Upon entering Deeper Well the friends begin to forget about Basil. At this point the limitations of the Dream were starting show like tears in fabric. Further along in Humphrey they forget entirely. If you talk to Mari to check incomplete quests, finding Basil is no longer a quest.
Yeah I noticed that. The quest is to explore an abandoned house that they forgot was Basil's. It's kinda sad and a little creepy that even Mari forgets and just treats Basil's house as a creepy place to explore
It really made me sad seeing how they slowly forgot about Basil, and then you talk to Mari and advice for “finding Basil” isn’t there anymore, then it really made me sad.
I froze at the sight of no more finding Basil quest. Then Kel throws the flower crown and I get mad at him and scream at the screen: "KEL LOVELY WHAT DID YOU DO? THAT'S BASIL'S 😡😭😡😭"
This whole game was fucking incredible but something about Deeper Well... hit different. It's one of the most tense parts of the game, and not for any gameplay reason. It's hard to endure as this song plays over the visuals because you know what's happening. You get told exactly what this place is. This is the deepest level of repression. This is the physical representation of what it's like when, in all your attempts at escapism... you actually get away. You've already dug your hole. You're just sitting in it. You're at the bottom of the world. You watch all of your friends who love and care about you forget. Forget about Basil. About the horrible things you did. They're smiling at you and telling you that everything's going to be okay, because you're having fun. They're telling you that because they don't know. And look around you. This is the worst it's ever been. It's dark. Everything is shapes you can barely see. Shapes you don't understand. Shapes telling you things you don't want to hear. There's noises in the dark that don't make sense. You can outrun them by going deeper. But the deeper you go, the worse they get. And your friends, they're afraid for you, and they're confused, and they don't know why you're doing this. They don't know why you're making them suffer. Why you're making them watch YOU suffer. Remembering the truth is agonizing. But the most horrifying thought of all is what would happen if you let yourself forget.
Something to note about Deeper Well is that Mari rarely, if at all, appears. She’s there in Humphrey because, well, Humphrey is more grounded in Headspace then most of Deeper Well is. But I think her absence is a perfect sign that yes, you got away. What you did is completely and utterly absent here, you’ve fully gotten away from your past and your trauma. You’ve run as far as you possibly can.
The Quest wasn't about BASIL. It was never about BASIL. BASIL was a start to your own escapism. You never wanted BASIL back. Only to run. To run from the truth. To hide. The truth is, this is the end. There isn't any conclusion to Headspace. You are Playing Forever.
Possibly the most clever thing I've seen in a Video Game. Slowly forgetting about a character, OMORI started to build hate toward Basil (refer to black space) and wanted to forget him, meaning he was entirely removed from the DREAM World, his house wasn't Basil's house anymore, but rather just a creepy house. Even the quest of finding Basil seemingly disappears from the Ongoing quests and you slowly notice how the gang is losing memories on who Basil is. This game is deep. This game is awesome.
my interpretation is that they HAD to forget basil. forgetting basil wasn't a bad thing, much to the contrary, it was necessary. basil, and by extension headspace basil, yearns for salvation and ignorant peace, unlike "stranger" which is his cast away side. the whole misson of the kids, to find and save basil, is a mission to preserve the happiness in sunny's "dream", burdening omori with all the darkness, and to reject facing the truth. that's why, in the game's regular route, omori kills headspace basil. unlike in the alternate route, he isn't trying to protect the happy dream of a secluded sunny, he is bringing the whole farce down and attempting to reach out to sunny and confront him.
"Your memories are not free. To gain a memory, another one must be shrouded. But in the end, all memories eventually fade." "Perhaps you've already noticed... The curse of the Deeper Well...."
Ironically thats why pictures and photos are so important. They are the best way to instantly regain your memories about something because of how memory actually works in our minds. Like when you're going through a photo album and how you're suddenly remembering all the memories you haven't thought about for years. You didn't forget them, hell you didn't propably forget the people on the photos at all, but the photos DID made you remember those specific memories and days they were taken. Its why i love that the truth is uncovered through photos. It's like Sunny is experiencing exactly what i just described.
Ohhh shit I think I just got this. It’s about suppressing the real memories with the fake dream world ones while deleting the real ones in the first place.
@@EpicGamer-fl7fn yeah so it makes perfect sense that (headspace) Basil is the one who keeps discovering the truth, being the photographer of the group
ive had anxiety and depression my entire life. though i havent experienced the hell that would be losing a sibling, and i hope i never have to, this song just.. perfectly encapsulates that feeling of dread and emptiness depression brings, as well as the lost, uncertain feeling it can give someone when they sink so far down into sadness that the things around them, as well as themselves, are unrecognizable. unsure of oneself or their surroundings. i feel the song can go in two ways, as well: someone who is uncaring for how deep they have sunk, or someone who has recognized how deep they have fallen into depression and are desperately trying their hardest to find a way out as to not drown. anxiety is also handled near flawlessly in this game. i havent related to anything like this in a long time, and quite honestly, though i havent beaten it yet, i think i needed this game and still do. edit: I beat the game. holy shit.
someone who is uncaring for how deep they have sunk, or someone who has recognized how deep they have fallen into depression and are desperately trying their hardest to find a way out as to not drown. -omori or sunny
i love how when the song begins it’s very chaotic and discordant until the melody presents itself and it sounds so.. ethereal. the slow drumbeat in the background is so haunting as well, reminds me of a heartbeat. Horrifyingly beautiful track.
When I got to this area for the first time, the colors combined with the music absolutely floored me. An amazingly underrated moment, just pure atmosphere.
The abyss is basically Sunnys's subconscious, while the Id is blank space/black space. The fact that you navigate this persons repressed inner world through this whole game is a fascinating concept .
This music fits so well in the cutscene after Humphrey because it invokes the feeling of having nothing else to do, nothing else to accomplish. Kel even says, “So what do you guys want to do now?” Showing that there’s nothing else to do and no goal to achieve. The party and us have explored all of Headspace. After all that, what do we do now?
It’s super depressing that your friends forget about finding Basil to the point where the quest disappears from Mari’s advice. To make it even sadder, once you’re inside Humphrey in the console version, Basil disappears from the border and is replaced by a flower.
this is probably obvious, but i love how you, the player, start to forget about basil as well there are so many side quests and new areas and bosses and stories and new friends that over time i felt myself forgetting that we were supposed to be looking for basil, until reminded by hero or an appearance from stranger, and i doubt i was the only one thats one thing i absolutely love about omori, this game does such an astounding job of making you feel like youre experiencing this story first hand, like YOURE the one forgetting about your lost friend, YOURE the one moving in 3 days, YOURE the one learning how to overcome your guilt of killing your sister hopefully i was able to get my thoughts across well!! ^^ this game man,, what a masterpiece
@@zieleke07 You're on TH-cam, hell you mean spoiler warning?? Literally any thumbnail of any random Omori video that could come up could also have spoilers.
@@holyroman6541 idk man this was written at a time when i only discovered [spoiled] about the truth before i even went to that part O.O. when the commenter said "learning how to overcome your guilt of killing your sister" I sorta knew exactly what they were commenting about and I requested an edit for it to have a spoiler warning for people who view comments and accidentally gets spoiled...this comment was 2 months ago, its probably already irrelevant at this point
@@zieleke07 I just can't understand why you'd go on TH-cam about a game you haven't beaten. Hell, just typing in the name of the game tends to already show spoilers in thumbnails, so I don't think spoiler warnings in comments would actually help with anything.
Literally chills listening this. A heavy atmosphere as if you were going to make an important choice. And to your second playthrough it hit harder. Because you know: This is not the first time you're here. All these LITTLE ONE on the floor are BASIL. And the number of LITTLE ONE represents the number of time the dream world has reset and the number of time... You turned away from the truth. And now it's your last chance to really save BASIL and all of your friends. Not those of dreams. But those of reality.
I will never forget when this track played once I got to humphreys for the first time. The very opening upon entering this map showing a decaying rotting skull of something, while this harsh distorted synth blares into your ears. It makes you feel no only uncomfortable, but it immediately gives you the impression that you are not safe, it makes you feel like no matter how fast or far you run, you can’t escape that weight over your shoulder. It makes you feel like you’re, well,, sinking. Absolutely one of my favorites tracks from the game just because of how much of an impact it had on me
From the Headspace character's perspective, it felt like they looked for Basil so hard they ended up stranded in an oceanic hellscape far away from home, their calm and beloved Neighbor's Room. It doesn't help the fact that the place is like 3 layers of deep ocean dungeons, starting from the shore in the stump bifurcation, the lovely place where you and your friends built sandcastles at the very beginning of the game, and ending in none other than Humphrey, which is quite possibly the weirdest secret laboratory society run by whale tongues the gang could ever find themselves stuck in finding their lost friend. And if that wasn't enough, by that point they already forgot why they were there in the first place.
I don't know why but deeper well is my favorite area of the game along with orange Oasis. It's very nostalgic yet dreadful. Just the feel of this area fascinates me. You're at the edge. The edge between black space and headspace. Something about the feeling of going deep but not being THERE yet (the truth) is indescribable. So much dismay, so much anticipation. The dream will soon end, basil no longer exists here and you are running out of time before the reality you are confortable with dissappears entirely. Better pick up the pace then. D R E A M E R Ps: I'm also biased since I love anything relating to the deep ocean. It's just something I've had since I was little. I'm terrified of it though which is why I don't like going to the beach. It's weirdly contradicting.
Fun fact: The little repeating high tone starting at around 0:34 in the background sounds EXACTLY like my cat drinking from his water bowl Bonus fun fact: I absolutely love this song
This place is deep, ancient... so close to the core of this world, standing on the precipice of its most primal and forgotten forces and memories. This song could not be more characteristic of this, I could feel the scale of it. Beyond all the colorful pastel silliness of headspace, this place that lies on the verge of its deepest and darkest parts instilled in me such a sense of awe. This is where I knew that we were close to the truth.
It hurt so much as they slowly forgot about basil. I sat there thinking "But I didn't forget!" and realized that, my choices have no effect on anyone in the game. What happened is set in stone and ultimately, everything isn't okay.
Remember, just because you do not like the truth does not mean that you should instead bury yourself in lies and fallacies. It only makes seeing the truth hurt that much more...
Memories can't be retained forever. Every time they are recalled, they're edited slightly, memories distort and are forgotten over time. Associations, after years of disuse, sever their connections.
the atmosphere of Deeper Well makes it one of my favorite parts of the game. this track adds so much weight to the location-you're in so deep; will you lose hope and sink further down, or hold on and reach for the truth?
i love this theme, its such a strong representation of what its really like getting super close to uncovering the really dark and dangerous secrets about yourself. Im amazed by all the compositions done by Pedro Silva in Omori, they all just absolutely nail the atmosphere of the moments they are in, and this one just takes the cake for being the best at that
Deeper well was by far my favourite area for me. It had the best soundtrack, looked so beautiful and surreal, and I loved the sense of lost it gave me. Now the minute I heard sinking, I stopped and cried. It gave me such a huge sense of relief, and I am so glad I was able to hear such an incredible bit of music
Saaaaammeeee, I just got to this section and I thought. "This sounds like Colin Stetson/The Uzumaki trailer music" And when you really think about Sunny/Omori is spiraling down his subconscious.
I think this music is really well thinked as the context of the story, its the last place you can go explore, its the back end of your mind, the limit of the headspace, sweetheart became the main focus, all your friend forgot about basil
For some reason this track keeps getting played in my head all day , like even when im talking to someone or doing anything it just pops in my head , idk if this mean it's my favourite but it's very good and i think this is one of the best examples on how not only omori has one of the best osts but also a very atmospheric - fitting one because everytime i listen to this track i immediately remember deeper well and its vibes
(spoilers) The more I think about it, the more deeper well makes sense. Several npcs say that black space was buried underneath mindspace. If we are to take this literally, since deeper well is the lowest point of mindspace, it's the closest part of mindspace to black space, which could be why most of deeper well's inhabitants seem aware of what "the dreamer" is doing and why the area itself is so creepy and psychedelic. It's because black space is influencing this section of mind space. Deeper well is the part just before the back of your mind, where you dangle above every single one of your regrets by a thread. Plus, notice how beneath deeper well in some parts is a completely black void? And keep in mind that black isn't an often-used color in headspace aside from important plot things like omori himself or the somethings (everything that should be black like Mari's hair is instead blue). The void of deeper well may be a gateway to black space. Perhaps black space's influence is why the deeper well causes people to lose their memories. And that also brings up another question. If Basil's flower crown is found in one of the rooms where the void is present, does this mean that Basil almost found his way out in one of his revivals? Sorry if I explained that weirdly I'm bad at explanations. Also, sorry if I sound pretentious, I just really got into writing.
This all makes me feel that this part of headspace wasn't always like this. That maybe, a long time ago, it was actually solid, not "corrupted" by black space.
definitely one of my favorite tracks of this whole ost. it just gives off such a climactic feeling, like, you've finally reached the end of the road. but you have no idea why you went there in the first place.
imagine yourself in this dark foreboding area, all the NPCs are nothing more than blobs that say cryptic and unusual things, despite your friends being by your side you feel a sense of loneliness.
You get this massive build up and then you enter godamm Humphrey, OMOCAT didnt do this part dirty, she essentially used it as a doormat for a monster truck rally 💀💀
The only themes that actually broke me outside of black space was this and remember to be patient, it's funny how music can be so fuckin' vital to the vibe of a game. the DREAD this instills knowing that you're at a breaking point in your dreams and the realization that this was never about Basil...damn. I'm not going to go into too much detail, but I had a point in my life where I literally was like this, dreaming away some really fucking bad trauma and looking back... *God I'm thankful I'm still alive.*
This area man Everything starting from 2 days left's night is crafted to perfection, but Deeper Well has to be my favorite section in terms of atmosphere and story. The tension build throughout Deep Well and Underwater Highway so subtle, but prods at your mind just enough; the opening with Mari and without any of the party is off putting, and I personally couldn't ever quite shake the uneasiness that came with it, even after the dream world gave a valid reason for it. There's also the holes in the world, both under keys and just around, that pop up more and more frequently, and show you that this world is starting to buckle. Then you get to Deeper Well itself, and that quiet uneasiness comes straight to the forefront. Everything just feels a little bit wrong: the music is suddenly very empty, almost calm but still discordant. Every color is just a little too saturated, like in a surreal nightmare, and the NPCs are not only rarer, but much more abstract and almost otherworldly, giving the impression that you've left the familiar world behind. That lonely feeling is amplified by your friends starting to forget about Basil, making them feel distant. The whole place is a maze, with tight corridors and no clear indication of if you're going the right way. And right as the uneasiness starts to get to you, this song hits. The first chord completely overwhelms me every single time I listen to it. It's like the music itself is trying to drown your memories away, and each chord is another wave crashing on you, another attempt to wash you away. And as soon as you start getting used to them, the drumbeat comes in, and it's so perfect because without context, it kind of gives the song some more structure, something to ground yourself to. But in the game, it just keeps building on that anxiety; no matter what you do, this place and this song are going to consume you eventually. Especially when the drum is replaced by a schloop kinda sound, it reminds me of the sound you hear being stuck underwater. The first half of Deeper Well warned you of what was coming. The second half is when it's too late to turn back. The only way now is to keep pushing. And hope you make it through before you break.
The "forget Basil" tactic was actually quite clever. It's unsettling seeing all the characters begin to forget about him, from "The Appearance" argument at Last Resort, to a mention of how he even looked like. In the end, they forget their goal, and the remains of Basil are treated as something they *used* to be aware of, such as his garland and the name "basil" triggering confusion by distorted memories. Eventually, they stopped reacting to his name, even Mari stopped, who was generally "the most aware" one, from the Lost Library in Pyrefly woods, to pushing Omori towards exploring, resulting in unearthing the truth. But now she has forgotten it too, as indicated by the removal of his quest. However she still smugly suggest Omori to enter The Haunted House, which still means that she serves her role, aware or not. The fact that Basil "dissappeared" from everyone's memory isn't forgotten entirely by the game either: during the BlackSpace sections, the last one has The ""Friends"" brutally fracture Basil's head in a somewhat sadistic matter. Okay, ending the rant here.
This moment in the game. I beat this game nearly a month ago but it's so engrained in my mind. I cannot shake just how amazingly well timed and constructed this song is alongside the things that have transpired. I'm not going to be like others and mention more, if you haven't played this game then holy fuck please find some way to play it.
@@xc_gwpl very late reply but all omori cares about is just keeping sunny from experiencing the truth, he would easy kill all his friends to prevent it from happening if neccessary
Fun fact: if you manage to swim up to one of the little guys you can interact with them and they actually have dialogue. Normally this is impossible everywhere except in black space 2, but it still works in other areas (if you manage to glitch yourself into swimming in the ground)
The first year of the pandemic took so much from me; I lost my friends from petty drama, and online school devoured my free-time. I’d spend hours watching livestreams and commenting for some hint of socialization, and feel my depression worsen after every stream that ended. For that whole year, I really was Sunny; isolated and alone. (Well, minus the Something trauma of course.) I’ll admit, the second year of the pandemic wasn’t much better. I gained weight, I became lost in self hatred, and I marked up my wrist with a razor for the first time since my ex. Although I didn’t play Omori myself, just watching a let’s play was enough for it to really mess with me. All of the negative feelings that had built up from the pandemic erupted, and on Valentine’s day last year I was a fucking mess. But despite the all the dark shit I just talked about, I’m here on a happy note. Today is the one year anniversary of me reaching out and getting professional help. Omori was my stepping stone to getting there. It helped push me to admit that I was struggling. To stop pushing away the bad feelings, to stop drowning myself in self hatred and isolation. And even though it hurt like hell, I didn’t succumb. Now, my life has gotten so much better. I’ve gotten accepted to college, I’ve lost weight, and I even have a Valentine this year. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to play Omori myself , and even if I do the Truth won’t hit as hard as it did the first time I learned it. But at the very least, I wanted to acknowledge that just like Sunny, you don’t have to succumb. You have the strength to keep going, and don’t ever forget that. Say Happy Valentine’s day to yourself, because you’re alive right now. That’s a damn good reason to celebrate.
I dont know why this soundtrack isnt talked about more. It just does such a great job of showing the beginning of the end of sunny’s brutal repression of his guilt with the hard synths blaring a tonal shift that screams its message: This adventure needs to end. Set yourself free. The imposing skull just makes me wonder if humphrey was just spiteful enough to create such a blatant symbol of death that would make omori break his neutral expression, or omori was at his wit’s end of discouraging sunny from finding the truth of this world. What all of these colorful pastel colors are trying to do. Omacat really executed the climax of headspace well, love this so much.
When I first played through this area, I was disappointed by the anticlimactic ending for headspace (SPOILERS)... I was playing the Sunny route, so headspace ended with your friends forgetting their quest, and the villains getting unceremoniously eaten by a hungry whale... but as I found out what happens on the Omori route, where you find they actually survive and there's quests to make everything better I realised. It was anticlimactic because this is headspace *falling apart* as Sunny starts to accept reality and overcome Omori. Nothing here gets a happy ending, because nothing here actually *matters*, and Sunny has realised that. To want a happy ending here is to want to escape further from reality, as Omori does... and as happens on the Omori route. So I was no longer disappointed. This is perfect.
One of the NPCs here is named Aught, which can mean two things. "anything at all" or "zero". Personally, the Zero definition hits a bit harder but is more likely, seeing the other NPC names in this area "Blank, Empty, Null."
This is a theory of mine, but if you, Omocat , have passed through what Sunny passed, I really admire you for putting this out, and even if you didn’t passed through the same situations at all, you have spoken for many of us, as Ethraunien commented in here, this feels like what depression is, what it feels to almost reach the bottom line, so overall, thank you for this extraordinary game, and also thank you Pedro Silva and everyone else who took part on this soundtrack.
I think one of the aspects of this ost that make it feel disturbing/uneasy/surreal, is the beat you can hear throughout most of the music; you can hear it clearly enough at 1:11 . It sounds like a heartbeat, when recorded with an electrocardiography. Suprisingly, it does a great job at conveying the eery and threatening atmosphere. Also, is that a laugh at 0:49 ?
Is it bad I kind of started forgetting Basil too? I mean, Sweetheart's palace was cool, but that was kind of the main focus for a while, then after last resort, they brought him up again, but going to Humphrey, I focused on that instead of Basil.
I don’t know about you, but it feels like Omori wanted everyone to forget Basil. Omori was created by Sunny to essentially distance Sunny from remembering the truth. At the beginning of the game, Basil “found” a photo of Mari’s body hanging from the tree, which would pose a threat to Omori as well as Sunny finally remembering the truth. So, Basil just kind of disappears from Headspace. Gradually, everyone begins forgetting him, including his friends. It begins at Last Resort, but the erasure of Basil from everyone’s mind isn’t complete until the Deeper Well. I’d like to think that Omori was the only person in Headspace who completely remembered Basil, but he didn’t want to remind everyone about him because Omori saw Basil as a threat to his entire purpose of being Sunny’s guardian of the truth.
![OMORI OST - 111 Sinking (Extended Version [almost] 1 Hour)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i0RKO77M8pw/mqdefault.jpg)
![THE 8 BIT OMORI MEDLEY [VRC6]](/img/n.gif)
Upon entering Deeper Well the friends begin to forget about Basil. At this point the limitations of the Dream were starting show like tears in fabric. Further along in Humphrey they forget entirely. If you talk to Mari to check incomplete quests, finding Basil is no longer a quest.
The quest is then replaced by the one about the empty house.
Basil’s.
Yeah I noticed that. The quest is to explore an abandoned house that they forgot was Basil's. It's kinda sad and a little creepy that even Mari forgets and just treats Basil's house as a creepy place to explore
When i went to check with Mari and saw that Basil is no longer a quest, it hit me harder than a truck
when i was playing and my friend was watching, every time I would talk about how the group forgot about Basil, he would just respond with "who?"
Amber who? Stop joking *OMORI!*
This theme is perfect for the area, a seemingly calm area but one that’s slowly devouring memories and destroying you from the inside
_Hah, Devouring._
G-Get it? Because Humphrey Boss Fight?
@@faultf4 vore galore
@@bingus48 no
chill lofi hiphop beats to slowly lose your memory to
Sounds like a comment on a video with Caretaker music and a trap beat
It really made me sad seeing how they slowly forgot about Basil, and then you talk to Mari and advice for “finding Basil” isn’t there anymore, then it really made me sad.
I thought it was an amazing punch into the gut without having to keep telling you.
I froze at the sight of no more finding Basil quest. Then Kel throws the flower crown and I get mad at him and scream at the screen:
"KEL LOVELY WHAT DID YOU DO? THAT'S BASIL'S 😡😭😡😭"
This whole game was fucking incredible but something about Deeper Well... hit different. It's one of the most tense parts of the game, and not for any gameplay reason. It's hard to endure as this song plays over the visuals because you know what's happening. You get told exactly what this place is. This is the deepest level of repression. This is the physical representation of what it's like when, in all your attempts at escapism... you actually get away.
You've already dug your hole. You're just sitting in it. You're at the bottom of the world.
You watch all of your friends who love and care about you forget. Forget about Basil. About the horrible things you did. They're smiling at you and telling you that everything's going to be okay, because you're having fun. They're telling you that because they don't know. And look around you. This is the worst it's ever been.
It's dark.
Everything is shapes you can barely see.
Shapes you don't understand.
Shapes telling you things you don't want to hear.
There's noises in the dark that don't make sense.
You can outrun them by going deeper.
But the deeper you go, the worse they get.
And your friends, they're afraid for you, and they're confused, and they don't know why you're doing this. They don't know why you're making them suffer. Why you're making them watch YOU suffer.
Remembering the truth is agonizing. But the most horrifying thought of all is what would happen if you let yourself forget.
Spoilers
Fun fact: in the hikki route, *this isn't the deepest you go*
@HBegaming YT more spoilers
I was talking about the abyss but ok.
Thank you for writing this.
ah, I've no idea if you'll see this, but I appriciate you writing this, it was so beautifully written I actually got chills
Something to note about Deeper Well is that Mari rarely, if at all, appears. She’s there in Humphrey because, well, Humphrey is more grounded in Headspace then most of Deeper Well is. But I think her absence is a perfect sign that yes, you got away. What you did is completely and utterly absent here, you’ve fully gotten away from your past and your trauma. You’ve run as far as you possibly can.
Even in the switch port, the border art where Basil’s face was eventually turns into a flower when you reach here.
DUDE THATS SO COOL
yeah, i noticed that and it was... uff
When i entered humpery the basil boredr littery was gone and i was using it then it switched to the normal one
Right when you step into the cave where this starts playing? Is it a sudden flash or a slow fade?
@@NiennaFan1it's immediate like the way the song starts In this video
The Quest wasn't about BASIL. It was never about BASIL. BASIL was a start to your own escapism. You never wanted BASIL back. Only to run. To run from the truth. To hide. The truth is, this is the end. There isn't any conclusion to Headspace.
You are Playing Forever.
stranger:
This is a certified omori route reference
i read this in vsauce's voice and it made me shit my pants
Possibly the most clever thing I've seen in a Video Game. Slowly forgetting about a character, OMORI started to build hate toward Basil (refer to black space) and wanted to forget him, meaning he was entirely removed from the DREAM World, his house wasn't Basil's house anymore, but rather just a creepy house. Even the quest of finding Basil seemingly disappears from the Ongoing quests and you slowly notice how the gang is losing memories on who Basil is. This game is deep. This game is awesome.
When i realized they'd all forgotten basil I had to take a few minutes to mourn/calm myself. It was so impactful.
I myself began to forget the main purpose of their journey.
@@soap1823 It's unknown whether he hated Basil or not, so we can't really tell
my interpretation is that they HAD to forget basil. forgetting basil wasn't a bad thing, much to the contrary, it was necessary. basil, and by extension headspace basil, yearns for salvation and ignorant peace, unlike "stranger" which is his cast away side. the whole misson of the kids, to find and save basil, is a mission to preserve the happiness in sunny's "dream", burdening omori with all the darkness, and to reject facing the truth. that's why, in the game's regular route, omori kills headspace basil. unlike in the alternate route, he isn't trying to protect the happy dream of a secluded sunny, he is bringing the whole farce down and attempting to reach out to sunny and confront him.
this game tore me apart and put me back together
Only to tear apart again
Bro i remember springtrap's line from fnaf.
legostarwarsbuildcomplete.mp3
@@krisjinstark4843I could actually hear that
Ok Mangle
"Your memories are not free. To gain a memory, another one must be shrouded.
But in the end, all memories eventually fade."
"Perhaps you've already noticed...
The curse of the Deeper Well...."
Ironically thats why pictures and photos are so important. They are the best way to instantly regain your memories about something because of how memory actually works in our minds. Like when you're going through a photo album and how you're suddenly remembering all the memories you haven't thought about for years. You didn't forget them, hell you didn't propably forget the people on the photos at all, but the photos DID made you remember those specific memories and days they were taken. Its why i love that the truth is uncovered through photos. It's like Sunny is experiencing exactly what i just described.
Ohhh shit I think I just got this. It’s about suppressing the real memories with the fake dream world ones while deleting the real ones in the first place.
@@EpicGamer-fl7fn yeah so it makes perfect sense that (headspace) Basil is the one who keeps discovering the truth, being the photographer of the group
@@chum4641This game is absolutely brilliant.
ive had anxiety and depression my entire life. though i havent experienced the hell that would be losing a sibling, and i hope i never have to, this song just.. perfectly encapsulates that feeling of dread and emptiness depression brings, as well as the lost, uncertain feeling it can give someone when they sink so far down into sadness that the things around them, as well as themselves, are unrecognizable. unsure of oneself or their surroundings. i feel the song can go in two ways, as well: someone who is uncaring for how deep they have sunk, or someone who has recognized how deep they have fallen into depression and are desperately trying their hardest to find a way out as to not drown.
anxiety is also handled near flawlessly in this game. i havent related to anything like this in a long time, and quite honestly, though i havent beaten it yet, i think i needed this game and still do.
edit: I beat the game.
holy shit.
It's so familiar yet so unearthly
no matter how many times I hear it those same emotions echo from deeper well.
Yeah I just beat it too. Holy shit indeed
Okay, reading that with the music on, ESPECIALLY the last bit, was amazing. Thank you for this. I know this is kind of off topic haha-
someone who is uncaring for how deep they have sunk, or someone who has recognized how deep they have fallen into depression and are desperately trying their hardest to find a way out as to not drown.
-omori or sunny
But it’s worse coming to terms with the fact that YOU killed him, and hid it from your family and friends for 4 years.
i love how when the song begins it’s very chaotic and discordant until the melody presents itself and it sounds so.. ethereal. the slow drumbeat in the background is so haunting as well, reminds me of a heartbeat. Horrifyingly beautiful track.
the drum sounds like a heartbeat
When I got to this area for the first time, the colors combined with the music absolutely floored me. An amazingly underrated moment, just pure atmosphere.
The abyss is basically Sunnys's subconscious, while the Id is blank space/black space. The fact that you navigate this persons repressed inner world through this whole game is a fascinating concept .
I couldn't help but think of "Recycling really is a concept" while reading this
@@fawfuiklh11 pfp checks out
@@faultf4 vdksasketval
@@fawfuiklh11 _same here pal_
earthbound
" The sun shined brighter....
when she was here... "
noooOoOOOooO
i didn`t realize until now that a creature says that in the deep well but also that it says that on mari`s tombstone... WOW
@@miwwk the thing is how did sunny dream about that phrase unless he visited the tombstone himself?
wow nvm lol the more i think about it mari was family so of course he visited her
@@Miwhe he does visit her since her grave is behind the church! after the aubrey cutscene you're able to visit her grave regularly as sunny.
This music fits so well in the cutscene after Humphrey because it invokes the feeling of having nothing else to do, nothing else to accomplish. Kel even says, “So what do you guys want to do now?” Showing that there’s nothing else to do and no goal to achieve. The party and us have explored all of Headspace. After all that, what do we do now?
It’s super depressing that your friends forget about finding Basil to the point where the quest disappears from Mari’s advice. To make it even sadder, once you’re inside Humphrey in the console version, Basil disappears from the border and is replaced by a flower.
this is probably obvious, but i love how you, the player, start to forget about basil as well
there are so many side quests and new areas and bosses and stories and new friends that over time i felt myself forgetting that we were supposed to be looking for basil, until reminded by hero or an appearance from stranger, and i doubt i was the only one
thats one thing i absolutely love about omori, this game does such an astounding job of making you feel like youre experiencing this story first hand, like YOURE the one forgetting about your lost friend, YOURE the one moving in 3 days, YOURE the one learning how to overcome your guilt of killing your sister
hopefully i was able to get my thoughts across well!! ^^ this game man,, what a masterpiece
Spoiler warning please💀
I never forgotten basil, while doing the side quest, I had a bitter feeling of keeping on track and not forgetting about basil
@@zieleke07 You're on TH-cam, hell you mean spoiler warning?? Literally any thumbnail of any random Omori video that could come up could also have spoilers.
@@holyroman6541 idk man this was written at a time when i only discovered [spoiled] about the truth before i even went to that part O.O. when the commenter said "learning how to overcome your guilt of killing your sister" I sorta knew exactly what they were commenting about and I requested an edit for it to have a spoiler warning for people who view comments and accidentally gets spoiled...this comment was 2 months ago, its probably already irrelevant at this point
@@zieleke07 I just can't understand why you'd go on TH-cam about a game you haven't beaten. Hell, just typing in the name of the game tends to already show spoilers in thumbnails, so I don't think spoiler warnings in comments would actually help with anything.
Literally chills listening this.
A heavy atmosphere as if you were going to make an important choice. And to your second playthrough it hit harder.
Because you know: This is not the first time you're here.
All these LITTLE ONE on the floor are BASIL. And the number of LITTLE ONE represents the number of time the dream world has reset and the number of time...
You turned away from the truth.
And now it's your last chance to really save BASIL and all of your friends.
Not those of dreams.
But those of reality.
That's a cool fact about the little ones
Hey there French Music man
Is this actually true? I’ve never heard any of the sorts about Basil connecting to the Little One’s
Wait, is that confirmed that each LITTLE ONE is a Basil that found the truth and went missing?
@@fruitful6139They're called Little Basils in the files.
I will never forget when this track played once I got to humphreys for the first time. The very opening upon entering this map showing a decaying rotting skull of something, while this harsh distorted synth blares into your ears. It makes you feel no only uncomfortable, but it immediately gives you the impression that you are not safe, it makes you feel like no matter how fast or far you run, you can’t escape that weight over your shoulder. It makes you feel like you’re, well,, sinking. Absolutely one of my favorites tracks from the game just because of how much of an impact it had on me
U encapsulated the feeling I had perfectly
From the Headspace character's perspective, it felt like they looked for Basil so hard they ended up stranded in an oceanic hellscape far away from home, their calm and beloved Neighbor's Room. It doesn't help the fact that the place is like 3 layers of deep ocean dungeons, starting from the shore in the stump bifurcation, the lovely place where you and your friends built sandcastles at the very beginning of the game, and ending in none other than Humphrey, which is quite possibly the weirdest secret laboratory society run by whale tongues the gang could ever find themselves stuck in finding their lost friend. And if that wasn't enough, by that point they already forgot why they were there in the first place.
I don't know why but deeper well is my favorite area of the game along with orange Oasis. It's very nostalgic yet dreadful. Just the feel of this area fascinates me. You're at the edge. The edge between black space and headspace. Something about the feeling of going deep but not being THERE yet (the truth) is indescribable. So much dismay, so much anticipation. The dream will soon end, basil no longer exists here and you are running out of time before the reality you are confortable with dissappears entirely. Better pick up the pace then.
D R E A M E R
Ps: I'm also biased since I love anything relating to the deep ocean. It's just something I've had since I was little. I'm terrified of it though which is why I don't like going to the beach. It's weirdly contradicting.
Fun fact: The little repeating high tone starting at around 0:34 in the background sounds EXACTLY like my cat drinking from his water bowl
Bonus fun fact: I absolutely love this song
when i walked into this area, i got chills. i truly felt... sunk.
This place is deep, ancient... so close to the core of this world, standing on the precipice of its most primal and forgotten forces and memories. This song could not be more characteristic of this, I could feel the scale of it. Beyond all the colorful pastel silliness of headspace, this place that lies on the verge of its deepest and darkest parts instilled in me such a sense of awe. This is where I knew that we were close to the truth.
i hate that when i was playing this with my friend, i would ocasionally mention basil and she would go "who?"
DONT PLAY ME
Kindly, tell your friend to Oyasumi :D /j
It hurt so much as they slowly forgot about basil. I sat there thinking "But I didn't forget!"
and realized that, my choices have no effect on anyone in the game. What happened is set in stone and ultimately, everything isn't okay.
Your choices don't matter, amirite?
@@aaale376 Not the first time I saw that message in a video game
Watching everyone forget basil slowly was such a painful thing to see
my poor flower prince :(
Remember, just because you do not like the truth does not mean that you should instead bury yourself in lies and fallacies. It only makes seeing the truth hurt that much more...
i haven’t seen this part of the game yet, but i already know it’s going to be amazing.
buckle up, this area makes you question every step you take.
@@MemelordAnubis and hate whales
@@vriskaserketontheps5 and love witches 😳
@@waterandcereal slime girls >///
How was it
Can we talk about the sprite design of the entrance? It’s so badass and terrifying!
Memories can't be retained forever. Every time they are recalled, they're edited slightly, memories distort and are forgotten over time. Associations, after years of disuse, sever their connections.
Congrats, you just gave me an existential crisis.
It's amazing how well the title fits like idk if it's terrifying or hauntingly beautiful
the atmosphere of Deeper Well makes it one of my favorite parts of the game. this track adds so much weight to the location-you're in so deep; will you lose hope and sink further down, or hold on and reach for the truth?
i love this theme, its such a strong representation of what its really like getting super close to uncovering the really dark and dangerous secrets about yourself. Im amazed by all the compositions done by Pedro Silva in Omori, they all just absolutely nail the atmosphere of the moments they are in, and this one just takes the cake for being the best at that
Deeper well was by far my favourite area for me. It had the best soundtrack, looked so beautiful and surreal, and I loved the sense of lost it gave me. Now the minute I heard sinking, I stopped and cried. It gave me such a huge sense of relief, and I am so glad I was able to hear such an incredible bit of music
reminds me of the Uzumaki trailer for some reason
Saaaaammeeee, I just got to this section and I thought. "This sounds like Colin Stetson/The Uzumaki trailer music"
And when you really think about Sunny/Omori is spiraling down his subconscious.
It sounds like the latter half of this track is the first half reversed, so that may be why.
the ambience in this song is just absolutely BEAUTIFUL
by far my favourite song. also quite liked this part of the game
Honestly when I entered into the deepest part of the well, I got instant chills from this song
This is beautiful.
Just lying down. Listening. Thinking.
Fucking amazing.
I think this music is really well thinked as the context of the story, its the last place you can go explore, its the back end of your mind, the limit of the headspace, sweetheart became the main focus, all your friend forgot about basil
I really love this theme, it sounds like a loud noise but in a depressive way, and echoes in a way that really gives the feeling of...sinking
THIS sounds like almost the end of the journey, I felt it...
Deeper well... is such a beautiful area. So cryptic an unfamiliar, it fills me with emotions I cannot even describe
find it rlly cool how it it reverses itself halfway through (1:45) :D
this song is so underrated, at least by the view count. this song is incredibly relaxing on loop, if not giving off an undertone of dread.
Weird to see so few views here.
same
nah dw this game just released I'm sure many of the songs from the ost are gonna reach more ears with more ppl discovering this game
glad to be part of the few
@@Mexicanobro hehe when i wrote the comment the song had like 90 views or smthn xd
@@cookiesalat6262 atleast it's doing better so deserved but need more
For some reason this track keeps getting played in my head all day , like even when im talking to someone or doing anything it just pops in my head , idk if this mean it's my favourite but it's very good and i think this is one of the best examples on how not only omori has one of the best osts but also a very atmospheric - fitting one because everytime i listen to this track i immediately remember deeper well and its vibes
I love so many osts but this is probably one of the best... it's just so good.
This song fits so well to most of my actual dreams.
(spoilers) The more I think about it, the more deeper well makes sense. Several npcs say that black space was buried underneath mindspace. If we are to take this literally, since deeper well is the lowest point of mindspace, it's the closest part of mindspace to black space, which could be why most of deeper well's inhabitants seem aware of what "the dreamer" is doing and why the area itself is so creepy and psychedelic. It's because black space is influencing this section of mind space. Deeper well is the part just before the back of your mind, where you dangle above every single one of your regrets by a thread. Plus, notice how beneath deeper well in some parts is a completely black void? And keep in mind that black isn't an often-used color in headspace aside from important plot things like omori himself or the somethings (everything that should be black like Mari's hair is instead blue). The void of deeper well may be a gateway to black space. Perhaps black space's influence is why the deeper well causes people to lose their memories. And that also brings up another question. If Basil's flower crown is found in one of the rooms where the void is present, does this mean that Basil almost found his way out in one of his revivals? Sorry if I explained that weirdly I'm bad at explanations. Also, sorry if I sound pretentious, I just really got into writing.
The Abyss, which can only be played in the Omori/Hikikomori route also really features into the whole blackspace being right below Deeper Well
This all makes me feel that this part of headspace wasn't always like this. That maybe, a long time ago, it was actually solid, not "corrupted" by black space.
This sounds like sinking into death, more like.
definitely one of my favorite tracks of this whole ost. it just gives off such a climactic feeling, like, you've finally reached the end of the road. but you have no idea why you went there in the first place.
imagine yourself in this dark foreboding area, all the NPCs are nothing more than blobs that say cryptic and unusual things, despite your friends being by your side you feel a sense of loneliness.
was hoping this would be one of the songs they’d play during the omori third anniversary concert but it never came up 😭😭
You get this massive build up and then you enter godamm Humphrey, OMOCAT didnt do this part dirty, she essentially used it as a doormat for a monster truck rally 💀💀
The only themes that actually broke me outside of black space was this and remember to be patient, it's funny how music can be so fuckin' vital to the vibe of a game. the DREAD this instills knowing that you're at a breaking point in your dreams and the realization that this was never about Basil...damn. I'm not going to go into too much detail, but I had a point in my life where I literally was like this, dreaming away some really fucking bad trauma and looking back... *God I'm thankful I'm still alive.*
The fact they didn't play this at the anniversary concert should be a crime
holy shit
ancient greece
mac n cheese
lots of bees
yo nice profile picture
yes
This sounds hopeful ironically enough- since the title is called sinking and whatnot
This area man
Everything starting from 2 days left's night is crafted to perfection, but Deeper Well has to be my favorite section in terms of atmosphere and story. The tension build throughout Deep Well and Underwater Highway so subtle, but prods at your mind just enough; the opening with Mari and without any of the party is off putting, and I personally couldn't ever quite shake the uneasiness that came with it, even after the dream world gave a valid reason for it. There's also the holes in the world, both under keys and just around, that pop up more and more frequently, and show you that this world is starting to buckle.
Then you get to Deeper Well itself, and that quiet uneasiness comes straight to the forefront. Everything just feels a little bit wrong: the music is suddenly very empty, almost calm but still discordant. Every color is just a little too saturated, like in a surreal nightmare, and the NPCs are not only rarer, but much more abstract and almost otherworldly, giving the impression that you've left the familiar world behind. That lonely feeling is amplified by your friends starting to forget about Basil, making them feel distant. The whole place is a maze, with tight corridors and no clear indication of if you're going the right way.
And right as the uneasiness starts to get to you, this song hits.
The first chord completely overwhelms me every single time I listen to it. It's like the music itself is trying to drown your memories away, and each chord is another wave crashing on you, another attempt to wash you away. And as soon as you start getting used to them, the drumbeat comes in, and it's so perfect because without context, it kind of gives the song some more structure, something to ground yourself to. But in the game, it just keeps building on that anxiety; no matter what you do, this place and this song are going to consume you eventually. Especially when the drum is replaced by a schloop kinda sound, it reminds me of the sound you hear being stuck underwater.
The first half of Deeper Well warned you of what was coming. The second half is when it's too late to turn back. The only way now is to keep pushing. And hope you make it through before you break.
The "forget Basil" tactic was actually quite clever.
It's unsettling seeing all the characters begin to forget about him, from "The Appearance" argument at Last Resort, to a mention of how he even looked like.
In the end, they forget their goal, and the remains of Basil are treated as something they *used* to be aware of, such as his garland and the name "basil" triggering confusion by distorted memories.
Eventually, they stopped reacting to his name, even Mari stopped, who was generally "the most aware" one, from the Lost Library in Pyrefly woods, to pushing Omori towards exploring, resulting in unearthing the truth.
But now she has forgotten it too, as indicated by the removal of his quest.
However she still smugly suggest Omori to enter The Haunted House, which still means that she serves her role, aware or not.
The fact that Basil "dissappeared" from everyone's memory isn't forgotten entirely by the game either: during the BlackSpace sections, the last one has The ""Friends"" brutally fracture Basil's head in a somewhat sadistic matter.
Okay, ending the rant here.
when they even kick his flower crown down...
This moment in the game. I beat this game nearly a month ago but it's so engrained in my mind. I cannot shake just how amazingly well timed and constructed this song is alongside the things that have transpired. I'm not going to be like others and mention more, if you haven't played this game then holy fuck please find some way to play it.
Thank you for this game! I've never been so excited for a release of a game! ^^
best song
The beggining of this song in the game was like a jumpscare
I'm not kidding i jumped on the chair when i heard this :D
Reminds me of an opening to a sewerslvt track if I'm going to be honest, almost all of the music from omori really gave off those vibes
bro i never heard of this guy but ur right
MY EXACT THOUGHTS
I wonder if dream Mari didn't forget about Basil, but pretended to so she wouldn't be yeeted into Black Space.
OMORI wouldn't do that to her right? Right????
@@xc_gwpl he did that to basil multiple times
@@ddoober I am aware
@@xc_gwpl omori is a cuck so it sounds like something he'd do that's all i'm saying- sunny is cool tho 👍
@@xc_gwpl very late reply but all omori cares about is just keeping sunny from experiencing the truth, he would easy kill all his friends to prevent it from happening if neccessary
The soindtrack is just incredible
This is my favourite piece of video game music ever- I could yap for hours about how it perfectly fits the area whilst being a beautiful piece
The saddest thing is that when we talk to Mari in the task tab there is no longer “find Basil”
This song just captures so much emotion, Absolutely beautiful.
Fun fact: if you manage to swim up to one of the little guys you can interact with them and they actually have dialogue.
Normally this is impossible everywhere except in black space 2, but it still works in other areas (if you manage to glitch yourself into swimming in the ground)
DUDE THIS SOUNDTRACK I JUST, THE MUSIC FOR THIS PART WAS PERFECT I CANT
The first year of the pandemic took so much from me; I lost my friends from petty drama, and online school devoured my free-time. I’d spend hours watching livestreams and commenting for some hint of socialization, and feel my depression worsen after every stream that ended. For that whole year, I really was Sunny; isolated and alone. (Well, minus the Something trauma of course.) I’ll admit, the second year of the pandemic wasn’t much better. I gained weight, I became lost in self hatred, and I marked up my wrist with a razor for the first time since my ex. Although I didn’t play Omori myself, just watching a let’s play was enough for it to really mess with me. All of the negative feelings that had built up from the pandemic erupted, and on Valentine’s day last year I was a fucking mess.
But despite the all the dark shit I just talked about, I’m here on a happy note. Today is the one year anniversary of me reaching out and getting professional help. Omori was my stepping stone to getting there. It helped push me to admit that I was struggling. To stop pushing away the bad feelings, to stop drowning myself in self hatred and isolation. And even though it hurt like hell, I didn’t succumb. Now, my life has gotten so much better. I’ve gotten accepted to college, I’ve lost weight, and I even have a Valentine this year. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to play Omori myself , and even if I do the Truth won’t hit as hard as it did the first time I learned it. But at the very least, I wanted to acknowledge that just like Sunny, you don’t have to succumb. You have the strength to keep going, and don’t ever forget that. Say Happy Valentine’s day to yourself, because you’re alive right now. That’s a damn good reason to celebrate.
I dont know why this soundtrack isnt talked about more. It just does such a great job of showing the beginning of the end of sunny’s brutal repression of his guilt with the hard synths blaring a tonal shift that screams its message: This adventure needs to end. Set yourself free. The imposing skull just makes me wonder if humphrey was just spiteful enough to create such a blatant symbol of death that would make omori break his neutral expression, or omori was at his wit’s end of discouraging sunny from finding the truth of this world. What all of these colorful pastel colors are trying to do. Omacat really executed the climax of headspace well, love this so much.
When I first played through this area, I was disappointed by the anticlimactic ending for headspace (SPOILERS)...
I was playing the Sunny route, so headspace ended with your friends forgetting their quest, and the villains getting unceremoniously eaten by a hungry whale... but as I found out what happens on the Omori route, where you find they actually survive and there's quests to make everything better I realised. It was anticlimactic because this is headspace *falling apart* as Sunny starts to accept reality and overcome Omori. Nothing here gets a happy ending, because nothing here actually *matters*, and Sunny has realised that. To want a happy ending here is to want to escape further from reality, as Omori does... and as happens on the Omori route. So I was no longer disappointed. This is perfect.
for some reason this song is the most memorable for me idk why
I wish deeper well lasted longer I strangely felt safer there than most of the other areas in headspace
This area had me tripping
Kel kicking the flower crown physically hurt
this track genuinely sounds like despair
i just feel so hopeless when i listen to it
such an incredible track.
This is music you would hear in the nether or end in Minecraft
Getting Tiktok and stupid Facebook ads before listening to these is possibly the most enfuriating example of killing the mood imaginable.
Humphrey is quite literally the underbelly of this world
I used this for sleep. Yeah I won’t do that again
with headphnoes on, it feels like watre is dragging you down.
i feel like im sinking,, i literally stoppd breathing 4 a few seconds.
One of the NPCs here is named Aught, which can mean two things. "anything at all" or "zero". Personally, the Zero definition hits a bit harder but is more likely, seeing the other NPC names in this area "Blank, Empty, Null."
This is a theory of mine, but if you, Omocat , have passed through what Sunny passed, I really admire you for putting this out, and even if you didn’t passed through the same situations at all, you have spoken for many of us, as Ethraunien commented in here, this feels like what depression is, what it feels to almost reach the bottom line, so overall, thank you for this extraordinary game, and also thank you Pedro Silva and everyone else who took part on this soundtrack.
Amazing underrated moment and song
one of the most simple songs in the ost, but holy shit what a banger
That's what I call psychology horror
Halfway through the track it’s starts to reverse itself
I think one of the aspects of this ost that make it feel disturbing/uneasy/surreal, is the beat you can hear throughout most of the music; you can hear it clearly enough at 1:11 .
It sounds like a heartbeat, when recorded with an electrocardiography. Suprisingly, it does a great job at conveying the eery and threatening atmosphere.
Also, is that a laugh at 0:49 ?
Is it bad I kind of started forgetting Basil too? I mean, Sweetheart's palace was cool, but that was kind of the main focus for a while, then after last resort, they brought him up again, but going to Humphrey, I focused on that instead of Basil.
This is probably one of the best tunes in omori. Bone chilling tune to its finest
"How far will you go to save a friend?"
Banger tho
this shit gives me a panic attack
I don’t know about you, but it feels like Omori wanted everyone to forget Basil.
Omori was created by Sunny to essentially distance Sunny from remembering the truth. At the beginning of the game, Basil “found” a photo of Mari’s body hanging from the tree, which would pose a threat to Omori as well as Sunny finally remembering the truth. So, Basil just kind of disappears from Headspace. Gradually, everyone begins forgetting him, including his friends. It begins at Last Resort, but the erasure of Basil from everyone’s mind isn’t complete until the Deeper Well.
I’d like to think that Omori was the only person in Headspace who completely remembered Basil, but he didn’t want to remind everyone about him because Omori saw Basil as a threat to his entire purpose of being Sunny’s guardian of the truth.
I like this theory a lot
That's actually what the game tries to tell you