#sigcorp series

[jei-rifni]

They are so!! ThEY ARE SOO!!!! RAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[randomsprinkles]

Probably like 5 people are gonna know what this is referring to but I just played the to the moon beach episode and I’m going absolutely feral over Rosawatts

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Finally got the chance to finish the Beach Episode

I am. in pain.

[breadplate]

What does everybody think the sigcorp series characters sound like. I need to see other people's sigcorp voice claims I BEG

[wybienova]

i dream of lavender fields

[badkunz]

"...Just a while longer, okay?"

[dragonsareawesome123]

"You once said, 'The ending isn't more important than the moments leading to it'…Do you still believe in that?" "…The truth is, I never actually felt that way. The ending…it always felt more important to me…Maybe we're just built that way…Maybe we're just not built to be in it for the moments. But it's because of that…I thought it was especially important. To remember that phrase, so I could at least remind myself of it."

To the Moon (2011) developed by Freebird Games Finding Paradise (2017) developed by Freebird Games Impostor Factory (2021) developed by Freebird Games Just A To the Moon Series Beach Episode (2024) developed by Freebird Games

[esfersart]

I don’t know what’s real If an ending is ever good enough Maybe it never is Maybe it never was —  World in a Memory 

[sunbloomdew]

ttm beach episode spoilers below!

something about how the game lets you decide when to end it all and come back to reality. press esc to leave. how it would be up to eva how long she'd stay there on that beach, but knowing she could never remain there forever. just a little while longer. something about how it greets you with the same image if you decide to open it again. the truth is, i never actually felt that way. do you begin the cycle again or do you find comfort in that temporary ending? and i just can't get past that it's the one i didn't want.

something about how player's actions represent eva coming back to the machine searching for closure. did she find it? will she? will we?

while it was only my first (of many) playthroughs, i think the way the game portrays dealing with grief is really heartwrenching and beautiful in how real but fleeting it all is.

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

To the Moon Beach Episode will launch on September 20, 2024, and the original To the Moon is coming to PS/Xbox

The Beach Episode is initially releasing in English & Chinese, with more languages coming by end of year ([the team] will try their best to get all the languages from the previous games in there)!

The playtime is approximately 2.5 - 3 hours.

It will initially be on PC (Steam + hopefully Humble & GOG) for sure, but [they] will also try to make Mac & Linux in-time. (Thanks to Ancu & Ali's work from before, it could be doable.)

Serenity Forge has stepped up to bring To the Moon to Playstation and XBox! Hopefully an exciting collaboration for more things in the future too. 😉

In fact, they've also created a memory snow globe of a scene from the Beach episode available when the game launches. d-(' ' d-) ([Kan] thinks there's a preorder open next week too.)

Onto the last mile! Thanks for the support everyone.

Source: Discord

[mozukumi]

"No, I mean… Of course I'm dead. That's why, you know…all this. But it's just…strange hearing you say it out loud. I guess we just never really talked like this here since then."

[jei-rifni]

They are everything to me

[questioninglogic]

me playing Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode for the first time: oh this is neat, it's made so that you can replay it again and again to see all the choices you can make!

after finishing the game:

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

There doesn’t seem to be a standardized spoiler tag for this series, so please be aware that there are spoilers in this post from To the Moon and the minisodes!

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While I’m still working my way through Finding Paradise and haven’t yet started Impostor Factory, my brain is already churning with theories from the first game and the minisodes alone.

But minisode 2!!! Has me deeply concerned for many reasons! But I wonder if I’m just going insane or something over these little scientists on my screen because I’m now I’m kinda terrified for the beach episode.

The recording device that Eva gets for Neil as a present. She plays the sound of ocean waves on it. You know, like waves on a beach??? It’s very likely that the minisode itself is a memory Eva (and potentially Neil also?) is accessing and altering. From the beach episode summary, we already know something is very wrong since most of these characters should be dead.

I’m holding out to see what the next two games have in store (Neil is already sus as hell in FP), as I’m sure I’ll get more context and whatnot and have to revise, but needless to say…

The beach episode… it scares me…

[hyaesia]

Hi Cat, I am here to annoy you and ask you about your Beach Ep Thoughts ™

With best,

Lavii :3

oh god okay where do i even begin ... in general that was the most devastating ending in fiction ever i think... and i think the sigcorp series might be the only series ever to be able to pull it off. it's crazy how sounding out what we already knew would happen was still so !!! poignant!!! the music was spectacular. the art was spectacular. freebird's commitment to rpgmaker is astounding and i love it (though i know last hour and onwards will be unity)

more specific thoughts:

i loved being able to see more of rox and rob, particularly i love that rob is just a Really Strange Guy instead of the only normal sigcorp employee like a lot of us thought he would be, i think it makes his & rox's dynamic all that much funnier. two weird and offputting guys on totally opposite sides of the weird and offputting spectrum

even though the plot was very In Your Face compared to every other entry in the sigcorp series (this was made to answer questions about IF, after all), there's still so much to discuss and theorize about! i've spent So much time already discussing how i suspect neil died w/ friends (which i could make into a whole other post. tbh) and whatever the hell was going on with the quintessence cast ?? (more on that later)

i loved seeing eva's walls crumble down. she lied about the journey mattering more to her than the ending, of course she did because she works the worst job on the planet and she has to lie to herself to keep going. i can't think too long about her in the very ending asking such vulnerable questions to neil about if he'd really do all those sweet relationshippy things for her or putting her head into her arms and sobbing after he asked how it happened.oh.my god

i genuinely thought the quintessence guys from the teasers would be cameo characters, which yeah they were for the most part! but lunair was so interesting... what did she mean when she said she's something else entirely!! where did she come from why is she in on the simulation with faye!! the only rational thing i can come up with is quintessence being a side-project by neil leaking into the simulations but then that makes her comment before irrelevant... head in my hands

and i love/hate how the Entire series has been a simulation by eva... god especially minisode 2,,, realizing that party Never Happened and it was just her trying to make a happier memory for herself. do you think that was the last christmas neil ever celebrated? do you think she ever really gave him the sound recorder, or was it her present self playing 4D chess with their memories? it'll be a very long time until i can bring myself to replay any of these games knowing i'm being complicit in eva's unhealthy grief habits. well fucking done kan gao .how did you do it

shorter thoughts that don't need their own paragraphs: the minigames were so fun, the spectator mode for xtreme beach was such a fun touch; i loved the ingame confirmation about colin and river being deskmates; i think last hour will be the last hour of neil's life; after kan's tweet last year about last hour & the beach episode being the good and bad ending respectively, i placed my bets on beach being the good ending. i really hope i'm wrong now actually after seeing it; and finally i've already listened to world in a memory 200 times, it makes me nauseous every time

in conclusion: i need to hug eva rosalene so fucking badly

[wybienova]

annoying