Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35615238-20190121141916/@comment-32182236-20190302000522

We have all the files, the game has been datamined to its core.

..Maybe not the Switch version though. I wonder when that'll get started..

And perhaps the newer updates added more secrets.

Either way, the files we did get do need further analysis. If the files are indeed encrypted, the program has a way of decrypting them, else it couldn't read the files. We could search for such a program, and reverse engineer it, to decrypt the files for ourselves. If no such program exists, then we can say there is no fourth ending. There might be hidden secrets for dataminers, but no encrypted files can run a functioning program if the program can't decrypt it.

Next, we take all of our information, and look at the basic facts. For instance, we know about what the tapes in the True Lab say. We analyze them, and find out what they say. For instance, Chara was siblings with Asriel, and Asgore makes puns, or at least DID around the time of Asriel's birth.

Then, we look at how these factoids interact with each other, and see what they imply when put together. For instance, the glyphs about a monster with a human SOUL alone only imply that a monster with a human SOUL is possible, and the monsters have enough information to draw one-At first, Asriel looks like a prime candidate. We also have glyphs that state a human will never fall, which alone, only says the glyphs were written before any human fell-That doesn't imply much at all. But put the two together, and we realize this monster couldn't have been Asriel, because that absorption happened after Chara fell-Therefore, it must have been someone else. No human SOULs were absorbed during the war, so it must have been before. I'm following Glitchtale (really the prequel "Our Leaders")'s lead and calling this mystery monster "Kanashi", because I don't have a better name, and you Glitchtale fans should have an idea what I'm talking about.. (Hopefully you understand I'm not talking about Glitchtale's interpretation of the character-It might differ from mine!)

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Theorization is a very powerful tool, but we need to use it right.