I wish I still had my shitty Sony Walkman phone that had Wolfenstein RPG on it. Can't wait to pick up this and Vampire Crawlers.

Lmao I had the exact same thought earlier today. Better to believe that Good Doctor Pt 2 ends with both doctors falling to their deaths and The Fight is our heroes steeling their resolve to continue. It'd be a much more satisfying ending than what we got today.

They took us to such heights that men were not meant for, but they couldn't stick the landing and thus the album is just not greater than the sum of it's parts. I'll still listen to it, but i'll always be sore over it.

But i'll keep hope.

Because the Fight is never really done.

If they're joshing us and there's more to this story, great. If there's going to be an Act IV, amzing. But if this is really how it all ends, then my final thoughts will be that Act III is the Protomen's worst album. A good album. But the weakest of their work.

Only way I can see this being an ending is if it were meant as an intentional and cruel middle finger to the fans. Maybe because we've been theorizing that this character has been already dead for years and ending the story abruptly with their death is a big "Ha! GOTCHA!" But why would they do that?

I'm not even going to touch on the conspiracy theories and cope i've already seen coming out of the fandom to support the hope that they have more in the wings waiting for us, I mean this isn't an ending. It feels wrong. Especially after 16 years of work and revision

It's a 3.5 minute instrumental piece (with some sound fx) and immediately I clocked it as a reprise of a portion from The Son's of Fate, which is so cool. I didn't feel like he got enough Act I references, at least not musically. And it's a very powerful moment, but this isn't an ending.

The Listening Party on Bandcamp was fun. Even though the chat was going a mile a minute it was cool to know I was listening to it with a couple thousand other people, and I'd be hearing the "final" track at the same time as them.

So about that final track...

This morning I was absolutely in love with this album. I've been listening to it on repeat almost daily since October, always IMMEDIATELY downloading new tracks to my player when they release weekly. Even the original songs I didn't immediately jive with eventually grew on me...

Then we hit noon...

Just now realizing how many Translated games Aeon Genesis made possible for me to play over the years. Looked up their website and as of last December they're still working on stuff. Mad respect.

My older machine was a PFAFF Varimatic 6085, and it died last week a third of the way through a sewing project. Mom came in clutch with a slightly newer Brother to replace it.