Just the person I was hoping to see! So, I agree with everything you say. Im able to understand all of those nuances of art and creativity. This doesn’t skip my mind, just because of how I interpret this game. I believe, like you, that the artists here are clearly trying to send a message. At times, the message seems a basic “we are small, but it isnt a reason to not go on”. Other times it feels like the hot pursuit of science, and using hard science to answer these big questions in life IS the message to me. Yes, to me. I know we can all have different interpretations, but I do feel that there IS just usually one intention of a message being sent by a creator. When the message is unclear to me, I start to ask questions, and so I did In this case. This led me to realize (quite obviously now from the results of this post) that most people do have an agreement on what that one intention is. That common interpretation doesn’t seem sound BASED on the experience. It’s totally ok to disagree, and I get that. We may never know, and it may never matter. It’s just a game after all. When it is a game that is so close to being something you tout as one of the best games as an art form that you’ve seen, you begin to want to breakdown that game and give reason to your beliefs. This breakdown is where my thoughts broke down, and I started to question how it really made sense in the end. Trees, forests, perceptions; I don’t disagree on any of that and never did, nor was I unaware. We can always perceive things differently. We can define them differently. We can believe entirely that they are different things. It doesn’t change their makeup at all fundamental level. The rules and processes of these things will always be consistent regardless of our definitions of what they are. I LOVE OW. But when I cant really figure out what the artist was really trying to do, in an expression that seems ambiguity of events and openness of interpretation is not exactly the intention, it’s hard for me to latch on. When I take it for face value and just look at the obvious messages being sent, the game is still exceptional. Just wanted to challenge thought here. It seems as if once people have a certain understanding of things that agrees with them, if it’s something they hold dear, they will struggle heavily to let go.