SOMA Critique - Anatomy of the Soul

SOMA splits the atom of the soul, dissects it, and scatters its questions into the ocean for us to gobble up like guppies. But that scattering isn’t aimless. It’s targeted, specific, and conditions the player to internalise its horror and carry it with them after the credits roll. *LORE DUMP* Thumbnail by Zoltiboi *MERCH* humanus?collection=qRRSshxeWA *TWITTER* *PATREON* *TIMESTAMPS* 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:03:46 - Part 1: Conditioning Fear 00:20:10 - Interlude: Carl Semken 00:28:42 - Part 2: Feast Your Eyes 00:45:15 - Interlude: Robin Bass 00:53:47 - Part 3: Taking the World Seriously 01:06:28 - Interlude: Brandon Wan 01:15:39 - Part 4: What If 01:28:30 - Interlude: Simon-2 01:37:00 - Part 5: The Abyss 01:48:42 - Interlude: The WAU 01:56:45 - Part 6: Eternity Among the Stars *BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT CRITIQUE - LEGACY OF THE BAT* *FOOTAGE/READING LIST* 1 - Leonardo Da Vinci - Drawings & Anatomical Studies 2 - Joseph Anderson - A Critique of SOMA 3 - 80lvl - Frictional Games on Its History & Developing Horror Games 4 - Engadget - SOMA nearly wasn’t a horror game and other secrets from Ian Thomas 5 - CG Magazine - Why SOMA could have been better without its enemies 6 - Smithsonian Magazine - Dogs may be more self-aware than experts thought 7 - Thomas Grip - The Five Foundational Pillar’s of SOMA’s Design Philosophy 8 - MrBtongue - The Shandification of Fallout 9 - Warner Wirth et al - A Process Model of the Formation of Spatial Presence Experiences 10 - John Green - What does it mean to be Human? 11 - Bill Gates - What does it mean to be Human? 12 - SOMA - Recording Water Sounds 13 - Anil Seth - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness 14 - John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 15 - GameReactor - SOMA: Aaron Clifford Interview 16 - Jason’s Video Game Source - SOMA - Upsilon Shuttle Station: Amy “It Won’t Let Me Die“ Dialogue Power On Shuttle Station Gameplay 17 - NI Science Festival - Anil Seth presents Being You 18 - Brainspotting (2000) - Derek Parfit on Personal Identity 19 - Samuel Justice - SOMA: Behind the Sound 20 - The Escapist - SOMA (Zero Punctuation) 21 - Visa Kurki - A Theory of Legal Personhood 22 - Dr Sam Parnia - Does consciousness continue after our brain dies? 23 - Adrien Owen - Search for Consciousness 24 - New Zealand’s Human River - Whanganui has been granted Legal Status 25 - The Boxer and the Goalkeeper - Andy Martin 26 - Straw Animals - John Gray 27 - A Brief History of the Soul - Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro 28 - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison 29 - Treatise on Human Nature - David Hume 30 - Soul Machine - George Makari 31 - Carl Jung - Aion *MUSIC (in order of use)* -Licenced by Artlist- 1 - Yehezkel Raz - Shallow Water 2 - SOMA Soundtrack - End Credits 3 - Yehezkel Raz - After You Came 4 - Yehezkel Raz - Tiding 5 - Adi Goldstein - Shifting Memories 6 - Yehezkel Raz - Finding My Memories (Instrumental) 7 - Stanley Gurvich - Neural Purge 8 - Raz Burg - Star Surfing 9 - Muted - Staring 10 - Eleven Tales - Slow Tides 11 - DJ Taz Rashid - Twilight 12 - Ty Simon - Deep Dive 13 - Jameson Nathan Jones - Time Will Wait for Me 14 - Adi Goldstein - Ocean Voyage 15 - MARLOE. - Recognise