The fact that you think I am frustrated or broken says more about you than about me.

It does not matter if you ever get over there

Ha! And here I go with another lecture. Of course I would. Don't you worry about all that nonsense, for now just smooth out the rug in the bedroom.

I want us to see past the games themselves, I want to know who this human being really is, and that's exactly what we're going to do here.

how is there wood and grass and concrete here wtf

Spoilers: it doesn't mean anything

I feel like a failure I guess, when I can't... fix the problem. But I can open this door for you, so let me do that.

But ultimately we don't really know, maybe Coda thought that actually it was complete the way that it is, and I think we should talk about his games for what they are rather than for what they're not.

Question: Do you enjoy this?

Reasonable.

Apparently this space station has a labyrinth on it! I – heh, sure, I dunno. There's really no reason for it that I've ever been able to discern so in the interest of time I'm just going to skip you on past it.

A game where you leave notes and suddenly everyone's a poet

This is really hard to admit, but I was afraid to make this call. … Time moves differently for you than it does for me. … Maybe the prison is just affecting you in a strange way.

Shit. How do you solve it.

You are the queen, dusting your jewelery while your kingdom is destroyed.

Live on a boat taking orders from the captain. The captain is always wrong.

And to be fair it's not like this is the first game that's needed some modification to be playable.

It's not very crowded here

Whoever made this has issues

Maybe?

Don't listen to that guy!

I feel compelled to share an incredibly cheesy personal insight. You okay with that?

Maybe i'll feel real some day

I love how you can see the bottom of the universe from this room.

Feel free to skip over any of these notes if they're not doing anything for you, nothing extra will happen if you read all of them.

So why don't we be with the task at hand and leave the future chores to future you. Present you wants to smooth out the rug in the bedroom, believe it or not. Trust me on this one.

I'm glad he made this. I'm glad he found some peace.

who ARE all of you?

True, maybe I only like things once I don't have them any more.

Question: Do you enjoy this?

Feel free to skip over any of these notes if they're not doing anything for you, nothing extra will happen if you read all of them.

stop faking it

But it's ironic, isn't it, that in playing this game and seeing how alone Coda often felt, that we get to know him better, and actually kind of connect with him. And I have to be honest with you, this idea is really seductive to me!

Exactly! You have something you care about! Something to look forward to.

Hello!

This line of work, you let go of those judgments pretty fast. May not be your apartment, but something in your life needs straightening up.

In retrospect I think I was probably a bit too pushy trying to get his attention. I was overenthusiastic. But he was very gracious about it and very patient with me. And I cooled off eventually.

A friend dragged me along at a time when I was particularly desperate for cash. Turns out, I've never felt so good doing something for money in my life!

I just saw a flying penguin, let me tell you it was the most majestic thing I have ever seen! I don't feel like living because nothing will ever be as majestic as that.

It's been a long time since I've seen a house this messy...

If I could have reached him during this time then maybe I could have asked him, but I couldn't, I still don't understand why this is here. I'll put the code on the ground here for you so that we can move on.

Maybe i'll feel real some day

So that seems to be it, right? You walk down a corridor, you solve a puzzle, you get to the end. Simple enough. Alright, now I'm going to modify the game again so that when you press 'Enter' it'll remove all of the walls from this room.

If there was an answer, a meaning, would it make you any happier? Would you stop taking my games and showing them to people against my wishes? Giving them something that is not yours to give? Violating the one boundary that keeps me safe?

There's a bigger picture that all of his games are meant to play a role in, some larger meaning that we won't be able to grasp until we've seen all of them, and once we have we can step back and start to understand what exactly that bigger picture is.

Play as the camera filming an advertisement, walking around a set filming whatever you like

a FREEEEEEEE t-shirt!

It's not very crowded here

Seeing this game at the time that he made it, it looked very unhealthy to me. I was watching him do this to himself, and I hated it. I hated seeing him so trapped. Video games are not worth this amount of suffering.

It's a lamppost. Okay, I can't tell you quite why but for some reason Coda fixates on this lamppost, it's going to appear at the end of every single one of his games from here on out.