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>>1529892
>directly mock the author's work afterwards

Bro do you even literary analysis?
Rootpain was about aborting a fetus, but Buttpain is about the consequences a person has to feel after it.

The subject focus of the ROOTPAIN was female, the focus of this is male--not only the protagonist, but also the male ghosts using male voices. While Rootpain dealt with the female view of abortion, Buttpain is the struggles of a man who has to come to terms with it.
The "IT MAY LIVE . . ." comments so common in Rootpain are expanded on in Buttpain where the shadows of the past haunt the main character, "raping" him with phallic knives and guns. He's being punished for not stopping her--locales once so familiar, fun, and interesting to him are reduced to a lonely and oppressive landscape dangerous just to step in.

And that's not even going into the monsters themselves. The shadows that rise from the corpses is a perfect metaphor for the regret that plagues families after an abortion, as fathers and mothers often report waking up on hearing the screaming of their (what would be a) child.
Some families, however, simply don't want children, and this is represented by the spiders, which only come if you run out of light (i.e., the sole comfort you have in a dark landscape) and start screaming like babies while trying to bite you, not unlike a baby does to the mother's breast.
And then there's the tall man, who stands tall and wrapped in a robe, using a knife--what else could this stand for but the doctor that had to cut the baby out? The only other type of man that could see his wife's/girlfriend's nethers, and yet do more to it than a man ever could.
And then we get into the grabby monster, which represents the responsibility that comes with having a child--the obvious downside. It sneaks up on you, grabs you, and pulls you under to be with it, not unlike what a child does with your free time. It demands your attention, pulls you to it, and keeps you from going away.

>>1151006

Actually at the end of Episode 1 in Doom, Doomguy dies.
Going to Hell and fighting his way back out is pretty much the rest of Doom.

>>972196
>Also marathon is in halo's universe

Actually, Marathon is in Pathways into Darkness' universe.
While Marathon and Halo share a lot of similar themes, ideas, motifs, and...everything, really, Bungie basically copy-pasted Marathon and gave it pretty 3D graphics. Still, Halo is an entirely separate universe.

>>924062
There should be 2 flags in the revenant. One says +MISSILEMORE and the other +MISSILEEVENMORE