an fmv of medici "refueling" from lou is played upon entering their room in the hospital. later dialogue from both characters implies that it wasn't consensual
In the ending where milky fuel runs low, it is heavily implied that the two robots remaining at the Milky Fuel Station are being force-fed and made to refuel other robots against their will, which ends up killing them.
Throughout the game’s playtime, there seems to only be crabs and frogs amongst machines- and whilst it’s implied these frogs and crabs go towards making fuel upon being caught and eaten, it’s not shown on screen in animation or art.
Medici and Lou, if i remember correctly, are seen onscreen via cutscene upon entering the backrooms of Gimnon’s Ego Clinic to engage in the closest comparable thing (on account of them being mechanical and surreally morphed but still seemingly vaguely humanoid) to sexual intimacy / penetration. Aside from that, there’s an abundance of artistic nudity, but I wouldn’t much consider it to be similarly sexual.
The only reference anywhere near to the topic of gender in recent memory seems to be referring to Lou’s androgyny, not particularly in a mocking or malicious way. Aside from the way the robots are literally built and how Reiko complains of the lifts, (which is later a shared topic among the mechanic Miya implying he’d like to make them accessible to everybody without much fuss) there isn’t much talk of what gender roles mean to these machines.
The female machines can eat frogs / crabs, and Chen is seen to down some kind of a bottle, but aside from that I don’t actually think they can / need to eat.
The closest thing in this game you’ll find to needles or syringes would have to be the mech parts you can by at Torlop’s Junk Shop over at the Maruya Department Store.
During Chen’s cutscene, he’s seen to begin gargling with a gaping mouth. Its assumed that if these things were to breathe at all, he wasn’t able then. Though otherwise that leads into a new discussion of if they actually can breathe at all.
A couple times some machines ((for example, Reiko)) complain of the legitimate restrictions brought upon them by the lack of an output shaft or desire to have similar builds, Reiko pondering once or twice if she could pay Medici to install one on her, but other than that I wouldnt say so.
While you could try to count Lou, Vis and Medici, the implications of their relationship are considerably vague despite its close nature.
Enusan, Tsuru, Liz, Honda, Miya and Lee are all supposedly faithful to their respective partners as well.
If you count Lee and the murder of his wife, Liz, then yes. Though I’d ask that you take mentally ill lightly, since up til that point he only seemed to be uncomfortable and closed off to your questioning on his knowledge of shadows.
Despite the old ‘New World Freak Show,’ past the point of its reign there doesn’t seem to be much malice in the way of those who retired to the Ego Clinic after the show’s decline.
A lot of social structures shared among people didn’t quite seem to reach down to the sewers, despite the initial hostility or bitterness of its residents. Nobody seems to comment much on weight.
A character's backstory is that they nearly drown but are saved by someone else. The main character is fished out of the sewage running through Garage in the beginning of the game, and has survived. There are many deactivated robot bodies half-sticking out of the water in certain areas, but they presumably died in other ways before being tossed in.
In the ending where milky fuel runs low, two robots at the Milky Fuel Station are made to refuel other robots against their will, until they fall apart.
During Shen’s death scene, his eyes squeeze and pop from the sockets. While it isn’t necessarily gore given he’s debatably mechanical, it is still a bulging pair of eyes.
While it was previously theorised by one who posted the cutscenes for the Ego Clinic before the game’s localisation release that Doku and Bem seemed to be locked in an ‘insane asylum’, it was later proven wrong as the Ego Clinic is just a hideout for them it seems.
Several notes left behind by one of the characters feature suicidal ideation. In the ending where milky fuel runs low, several characters imply they want to die before disappearing.
In the ending where milky fuel runs low, characters slowly begin to die. In-game, they simply disappear after being spoken to, but the ones who don't simply end up breaking down or being forcefully dismantled have dialogue implying suicide.
Hard to say. Spoilers ahead:
Come the opening of the flood gates, Juice disappears, triggering an all time shortage of fuel and a panic amongst machines that leads to mass wipeout of their village. However, an odd ending is triggered by the very end of the game in which you come to a hollow cavern filled with bright teal crystals and the ghost of your partner folded in place. From what I could tell by the end of my playthrough, garage was a simulation of life set in place by a machine that messed with consciousness. It was, by the end of the game, shut down by the mass breakdown of each machine, and you are set free to a grassy plane filled with birds and trees, the only entirely open space in the entire game. This implies to me everybody else locked into garage’s simulation were real living humans too, which leads me to believe they were simply brought back to reality when garage fell apart.
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