Mar 18, 2010 at 2:00 AM
While it isn't shown for most of the time, the game goes through a day and night scheme, night being when you're at the Outer Wall, and day being when you're at the Balcony and during end game for the 'normal' and 'good' endings.
However, if you reach the Balcony but then head back to the Outer Wall, it will suddenly be night again.
Overlooked details here by Pixel, or is it something else?
My theory, the Outer Wall is basically frozen in time.
Yes, that's a big jump out of from nowhere to nowhere, almost a bit fanfic, but I'll continue.
The Outer Wall seems to be a secluded time-based area, and it shows from the various time-based structures, such as the clock block outside and inside of the Nikimaru Counter room. The Nikimaru Counter itself also is affiliated with time, being that it's a clock.
That then brings me to another point, that it won't start up unless in the Sacred Grounds. Why would it do that, other than for the game aspect?
Nikimaru has to be the name of someone. I'm going to go off on a limb and say it might actually be Ballos's dog. Yes, that seems to come out of nowhere, but when I first made it through Hell and before I came to these forums, I always thought the dog's name was Nikimaru. It looks like it could be a Nikimaru, and there is nobody else that has it's name. The dog itself isn't ever named, and even though that shouldn't mean we should jump to conclusions and automatically say that it's Nikimaru, it is still a possibility.
But, how did it get there, and why was it put there? My guess, Nikimaru put it there for the true heros who could possibly put an end to it all, since only a hero could get the chest to open, or even get to the Outer Wall.
To how it got there, Nikimaru needed a safe place, away from anywhere that the evil forces of the Demon Crown could get to. The Outer Wall was already a hard place to get to, but as a precaution Nikimaru put guards, such as the Night Spirits, and also put a spell on the area. The spell would basically freeze time, to where it couldn't be found by convenient means, negating things such as Misery's teleporting or Balrog's flying to it. Whether or not Nikimaru actually put the spell or if the Nikimaru Counter did it as a side effect, I'm not sure.
Well, that's about it. I could go on about the Nikimaru Counter, about why it's so important or whatever, but that's for a seperate thread.
Yes, this may seem like just fanfic going on, but it seems to make sense to me and this could have legitamate discussion to it.
tl;dr=Nikimaru Counter did it.
However, if you reach the Balcony but then head back to the Outer Wall, it will suddenly be night again.
Overlooked details here by Pixel, or is it something else?
My theory, the Outer Wall is basically frozen in time.
Yes, that's a big jump out of from nowhere to nowhere, almost a bit fanfic, but I'll continue.
The Outer Wall seems to be a secluded time-based area, and it shows from the various time-based structures, such as the clock block outside and inside of the Nikimaru Counter room. The Nikimaru Counter itself also is affiliated with time, being that it's a clock.
That then brings me to another point, that it won't start up unless in the Sacred Grounds. Why would it do that, other than for the game aspect?
Nikimaru has to be the name of someone. I'm going to go off on a limb and say it might actually be Ballos's dog. Yes, that seems to come out of nowhere, but when I first made it through Hell and before I came to these forums, I always thought the dog's name was Nikimaru. It looks like it could be a Nikimaru, and there is nobody else that has it's name. The dog itself isn't ever named, and even though that shouldn't mean we should jump to conclusions and automatically say that it's Nikimaru, it is still a possibility.
But, how did it get there, and why was it put there? My guess, Nikimaru put it there for the true heros who could possibly put an end to it all, since only a hero could get the chest to open, or even get to the Outer Wall.
To how it got there, Nikimaru needed a safe place, away from anywhere that the evil forces of the Demon Crown could get to. The Outer Wall was already a hard place to get to, but as a precaution Nikimaru put guards, such as the Night Spirits, and also put a spell on the area. The spell would basically freeze time, to where it couldn't be found by convenient means, negating things such as Misery's teleporting or Balrog's flying to it. Whether or not Nikimaru actually put the spell or if the Nikimaru Counter did it as a side effect, I'm not sure.
Well, that's about it. I could go on about the Nikimaru Counter, about why it's so important or whatever, but that's for a seperate thread.
Yes, this may seem like just fanfic going on, but it seems to make sense to me and this could have legitamate discussion to it.
tl;dr=Nikimaru Counter did it.