#RIP Ryan

[ashleys-doodle-corner]

Just go with the flow!

I played the game as soon as I woke up (and got breakfast and etc, but who cares about that), and oh my god. Man. I have a lot of thoughts about this game. And also spoiler-related art to make, but I shotgun this out as soon as I finished the game, so please take it. I love them all so much, they are all so Great and Cute.

[luwyv]

This show gives me life

[harley-quinns-girlfriend]

So he's gonna kill ryan

Rip beef boy

[studentinspace]

Did Pet Semetery not teach y'all anything??

[jirainokei]

alone again w no friends, what did u expect from a selfish narcissistic suburban white trash christ?

[ayo-edebiri]

When you play a character that hard, that long, just letting go just feel like a breakup. 

[ghostradiodylan]

I’M SORRY how did I miss this??? So beautifully done and sad and sweet! I feel completely normal about it.

couldn't get this picture out of my head after I accidentally killed Ryan in my first playthrough

[suspencerrrr]

I love the implication that when Ryan and the Professor are not trying to strangle each other’s throats, Ryan gives him rides home from Watcher HQ. Like imagine, if you will, the Professor sitting in a lil booster seat in Ryan’s passenger side, sipping on a bottle of Bug Juice, singing at the top of his little puppet lungs to Doja Cat Taylor Swift while Ryan wastes away in rush hour traffic.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#The Same Picture

[ashleys-doodle-corner]

The soundtrack for Rot in Paradise is out!! I've been waiting for it to drop so I have a new soundtrack to listen to while I work (bless the previous SIGverse soundtracks that have kept me sane throughout work hours). But also I've been meaning to redraw the soundtrack art since I saw it, so here you go!

[sittinwithyou]

I visited the #Wayback Machine to see what monstrosities I could unearth. @delightedghost is on most of them. This is part 1 of 6 of the revisiting of the MySpace page, Low Tea Film.

[gunsatthaphan]

"you said you like me. are you sure about that?"

[hryxd]

Whoops, something is wrong with the AVM :Р

[llocket]

✧ 　rot in paradise graphics

f2u, only with credit! no need to reblog but very appreciated! ↳ self indulgent!! ++ good in dark & light mode

SIG!!! I LOVE YOU AND YOUR OCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLAY ROT IN PARADISE NOW!!!!

still undercuts / more below!!

[shaniacsboogara]

something about ryan bergara constantly popping up on my phone screen asking for ghost files evidence makes me chuckle a little bit. he's just a little guy going door to door asking for donations but the way he does it is strangely endearing and actually makes me wish he comes back to ask for my money again even though i don't have anything to donate.

[creativitysloyalservant]

i have decided to break my lack of original posting on this blog to bring you my Thoughts on Rot in Paradise. because i played it as soon as i got up this morning and i have scoured for some opinions after finishing it, and now i have my own!!

(and also i posted this on twitter but twitter has such a Shit wordcount that i'm also posting my things here with More Detail)

so! spoilers under the cut, please go and play the game if you haven't. it takes literally an hour (it only took nearly 2 hours for me because i like voice acting by myself and exploring every nook and cranny) and it's also free. so maybe come back into the tag once you're done.

okay, so i noticed quite a number of people being confused and disappointed on the lack of an explanation for the monster. it's brought up in the story as the central thing driving the plot, but it's never explained on what "she" is, why she's compelling people to eat a ton of fish-related food or hell, metal, and why this doesn't impact June at all.

but you know what I think?

i think that that's the point. the focus of rot in paradise isn't supposed to be on the monster.

yeah, it's the thing that pushes the plot along besides June and the gang going on vacation in this island. it's what's causing that uneasiness from the moment that guy grabs June's arm at the drinks, to the sheer unnerving feeling of witnessing people going to the ocean to get Raptured basically. i know i personally felt a chill when i saw that one dude literally eating chains and the other hauling an anchor, as if they're trying to make themselves heavier so they get taken by whatever She is.

but that's not the main point! the main conflict is about June and her friends.

as people have pointed out, this game is about toxic friendships and relationships! it's foreshadowed in the conversation that June has with the gang about her cousin (which i will also get into), and it carries it through the way her friends are horribly warped by this ocean Creature. June goes on a silly little vacation trip with her friends only for them to become so so different from themselves that they lash out at her and even hit her in McCoy's case.

but she still sticks it out with them. through the whole game, even despite their verbal abuse, despite being slapped, despite them being people that she can hardly recognise. she stays with them for the whole game, up until the point where you are given the two options at the very end. and she could still stay with them.

because they're still her friends. she cares about them even if they still hurt her. from the way June still tells Carmen to tell June if she needs anything after Carmen literally tells her to shut up and leave, the way June worries about Vonnie eating seafood even though she continues to stuff herself despite being implied to either hate or make an active choice to not eat seafood, to the way June still trudges out to sea screaming for McCoy to come back to the shore as he wades further in even after he slapped her until her nose bled.

it mirrors the conversation about her cousin, the reason for why June was looking forward to the vacation. that while she did comfort her cousin through all of it, June clearly says that "they were dickheads, and she should have ditched them a long time ago".

but it's funny, isn't it? that June, an outsider to her cousin's friend group, easily sees the pain that her cousin's friends are causing her, and immediately calls it as it is. that her cousin should have left the second they hurt her.

and yet now, when her friends hurt her, even though this was a quick and sudden change that happened in a span of three days, June still sticks around. her friends are dickheads right now, and we can see that in the way they interact with June, but she still stays.

because they're her friends. and how could she just leave them like this if it's something that's causing them to be this way?

so no, i don't think the monster is supposed to be the main picture. we don't need to know what it looks like, or why it needs to do this to the islanders, or how it's even doing it in the first place. it adds to the scariness of the game, as per the Spooktober Game Jam, sure, but that's not the point. might be a bit disappointing to some, but that's not the point.

the point is about June, and the choice that she needs to make at the end of the game.

it's a choice on whether she chooses to be pulled deeper into the tides and be with the friends who hurt her and will continue to hurt her in this way,

or to leave them to their fates, whether deserved or not, and resurface to a world where she's alone without her friends.

and even though the first choice hurts much more in the long run, doesn't the second hurt even more in the moment? knowing that you're alone at the end of all of this?

even if it is the right choice, i'm sure the pain must be unbearable in the moment.