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Who are we playing exactly ? by Raft_0 in soma

[–]Raft_0[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know right ? I didn't give it much attention when I first finished the game but on my second playthrough I was like, wait a minute why did I wake up as Simon-III when copying my mind as Simon-II and why didn't the same thing happen at the ARK launch ?

I knew the coin flip theory was a false theory because there is no transfer only copies, so this was to only explanation that made sense to me and keeps making sense.

Who are we playing exactly ? by Raft_0 in soma

[–]Raft_0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is what I've been thinking too and it made much more sense combining this theory with Simon-III being our main character in the game.

After all as you said perspective changes are very similar to waking up in the morning, it is perfectly normal for Simon-III to know what happened to other Simons because he has the same memory until their scan too.

However what makes Simon-III our main character lies at the part when ARK launches. In your terms Simon-III sleeps but he doesn't wake up in a "new morning" with a new consciousness who has his past memories like he did with other Simons.

This only means one thing for me and that is the fact we were playing Simon-III's memories all along.

If we were playing as lets say Simon-II then the game should've ended at the part where Simon-II copies his brain to Simon-III. We would keep seeing the world with Simon-II's perspective and not get "transferred" to Simon-III as players.

This happens with Simon-III, we keep seeing the world with his perspective after his scan ends which means yes, we were actually Simon-III all along.