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BASIL'S HOUSE, also known as OLD SHOE[1], is the home of BASIL's HEADSPACE counterpart in OMORI. It can be found to the south of the FOREST PLAYGROUND, within the VAST FOREST.
STORY[]
During the PROLOGUE, OMORI and his friends travel to BASIL'S HOUSE to see his new seedlings. Outside of BASIL'S HOUSE, AUBREY and KEL get into a fight, which causes several pictures to be knocked out of BASIL'S PHOTO ALBUM. OMORI assists BASIL in fixing his album, after which a photo of a broken violin BASIL does not recognize falls out of the album. BASIL quickly begins to panic and OMORI is suddenly teleported into WHITE SPACE.
After returning to HEADSPACE, OMORI and his friends return to BASIL'S HOUSE only to find him missing, with nothing amiss but the formation of a small hole in the middle of the floor. As the plot progresses, the floor steadily begins to cave in and the surrounding plant life withers and dies. Upon winning the HANGMAN game, the floor will completely collapse and the pool of water around BASIL'S HOUSE will turn red. Jumping into the hole in the floor will allow OMORI to enter BLACK SPACE.
In the OMORI ROUTE, after BASIL has been rescued from BLACK SPACE, his HOUSE will return to its original form.
NOTABLE AREAS[]
PATH TO BASIL[]
The map located south of FOREST PLAYGROUND is referred as the PATH TO BASIL[2] in the game's data. It contains a nearby stop for PLUTO'S SPACELINE and another pathway to VAST FOREST.
There are six plants patches made by BASIL himself that consists of a mechanic where the player can water his plants every time they return to HEADSPACE. Watering them will grant boost in HP for any party member.
Over time, the plants will decay gradually, due to BASIL being absent to take care of them.
It is recommended to water them every time the player returns to HEADSPACE for STAT boosts. The flowers located there are associated with all the main characters. The sunflowers represent BASIL, lily of the valley for MARI, gladiolus for AUBREY, roses for HERO, cactus for KEL, and lastly the tulip for SUNNY.
Watering any decayed plants associated with a party member will grant them more HP. However, OMORI can only gain hearts from the tulip, sunflower and the lily of the valley. Once OMORI and his friends enter HUMPHREY, however, the plants can no longer be watered.
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.png "Lily of the Valley Patch (Sprite).png (15 KB)"){kind=icon}
.png "Gladiolus Patch (Sprite).png (16 KB)"){kind=icon}
.png "Rose Patch (Sprite).png (16 KB)"){kind=icon}
.png "Cactus Patch (Sprite).png (15 KB)"){kind=icon}
.png "Tulip Patch (Sprite).png (15 KB)"){kind=icon}
OLD SHOE[]
Entering the entrance to BASIL'S HOUSE will reveal an giant old shoe as his home. Inside of BASIL'S HOUSE contains his peaceful-designed room filled with plants and books. The group will first come here during the PROLOGUE to help BASIL fix his PHOTO ALBUM. If the group revisits the area after BASIL disappears, the house and its surrounding will slowly rot away, eventually revealing an entrance to BLACK SPACE after collecting all correct HANGMAN letters.
If the player pursues the OMORI ROUTE, then the house will revert back to its original state and now has four watermelons containing flower headbands representing each of OMORI's party members.
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CHARACTERS[]
ENEMIES[]
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ITEMS[]
GALLERY[]
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(2018 Demo)
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(2018 Demo)
TRIVIA[]
- OMOCAT's decision to add flowers during the tutorial segment was because they wanted the walk to BASIL's house to feel more interesting, as well as exploring BASIL’s character before he vanished.[3]
- BASIL'S HOUSE is one of the few explorable areas in the 2018 Kickstarter demo.
- This area is one of the two areas where the DUST BUNNY can be fought by inspecting the bookshelf, the other location being SMOL'S HOUSE in OTHERWORLD CAMPSITE.
- BASIL'S HOUSE is one of the six locations featured in the official OMORI website's interactive HEADSPACE game. The other areas consist of JUNKYARD, PYREFLY FOREST, SWEETHEART'S CASTLE, LAST RESORT, and MUSTARD SUB.
- The plants in PATH TO BASIL will decay faster when OMORI is outside of VAST FOREST, SUNNY is outside of his house and each fear boss is defeated. It is notable that all of these factors have a connection to HEADSPACE BASIL being forgotten.
- In the 2018 Kickstarter demo, BASIL'S GRANDMA appears as a HEADSPACE denizen within this area, and asks OMORI's group to help her find BASIL. This variant was cut in the final game, but remnants of it still exist via the STRANGER at NORTH LAKE if the WTF VALUE is greater than or equal to eight.
- It is revealed through here that BASIL's favorite food is TOFU, though this is only mentioned in the aforementioned demo.[4]
- The house also originally featured "a photo of someone familiar", which only appears in the NEIGHBOR'S ROOM and JUNKYARD (if WTF ≥ 2) in the full game. This object was later removed from the house for obvious reasons regarding the game's backstory.
- The event that causes BASIL's plants to decay is referred to as fuck you plants in the game's data.[5]
REFERENCES[]
- ↑ The RPG MAKER MV project of the game lists the house as OLD SHOE.
- ↑ The RPG MAKER MV project of the game lists all areas with the flower patches, and the long path to BASIL'S HOUSE as PATH TO BASIL.
- ↑ "[...] I felt the player needed to get to know BASIL more before he disappears in the next scene, so I wrote in his dialogue explaining the flower's meanings to further develop his character. From the dialogue, the player could learn that BASIL is not only someone who takes pride in nurturing his garden but is also someone who cares deeply for his friends. It was fun to research flowers' meanings and assign them to each character!" - @Drawfest4 on X.
- ↑ Note this dialogue only exists in the 2018 demo, which contains an early build of HEADSPACE. (GRANDMA: I wonder what I should cook tonight. Ah, of course! I should make some TOFU! That's BASIL's favorite...)
- ↑ ID 034: fuck you plants (This can be found on MAP 095 in the RPG Maker MV project.)