Ib

[Elestia]

Originally Posted by LROlsson

I must thank for this thread for informing me for this game.
while I didn't play the game (are bad with this kind of game, especially when it is a horror game) I watched a play through on nico douga.

I must say Gary is probably the coolest okama character I have encountered.
I must say I got a small shock when he started to speak with the words "atashi" and "kashira" but as it progressed I more and more got used to it.

The game itself is more creepy than horror due to the atmosphere I think, I wasn't particular frightened or shocked but rather more disturbed more than anything else.

As far as I know, the word 私/"atashi" is more gender neutral than a feminine pronoun. But かしら/"kashira I really don't know. It's hard to tell since the nuance in Gary's speech patterns are lost in translation.

Originally Posted by alarmadadna hadi

spoiler]Mary's story is tragic. The times you do get to talk to her already gives you hints about her true nature and makes you empathize with her situation. In the end when you go through her personal belongings just further drives home the point that she really wanted a friend and to get out of the art world.[/spoiler]

Spoiler for Ib Story:

Why Guertena drew her intrigues me, that book talking about the importance of making fantasy into reality coupled with how he supposedly didn't depict real people implies she was purely imagined, on the other hand, another book mentions his "grandchild", so she may have been related to him somehow as a human.

Another scene that I couldn't connect with anything was the room with the separation portrait and the whole "don't kill me" scribbles, of course, it could've been a random scare.

Spoiler for mm:

I had the same thought to that the "grandchild"Guertena took to the circus was the real life Mary, but its a weak point to connect at best with the information we're given. Although, since Guertena rarely painted people it must have held some special significance in his life.

On a side note, when we see Ib's parents in the painting I had the thought that Ib was actually a painting girl, which would have been much more awesome in the plot twist department than Mary to be honest. It was never explained why a portrait of her parents were there.

Also, Gary is a seme.

[alarmadadna hadi]

Spoiler for ib:

Reminds me of another mid-game theory disproved by the end was Garry being Guertena's soul imbued in his creations, both names starting with G and all.

Disregarding how Garry "talks like a lady" in it, a touching video for "those" type of endings...
-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG_TL...eature=related

Also, a cool "summary" of ib of sorts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ThX...eature=related

[Rakoa]

It is pretty safe to say the game is a masterpiece. I found the Forgotten Painting ending to be the most moving of them all,

Spoiler for To prevent spoilers...from the game Ib:

where Garry makes the ultimate sacrifice, which is sad by itself, but even sadder due to the fact that Ib can't even remember who he is afterwards. Really sad on many levels...I was lucky enough to get the Promise of Reunion on my first try, because I really loved Garry and made that clear in my choices, and talked to him all the time because I found the dialouge interesting.

One thing I noticed, too, that I thought I should mention is the wikipedia article on Ib is in the process of being deleted. I think the game deserves a Wikipedia article, and if you agree go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...etion/Ib_(game)

and protest the deletion. I think if enough people protest the article can be saved. Thanks

[RRW]

Originally Posted by Rakoa

It is pretty safe to say the game is a masterpiece. I found the Forgotten Painting ending to be the most moving of them all,

Spoiler for To prevent spoilers...from the game Ib:

where Garry makes the ultimate sacrifice, which is sad by itself, but even sadder due to the fact that Ib can't even remember who he is afterwards. Really sad on many levels...I was lucky enough to get the Promise of Reunion on my first try, because I really loved Garry and made that clear in my choices, and talked to him all the time because I found the dialouge interesting.

One thing I noticed, too, that I thought I should mention is the wikipedia article on Ib is in the process of being deleted. I think the game deserves a Wikipedia article, and if you agree go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...etion/Ib_(game)

and protest the deletion. I think if enough people protest the article can be saved. Thanks

not really

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ib_(game)

[Elestia]

Originally Posted by RRW

not really

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ib_(game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ib_(game)) Fixed

[freshoutofthepan]

Just finished my first playthrough, and I really enjoyed this game.

The first thing that I thought of when I started was Corpse Party, lol. Some of the scenes/rooms were incredibly disturbing though, and the huge amount of tension during the chase or quicktime events (especially that one event with Gary). Gonna try for the other endings now.

Thanks a lot for rec-ing this game~

[Rocksmash]

Ib is now updated with 2 new endings and a new dungeon~

[LoweGear]

An update... for Ib? WHAT

[RRW]

^ that also surprised me

Originally Posted by Rocksmash

Ib is now updated with 2 new endings and a new dungeon~

more like 3 more ending

[Hooves]

Wait what, an update for Ib? Now I need to get back in it.

[cronnoponno]

Hey, it's been forever since I played this game, but can anyone confirm this stuff for me?


The red ladies in the portrait were known for their hostility in keeping other women away from Guerte, when Ib takes the rose the walls accuse her of being a thief, and every time a red portrait jumps out from the wall, basically animating itself and attacking, Ib is nearby. This is ignoring scenes where EVERYTHING animates and goes insane and it plays the confrontation theme.

The ladies in the BLUE portrait are known for their greed and basically ''man-eating'' nature, which I believe only came to animate itself when Gary was nearby, and was actually apparently wounded by one. The one that jumps out at you from the window was likely already off it's hinges and looking for blood by the time it jumped out at Ib.

I believe there is a book in the game saying that those two colors represent the women who had those types of personalities, I may have gotten a few details wrong. Ignoring the scenes again, where everything jumps out and attacks you, I don't think any green or yellow paintings jumped out of you of their own volition like the other two paintings.



Also, in the room with the ''bunnies'', could they have actually been bunnies? There is a book in the room where Ib, Mary, and Garry observe the ''bunnies'', it says something along the lines of ''People with damaged souls will often see illusions that aren't really there and lead to their own death''or something. We KNOW Mary has some form of damaged/incomplete soul or whatever, so is it possible that she saw the illusion of creepy dolls instead of actual bunnies? Would this mean Garry has some type of damaged soul? Perhaps when Ib falls in the toybox and sees the creepy dolls(which Mary calls cute), she was in such a panicked and erratic state that she started seeing them that way as well.


OR we could say that the bunnies were the illusion, and that something is wrong with Ib. When Ib had 5 petals(health) and Garry had 10, I figured it was both due to gameplay and age difference, but what if Garry having 10 petals represents that his soul isn't damaged and Ibs and Maries are? I just thought the whole deal at this part was kinda iffy.

Sorry it's been like a year since I've played this, I'd be able to explain this with more facts if I could remember them as well as I used to, no one ever seemed to question this stuff and I figured that I might be thinking too hard on it myself, I noticed a few other things that seemed odd, but I never really discussed them with anyone or anything.

[Hooves]

The two new endings are quite depressing while the new dungeon is so long.