In my opinion, the developers were freely inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel "A Maze of Death". Selene's mind is inside a virtual reality simulator created specifically to train astronauts in the event of a crash landing on an exoplanet, but Selene's psychological trauma and guilt are somehow interfering with the simulation, making her live a distressing experience.
Fun fact... There are Algos iterations afer stage 3 (which is actually not that easy to clear... You just forced to do it multiple times over and over before you gain access to the ending) I failed at stage 5 before Algos as my record, and at this point getting to the boss becomes so much harder than fighting boss itself (Tbh, even before that Algos usually just gets brutally murderized). At stage 4 Algos has 1 phase again, but his moveset becomes much harder! I have no idea about what lies ahead.
@@DimkaTsv From Phase 4 onwards Algos/Infinity Algos is just a stronger version of the Phase 3 form, this is a roguelike so the enemies and bosses will keep scaling, and sometimes the mini bosses will be far harded than the main boss lol. Like imagine having to fight 2 malformed severeds or 2 malformed titanops.
Algos, the personification of physical and mental pain in greek mythology. You can't fight pain forever, sooner or later you have to deal with it or it breaks you ...
it's basically similar to the final form but has 1 phase instead of 3, that phase is very difficult and looks like phase 3 from the final form. it's still manageable if you have some shields
I don't get why Infinity only has one phase and not three. I guess maybe they felt the getting through all 19 rooms was tough enough that far into the tower.
@@agenerichuman Stage 4+ rooms are already quite dangerous (especially that f*king purple Kerberos mutant that can just onhit K.O. you). And st stage 5 you are forced to always fight 2 mutant bosses on each arena.
@@premiereavenueph So basically the mom suffer a spinal injury from the car crash. From her injury she could no longer become an astronaut anymore. Selene is the daughter who then become an astronaut, the mom resented her from that. Helios is Selenes son.
@@Luis-by7li Yeah, I am glad we got confirmation that Helios is her son. If some of you didn't catch it there are some Matryoshka dolls on the filing cabinet behind the nurses station that show Theia, Selene, and Helios. The interesting thing is that Helios also has an astronaut outfit on! I think he is the "dark passenger" who haunted her in the main game.
Honestly I think the story works better if Selene is in fact the mother and her daughter got killed and is stuck in the daughter's fantasy that her mother would be an astronaut who travels space and fights aliens. But this fantasy is actually a nightmare in which she's trapped. She is looking for her real mother who presumably died in the wreck too. Admittedly there's evidence against this interpretation and I'm not sure if the developers have confirmed the game's "true" meaning. Still I like my interpretation. I think it's more interesting than the common one and more poetic/impactful. It's so tragic. There's also a few things in the game which could be used to justify my interpretation. For instance, there's a scene where you play as the daughter and you turn into Selene. And the ending has Selene take her mother's place in the bed. Still I like that the game leaves so much open to interpretation.
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I hope you find the peace, Selene 🥺
In my opinion, the developers were freely inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel "A Maze of Death".
Selene's mind is inside a virtual reality simulator created specifically to train astronauts in the event of a crash landing on an exoplanet, but Selene's psychological trauma and guilt are somehow interfering with the simulation, making her live a distressing experience.
what a theory!
Quick change: What if Selene died and this is her personal hell? And as she goes through this, she slowly achieves redemption.
Getting the true ending for Ascension was far harder than anything in the main game. Great game BTW.
Fun fact... There are Algos iterations afer stage 3 (which is actually not that easy to clear... You just forced to do it multiple times over and over before you gain access to the ending)
I failed at stage 5 before Algos as my record, and at this point getting to the boss becomes so much harder than fighting boss itself (Tbh, even before that Algos usually just gets brutally murderized).
At stage 4 Algos has 1 phase again, but his moveset becomes much harder! I have no idea about what lies ahead.
@@DimkaTsv From Phase 4 onwards Algos/Infinity Algos is just a stronger version of the Phase 3 form, this is a roguelike so the enemies and bosses will keep scaling, and sometimes the mini bosses will be far harded than the main boss lol. Like imagine having to fight 2 malformed severeds or 2 malformed titanops.
@@captainace1277Yeah, they begin to basically onetap 300+% HP scale at phase 4+ with red spheres. Algos is not as dangerous compared to this.
Algos, the personification of physical and mental pain in greek mythology.
You can't fight pain forever, sooner or later you have to deal with it or it breaks you ...
I still wanna see Algos Infinity form...
it's basically similar to the final form but has 1 phase instead of 3, that phase is very difficult and looks like phase 3 from the final form. it's still manageable if you have some shields
Just make it to Phase 4 - 20 😀 But yea devstyle explained it well
I don't get why Infinity only has one phase and not three. I guess maybe they felt the getting through all 19 rooms was tough enough that far into the tower.
@@agenerichuman Stage 4+ rooms are already quite dangerous (especially that f*king purple Kerberos mutant that can just onhit K.O. you). And st stage 5 you are forced to always fight 2 mutant bosses on each arena.
Damn I still dont get the ending. I'm hoping for a sequel
It means that the cycle repeats. She ends up in the same place every time. Maybe thats why you see her bodies in the same position after defeat
@@Luis-by7li oh yeah i get that, that part is obvious. Talking about the lore, like who is the father, daughter and son
@@premiereavenueph So basically the mom suffer a spinal injury from the car crash. From her injury she could no longer become an astronaut anymore. Selene is the daughter who then become an astronaut, the mom resented her from that. Helios is Selenes son.
@@Luis-by7li Yeah, I am glad we got confirmation that Helios is her son. If some of you didn't catch it there are some Matryoshka dolls on the filing cabinet behind the nurses station that show Theia, Selene, and Helios. The interesting thing is that Helios also has an astronaut outfit on! I think he is the "dark passenger" who haunted her in the main game.
Honestly I think the story works better if Selene is in fact the mother and her daughter got killed and is stuck in the daughter's fantasy that her mother would be an astronaut who travels space and fights aliens. But this fantasy is actually a nightmare in which she's trapped. She is looking for her real mother who presumably died in the wreck too.
Admittedly there's evidence against this interpretation and I'm not sure if the developers have confirmed the game's "true" meaning.
Still I like my interpretation. I think it's more interesting than the common one and more poetic/impactful. It's so tragic. There's also a few things in the game which could be used to justify my interpretation. For instance, there's a scene where you play as the daughter and you turn into Selene. And the ending has Selene take her mother's place in the bed.
Still I like that the game leaves so much open to interpretation.
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