Last Friday, October 14, Scorn finally arrived on our Xbox Series X | S and on PC, with a direct entry into its premiere on Xbox Game Pass. If we’re honest, the EBB Software title has been a mystery since its introduction, with unusual imagery and design, so exceptionally detailed that the little they showed always seemed like concept art. And finally we have proven that we were wrong. Scorn indeed looks that good and at 60fps.
But we have not come to talk about that today, because if Scorn is sowing something, it is doubt about his argument. They will literally drop us on the ground and tell us absolutely nothing about what to do, having to progress on our own. This includes its totally nonexistent plot and lacking story cutscenes, leaving the player to build their own plot and goals.
It is something that essentially does not affect the gameplay and allows that air of mystery to further envelop its disturbing design. However, we cannot help but wonder: What the hell is Scorn about? That is what we are going to try to explain. But not for those who have not played it before, because for this explanation it is essential to cover the entire game, including SPOILERS of everything that happens, so from here, you are warned. There is also another second warning, this explanation is nothing official, but a own interpretation that could fit the argument. Surely [email protected] have another, and I would love to read them in the comments.
Scorn’s argument
In Scorn we will handle a kind of humanoid, clearly of alien origin, who wakes up from his lethargy, organically attached to the ground he walks on. However, after taking a few steps, and without us realizing it, the title will take us to a similar situation, but with another scenario (Beware, this is a key moment). We will fall through a hole and wake up in some kind of installation, with a clearly futuristic look but made with biotechnology. After doing an exploration and a first puzzle in which we will destroy a species similar to us in order to continue, we will be stunned on the ground with a liquid covering us almost completely.
Discarded bodies from the testing facility
We will wake up an indeterminate time later, but this time we will come out of a kind of egg. Maybe years, maybe centuries, maybe millennia later, who knows. But now that entire biotech facility is totally “invaded” by organic material from another invasive species that consumes everything it touches, absorbing both the living and the inert. This accident seems to be the beginning of this decline, caused precisely by usWell, we go through areas that we saw at the beginning again, recognizing scenarios but with an infinitely older and worn appearance.
In this new stage, our humanoid protagonist will run into his main threat, a kind of living organism that attacks us and, hooked on us, will begin to merge with our torso, something that will happen progressively during the extension of the adventure. Little by little we will advance finding new areas, weapons, etc… while we undergo this new transformation, even being able to see its progress by looking at our body.
This is the same area from the beginning, the one with the rails, but infested
Ultimately we will arrive at a kind of temple far from this totally invaded installation, a temple that is not “infected” and that shows something more of the race of our protagonist. An advanced society that focuses its worship on the creation of life, with a special focus on fetuses. As we can read on the walls of this last part, they worshiped a new species that could well be the one that has given them much of their new technology and with which they have probably been experimenting.
Our protagonist wants to save himself and get rid of this parasite and to do so he uses the technology of his people, in a surgical procedure that allows us to see our enemy in important detail. But he is already too wounded to escape, so he tries to sacrifice himself to find another way to save himself, controlling a kind of androids, going through a very bloody and painful process that we will not describe here. He almost succeeds, but when he is about to do so, the parasite catches us again and this time, he catches us completely helpless. Scorn closes with the image of what we have become, a misshapen, inhuman pile of flesh spreading its infection in this holy place.
The plot twist
That is the argument, but what we may not realize is that in the main menu, an image of the protagonist appears, who literally “takes off” from the ground. But this is only the one that causes the accident to later be engulfed in the liquid, but the point is that that is not the protagonist, but the parasite that then ends up infecting us and ultimately killing us. As you can see in the images below, the first is the start menu and the second is an image of the parasite seen from behind when we managed to remove it. It is evident that THEY ARE THE SAME INDIVIDUAL.
The deduction behind this fact is somewhat more obvious. Our second protagonist, the one who appears in this new temporary scene with everything infected, is born with the aim of saving himself, in the part of the temple, where this organic plague has not arrived. But precisely the first, ends up becoming the parasite, seeking to join the protagonist to precisely reach the temple area, which was still intact.
In the end his goal is complete and probably the complete extinction of this humanoid alien race has taken place, consumed by this infecting plague that devours and assimilates everything it touches. What we probably have left to know is if really the ambition to evolve on the part of these aliens has led them to carry out multiple experiments with their own racethanks to that cult focused on birth that seems to pursue purity, discarding the useless or imperfect and, ultimately, generating this same organic infection that triggers its own disappearance.
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