Alex Planet
The Alex Planet is a minor area featured near the beginning of the Epilogue. It's a refuge for Alexes whose realities have been destroyed by themselves. The Essentias from their realities guided them to be on this planet so that they could spend the rest of their days in peace playing video games and relaxing.
Story[edit | edit source]
After the Proto Comet destroys Alex's reality, and Panda leaves him, Alex is left to drift through the Soul Space until he comes across the planet. Various parallel Alexes on the planet reveal that the Essentia did this to them as well: they went through the same journey that Alex did and found out the fate of their realities. They don't seem too bothered by it, as Alex was the only one who tried to fight the destruction and refused to follow Essentia into the Soul Space during her initial offer. The parallels warn Alex that, though they all just relax and do whatever on this planet, nobody is allowed to go behind the rocks. Ignoring this advice, Alex finds a group of robed Alexes conspiring, planning to form a new comet to continue destroying realities. They ask if Alex wishes to join them in doing so.
If Alex accepts, he laments that he really was always meant to become this. The comet forms and flies off, with the screen fading to black. Sped up versions of Alex Eagleston and Machine and the Krow play over each other as the credits speed by in a fake ending.
If Alex refuses, the comet still forms, but he now simply follows the comet as it destroys reality after reality, losing his grip on his memory and sense of self in the process.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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The Alex Planet as seen from the Soul Space.
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The four robed Alexs behind the rocks, soon to be the four Proto-Alexs within the comet.
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The comet, leaving the planet in search of new realities to destroy.
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Don't try to destroy realities!
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Doesn't this parallel look familiar?
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Though the ending with joining the comet isn't a "real" ending by any means, you still have to load a previous save after it happens, since the story would end right there.
- The first Alex's likeness is designed to look like Alex's voice actor Chris Niosi.
- The planet as seen from the outside appears to have been made before the area was finalized. You can see A-posing Alexes, a purple pond, and the right side of the planet is just a plain, missing the tree from the final version.
- Crossing a wall of rocks after being explicitly warned against doing so may be paralleling the events of the Blackened Pond.