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[TSTwizby]

They is money in the game as well as vending machines. The game was likely going to have more RPG elements but they never got around to.

I'm pretty sure that these things, like health and the levelup thingy were mostly hardcoded into the RPGmaker engine rather than planned elements.

[Seriyu]

FloooooOOooOOooOw. Also I do actually have an idea of where to go so, hooray.

Spoiler: Yume Nikki/.flow spoilers. Much text therein. (click to show/hide)

Kay ,so today we're gonna head to that hospital room behind the long white corridor with the tendrils in it. So off we go. As we enter the bedroom before the nexus, turning on the TV results in the fanged mouth appearing and giggling wildly whenever we try to turn it off again, while the screen flashes white. It's been a while buddy. Annnnd the nexus still looks concretey. So it seems to be the new "default state".

So we head to blood hell from the white hospital-ey maze. When in doubt, explore hell. THey seem to be large sprawling ish areas like sub areas in some parts of yume nikki, so maybe I'm misusing the hell term here. Anyway, I find the girl that turns into a rust monster briefly if you fire the handgun. I try smacking her with the pipe, and, as I probably should've expected, it turns her into a rust monster. One with super speed at that. She also giggles constantly while chasing you down.

I take this visit back to the nexus to visit the giant mouth thing in the eye world. No dice. I Head back to blood hell to see if I can't find anything else. It ends up our good pal is still riled up, so I wake up and go back to sleep and head back again. THis time the concrete lookiof the nexus is back to being broken. No such luck with that theory then, I suppose.

I manage to get back to blood hell and find a giant white pillar with a mouth dripping blood. It's like the game knows I hate mouths. Never stopped me before I guess, lessee...

Giant rd and black graffiti lookin thing of more mouths on amorphous shapes. Naturally I head into another mouth on it, and It leads me back to the meat caves. I wander around a bit, (more black haired people with dresses on here), and find a new effect, the whistle. Now this. This is interesting. I use the whistle effect around the black haired people and they sprout orange tendrils out of the "hair" and back away. Interesting. I can think of a few places to use this. Maybe it makes other NPCs that otherwise wouldn't react to the handgun do stuff too. So many paths with just a single effect. There's also one of the black haired folks sitting on a meat throne in the room with the whistle. More wandering leads down a narrow hallway, into a door, into an area with pulsating walls. At around this point I've started getting mildly uncomfortable, so that should make the rest of this interesting. The game has definitely been freaking me out more lately. Steppin up.

In this area the sound is a heartbeat, it's been like that in all the areas of the meat cave beyond the exploding lady room, and I'm just saying this now. In the next room, the beat is getting less regular and more, Iunno, rolling. Kind've like a stomach maybe? It's an odd noise, I dunno about that. Some kind of heart disease? At any rate I press onward. I move forward and find two cubes of meat sticking off teh floor with smiling fanged mouths on them. In any other place the mouths would look so happy but here it manages to remain horrifying. I go between them.

AND GIANT GODDAMN MOUTH IN THE BACKGROUND WITH A DRONING NOISE FUCK ME HOOOOOOLY SHIT. There's a lot of "ghostly figures" with giant mouths on them too. aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Now that I've gotten that out, let's look around. There's also a little meat man dancing around with what would appear to be gaping wounds on him, they kinda look like leaking blisters? Maybe it's just my freaked out mental state making up shit. He seems to be approaching me, so I'm afraid to interact with him, lest he prove to be a rust monster variant. I'm kind've horrified to interact with anything here, god damn. I'm also starting to hear little "dripping noises" in the background music. When it touches me, it brings me out of the broom power up, like the red film did before, It made a similar noise too. THis world is like a giant lump of everything I find horrifying in this damn game, jeez.  The area appears very small. I try interacting with one of the ghostly figures with mouths....

Nothin. I go between a pair of them, puts me in a world with a ton of mouth monsters in it. I get the hell out of the area because as far as I know, there's nothing left in there. This place is apparently just to fuck with the player, and as freaked out as I am by it, I love it. Back to meat cave. I'll be happy to deal with it after this.

I head back up the path from the grinning mouths and go to the opposite room. More grinning mouths, except this time they kind've look like they're vomiting and they're also on polyp looking things. Jesus christ. I'll come back to that later I think. I explore more only to find there's nothing left here, and go back to the giant mouth mural. Iiiiiit makes a lot more sense now. There's also a little sewer grate here, so I go down it. It's kinda funny but the rest of the world is fairly relaxing compared to that mouth area. jeez. Anyway, I end up in the sewers, as you'd expect. I'veb een here before, but I hit a little sun mark that teleported me into a hell. I'd been meaning to ome back here to look around so this works out! There are black shadowy figures around here, lessee what does what to em. Handgun does nothing, pipe kills them like normal, whistle makes them retreat. No special graphics on em though. They appear to run from the pipe too.

I move to the right using a raised segment of the path to get past the barrier that was blocking m yway a bit earlier, I didn't mention it. The pipes along the walls of the new area appear to be blinking, and there's a giant pile of slime that has a hand on it. Huh. Doesn't seem to do a whole lot with the slime effect, so I move on. Into dock hell again. Same segment that the school NPC was at I think. I backtrack, the little blinking valves don't react to whistle or handgun so I move on. I find a large valve that gushes sewage if you interact with it. Hmm. As I enter the room with the slime pile he seems to have changed colors. I head back and interact with the valve again to see if that effects it. But the valve is gone. At any rate this leads to more experiementation with the slime pile.  Handgun, whistle and pipe.... ... all nothing. I switch to slime one last time. Doesn't seem to do anything, but as I enter the menu to get out of slime mode, it grabs me and pulls me under. Now I'm in a slime area. Hmm.

A bunch of slime piles with holes in em. THey're bleeding, annnnd at the end of the hallway? A bloody white doorway that I mistook for a mouth again. I think the game has traumatized me.

This leads to a large, incredibly bloody room. Like, ankle deep shit in here. I almost just say fuck it and stop for the night because I have had a LOT OF EXCITEMENT but I get the feeling something important is in here.

Something......

important.

Brief exposition about me, mouths have seriously always freaked me out a bit, there's no real story behind it, they unnerve me, particularly disembodied mouths. Bloody mouths, broken teeth, all that shit, makes me wince away, so yeah I'm seriously freaked out about this, and what could be behind this door. I just feel the need to explain this for some reason. Anything to keep from going back into the game and finishing this horrible looking room. I am hesitating to go back into the program (because I am an enormous puss). But here we go....

I walk up to the door. The red film appears again. That damn film. It always seems to be in the most horrible parts of the game. It removes my power, as usual. Making you feel helpless, I suppose. I walk up to the door, it doesn't stop me. Sabitsuki doesn't want to enter the room, she shakes her head as if I tried to leave the apartment.. No kiddin, it's got veins coming out of it after all. Who would want to go in?

I turn around one square. Then I realize there's no way out of the room. I take another step forward to see if the door will appear or something. The game starts screeching and groaning. The red film comes back. Sabitsuki looks at the floor. Blood comes out of her mouth. She looks up, her mouth turns into a happy position. This holds for a minute, then she collapses to the floor.

She wakes up in the room. Everything is all better, you'd think. But.... there's more blood on the floor, on the keyboard now. It's blood, I know for sure now, because I remember when the first spot appeared. After the exploding stomach thing that made her "wake up" involuntarily. The first little spot. Now there's a lot, at least for a person to be spitting up or whatever.

At any rate, I save. A tad freaked out for a theorycrafting segment, I'll prolly just add it into the next one whenever it itches my brain again.

And here I didn't think they'd top that exploding woman/stomach thing. Jeeeeeeesus Chriiiiiiiist.


EDIT: Okay, theorycrafting now that I've chilled out a bit.

The hospital scenes may also be a reference to the fact that Sabitsuki appears to be spitting up blood or something in real life, as blood is appearing around the room after particular events. Once she shut herself off from the world, she can't very well keep it medicated can she? A lot of the blood related stuff could be anxiety about that. I'm not quite sure if this ties into the stomach exploding lady or something, but I'm inclined to think that's a different can of worms altogether and I'm going with "her mom died in childbirth with her", lest something else rear its' head.

....

[Lectorog]

You should enjoy the ending of the game. You've already seen the two best (most traumatizing) events, so don't worry too much about that.

[Neonivek]

You should enjoy the ending of the game. You've already seen the two best (most traumatizing) events, so don't worry too much about that.

I don't know... the ending in many ways is rather poetic.

[TSTwizby]

I got kind of... lucky? with .flow when it comes to the more horrible things and missed most of them on my first playthrough, but I'd say that there's still one horrible thing left, though it might be just me.

Spoiler: Endgame spoilers for .flow (click to show/hide)

After getting all the effects, all of the areas get filled with these red demon things. They move around randomly until they see you and then go after you like the kaibutsu's, but about three times as fast. If they catch you, the screen flashes red and then it vanishes, as if you'd absorbed it. Creepy and unsettling, but not too horrible...

Spoiler: Even more spoilery spoiler (click to show/hide)

When you get the three '   ' and enter the last area of the game, it is nothing but a bunch of hallways filled with these red things. And they are placed just far enough apart to trick you into thinking that you can avoid some of them. Every one of them will capture you and get absorbed, and your appearance changes. At first you think that you're getting bloodier and bloodier, but then you realize that your skin is peeling off and you look exactly the same as the demons underneath. You then come across something that looks like your own body, in a similar state of decay, melded to the wall. The only way to leave is to kill yourself, requiring several strikes to finish you off. And then you get the ending.

So I guess I disagree with Lectorog a bit.

[Seriyu]

Aww, I was hoping it'd top itself (How, I do not know.). I was totally freaked out and that happens rarely enough that it's a treat.

Still very interested in seeing where it goes. This isn't stopping until I'm done with it, no worries.

EDIT: Oh woooo, there's at least more rediculously freaky junk. I'm lookin forward to it, whatever it may be. Maybe you'll even get to see me lose my shit again.

[Seriyu]

And with that, more.

Spoiler: yume nikki/.flow spoilers. Lotta text. (click to show/hide)

Kay, so after that.... parade shall we say, let's go get this comedy of horrors done with with the wierd polyp mouth things near mouth city. If I'm lucky it'll just take me back to mouth city and I can immediately leave. If not, well new area! After that I have some theories to follow up on.

Onward! The flashy mouth appears on the TV this time. A good sign to be certain.

I find it interesting that the neon area, one of the "happier" areas, leads to one of the more traumatic events in the game. It even goes through a little path that makes a heart to get there. Curious. Might be misreading the heart thing, since sabitsuki appears to be coughing up blood. Maybe a heart disorder is causing it? Iunno, that might be stretching it.

I head through blood hell, I find out there are quite a few rust monster in disguise girls here. Trivial note.

I've hit the meat cave and I admit I'm getting a tad apprehensive. It's never stopped me before though. Only lagged me. I notice that in the meat cave, the heartbeat in the background has two secondary noises afterwords, after the normal beat, which I BELIEVE is a sign of a bad heart. Maybe my heart disease guess wasn't so far off. Admittantly I'm not sure if there are any heart diseases that make you spit up blood, but I'm not willing to research that much. The area before the mouth section, also has a heart beaty noise with a much more noticible kind've rumbling noise which, if this is a heart disease paralell, probably signifies it's quite serious indeed. Another note is the polyp mouths were vomiting, kind've brownish stuff, kind've a dried blood shade. Maybe foreshadowing (if you got there before you figured out the blood thing)?

Enough stalling however! On to polyp mouth.

Annnnnd mouth town again. Except now there's a big rotating red field and I'm pretty sure I saw a little meat dude dancing around before I tabbed out. The sound is also much more chaotic. Maybe this is an effect of the blood room from before? I'm gonna presume so to keep me niiiiice and chill. Well. Not chill. Sure enough there are a ton of meat men dancing around. Also of note is the fact that all the blood ghost things have went from having mouths to having bloody holes where the mouths were. I'm gonna go check the other mouth town and see if this was indeed an effect of the blood room before I check out the one portal from before, although I doubt much has changed. Also of note is the red field is now stealing my effects whenever I hit esc. Shit's gettin real. Also of note is the giant horrible mouth thing in the background is now also very bloody.

I head back and no, it is not. So I have to explore the entire area, no excuses. Siiiiiigh. It seems way may have found the "home" of the red field at least. I'm getting the feeling this may be another short update. Luckily after this it's back to relatively brighter shores. I admit I turn down the volume a bit before entering the next area. The noise is messing with me more then anything. Always been sensitive to sound. I head through two heads with bloody faces and mouths to find a stalk of heads with bloody, fanged mouths. Three a "plant" I'd say. They have white hair that's kinda messy, so I'm again, assuming it's sabitsuki. It only seems to be here to be disconcerting. Nothing much happens, no effect I don't bother messing with it because again I kinda wanna get this done. I'll come back later for it. Annnnd the other gate takes me back to meat cave. Looked like red heads with horns. Hmm. A new section of meatcave too, no black haired NPCs, a couple of doors, one I'll have to go back into blood mouth town to get into, a new gate with little robotty things forming a gate for it, annnd a door that I can reach. I decide to go to the robot gate first because damn I need a breather.

And it provides! A big white field with little orange spots around, and peaceful music. Lovely. It's small, but it chills me out a bit. I find another gate there with black and orange on it. I decide to go back through the robot gate first to go to the one door I can get to currently. I'll go back to the other door later in the update, along with testing the head stalk NPCs with powers. I'm feeling better about it. The element of surprise is gone. As I head back though,  Ifind a side path with a particularly dramatic looking door. I head to the one from before first because I'll forget it otherwise.

And in it is a bunch of ghostly mouth NPCs that were in mouth town. I have to walk by them to get around, sooooo here goes nothing. On the other side are bloody hole ghost lookin things. Maybe they're supposed to be "plants". There's also a door there that goes who knows where. The bloody hole ghosts don't look quite as horrible without the horrible music and swirling red field but it's still enough to put me on edge. Into the center door first, although to be fair both of these doors seem kinda iffy to me. Annnnd this leads to ANOTHER new section of meat cave with a whole new slew of dramatic doors. I think I'm gonna take a break from meat cave for now and go back to the robot gate. We will come back for this stuff, but I need to chill. But first, let's go test head stalk thing. Nothing effects it. Yep, here to mess with you. It would appear meat cave is a..... traumatic area, all in all. We'll be back later. For now, robot gate.
 
I head up to the black and orange gate annnnnd the music cuts out, the screen goes black, and there's a giant crater in the center with a girl wandering around it.

There is no escape.

ALRIGHT TIME TO MAN UP I GUESS. This area, much like the last is very small. Nowhere to go but the crater. Luckily, it is not enterable. Whew. Although this does mean the only place left is either my shoddy theories or meatcave. This game doesn't let up. Handgun doesn't do much, whistle however moves the girl closer to the crater. Nothing happens if she "enters" it. I'm assuming the pipe will piss her off so I don't bother trying. Back to a brief reprive in robot area. Also of note is in crater the screen grows red tinted, but in robot the screen is white tinted. The opposite of the red film maybe? Hmm. So, let's go to the door beyond the portal back to blood mouth. I just have to go in the opposite side. It reveals a long narrow pathway. There is litterally nowhere else for us to go but dramatic looking doorways. This is probably the worst judging by the layout. Assuming the game is being consistant.

It leads into a giant open area of meatcave. Exploration commences. Nothing in here but a black haired NPC woman with blood coming from between her legs (or perhaps from under her) lying on the floor presumably dead. Mother died in childbirth is now a more plausible theory then ever before. It's not like baby Sabitsuki would remember anything but the most bare details. Testing with stuff, handgun, nothin, steel pipe, nothin, but what I'm expecting to work, the whistle.... ...Makes the body kind've twitch downward. Reminiscent of how cat worked on the corpse that gave you stoplight in yume nikki. Let's interact to make sure there's not some grim effect based reminder of this whole horrible area...

..Yep. Viscera the effect. I am speechless. Let's take a look. A brief note before we dive into madness is viscera refers to the soft internal organs of organic creatures, particularly the intestines. I'm guessing it'll just be sabitsuki as a meat monster or something. Or it'll pull the wool over my eyes and launch me into a nightmare event. It makes sabitsuki have a giant hole in her stomach. Shift makes her try to put her intestines back in. JESUS CHRIST.

Well, it's no blood mouth or blood-room feat. red film. Let's go look at the other rooms. I'm sure none of them are tooooo horrible. The other door in the first area with the robot gate leads me to the other end of the mouth ghost room in the meatcave. I realize keeping up with my made up names is hard but I don't wanna look up the fan assigned names lest I spoil something for myself. In the second area of meatcave I find a second robot gate, more "developed" looking. Let's take a look. (come on peaceful white area come on come on come on)

Sure enough. Same area in fact, I missed the second robot gate there my first time through. Back to meatcave. I explore a bit and find two giant piles of meat with mouths sticking out at random angles surrounded by mouth ghosts. NOOOOOO THANK YOU SIR. I'll be back for you later. Back to some of the other doors. The one other door I think. Maybe I'll go in after. May as well get this done with.

Annd we're back in shallow meatcave where the exploding woman event is. I head back in and go to tumor mouth gate thing. I've got a thing about tumors and cancer too, by the way. This game isn't pullin no punches. (But secretly inside I fear that after I explore this, all of the really scary stuff will be gone and I will only have tame things from there on. I guess there's really the red film areas. Maybe viscera can get through them? Hmmm.)

I dive in (after trying to make excuses for not doing it for a few minutes, and doing stuff I'd put off (which reminds me, I need to put the clothes in the dryer) for a little bit) and....

...It leads to vanilla mouth town. I'm.... kind've dissapointed. Oh well. I also didn't explore mouth town as thoroughly as I thought. I'm gonna mess with those things a bit later however, and test some hanging theories I have to finish this one off. Not the red film rooms = Viscera though, I've had plenty of excitement for tonight. I head to the giant eye mural in the basement area of the telephone pole world, and realize I forgot to whack that sucker with a steel pipe (I think.). Also worth trying the whistle too. Nothin. I'm sure there's some way to get it to do something, the music cut out here, and that's always a sign of something. Maybe it's just an important part of the game from sabitsuki's perspective.

Onward to the white world with marching injured women. Yeah yeah scary plant place you're nothing now that I've braved meatca- hmm. A door I never entered. I find myself in a place with heart monitors choked by vines and a vined up nurse. Also a vined up shack. In I go. I end up in a place not unlike the vined up area from before, with a single notrust monster girl there. I'm beginning to think they're symbolic, rather then an actual person sabitsuki knew. They seem to show up in a lot of different areas. One of the doors in this area has purplish vines coming out of it. In I go. The area has been choked over entirely with vines, all of the girls from the previous area are gone, presumably dead. A lot of the plants have grown and turned purple. Some are emitting flowers or fruit or something. I get the gas mask effect from a smoking plant. It... puts a gas mask on you.

I look around more and find myself in a tentacle world. Maybe the plants turn into the tentacles? Wierd. Maybe the tentacles are plants all along. Anyway, here we are in tentacle hell. Let's take a swing around. There are also a few notrust monsters around. I find a mass of tentacles and interact and it takes me back to the tentacle area I knew already. Back to the nexus to explore plant land more.

I go into the door that isn't purple vined and seemingly find the previous viney area without any girls in it. Hmmm. The area is mazelike and not terribly noteworthy. I find my way out into a new area, coming out of an overgrown shack with two of the little tooth people nearby. Odd. I find my way to a field of flowers and interact with the central one, and it teleports me back to the grown over islands. Back to the nexus again. Ooooone more run through of it.

I find a giant plant feeding out of a water bin. there's a door behind it. I test handgun and whistle, nothin. Steel pipe time. I bash the plant and hear a muffled "yip" noise that usually happens. I think I accidentally killed someone behind it. Whoops. I hammer the various bushes and kill all of em, but nothing. Hmm. I exist the room and try to talk to the person in the plant... ...But she's still dead. A mystery for another day. I find nothing else in the area, but decide to explore the area where I found the flower field that teleported me back to the plant islands. I explore a bit and find the ghost effect near a giant planty shrine. It turns you into a ghost, go fig. Pressing shift turns you invisible. If it's anything like yume nikki this also keeps hostile NPCs from getting at you. Handy. At any rate nothing much else is there. The white tooth guys and the greyish tooth guys seem to be mostly splitting up, you'll find them at the opposite ends of flower fields and such. Curious.

So that's that for today. Excitement rounded off with a trip back to the "more or less" mundane. We're up to 21 effects, and if my pre game play research is right there's 3 more before the endings are unlocked. Still not sure where rust is, and no I won't read spoilers on how to activate it. 

murh

[TSTwizby]

Spoiler: Question for Seriyu (click to show/hide)

I can't quite tell based on your posts... on the one hand, you  never mention it outright I think, but on the other you talk about things that are related to it. Have you found the parade ward in the hospital?

[Seriyu]

Spoiler: .flow spoilers (click to show/hide)

If by parade ward you mean the place with a bunch of people marching to the left, with a bunch of puddles of water/blood/whatever, then yes. There's also a black haired woman, the type in the meatcave, collapsed on the ground there, with people crowded around, I'm gonna be checking that out with the whistle in this next coming update tonight, and see if it does anything interesting, even if it doesn't open up a new area persay.

[Lectorog]

Many find the viscera effect to have a cute animation. Don't you?

I found the end of .flow too enjoyable to be as disturbing as some as the unexpected events that occur. Kind of like how I found Yume Nikki's end to be very satisfying, but many people don't.

I envy you, Seriyu. I started using the wiki when I had about half of the effects. I am not good at exploration.

[Seriyu]

I'd just like to say, making the text perfectly white like that is fine for those of you that can't stand spoiler tags/short spoilers.I just like using the spoiler tags.

Spoiler: .Flow spoilers (click to show/hide)

I'll be honest, for a person putting their intestines back into a gaping hole in their torso, it is kind've cute.

Kind've an "oh that's not supposed to be there huh well let's put it b-hmm well whatever". The relaxed demeanor about it, in hindsight, does kind've disarm it.

EDIT: Note, no flow update tonight. Couldn't find out where I needed to be, and it's late. Tomorrow.

[Seriyu]

Once more.

Spoiler: Flow/Yume nikki spoilers. Many much text. (click to show/hide)

Since I skipped yesterday we'll jump right into the attempt to get into the red film areas with Viscera. But the school first. Because the darkened hospital area (which I've now noticed has "parade" above the elevator door on your way in, I guess that area is the parade ward?) is scary.

On my way through the meathook area I notice the nurse has gone missing from the zombie doctor room. Maybe because I killed her? Why is she persistant? Huh.

I head to the school and the Viscera does not puncture the red film at all. Just gets dispelled like anything else. HMMM. Time to try to find that white area again. See if I can't follow up on those theories at least. As I head out of the school, in the mini dock hell area, the giant eye monster thing has closed his eye. It ends up looking like a giant red closed mouth with no eyes. Huh. Whistle doesn't do anything to him.

On my way exploring around trying to find the white area, I notice an NPC I saw in the bar last time is gone. I'll have to check for her too. She had a pipe too, maybe there's something going on there, or maybe an effect. As a note the music in the bar is pretty awesome.

After much wandering I still can't seem to find the white area. Maybe it's only accessible during certain times? Maybe it's locked off now that I've gotten the whistle? There were black haired ladies in there though. Was hoping the whistle would do something unique to one of them. I continue the search.

Still nothing. I dive into the eye area to take a look around. I have a terrible sense of direction.

SUCCESS! It was actually in plant area all along. Now let's go find that collapsed lady. I have a couple of things I want to try.

Neither the whistle nor viscera do anything. Luckily I'm not quite out of ideas, but almost. I also notice the collapsed lady has a bit of blood on the "bottom" of her sprite. Maybe a more accurately recalled death rather then the one in meatcave which had a lot of blood around it? Two seperate deaths? She's replacing normal people with black haired people in her mind? Who can say.

Buuut whistle does nothing to the black haired lady in the bed. I am officially out of ideas again. I suppose I could explore the ruined underwater palace some more next time. Maybe I missed some stuff there. Maybe the whistle interacts with the cage inhabitants. Also considering going back to the teacher with the little girl peaking out from behind him that laughed off the steel pipe and whistling at him.

So yeah. For those of you that've been watching and know the game well, feel free to drop hints. If it gets so bad that I've gone a few updates without reasonable content because I just don't know what to do, I'll probably look up something to get me jump started again. I can and will answer questions in the thread if my own area names have been confusing you.

EDIT: Nevermind, I now know the general area I need to be. Specifics, not so much, so.

[Seriyu]

One more flow update because seriously the last one was horrid.

Spoiler: .flow yume nikki spoilers etc (click to show/hide)

OKAY. Two effects we're missing. One is in a maze more or less, and another is in a jail, dunno the specific location. LET'S GET GOING.

I head into the neon suburbs (which I found out, neon suburbs fan name is "rave maze") and find the cat effect, which was one I was missing, but didn't know existed. Maybe I just missed it in the list. Pressing shift turns you into a cat, with a meowing sound effect.

I come to the cliff again, and think, hmmm.... Let's take a shot at this. I equip the witch effect, and fly off the rightmost point of the cliff. She takes off into the air and flys around while nice music plays and little neon butterflies skitter about. I hit esc and it takes me back. An homage to yume nikki, probably.

Onward, however. I find the way into the city, and go to a particular spot in the curtain looking things. Press a and whoop, I'm taken to a roof of the neon city. Teleport maze it seems like. (I'll admit it, I looked up the wiki info for this one. The spot is barely noticible.)

We teleport for a while and find a little neon man thing. Giving us the psychadelic effect! Making her glow like a neon light. Pressing shift changes the patterns. There are some neat ones, like pure black with dim blue eyes, and one that makes her look kinda.... rusty. Huh.

Anyway, onward to the underwater prison.

We wander about a bit, (And see a shadowy figure duck behind a pillar, huh) and find a room, Heading straight up, into darkness, we find a corpse. Interacting, corpse effect, Turns you blue and makes you look kind've rotten. No shift effect. Let's take a look at an ending while we're here. (I know, there's more then one. Three I think?).

We wake up. She still doesn't want to go outside. And nothing's on the balcony. Wait.

We're still missing one. DAMNIT. Okay, well, I know where to get it at least. To the eight bit world. We head right through the trees, eventually finding a path to the overworld. More right, we find a set of ruins, and enter it. Go down some stairs, and hey, it's a dungeon maze, ala old timey RPGs. Neat.

We head down, and down, and down. We eventually find a TV sitting on the floor in the ancient ruins. O... kay. TV effect! Turns Sabitsuki's head into a TV. Shift, dissapointingly, does not turn the TV on. Oh well. Time to wake up for the last time.

[spoiler=Double spoilers, for you people that read the entire thing but still don't want to see the ending for some reason.]She opens the door. Walks outside, onto another balcony, looks like the one the giant "realistic" teacher was on. A pause. You hear the wind blowing. The screen goes black. A dull thud, and.... two blood spots on the ground, with two black haired women in the corners of the screen. Basically yume nikki's ending.

Spoiler: Let's do the second ending too whynot. (click to show/hide)

We go back to sleep. There's not gonna be any good ending, we'll just play the game forever. Naw. We enter the dream bedroom. The tower of the computer has a green light on it. Hmmm... We use the computer. The interface appears. A center marking has appeared on the little map.We walk to it, interact. "Drop all?" "Yes.". We lose all our effects. The red film appears again, and receeds. We try to wake up. A blackish grey film appears, obstructing our view. We go to the door, and leave. We walk to the same balcony, but one of the gas mask maid things from the club is there. She walks towards Sabitsuki. And it fades to black. A maid is pictured carrying sabitsuki to some unknown place. End.

Spoiler: Second half because I am bad at spoiler tags. (click to show/hide)

Well. I tell ya what, I'm gonna try to do a bit of "post game" stuff. I know where to go and all, so whynot, right? Maybe I'll even finish tonight!

We dump all our effects in the computer. We use the computer yet again. We are now rust, Sabitsuki, only slightly pale, and far more detailed. You can see creases in her clothes and such. When she moves, her eyes glow. The music has changed to be significantly more unsettling. In the dream room, the computer is completely gone. Her nexus has become red and yellow, as if under intense pressure. We head to the school first. In some previously explored areas, little black devil things are blocking passage. If we touch them, Rust is damaged slightly. She'll die if that happens to many times. She will rust away.

As we wander we see more of the little demon things, some of them are red, like the monsters in the mouth world. Mouth world might represent whatever is causing her to cough up blood? Who knows. They're prone to immense bursts of speed from time to time, meaning if one is around you long enough, you're probably going to take a hit eventually. It is inevitable.

We eventually end up at the school. We head into the basement. To the room where the red film was at. We enter the door. We hear a giggle.

Inside the room is a giant mouth affixed to the wall, not unlike the posters with the open mouths. It has something we want. We walk up, and interact. An empty text box appears, and a loud laughing noise is heard as we're booted out of the room. Next, to the heat maze.

We find the thing in the tube. We walk up. stop for a moment. Then turn around and walk down the hallway. The maze has changed, and it eventually leads us to an endless stairway. We navigate this, and head into a mechanized arae. Robotic spider things sit, deactivated. We come to a giant fortress like object. We enter. To find yet another small maze. We find a battered Sabitsuki in an enclosure, holding hands with nothing (this is partially because I didn't discover this area before. Usually a little dude witha diving helmet is there with her.) We come upon a giant glass tube with a gigantic sabitsuki in it.

Another empty text box.

Now, finally, to that darkened hospital.

There are a couple of devils in the hallway leading to the door, I walk through them. By this point Sabitsuki's face is torn open, revealing that she is a little devil monster underneath it all. The end of the hallway contains a giant bloody gash. We enter.

We end up in that enormous bloody room that caused the second "wake up" event. Time to find out what's in there.

We end up in the meat cave, the room before the giant woman. ALl of the smaller women explode in our presence. We walk into the giant woman room.

Her stomach is already burst open, there are heart monitors on the side, and the music is a frantic heartbeat noise. We approach the gash, interact. The final empty box.

[spoiler=Rusting Away]We get up. More blood has appeared on the wall of the room. We activate the computer, one last time. In the dream bedroom, there's an elevator where the computer was. We enter.

The elevator falls to the bottom of the shaft. Like with the darkened hospital. However, at the bottom, the word above the door says "Rust". Instead of "Parade". No turning back now at any rate.

We enter. A hallway with a devil in it. We take the hit. We enter the door at the end of the hallway.

The hallway has gone from white to pink. Two devils. Take two hits.

The next room, the hallway is red, and the floor has little mouths on it. Three devils. Three hits.

Next, the mouths have become bloody sabitsuki faces. Four devils. Four hits.

Final, the room has turned into a meat wall, along with the head stalks you see in the bloody mouth area. Five devils. Five hits.

The door at the end of the hallway is a hole, rather then a door. We enter.

Inside is Sabitsuki, attached to the wall via meaty blocks. By now we look like a torn up version of Sabitsuki, including little teeth and horns poking out from under the torn face. We have a pipe. We smack sabitsuki several times, until it cuts to black. There's a special sound for sabitsuki being hit by the pipe.

We wake up in the real world. Leave the room. We're standing on the balcony. A gas mask maid appears. Sabitsuki turns to it. Smiles. And attacks it, presumably. You hear a yelping noise. It's revealed sabitsuki had her legs sawed off by the weapon the maid had. The maid looks none to happy about this, obviously. She carries sabitsuki off, as in the second ending. Near the end, you see sabitsuki sitting without legs. This continues for a moment, then the red film suddenly appears, and the game laughs. Then the credits roll. Sabitsuki walks by various sprites in the game, while she has headphones on, including the effects and little devils, I called them meat men in the mouth area. Then it gives you the real ending screen.

Extra stuff tomorrow! There's a few interesting bits I missed that I'd like to explain. Maybe... one interesting bit, actually. I don't promise every little thing in the game, but there's some neat bits. Also the final theorycrafting bit, including my opinion on how the story looks. It's more clear cut then yume nikki, but that's not saying much.

[Lectorog]

Overall, did you enjoy .flow or Yume Nikki more? Just curious, now that you've recently finished one.

[Seriyu]

I'll be covering it more in depth in the final update, but I'll go ahead and give a quick answer here.

Spoiler: Yume nikki/.Flow spoilers (click to show/hide)

Overall, I'd say I enjoyed .flow more. Yume nikki is by no means a bad game, but it was significantly less plot heavy, and I almost feel like the ending detracts from it, now that I've played .flow, because nothing in yume nikki, (Besides maybe uboa) in the dreams comes across as particularly traumatic, 100% of the time, a ton of people find kyukyu-kun cute, for instance, wheras in flow the fact that she's coughing up blood is a pretty universal sign that something is wrong, not just in the dream world, and gives the ending a bit more weight, because you can at least see it coming, if you look ahead, and it feels justified.