![]() ![]() Maybe the player didn’t play through history as it happened, but by taking part in this experiment they helped determine what would happen to the survivors in the future. ![]() If you accept Alex, then your tentacles shape themselves into a human hand for a handshake. Suddenly, the story feels arbitrary and inconsequential. to test Mophan’s behavior? Did William Yu actually send a corporate assassin to wipe out his employees and children? Was the nullwave device real? Was it ever deployed? Did it do anything? Did anyone make it back to Earth? Was Mikhaila ever our girlfriend, or was that part of the test? Was Igwe ever trapped in a cargo container? Was Dahl a real person? Was subject 37 a real person that Morgan had to contend with, or was the fake cook scenario created by Alex & Co. I guess to go along with this we have to accept that Morgan was a real person, that Talos-1 was a real place, and that the events of the game are in some way derived from her memories, but beyond that we can’t know anything. This new premise gets very little in the way of explanation, and what little we do get comes from Alex the liar and manipulator. The problem is that we don’t know where to draw the line between dream and reality. Maybe my version of the story isn’t exactly the same as what happened to the real Morgan, but it was similar. The game sort of tacitly acknowledges that your journey through Talos-1 was real, or a recreation of a real thing. ![]() It’s not fair to say that “it was just a dream”. I’m willing to go along with this premise, but I’d really like to know more. My main gripe is that they aren’t saying nearly enough. But when you have a lot of questions appear at once, and none of them have answers, and you’re at the end of the story, then it can feel like the author abandoned you. My gripe isn’t that the writer is saying something dumb or wrong. Unanswered questions aren’t automatically a sin. Sometimes things are left ambiguous on purpose, because the author specifically wants you to ponder the question for yourself. Sometimes questions go unanswered because the author doesn’t know the answer and didn’t realize the audience would expect it. Sometimes things are left mysterious because the answer isn’t important and we don’t want to burn screen time explaining it. But the second? That sort of depends on the work in question. The first thing really does grind my gears. (What was in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction?) (Cerberus is a fringe terrorist group / Cerberus is a galactic superpower.) When people complain about “plot holes”, they’re usually concerned with one of two things: Here I suppose I need to stop and acknowledge that not all plot holes are the same. This ending isn’t riddled with plot holes. Which… fine, I guess? I don’t think that making sense is a problem here. In the previous entry, several people defended the ending by saying it “made sense”. I realize that doesn't work with what the writer is going for here, but that's how I felt at this point in the story. Man, I wish I had an option to accept life as a human, but ALSO kill Alex. I think you’ve shaken things up enough, Mr. But now we see he managed to get our species wiped out, and he’s still talking about wanting to “shake things up, just like old times”. It was one thing when we were just trying to save the space station and the 250+ lives it contained. He was gambling with the lives of every human being alive, and every human being to come. But he wasn’t gambling with his own money. He could stake his personal fortune on an idea, and if it didn’t work out then he could go back to sweeping the floor at Monolith Burger. And if he was just some starry-eyed tech entrepreneur, that would be fine. Getting all the people killed is one thing, but the buns? That’s going too far.Īlex took so many shortcuts. Alex and his team are responsible for the death of all turtles, doggos, kitties, and buns. He wasn’t personally responsible for the extinction of the entire species, plus all the other species on Earth. Maybe Subject 37, I guess? But Subject 37 was just a creepy serial killer. Of all the people to survive this apocalypse, I can think of very few who are less deserving. I think this ending scenario would go down easier if the story didn’t suggest that Alex Yu was the only flesh-and-blood human left alive in the world. Alex, how did you go through the apocalypse and STILL not lose weight? ![]()
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