Game gorogoa endings how to#

The old man dies serenely, ascending to some heaven/nirvana type thing.ĮDIT: Ultimately I thinkk this is the type of game designed to allow fans to speculate over it forever. Having the old man gone through this journey of self rediscovery, the dragon now finally accepts its sacrifice and releases him of pain. He comes to terms with his experience and rearranges his thoughts, and since at the end we see the boy going through the rest of the book, finding blood and suffering in it, as the last piece needed to complete the puzzle, the old man comes to realize the only way to truly appease the dragon is through pain and surmounting it. He starts to obsess about giving it gifts, but the creature turns it down, cripples the boy and quite possibly destroys his city/the world (I assume him to be the root cause of all the devastation in some pictures in the last chapter).Īs to the old man burning up, I think it's more like achieving peace after coming to terms with your life.Īll the last chapter is is the old man going back through his memories and rearranging things. Here's my two cents: the boy sees the creature and reads up on it. I don't see the old man disappearing as burning up in the sun. If you're still reading this thread, I'd be interested in your thoughts. Death? Final agony before enlightenment? Symbol of his burning desire?

Game gorogoa endings how to#

It made me sad that the old man burns to the sun, like the moth to the flame, and I don't know how to interpret it. The old man gets the color red from the blood of the boy's chains in the book.) He is rewarded by the creature, who fully shows himself for the first time. (For instance, the boy got the red fruit just by accident thanks to a bird. The old man looks back on his life, sees what went wrong, rearranges pieces, returns the color to the black fruits in a different way. In the first picture of the creature the boy finds in the book the bowl is carried by both the boy and the old man, so my guess is the wisdom and insight of the mature self are needed before the offerings are accepted. The creature refuses the boy's offerings (and by doing so cripples him, I think). I have a different interpretation of the ending. And the frustration when he has achieved nothing and overturns the table. Especially in the third part, with the many religious symbols, like the candle, bell, images of monks, a rosary, offerings and sacrifices, the boy climbing forever, the mountain. I agree with you that the desire to find the creature feels like the boy/man is searching for enlightenment.

It's more of an emotional experience, recognizing something, hard to put into words. So much is left out that I am not sure I understand what story the developer wanted to tell. The second time I paid more attention to all the little details, which made the story even more confusing for me. I played the game twice and the first time I was focussed on the puzzles. In both you’re interacting to progress, letting the worlds unfurl in unexpected and wonderful directions, but where Chuchel is warmly comedic, Gorogoa is austere and elegant.I too was left with a feeling of sadness.

In terms of its space in gaming, I’d put it as a counterpoint to something like Amanita’s upcoming surreal puzzle toybox, Chuchel. Gorogoa rewards your persistence with delightful elegant mechanisms.

I know that Roberts felt a degree of challenge in finding hidden patterns in Gorogoa was important in creating the sense that they were indeed hidden patterns, but I get the sense that that wouldn’t have extended to outright frustration. The game is structured around seeing these connections in the world and frustration linked in an interesting way to moments I remember from undergraduate maths classes where you’d catch a glimpse of a universal connection within the abstracted fabric and then lose the thread. I was actually wondering whether frustration could form an interesting part of Gorogoa in a way that differs from the normal point and click/puzzle game frustration. None of them lasted long, but being able to flow through those segments of the story instead of butting my head against them is adding to the appeal of that second playthrough. I had moments where I simply couldn’t see a connection, or where I’d missed a vital way to change one tile and started to feel that rising tide of irritation.