I love this so much ! I've finished all of echo previously and up-to-date on most routes of TSR and this is such an amazingly unnerving sequel... I am SO intriguied and have so many questions... I can't wait for more
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I'm so intrigued by this raincoat monster... what connection does it have to Echo? For why else would it suddenly move for the first time when Cam confirms he would visit echo with Dev... AND oh dude, the scene between the socket-face monster and Arturo... the mere gazing between the both of them before Arturo noticed the lights of the cars on the highway...
I'm unsure how accurate my memory is; but wasn't the monster what attacked the car of the main crew in Echo in various routes that disallowed them from leaving? But, when it gazed upon Arturo, it just watched? Perhaps* allowing him to leave Echo? I like to believe Arches takes place most accurately after flynn route in Echo, despite it being a multi verse kind of thing... So i like to think that the monster allowing Arturo to (hopefully) leave was like a part of Flynn's humanity and kindness... BUT LOL not even sure if that was the way I was meant to interpret it ahaha
Another small detail; but I absolutely admire the sheer depth of Cameron's backstory, particularly with his mother's psychosis... The odd details like about the fan and stuff make it seems so much realer and the fact it isn't just as simple as "Cam's mum committed suicide "... Like no.... The arches duuuude...
Dude another thing, but The Echo Project is so fucking good at altering my view of just random things like... The fragrance of lavender or wall sockets or now the shapes of arches in general... And the fact arches are just half of a circle? Everything *circles* around its amazing, hahaha. I fucking love you, Echo Project.
Also, when Cam said "This is about someone who got murdered and some piece of shit got away with it!" Ohhhhh Cam wouldn't you love to know more...
As for what's coming next... I am praying that the Flynn Echo route was cannon and we get an explicit Cameron psychic vision of Flynn... I await Cam and Dev to encounter the socket face monster with excitement, I hope they can talk or something. Idk, assuming it is Flynn, i just miss Flynn so much I would love to hear anything from him...
Love you Echo Project <3 praying that Cam and Dev are endgame, I don't think I'll ever recover if they don't stay together wahaha