I’m not a fan of stuffed animals. I can go through a box and pull out a dozen little stuffed animals and never go back to the same one. For years I had a white dog stuffed animal that I’d carry around with me until I lost it one day when I was on my way to my friend’s house.
I’m not sure if this is the most obvious fact about the trailer, but the name ‘white dog’ is obviously a reference to a breed of dog. White dogs come in a variety of colors, and our protagonist Colt has a white dog stuffed toy. So I think that’s pretty obvious.
As you’ll see in the trailer, Colt has a variety of other things he needs to do to defeat the Visionaries. Colt needs a weapon, he needs money, he needs a girl, and he needs a boat. All the things that white dogs can’t do.
Colt has a variety of other things he needs to do to defeat the Visionaries.
Is Colt using his abilities to stay alive? The answer is probably in the trailer. But it’s impossible to know. Colt may be able to use some powerful objects like a shotgun to shoot his enemies, or he may be able to summon a giant dog-shaped piece of wood from the sky. But what we do know is that Colt’s ability to use his powers creates a time loop: the moment Colt uses his powers, he is once again on Deathloop.
So after a while, Colt returns to the party island to find a dog-shaped wood and take it back to the land of his past. Colt is now stuck on this island forever and will have to find his way home.
Colt is a dog-shaped piece of wood, and since the island is in a time loop, he can only return to this island to hunt these Visionaries. He’s not going to be able to take any of them out, as he is stuck on the island forever. The best Colt can do is find the next island, where he can either take out the next Visionary or use his powers to make the island go away.
Colt’s powers make it possible for him to take out Visionaries on the island. These powers include “blatant stupidity” and “an ability to make things disappear.” Since only one of these powers is necessary for taking out a Visionary, the other can be left out of the game. So to take out a Visionary, Colt must first find the island and make it go away. Not too hard.
For a game as open-ended as White Dog Stuff, the ability to make things disappear is pretty cool. We’re assuming Colt is on this island because he’s a white dog, and the island is red. This means that Colt has the power to make things disappear, including his own body. Colt has a body, so that means that he can die, and if he dies he can also make things disappear.
In Deathloop, some of the Visionaries are actually “souls” that come with “ghost” powers that allow them to take on the appearance of their owners. Colt is no longer just an employee of these Visionaries, he’s the head of all of them. They’re also the ones who are controlling the island, so they’re basically his puppeteers.