#old_data

siiiighhh. While I've sort of lost steam when it comes to my Inscryption phase, it does sometimes come to mind. I think what I find so so fascinating about it's story is that at it's core it's basically just a spin on the classic videogame creepypasta genre. I mean.. >Game is uncovered on a buried floppy disk >Characters in the game are sentient and aware of the player >Several gruesome deaths tied to the game's development A lot of these are common haunted videogame creepypasta tropes. But what I like about the game is that unlike a lot of those stories, the game itself.. Isn't malicious or dangerous - all it wants is to be played. None of the characters want Luke dead. They need Luke to keep playing, either for the sake of play itself, or to forward a plan to bring the videogame to a wider market so they would have countless people to play with. It's in their nature to want this. They were just unlucky that their game is actually nothing but a front to hide the valuable, seemingly supernatural data from the eyes of the public. A lot of the characters even understand the data's nature, and want it to be either kept buried or wiped from the disk entirely. This is a haunted game that simply wants to be a game and nothing more. It doesn't want to take lives. Infact, the corrupting data within doesn't seem to want anything at all. It's basically a force of nature. There's no consciousness driving it except for those that dredge up pieces of it for their own purposes. It's a resource, and the characters are toying with it in an attempt to turn Inscryption into the game they think it should be. The characters are all definitely conflicting with eachother but none of them are quite evil. Selfish at most. The game isn't keeping Luke hostage - quite the opposite, it's dependent on him. Leshy kept up intrigue purely for the sake of making the game more interesting through his storytelling, and P03 needed to keep him invested enough to trick him into getting the game's steam page set up and ready for upload. They need Luke to function. They need a player.