![]() ![]() Choke Holds: Can be used on echos to kill/knock them out from behind.Casual Interstellar Travel: A unique example where this is not combined with Faster-Than-Light Travel people casually have their ships plot courses to other stars, lay down in cryogenic beds, and wake up decades - or in En's case a century - later.Both interior and exterior areas force En to find a way down. Within the pillars are the Palace interiors. Descending reveals that those cubes are only the tops of ancient interconnected pillars that are falling apart from age. The surface is covered in large, immaculately-white cubes of uniform size. It still manages to keep up with the glamorous Scenery Porn of the rest of the game, though. Bleak Level: Oblivion, the fourth level, uses a mostly black color scheme, is not very well-lit, relying on eerie blue torches and your suits flashlight functionality to let the player see more than 5 feet in front of them and has the feeling of wandering through a tomb of sorts, with coffin and crypt-like structures everywhere.Whoever built it clearly checked out a long time ago. Beautiful Void: The Palace is breathtakingly beautiful, and absolutely empty of anything other than homicidal clones.The game is doing this to you, constantly studying and analyzing your own playstyle to make the enemies use it against you. Beat Them at Their Own Game: Inverted.The Bad Guy Wins: Everything En does ultimately leads her to fulfil "Gramps's" prophecy.Because she realized she had come "full circle" following her grandfather's machinations, her entire motivation in the game is to revive Foster. She manipulated Foster into helping her escape her grandfather. After that point, he doesnt really make any more skeptical comments regarding the mission to bring Foster back. En calls him out on it, and he can't readily respond to that. Skeptic No Longer: After En is separated from the Foster cube, an upset London lets it "slip" that he actually does think the Palace can bring Foster back, or at least that he considered it on a subconscious level.This might be due to him being a capped AI. of a ship Foster used to travel around in when he was alive and who is currently assisting you because he believes it's what Foster wanted, staunchly refuses to believe the Palace can bring Foster back from the dead, despite its Eldritch Location status and all the other freaky things it can do. Arbitrary Skepticism: London, the A.I.En comes to the conclusion that London is one such capped AI, due to his lack of faith that uncapped AI are said to possess. This ultimately turns out to have been unnecessary, as uncapped AI turned out to be universally benevolent. There was a period of humanity where A.I.s were "capped", meaning their intelligence was purposely limited to avoid a Turned Against Their Masters situation.En, instead, thinks that the scenario was set up by ancient humans with god-complexes putting the lower castes through the gauntlet with a promise of a reward at the end. London believes that the blackout cycle, the lethal Echoes, and the black "manifest corruption" indicate that The Palace AI is malfunctioning due to its tremendous age.And on top of all that, London's first words to En upon her awakening from stasis is that everything she knows is now gone because she chose to clock out for a century. The Palace is described by London as a relic of a bygone age where "corporate houses" would nonchalantly strip-mine entire planets. A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.: The universe of ECHO is extremely vague the only exposition is En and London playing Misery Poker: En's harsh upbringing as a Resourceful and indigent travels supported only by gambling, London's dead-end existence as a ship's AI in a universe where "uncapped" A.I.s are apparently benevolent deities.En thinks that it was built by some ancient group of humans who designed it as a rat-race, purely for their own entertainment. Absent Aliens: You'd be forgiven for thinking the Palace is an ancient alien ruin of some kind, but there's no evidence it wasn't constructed by humans.She was genetically engineered to be one, in fact. En only avoided this fate because Foster helped her escape, Taking the Bullet for her in the process - so she "translated" him in her place. ![]() And the Resourecefuls that meet Gramps' standards, which included En for being able to escape, are "translated" - a process that everyone who doesn't share his religious convictions would consider no different than death. When En managed to run away, he hired Foster to apprehend her and bring her back. Abusive Parents: "Gramps" put En and the other Resourcefuls through Training from Hell as part of his religious goals involving The Palace.
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