I love this era of jack where he makes long videos just playing what he wants not trying to just appease the algorithm! Its nice to see.

Jack: “I’m not gonna spoil it”
Also jack in his head: “But I will heavily foreshadow”

Please keep doing this long videos. I missed the old format of playing a game with long episodes. This helps me get through the day. They’re also edited! Great work man!

I feel bad about Catherine’s death because even if it was an accident, no one moved her body or tried to help her. She’s slump on the floor, face down, unmoved. No one even flipped her over, or covered her body with anything like the other corpses. They just left her all alone in the middle of the room

It's so cool to me that the WAU is shown as a sort of "bad guy" because it's keeping as many people alive as it can, against their will, and the people kept saying that it can't be up to a machine to define what it means to still be alive. But the flip side of that is that the humans themselves are also planning to change what it means to be alive by transferring themselves onto the ARK. The only difference is that one puts the focus on the body and the other puts it on the mind and yet one is shown as dark and twisted while the other is the hope for humanity. That is some fantastic existential writing.

ahhhhhh really too bad about the animated movie falling through, that would have been suuuch an incredible way of adapting SOMA's story, but it's still cool that it was a possibility at all at some point

Jack's commentary during a game He's played a million times, like watching a movie with a friend who's "trying not to spoil it for you" ❤😂

You can't go back.
Without Catherine you don't have access. He will be stuck outside alone until the batteries die.

30:43 my brother works with Hvac and surprisingly vents in facilities can be pretty massive! My brother has shown us footage of him hangin out in vents while working and he's about 6ft tall so big enough for a grown man to hangout in decently comfortable. He's also told us that he's worked with some ventilation that would be big enough for a car to fit in! He does a lot of work for Universal Studios and stuff so I'm assuming the massive vents would be for the amusement parks and stuff.

This game touches one of my biggest irrational fear
Being an immortal and having to be lonely for all of eternity, I don't want to be alone it's a feeling I hate

I think one of my favourite kind of subtle hints that Simon isn't exactly human is his lack of reactions to things that should hurt him but he can't see them/doesn't realize should hurt him. Like when he first enters the thermal plant, by all means that metal and even air should be scalding but he only reacts with pain when you walk through the visible steam. He only feels pain when he thinks he should. Or maybe the devs just didn't think about it. Not everything has to be that deep I guess but still it's cool I think.

My favorite part about soma is that there is only one loading scene in the entire game. The whole experience is stitched together so perfectly and seamlessly that it really feels like you never get a break

10:55 The story mode for this game doesn't remove the scary stuff, it just can't hurt you. Since it ignores you, you can walk up to the monsters and fully appreciate their design! It's pretty cool :)

The fact that Katherine is surprised that Simon is still confused about himself staying behind while a copy goes forward, even though he's already been copied twice (and once he did himself) feels almost like we're the ones being questioned, because we too expect a happy ending for our character, the character that we've been playing as, even though the game has basically been trying to tell us the entire time that our character can't possibly be the one to make it onto the ARK. When we play games, we expect closure, the entire time we play the game we are trying to get to our happy ending, so the sudden realization that our character truly is going to be left behind in the abyss comes as a big ol gut punch. Even makes us feel a bit stupid, because it's been obvious the entire game that there is no other way for it to end for Simon, yet we still perceive it as a twist. Such an impactful ending, a truly brilliant game

I love the throwback at the end. Catherine "just isnt like that" when her friend tells her to say fuck off.  The end where she's finally getting angry is so emotional for her that it finally breaks her, almost like it was outside her parameters for her scan of her as a person at the time she was scanned.

I like how Catherine knows shes never gonna wake up again but is surprised when she does. its adds a bit of sadness to her situation because if Simon dies or leaves her behind shes never going to wake up. shes a companion but also she relies on you to “complete her mission”. it makes you feel responsible for keeping her safe even when shes not alive.

This game is peak 'ponder-horror'. Makes you delve pretty deeply into the game's themes, and human consciousness. Great to experience this game again!

I personally like seeing the ARK in the after credits, it makes the ending even sadder as you see that Simon seemingly does get a good ending until you realise that the Simon on the ARC is ignorant that there is yet another version of himself left behind, something he already hated the idea of when he switched suits, he lives on ignorance which is in and of itself sad.
Simon doesn't truly have a good ending as he simply lacks the understanding of what is happening, it is all utterly alien to him and he can't properly consent to anything because of that fundamental lack of understanding, he doesn't actually know what he is consenting to which is why he even ends up in his situation.

People often criticise Catherine without realising that she only knew Simon for an hour and a half.

I feel like people are kind of hard on Simons failure to understand when he's a scan of a guy with a brain bleed. of course it's difficult to grasp something that his mind is naturally constantly trying to deny. especially when the first instance of really understanding this whole robot people thing involved him moving catherines consciousness, not copying it