Postbit's Worldview Review - Playdead's "Inside"

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All right, what's up guys, this is Austin and Joy the girl.

With Post Bit and.

We are right now doing a tribute to Gene Wilder with that song a nice little remix. So today we're gonna be talking about a game called inside that Joy and I just finished. Yep. How'd you feel about it?

Joy? I love the game. You loved it. Yep. I thought it was pretty decent.

Definitely.

Definitely seemed Allegorical great and let's really emphasize.

Gore.

Brickle. Wow, I'm guessing you didn't just think of that. I did I did I said allegorical and I went. Hmm.

This morning you were like, I'm gonna lay this this joke down.

That's not what happened let's be honest I woke up like 10 minutes ago. I didn't have that much time to think there's actually you know that because you were sleeping. Studio, I don't know that I want you to share that.

So anyway, let's yeah, we're gonna let's we're gonna cut that. So anyways we are going to take a few minutes to Review the game as far as worldview goes and see where it may or may not have stolen from the Christian worldview.

Right.

You guys probably thought that we forgot because we were so into the story and Austin was screaming like a little girl when the dogs chased him. We didn't we didn't forget so I'll give you that. This is our little worldview review.

Worldview review.

We need to have big letters that come down when I say that. That's what we need worldview review. Because this is the first worldview review. That we're doing. Did we just trademark that we are. Okay, that's a thing now worldview review.

You're welcome on post bit. Go joy. It's not your birthday. Not so anyways. There were a couple little themes that we could find In this game, right and I would say the biggest one was sovereignty. What would you say?

Oasis I.

Agree with that.

Sovereignty, I think I think we can find it right and and we'll start with why?

So the premise and sovereignty and like God's sovereignty and what happens when people try to be sovereign, right?

Exactly when we think of sovereignty we often think of like controlling robots. Hey most people do anyways. I mean not a good Calvinist. Right, right. I mean we know right? Um.

So.

You start out the premise of the game is that there really isn't a premise of the game, right? Right, you just kind of start out as this kid and you're like running through the woods and all of a sudden people are gunning You down exactly which is pretty wrong because you're a kid.

So there's your total depravity. Because only a totally brave person would just write down a child, right?

And I think the society overall is very depraved.

Yeah, as you as you find out as you go through it you you recognize wow, these people have completely fallen. Oh, yeah, right. They're gone and they only act upon their sin.

Right.

Or the sin of the people that are mind controlling them, right?

They're they're mind controlling people. That's not trying to steal from God's sovereignty. I don't know what is so we have a kid running through a forest and You get to a point in the game where you can start Controlling these like zombified people right.

You plug into the little helmet thingy and You can make up the zombies do what. All of a sudden you're making the zombies dance to the thriller dance, right? Because that's the only logical thing to do and do that because you and I recommend it Absolutely, undoubtedly make those zombies dance thriller for at least three minutes and a little glimpse of happiness.

Yes, such a dark game.

Exactly.

So you get to this point? Where you start can like you you essentially like jump into this blob of like I'm. I don't even know what it was.

It was like a blob of people people. Yeah, some people call it the blob. I've heard meatball. It was I kind of like that sounds kind of me. You know by the end of it. I thought it was kind of cute the way it sort of like gallops around.

Yeah, that's exactly what it was and it just rampages through this this like what was it and it wasn't an office.

It was like it's like a factory science building.

Controlling people's brains. So essentially what the theory behind this is is that This boy that you are is being controlled by this blob, right? That's one of the theories right. One of the theory. That's the that's my favorite theory.

I don't know that he's the blob. The whole game is luring you through mind control. To set it free right because it's become like Self-aware. Yes.

So you have this self-aware blob controlling your mind. Yes, right, right. And so you get to the end and then all of a sudden you like jump into this blob and Now It has like its own free will kind of thing like where it's just rampaging.

Before you jump into the blob you sort of disconnect it from these like synapse II looking things, right? Which makes you think that the blob is sort of like a Like a life source organ for all of the mind controlled people out there, right?

And so you just start running through and then finally you get to this point at the very end where you land from this giant fall in. A spot of sunlight right a little patch of sunlight on a beach and then no longer.

Can you control the blob, right? Right. So the other theory is That the blob is controlling the player of the game ie myself and joy, right it gets a little meta in here way meta and so now I have to think about this game is is Controlling me, right?

I don't think so. Not me not Austin because Austin is in control of the thumbsticks and the X button, right? The X button means to jump. I Jumped a lot. You did I did so. Here I am thinking to myself I'm controlling this game but in a sense The game is controlling me to get to a certain point.

Right like well even just to consider that. The graphics of the game like the the foreground and the background and everything are all. They're well animated. But you can only go. You can't really explore them like you really can only go like you're very limited even in what you can.

Do so the game controls you from the very beginning, right? As you can only go right or you can only side scroll. Yep, and you can like do a few interactive things, right?

That it wants and I can't like turn around and like punch one of these guys in the face or anything like that. Like I only get so much that I can do. Exactly the game is in control. I'm just you know running my way through it.

Yes, so I have here a video game.

With a.

Fully developed Timeline Timeline. Essentially yeah. Like world where the world is just completely I Can only work within those bounds right? Sounds interesting to me. Sounds like some type of game developer sovereignty.

Right right and I think Honestly probably for the developer. It's more of a commentary on like it's more of like a political socio-economic Commentary, but we know that that kind of commentary was really just like.

Foundationally that commentary is you know, right. You get into like communism socialist right things like that, right? But.

Foundationally anything that is Critiquing socialism or communism or for you know, for example is essentially saying those are you know. Those are institutions in which government is God and they they decide everything for you to the point of mind control.

Right, so all the way there. So government sovereignty. God's sovereignty. You know if someone proclaims to be an atheist they're gonna say that. They're gonna they're not gonna claim to have a problem with God's sovereignty.

They're gonna say government sovereignty because the government is their God.

Right and and they they get that worldview based off of what we understand about exactly. Yeah, so it's just.

It's the same commentary, but because they're choosing to reject God.

You know, they call it something different, right? They say oh no, we're being we're being controlled by it's like mr Robot where we're just being controlled by the society, right?

Exactly, right.

So I would say that's that's the first part for worldview as far as that game goes is Essentially, they're stealing from what we know to be true from the scriptures about God as far as sovereignty goes.

Exactly, right and then the second part was It's very dark. The game's really dark. It is dark. So this this isn't so much The world view of the game review and we can we take that one to All right world view of the game review.

That's way too long. We're just gonna go with world view with you. Pertaining to the game you this one is more of a can we play this game, right? It's dark. It's a visual visually. There's there's nothing like oh my gosh.

My my my it's it's definitely Animated. It's not like Like when you see blood. It doesn't look like real blood. Right doesn't you know? Nothing looks like it's not animated in such a way that it's supposed to look real and it's not like to the Mortal Kombat.

Extent where it's like you're ripping somebody's spinal cord out of there someone in half, right? Like nothing your head. Yeah, it's nothing like that. Like Bane, you know dropping Batman over his knee, right?

But I mean like okay the part that got me the most the part that really irked me. Okay, I really want to hear this actually was when I'm running through the factory in that line. And that camera thing is on me, right?

And I mess up and it shoots like I it shoots like a spear through me and drags me across the ground.

Yeah, I was like, whoa weird taser slash spear. Yes. It just grabs you.

It's a taser that kills you right and then drags you across the floor. Yeah I mean that was like a that was like a picture that's not gonna leave my head for a little bit cuz that was like.

That's why I enjoyed the game so much. Because they don't tell you anything. So everything like that that happens is a surprise, right? And that's why I think it actually like Got under my skin inside my skin.

Oh, I don't know.

Nailed that one. Yeah, so I mean visually it's not like okay, this is just you know Completely reprehensible like this is just evil and wicked and whatever. It's just like whoa. Okay. Hang on like that's not something I'm gonna forget about.

Yeah for probably a week, right? So I guess my question is Can we still play a video game that is dark and grim and gritty and difficult to find? Worldview in right because. Interpretation right? It's very open to interpretation.

So is there redemption in the game that we can find I would argue. Yes. Because in a sense it won because of the depravity in the game, right? We we see. How much we need Christ? Because we can be just like those people.

Yeah, right. Like I know that my heart is full of wickedness. And every day is a struggle not to get to that point, right, right. And then to the end of the game where we kind of finally make it to the end and it's just like oh, there's sunlight and We're on a beach and the water is like coming up to us and it's like a really nice Beautiful idea while you know directly behind that water and that sunlight there's like darkness and gloom.

And gray right gray, but do you think that. Okay, so here's a question for you. You think it's a happy ending? I don't know. I mean, I would I would say and you have to keep in mind. It's a really like Really open.

Another question would be would it be a good game if at the end? You like like the little boy jumped out of the blob and did like a breakfast club punch and right like.

Was like, oh would it fit the game? Yeah, and then you know thumbs up like Mario or something like that.

It's like oh, it's a toadstool and becomes big right? Yeah.

You know because it's open-ended. You do have to take that into consideration like okay, what could they have done better or something like that? Yeah, but I think for what the game was. I mean, I think that I think the ending.

Pretty well suited the game, right? I wouldn't expected much better. I was a little frustrated like when I first played it cuz I was just like why? Why did this happen and then after like thinking about it for a little bit?

I'm like, okay. Well, that's the perfect.

Ending for that kind of game like it's so dark. It can't be too. They can't like be like a big right. It's kind of like inception end.

Like spoiler alert the end of inception. There's so many spoilers in this review. We're we're going to make sure that there's a tag that says Right spoilers, right all the spoilers all over everything everything from inside to inception.

Hey, very similar with the I in sound. So like like inception though, you know. You get like the top and it just like keeps spinning and then it seems like it's gonna fall over and you don't really Know does it fall over or does I continue to spin?

I don't know. Hey, so the the ending is a it's Ending is open-ended. Hey and and and and and and and and and. So you kind of have to decide that for yourself and you have to find redemption throughout the game.

Perhaps not just in the ending and just be like, okay. So where does this point to Christ right does does the sin point to Christ because in a sense? I mean like the second use of the law is It does it point to Christ, you know, it's not necessarily like okay, this is redemptive right there.

No, you have to kind of look at it is a story like.

You know you it's not the type of game you can play and like instantly have all the information about something, right? So like the redemptive point, I don't think really Like happens at a specific moment, but I do think the end Is like a redemptive Type of thing.

I like the ending. I think it's a happy ending. I think it was fitting, right?

I didn't love the ending but I thought it was fitting. I. Yeah, there's an alternate ending too, that's true, right which would probably summarize our theory a little bit better.

But we'll let you look into that on right there all over YouTube. Oh if you want to know it the ending just.

Yeah, it's there. I would say those are like our two main points for the game. Interesting side note. They used a Actual human skull to make some of the music in the game. Wow, yeah. Super weird. Hmm.

I don't know how they acquired said you really into this game. But I mean like they were really into like that dark and creepy vibe. Yeah, even in their sound and music. I Don't know really how I feel about the human skull thing actually now that I'm thinking about it, right?

That's how I felt about it the second. I read it.

Well, isn't there like a human skull on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland?

Like I.

Can't I'm pretty sure there's a real one like in the headboard or something. Dear.

That's.

I don't know. I don't know. I guess like we're just you know reusing the bodies for God's glory and sometimes different. Maybe not in that game. Anyhow.

Well, we don't know how this goal was obtained so we can't officially comment on it. Yeah, right.

They might have they might have gotten it from you know a very reputable.

Seller.

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