Omori: Difference between revisions

**The Truth: on the last night in the true ending, Sunny dreams about {{spoiler|entering the tree where Mari ostensibly hung herself. He-- and the player-- find out that it wasn't a suicide. What happened instead was Sunny was practicing for their duet recital, got frustrated as he heard Mari scoffing at his mistakes, and smashed his violin down the stairs. Mari saw, and got into a fight with him, and wouldn't let Sunny go to cool down. In a fit of anger, he pushed her down the stairs. She collapsed on the broken violin and lay still, her neck at an odd angle. Going [[My God What Have I Done?]], Sunny ran down, begged her [[Please Wake Up]] and dragged her into bed, hoping to make her better. He broke down, believing it was a dream. Basil witnessed all this with horror; rather than dial 911 or get the neighbors, however, he ordered Sunny to drag Mari outside and grab the jump rope. They strung her from a tree, making it look like a suicide}}.

**The scene following the revelation about {{spoiler|how Mari really died, whether or not you choose to save Basil. Either you choose to sleep, which leads to the friend group waking up and finding that Basil has stabbed himself with garden shears and bled to death, unable to live with the guilt of covering up Mari's death any longer. Or you head home and grab the steak knife from the kitchen, which leads to Sunny dying as well as he stabs himself in his sleep. There's a third option: talk to Basil, and try to reason with him as he's holding the gardening shears. Basil has a haunting [[Twitchy Eye]] as he says that Sunny didn't kill Mari or deface his photo album, that it was Something, and yells at him for moving away. He attacks Sunny while under the impression that Something is trying to kill his best friend. There is no way that Sunny can use his breathing techniques to regain health during the boss battle. He can only defend himself with his fists, and Basil ''stabs him in the eye''. Fortunately, offscreen the friend group hears the scuffle, breaks them up after Sunny faints from shock and blood loss, and dials emergency services to get them to the hospital.}}

**Nobody's perfect. Someone may seem like a paragon, but they are still a person, for better or for worse. Kel relates, rather bitterly, that because Hero was the golden child and he was the goofball, no one considered that Kel had feelings or even cared when Hero lashed out at him after {{spoiler|Mari died}}. Omori seems to be the hero of Headspace, with how the friend group looks up to him, {{spoiler|but the Main Route and Hikikomori Route both show that he's basically the creator of Headspace and tortures multiple dream copies of the friend group to hide the truth of Mari's death from Sunny}}. Then we have Mari, who is a sweet girl and generous with her time and food, but {{spoiler|in life, she could be oblivious to others' feelings, like when Sunny was struggling with practicing the violin. Hero didn't even get too mad at her for pranking him with bugs, though he had a severe phobia. It's the refusal to acknowledge that Mari was a great person and sister but imperfect that haunts Sunny and Basil for years after they make her death look like a suicide}}.

**Grief can make you act selfish. Even so, as Kel wisely puts it while telling off Aubrey, you can't grieve alone because it's not healthy, and it's not all about you. You have to reach out to people who care about you, and process the pain together. {{spoiler|The best ending has Sunny go to his friends in the hospital, while they are watching over a sleeping Basil, and come clean about what really happened to Mari. A bonus scene shows him smiling for the first time as Basil awakens and both of their Somethings fade}}.

** Redspace: {{spoiler|Omori sees red hands holding Dream-Basil in place. Dream-Basil begs for help, but Omori draws his knife and stabs the kid repeatedly. Then he callously steps over Basil's body}}.

*[[Darker and Edgier]]: Blackspace, and Blackspace II in the Hikikomori route are much more horrific than the rest of Headspace, even when factoring in the Truth. Each room shows horrific images or plain creepy ones, where you can only escape by interacting with disembodied hands or finding key figurines. They are skippable, however, if you want to go straight to the red door. {{spoiler|There are also about five versions of Basil that ask for help, but each one dies. What's worse is the last death happens when Omori repeatedly stabs Basil and walks over his dead body.}}

*[[Dead All Along]]: As Aubrey in the real world reminds Kel and Sunny, while dropping a bombshell on the player, {{spoiler|Mari has been dead for four years. And this was after we may have opened the door for who we thought was Mari!}}

*[[Driving Question]]:

**In Headspace, where is Basil? And why is it so hard to find him? It's almost like Headspace is deliberately hiding him from you. {{spoiler|That ends up being the truth: Dream Basil knows that Sunny killed Mari by accident and keeps poking towards the truth. Omori hides him away so Sunny never has to face reality}}.

** What was the great tragedy that broke up the original friendship group in the real world? {{spoiler|Mari died, and everyone thought it was a suicide since her body was hanging from a tree in her backyard. Sunny actually killed her by accident, and Basil took initiative to string her up so as to stop his best friend from being implicated}}

** The Main Route has this one: can you ever make up for the worst mistake in your life? The answer is that you may never succeed, but trying is worth the effort, rather than succumbing to despair. {{spoiler|Sunny knows that his friends may never forgive him for killing Mari by accident and lying about it for years, but hiding the truth turned him into a depressed recluse}}.

*[[Groundhog Day Loop]]: It's revealed that this happens in {{spoiler|Headspace during the quest to find Basil, ''every time''. Omori resets every time Sunny gets too close to finding the truth. The move to a new town has broken the loop, if you choose to have Sunny step out of his comfort zone and face reality}}.

* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]:

**The same thing goes for the knife that both Sunny and Omori carry. In Headspace, no one bats an eye that Omori has a knife and uses it in boss battles. Omori also can only leave the dream world by stabbing himself When Aubrey attacks Sunny and Kel in Faraway Town? You can choose to attack her in self-defense with the knife. This stops the fight, as Aubrey starts bleeding, and calls Sunny a maniac. While holding a bat with nails. Kel confiscates the knife from Sunny, telling him he shouldn't be carrying that around. He's right: {{spoiler|in some bad endings, if Sunny goes to bed with a steak knife, he ends up stabbing himself while dreaming, and bleeds out in bed}}.

**Omori and the others demonstrate [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]] when they get sucked into the hotel business in the Underwater Highway. Sunny attempts to rescue Basil from drowning in the local lake when Aubrey pushes Basil into the water. Only...he can't swim either. He nearly drowns, and Hero has to save them both.

*[[Snipe Hunt]]: Played For Drama with {{spoiler|the quest to save Basil in Headspace. Omori and the friendship group set off to find Basil, but they never get even close to a lead. Instead, various bosses and quests waylay them, and Jawsum outright kidnaps the friendship group. Turns out that Omori manufactured the whole quest for two purposes: so that Dream Basil doesn't reveal the truth of Mari's death to the friend group, and that Sunny can find reasons to live in his dreams}}.

*[[Sudden Downer Ending]]: There are ''four'' possible options for this on the Main Route after the friendship group reunites the final foray into the Dreamworld that reveals the Truth:

*[[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: In Headspace, Omori and the others can breathe underwater without a problem when they get lured to the hotel located on the Underwater Highway. They can even take a taxi underwater when necessary. Blackspace shows a dark version of this where {{spoiler|copies of the friend group are locked in a room and forced to swim in lava endlessly}}.

*[[Super Drowning Skills]]: In the real world, Sunny has never been a good swimmer, even before he refused to leave his house for four years. His attempts to save Basil from drowning go poorly, and he hallucinates facing Something underwater. Hero has to save both him and Basil, noting it's lucky that Sunny can still walk.

*[[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Omori is ''not'' happy when you realize he's not real. He's a defense mechanism of Sunny's, to hide the truth about Mari's death}}.

*[[Tomato Surprise]]: At the end of Blackspace, {{spoiler|Omori ascends a throne of red hands after killing Basil. He gives us a long look, a cold stare. Slowly, we realize he's not the hero of the story but ''the villain''}}.

** Headspace is supposed to be a world as new to Omori as it is to us. We encounter all the fictional characters, and the friend group before going on a quest to find Basil. {{spoiler|Omori created this entire world, to shield Sunny from the truth of Mari's death. To that end, he's put Basil in Blackspace multiple times because Dream Basil subconsciously wants to reveal the truth. It also turns out that while he is serving his purpose, he is not helping anyone.}}

** Sunny, owing to his poor eating and hygiene habits, has regular dissociation episodes and hallucinates on a regular basis. These get even worse during the Hikikomori route as Sunny refuses to go outside and interact with the real world. {{spoiler|He even forgot that Mari was ''dead'', even though he was the one that killed her by accident}}.

*[[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: This applies to everyone in the friendship group before the great tragedy that hit them. Kel is the only one who remained the same, albeit with chips on his shoulder. Aubrey in particular used to be a nice girl that would affectionately spray Kel with watermelon, and she has become a gangster.

*[[Video Game Caring Potential]]: There is one option in Headspace and one in the real world:

**Another Blackspace room has {{spoiler|Basil collapse like watermelon chunks. If you are in a state of shock or have a sense of dark humor, you can walk over the pieces and hear a squishing sound repeatedly}}.

*[[Villain Has a Point]]: What's sad about the real villain in the story is that he is completely right during the final boss fight of the Main Route. {{spoiler|Sunny killed Mari, and though it was an accident, he and Baail lied about it for years. She loved him, and everyone loved Mari. The only way to get the happy ending is to acknowledge that Omori is right, but Sunny will persist regardless}}.

*[[Wimp Fight]]:

**Sunny is not as strong as Omori, and the game is quick to point that out. When you spend four years as a recluse, forgetting to eat, not exercising and spending most of your time sleeping, it's not going to do wonders for your physical health. As a result, when he participates in a fight, he can lose easily unless wielding a "borrowed" steak-knife or pepper spray.

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