i played this last night with my friend and it was so fun AHHHHHHHHHH!
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I believe the island isn't actually real. Almost none of the story is. In the beginning it's described how almost no one spent time together cuz they were busy right? And this was like the only time they hung out together. For once they're actually all together everything starts falling apart. The ones clean and crispy personas are falling under their own pressure and everyone around them. Once everything starts going wrong June starts to see who these people really are but she doesn't understand why they're acting like this. She's starting to see the real them but she doesn't understand that's who they really are. The drinks are more like a metaphor rather than to be taken as drinking itself. They represent problems just issues themselves. Not specific ones but issues nonetheless. The seafood I believe represents addiction. And then the ocean represents falling so deep that you can't get back up like when everyone was tying anchors to themselves. In a lot of promo art the friend group is not all together either one person is off or they just kind of seem separated. I think this was an intentional choice by RachelDrawsArt. I see the other people on the "island" more so as factors rather than actual people like representations of maybe the others issues. Least that's my take?
I think the storm represents you know everything's trying to collide everyone's issues personalities again not supposed to be taken literally. And everything's a shitstorm. Carmen is rude and not as nice as she usually is. McCoy is struggling with something and is taking it poorly so much that he hit June. And it's clear that Vonnie is struggling with something (the seafood) and just isn't herself anymore. The only one who actually seems okay is Ryan. So him and June are planning either to just leave the friendship or maybe try and salvage it at least the bits and pieces of it. But at the end everyone's struggling with all the issues and no one can be saved they're all drowning themselves, again not literally. And even Ryan is not safe cuz even he is too far gone. The worst part is that he's savable to June he could have been saved but it was just too late. Since everyone knows but for them they've been long gone. So at the end of the game June has a decision she can get your sink with the rest of them which will inevitably cause her demise, or she can leave with the jacket on her back. Representing the baggage she'll have to carry on for the rest of her life. Knowing that she could have saved them but that they were so gone and she didn't even notice.
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