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LOOPING FOREST is a one of the five primary BLACK SPACE 2 locations in OMORI. It can be accessed through one of the doors in the BLACK SPACE 2 hub, only on the OMORI ROUTE.
GEOGRAPHY[]
OVERVIEW[]
A black and white forest, smaller than LOST FOREST 1. Its overall layout resembles a maze-like forest than loops around. Several entities like a crudely drawn MARI and an UFO can be found floating around here. There is a radio that will play seemingly random songs with static in between them. There's several boxes that describe SUNNY's guilt over what he has done. At one point, a large piece of steak blocks the path. After consuming it, OMORI becomes unable to run for a short amount of time, as he is "too full to run."
The place seems to be filled with LITTLE ONES and sometimes, SOMETHING can be seen emerging within the trees. In addition, KEL can be seen running around. Bumping into him just makes him say "Hi OMORI!" for a brief second. A ladder reaching into the clouds which takes you to a cloudy hallway HEADS LOOKING UP with a phone and creepy tall figures. There is also another NPC known as SWETHORT, a character that resembles SWEETHEART with exaggerated features and weird speech can be also found.
A radio that will play a track containing a morse code. Lastly, there is minor area featuring few bits of the ☐☐☐ snack. Roughly in the middle are neatly aligned school desks in a three-row formation. Interacting with the middle-bottom one will cause OMORI to sit down and faceless people to stare at him. Interacting with blackboard will cause it to move, revealing a letter. Interacting with this letter will warp you to the AUBREY SCHOOL area.
HIDE AND SEEK EVENT[]
FLOATING MIRROR[]
Roughly southeast of the HEADS LOOKING UP ladder entrance is where a lone floating mirror can be found. Upon interacting with it, OMORI is given a prompt if he wants to play hide-and-seek. Choosing yes causes the screen to darken as the mirror counts down from five to begin the game. Denying this request causes the mirror to vanish, and OMORI must re-enter the area to retry the prompt again.
Once the hide-and-seek game begins, OMORI must find the mirror to complete the minigame. There are two possible locations where the mirror hides itself within the looping forest. These consist of the following spots:
- Above the smiling waterfall and roughly to the bottom left of the AUBREY SCHOOL classroom desks. If this location is chosen for the first round, the mirror relocates to a second hiding spot.
- Located directly to the west of the mirror's original location, next to a pond surrounded by three distorted apples. If this location is chosen for the first round, the hide-and-seek minigame will transition to the final round.
.png "Looping Forest Mirror (Location 1).png (79 KB)")
.png "Looping Forest Mirror (Location 2).png (91 KB)")
SHATTERED COPY[]
If the mirror was found either once or twice, depending on the mirror's location, it will shatter and release an alternate version of OMORI, known as SHATTERED OMORI. After this, the screen fades to black and SHATTERED OMORI counts down, starting another round of hide-and-seek with a dark vignette around the screen and sudden distortion of the BGM. SHATTERED OMORI will always be found wandering near the smiling waterfall, which is directly around the mirror's first location.
If the player manages to find SHATTERED OMORI or is caught by him, he will shatter into a measly pile of broken glass. Upon exiting the area, the shattered glass pile later relocates to the mirror's original location, only if OMORI returns there. Walking over the mirror deals damage to OMORI based on his maximum HP but never kills him, instead leaving him at 1 HP. Encountering SHATTERED OMORI is a one-time-only event as re-entering the looping forest upon completion of his minigame will not reset his encounter at all.
NOTABLE AREAS[]
HEADS LOOKING UP[]
HEADS LOOKING UP is a narrow horizontal pathway featuring multiple poorly-drawn MARI heads from FOREST OF STUMPS. It can be accessed by finding a ladder located north of the starting area. Going up the ladder leads OMORI to this subarea.
All the player can is walk left or right to navigate through the area. Interacting with the fifth MARI head on the left will transport OMORI into the DEVELOPER ROOM from THE NEIGHBORHOOD. One of the ten "Fear Polaroids" can be found here but appears to be unfinished and incomplete, implied via the "Test tag" name in the game's data. It can be triggered by walking near the bottom tiles of the map, and can be done as many times possible.[1]
Moving towards the left side will leads you back to LOOPING FOREST. In the center features a telephone surrounded by the many heads. Interacting with it will spawn a large speech bubble that will follow OMORI around the area, and for the first time it only spawns "CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON!!" bubble. Only after leaving this subarea will the speech bubble vanish. The speech bubble can respawn anytime you interact with the telephone again. There are a total of seven speech bubbles shown in-game:
SPEECH BUBBLES[]
.png "Heads Looking Up (Congratulations).png (3 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (Collect).png (3 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (Insurance).png (3 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (Bills).png (3 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (I Know).png (3 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (Hi).png (2 KB)")
.png "Heads Looking Up (Loser).png (2 KB)")
AUBREY SCHOOL[]
The AUBREY SCHOOL area is an outdoor classroom with very odd things happening at every seat. It can be accessed near the classroom featuring neatly aligned school desks in a 3x3 formation. Interacting with the bottom middle seat allows OMORI to sit down. Sitting for a few seconds will cause the screen to darken as multiple faceless figures stare at OMORI.
Interacting with the back side of the blackboard causes it to move backward, revealing a love letter. Interacting with this letter teleports OMORI to a school hallway full of AUBREYS that want to go on a date with him. A STUFFED TOY blocks the way back at the start. Each time OMORI passes an AUBREY clone, she will talk to him before joining his party. Once OMORI reaches the end of the hallway, one of the AUBREYS will exclaim that she wants to be one to date OMORI.
With no other choice left, the AUBREY clones fight each other to death to win OMORI's heart. The battle soon reaches its climax once there's only two AUBREYS standing. They will ask OMORI to pick one of them. Choosing either option returns OMORI back to the classroom area, revealing the entire sequence to be a result of OMORI dreaming once again. (If OMORI entered LOOPING FOREST via SWEETHEART'S GARDEN, he will be brought back to it instead of waking up on a seat of the classroom area.) This event can only be done once normally.
The player can also find this area through an alternate entrance (See ALTERNATE ENTRANCES).
SHRINKING ROOM[]
The SHRINKING ROOM is a narrow room with walls that close in on you. It can be accessed by entering a black door within a hidden pathway located south of the classroom area. Note that heading southeast of the area's door will trigger one of the "Fear Polaroids" found within BLACK SPACE.[2]
From there, OMORI entering the door brings him to this area. Despite the room shrinking itself, OMORI can still move up to the door to enter the next room. Like with the SMALL ROOM WITH A LADDER and SMALL REPEATING ROOM, the monochrome room resembles the ones from SUNNY'S HOUSE.
VERY SMALL ROOM[]
The VERY SMALL ROOM is a small room featuring nothing but an empty black void. It can be accessed by entering through the door from the SHRINKING ROOM. Doing so will transport OMORI there.
Once OMORI enters the door, he'll find himself standing on a platform face-to-face with an ominous, large creature known as LONGSNOUT up in front of him. This creature can also be found on one of the BLACK SPACE sketchbook pages.
It will do nothing but silently stare at OMORI. Heading backwards will allow OMORI to exit, warping him back to the forest, where he can obtain some ☐☐☐, a snack only obtainable after speaking to HERO in his kitchen within the WATER WALKWAY.
GARDEN EDGE[]
The GARDEN EDGE is a small room connecting LOOPING FOREST to the garden of SWEETHEART'S CASTLE. It is located behind the vines of SWEETHEART's garden, revealing a part of BLACK SPACE slowly merging into HEADSPACE. Multiple GARDENER MOLES can be seen trying to hack down the vines. It can be accessed normally through a secret pathway near the area featuring a dark-colored pond and some grotesque looking flowers.
Doing so will reveal a black door that can be interacted with. Doing so brings OMORI to this area, where a slow-pitched version of SWEETHEART's garden theme plays in the background. OMORI cannot interact with the vines, and can only head backwards to exit the area. There is another alternate entrance to this area, which can be done after resetting HEADSPACE (See ALTERNATE ENTRANCES).
ALTERNATE ENTRANCES[]
- Interacting with the front of TV GIRL'S HOUSE with the UNIVERSAL REMOTE will transport OMORI to the school hallway of the AUBREY SCHOOL area. This can be done once in OTHERWORLD CAMPSITE.
- Interacting with the vines in SWEETHEART's garden on ONE DAY LEFT of the OMORI ROUTE has an 10% chance of transporting OMORI into the area behind it, known as GARDEN EDGE.
CHARACTERS[]
.png "Faceless Figure (Black Forest 2).png (733 bytes)"){kind=small}
.png "Mari head (Backyard Area).png (19 KB)")
ITEMS[]
QUOTES[]
Aubrey School Quotes
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There's a STUFFED TOY in the way. 
AUBREY  You accepted my love letter... That means we're going on a date, right? AUBREY  I love you, OMORI! Please go out with me! AUBREY I'll follow you forever! AUBREY  You said we'd hang out yesterday, so I'm borrowing you for the rest of this afternoon, okay? AUBREY  Hehe... Did you wait long? It's rude to make a lady wait, y'know... Come on! Let's go! AUBREY  That idiot KEL went and hid my STUFFED TOY again... You'll help me find him, right? AUBREY  You're late, OMORI! What took you so long?
AUBREY  OMORI... I- AUBREY  Wait a sec... Who are all those girls behind you? AUBREY I'm on a date with OMORI! AUBREY No, I'm on a date with OMORI! AUBREY  Well, we can't all date OMORI... AUBREY Huh? What is it? AUBREY  So... it's come to this.
AUBREY  Huff... huff... huff... AUBREY Huff... huff... huff... AUBREY You... You're pretty strong... AUBREY You're not so bad... yourself... AUBREY But it's time for us to finish this! AUBREY Just give up! AUBREY I'll never lose to you!
AUBREY Huff... huff... huff... AUBREY Huff... huff... huff... AUBREY This... doesn't seem to be going anywhere... AUBREY I can't fight anymore... I'm so tired... AUBREY There's only one way we can settle this for real... AUBREY OMORI! AUBREY Which one of us are you gonna go out with!?
... You must've dozed off... |
Shattered Omori Minigame
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A floating mirror. You are all alone. Do you want to play hide-and-seek?
5... 4... 3... 2... 1!
Found you! Do you want to play again?
SHATTERED OMORI 5... 4... 3... 2... 1! |
Swethort Quotes
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swethort im pafect swothert o hoho swumphart eyes ap here |
GALLERY[]
MAPS[]
.png "Garden Edge (Black Forest 2).png (28 KB)")
.png "Empty Classroom (Black Forest 2).png (18 KB)")
FEAR POLAROIDS[]
EXTRAS[]
.png "Large Steak (Black Forest 2).png (15 KB)")
.png "Blackboard (Black Forest 2).png (2 KB)")
.png "Blowdryer (Black Forest 2).png (621 bytes)")
.png "Radio (Black Forest 2).png (2 KB)")
.gif "Poorly Drawn Mari (Black Forest 2).gif (6 KB)")
.png "UFO (Black Forest 2).png (949 bytes)")
.png "Thing 1 (Black Forest 2).png (713 bytes)")
.png "Thing 2 (Black Forest 2).png (2 KB)")
.png "Thing 3 (Black Forest 2).png (3 KB)")
.png "Thing 4 (Black Forest 2).png (5 KB)")
.png "Thing 5 (Black Forest 2).png (2 KB)")
.png "Thing 6 (Black Forest 2).png (4 KB)")
TRIVIA[]
- The multiple AUBREYS fighting over OMORI's affection may refer to SUNNY's presumed childhood crush on AUBREY, as implied by BASIL in one of SUNNY's cherished memories.[3]
- It is implied through the game's data that the small classroom that leads to the AUBREY SCHOOL area is a representation of the school SUNNY used to go to before becoming a hikikomori. Examining some of seats implies that SUNNY and KEL attended the same class together in the past.
- Sitting at the bottom middle desk will play out an event where OMORI is suddenly taken to a dark, hollow area with multiple faceless figures staring at him. The desk is labeled as Your Desk in the RPG Maker MV project.
- Examining the desk to the right of the bottom middle desk reveals the text "There's a drawing of a SPROUT MOLE etched into this desk." It is labeled as Kel's Desk when inspecting it in the RPG Maker MV project.
- Interacting with many objects of this room will reveal some of SUNNY's inner thoughts about his guilt or the text You are afraid. This could indicate SUNNY slowly losing his mind as his inability to confront the truth slowly consumes him.
- The morse code played when interacting with the radio reveals some leitmotifs from previous areas such as LAST RESORT. The very end of the code reveals a faint BGM of SUNNY playing his violin for the duet he could've done with MARI.
- The AUBREY SCHOOL area is the only place where the STUFFED TOY's overworld sprite can be shown, other than its brief appearance in SUNNY's TREEHOUSE in the real world.
- Like in various other BLACK SPACE 2 areas, various RED HANDS can occasionally show up here. Attempting to walk towards them will cause them to move away into the shadows.
- There is an oversight when returning to LOOPING FOREST from AUBREY SCHOOL, the STAB option will not become selectable, which prevents OMORI from stabbing himself. This can be fixed by climbing the ladder to HEADS LOOKING UP.
- The unfinished "Test tag" polaroid uses the same appearance as the first polaroid that can be found in a hidden room during the "Fear Polaroid Hunt" sequence in LOST FOREST 1.
- If OMORI enters another subarea while playing SHATTERED OMORI's hide-and-seek minigame, this will automatically reset the entire encounter back to zero with the floating mirror appearing at its original spot once again.
REFERENCES[]
- ↑ The unfinished Polaroid found there is currently only available on the console versions of the game.
- ↑ The Fear Polaroid found there is currently only available on the console versions of the game.
- ↑ BASIL: You always ask to look at my photo whenever I take any pictures of AUBREY. Do I... maybe... sense a little crush? (You feel your ears turning red...)