Chapter 35 - Memories

Main Page: The Last Tinker: City of Colors



Synopsis When searching the dreamscape, our heroes are surprised to find Purple Spirit, whom they believed to be the Bleak Spirit himself. When Tap asks him why he has called the Bleakness, Purple guides the team through his memories. Watching helplessly as the city he once loved became broken and divided convinced Purple that Colortown is unfixable and, in order to prevent further suffering, needed to be destroyed. With the help of Koru he called the Bleakness, offering up a small part of his essence to form the Bleak Spirit.

To Purple’s surprise, Tap is convinced that Colortown is indeed fixable; that in fact, it has already been saved. Showing some memories of his own, Tap has Purple witness how the attack of the Bleakness and Koru’s actions ultimately brought people together again. Seeing that, Purple is relieved beyond measure. There’s still the matter of the Bleak Spirit though. Granting Koru his power once again, Purple brings the team to the top of the Tower, where the final battle awaits.

Trivia
 * The suggestion for this chapter’s musical theme was “Echoes of a Resonance Cascade” from the Half-Life 2 OST (or “Space Ocean” in the original Half-Life), which marks the only time we used an actual game soundtrack as inspiration.
 * Since the concept art of the Purple Spirit was the only one we couldn’t show in the gallery, we put it in here. The idea to tie an achievement to it came later.
 * At the start of the long climb, only the first two floors exist. A new floor is added each time Koru climbs to the one before.
 * The final floor shows the beat up Red Gang members before Koru’s hideout, suggesting that it was Koru’s violent frenzy that was the final straw for Purple.
 * The idea to use the Tower concept art as a visual connection to the final chapter came literally in the last days of development.

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