Limbo and Inside - A SHARED UNIVERSE?

of all the videos i've ever put out on my channel i think the most important one i ever made was the explanation video i did for play dead's gaming masterpiece inside the overwhelming amount of attention and praise that video got demonstrated that i could do video game analysis and people would consistently pay attention if it weren't for that video i would have never done my analyses of metal gear solid silent hill shadow of the colossus and more given my knack for explaining confusing and mysterious narratives it probably seems strange that four years on i never did a video on play dead's other confusing and mysterious game i am of course talking about limbo i think most of my regular viewers would agree that explaining this game would seem like my bread and butter right and i agree the problem is my regular viewers are also aware that i won't do a video on something unless i can bring something original to the table in regards to limbo i think we're familiar with all the most popular theories there's the theory that the reason why the kid is in limbo is because he and his sister fell from a tree house which is why we see two swarms of flies following the game's end credits which obviously indicates two dead bodies there's also the theory that the kid died in a car crash which is why he smashes through a plane of glass at the end of the game i never wanted to reiterate what everybody else knows so i never bothered to work on a limbo video for some reason though i always thought that my personal theory regarding limbo was more mainstream obviously given the title of this video the theory is that limbo and inside occupy the same universe though people have suggested this possibility i found it intriguing that more people haven't pursued this interpretation it was here that i finally found my reason to talk about this amazing game before i lay out this theory as well as my personal additions to it i want to emphasize something usually when i provide theories about games i only do so when i believe there is indisputable evidence to back up my claims however limbo and inside are not like other games their stories and worlds are presented without any dialogue exclusively with vague and eldritch images there is almost no supplementary material to give context to either game making any canonical explanation impossible due to this my theory regarding both of these games will have an element of head canon to it that my other videos do not with that said i will be backing up some of this headcanon with concrete evidence let's run down the list of similarities between both games i think the most obvious similarity between limbo and inside is the existence of mind controlling worms in limbo once a worm latches onto the boy's head control is wrestled away from the player and the boy runs in the opposite direction and inside we see worms controlling the actions of a pig as well as several worms protruding from the bodies of various test subjects though the mind controlling worms serve a purpose in regards to inside story in that the facility seeks to control all of humanity its relevance to limbo is in question why is a mind controlling worm a core feature of the boys afterlife in limbo beyond that both games feature the same three types of locations a forest a somewhat decrepit city and a facility featuring unbelievably sophisticated technology speaking of unbelievably sophisticated technology why do both games feature the use of water and gravity defiance in their puzzles and why do some of these puzzles seemingly have no technical purpose to the facilities they are housed in such as the placement of the gun turrets or the saw blades or the flying boxes a lot of the time these things only seem to be there for the sake of solving a puzzle also why do both games feature electrical and sonic phenomena what i am referring to are the sonic booms from inside and the rain making machine in limbo i cannot help but link these two things together given the flashes of light they both produce as well like i asked before in regards to the worms why would the boys afterlife in limbo feature one of these machines at all this really puzzles me because i know a lot of people like to say the phenomena in limbo are all linked to the boy's personal fears like the spider bullying from other kids and the like but i failed to see how something as fictional and seemingly purposeless as an indoor rain making machine would be relevant to the boy's life at all it's as mysterious in its purpose as the source of the sonic boom and inside it's as irrelevant to the boy as the mind controlling worm is there's one last piece of evidence that i'd like to cite but before i do i'd like to repeat the core theory i had in regards to inside basically the facility the boy travels through is conducting experiments based around mind control their end goal is to control the global human population and they do this somehow via the hive mind the end of the game seems to be a positive one at first given the fact that the hive mind escaped the facility and now lies under a reassuring beacon of light however i originally proposed that the heavenly light shining on the hive mind was giving us a false sense of security the evidence i cited for this was the hill diorama featuring the same hill we tumbled down and the same ray of light my argument was that because natural light obviously does not work like that the meatball's final resting place was anticipated by the facility and they can continue to do experiments in continuous repetition until they reached their end goal if this doesn't make too much sense please go watch my original video i lay it out in much clearer detail there now the reason why i evoke the diorama is because in limbo we also see the ending of the game prior to reaching it we see the boy walk up to his sister only to be turned away once a worm latches onto his brain in my opinion like the ending of inside limbo's ending seems to be manufactured by some sort of unseen malevolent power think about it why is there a pipe siphoning slugs the first time the boy sees his sister but the next time we see him the pipe is gone when the boy is forced to the left by the slug and we return to the right his sister is gone given the facility's ability to rotate and defy gravity it's certainly possible for certain areas to rotate in and out all this leads me to think that there is some invisible hand orchestrating everything like we saw happen with inside maybe that governing force is the same in both games but how could this be you might ask given that limbo the place not the game is where somebody supposedly goes when they die how could the controlling forces of the facility and inside be the same as the ones in limbo i will answer this question in a moment but first follow my logic here as i said with my original theory for inside the facility's level of control over humanity is so great that even when we thought we escaped from it we never actually did in some way we are always under its control we see the facilities control at its apex in regards to the mind control machines whether it's the wired helmets that attach to people's heads or the pods that brainwash the humans that walk into them once human beings engage with either the helmets or the pods their minds come under complete control by the facility's network now as for the first of the two possibilities i must remind all of you that mind control does not necessarily extend solely to one's consciousness let us not ignore the fact that there is a conscious side and an unconscious side to the human mind what if the facility not only found a way to control human consciousness but unconsciousness as well whether it's in regards to religion or psychoanalytic tradition some believe that when we die we return to a state of permanent unconsciousness when we are born we emerge from a sea of unconsciousness into consciousness and when we die we return to that sea in unconsciousness we dream and that dream takes on areas and forms that we recall from our waking life whether it's when we are alive and we sleep or when we die and eternally dream we see those images in regards to the boy from limbo the images he sees in my opinion seem to reflect the visual motifs we see with inside the areas the worms the water puzzles and gravity puzzles etc as for why this is i offer my theory maybe the control the facility had over people's minds was so great that even when they die they are still somehow under their control maybe the facility found some way to maintain control over humanity even when they died when they're floating in the sea of unconsciousness this possibility is not as crazy as one might think we've seen this very concept in movies like inception and in games like the evil within given the advanced technology we see in the facility in both limbo and inside being able to control the weather gravity the human body and the mind it's not so crazy to me that this omnipresent omnipotent facility could somehow control you beyond the grave even if my theory is not correct i think the concept of being eternally controlled by a malevolent force that you can never escape not even in death is about as terrifying as it gets with the way things are set up in regards to both games i think it would be worthwhile for play dead to pursue such an angle however if they don't i think we can all expect their next game to nonetheless be as brilliant as the first two whenever they decide to you know release it thanks so much for watching if you like this video make sure to give it a like liking the video and sharing the video helps this channel out a lot when you do that it tells the youtube algorithm that not only this video is worth watching but other videos on my channel are worth watching so please consider liking and sharing also if you'd like to see other gaming analysis and speculation click on either of 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Channel: Max Derrat

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020