Summary
- Radios and phone communication in the game pay homage to developer The Chinese Room's previous title, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
- A Star Trek reference in the game showcases the main characters' love for the franchise, with a humorous mix-up between characters.
- The game features hidden references to literature, football clubs, and political themes, offering players a chance to explore Easter eggs and achievements.
The Lovecraftian oil rig horror game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Still Wakes the Deep is a masterpiece of atmospheric horror. There are so many eye-popping and grotesque envirꦿonment pieces, an⛦d the sections of the Beira D are all incredibly immersive and detailed. The game also features quite a few unexpected Easter Eggs and hidden references.
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It's a relatively short and suspenseful adventure on the North Sea, with not much room for exploration, so the references are well hidden. They're small and scattered everywhere if you know where to look. So here are some of the most interesting ones you can come across.
Some mature anꦛd explicit language will be discussed below.
8 The Radios And Phone Communication Are A Nod To The Chinese Room's Previous Game
One of the most intriguing walking simulators, featuring a very different tone from Still Wakes the Deep, was also made by developer The Chinese Room. That would be 2015's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and it's set nearly a decade after the events of Still Wakes the Deep in 1984.
The main part of the experience in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is that you're alone and the way you're fed information about the story is through echoes, by way of radio and phone calls. The radios you see scattered around the Beira D oil rig look very similar to the model from the previous game, and the phone call communication to progress the story is a callback as well.
7 🎃 A Foul-Mouthed Star Trek Reference🎉
It's clear that both Caz and his pal Roy are Trekkies who like to discuss Star Trek lore. They had a bit of a friendly argument about Roy needing his insulin for his diabetes, and Caz suggested that he should just eat some jam, thinking it's not that big of a deal.
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Roy makes fun of that suggestion by saying he'll phone "Doctor f-ing Spock" and tell him Caz found the cure for diabetes. Except, Roy mixed up the characters Spock and Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, with Caz quickly correcting him and also calling Spock the "pointy-eared c*nt," a funny, foul-mouthed way to differentiate the two.
6 🀅 Fahrenheit 451 And Ful🌠l Fathom Five Literature References
As you might tell from the dialogue example above, Still Wakes the Deep is filled with plenty of excell📖ent written dialogue with a delivery that also feels very natural and organic by all th🦩e voice actors. All great writers are inspired by great literature and there are some Easter egg nods to that in the achievements The Chinese Room implements.
Throughout the game, there will be parts where you have to use a fire extinguisher to put out some fires. Doing so will earn you the 'Fahrenheit 0451' trophy, which is a reference to the 1953 book of the same name by author Ray Bradbury.
Dying five ti𓃲mes to the sea in different locations earns you the Full Fathom Five, a verse from Ariel's Song in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and also the name of a Jackson Pollock painting and a poem by Sylvia Plath (among other pop culture uses).
5 The Soccer ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚꩲᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚTeam Roy Supports Is Also True For His Voice Actor
Football clubs are another topic of conversation between Caz and Roy, with the latter supporting Barnsley F.C. and getting a lot of heat for it. Roy's advice to Caz is that "Life is like football. It's not over until the final whistle." But Caz reminds him that if it's Barnsley F.C., you're screwed to begin with, meaning they're probably not doing too well in the league in this period.
This little dialogue bit is a nice detail to throw in because 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the actual voice actor behind Rﷺoy, Shaun Dooley, is himself a lifelong supporter of Barnsley F.C. Dooley was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England and still attends all the football club's home games , despite now residing in London.
4 National Front Poster With MAGA Nationalist Slogans 🥃
Still Wakes the Deep can also get pretty political. It's the 1970s after all, a tumultuous age during the height of the Cold War with the Vietnam conflict also ongoing. Safety has been a major concern for the crew of the Beira D, with lots of strike sentiment brewing. And you may stumble upon one of your crewmates' politics should you decide to explore and venture into some of the rooms available at the start.
Right by a stack of beer cans you'll spot a National Front poster with the Union Jack that's titled "Put Britons First." There are calls to stop immigration, rebuild the armed forces, do away with overseas aid, and "Make Britain Great Again." It sounds like all the workings and influences of the USA's MAGA GOP, but the National Front is, in fact, a real far-right fascist party wing of the UK.
3 ꦬ Home By Christmas And Final Destination Movie References For Achievements ♊
As much as Still Wa༺kes the Deep is Lovecraf💛tian horror at its finest, there's also the theme of the festive holiday season in full swing on the Beira D. One of the main story achievements references the 2006 Lifetime Christmas movie Home by Christmas starring Linda Hamilton and Rob Stewart. It's fitting because the loss of the lifeboats certainly wouldn't be getting Caz, or anyone else, home by Christmas.
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Another achievement references both the name of a character in Still Wakes the Deep and the popular horror film franchise Final Destination. 'Finlay Destination' entails you dying every way you can in the game, whether that's by drowning, getting burned, letting a monster get you, or failing a QTE. Finlay is the name of one of Caz's closest and friendliest allies on the Beira D.
2 An Achievement That Pokes🍎 Fun At The Walking Simuꦯlator Genre
With games like Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, developer The Chinese Room has built up a reputation for crafting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:very compelling walking simulators. Still Wakes the♕ Deep also feels more of the same style, with minimal puzzles and basic anꩵd repetitive mechanics for creature encounters.
The developers are very aware and have even made an achievement to proudly own up to the title of their game being considered a walking sim. For 'Walking Simulator,' you'll have to refrain from constantly sprinting for lengthy periods in the game, which is actually quite doable.
1 You Can Complete The Game Entirely In Scottish Gaelic (And Earn A Trophy For It) ♉
Here's a fun little detail you probably didn't know about. One of the trophies in the game is written in Scottish Gaelic and translates to "The ocean will produce its own." You can only get it if you play the game with the language set to Gàidhlig (An Rìoghachd Aonaichte), or Scottish Gaelic (UK). Yes, it's amazingly an option!
The game does follow an all-Scottish cast stationed on the Beira D oil rig in the North Sea, and you can hear some Gaelic words and slang sneaking in even when playing on English settings. If you're familiar with Scottish Gaelic and want to give it a go, or are just brave enough to read menus and objectives and hear everything in the characters' native tongue, you're more than welcome to select that option.
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