#Minute of islands artist free#

Who was Miri's other remembrance doll for? In any case, once Alfa died, that was the beginning of the end for the archipelago. Maybe Ande, the oldest giant, collapsed first. Maybe Safan, the weakest giant, collapsed first. And then, without the emergency power to sustain them, the exhausted giants collapsed. It could be that the additional strain on each giant caused the emergency power system to fail, which would explain the unseated fuses. With him no longer providing one-fourth of the power, this led to a cascading failure. I imagine that he kept cranking the machine right to the end. The giants had sealed themselves into their rooms, and he had nowhere to go. I believe that he drowned shortly before the events of the game. When we see Alfa, the fourth giant, his room is flooded, and half of his jaw is skeletal. The system was on its last legs, and it would only take one final push to bring the whole thing down. I believe that they were using either some portion of the power from their cranking or the emergency power system to keep themselves just alive enough to keep cranking the wheels. I believe that the giants were only barely alive at this point, mainly just souls fused to machinery. The giants were all very old, and they were exhausted from centuries of toil. We already know that the system was strained. Why did the system collapse right before the events of the game? The archipelago is lost, and Mo sets sail with her family in the final exodus.

#Minute of islands artist free#

We see her set Safan free in a very emotional moment, after which the credits show that she set the other giants free as well. She refuses to go along with the plan for the ark, which had clearly been in the works for some time, as she still believe in her quest to keep the giants and their machines working.Īnd then, Mo finally realizes that it is over, and she must give up her hopeless quest, rejoin her family, and try to mend things. We then have the moment where Mo crosses the event despair horizon and attacks Fenja. They couldn't keep the system together, and neither could she. The giants also isolated themselves from each other, locked themselves in tombs below the surface, and devoted 100% of themselves to their job. However, sometimes giving everything you have just isn't enough.

She also isolated herself from everyone around her, and worked herself to exhaustion. Even if she tried to play it off as nothing, she is clearly worried that the number and frequency of the visions had gotten worse. She sacrificed her mental and physical health with the constant exposure to the poison. The system had been running for centuries, the giants were old and weak, and the system-wide collapse was inevitable. It's made clear from the beginning that while this is the first time all four giants have stopped turning their cranks at once, this is not the first time that Mo has had to run through the fungus spores to save one or more of them. It makes you wonder how long it has been since she last did that. It was good to see Mo turn away from her quest to put the remembrance statues in the crypt and sit down and enjoy the wind and waves, even for a minute. She's the only person so far to get Mo to turn aside from her path, either due to Mo 'liking her too much', or because Mo had regrets after refusing Miri and having her leave. You could tell that it hurt Mo, since she couldn't bear to read the letter, and she already knew what it said.Īnd then, we meet Mo's grandmother. However, it still hurt to go back for that stew and find her letter. I knew that by the time Mo was done saving the second giant, Miri would have left the island for real. It's clear that Miri is terrified that Mo will go down into the depths and never come back, since she has the doll of remembrance already made while her sister is still alive. They argue, as usual about how Mo has become like a machine, and how she spends far too much time focusing on her work and ignoring her family. Second, we have her sister, Miri, who wants to sit down and have some stew. I was really hoping that after the first giant was safe, we would be able to go back and spend time with him, but we were not.

She almost goes for it, but then puts the bottle back at the last second because her tasks are more important. The story itself was pretty bleak, between Mo's insistence on isolating herself from her family for years to focus on her archipelago-saving tasks, and the ultimate realization that her tasks are impossible.įirst, we have her uncle wanting to sit down and share some wine. After that point, there were several other points where Mo described someone else's actions, and I always added 'and Mo can relate to that'.

I liked that initial moment in the uncle's house, where Mo pointed out the years of unopened letters and how she could relate to that.