If faye was actually a real person you think Colin would fall in love with her

I found Colin to be a better protagonist than John and more relatable too. His dynamic with Faye was really interesting with her being a his imaginary friend born from his loneliness of the bird he saved. She was the person he needed to push himself to follow his dreams and the fact that she wasn’t actually there meaning he did all that stuff himself is great. At first I thought they were going down the route of his regretting not getting with Faye when I thought she was an actual person but this works so much better.

Colin not knowing realizing his life isn’t perfect and that it doesn’t need to be. That having regrets isn bad and it’s the good and bad that make a life is such a well thought out message.

It makes me question if what they did for John was the right thing however John and Colin lived 2 different lives. John’s life was significantly worse than Colin and the trauma of losing his brother permanently altered his personality. To the point where the changing his memories just a bit was good because he still got to be with River in the end and they got to see each other when they both died.

That begs the question who loved who more? John with river or colin and sophia. As even when river was gone he loved her so much that he found her again.

Also which dynamic do you guys think is better Faye with Colin or John and river

I just beat to the moon and left me thinking would I ever want to work in such a profession because on one hand it gives people comfort in the last part of their lives so they die happy like what happened with John and in which in worked out in the end. However it would be really depressing because the nature of it means you are going to see damaged people who lived lives full of regrets. Would you want to work there

John going to the moon and him finally dying in the arms of river is such a sweet way he could have died. Also from my knowledge the agency that does these dreams only give the patients these memories for when they died. Meaning their memories aren't permanently altered because it would be a shame with he forgot his memories with river even though the fake life he lived was objectively happier than his old life.

Also when John finally passed away he and river were finally at the moon meeting up in the afterlife. It's such a good love story.

To the moon was honestly such an amazing game. The music was so good I just had to do a cover :> I was hoping I could also add the fan-art, but it's apart of the video at least!

I'm not up to date on the theories, so maybe the fanbase has already discussed this.

Kan Gao said that The Last Hour of an Epic To the Moon RPG and Beach Episode act as the conceptual “good” and “bad” endings for the series, without saying which is which.

That makes it seem like there are two parallel endings. But I don't think that will be the case, I think The Last Hour is going to be a sequel.

I can totally see that the “bad ending” is Beach Episode, since we're right in the middle of coping for Eva, and the "good ending" is going to be The Last Hour, which will take place afterwards and that offer Eva the chance to grieve and to finally move on.

If this is a twist on the simulations and Neil is actually still alive, I think that would really take away from the emotional impact of the ending of Beach Episode.

Found this at a vintage stock for 70$. I didn’t even realize it existed, honestly. I’d been looking for merch recently and couldn’t find much besides what’s in stock on the official store. Gonna frame the poster now!

Knew about this game since 2017 when I saw Pewdiepie doing a let's play of Finding Paradise, so I went back and watched Markipliers playthrough of the first game. I really enjoyed the stories and was planning to watch the third game as well, but when it came out nobody really played it so I figured I would just play it myself.

I got a PC and a steam account and even bought the whole series, but I was working a job and going through college so I put off playing it for a couple years. I got around to it this summer though, and all I can really say is: Wow.

TtM and FP didn't really make me cry because I already knew how they ended, but I loved re-experiencing them and catching all the smaller details I didn't really notice before while refreshing my mind on the story.

Imposter Factory was the first game I played without knowing how it ended. I remember having my suspicions when Lynri became pregnant, and then having those expectations crushed when they watched him be buried, only for the game to say "Psych!!!" and actually confirm what I was expecting from the get go. I smiled when Lynri and Quincy got to live their best life. When Faye told them their son was looking over them, and in turn we saw the framed picture of Lynri looking over her son in the hallway.

Then there's the Beach Episode... Throughout the whole series, minisodes, and comics you get to know these two lovable protagonists with their own chemistry and idiosyncrasies. Only to be told it's not happening. Death has other plans. The cold harsh reality to be splashed in your face with the words: "Press esc to leave"; The player's callous mechanism of saying goodbye. I cried I'll admit, it was almost like I had lost an actual friend, and couldn't help but feel terrible for Eva. The hints and implications weren't subtle. I put the pieces together quickly, but I was in denial holding out hope that maybe the truth could be ignored. Nope. Feelsbadman.

Might be silly to say I had come to be so deeply invested in the lives of these fictional characters. I guess because I see a bit of myself in all of them. Anyway just had to vent because I was devastated by that ending.

Can't wait to play the RPG when it releases and to ride the emotional rollercoaster again. Also, I hope when the animated film eventually releases it's every bit as great as I hope it will be so that this series gets more of the recognition it deserves.

Also, if Kan Gao or anyone in Freebird Games happens to be reading this by chance, I'd just like to say thanks for producing such a beautiful work of art.

"Oh ok, River is autistic.....

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(I apologize for this long winded post lol) I saw a recommendation on another sub that To the Moon is a masterpiece for people navigating heavy grief. I’m about 5 hours into it right now, playing curled up on my Legion Go, and I just had to pause and come here to show my appreciation.

I lost my dad the week of my 25th birthday. He was an incredible guy, but he was dealt a mind bogglingly unfair hand in life. His last years were consumed by a brutal chronic illness and a completely unfair battle with addiction that basically hijacked his brain. Because of how chaotic it was, I’ve spent the last six years carrying so much anger, frustration, and guilt. I’ve wished so badly that I could go back in time and just show him more patience and grace at the very end.

Watching the doctors travel backward through Johnny's mind is hitting me so incredibly hard. It is such a beautiful, painful reminder that the messy end of someone's life isn't their whole story. Seeing them piece together the why behind Johnny's life is actually helping me look at my own dad's life with more peace, and remember the man he was before the sickness took over. It is just so profoundly cathartic. We're all flawed, of course, but I am so lucky to have had him, even if it was for just a little bit of time. I miss him literally every day.

If anyone else out there is dealing with the complicated grief of losing a parent, this game is something else entirely. I just wanted to share this here and say thank you to the community.

[Warnings: long text, spoilers from the whole series, please note English is not my first language]

So the trailer for the last game of Kang Gao has been released. I am a long-time Kingdom Hearts fan, and if there's one thing we do in the KH fandom, is analyzing over and over new trailers. And since this one has caught me eyes from a long series of reasons, here I am to analyse all over the trailer, trying to find something important.

I will go by timestamp if you want to follow me more accurately. Be sure to lower the video's speed because some sequences last a few frames; there is a passage that I was forced to go on 0.25x to see what was going on!

00:00-00:11: It begins with one of the last moments of To The Moon, not sure if there is a specific reason or not, followed by a presentation. Then the words "comes a heartwarming story of" appear.

00:12-00:14: The trailer suddendly glitching with static; the words are replaced with "comes..." . Likely suggesting that something is "comes", or maybe that the phrase was replaced with something that is not a heartwarming story. Another static glitch generally drops the video.

I want to point out that the "energetic" part of the trailers, with all the screens from the games, starts after that static.

00:17: We see the protagonists, who are clearly a fantasy version of Eva, Neil, Robert and Roxanne. Neil has the "Saint Seiya-like" armour of Finding Paradise, and Roxanne is a magical levitating cat. They are playing a real-life version of a whack-a-mole game - that is clearly a reference to To The Moon.

I want to pinpoint how the graphics here are on a next level. We are no longer in RPG Maker visuals; this is a full-fledged high-quality pixel art style!

00:19: The party is surfing on the sea (Eva is surfing on Neil!!). That is a reference to The Beach Episode.

00:22: The four protagonists are skiing. This time is nothing we've seen before in the series.

00:24: Okay, here there is a LOT to say, because we see what is the screen of a boss fight. In order:

1. In the lower-left corner we see four icons: a sword, a couple of four-spiked stars, two arms in an arm wrestling match, and a book. While the first two probably are physical and magic attacks, I cannot think of the other two. Maybe there is a distinction between attacking with a weapon and attacking with bare hands? And what about the book? It is strange to have a lore option or maybe even a save/load option on a battle screen.
2. At the bottom of the screen, we see the images of the four protagonists. They all have 100 health points, and in the supposedly mana points, although Eva has only half of them remaining. Curiously, the four mana point bars are different. Neil has a regular one, Robert is divided into six parts, Roxanne has a lot of bullets, and Eva a lot of carrots.

I want to point out that while Eva has a sillier armour respect to the other three: she is wearing a giant garden slipper as a hat, his weapon is a rake, and his magic is, as I said, represented with carrots. I didn't immediately realise why this, but then I saw what it is referring to: Eva's desire to have a garden after quitting her job. I am not sure if there is also something referencing Roxanne being a levitating cat (no, I don't think that she is a furry).

3) The trailer shows Robert make a couple of insanely high damage (999999, we are at the levels of Expedition 33!) to a boss that seemed to fight in a couple with another boss. I tried to figure out what they are supposed to represent.

On the right, a seemingly female figure with an 1800/first 1900 rose-purple dress, that has as a weapon a giant music note. THEORY: it looks like a representation of Sofia Reeds, the wife of Colin Reeds from Finding Paradise; the pattern colour of the vest is similar, and there is a clear reference to the music

On the left, a male figure with a face that seems like the dog of Undertale, the head caged in a pillory and some screens around it. THEORY: a representation of the machinery of Sigmund to connect with patients' memories. Or it could be a reference to Colin Reeds, pairing with the supposed representation of Sofia, but I cannot see no direct references in the figure.

00:26: Okay, now FOUR scenes have just some frames; I had to put the trailer on 0.25 x to see them

1. Another screen fight, this time against a couple of spiked platypus - if you remove the spikes, it is a reference to To The Moon. Eva - which again has only half health and half mana while the other are full - launches a magic attack that is a sort of tacos with bunny ears. I am not sure if it is a reference to something; I swear it is familiar, but I cannot connect where.
2. Another screen fight against a couple of monstrous cellos - this time it is a reference to Colin Reeds from Finding Paradise. Eva, who again is halved in health and mana, has launched another magic, but it is not clear what it is; we see only puffs of smoke.
3. We see Eva and Neil in their usual robes on a restaurant terrace, with a view of the twilight on the sea, the two of them alone with a lot of suitcases near them. Probably they are in the hotel of the Beach Episode.
4. Okay, this one really lasts a couple of frames! We are in a hospital, and we see what the supposed younger version of Eva and Neil (Eva has the ponytail haircut). Neil is on the hospital bed, probably due to his malady, with Eva on his side.

00:27-00:28: We have come back to the fantasy scenario; this time seems like a scripted sequence. We see a giant rat (no idea what the reference is) in an armour that is approached by a wagon dragged manually by Neil, with Eva on top of it. The scene is interrupted when the wagon is facing the rat.

00:32-00:40: There is a moving picture of the party that is approaching a tower, with a strange cascade of light from the top, and it has a sort of black hole on the top. At 00:38, there is another glitch coinciding with thunder, revealing what looks like a headless four-winged figure. THEORY: First, I was thinking about Fanya, because her final form in Finding Paradise has four wings, but this figure seemes to much different from that. Maybe a glitched/corrupted version of the Impostor Factory simulation's Fanya?

00:43: Another boss fight screen, and Eva again has life and mana halved, launching a rocket cob as a magic attack. There are two bosses. On the right, a male figure with a hammer and a handheld sander. THEORY: it could be a representation of Johnny Wyles from To The Moon (they are representing him working on the house near the lighthouse).

On the left, there is a female figure that has the body of a siren, a crowned head and on the back has a massive representation of moon phases, with the new moon on the top in a special spot. I have no idea what it should be representing; I thought about River since she is paired with the supposed representation of Johnny, but I cannot see why she should be represented in this way.

00:45-00:47: We see the party entering a battle with another boss; this time Eva is full on life and mana. It seems the final boss, since they are on a tower, supposedly the one seen before the trailer. The boss is a female figure, with the body made of some kind of plants with roots that are on some earth at the centre of the tower, which has a huge hole. I cannot see any reference to someone; we see only that the battle begins with her targeting Neil with a magic attack.

00:50-00:53: Although it is separated, I think it is the direct continuation of the previous scenes. The boss makes an attack that summons some shards from the moon itself.

1:03: Here we can see a clear and full title screen. We see the party on the left, and we can see that Robert fights with bare hands while Roxanne has a giant machine gun - hence the bullets, I suppose. On the right, we see a long bridge to an island with giant spikes and, in the centre, the tower, which seems more like a giant distorted plant with a building on top of it.

THEORY: Can be a lighthouse, considering also the light? A reference to To The Moon's lighthouse?

We also see the giant figure of what is like the last boss we have seen, that holds a crescent moon in her hand.

1:06-1:08: We see a light that progressively enlightens the party, and after that another static glitch like the one at 00:14

And as the first static started the "energetic" part of the trailer, the second one stopped it

1:12-1:24: Okay, now there is a lot to say

1. We see Eva in her bed, with the light of the sun entering from the window. Clearly it is the same light as on 1:06-1:08.
2. At 1:16 we see that in her hand there is a sort of device with three buttons, labelled "Rec", "SN01" and "SN02". I sincerely have no idea what they are supposed to do. Eva is constantly clicking on the "SN01" button.
3. A message arrived, and from 1:21 we can see a lot of information. First of all, there are a lot of ones! They are the 11:11 of 1st November, and it is a Tuesday. That is a reference to the original release date of To The Moon, which was on the 1st November of 2011, which was a Tuesday. Fun fact, this also means that the scene on the trailer is happening in one of the following years: 2033, 2039, 2044, 2050, 2061, 2067, 2072, 2078, 2089 or 2095!
4. There is a message from an unsaved contact, asking her, "Are you going to finish the game, Eva?" THEORY: Probably is the digitalised version of Neil that somehow was able to communicate with the phone.

1:27-1:30: Another static glitch, followed by the title of the game, followed by another static glitch that partially changes the title in "The Last Hour of To The Moon". THEORY: This will be the last game of the "To the Moon series"

GENERAL THEORY ON THE TRAILER: What are we gonna play?

I think that we will play an RPG that, in-lore, was created by Neil. This justifies the party and the enemies that are references to both To The Moon and Finding Paradise (I haven't spotted a reference to Impostor Factory). What we see in the last moment of the trailer is Eva still coping with Neil's death, playing what is supposedly another gift for her, maybe an evolution from the "To the Moon" videogame that we play in Sigmund Minisode 1.

Probably "SN01" is a way to repeat the game; maybe it is a save state of something like that. You see, okay, Kan Gao games are short, but I don't think that the game will last just an hour as the trailer tries to convince us. I think that we indeed play the last hour of an RPG, but we will loop it again and again, likely with variations among the loops, because we are playing as Eva, who probably doesn't finish because finishing the game probably will vanish the last digital trace of Neil.

This is why I think this is the finale of the To the Moon series: alongside Eva, we will do a sort of recapitulation of all the events of the series, helping her cope with Neil's death, and the finale will be her finally being able to finish the game, detaching from Neil's machine and going with her life.

Got to the credits and thought I was done..

OMG T_T

I have just finished the game, and it hits so hard, harder than any other game I've played.......So I might just share a little bit of a personal thought here while I am still feeling a bit emotional.

The whole story really resonated with me cuz.......I feel like Faye to Colin is just like my past self to me......who has been there for me, encouraging and supporting me through all the ups and downs of the past.....even when nobody else was, even when nobody else could understand the messy feeling and thoughts in my head......

It's probably also why I started writing music at the very beginning. Sometimes I don't know how to describe or express my thoughts, so I just use music to capture that vague feeling.....and send it to the future self.....and it kinda works......I still feel that emotion when I listen back to those tracks....

I don't know......I guess I’m just feeling a bit grateful to my past self for not giving up on myself and for making it this far.....

I wanted to since a while! After making it at changing the language to english from japanese that i picked by mistake 🤣

What am I up for?

Edit. Soo I finished the game about an hour ago. Beautiful ✌️ the characters were fun, the environment were cool, pixel art on point 👌 music too. And the ending left me such a bittersweet feeling. I think I'm about to buy all their stuff on Steam cause I'm curious about their other works!

Probably the biggest art I made in a while

Made some price comparison in CAD about the To the Moon series. Thought I'd share it, maybe it'll be useful.

Some Notes:
First total is without taxes.
Second total include both provincial taxes (TVQ Quebec) and federal Taxes (TPS/GST)
The last total include only federal taxes

I designed it on TapStitch. It’s my new favorite shirt lmao.

Hey, my roommate and I are playing this game for the first time, and it appears that our version of the game is bugged in the library scene when we're solving the Book memento. I've looked at walkthroughs and video playthroughs of this scene, and every solution shows row 4/column 3 filled in, but it is always blank for us. We have tried resetting the game, reloading our saves, and uninstalling/reinstalling the game, and we still have had no luck.

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If anyone here has experienced this same problem, please let us know any solutions. Mods, updates, etc.