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Old 05-28-2009, 12:40 AM
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Fathom (music by Danny Baranowsky)

http://adamatomic.com/fathom/

It's like Cave Story meets flOw or something.

I've played this for like an hour and I have no idea what to do next, but that's okay because the music is all relaxing and stuff.

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yeah, if the instructions worked that would help
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Old 05-28-2009, 01:02 AM
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That is some damn nice relaxing music... ruined by those horribly loud sound effects due to game activity. Seriously, I'm zoning out and I hear this thunderous boom? nooo

..and I have no idea what to do either.
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Spoilers, I guess...


Got to the end of the starting level... doesn't seem to have any possible way of winning against that enemy before you end up underwater. Where I subsequently found something, brought it to the light, then made it to the next "level", which was also underwater and seemed oddly similar to the first "level". Then I went up, up, up into the bright light and... game over? What?!


tl;dr, I don't get it.
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Spoilers, I guess...


Got to the end of the starting level... doesn't seem to have any possible way of winning against that enemy before you end up underwater. Where I subsequently found something, brought it to the light, then made it to the next "level", which was also underwater and seemed oddly similar to the first "level". Then I went up, up, up into the bright light and... game over? What?!


tl;dr, I don't get it.

Yea, that's where I got to. um. what?
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Old 05-28-2009, 02:08 AM
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i played it and was confused like everyone else. searching the web and seeing what others are saying, it's not so much a game as it is a short story told through in game format.

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the comments by 'a rob amongst many' and nocturnal kinda explain it:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009...gaming-fathom/

another comment:
http://gaygamer.net/2009/05/fathom_f...comment-146052

there's also other things nifty things like the green cpu on the start screen showing water = death. also there's probably some meaning to the fact that bad guys pretty much don't do anything unless you touch them (ex: the sprinklers cant hurt you, maybe the robot perceives them as bad guys even though they are harmless?).

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Spoilers, I guess...


Got to the end of the starting level... doesn't seem to have any possible way of winning against that enemy before you end up underwater. Where I subsequently found something, brought it to the light, then made it to the next "level", which was also underwater and seemed oddly similar to the first "level". Then I went up, up, up into the bright light and... game over? What?!


tl;dr, I don't get it.
Yes. Both of those events had very loud sound effects associated with them.
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Old 05-28-2009, 02:01 AM
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Ah, I finally finished it...turns out it glitched out on me the first time so that the C.P.U. didn't do anything. :P

So yeah, a couple theories I've read so far are

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either he dies of suffocation before reaching the surface, or he was actually dead the entire time (notice his life bar is empty after falling into the water)
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