yardbird | ✘ here lies nothing

Murphy's Otherworld is heavily focused on a water theme. It also consists of industrial clockwork, pulsing torn skins and tubes, as well as Escher-like staircases and rooms, which are sometimes flipped upside-down. Sometimes you have to literally shift the area using valves in order to proceed to the next area.

Here is a nightmarish world full of spikes, chase sequences, machinery, and confinement that resembles a very prison-like space of self-punishment. To Murphy, it's about as close to Hell as you can get. His whole life has been on the rails, so it makes sense for there to be themes centered around incarceration and inevitability.

Because Murphy sees himself to be his own worst enemy, any mirrors reflecting him will not actually reveal Murphy himself. Instead, something else will appear in his place.

Hmm... Foreshadow, much?

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