Even if you ask here to meet up together she seems hesitant about it and making excuses. Thats why she left first instead of meeting you in the helicopter she did not want to make it harder to say goodbye forever. I think that is the cannon ending because even when you talk to Delilah she seems very hesitant and not wanting to be with you. The hole summer was basically will become just a memory and go you go back to Julia who has Alzheimer to live out the rest of your life knowing things will never be normal. Basically no matter what you end up never meeting Delilah and your forced to go back to things before. It was one of the most depressing endings in any game i have played and maybe even experienced any movie or book. Because of these inconsistencies I was waiting for some reveal that the people behind the conspiracy had faked the whole ned faking the conspiracy thing and Henry just buys it.Īnd the real sad thing is I totally prefer the ending we got as far as a story goes, I like that it wasn't some weird conspiracy but it just doesn't work for me with all these inconsistencies. That's what "ruins" the ending for me that whole research station section, so I'm almost hoping someone comes along and tells me I missed something that explains it. Just her superior, I guess?įor me I agree that the ending kind of falls flat, not really for the same reasons stated here, my problem with the ending isn't that it was a red herring, my problem with the ending is it not adding up(OR I'm an idiot and missed dialogue/picked it up wrong), this guy(ned) is in the woods for 3 years and somehow sets up that elaborate ruse(in a crazy short amount of time, where did all of the fancy equipment come from, surely I'm not supposed to believe he made that, is it supposed to be implied that Delilah didn't know that there was a research station over an acre in size inside this park.lets say that is true and she just didn't know it's there, am I supposed to believe that expensive equipment is left in a tent behind a measly 10ft fence. I didn't bring it up to her thinking I'd learn later, but it never happened. The game actually makes a point with that.Īnyway, it's my rambling opinion just after finishing it.Īlso: anybody has any idea who Delilah is talking to at the very beginning of the game. I disagree with people saying that Henry and Delilah should end up with each other or that the relationship would've made sense if she waited for him. It stumbles a bit, but I think there is a strong core in there. It feels as if the writers weren't confident enough in the story they had about normal people, whereas thinking back to it, the moments where you play before the starts of the mystery, when you just start out your relationship with Delilah, seem to be the best in retrospect. The reveal there (who is spying on you) is thematically relevant (Ned, as Henry and Delilah, tried to run away from its past) but shows how the set-up is just a trick and a gimmick. I think the ending and story with Delilah is actually great, my problem is how it tries to fool you with its thriller part. So why, in a Game, do we need to contextualize that story within a grand, horrifying mystery? Don't make a story about figuring out the mystery of two disappeared teens and a mad-man secretly tracking your every move, just so you can gently slip in the actual focus of your game.įilms can tell real-world stories about real-world people, without pretending it's secretly an action-horror-murder-mystery to keep people interested. It's the same issue I had with Gone Home I think it's kind of immature to treat people who play games like idiots who need to be 'fooled' into thinking there's something exciting or scary around the corner, and that's really how it comes off when you spend most of your narrative clearly alluding to a grander conspiracy only to say "Nah it was just regular people all along!" It's a cheap trick, and I dislike the fact that it's been used twice now - If you want a story about the relationship between Delilah and Henry, make that game. I loved 95% of the game, but I completely agree that ending isn't perfect, and I don't at all buy the "Well it was always a simple story about regular people" explanation. I'll copy and paste my thoughts from Reddit thread talking about it being kind of a disappointment: So how did you guys feel about that ending, huh? Was it a perfect subversion of the mystery narrative, or a disappointing anti-climax that undermined its own plot? Speak out!
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