Trivia / SOMA

• Ascended Fanfic: The Ascended Mod version of this, actually - "Safe Mode" an official implementation of a Game Mod called Wuss Mode. Safe Mode is a significantly improved version of the mod (without the Easy-Mode Mockery), leading to the mod's creator declaring the mod to be obsolete as a result.
• 100% Completion: Like in Penumbra, there's a password-protected zip file in the game's directory, and finding the code takes some serious difficulty.
  • Two fragments are hidden in some dark areas in Toronto.
  • The third can only be reached if the ARK survey is taken with the exact same answers in both before and after actually entering the ARK.
  • The last, and hardest, requires completing the game without using ANY of the Wau's healing nodes.
  • In case all that makes your eyes pop, the password is "19PzQ8arc11rkdv".
• Genius Bonus:
  • All of the PATHOS-II sites are designated with Greek letters. "Wau" (in modern Hebrew, vav) was the original name of the ancient Greek letter for the /w/ sound, which is conventionally known as digamma^note The usual form resembles the Latin letter F, which looks like two upper-case gammas stacked on top of each other.. Attic Greek had dropped /w/ by the time it became the lingua franca of the Hellenophone world, which meant that digamma had long since passed out of use (except as part of the Greek numeral system) by the time the Romans arrived.
  • Sarang's ideology is essentially a twisted interpretation of the concept of quantum immortality.
• What Could Have Been: Hidden files within the game contain data on its earlier build, Vertical Slice. Among other things, it would have featured a different version of Catherine, a global war rather than a comet impact and a much different storyline.

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