It's such a stunning, fun, weird game! I had a great time with it; I'm glad you and Bird Guy did too. Even if it does love its 'killing-as-a-mercy' implications, which is a theme I'm pretty much guaranteed to dislike. (Please bitch away if you'd like to!)
I did enjoy Verso's reaction to that moment at the end of the Reacher, though. I'm glad the game acknowledged that Maelle could have at least given him a chance to say goodbye, and apparently it just... didn't occur to her?
Thinking about it, it feels like Maelle's failure to register the real weight to Alicia's life and Verso's relationship with her is actually weirdly reflective of the story's attitude to the people of this world in its ending, but I'm going to sit on my hands to keep myself from getting into my issues with the ending choice; I've talked about that enough on my own blog!
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Date: 2025-07-08 12:00 pm (UTC)I did enjoy Verso's reaction to that moment at the end of the Reacher, though. I'm glad the game acknowledged that Maelle could have at least given him a chance to say goodbye, and apparently it just... didn't occur to her?
Thinking about it, it feels like Maelle's failure to register the real weight to Alicia's life and Verso's relationship with her is actually weirdly reflective of the story's attitude to the people of this world in its ending, but I'm going to sit on my hands to keep myself from getting into my issues with the ending choice; I've talked about that enough on my own blog!