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The Nameless Puppet is an incredibly aggressive enemy, who will barely stop in between its several, sequential attacks. It is indicated to be some sort of prototype to P himself, who the game encourages to play aggressively through gameplay mechanics. It is essentially an ideally controlled player character.
In fighting The Nameless Puppet, its aggressive second phase has it splitting its scissor-blade like weapon in two to use them simultaneously against P. However, looking closely at both blades, they actually look similar to the ornate hands of a clock face, combined with the red-tinged glow the Nameless Puppet's hatred channels through them to evoke the appearance of the auto-saving icon of a pocket watch that the game uses. The Puppet's spinning dance-like attacks are best avoided or dodged by precisely moving around it in an anti-clockwise fashion, evocative of Gepetto's entire plan to "turn back the clock" to resurrect Carlo, rather than moving forward with the Puppet son he has created and now seeks to kill as a mean of resurrecting his lost family.
The reference to Pluto related to the King of Riddles might initially seem a little out of place. However, they do share a rather significant plot point of artificial life becoming 'real' through the act of lying. While P becomes literally human doing so, the robotic copy of Dr. Abullah instead becomes so good at lying that not even he himself can register himself as a robot anymore.
The stranded solider you find in The Grand Exhibition is named Belle. When you find her partner, he's being transformed into a Carcass monster, and the note you gives you reveals there were romantic feelings between them. Does that setup sound at all familiar to you?
It makes sense that the “Human” path generally involves going against Geppetto. Think about it: Geppetto promised to make P into a “real boy” under the condition that he acted like a “good boy.” But the thing is, being “good” in this case equals being unfailingly obedient and honest because he says so. Instead of obeying and being a “good boy”, you can choose to do good and bad things alike, just like a “real boy.”
The Parade Master, when enraged, declares Bad children get the stick! With the reveal that the puppets hadn't actually broken the Grand Covenant and were following Geppetto's orders, does this mean the Parade Master was intentionally programmed to physically punish naughty children in its audience?
The weapon durability mechanic allows P to repair his weapon on the go by using a grindstone attached to his legion arm. Except many of his weapons are blunt club-like weapons where sharpening them wouldn't do anything. Some weapons (like the Puppet Ripper) are even way too long for the animation to make sense, as it looks more like he's pointlessly sharpening the shaft of the weapon...
