Infinite Resets

The Skip Button

Stanley woke up at his desk, like usual, he closed his work program and went on Tumblr. He recalled the Narrators story and typed out what he remembered along with the fact of finding out the Narrator was a A.I. After posting the post he left this office, but instead of seeing the normal office block he would walk down, he saw a wall with a picture of the office block on it.

Stanley stepped out, he looked at the picture, then he went up a small flite of stairs. "Psst! Stanley!" the Narrator whispered as a vent opened up in front of him. "Come over here...i want to show you something..." he added as Stanley smiled and crouched down and went through the vent.

As Stanley made his way through the vent the Narrator spoke up. "Okay. You remember how cheap and unsatisfying the new Ultra Deluxe content turned out to be?" Stanley nodded as he kept crawling through the vent. "Well it got me thinking about the past and how much better The Stanley Parable used to be." he said as Stanley got out of the vent "So I made something special and tucked it away here where the game's developers won't find it. Just our little secret. Take a look!" Stanley stepped through the doorway, he was met with the outside and a small house at the end of the path. "I call it... the Memory Zone! It's where I've been storing all my favourite memories so I can relive the peak experiences of my life whenever I want." said the Narrator as Stanley looked around feeling, what he assumed to be, a fake breeze blowing around him. It was nice being outside even if it was fake. "Stanley walked towards the house "Experiences like the launch of The Stanley Parable on PC!" The Narrator said, a smile in his voice, as Stanley walked inside the small house.

"You see, Stanley, doesn't the Memory Zone remind you of how wonderful Stanley Parable was before it was sullied with a cheap re-release? Remember back in October of 2013 when the game originally launched? Back then, video games had integrity. Back then it all meant something! Oh, the waste." Stanley listened to him as he looked around, it reminded him of the museum ending.

As Stanley stepped outside again, some music started to play, and he entered a little hut with a framed review on the wall surrounded by candles. "And over here is where I keep reviews of The Stanley Parable. Like this stunning triumph of games journalism: 10 out of 10 from Destructoid.com. James Stephanie Sterling writes, and I quote: 'Where so many games that aspire to be more than games end up less than any form of art...Stanley Parable strives and then succeeds to be every game ever created.' Did you hear that, Stanley? Every game ever created! That's how grand and all encompassing the original Stanley Parable was! It was literally every game ever created! It was Skyrim, it was Persona 3, it was all of them!" Stanley chuckled at the mention of Skyrim, he had sunk countless hours in that game, this was nothing like it but Stanley let the Narrator continue on talking. "And now it's nothing!" Stanley looked up with a sympathetic look. "It's no games at all. It isn't even The Stanley Parable any more." Stanley frowns 'Don't talk like that, Narry...' the Narrator sighed "It's just a husk now. A lifeless husk, with an hour of new elevator content." Stanley sighed as he continued on 'it'll be ok, Narry' Stanley said to him wanting to comfort the Narrator 'Your game was brilliant, it was a success wasn't it? you should be happy it even got popular enough to get a crappy re-release' The Narrator chuckled a little, Stanleys optimism made him feel a little better "yh, i guess you're right, Stanley" he said as Stanley walked into another review.

"Here's another moving passage, this time from Gamespot.com. 'The Stanley Parable is both a richly stimulating commentary on the nature of choice in games and one that offers some of the most enjoyable, surprising, and rewarding choices I've ever confronted with in a game.' 9 out of 10. Don't you get it, Stanley? The game was perfect! It didn't need anything else, it didn't need new content! It just needed to be left alone to spend the rest of time collecting dust in the hallowed hall of beloved video game memories." Stanley looked around some more and the Narrator sighed "These were simpler times, Stanley. What I wouldn't give to go back, to have it all over again." Stanley left that room and went down some stairs and though a door. "Wait, hang on...I don't recall this part of the Memory Zone before." this peaked Stanleys interest so he went down another small flite of stairs until he saw a very cloudy and ran down place.