickly become my favourite zelda youtuber
SUCH A SHORT TIME NOW, i'm so excited for this Sequel!
I'm sure someone will say "70 dollar dlc🤓"
@@Dado_nastro I mean technically you just said it lol
I think malice is still known as malice, but "gloom" is a status effect given by malice-effected or "gloomed" enemies
What is notable is that the tower in the gameplay demo had no lights AND was overrun with monsters. Perhaps these lights ward off this "gloom" and the monsters managed to disable them allowing them to take it over.
Also Limcube, I am grateful for your channel and videos, as it makes me joyed to be able to know that I will always see the red notification dot under “subscriptions” everyday ❤
Limcube, could you please help me. For some reason, Link won’t enter bullet time when I backflip when doing a test of strength shrine skip. Do you know why?
I had the exact same idea! It’s the best way for Nintendo to limit underground exploration by essentially giving us a time limit down there in the form of gloom and makes it so you can’t just rush down there, you need to be prepared.
I feel like to stop people from staying underground for too long, they'll add gloom as an affect to take away health (like you said) but they wouldn't make an effect that's irreversible unless you have a specific item so maybe sunlight removes the effect. It would make sense if the gloom reversing food just let you explore underground for longer
This was exactly what I was thinking.
Threw me off a second there when you said Richard so casually 😂
Love these theories, they seem pretty plausible.
I think the spotlights around the towers might just be so that the enemies around them can spot you in the sky. Sort of like in Wind Waker at the Forsaken Fortress.
I cant belive its only 13 days anymore. I was in your all towers stream yesterday btw! :D
I think the gloom is the same as the darkness in the Thyphlo Ruins. After all, this same pitch-black darkness was also shown in one of the trailers, and would naturally be everywhere underground.
Also consider that in trailers, we've seen underground caves that aren't pitch-black, but we've also seen Link running through that pitch-black tunnel.
Furthermore, consider the shadows being casted onto the surface by the sky islands. Surely blocking off the sun can't have a great effect on the life living on the surface.
Monsters previously living in the darkness may now cone to the dark surface.
I mean consider that there is precedent in Zelda for the entire sky to be covered and the kingdom to be absolutely fine. The cloud barrier from skyward sword covered the whole sky, with floating islands above it, yet the sky looked clear from below. Presumably, that barrier is still there, and these islands still above them, which is why they don't seem to have been ripped from the earth in most cases, just appeared in the sky.
it might just be the look of the hearts in the new game, but you can see that theres some light around them when theyre normal, your idea of gloom possibly being a debuff that limits your hearts could make more sense
I've decided to 100% breath of the will myself for the first time ever before ToTK comes out, currently at 42.21% with 228 total koroks found. Also I really like your idea about the effects of gloom, it would fit with the games darker theme perfectly.
I recently got all the koroks myself, you've got this man! I used the app called Breath Companion to track the koroks I've collected.
@@SmirkingSamurai thanks, im using an interactive map to do the same thing, i realised though that place locations count towards the total as well
@@ashleycurzon6348 honestly by the time I was done the koroks I only had a few locations left (15 minutes tops). I'd reccomend just doing koroks and worrying about the locations after
@@SmirkingSamurai yeah that does sound easier, im up to 50.36% now so i should easily be done in time
@@ashleycurzon6348 yeah I did basically 800 koroks in like 4 days cause I had a bunch of days off. It was quite a grind but you've got two weeks until totk!
I would love that Don't Starve "avoid darkness" feature, there's some reason why they have avoided showing night time, and that previews had the time of day locked
I love that last theory sounds very compelling
Gloom might be an element we can use ourselves.
Tears of the kingdom seems to be diversifying the elements and mechanics, so I agree with you thinking gloom is some sort of status effect, maybe caused by touching malice, that saps health like poison.
(Since we saw an item that causes a bright flash of light in the previews, as you said, maybe for flash bang arrows, i think having more effects in the game that BotW is basically a given.)
Remember: since the previews have shown that gemstones have corresponding elemental AOEs, it is safe to assume that diamond arrows, will be some sort of light/divine arrow, since diamonds in BotW are said to harness the power of light, which may counteract gloom.)
How i believe the effects of gloom might work: refilling hearts doesn’t remove the status so maybe we need specific items or potions to cleanse (purify) Link of the status effect.
Like certain status effects from the Monster Hunter series can only be removed by certain plants and such.
Or if anyone has seen certain anime with spiritualistic themes, were water from sacred springs can cure blights and evil.
Since the motives of light and dark (the sky and the underground) are very prevalent, i think also the themes of the divine and evil will be very important as well.
I don't agree though with the part with the effect caused by walking in darkness, though.
In the ad Nintendo showed us, Link was walking around just fine, without a potion effect under his hearts. what I believe gloom is or how we get it is either afflicted enemies (As you briefly touched upon; in some shots of the second trailer we see Lizalfos that a infused with malice, maybe some sort of undead/curses zombie enemies! Maybe zombie enemies can apply the gloom effect.), or from a more evolved form of malice.
As you said, the malice looks slightly different that when we first saw it in BotW. Malice usually takes the form of darkish goop, with some rib-like protrusions sticking up, and a malice eye here and there, so it seems like malice is trying to create a shape or something alive.
In the shots in which we see the malice grabbing Links arm with the Master Sword, it's a bit more reddish and almost seems alive and sentient, kind of like tentacles of some sort of creature. Malice in itself is the physical form of evil, that is always growing and evolving, and now it has reached a point were it isn't just a evil puddle of slime, but a swirling semi-conscious mass of tentacles, that has finally reached a form or body it is satisfied with and maybe even turned into a new type of enemy.
Another argument to support this would be the fact that Tears of the Kingdom is leaning heavily into the Ghibli inspiration, Princess Mononoke in particular; Links cursed right arm being representative of that. That movie also has enemies that are covered in stuff similar to malice, which causes extreme pain and decay upon touching it. So i think gloom is something like that.
Thanks for another interesting video that really makes one think.
Can’t wait to actually play the game after almost basically 5 years!
This will be the never ending battle of light vs. darkness.
I think Gloom is a new form of emotions created by Ganondorf like Malice, and it fits with Ganondorf trying to destroy the kingdom of Hyrule
Gloom vs Light sounds a lot like Metroid Prime 2 Corruption, Prince of Persia The Two Thrones, etc.
I first played BotW a year and a half ago on my roommate's switch and it was the reason I bought my own switch. Back then I remember this nebulous idea of BotW2 and just being excited a sequel would be coming out in over a year.... Crazy how fast it went
Think how fast that went…
Now think how fast 2 weeks is compared to that.
Perhaps gloom is the thick concentration of Malice in the air, particularly underground and venting from the Malice chasms?
malice = manifestation of hatred
gloom = manifestation of sorrow
I think the gloom is the black goo that is shown coming off some of the sky islands, but I like the darkness idea, it would be eather fun.
I want a mirror shield, damnit.
There are shields, there is fuse. You only have to find a mirror.
I am back to limcube+ everyday!!
I think ‘Gloom’ is the goopy stuff that the shark enemy is made of.
The Underground seems so freaky. Maybe we'll finally get to see the Demon Realm that they've been teasing for a while.
In a Japanese ad we see an underground cave that is completely covered in darkness and Link uses arrow fused with some kind of new flower to create light. Maybe that's Gloom? Standing in the darkness gives you unhealable damage over time so the players has to actually find a way to avoid that.
Hey Limcube! Something random, but I just thought of this!
How about a “My Hero” speedrun: to complete the my hero sidequest and make the woman’s happy. It’ll also make ems a little more worthwhile too! What do you think?
I noticed most of the towers you can see through the base of it, so I bet the only way to get underground are cave entrances and "malice" holes.
I wonder if it will be tied to the undead and is a reimagining of curse. Maybe when redeads grab you, they apply gloom to you as theyre sucking the life out of you.
Technically the sky islands in Faron are in a constant rain storm so you can definitely get rain on at least certain sky islands
Thats right!
Nice video
4:17 they actually call it malice in the dark beast ganon fight. zelda talks about ganon being made out of "malice" there
I mean in Tears of the Kingdom as its different Visually
maybe its some sort of "sadness plague" = tears of the kingdom might also have another meaning here
I think the Towers could have the light because the shiekah dont want that the Towers get infected by the gloom
Thats what i think too
Trial of the sword without out of bounds?
the new towers are smaller and the orange sheikah light is mostly covered by the tower walls so the lights should make sense.
i think purah is making these towers. maybe link needs to pay her to build them.
Lez gooo
wouldnt be surprised if Links arm was affected by gloom
i would like it to be a debuff where you can’t heal for 15 seconds or something, to make fights more challenging
Will trial of the sword still be part of the series?
unreal how close the game now is
I’m curious… as your streaming the game when it comes out, would you be playing it in English? Or do you do your first casual play throughs in German since that’s your first language? Sorry I’m just intrigued to know 😅
English!
this game could even draw from biblical apocalyptic literature. the angels will come to the earth and imprison/ kill/ banish the devil and his legions.
3:02 so if I understand it, if you are effected by this gloom, you can't heal the hearts that have been taken away by normal foods? and when you cook this flower, you can heal those hearts affected (or depleted) by gloom? hmm... interesting! I think it may be like you say that it's malice but when effected by it, it's called gloom. Only 2 more days before we can find out!!! soooo hyped!!!
Gloom could work similarly to extreme cold, heat, and fire.
I hope that you play the hero's path at the end of the playthrough. Would be quite interesting to see what you did in the playthrough from day 1 to the end at the zonai ruins.
I will
@@limcubePlus awesome. I love these videos they are entertaining to watch/listen to whilst running around in BotW as we count down to the release of TotK. Can’t believe we are so close!
I'm confused about why you didn't just warp to the shrine at 0:33😅
But anyway I am soo hyped for this game!!! only 13 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes and 15 seconds until release in Australia
Mainly because it would be boring to just watch loadingscreens
@@limcubePlus fair enough
Yeah might be similar to how the bifrost effect works in god of war
I hope they added the bomb launch from the 1989 TV show:
th-cam.com/video/CbmjAsRldb8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Rinku%28HylianGamer%29
It would be awesome to fuse a bomb flower to your shield and shield jump to launch yourself into the air lol.
On the official Nintendo website it says that Link and Zelda set out to discover the source of the gloom infecting Hyrule, so perhaps this is why they end up in the cave with Gannon. To me, (from the trailers) it looked like Hyrule was beginning to rebuild when this gloom started to appear and things were starting to get bad. Everyone knows about malice, but this gloom seems to be something new and threatening.Gannon is the source, but no one knows that as everyone thinks the Calamity is over as Link and Zelda defeated it. Just my thoughts on the gloom.
Very good insight, that would speak towards the new malice beeing that gloom
Can you show me the article where it says that they set out together in that regard
Nice lim³
You've been saying diamonds to counteract gloom, but I've been imagining gold. Either way, this could be the players' incentive to go underground and mine this material. We've already seen the strong mining themes in various underground scenes and I want to complete a mining dungeon and get gloom resistant golden armor
Edit: was there npcs of some kind mining in the first trailer?
To be fair diamonds in BoTW harness light energy, which apparently taps into guardian resistance. Ancient energy is sort of a manmade "Light" (i.e. god energy) so maybe it harnesses god powers, which oppose darkness.
Could you turn down the music at the beginning just a bit?
Noted
I would suspect that “gloom” is related to being underground for extended periods of time.
Me too, which is why we will need light sources, I believe Night Time or a Blood Moon Tide could make it affect more of the Kingdom tho
@@limcubePlus The question is though, are subterranean light sources adequate to protect you from "gloom", or do you need to bring some sundelion meals with you down there?
maybe star fragments can also cure gloom
Itd be could if gloom caused some kind of poison effect
Concentrated malice
The thing about your gloom theory is this.... I play games to get away from depression, the last thing I want is game devs adding that mechanic into the game as well 🤣
But I think that will be the objective of the game. Deafeating our dark side and Enlighten. I know what you mean tho but if it gets too dark we can always go up to the skies