I did hypothesized that this might be something like after school nightmare. In that story at the end we find out that everything that had happened to the characters wasn’t real because all the characters were babies about to be born.
Maybe this is something like that (except I don’t think I’d be babies about to be born).
I also don’t think Doha is the game master, I think is misdirection the author is using to make us think he is the bad guy since he killed the villager.
Bada doesn’t remember his past. But he remembers bits and pieces when he was in the new study room of the new map. No idea why he doesn’t remember the bridge.
I feel Bada’ story is related with the horror game lore. Something related with the murder of the family and the three missing colleage students.
Oh yhhhh I even forgot about when he went into that room and he said it felt familiar, so yh his story is defo related to the lore of the game
or maybe he played the new map before and his memories reset. I really want seaseon 2 to come out TT many misteries and not so much patience
There’s just so much I haven’t seen people talk about in the comments
1- Bada says he can’t really remember what life was like before the game (hence they way we jump right into to it, I love how the writer did that btw) so how long has he been playing to lose so much of his memories and shouldn’t that be long enough to have completed the game by now?
2- The fact that even though it’s tiring, why does it feel like he enjoys playing? Escpecially in that scene when he could finally play alone again and he liked that he could fall back into routine. It felt ritualistic. It felt like this is all he knows.
3- the way the map keeps expanding, the new endings, the new character behaviours. It doesn’t feel like there’s a tangible end in sight
4- Bada explains so many things about the game. He talks about his thought process and how he got to his conclusions, but he never mentioned his theories on how he thinks he got there. Whether he thinks it’s magic or a higher power or whatever. And the lack of questioning of this is strange to me
Anyways I say all of this to say that I don’t think there’s any escaping this game by beating it. If he gets out of this it’ll be by figuring out what’s actually happened to him/who Doha is. I think he has been playing for a long time, even longer than he thinks and so in a way, the routine of his action makes him npc like. I didn’t talk much about Doha but reading this makes me feel like he could be the game master, at the same time I think that’s too easy and predictable. Maybe it’s not a game at all. Idk :)