If anyone is still searching for the music that plays during the desert portion of the ending, it can be found in its entirety here: th-cam.com/video/hLR_lG4BukY/w-d-xo.html
I always imagined this as a continuation of the skip button ending, with you never leaving the memory zone you explore all that's left of the narrators mind after so many years
Apparently, I missed an easter egg in this ending. If you go towards the back of the cave where one of the Jim button clusters is located, one of the buttons will say "Stanley" instead of the iconic "Jim" line.
I came back here after hearing the epilogue song in my "You will forget" playlist. It made me realise that after all the content was taken from this game the internet moved on. Seeking new things to absorb, very much like another person, I completely forgot about this epilogue. As I always do. Almost repeatedly I find the song on my playlist and I come here. This game became something that overtook my feed and just as fast dissapeared. This game made me feel emotion, especially the epilogue. Although I can constantly relive the same thing as I revisit after I forget. The epilogue in Stanley Parable is something about how the world moves on. And I move on. Yet I come back
There's a certain *Portal 2* feel to the desert with all the ruins of bits of the game. Sort of: "Civilisation has been and gone, man! There's no new content coming from anywhere!"
Having looked through and at all the employees at the company, reviewing them, and learning enough to know not only that he is fake - and everything around him is, too; he learned how to ascend in just the slightest way. To be above being an NPC to be deleted, and became a reflection of the developers. Escaping your purpose is not impossible, even if escaping the confines of your world is.
The music during the desert portion is probably my favorite part of the soundtrack. If the game ever releases the OST officially I really hope it is included!
I loved the Epilogue, it ties all of the Stanley Parable universe together. I loved the concept of the end of time, the bucket and the secret Stanley Button.
Why im crying over the world and the music? Its like stanley is the only one alive. Every one that had lived once had died, the narrator, his co workers, his boss (at least you're not bossed), his wife, literally everything, that he known, touch, everything, and stanley is the lone survivor of earth before he also faded into dust...
@@gibhib thats true, anyway i guess stanley will became so pshycoticaly (idk how to spell it) attached to it, he will begin to use the bucket as his true friend, not just a carry me stuff but just a real stuff, like a real thing and the bucket became alive and decided to attack stanley, we never know i guess
You know about the Stanley Figurines? Or Figleys or whatever the narrator calls them. There are many of them in the part of the cave. And if I remember correctly (sorry, I haven't played the game in a while. I need to replay this game), The Narrator really likes those Figleys. Is that why they are still around and fresh in the Memory Zone; because they're the only and most precious memories to remind him of Stanley? And the bad reviews that are still there, maybe those are bad memories that he keeps thinking about (kind of trauma or?? Gosh, I'm very bad at describing things). While the Setting Person (or employee 432, maybe), is at the bottom of the Memory Zone, because he used to have some sort of connectivity with The Narrator (some kind of former friend or something. Yes, former friend. Because, he was fired and no longer become The Narrator's friend)? Just a theory, I guess, but who knows... 🤷🏻♀️ (Sorry for bad grammar..)
Headcanon: The game takes place in the Narrator’s mind and is the Narrator’s own story/daydream, and with Stanley bring the subject of the story. The epilogue represents the Narrator slowly forgetting his story. Meanwhile, the Computer is the Narrator but in the future, who realizes that trying to create extra “sequels” was a bad idea, and now just wants to replay the story until it’s forgotten.
My headcannon is that this ending takes place after you collect all the stanley figurines, the narrator finally lets go of stanley and starts making decisions by himself, leaving stanley to wonder for many, many, years
Sorry in advance for the Agatha Christie novel, but I'm super into this haha: I doubt it. The review could very well be written in 2027, but you gotta remember that the amount of time between each button press gets *exponentially* longer. First it was a few seconds, then a few minutes, then 45 minutes, 12 hours, a couple of weeks, and lastly, a couple of years. This is all the narrator tells us, but we can deduce another thing. The fire alarm goes off a couple of skips later, which tells us it's reaching the end of its lifespan, which will add up to another 10 years. From then on, it could probably be a couple of decades, a few more decades than that, and then maybe even centuries. I can't tell you the exact year, but we're definitely wayyyy past 2027
I think the plans growing and all the water that was around you when you entered the skipping area is another good tell Lemme just say, I think we're around portal 2 levels of being stuck in place
It is literally a metaphor of how giving too much care regarding negative feedbacks from everybody (whether in game development or in real life) will eventually lead to insanity and losing one's own mind just like what happend to our poor Narrator :( , At least that's my interpretation.
My headcanon is that narrator can fly, and is a ghost, left the skip button room after ceiling broke. and another one is that he can't die, he is really not doing well. another one is that memory zone couldn't be changed when narrator was trapped inside, until he came back after a long time, at some point changing to sp2, after he remembered it.. or memory zone messed up when narrator's mind broke.. he was still searching for stanley. his live wasn't same as he did before he was trapped. i mean narrator abandoned stanley, later he was Searching for him. Another headcanon is that stanley parable 2 expo and figleys ending aren't canon, they are in different realities/universes (which was made probably by game itself or settings person) while epilogue is still taking place in same universe skip button took place
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If anyone is still searching for the music that plays during the desert portion of the ending, it can be found in its entirety here:
th-cam.com/video/hLR_lG4BukY/w-d-xo.html
I always imagined this as a continuation of the skip button ending, with you never leaving the memory zone you explore all that's left of the narrators mind after so many years
I literally cried when I saw the "Thank you for enjoying the new content" board again. What was once a simple joke now really lived up to its name.
It was, without a doubt, the most genuine word of thanks that I have seen a game dev give to their audience.
Apparently, I missed an easter egg in this ending. If you go towards the back of the cave where one of the Jim button clusters is located, one of the buttons will say "Stanley" instead of the iconic "Jim" line.
he kept his promise, its really.. strange
@genial1751
what promise? (it's been a while since I've seen the game I don't remember things quite clearly anymore)
@@sharalinn2639 that when the game is finished the button will say the player's name?
I came back here after hearing the epilogue song in my "You will forget" playlist.
It made me realise that after all the content was taken from this game the internet moved on.
Seeking new things to absorb, very much like another person, I completely forgot about this epilogue. As I always do.
Almost repeatedly I find the song on my playlist and I come here. This game became something that overtook my feed and just as fast dissapeared.
This game made me feel emotion, especially the epilogue. Although I can constantly relive the same thing as I revisit after I forget.
The epilogue in Stanley Parable is something about how the world moves on. And I move on.
Yet I come back
where can i find the playlist?
@@fish93837 th-cam.com/play/PLm6kBlVPPkRg_0UNwBWggGwzK7lIqXbpS.html
It's basically just an out of order playlist of songs I know I'll forget
You *always* come back.
There's a certain *Portal 2* feel to the desert with all the ruins of bits of the game. Sort of: "Civilisation has been and gone, man! There's no new content coming from anywhere!"
Makes sense that the skip button stopped then, huh?
Nothing further to jump through.
got the reference if you were trying to make one
i can see that
apparently the settings man on the computer is actually employee 432
Having looked through and at all the employees at the company, reviewing them, and learning enough to know not only that he is fake - and everything around him is, too; he learned how to ascend in just the slightest way. To be above being an NPC to be deleted, and became a reflection of the developers.
Escaping your purpose is not impossible, even if escaping the confines of your world is.
@@alexis_electronic Perhaps the Batter was wrong, then.
@@messiyer13 heck yeah OFF reference
That's not been proven tho
@@SirFooplesTheThird bro didnt watch the dougdoug stream with the creator of the game where he said "yup thats him"
Clearly the epilogue takes place during the Skip ending.
My game crashed after I fell asleep during the skip button so I never got to see this rip
No shit Sherlock
Another case solved Holmes.
It can't. The Narrator went crazy during that timeline and so couldn't create The Stanley Parable 2.
Duh
9:06 This is what employee 432 said in his peer review document the day before he vanished. Does that mean…
Yep, exactly.
He is 432
The music during the desert portion is probably my favorite part of the soundtrack. If the game ever releases the OST officially I really hope it is included!
The game already released the ost. You just have to datamine the game and profit.
th-cam.com/video/QJ_RPw2PdnQ/w-d-xo.html
Here’s the OST, it’s in it
@@hl5217 do you know the song?
I found it! It’s Epilogue By Tom Schley!
You can find a table w/all of the music and descriptions of when/where they play on the wiki!
I loved the Epilogue, it ties all of the Stanley Parable universe together. I loved the concept of the end of time, the bucket and the secret Stanley Button.
2:06 So that's where the escape pod goes.
Who knows really, might just be time
@@etam8099 That's where it would go after a very long time then.
no
@@etam8099 It only appears if you do the bucket escape pod ending so its not just time
I missed the bucket part.😐
Why im crying over the world and the music? Its like stanley is the only one alive. Every one that had lived once had died, the narrator, his co workers, his boss (at least you're not bossed), his wife, literally everything, that he known, touch, everything, and stanley is the lone survivor of earth before he also faded into dust...
Bucket's still alive though, which is what matters :)
@@gibhib thats true, anyway i guess stanley will became so pshycoticaly (idk how to spell it) attached to it, he will begin to use the bucket as his true friend, not just a carry me stuff but just a real stuff, like a real thing and the bucket became alive and decided to attack stanley, we never know i guess
this revelation, coupled with the single button that says "Stanley," made me truly appreciate the epilogue so much more.
im always so terrified at the music when you enter the abandoned memory zone
You know about the Stanley Figurines? Or Figleys or whatever the narrator calls them. There are many of them in the part of the cave. And if I remember correctly (sorry, I haven't played the game in a while. I need to replay this game), The Narrator really likes those Figleys. Is that why they are still around and fresh in the Memory Zone; because they're the only and most precious memories to remind him of Stanley?
And the bad reviews that are still there, maybe those are bad memories that he keeps thinking about (kind of trauma or?? Gosh, I'm very bad at describing things).
While the Setting Person (or employee 432, maybe), is at the bottom of the Memory Zone, because he used to have some sort of connectivity with The Narrator (some kind of former friend or something. Yes, former friend. Because, he was fired and no longer become The Narrator's friend)?
Just a theory, I guess, but who knows... 🤷🏻♀️
(Sorry for bad grammar..)
Headcanon:
The game takes place in the Narrator’s mind and is the Narrator’s own story/daydream, and with Stanley bring the subject of the story. The epilogue represents the Narrator slowly forgetting his story. Meanwhile, the Computer is the Narrator but in the future, who realizes that trying to create extra “sequels” was a bad idea, and now just wants to replay the story until it’s forgotten.
My headcannon is that this ending takes place after you collect all the stanley figurines, the narrator finally lets go of stanley and starts making decisions by himself, leaving stanley to wonder for many, many, years
if only there was a way to escape the skip room
3:33 if you noticed, it goes up to *2027* is it the year the epilogue took place?
Sorry in advance for the Agatha Christie novel, but I'm super into this haha:
I doubt it. The review could very well be written in 2027, but you gotta remember that the amount of time between each button press gets *exponentially* longer. First it was a few seconds, then a few minutes, then 45 minutes, 12 hours, a couple of weeks, and lastly, a couple of years. This is all the narrator tells us, but we can deduce another thing. The fire alarm goes off a couple of skips later, which tells us it's reaching the end of its lifespan, which will add up to another 10 years. From then on, it could probably be a couple of decades, a few more decades than that, and then maybe even centuries.
I can't tell you the exact year, but we're definitely wayyyy past 2027
@@ArcienPlaysGames ok
I think the plans growing and all the water that was around you when you entered the skipping area is another good tell
Lemme just say, I think we're around portal 2 levels of being stuck in place
One person did some math and calculated 13 *Billion* years passed by the time Stanley was able to get out.
Then again, that's just a guess
@@silverflight01 the sun would have exploded by then
A fitting conclusion to my all time favorite game.
Seeing the ruins of the memory zone is depressing :(
This is one of the most depressing epilogues in the history of video games ever...
It is literally a metaphor of how giving too much care regarding negative feedbacks from everybody (whether in game development or in real life) will eventually lead to insanity and losing one's own mind just like what happend to our poor Narrator :( , At least that's my interpretation.
I almost cried during the ending of the epilogue
If you listen you can faintly hear narrator calling out for Stanley
In the skip ending, not the epilogue (though it is a continuation of that ending)
I have been told you can hear the Narrator calling for Stanley but I can't hear it
It's now the Adventure Wire™.
it takes place after skip button in that timeline specifically
so much journey vibes~
I can’t find the bucket!
The buckets only there in the epilogue if you've done the bucket escape pod ending
@@DarkendLorule thank you so much
His memory is in shambles..still has the negative reviews, buttons he made over and over again as if struggling and one button that says stanley
My headcanon is that narrator can fly, and is a ghost, left the skip button room after ceiling broke. and another one is that he can't die, he is really not doing well. another one is that memory zone couldn't be changed when narrator was trapped inside, until he came back after a long time, at some point changing to sp2, after he remembered it.. or memory zone messed up when narrator's mind broke.. he was still searching for stanley. his live wasn't same as he did before he was trapped. i mean narrator abandoned stanley, later he was Searching for him.
Another headcanon is that stanley parable 2 expo and figleys ending aren't canon, they are in different realities/universes (which was made probably by game itself or settings person) while epilogue is still taking place in same universe skip button took place
The music is beautiful 👌 Reminds me of 'Faith' by Bon Iver
How do you get this ending?
After you discover all the figleys and complete the figley ending, the epilogue is advertised in the main menu.
Nice I’ve done all that so hopefully it’ll be there when I next play
It's true end of the game, just complete this game
And you must restart the game a few times to make the epilogue appear.
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