The thought of losing something can cause us to lose our sense of self. After all, a thought has a tendency to carry you into a place you don’t want to go, and the same goes for a feeling.
A person with self-awareness is able to exercise a little meta-cognition and say, “Hmm… every time my sister calls me and asks for money, I end up drinking a lot of vodkas. That might not be a coincidence,” a person without self-awareness just hit the bottle and doesn’t look back.
Deathloop is a game of survival. No one can die in the game, but when someone does, a very important part of the game’s story is that you will have to save them. So when a person with self-awareness makes the ultimate call to action, they must take action because without them, Deathloop’s story will be over.
In the game, you can save your friends, or even the world. But to do that you must be a Visionary. While you can save your friends, your team, or the entire world, you must be a Visionary to do so. These are the people who take the game into uncharted territory. For example, when Colt calls you and you hear the voice in your head, you will have to go to a certain spot in the island.
You are a Visionary if you are a party-user who can’t remember anything about your past. Or if you are a party-user who can’t remember anything about your past. Or if you can’t remember anything at all. Basically, you have to be able to take action.
There are at least eight Visionaries, and they are called Visionaries for a reason. If you are one of them then you can access a certain area of the island in one of two ways. You can go to the entrance of a certain room, or you can go into the air vents of a certain room.
Each of the eight Visionaries has a key that unlocks certain parts of the island, and they all have a limited number of key-codes. This means that Colt Vahn can only access the Visionary’s key-codes at certain times in the day. Which means he can access the Visionary’s key-codes for two days in a row.
If he knows they’re on the island every day, then he knows that they are there every day. If he doesn’t know that, then he can’t know that they are there. This is called a “dead loop”.
If this is the kind of loop that gets people killed, then this game is a very good idea. It’s so much fun that I’m going to keep playing it. But, since it’s a time loop, there’s a lot of things you have to do to make it work. One of the more useful tools that the developers have is a camera.
So when I hear the word “dead loop,” I think of something like a time loop, where you go through a series of activities all over the place, and you know that you have to do them again tomorrow, and the next day. It’s like you have a huge, slow, steady, clock ticking in your mind.
