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''Omori'' was supposed to come out in 2016, after a Kickstarter. Following about six years of miscommunication and Omocat asking for more funds to cover engine and crew changes, it was released in December 2020. At minimum, there is 26 hours of gameplay on the Main Route, so it is perfectly fine to watch a Let's Play or videos that give the cliffnotes.

**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}}.

*[[Age Lift]]: Omori in his original comic is an older teen, who reads porn and smokes. Omori in the game is still mentally twelve years old, meaning he doesn't have time for that. ''Sunny'', however, is estimated to be around 16 years old.

*[[Bittersweet Ending]]: The best ending is this. {{spoiler|Sunny saves Basil's life by confronting him as he's about to impale himself with garden shears, but Basil lashes out at him and injures his eye. After Sunny recalls his good memories and decides to persist, when you choose to continue after Omori beats you soundly, Omori approaches...and hugs him, dropping the knife before fading away. Sunny wakes up in the hospital, heavily bandaged and crying, but has enough strength to go find the real Basil while ignoring his dream friends heading to the hospital roof. The friend group is there, conducting an [[Unbroken Vigil]] on Basil, and Sunny confesses the truth of what happened to Mari. We don't see their response, but the ending is hopeful}}.

**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}}

*[[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|Her Code Name Was Mary-Sue]]: A plot point as to why Omori in Headspace feels more vibrant than Sunny does in the real world. Omori is the leader of their little group, and the girl he crushed on as a kid is still infatuated with him. The friends all band together, even when their memories start fading.

*[[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}}.

*[[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''}}.

*[[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: