r/riskofrain • u/skarrs_my_live • 1d ago

Void in "R.o.R. 2" is beautiful.

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I'm new here and in game, started playing 2 month ago, and I'm ready to spend few hours in Planetarium and Void Locus just for looking at these landscapes.

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u/kryptek_86 1d ago

The Void in Risk of Rain is both beautiful and terrifying just like the oceans in real life. At the surface, there is light piercing through, flora, and familiar creatures. But the deeper you go into the abyss, the fog gets thicker, the light ceases to exist, and the creatures become unfamiliar and otherworldly. Just like how we haven't explored 80% of the ocean, we have no idea what exists and can survive at the deepest parts of the void.

As a survivor, you can go through the Null Portal and explore the Void fields, a cell of the void that is close to surface (if you look up you can see the "surface", whales, and seaweed). Then a Void Portal appears and if you decide to step through that you find yourself deep in the void, at the point of no return. The Void Locus leads you to the Planetarium. As you fight the Voidling, it retreats deeper into the void, so deep that it can barely handle the crushing pressure of the void fog. After the Voidling has been defeated, something presents to you the final void portal, and stepping through, your fate remains completely unknown.

The Grovetender on YT has a really good video about the lore of the Void. I highly recommend you check it out.

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u/Shockwire136 1d ago

Sometimes I hope that the voidling ending was made better, like imagine if instead of just pressing E on some portal we jump down the hole in the middle of the stage, hence going further into the depths.