So I just beat Planescape: Torment the other night. Good game,

I couldnt get over how stupid the stupid locked room puzzle that you solve by killing yourself.

>>3345467
i have this game. is it rare?

>>3345467
>I don’t see why in the end he must return to the Blood War
The Blood War is inescapable it's the equivalent of hell for D&D sinners. As all incarnations of TNO share the same soul weighted by the same sin that condemned him to the Blood War it makes no difference if he remembers his life or not. Because let's be honest his incarnations are nothing else but a altered states of mind not new beings with different souls.
>>3345483
It's actually pretty clever as it was designed so only a immortal could escape it and doubled as a lethal trap for anyone not being one. If I remember correctly it was build by the practical incarnation as a trap in the first place to stall the shadows(which failed)

>>3345467
>If TTO is my morality, then shouldn’t I also die instantly?
You die in every ending anyway with your soul being transported to the blood war. Funfact:The Blood War ended in the new D&D editions So much for it being eternal

RTwP seems like the perfect evolution of turn based gameplay, but I can't think of any RTwP game with actual good gameplay. Are there any?

>>3345970
It really wasnt clever at all. Its pretty idiotic actually.

It was designed so stupid players would be "oh shit, how clever!" But anyone with half a brain would see how it wouldnt work in the established mythos of that universe.

TNO loses memory when he dies (debatable since most people who defend the game say "yeah, but not every time he dies" then what is the trigger for a death that causes memory loss?)
When TNO dies he reappears back at the start of the level. How does he get there? It is implied that people go around collecting the dead. So you could assume that they find TNO and start catting him off until he starts to revive. Alternatively, you could think that party members still alive could drag him off to safety.
The puzzle requires you to flip a switch that opens an outer door and locks you in the room.
There is no way to open the door to leave (or for someone else to enter) the room without pulling the switch again, but that would shut the outer door again.

Are you seeing the problem yet?

It seems to me like the point of the game is actually that there is nothing that can be done to change your destiny as a man but the nature of a man is a something that is in constant fluctuation. The different manifestations show the growth and journey of a person as they continue to change throughout life sometimes changing for the better and sometimes for the worse. The memory loss in my opionion represents how you can not move forward in life unless you make peace with your past and the memories that haunt you. If you try to repress and forget those thoughts you end up in an endless repetitive cycle, eternily lost.